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SOLDIERS TO GDARD THE JAIL i
FOR PRISON ER i
A/NGKy MOSCLAMO-RS
CHARGED WITH RAPE.-
i
■US H MIEiS II ■ HI IIS sum 1
Made a Confession That Differed But Little From
- That of His Accomplice.
Telegraphic orders were received at
Savannah, Ga., Tuesday night from
Governor Candler, addressed to Cap¬
tain Middleton, of the state militia at
Valdosta, and Captain Smith of Thom-
asville, to “report to Sheriff Patter¬
son, at Bainbridge, with all your avail¬
able men, at onc»,” and to “act
strictly under his orders.” The gov¬
ernor’s message was mandatory. It
said “go at once.”
The commercial wires having closed,
these messages were transmitted over
railroad wires from Savannah, and ar¬
rangements for were immediately made,
special cars on the Plant system
to take the troops. The train arrived
in Bainbridge at 3 o’clock a. m.
The troops were wanted to protect
the sheriff and the jail against the at¬
tack of a mob that was after John
Williams, a negro who is charged with
assault and attempt to rape two white
girls three weeks ago. Williams en-
tered their room while they were
asleep and had seized one of the girls
by the foot when he was frightened
away.
CHARLES MACK LYNCHED.
Charles Mack, the second of the
Ogletree rapists, was lynched Tues¬
day morning at Saffold. His crime
was committed in Early county, and
citizens of Decatur county refused to
let the mob carry the man into Bain¬
bridge, since it was desired that an
innocent county should not suffer the
odium of a lynching committed by cit¬
izens of another county.
Mack was, threfore, taken to Saf¬
fold, the scene of his crime, in Early
INGERSOLL’S FUNERAL
The Services „ . Were ... Very Simple; ,
INo Minister or Pallbear-
, ers Were Present.
The funeral the late Robert G. In-
gersoll „ took . , place , _ Tuesday afternoon ,
from Walston, Dobbs Ferry, where he
died on Friday last.
No clergyman was present to conduct
the services; there was no music, and
there were no pallbearers.
The services were held at 4 o’clock,
Mrs. Ingersoll sat beside her dead
husband and beside her was her
daughters, Mrs. Walston H. Brown,
and Miss Maud Ingersoll. They
were very much agitated, and wept
almost continuously. Charles Broad-
way Bouss, Colonel Ingersoll’s oldest
friend, occupied a chair by the side of
the bier. There were some forty oth-
ers present, and they remained stand-
ing throughout.
Major O. J. Smythe, who resides in
Dobbs Ferry and who was a close per¬
sonal friend of Colonel Ingersoll, then,
without preliminary words, read an¬
other extract from Colonel Ingersoll’s
writings entitled “My Religion.”
Dr. John Elliott, of New York, read
the funeral oration delivered by Colo¬
nel Ingersoll over his brother’s dead
body.
This concluded the short and sim¬
ple services. Nearly all present then
took a parting look at the dead and
passed out, Mr. Ronss arose from his
chair, and, as he is totally blind, pass¬
ed his hand over the face of his de¬
parted friend and said:
“Perhaps he is better now. No one
can understand it.”
Mrs. Ingersoll said to him:
“The colonel wanted you to put
your hand upon his heart,” and suit¬
ing the action to the word, she direct¬
ed his hand to the left breast of the
deceased.
Mr. Rouss asked what she was go¬
ing to do with the remains.
“I can’t give him up,” she said. “I
can’t put him in the ground. I can’t
bear to think of it. We’re going to
bring him back home.”
A TRAGIC DROWNING.
Mother, Son and a Little Girl Lose
Life While Bathing.
A dispatch from Waycross, Ga.,
says: Three persons were drowned in
Satilla river Tuesday about noon while
a pleasure party were bathing at a
point known as “Bulls’ Bluff.”- The
parties were Mrs. M. J. Mock, wife of
ex-Sheriff Mock, her son, Joe Mock,
aged twenty-two, and a little orphan
girl, Cora Smith.
L, B. Henderson, ex-deputy sheriff,
and Barney McDonald, nephew of
Hon. John 0. McDonald came near
drowning those iu their down. efforts The to rescue bodies
who went
■were recovered.
BANK OFFICERS ABSCOND.
As a Results Big Montreal Institution
Closes Up.
A sensation was caused at Montreal,
Ont., Tuesday by the announcement
that the Villa Marie bank, one of the
oldest institutions in the city, has sus¬
pended payment.
