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FRANCHISE QUESTION
Is Brought Up In the House and
Causes a Great Commotion.
SPECIAL INFORMATION WANTED
As to Abridgement of Suffrage In
States of Louisiana, Missis¬
sippi and the Carolinas.
A Washington special says: Like the
proverbial bolt of lightning from a
clear sky, there was precipated upon
the house of representatives Thursday
an entirely unexpected storm in the
shape of a resolution fathered by
Representative Shattac, of Ohio. The
resolution was «b follows: *
Whereas, In order that the appor¬
tionment of membership of the house
of representatives may be determined
in a constitutional manner, therefore,
be it
Resolved, By the bouse of repre¬
sentatives that the director of the cen¬
sus be directed to furnish to this house
at the earliest possiole moment the
following information:
1. The total number of male citi¬
zens over 21 years of age in the several
states of the union.
2. The total number of male citi¬
zens of the United States over 21 years
of age who by reason of state constitu¬
tional limitations or state legislation
are denied the right of suffrage, wheth¬
er such denial exists on account of il¬
literacy, 6n account or pauperism, on
account of polygamy or ou account of
property qualifications or on any other
reason.
“Resolved, further, That the speaker
of the house of representatives be au¬
thorized and directed to appoint a
select committee of five members who
shall investigate the question of al¬
leged abridgement of the elective
franchise, for any of the causes men¬
tioned, in all the states of the union
in which constitutional or legislative
restrictions on the rights of suffrage
are claimed to exist, said committee
shall be authorized to send for persons
and papers to administer oaths to wit¬
nesses and hearings at such places as
in the judgment of the committee the
desired information can best bo had.
The committee is also authorized to
employ a stenographer and such other
clerieal.and expert assistance as it may
deem necessary. The expenses of the
investigation to be paid out of the
contingent fund of the house of repre¬
sentatives over vouchers and approved
by the chairman of said committee.”
Representative Olmstead introduced
the resolution.
The issue was precipitated quite un
expectedly. The leaders had decreed
that the reapportiontment bill should
be taken up, but before it could be
called Mr. Olmstead, of Pennsylvania,
offered as a matter of privilege a reso
lotion reciting the alleged abridge¬
ment of the suffrage in Louisiana,
Mississippi, South Carolina and North
Carolina, and directing the committee
on census to investigate and report
the facts to the house in order that a
constitutional basis of representation
could be established for these states.
The leaders on the Democratic side
sought in vain to heat off tho resolu¬
tion with points of order, but the
speaker ruled against them. They
then began a filibuster, openly avow¬
ing that they would fight every propo
sitiou looking to the reduction of rep
reBeniation from the southern states to
the bitter end. Several of the Repub
licans were seemingly in sympathy
with them, and their indifference to
the fate of the Olmstead resolution in
the end gave the opposition the vic
tory. Many of them quietly paired
with absent Democrats, leaving their
absent colleagues unpaired.
As a result, when the question of
consideration was raised against the
resolution it was defeated—81 to 83/
Although the vote was a strict party
vote, two Republicans, Landis, of
Iiyliana, end Mann, of Illinois, ans¬
wered present, but did not vote.
But the story of the defeat is found in
the absentees on both sides who were
unpaired. Thirty-two Republicans
were absent and unpaired agaiust six¬
teen of the opposition.
The Republicans failing to show a
quorum, the house adjourned.
SALOONS CROWD ENSLEY.
«
Former Temperance Town In Alabama
Undergoes Magical Change.
A unique occurrence took place in
the city of Ensley, Ala., the site of
the steel industry in the Birmingham
district, on New Year’s day. The lit¬
tle city recently obtained a charter
from the general assembly allowing it
to sell liquor. The law went into
effect New Year’s day. Promptly one
minute after 12 o’clock on the night
of December 31st thirteen saloons
opened their doors. Twelve other
saloons which were not able to secure
fixtures on time, are opening up one
by one each day.
BRYAN IN FLORIDA.
Nebraskan Will See HI* Cousin Made
Governor of the State.
