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VOL. VI. NO. 10.
STATE GEOLOGIST AND GOVERNOR
HAVE A GOOD SCHEME.
BULLETIN TO BE ISSUED ONSUBJECT
Will Contain Valuable Information on
Koad Construction, and May Solve Con¬
vict Lease Prolem.
Professor Yeates, state geologist of
Georgia, has inaugurated a movement
for the improvement of every road in
the state, and has already taken the
first steps toward the materialization
of his xdans.
Professor Yeates is a strong believer
in good roads, and he will exert every
effort to make every thoroughfare in
Georgia comfortably passable.
Considering the unsettled condition
of the convict question, the movement
is particularly opportune at this time,
and may aid in the solution of the
problem of disposing of the state
criminals. Professor Yeates has the
hearty indorsement of Governor At¬
kinson in his pl&n, and their efforts
may result in wonderful good to the
l ural districts of the state.
Professor Yeates will soon issue a
good roads bulletin, which will largely
aid in the progress of the work. The
bulletin ‘will be compiled w ith great
care, and will be largely conducive to
the future prosperity of the state.
Professor McCallie, assistant state
geologist, will have charge of the bul¬
letin, and Las already begun securing
data with which to begin. He will
start soon on an inspection of the
whole state, and the report of his
observations will be published in this
bulletin.
The bulletin will contain informa¬
tion exceedingly valuable toward the
construction of good roads. It will be
handsomely illustrated, and will con¬
tain the most up-to-date methods for
road construction.
The pamphlet will contain practical
lessons on the details of roadlmilding,
will point out the best materials, and
the most approved methods for grad¬
ing. It will make the work so plain
that every man can understand it, and
improve his property accordingly. Cop¬
ies will be mailed to every farmer al¬
most in the state.
The soil of Georgia contains some
very fine material for road construc¬
tion,which, if properly utilized, would
make the very best highways in the
country. Tho red shale, near Rome,
is particularly fine for roadbeds, large
quantities of which are now being used
in and around that city.
The chert is also very fine for this
work, and the bulletin will locate and
describe these natural materials, giving
their quantity, how best prepared and
laid. The-preparation of this pamphlet
means an immense amount of work
and a good expense, but the state will
no doubt be fully repaid for the out¬
lay.
If the convicts are ever put to work
on the roads,and the directions of this
bulletin followed, there is no reason
why Georgia should not have as good
roads as any state in the union. A
wheelman could then ride from one
end of the state to the other without
any trouble, and general travel would
be made much easier.
FURNITURE WORKS DESTROYED.
Big Factory Burned to Ashes at Cam¬
bridge, Mass.
The furniture factory of Keeler A
Co., East Cambridge, Mass., was vis¬
ited by a fire Wednesday night, and
although the blaze was confined to the
top floor, the loss will be about
$25,000, fully covered by insurance.
The top floor was taken np by the
furniture just finished for J. Reed
Whipple’s new Boston hotel, La Tou
raine, which was of special design and
very costly. This was all ready for
shipment and was destroyed.
Cobb, Bizzel & Co. had a large quan¬
tity of furniture stored on the floor
liene’ath and their loss will reach
$5,000.
Wholesale Arrests For Murder.
Six men and two women are under
arrest at Trinidad, Col., for the mur- |
fler i of c Deputies tv winiem lDiam ( jeen anti
William Kelly, wlio were in search of
cattle thieves, in 1896. Officers are
in pursuit of two more men who are
implicated.
PDTYDER MAGAZINE EXPLODES.
A Stroke of Lightning Sets Off Twenty
Tons of the Compound.
* During the prevalence of a heavy
rain and thunder storm Friday after¬
noon the powder magazine at the Em¬
pire mine, operated by the Lehigh and
Wilkesbarre Coal Company, at Wilkes
barre, Ta., was struck by lightning.
A terrific explosion was so great
that it shook the foundation of nearly
every dwelling in Wilkesbarre. There
were about twenty tons of powder
stored in tho building. No one was
in the building at the time hut John
Higgins, who was driving by just as
the <5xplosion occurred and who was
instantly killed by flying debris.
¥WS NOT MURDERED.
Anderson’s Wife Found in the Poorhouse
and He I* Released.