The cause assigned is defalcations
on the part of the cashier, F. Lemeuix,
and J. H. Herbert, the paying teller,
both of whom have disappeared. The
amount of the shortage is $68,000.
county. When that place was reached
the mob found the body of Louis
Sammin, who had been lynched forty-
eight hours before, still swinging to
the limb on which it had been left, j
Mack tree. was She recognized carried before him Mrs. at Ogle- j
once, as
did also her husband. Mack then
made a confession to every fact except
holding a pistol to Ogletree while
Sammin committed his assault. ]
Mack was then taken to a tree near
that on which hung the body of Sammin
and strung up. As he was pulled off
the ground his body was riddled with
bullets.
A story that two uegroes were lynch- j
ed and scalped in the lower part of the !
county Sunday is denied by the oher-
iff-
One Captured In Alabama.
A special from Montgomery, Ala.,
states that Sheriff Reeves, of Pike ■
county, reached that city Tuesday
night over the Plant system from
Troy, Ala., having in custody Albert I
Wright, a negro who has been posi- j
'‘..’“*"'5.,“ °*T «S “
to
Troy Tuesday and promptly pro-
nounced him to be one of the fiends.
Mr. Ogletree returned home with
tho undarstanding that the negro
would be sent at once to Bainbridge.
The Alabama sheriff, however, slip-
ped his prisoner on the Plant train
and carried him to Montgomery.
The negro stoutly maintains his in-
noceuceof the horrible crime attrib-
uted to him, but will not state his de-
fense. He appears very uneasy.
WORK OF CONFERENCE.
Delegates At The Hague Draw Op
conventions.
Advices from The Hague state that
the final act embodying the results of
the international peace conference, af-
ter enumerating the names and qnali-
ficat ions of all the delegates, says:
“In a series of meetings in which
the above delegates participated, in-
spired throughout by the desire to
realize in the highest possible rneas-
tire, the generous views of its august
initiator, the conference has drawn up
for the approval of the respective gov-
ernments the series of conventions and
declarations appended:
“Convention for the pacific settle-
ment of international concerning" disputes,
| “Convention the laws
I and customs of war on land,
“Convention for the adoption of
laws against the use of asphyxiating
or deleterious gases from balloon pro-
jectiles and for the prohibition of the
use of bullets that easily expand in the [ j
human body.”
The final act contains five expres-
sions of opinion, as follows:
“The conference considers that lim-
Rations of the military charges which
at present oppress the world are great-
ly to he desired for the increase of the
material and moral welfare of man-
kind.
“The conference expressed the
opinion that, the question of the rights
of neutrals shou'd be inscribed, on the
programme of a conference to be held
at an early date.
“The conference expresses the opin¬
ion that questions relative to the type
and caliber of rifles and naval artillery
as examined by it, should be the sub¬
ject of study by the differents govern¬
ments with a view to arriving at a un¬
iform solution by a future conference.
“The conference expresses the wish
that an early convention be called to
review the Geneva convention.
“The conference has resolved that
questions relating to the inviolability
of private property in war on land and
the bombardment of towns or vilages
in naval war, be reserved for future
conferences. ”
PHILPOTS TURNED LOOSE.
Preliminary Trial Occurs At Manches¬
ter Without Bloodshed.
A preliminary trial of George and
Peter Philpot for the murder of Mor¬
ris and the Griffins was held at Man¬
chester, Ky., Monday, by Judge
Wright, but none of the Griffins ap¬
peared. After hearing half a dozen or
more witnesses the court dismissed
the defendants.
The Philpots then asked that Green
Gibbs be summoned to answer for kill¬
ing Ed Fisher, but the judge said
Gibbs was not able to come into court.
Court then adjourned and the threat¬
ened trouble between the factions was
averted.
BROWN OPPOSES GOEBEL.
Ex-Governor of Kentucky Willing To
Enter Race Against Nominee.
The announcement is made by the
Louisville, Ky., Evening Post that
John Young Brown, former governor
of Kentucky, will accept the nomina¬
tion for governor in case it is offered
to him by the convention to be held
at Lexington August 2d by democrats
■who are opposed to the ticket headed
by William Goebel, which was nomi¬
nated by the Louisville convention.
ASSASSIN’S WORK.
President Heureaux of Santo
Domingo flurdered at
Moca.
Advices from Fort de France, Is-
land of Martinique, state that General
Ulysses Heureaux, president of the
Dominion republic, was assassinated
at Moca, Santo Domingo, Wednesday
afternoon.