Hon. Williams Jennings Bryan was
in Pensacola, Fla., Thursday night
enronte to Tallahassee to witness ihe
inauguration of his cousin, Hon. Wil¬
liam S. Jenning, as governor of Flori¬
da. Mr. Bryan’s presence at the inau¬
guration ceremonies will occasion one
of tho most notable demonstrations
ever witnessed in the state.
FRACTIOUS TECH STUDENTS.
Senior Class Commit Mutinous
Act By Failing to Show Up
On Opening Day.
The senior olassof UieGeorgia Tech¬
nological school at Atlanta, consisting
of fifteen youug Georgians and one
Tennesseean, stand suspended for r.n
act of mutiny iu which every member
of the class but one took a hand.
The class conspiracy which hus ended
■with the suspension of the seniors for
the time being is one with the ordi¬
nary pranks growing out of the mani¬
festation of ■“class spirit” in every col¬
lege in the country. In refusing,
however, to return to college on tho
day set for the spring opening by the
faculty the students of the senior class
took the bit in their teeth iu a start¬
ling manner, as a result of which it
was “up to” tho faculty either to dem¬
onstrate their authority or to have
terms dictated to them by the mem¬
bers of the class.
The latest development in the inter¬
esting situation which has arisen at
the “Tech” is that iu all probability it
will fare hard with at least seven
members -of the class, who are, it is
believed by the faculty, responsible
for the mutiny. It is said that the
seven members of the senior class,
who are students in the textile depart¬
ment, have taken issue before with
the faculty in a matter of considerable
importance.
MUST FIGHT FOR FORTUNE.
Will of Millionaire Murphy To Bo Con
t^t-ed In the Co art*.
At Nashville, Term., Thursday,after
the probating of the will of Millionaire
Samuel Murphy, his widow, Anna H.
Murphy, appeared in court and adopt¬
ed Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Felder,
thus making them the heirs of the
millions that were left to the widow.
The late Dr. John A. Murphy, of
Cincinnati, was a brother of Samuel
Murphy, who also formerly resided
here. Tho widow of Dr. John A.
Murphy still resides here, and it was
expected that her two daughters would
become the heirs of Samuel Murphy.
These nieces are Mrs. Edwin Gardner,
Jr., of Nashville, and Mrs. John Kil
breth, Jr., of New York, and it is
claimed that they had been told by
their uncle, Samuel Murphy, that they
would become his heirs after the death
of his widow.
It is charged now that Samuel Mur¬
phy made a different will ju9t before
he died,and that Mr. and Mrs. Felder
were adopted a week after his death
while Felder was made co-executor of
the will without bond. Iu the peti¬
tion to adopt Mr. and Mrs. Felder,
the widow is said to have stated in
court at Nashville that Samuel Murphy
during his life gave his brother, Dr.
John A. Murphy, of Cincinnati, over
$500,000.
Mrs. John A. Murphy, in published
interviews, states that the amount was
less than $100,000, and mostly in real
estate, which has since greatly depre¬
ciated. She and her daughter has re¬
tained eminent counsel at Cincinnati
to contest the will and the adoption of
Mr. and Mrs. Felder and other coun¬
sel will be retained at Nashville for the
litigation. •
WORLJD8 CASH DOUHLEB.
Director of the Mint Robert* Issue* In¬
teresting Report.
An increase of more than 100 per
cent in the money of the world within
less than a generation is one of the
most interesting exhibits of the annual
report of the director of the mint.
The total stock reported in 1873 was
about $4,600,000,000, of which mire
than half was in paper money not
fully covered by metallic reserves.
The situation at the beginning of
1900 showed a total monetary stock of
about $11,600,000,000, of which only
little more than one-fourth was in un¬
covered paper money. Director Rob¬
erts finds that, while the total money
supply of the world has increased
about $7,000,000,000, the increase in
gold money since 1873 has been about
$3,600,000,000; in silver about $2,750,
000,000, and in uncovered paper onlv
about $650,000,000.
The quantity of silver money, which
was at its maximum of about $4,250,
000,000 at the beginning of 1896, has
since been somewhat reduced by the
sale of silver by Germany and its re¬
tirement in other countries.