Sheri# Shirley, of Tuscaloosa conn
tv, Ala', received a telegram Saturday j
from the sheriff of Shelby county,
saying that Lucinda Anderson, wife of
George Anderson, supposed to have
been murdered by her husband and
step-son, is in the poor house at
Columbiana and as the husband accordingly claimed, j
Anderson son were . •
released from jail.
TIMES.
LAST SESSION OF HOUSE.
Speaker Signs Tariff Act and Appoint*
Standing Committees.
The last session of the house was
marked by many interesting events.
In addition to the final act of the
speaker in affixing his signature to the
Dingley tariff bill, a bill providing for
the creation of a currency commission
was crowded through in the closing
hours and the spectators who throng
en the galleries were treated to a con¬
tinuous, if not very brilliant, fusillade
of oratory for several hours.
The house recessed until after the
senate had adopted the conference re¬
port and one minute and thirty-one
seconds after the house reconvened
the engrossed bill was signed and on
itB to the president The demon
Btratlon whlch mftrked theso events
were enthusiastic. When the presi¬
dent’s message came in recommending
the creation of a currency commission,
it was answered by the republican
leaders with great promptitude.
By means of a special order, the
Stone bill, introduced some days ago,
with the approval of the administra¬
tion, was brought to a vote after an
hour’s debate. Considerable feeling
was manifested on both sides.
As the final net of the session the
speaker announced tiie appointment of
the committees.
At 8:55, when the reading of the
names was concluded, Mr. Gronvenor,
from the committee appointed to wait
on the president, announced that they
had performed their mission. The
president returned a congratulatory
reply.
Then, at 9 o’clock, the speaker de¬
clared the house adjourned without a
day.
TEXT OF COMMISSION MESSAGE
Which Was Sent to Congrent by the Pres¬
ident and Failed to Pass.
Following is the money commission'
message in part which was transmitted
to congress Saturday by President
McKinley and which was accepted by
the house, but tu.-ned down by the
senate:
‘‘To the Congress of tho Putted States—
In my message convening the congress In
extraordinary session I cnlled attention to a
single Buhjoct—that of providing revenue
adequate to meet the reasonable and proper
expenses of the government. I believed that
to lie the most pressing subject for settle¬
ment then. A bill to provide the necessary
revenues for the government has already
passed the house or representatives and sen¬
ate and awaits executive action. Another
quest ion of very great importaneo Is that of
the establishment of our currency and hank¬
ing system on a better basis, which I com¬
mented in my inaugural address.
"Nothing was settled more clearly at the
late national eloc.tion thnnthedetormination
upon the part of tho people to keep their
currency stable in value and equal to that of
tho most advanced nations of tho world.
The soundness of our currency is nowhere
questioned. No loss can should occur to its holder.
It is the system which be simplified
and strengthened, keeping our money just
as good as it is now with less expense to the
government and the people.
“The sentiment of the country is strongly
in favor of early action by congress in this
direction, to reviso our currency laws and
remove them from partisan contention.
“This subject should receive the attention
of congress postponed at its special until session. the It ought
not to be regular ses¬
sion.
“Therefore, I urgently recommend that a
commission be created, non-partisan in its
character, of to different be composed of well-informed
citizens parties, who will com¬
mand the confidence of congress and tho
country because of their special fitness for
the work, whose duty It shall he to make
recommendations of whatever changes in
our present hanking and currency laws may
be found necessary and expedient, and to
report their conclusions on or before the 1st
day of November nrxt, in order that the
same may he transmitted by me to congress
for its consideration at its first regular ses¬
sion.
“It is to he hoped that tho report thus
made will be so comprehensive all and sound
ns to receive the support of parties and
the favornble action of congress. At all
events, such a repott cannot fail to be of
value to the executive branch of the govern¬
ment, as well as to those charged with pub¬
lic legislation, and to greatly assist in the
establishment of an improved system of ft
nnnr-p. WintiAM McKinley.
“Executive Mansion, July 24, 1897.”
“UN REPUBLICAN,” SAYS BING REE
Michigan Governor Sends n Sarcastic
Message to McKinley.