The name of-tlie murderer is Ramon
Caceros. He succeeded in making
his escape, hut an energetic pursuit
was nt once begun. Vice President
General Weuceslao Figuereou, imme¬
diately upon the announcement of the
president’s death, assumed the direc¬
tion of affairs.
At present calmness prevails every-
wb ei^ in the republic.
A Washington dispatch says: Pend¬
ing official advices of the assassination
0 f president Heureaux, of Santo Do-
m i n g 0) no formal action will be taken
b y this government. Hon.William F.
Powell, the minister to Hayti, is also
charge d’affaires to Santo Domingo,
while this government is directly rep¬
resented In the republic in the person
of Campbell L. Maxwell,who is consul
general, and John A. Read, who is
v ; ce congub
Washington officials recall attempts
which have been made heretofore on
the life of President Henreaux. Secre-
ta ry Hay paid a brief tribute to the
work of the deceased president, saying
he understood that he had given the
country a good administration.
Should the developments of the next
few days show a feeling of unrest and
uncertainty regarding the future af-
fairs of the island, a United States
man of war will be dispatched to that
vicinity to look out for the protection
of American interests.
tojavannah.
T '°° PS E ’“" “".T"
br.dge Jail. .
Two companies of state militia or-
dered to Bainbridge by Governor Cand-
ler to prevent any further lynchings,
arrived at 3 o’clock Wednesday morn-
ing and were at once placed on duty
around the Decatur cm^nty jail
John Miller, alias Williams, the ne-
gro whose life was threatened, was not
lynched, and when the state troops ar-
rived they found the mob had dis-
P«rsed.
AVednesday night the prisoner was
taken to Savannah, in charge of the
Thomasville gu ards, for saf e keeping.
LAWYER’STRAQIC uni. DEATH.
Hon. Alex Erwin, Jr., Falls From
Porch And Is Killed.
Hon. Alex. S. Erwin, Jr., a member
of the Georgia legislature and a prom¬
inent young attorney of Athens, was
found unconscious in the yard in the
rear of his office at 6:30 o’clock Wed¬
nesday morning.
He fell off the porch in the rear of
his office, sustaing fatal injuries and
dying at 12:30 o’clock Wednesday
afternoon.
Alexander S. Erwin was one of the
most promising young men Athens
has ever produced and his death is a
great loss to the state he has served.
PRES1DENT SENDS REGRETS
For Unfortunate Lynching at Tallulah,
Louisiana.
An official communication received
a t Rome says that the United States
secretary of state, has instructed the
American embassy to assure tbo gov-
eminent of Itally that the United
States will adopt every legal measure
warranted by the facta to insure jus-
tice in tbe Tallulah affair,
T he communication adds that Sec-
retary Hay has expressed to the Italian
charge d’affaires at Washington the
regret of President McKinley for the
deplorable occurrences.
FOR SAFE KEEPING.
One of the Ogletree Rapists Is Placed
In the Atlanta Jail.
Sheriff Reeves, of Pike county,
Ala., reached Atlanta, Ga., Wednes¬
day afternoon with Albert Wright, one
of the negroes who was identified by
Mr. Ogletree as one of his assailants.
The sheriff bad to slip his prisoner
away. He states that when the train
reached Newnan, Ga., there was a
crowd at the depot looking for the ne¬
gro. They searched for him, but did
not find him and permitted the train
to pull out. The negro had been hid¬
den on the train and reached Atlanta,
badly frightened but unhurt.
ANOTHER JOB FOR EVANS?
Report That Pension Commissioner
Will Be Sent to Cuba.
A Washington dispatch says: Fol¬
lowing a report that the president will
make a change in the administration
of the pension bureau, it is now re¬
ported that Mr. McKinley will ap¬
point Pension Commissioner H. Clay
Evans governor general of Cuba.
Mr. Evans has aroused the antago¬
nism of the old soldiers by the strict
construction he has placed on the pen¬
sion laws, and it is understood if he
is not removed the G. A. R., at its en¬
campment in Philadelphia, will adopt
a resolution censuring the administra¬
tion for its pension policy.
Fire In Prussian Town.
A great fire raged at Marionburg, in
w-egt Prussia, Wednesday. Forty
houses were razed to the ground.
The fire brigade from Dantzic and
Eibing were summoned to assist in
subduing the fire.
Dreyfus In a Bad Way.