CHARLESTON EXPECTS STATION.
Port Royal Board Has All Information
In Hand and Will Soon Report.
A Washington special Bays: Thurs¬
day the Port Royal board, headed by
Rear Admiral Rogers, begun the fur¬
ther consideration of the removal of
the Port Royal, S. C., naval station to
Charleston harbor.
The work of the board has been re¬
tarded by inability to obtain certain
necessary data from soundings in the
harbor at Charleston, on account of
the weather. However, all the neces¬
sary information is before the hoard
now, and it is expected to complete its
work and submit its report ii a week
or ten days.
RUSSIA TO TRY OCR COAL.
Fuel From Pocahontas Mine* In Virginia
I* Sent to Port Arthur.
The Russian government is to try
American coal aboard its American
built warships and other vessels of the
czar’s fleets will also test the product
of Virginia mines. The first cargo to
be shipped the imperial admiralty was
cleared at Norfolk, Va., Thursday in
the British steamship Ferndine, Cap¬
tain Jones, which cleared for Port Ar¬
thur.
DOCUMENT SUPREME!
Constitai in the Only Owaipotenl
Thing Under Heaven
5S DECLARATION OF MR.CHENEY
Briefs Filed In Cases Involving
Relations of United States to
Insular Possessions.
A Washington special says: The
first briefs to be filed in the cases in¬
volving the relations of the United
States to their insular possessions
which are to lie argued iu the United
States supreme court were submitted
Wednesday. There ure eight of the
cases and briefs were filed in two of
them, viz: The cams of Carlos Arm¬
strong and of Samuel B. Downes. In
both cases the briefs represent the
parties opposing the contentions of
the government.
Tho Armstrong case comes to the
supreme court from the court of claims.
Armstrong is a British subject doing
business in Ponce, Porto Kieo, and he
sues to recover tariff duties collected
on goods imported into Porto Kieo
from New York, Philadelphia and
Baltimore. The court of claims de¬
cided against him and he appeals from
that decision. The brief in this ease
was filed by Mr. John C. Chaney on
behalf of Mr. Armstrong.
The plea is made in the brief that
the collection was, in the circum¬
stances, a violation of the constitution
of the United Slates, as by the terms
of the Paris treaty the island of Porto
Kico became a portion of the United
States. The brief lays down the fol¬
lowing propositions as the basis of the
appellant’s contentions:
“The constitution of the United
Slates reaches over every portion of
the national domain, whether in the
form of state, territories or districts,
because this constitution provides for
territories as well as states. The ces¬
sion made by Spain in the treaty of
Paris produced an absolute change of
title and sovereignty in Porto Bico.
“The president of the United States
is an executive officer only. He has
no right to exercise legislative func¬
tions. The imposition, by executive
orders, of customs duties on commerce
between the island of Porto Bico and
other parts of the United Stntes after
the treaty of peace and the exchange
of ratifications is unauthorized and
void, and the collection of such duties
is without warrant of law.
“A government without limitations
■was never intended by the founders of
the nation. They sought to establish,
and did establish, a constitutional re¬
public which furnishes a written guar¬
antee of protection to all of its inhab¬
itants. The idea that, in one portion
of the country, the executive and leg
islbtive authority is subject to restric¬
tions and limitations and that in other
portions it is without any restriction.
A large portion of the brief is de¬
voted to the refutation of the doctrine
laid down by the attorney general in
the Gootz case, recently argued by
him in the supreme court to the effect
lhat the government of the United
States has an unlimited hand in the
control of territory outside of the
states.
Replying to this declaration, Mr.
Chaney says, in part:
“Mr. McKinley is the president of
the United Slate, the president of its
territories and of its people. He is
not the president of any other terri¬
tory or people and he is the despot of
no people and no territory. He was
never elected or commissioned the
despot of anybody or anything.