Governor Pingree, of Alichigan,
wired the following message in dupli¬
cate to President McKinley, Senator
Burrows and Congressmen Corliss and
Spaulding, of Alichigan:
“I regard tho duty on lumber, hides and
sugar as unrepubliean, unpatriotic used and largely un¬
fair. The lumber now goes
into small homes and farmhouses, nnd to a
class already overtaxed The laborer wears
twice as many shoes as the millionaire and
must contribute twice as much on hides.
u rt must use as much su^ar and pay as
much toward the duty on, sugar. It is
^‘^"“capiUaTtherichtowarf government.”
port of the
MURDERED TiTeIR HUSBANDS.
Hungarian Women to Suffer Death for
Wholesale Poisoning.
The trial of twelve women and
two men charged with wholesale pois¬
oning, was' concluded at Buda-Pest,
Hungary, Friday and sentences were
passed upon six of the prisoners.
Four of them were condemned to
death, one to penal servitude for life
and one to a term of six years’ impris¬
onment.
The series of crimes which occurred
in the Hodmezoevasahely district ex¬
tend over some years past. The vic¬
tims were in most cases married men,
who were killed by their wives, the
motive for the crime being generally
a desire to obtain insurance money.
BIG PLANING MILL IN FLAMES.
Town of Fayetteville,Tenn., Ha* a •40,000
Itlaxe.
A forty thousand dollar fire occurred
at Fayetteville, Tenn., Iriday.
The losses and insurance are: Lernis
A Williams, planing mill, loss $25,000,
insurance $8,000; Atlantic Lumber
company, loss $12,000, insurance,
$7,000; Nashville, Chattanooga and St.
Lonis railway, four cars; Middle len
nessee and Alabama railroad, two cars,
The mill employed 75 men.
STATESBORO, GA„ THURSDAY. .HTJ.Y 20.1897.
SHE REFUSES TO ACQUIESCE IN
HAWAIIAN ANNEXATION.
IT WOULD PRECIPITATE TROUBLE.
Annexation Would Bender Present Kxtst
lug Treaties Between Hawaii and
Japan Void, Kays the Protest*
That Japan will continue to oppose
the Hawaiian annexation treaty is con¬
clusively shown by the latest protest
of the Japanese government under
date of July 10, which was made pub¬
lic Monday. Japan’s reply is in part
as follows:
Sir—Replying to your note of date
the 25th nit, regarding the proposed
annexation of the Hawaiian Islands t.o
the United States, I have the honor to
inform you that I communicated its
substance to Count Okotima, from
whom I am in receipt of telegraphio
instructions embodying the views of
the imperial government in relation
thereto.
Taking note of what you said in re¬
ply to the representation I had the
honor to make on behalf of my gov¬
ernment with reference to the neces¬
sity of maintaining the status quo of
Hawaii, the imperial government has
no hesitation in admitting the predom¬
inant influence of the United States
in the Hawaiian Islands. In their
opinion, however, the very fact that
such predominance has existed so long
unquestioned might be urged as area
son against the disturbance of the
status quo, more especially as practi¬
cally the whole population of Hawaii
acknowledge the paramount impor¬
tance of the relations of their country
with the United States, while it is un¬
derstood that only a small fraction of
their number favor annexation.
From this it. may be reasonably in¬
ferred that “the predominant and
paramount influence of the United
States” which as you remark, “has
been the one essential feature of the
status quo through three quarters of
a century in which the constitution
and government of Hawaii and the
commerce of the islands with the world
liavo undergone notable changes,”
furnishes on the one hand the umplost
guarantee against anything inimicnl
to either the United States or Hawaii,
while on the other hand it obviates
the necessity of a change in existing
conditions which will injuriously af¬
fect the interests of others.
FLANAGAN ON TRIAL.
Murderer of Sirs. Allen and Miss Slack
Before tho Bar of Jnntice.
Edward C. Flanagan was put on
trial for his life at Decatur, Ga., Mon¬
day morning in the DeKalb superior
court.
There was a big crowd in Decatur,
but little excitement and very little
talk of lynching, as the people seemed
to have faith in the court.
Flanagan will first have to answer
for the murder of Airs. Nancy Allen.
His other victim was Miss Ruth Slack.