The Petit Journal (Paris) says that
Captain Dreyfus is ill with fever and
that his'condition is serious.
CONTINUES
EXTERMINATION
__
Hope of the Sam- |
Members
mins Gang Killed.
LIST INCREASED TO
Additional Particulars of Sammins’ Ex-
ecution and the Finding of the Dead
Bodies of Two of the Gang.
A state of . terror . reigns . in _ Decatur
and Early counties, Georgia, as the
result of the outrage upon the Ogle-
trees at Safford; the lynching of some
of the f, perpetrators and the exciting B
chase , of others ,, of ... the gang.
The officers of the law are power-
ess o t iec le my o le peop e,
even if they were so disposed, as the
teelim? that thp criminals have com-
serving of , no sympathy, is general ,
Five members of the gang so ar
excHin^chase is'ye't going’on'foi- 6 the
associates of those who have been dis-
posed of.
It is said that no mistakes have
been made hv those who have taken i
tbe law in iheir hands for in :
own ’
j ea eh instance it was known beyond
all doubt that the yic tim of the mob
was guilty of the crime for which he
was executed.
One of the captives was Charles
huTband'.T ffoldl’one'holdlug 0 . j£
tol at the head of the husband to pre- 1
, . . . ,
" Ve ?, * e
‘
v B t r,„„ r;iv hv
hite man named Cardell Cardell
. , fo hj isoner through to
hence secreted him . A mob of
several hundred country people met
. , , vb rpnboi]t of
, p „
big f* rj scner He declined to say , v
P v n,it »hm,t his neck
he was riven ten minutes iu
which to give b up * the rapist 1 or his life,
„ . . ,, , T
e , ^ \ ^ ere o negio was. n
who confe6ged corroborati gam-
min’s statement. The men, he said,
were banded together for murder, rob-
herv and rane
Execution Dramatic.
rril The presented . , at . the
scene execu-
tion of hammm was a dramatic one.
Sammin had been completely identi-
fled by both Ogletree and Mrs. Ogle-
tree and had not opened his mouth in
denial of the charges. He was being
led to a place of execution and those
about him were discussing how they
would put him to death. Suddenly
Sammin turned to one of his captors
and asked to be allowed to have a
word. He was given permission to
talk, and then in an off-hand way he
told how he and his comrades had en-
tered the store, robbed Ogletree,made
him lead the way to Mrs. Ogletree
and how one had held the gun against
Ogletree’s breast while his wife was at
the mercy of his associate.
Sammin begged for his life, promis¬
ing to take the authorities to where he
could find six other members of the
gang.
The mob, numbering some two hun¬
dred men, were too highly incensed,
and nothing but justice on the spot
would quench their thirst for revenge.
They at once chained him to a tree
and after mutilating parts of his body
he was riddled with bullets.
Two Dead Near Bainbridge.
Early Sunday morning the bodies of
two unknown negroes were found on
the Plant System railroad embank¬
ment near Bainbridge. A brig crowd
congregated at the place and examined
the bodies. It was believed by some
that the men had been accidentally
killed by a train, but others asserted
that the negroeB had been hanged by
a mob and their bodies placed on the
track to be run over by a train to make
it appear that that was the means of
their death.
So divided was the opinion that the
coroner was summoned, and he em-
panneled a jury which, after several
hours of deliberation, returned a ver¬
dict that the negroes came to their
death accidentaly.
LYNCHING WAS DISCUSSED.
Italian Representative at Washington
Sees Assistant Secretary Hill.
The Italian charge d’affairs, Count
Vinohi, called at the state department
Monday and had a talk with Mr. Hill,
assistant secretary of state, concerning
the Louisiana lynchings.
Count Vinchi submitted nothing
further from the Italian authorities
and evinced satisfaction with what had
been already done by the officials in
Washington. Thus far there had been
no suggestion that indemnity or other
form of reparation would be expected, ;
the representation having been con-
fined to securing full information on
the subject.
DROWNED WHILE BATHINO.
Four Young Girls Meet Tragic Death j
At a Kansas Resort.
Edna Curtis, Millie Detrick, promi- Inez j
and Babel Neal, daughters of j
nent ingTeaort* Caldwell, similes Ka8 ” , c . l *’ z ®“ 8 , |
east of the city,
Monday afternoon. The them girls were in be- in j j
bathing, when one of went
yond her depth. In an attempt to res-
cue her the four were drowned.
MWHER ROAST
for oeneral otis
This Time An English Newspaper
.