‘ The congress is the congress of
the United States—the congress of
the territory and the people of the
United States. It is not the congress
of any other territory or people. It is
omnipotent nowhere on the face of
the earth. It is creatod by the people
nf the United States under a constitu¬
tion specifically pointing out its power
and duties. It exists by virtue of that
constitution and also the presidential
office. It is omnipotent nowhere. The
only omnipotent thing this side of
heaven is the constitution formulated
by the fathers out of times which prov¬
ed the necessity of providing against
despotism iu the presidential office.
One would think to hear the argu¬
ments advanced by the government
that there are no restrictions or limita¬
tions of any sort upon congress or the
president so far as the territories are
concerned.
“They may give to Alaska an abso¬
lute monarchy; they may give to the
Hawaiian islands a republic; they
may give to Porto Rico auy such gov¬
ernment as Weyler would provide;
that they may give to the Philippines
a form of government after the plan
of Germany; that they may establish
a republic in one part and a mouarohy
in another; that they may deny to the
inhabitants of these islands all the
recognized rights and provisions
which characterize the civilized na¬
tions. In short, they may restore all
the relics of barbarism and there is m
way on earth to stop or control them.”
ROOSEVELT OUT? ODELL IN.
Xew Governor of New York Inaugurated
With Impoilwg Ceremonies.
At Albany, N. Y., Tuesday, Benja¬
min B. Odell, Jr., was inaugurated
governor of the state of New York.
The inauguration of Governor Odell
was on© of the most elaborate ever
held. There was a greater outpouring
of people aud a grander military dis¬
play than have attended a ceremony of
this character for many years.
CHINESE SEEM WIUINO.
No Trouble Is Apprehended In
Carrying Out the Demands
Of the Allies.
Following at an interval of one day
close upon his announcement that the
Chinese emperor has decreed tho nc
ceptauoe of 'the Pekin agreement,
Minister Conger cabled the state de
I artment under date of Pekin, January
1, that the next step had been taken,
and that the ministers had been uoti
tied formally not only that the Chinese
government had accepted, but felt able
to guarantee a performance of the con
ditions imposed.
It was apprehended that there would
z
tho rearrangement of the commercial
treaties between China and the pow
ers, which is provided for only in gen
eral terms in the agreement, was ex
pected to present equal difficulties in
the arrangement of the details. It is
absolutely essential to harmonious re
lations in the future that there shall
he no discrimination iu the making of
these treaties
The Chinese government’s guarantee)
of its ability to perform the acts called
for by the agreement is now expected
to be followed by the prompt arrest
and punishment of the boxer leaders
and sympathizers who were named in
the decree of September 25th, as fob
lows:
Prince Chwan, Prince Ylh, Seconda¬
ry Princes Tsai Lien and Tsai Ying,
Prince Tuan, Duke Tsai Lan, and the
president of the ceusorate, Y'ing Nien,
assistant grand secretary of the civil
board, and Chao Shu Chiao.
MANY ENTER THE RACE.
Senatorial Nomination* Blade In tho
Pennsylvania Legislature.
Nominations of candidates for United
States senator were made in both
branches of the Pennsylvania legisla¬
ture Wednesday. The following names
were presented in tho senate:
M. 8. Quay, Republican: Congress¬
man John Dalzell, Independent Re¬
publican; ex-Governor Robert L. Pat
tison, Democrat; ex-Congressman Bi
mon P. Wolverton, Democrat; John
Stewart, Republican; Congressman
William Conell, Republican; George
F. Huff, Republican, and National
Committeeman Charles Mabaffey.
The voting will begin January 15th,
when the two houses will vote separ-
ately.
KRUGER HAS HRONCIIITIS.
Attack Ib Slight and No Anxiety Is Felt
an to the Outcome.
Advices from The Hague state that
Mr. Kruger is suffering from a slight
attack of bronchitis. While there is
no anxiety as to his condition, he is
obliged to keep to his bed.
Drs. Heimans, VanKhuysen and
Coort during the day issued the follow -
ing bulletin:
“Mr. Kruger has for some days
been suffering from a recurrence of
bronchitis, which, in view of his age
and the effects of this climate, makes
it necessary for him to be mors than
ordinarily careful.”