Flanagan’s leading attorney made a
determined but unsuccessful effort to
obtain a change of venae. He at¬
tempted to show that the state of the
public mind in De Kalb county was so
intense against Flanagan that it would
be impossible to secure a fair and im¬
partial trial for him. The motion for
a change of venue, however, was suc¬
cessfully combatted by the prosecution
and Judge Candler ordered the trial
to proceed.
MILLIONS INVOLVED.
Secretary of Treasury Holds That Tariff
Bill Was In Effect July 24th.
The secretary of the treasury holds
that the new tariff act waH in effect at
the beginning of the day on which it
received the approval of the president,
nnd therefore became operative after
midnight on Friday, July 23. Assist¬
ant Secretary Howell Alonday sent the
following telegram to collectors of
customs:
“Department holds that new tariff
law covers and includes all customs
business of July 24.”
Later in the day a formal circular of
instructions covering more fully the
department’s view on the subject was
printed and mailed the customs in¬
spectors.
CHRISTINA IS GRACIOUS.
Messrs Taylor and Woodford Will Be Re¬
ceived by Spanish Ruler.
The state department lias been in
formed that a very gracious action has
been made by the queen regent of
Spain in consenting to receive Mr.
Taylor, the retiring United States
minister, and Air. W'oodford, the new
minister, at San Sebastian, where she
does not maintain a court in the usual
sense of the term.
The ceremony necessarily will be
informal. This arrangement to meet
Air. Taylor’s convenience was brought
about through the courtesies and con¬
siderate offices of the duke of Tetuau.
It is without precedent.
COTTON MILLS CLOSE.
Many Hundred People Will Be Thrown
Out of Work.
A special from Lawrence, Mass.,
says: The agents of the Atlantic nnd
Everett cotton mills, respectively,
have announced that operations will
be suspended at their mills dnring the
month of August.
Both mills will close down. No
reason is given by the agents for the
shut-down, About 2,500 operatives
will be affected.
NO TRANSFERS FOR ATLANTA.
Consolidated Street Railway Company
Wins a Declaim Victory.
Atlanta, Ga., loses in her transfer
case. The decision of Judges Newman
and McCormick squarely knocked the
city’s claim of power to require trans¬
fers off its feet. It left it not a leg to
stand on, deolaring clearly and defi¬
nitely that not upon a single ground
upon which the city had based its
claim for authority to force transfers
was there legal warrant for the action.
It went a step further. It made the
remark that the power sought to be
exercised went to the extreme munici¬
pal authority even under legislative
authority. a* victory for the Con¬
It is complete
solidated and thoroughly establishes
the fact that the company has the
right to name its own rate of fare
within a certain limit.
The decision not. only overrules
tko city’s demurrer, but goes so far as
to emphatically deny the right of the
city to pass an ordinance requiring
the street railway company to grant
transfers.
Most of the public and many con¬
nected with the case expected that the
decision would be different. It was
thought that a special master would lie
appointed to investigate the case and
that the end would not come in pos¬
sibly two years, bill the judges have
surprised every one with a decision
that settles the litigation, so far at
their courts are concerned, dofinitoiy.
CHOPPED WIFE’S HEAD OFF.
Anderson's Kmall Son .Saps III* Father
and Brother Di«l (he Deed.
At Tuscaloosa, Ala., George Ander¬
son, aged sixty-two, and son, Wesley,
aged fifteen, were arrested Friday on a
charge of murdering tie former’s wife.
A seven-year-old son of Anderson
says that while the family were trav¬
eling through Jefferson, Tuscaloosa
and Shelby counties, old man Ander¬
son held the woman while Wesley
chopped her head off with an ax.
He cannot tell where the killing oc¬
curred, but says lie can lead the way
to the holo where the body was thrown
in.
Sheriff Shirley, of Tuscaloosa, is
trying to locate the woman, Anderson
claiming that she is in a poorhouse at
Columbiana, and if she is not there
the boy wili lead the way to where he
saye tho body is buried.
CU1IA IN A BAD WAY.
London Olironlelr Correspondent, Draws
Gloomy Picture of the Island.
The correspondent of The Daily
Chronicle Grande, province (Londqq). of in Santa Sagua Clara, La
Cuba, vvritos to his paper a terrible
account of the condition of affairs in
the island.