Man Has Kick Coming, I
SAYS TRUTH IS UNKNOWN
Pacts ° f Great Importance Are
Being Held Back.
A private letter reoeived at London
Tuesday from a war correspondent at
Manila and dated June 17th, says:
“There seems to be no end of the
war in sight. The censorship is con-
gtotl „ y beooming more trou blesome.
General Otis recently established a
rule that any matter relating to the
uavy must be taken to the commander
of wards th , e fle submitted ? t f ? r A 18 to ap PJ' the oval military ’. 1 f“ d ® ft cen- ®''
80 r, thus adding to our difficulties.
“For some reason which the censor
won j d no t explain, General Otis re-
* used to "Dow us to send the death of
! h ' > 'r’ a, 'S k '‘ ? P " ,ln
two days - y after its occurrence, lhe
al ftlgo refused to allow UB t o
sond news 0 f the disappearance of
Captain Koek< ‘ feller ( A P ril °. u
^ lle * round that 11 .^ uld J 0 ”* his
family, or of the killing of Captain ,
Tilley, of the signal corps, until the I
next d .*J‘ The correspondents are all
v ® r 7 Fired of this arrangement, which
8l ttnd “ ply run ™ large 8118 chances tbat the of y mnst getting . 8° shot 0U J
severa ' t’ mes * week with no chance of
making reputations because their
stor ' e8 must always reflect Otis’s
“ l ™
<«e quite understood by the American |
papers, and we cannot write the facte ;
without being accused of treason; nor
can we teI1 o{ the practically unani-
mous 0 PP° 8ition to aud dislike of the
war among the American troops. The
™ lunte,,r8 > ° r at least a portion of
them, were at f one time on the verge
ot mutiny, and unless General Otis
1:111(1 b eg un sending them homeward
tb ere would have been sensational de-
^P? “We 6 have ” 18 - been absolutely , refused ,
j| hospital figures.“
CLEVELAND FULL OF TROOPS.
_
Twenty Companies Guard Property ,
and Citizens of Ohio Town. j !
mix Tuesday brought , . forth . ,, no new re-
j
ports of rioting and violence at Gieve- !
land Ohio. Rain fell during most of j
the aiternoon and did what the police
have been unable to do-keep the
crowds from collecting and molesting
cars
V A. Axline, adjutant general of
state troops is in command of the
military and approximates the force
under him at twenty companies, ag~
gregating hundred of nearly them 1,200 from men. Columbus, Four j j
Newark and Chillicothe arrived Tues- j
day afternoon and were distributed [
about the city at points where trouble :
may occur.
VIOLATE TEXAS LAW.
Big Cotton Seed Oi! Firms Combining
In Lone Star State.
A dispatch from Austin, Texas,says:
Information reached the attorney gen-
eral’s office Tuesday to the seed effect that j
six of the largest cotton oil mill
firms in the state were being organ¬
ized into a combination to be known
as the Continental Oil Company, with
headquarters in New York. This com¬
bination is to have a capital stock of
$ 6 , 000 , 000 .
It is tbe intention of this gigautic
oil trust to control the cotton seed oil
output of Texas and it has been work¬
ing quietly to that end for some time.
The attorney general intends to take
steps at once to look into the matter,
and if he can establish the fact that
the trust has been formed he will take
steps to dissolve it under the anti¬
trust law of the state.
Virginia Dentists In Session.
The thirtieth annual session of the
Virginia State Dental Association
opened at Old Point Comfort Tuesday
with President Charles L. Steel of
Richmond, in the chair and a good
attendance.
BLACKBURN TO MANAGE.
Ex-Senator Will Take Charge of Cam¬
paign In Kentucky.
A special f oin Louisville.Ky., says:
Former Senator J. S. O. Blackburn
has been selected by the democratic
nominees and Chairman A. Y. Young,
of the state central committee, to be
chairman of the state campaign corn-
mlttee. Mr. Blackburn has accepted
the place, and is preparing to enter
n p 0 n the duty of managing the pres-
ent campaign,
Within two weeks the campaign will
be formally opened with a big meet-
j n g a j Tyhich the principal speeches
wd [ be made by Senator Geobel and
Mr. Blackburn.
IRON WORKERS STRIKE.
Moulders at Chattanooga Want a Raise
In Wages.
Fifty iron molders in the Mountain
Stove works at Chattanooga went
out on strike Wednesday morning.