SERVED WITH PAPERS.
Yoane Husband Is Asked to Return Prop¬
erty of His Elcbty-Year-Old Wife.
After chasing Willard Hutchinson,
the handsome young clubman and
beau ideal of the matinee girls, round
the world, attorneys for his 80-year
old wife succeeded in getting close
enough to him in Brunswick, Ga.,
Wednesday to serve him with papers
requiring him to appear in New York
at the next term of court or show causs
why he should not surrender about
$3,000,000 worth of New York prop¬
erty to his wife.
PAT CROWE NOT CAUGHT.
Stranger Supposed to Be Abductor ITm
Innocent Collector of Curios.
An Omaha special i ays: The stranger
supposed to be Patrick Crowe, the
Cudahy abductor, who was overhauled
in a chase near the Pine Ridge agency,
at Chadion, Neb., and arrested, prov¬
ed to be an innocent collector of
curios, named Dennis, from Boston,
and was not detained.
To Eliminate Middle Man.
A Chicago dispatch says: Shoe man
iifactnrers are planning the establish¬
ment of a National Shoe company to
dominate the distribution of shoes to
tho retailers and eliminate the middle
man’s profits.
PROFITS OF DISPENSARY.
Palmetto State Made Nearly Half a Mill¬
ion Dollar* on (Liquor.
The business of the South Carolina
state dispensary for the fisoal year
1900 amount to $2,421,840.22. This
is for the first eleven months of the
year. trade month
December, the biggest
of the year, is not included. Yet the
sales last year, eleven months, ex¬
ceeded 1899 twelve mouths by $750,
000. The state’s part of the profits
for 1900 is $176,012.18; the towns and
counties $298,166.28, making a grand
total of profits of $474,178.46. The
dispensary is now the largest whisky
bottling concern in the world.
SAVANNAH BANKS PROSPEROUS.
Clearings For tho Past Year Show an
Increase of S107,000,000.
Savannah’s bank clearings for the
year 1900 are $246,313,844.04. This
eclipses previous records and ia an
increase over the previous year of
$107,000,000. The sum named rep¬
resents the actual business handled
by the Savannah banks for 1900 aud is
not obtained by adding debits and
credits or including fictitious items.
SOUTH’S PROSPERITY
I
Acts as “Loadstone” to Northern '
Financiers and Capitalists.
H1E1R CONFIDENCE UNBOUNDED
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President of Old Colony Trust
r Company of t R Boston . Tnltrc Talks of of
• Encouraging Outlook.
p Jefferson Coolidge president of
mr 01 r?
18 110 ' v m Ihomnsville, Ga., where he
will, spend a week on an inspection
trip of the Tifton, Thomasville and
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’
Mr Coolidge, .. ,, the head , . of , the .,
- as
Old Colony Trust compauy, one of the
strongest financial institutions in the
fount is in terested in large invest
‘
ments throu ... Lout the south, am , pm
g
ticularly in Atlanta, where he has eon
siderable capital invested in the Em
pire building, a sky-scraper which is
now being built at the corner of Mari
-tta and Broad streets.
On being asked as to the business
situation, Mr. Cooledge said:
“The feeling in the nortfi is that the
country is entering or has already en
tered upon a period of great prosper
ity. Special industries may, of course,
have temporary setbacks, but there is
a strong belief that all industries will
share in the prosperity of the next
few years.
“The greatest confidence is felt in
the industrial development of the
south. What with the satisfactory
prices obtained for cotton, iron, coal
and its other staple products the south
is realizing many millions a month
more than the most sanguine persons
expected two years ago. Manufactories
are springing up in all parts as the
natural result of the increased wealth
of the community. manufactories
“While I think cotton
have been erected in some places with¬
out due regard to the many difficulties
of manufacture, and there may be
some losses for this reason in that dif¬
ficult branch of business, yet most of
the great number of the manufactur¬
ing companies which have been started
up in all parts of the south should have
the advantage of active business for
the next two or three years. And,
when dull times come again, the south
will have reached a position of wealth
and strength which will fit her to meet
all competition.