Both the government troops and the
insurgents, he says, are suffering hor¬
ribly from famine und the ravages of
smallpox and yellow fever, while
butcheries of prisoners after inquisi¬
torial tortures arc of daily occurrence
if the victims be suspected of with¬
holding information.
Captain General Weyler, the corres¬
pondent says, I as shown neither
mercy nor quanter, and has turned the
campaign in Cuba into a near approach
to that of duke of Alva on Holland in
the sixteenth century.
EXPLODING BOILER KILLS FOUR.
Naptha Vapor Caufiod Accident— Beside*
the Dead Others Were Fatally Hurt.
At 6:30 o’clock Friday ev nyig an
explosion occurred on the steamer
Nutmeg State of the Bridgeport Steam¬
boat company’s line while she was
lying at her wharf at the foot of South
street, Bridgeport, Conn., and as a re¬
sult four men are dead, three others
are thought to bo fatally injured and
a number more are in a serious condi¬
tion.
The men were all connected with
the boat. Immediately after tho ex¬
plosion an alarm of fire was sounded,
bat the flames were quickly extin¬
guished and the firemen had little to
do but to assist and care for the in¬
jured. The explosion was probably
caused by tho igniting of naphtha.
SILVER AT BOTTOM PRICES.
White Metal N;ikc$ « Now Record for
Low tjnotntlona.
A New York dispatch says: The
silver market was unsettled Friday on
the decline in London. Silver bars
and Alexican dollars made a new low
record quotation for the last two years.
The decline since Saturday has been
7-8 for bars and 5-8 for Mexican dol¬
lars.
RUSH TO GOLD FIELDS.
Steamer Leaves Port Townsend With 330
Passengers for Alaska.
A San Francisco spreial says: The
exodus from the Pacific .coast to the
Alaskan gold fields continues and in¬
creases as rapidly as the means of
transportation will permit.
The steamer Afexieo left Port Town¬
send Sunday with 400 passengers, all
tuccept fifty being bound for the gold
fields. All went well provisioned and
equipped. Afany have supplies for a
three years’ stay. The party was
made up of men representing all call¬
ings and professions, including many
time-scatred veterans who joined the
similar rash to the gold fields in Cali¬
fornia nearly a half century ago.
THE ROW BOAT UPSET
And Three Detroit Voung Men Find .
Watery Grave*.
Three Detroit young men were
drowned Snnday afternoon by the cap- !
sizing of a rowboat off Sngar island
near the mouth of Detroit river.
The drowned are: William W.
Shier, Frank E. Russell, Jr., Edwin
Stubenskny.
Russell’s father and brother, who
were also in the boat which upset,
swam ashore, but narrowly escaped.
LARGEST CONFERENCE EYER HELD
MET AT WHEELING, W. VA.
OBJECT WAS TO CONSIDER STRIKE.
Chairman Gompera, ns * Committee of
One, Will Make an IiiYestlgntlon.
Operators Meet and Disagree.
What is declared to be the most im
portant. and largest gathering of the
heads of labor organizations of Amer¬
ica ever held, met in session at Wheel¬
ing, W. Va., Tuesday.
It was the conference of labor lead¬
ers called last week by President M.
D. Ratehford, of the United Mine
Workers, and approved by President
Gompers, of the American Federation
of Labor, of which the miners’ organi¬
zation is a part.
The purpose of the conference was
to aid in a speedy and successful ter¬
mination of the great coal strike.
The first session of the conference
was held at 1 o’clock. On motion of
Mr. Sovereign, Samuel Gompers was
chosen to preside and Secretary Mor¬
rison, also of the federation, was made
secretary.
Chairman Gompers then called upon
the miners’ representatives to detail
the situation. They were also asked
to suggest in what mannor the other
labor organizations could give their
aid.
President Ratehford, of the miners,
addressed the conference at some
length, had stating fully tho causos that
led to the suspension of work in
the bituminous regions, and presented
tho conditions of tho miners who uro
taking part in tho strike. In the
course of his remarks it was believed
that the hardest fight should be made
at the works of the Cleveland and
Pittsburg district. This was con¬
sidered fully as important a point as
the West Virginia district. At this
point a recess was taken for dinner.