They want higher wages and smaller
hours, which the company refuses to
pay. The strikers are endeavoring to
get the 150 molders out of the Chatta-
nooga Stove works.
COMPANY
MAKES OFFER.
Atlanta Given Chance to
Help Operate Lines.
CAN PURCHASE IF NEEDED
Mr. Hurt of the Atlanta Railway and
Power Company Makes Startling
Proposition to City.
An Atlanta dispatch say»: The fol¬
lowing proposition from Joel Hurt,
which plans to give Atlanta a peroent-
age of the earnings of the Atlanta
_ KalIwa y and j r, Power com P an y and „ j
places the city where it may become at
will the purchaser of the street rail-
way r.iLy fiys tem, was made to the electrio
J committee . meet™. Wed-
neaday „ afternoon. The offer was the ,
crystallizing point of theday’ssensa-
tionB and threw into the background
every other feature of the long debat-
lu , 8 aD<1 , wrangling »7er the franchise . . .
fight:
Atlanta, Ga., July 26, 1899.- To
the Committee on Electric and Other
Railways of the City of Atlanta. Gen¬
tlemen: I herewith suggest the fol¬
lowing propositions to the city gov¬
ernment which, if acceptable, I will
recommend and endeavor to have
promptly accepted by the Atlanta
Railway and Power Company and the
The recent financing of these com-
panies provides for a bonded stock is-
sue of 82,000,000 and a bonded in-
bebtedness of §5,000,000, of which
there is reserved for future extensions
and improvements 8750,000. The
bonds in reserve will build a new
power and lighting station of snffi-
cient capacity to light- the city’s
streets and to supply power and lights
for domestic and manufacturing pur-
P os ea : I* » estimated that after
building . a lighting station there will
be left in reserve a large amount of
bonds, which will be used for future
extensions of the lines. A proper
sinking fund is to be provided tor the
, bond , issue. Hie bonds will •„ all , bear
5 per cent, except 8225 000 of the
bonds of the old Atlanta Street Kail-
road c any> which wiH bea r 6 per
cen ^
j p ^ e that out of the annual
earnh commencing January, ' 1900,
the diviJeI , ds on the capital st ock will
be the first vcar 4 cent; for the
year 1901, 5 per cent and thereafter 6
r cent A1] dividendfl above p0r
cent wiU fee divided one . fonrth to the
stockho l d ers and three-fourths to the
city for improving the streets and for
public schools.
The companies, acting with the city,
to lay out and build all extensions of
lines which may be needed, and in the
event of any disagreement, the same
to be determined by a commission to
be established by the state legislature.
I am moved to suggest this propo¬
sition by a consideration of the fact
that the franchises which have been
granted and have for years proven un-
profitable to the owners of the street
railway companies, have now grown
to a value on account of the increased
population of the city, which merits a
consideration of the advisability of the
city’s securing, if possible, a lair in¬
terest in tbe future growth of -the
property, and the further considera¬
tion that the owners of ft large major¬
ity of the stock of the companies are
Atlanta citizens, who will be satisfied
with a reasonable return for their in¬
vestment, and who, it is believed,
would be willing to so adjust these
public utilities as to secure to the city
great benefits in the future, which
might otherwise be enjoyed by foreign
investors in the stocks of the com-
panies, and which could not be re¬
claimed until the expiration of the
present franchises, running from forty
to fifty years.
It is believed further that by this
method the city of Atlanta can now
secure and hold in reserve the right to
own the properties which may in the
near future be deemed advisab e. Re-
tpectfully, Joel Huht.
OIL MUDDLE SUBSIDES.
State Will Begin Using New Testers
September 15th.
There seems to be no further devel¬
opments in the oil investigation since
the department of agriculture issued
orders to the inspectors throughout
the state. It is thought, that the
Standard Oil people will readily ac¬
cede to the lines drawn by the depart¬
ment and that no further friction will
occur.
The New York state oil test will go
into effect in Georgia after September
16th, and it is expected that the forty-
one new instruments for the use of the
oil inspectors will be ordered by the
departme nt in a short time.
. LIBERAL SUBSCRIPTIONS
Given By Railroads For Coming
World’s Fair at St. Louis.
A St. Louis dispatch says: The
largest individual subscriptions re¬
ceived for the world’s fair fund up to
date was announced Monday by the
Missouri Pacific railroad, which sub¬
scribes $85,000 to the $6,000,000 being
raised for a stock company to manage
the fair. The Burlington Bystem an-
Bounces a su Inscription of $55,0ff0.