“It is safe to say that the south has
slipped into the front rank as a man¬
ufacturing community and she will
never have to take a backward step.
The result of increasing wealth
throughout the south will be shown
by increased values of all property,
both iu the country and in the cities,
and Atlanta will as the leading city
naturally show the most rapid im¬
provement.”
STORMS DEVASTATE ENfilAND
Fearful Gales and Big Floods
Sweep the Country, Causing
Enormous Damage.
A London special says: Severe snow
storms, deluging rains and furious
gales have created havoc in the
United Kingdom. In many parts of
the country there have been disas¬
trous floods, landslides and washouts.
On all sides much stock has been
; drowned, The railroads and high
ways are blocked, buildings and
bridges have been carried off and the
overflowing streams have inundated
miles of country, while they have sub¬
merged tho streets in some of the
towns from three to four feet deep.
At Coventry the devastation is
greater than at any time in the last 30
years. factories have been flooded
Many inhabitants im¬
and hundreds of are
prisoned in their homes.
Immense tracts of land in several
counties have been transformed into
d tte inhabitants 8eeking
refuge - n the upper rooms of their
dwellings. Many villages are isolated
completely and some towns of consid¬
erable size are without gas owing to
the works being flooded.
GEORGIA COMMISSIONERS
To Pan-American (Exposition Hold M(fet¬
ing In Atlanta and Elect Officers.
At a meeting of the Georgia state
commission for tho Pan-American ex
position at Buffalo, and the Charleston
exposition, Colonel W. A. Hemphi 1
%vas elected chairman; Commissioner
of Agriculture O. B. Stevens, secreta
ry, and State Geologist Yeates, execn
tive officer. .
The principal decision reached at the
session was that the Georgia exhibit
uow displayed at the statehouse should
he considerably augmented along the
line of agriculture, geology and in
(Uistrial improvement. ^ V
KRUGER WANT.-* PEACE.
Old Man Requests IJjueen Wilhelnvina to
Write to Various Ruler*.
Mr. Kruger ‘ is again importuning
Queen Wilhelmins, says the corres¬
pondent of the Loudon Daily Mail at
Tho Hague, to write personal letters
to Emperor Nicholas, President Lou
bet aud Emperor William with a view
of stopping the war. It is reported
that the queen is not unwilling, but
that the Nellie lauds ministry is di¬
vided.
OMAHA OFFERS REWARD.
City Council, to Relieve Cudahy,
Will Pay $25,oo » For
Kidnapers.
At a specially culled meeting of the
Omaha city council Mondr.y that body
adopted concurrent resolution* offer
“ rewar ‘ 1 ul ! " i * ,hB “^ ,e -
heusion and conviction f the despe
rndoes who abducted Edward Cudahy,
Jr., on the night of December 18th.
^ or l ' lu ttrrest aut * conviction of one,
llle resolutions provide a reward of
58,000; for two, 315,000 .vul be pa>< ,
HU| I the w hole amount i - offerei or
the three principals. 1 he vote by
"’liAph the resolutions were passed was
"
to withdraw his offer of a reward »>• rz of an
equal amount for the capture of the
criminals. The object i I the oily s
°® 8r ’? largely to relieve Mr. Ciulai.;
and his family of the fear of reprisals
from , he i }allt iits and to remove from
the police and detectives the restraint
they have felt in trailing the bandits
owing to the very trying position. in
which Mr. Cudahy has been placed.
The action of the council is generally
commended by the citizens of the city,
Mayor Moores, speaking of the mat
ter, made the following statement,
“Ibis cam has come to a pass where
it is the public’s duty to step iu and
relieve the terrible strain under which
the Cudahy family is living. That last
letter from the kidnapers puts such a
serious coloring on the case that it is
not right to expect Mr. Cudahy to cec¬
tinue his offer of $25,000 reward for
the arrest and conviction of the men
who stole his boy.
“I have wired the governor urging
him to offer a reward. A special meet¬
ing of the council has been called to 1
consider the advisability of appropri¬
ating $10,000 for any person who may
bring about the conviction of the kid¬
napers. The county will also be asked
to give some money and I have no
doubt but we will swell the sum to
$25,000.”