Upon reassembling at 2:30 o’clock
the conference again took up the strike
question. Messrs. Mahon, Rea and
Debs, who have been at work in tho
Fairmont district ; Mr. Askew, who was
fresh from the Norfolk and Western
territory, and Mr. Sovereign addressed
the meeting, the latter speaking at
some length. The conference was held
behind closed doorB. At its conclu¬
sion it was given out that a committee
of five had been appointed to devise a
plan for aiding the miners which
would be reported at tho night ses¬
sion.
Telegrams pledging financial aid for
the miners were received from nearly
all the heads of organizations that had
been unable to attend on account of
the short notice.
Tuesday night General Little and
Judge Owens held a secret conference
at the Duquesne Club with Secretary
William Warner and Organizer Came¬
ron Miller.
It was decided that, President Gom
pers shonld act ns a committee of one
in arranging for sympathetic mass
meetings all over the country on Au¬
5th.
Officers of the American Federation
of Labor were requested to communi¬
cate with union organizations as to
wliat shall be done to further tho plan
outlined. Officers of the United Mine
Workers are to arrange for the syste¬
matic work of one hundred labor or¬
ganizers in West Virginia, in which
state and in Pennsylvania renewed
efforts to make the strike general will
lie made.
The railway brotherhoods, except
the engineers, are in hearty sympathy
with the movement to make the strike
effective.
Mine Operators Dlsacreo.
Eighty-nine coni companies mines,
located in tho Pittsburg district, were
represented at the coal operators’ uni¬
formity meeting at Pittsburg Tuesday.
Tho operators who ship by river and
those owning mines in the Westmore¬
land field were not present. Very lit¬
tle was accomplished.
The old uniformity agreement with
the new clauses inserted were report¬
ed on by a committee. The only sen
Rational incident of Tuesday’s session
occurred when Col. W. P. Bend pre¬
sented a minority report on the uni¬
formity agreement denouncing the
procedure of the meeting in severe
terms and bolting the conference.
CROWDING THE PRESIDENT.
Hoati of Anxloua Ones Gather About tho
White House.
A Washington special says: There
was a great crowd at the white house
Monday, larger than has been seen
since the early days of the adminis¬
tration. It was “the charge of the
folorn brigade,” as one of the officials
pnt it; the last attempt of the office
seekers to get a word with the presi¬
dent before he leaves Washington for
weeks.
Then there were a number of sena¬
tors and representatives who called to
say farewell to the being president, promi¬
nent among these Speaker Reed.
AN APPRECIATIVE SOLDIER.
Pay* a Tarheel Eight Hundred Dollar*
for Saving HI* Life Iu the War.
A Raleigh dispatch says: During
the wftr JeBB Snatherlv, a confederate
Bol(lier {rom Montgomery county,
saved the life of a New York soldier
who was wounded.
The woods had caught fire and the
federal soldier called for help. Snath
erly took him to a safe distance and
provided him with water. Tuesday
the New Yorker sent Snatberly |800.
THROUGH GEORGIA.
At a meeting of the executive com¬
mittee of the Grand Lodge of Good
Templars held at Athens,it was decided
to put a lecturer in the field, and abont
$400 was subscribed for that purpose.
The grand lodge will meet in Atlanta
September 5th.
* * *
The commission in charge of Au¬
gusta’s proposed new waterworks sys¬
tem met for organization a few days
ago. Now pumping stations and res¬
ervoir and niter will be constructed.
The improvement will cost at least
$250,000.
* * *
The board of directors of the Eagle
and Phenix Manufacturing Company
met in Columbus the past week in an¬
nual session and elected the following
officers: President, Charles A. Collier,
of Atlanta; Secretary and treasurer, E.
N. (’■lenience, of Columbus. Mr.
Collier succeeds Judge Bigby, who
was re-elected president two yeavs
under the bylaws.
* * *
Ex-United States Marshal Harrell,
receiver of the Woodburn and Cuyler
railroad, lias just taken possession of
the road, under orders from Judge
Speer. The railroad was sob! to A. A.
Adams at public sale for $26,500 in
April. Only $4,000 was paid in and
the failure to pay $22,500 in 90 days
resulted in the United States taking
charge of it again.
* * *
Captain William Forsyth, of the
United States secret service, left At
lunta a day or two ago tor Dallas,
Texas, where he goes to assume liis
duties as superintendent of the Dallas
district of the secret service. Captain
J. 51. Wright, who has held the post
of assistant superintendent of the At¬
lanta district for nearly a year past,
has temporarily assumed charge of the
superintendent’s work and will hold
the place until a permanent, appoint¬
ment is made. The Atlanta district
embraces Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Florida and Alabama,
and is one of the most important in
the entire Recret service.
II. 8. Perry, the murderer of Beley
Lauier, now in DeKalb county jail,
must bang. Tho supreme court has
banded down a decision in which a
now trial is refused. Unless execu¬
tive clemency is shown him Perry will
pay the penalty of his crime on the
gallows in the little jail yard at Deca¬
tur. The decision was prepared by
Justice Lumpkin and assented to by
Justices Simmons, Little and Fish,
Justices Atkinson and Cobb dissent
ing. The only bearing the opinions
of Justieos Cobb and Atkinson may
have on the case will be tho influence
upon the governor in any appeal for a
commutation of the sentence.
* * *
Comptroller General Wright has
written letters instructing the tax col¬
lectors of different counties to investi¬
gate and collect any taxes duo the
state and county under the provisions
of the act of 1896 which went into
effect in 1897, The law requires the
payment of $10 ns professional tax by
all practitioners of medicine, dentistry,
law' and president of banks, express
railroad, telegraph, telephone and
electric and gas light companies. There
are many defaulters and some are be¬
hind as much as ten years, never having
paid anything since the passage of tho
law in 1896. Of those who are behind
all back taxes will be roquired before
they can legally perform the functions
of their professions and collect fees for
such work and before the heads of
corporations subject to such spec’nt
taxes can legally continue the direc¬
tion of the affairs of their several in¬
stitutions.
The property of the Georgia Alin¬
ing, Manufacturing and Investment
company was sold at public outcry at
Atlanta the past week for $24,805.
The property is estimated by a promi¬
nent capitalist acquainted with the
iron industry as being worth $1,000,
030 and is bonded for $500,000, with
$250,000 underlying bonds, making
nearly a million with other incidentals.
It was bought by Captain Clifford L.
Anderson, with the exception of the
office furniture. It is understood that
Captain Anderson represented some of
the heaviest certificate holders and
that the sum paid for tho property was
just about enough to liquidate the costs
of court and to satisfy other small
demands with a view to preserving the
property intact. The stockholders
concerned in the movement which was
represented by Captain Anderson will
proceed at once to reorganize and to
place this property on a paying basis.
• * *
The Waters of the Chattahoochee
river are to be bridled to furnish elec¬
tric power for the entire city of At¬
lanta. A strong stock company, con¬
sisting mostly of New York and Balti¬
more capitalists, is under way of or¬
ganization, and this company will in¬
vest something over a million dollars
in the materialization of their plans.
They have carefully snrveyed the
waters of tho Chattahoochee, and the
engineers have pronounced tho (tower
sufficient to supply a large current of
electriciiy for the city. The company
have decided to begin work at once,
therefore, and the surveyors arte now
at work. It will be perhaps four or
five weeks before the survey is} com¬
pleted, when the construction of the
plants will probably be begun. There
will be three seperate plants at dif¬
ferent places in the river, each to cost
in the neighborhood of $500,000. Only
one of these plants will be erected,
however, at first. As soon as the
power therefrom is all taken, the
others will be erected according to the
demand. The company is not ham¬
pered for the lack of funds, and the
concern is one of the very biggest that
has ever been started in Atlanta.
BY DAYID B. TURNLR
SENATE PASSES THE MEASURE
AND ADJOURNS SINE DIE.
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE KILLED.
The Purpose for Which the Kxtraordina*
ry Houston of CoiigreH* Was Called
Has Been Accomplished.
The tariff hill passed its last legisla¬
tive stage at 3 p. m. Saturday when
the senate by (he decisive vote of 40
to 30 ngreed to the conference report
on the bill.
An hour later the president’s signa¬
ture made it a law.