SOUTH URN PROGRESS.
List of New Industries He ported Dur¬
ing the Past Week.
Among the more important of the
new industries reported for the past
week is a bobbin factory at Greenville,
S. C.; brick works at Ashland, Ala.,
and Hattiesburg, Miss.; a building
material factory at Pine Bluff, Ark., a
$75,000 canal company at Beaumont,
Tex.; canning factories at Orlando,
Fla., and Washington, N. C.,‘ a $500,
000 coal company at Charleston, W.
Va.another with a capital of $200,
000 at El Paso, Tex.; a $50,000 coal
and coke company at Richmond, Ya.,
and coal mining companies at Bir¬
mingham, Ala., Knoxville, Tenn., and
Clarksburg and Charleston, W. Ya.; a
cotton gin at Suffolk, Ya.; a $150,000
cotton mill at Jackson, Miss., and cot¬
ton mills at Tallapoosa, Ga., and
Conetoe, N. C.; development compa¬
nies at New Orleans, La., and McGre¬
gor, Tex.: electric power plant at
Galveston, Tex., to be furnished with
new equipment at cost of $200,000; a
$250,000 fertilizer factory at Jackson,
Miss.; a fiber factory at Arcadia,
Fla.; flouring mills at Advance, N.
C., and Orangeburg, South Carolina; a
furniture factory at Statesville, N. C.;
a glass factory at Parkersburg, W.
Va.; a grist mill at Rosa. Als.; a $50,
000 hardware company at Paris, Tex.,,
and otliers at Laurel, Mis-s , and Wil¬
son, N. C.; ice factories at Wades
boro, N. C., Anderson, S. C., and
Houston, Tex.; an iron miuing com¬
pany at Gaffney, S. C.; iron works at
Louisville, Ky.; a land company at
Portsmouth, Va.; a laundry at Clin¬
ton, N. C.; a$50,000*lumber company
at McHenry, Miss., and others at Tns
eumbia, Ala., Columbia. S. C., and
Granbury, Hico, Midlothian and San
Antonio, Tex.; a mattress factory at
Anderson, S. C.; a medicine factory
at Kingston, Tenn.; quarries at Mar
tinstrarg, W. Va.; a $500,000 oil and
pipe line compauy at Beaumont, Tex.;
a $100,000 packing company at Mc¬
Kinney, Tex.; paint fadory at Birm¬
ingham, Ala.; piano factory at Knox¬
ville, Tenn.; planing mills at Rosa,
Ala., and Anderson, S. C.; saw mills
at Princeton, Ky., and Chatterton,
Va.; shoe factories at Greensbo o, N.
C., and Lynchburg, Va .; Bpoks and
handle factory at Centreville, Tenn.;
telephone systems at Melrose, Fla.,
and Temple, Tex., and wagon fac¬
tories at Van Buren, Ark., Winona,
Miss., and Danville, Va.—-Tradesman
(Chattanooga, Tenn.)
HUBBY GOT THE “BOSE.”
Poison Was Intended For the Wife**
Clandestine Lover.
The report of the coroner’s inquest
j in which the has Rathbuu been absorbing poisoning public mystery, at
tontion at New Haven, Conn., for
some days, was made public Wodnes
day. It finds that the death of Wib
Ham Rathbun was caused by poison
put into the coffee of a hoarder, John
F. Hart, by Maria Ann Rsthbnn, wife
of William,
The intention of Mrs, Rathbun, ae
cording to the coroner’s finding, was
to secure the death of Hart, with
whom she is declared to have had ib
licit relations.
JOHN CROWE LIBERATED.
No Kvhlcnce Adduced to Show Hi* Con¬
nection Will* Kidnaper*.
An Omaha dispatch says: It was
evident'y the fear that something
might get away from them that im¬
pelled the police to take John Crowe
iu custody. The result, was that noth¬
ing iu the way of evidence to connect
him with the kidnaping was produced
when he was carried before Police
Judge Leara. He was discharged.