The announcement of the result was
greeted with enthusiastic applause by
the crowded chamber. This closed
the great labor for which the fifty-fifth
congress assembled in extraordinary
session and after stubborn resistance,
at times threatening a deadlock, the
senate concurred with tlio house in a
resolution for the final adjournment of
the session at 9 o’clock p. m.
Thus the closing day was prolific of a
series of momentous events.
The president’s message for a cur¬
rency commission was revived, but the
house bill creating the commission was
not acted upon.
An analysis of the vote shows that
the affirmative vote was cast by thirty
seven republicans, one democrat (Mg
Enery), one silver republican (Jones
of Nevada), and one populist (Stewart).
The negative vote was cast by twenty
eight democrats and two populists,
Harris and Turner. Mr. Teller, silver
republican, and two populists, Allen
and Butler, were prosont and did not
vote. One populist (Kyle) and one ab¬
silver republican (Pettigrew) were
sent without pairs, which was equiva¬ t
lent to withholding their votes.
A long parliamentary battle over
final adjournment followed the an¬
nouncement of the vote. The opposi¬
tion endeavored to score a point by
compelling a vote on layiug the presi¬
dent’s message before the senate and
succeeding in this, attacked the ma¬
jority for refusing to act on the presi¬
dent’s recommendation.
The main desire of those opposing
adjournment was to secure a vote on
the Harris resolution calling on the
president to stop the sale of the gov¬
ernment interests in the Union Pa¬
cific railroad. For fonr hours an
acrimonious parliamentary contest was
waged, gradually the tactics of the
opposition were overcome and shortly
before 7,, o'clock Mr. Morgan with¬
drew further opposition and the reso¬
lution for final adjournment was pass¬
ed. Complimentary resolutions to the
vice president, Mr. Hobart, were
adopted and at 9 o’clock the final
scene was enacted by the formal ad¬
journment of the session.
Signed By the President.
The step necessary to make the
Dingley tariff bill the law of the laud
was taken at the white house when
President McKinley affixed his sig¬
nature at 4:04 o'clock. The mem¬
bers of the cabinet wlio were in Wash¬
ington went to the white house about
half-past three o’clock and assembled
with the president in the cabinet room.
A few moments before 4 o'clock Rep¬
resentative Dingley appeared accom¬
panied by Representative Huger, chair¬
man of the house committee on en¬
rolled bills.
They were admitted at once into the
presence of President McKinley, Sec¬
retary Gage, Attorney General Mc¬
Kenna, Postmaster General Gary and
Secretary Wilson. After cordial greet¬
ings Mr. Dingley produced a beauti¬
ful pen and requested that it be used
for the signature. The president ac¬
cepted it, appended bis signature to
the bill, asked the date, and wrote
“July 24th, approved,” and the bill
was an act.
EXPLOSION DOES DAMAGE.
A Lumber Mill Wrecked and One Man
Killed.
A boiler explosion Saturday evening
in the lumber mill of Kipp & Kiser, at
Cortez, I’a., killed Pete Duff and seri¬
ously injured ten others.
The mill is badly wreeked. A four¬
teen-foot piece of boiler was blown a
distance of 400 feet. Two hundred
men will be thrown out of work.
GENERAL M’LAYVS DEAD.
With One Exception He Wa* the Oldest
Surviving Confederate Major Geneva!.
General Lafayette McLaws, the oldest
surviving Confederate major genera!,
with one exception, died at his residence
in Savannah Saturday morning. Death
was produced by indigestion.
General McLaws was born at Augusta
January 15, 1821. He was graduated
in 1842 from the United States milit'.ry
academy and gained his first experience
on the Indian frontier. In 1851 he was
made captain of infantry and took part
in the expeditions against the Mormons
and Navajo Indians. He resigned his
commission to enter the Confederate
army as brigadier general.
PROBABLY ANDREE’S balloon.
Dutch Steamer’s Captain Saw Curious
Object Floating on the Sea.
A letter from Captain Lehman, of
the Dutch steamer Dordrecht, appears
in one of the papers of Rotterdam to
the effect that he saw a curious object
floating in the White Sea on July 17th,
which was neither a ship nor a dead
whale, hut resembled a balloon, and
Captain Lehman suggests that it may
have been Andree’s balloon he saw.