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THE LEGISLATURE.
GEORGIA SOLONS MEET IN REG
ULAR SESSION.
Proceedings of the Senate and House
Presented In Brief.
The following new bills were intro¬
duced in the house Thursday: A bill
asking for the appropriation of
$25,000 to the Georgia Memorial Board
for the purpose of marking by monu¬
ments the spots occupied by Georgia
troops at .Chickamauga; To require
■county treasurers to make reports to
county commissioners when required
to do so. Also a bill to provide for
the confinement of certain felons in
the discretion of the court in the
county chaingangs. The following
bills were passed: Bill to create a
park and tree commission for the city
of Savannah; A senate resolu¬
tion appointing a committee of
two from the senate and three
from the house to investigate the com¬
panies who are in arrears to the state
for the lease of convicts; To extend
for sanitary purposes the jurisdiction
of the mayor and aldermen of Savan¬
nah ; To authorize policemen of the
city of Savannah to make arrests with¬
in two miles from the corporate limits
of the city; To abolish the county
court of coffee county; To fix the time
of election of the clerk and sheriff of
the city court of Savannah; To create
a board of education for the town of
Lithonia; To change the time for
holding the spring term of the Daw¬
son superior court.
Representative Branan’s bill to fix
salaries for Fulton county officers and
to abolish the fee system which now
prevails, has been defeated in the com¬
mittee room. It has been under the
consideration of the committee on
county aud county matters, aud was
reported back to the house unfavora¬
bly by that committee on Friday. It
is understood that the opinion was
unanimous in the committee that the
bill was in its makeup unconstitution¬
al, and the committee’s report was in
accordance with this view. All of the
■county officers, ihe parties most con¬
cerned, appeared before the committee
and opposed the measure. Despite the
efforts of its advocates, the bill re
■ceived a unanimously unfavorable re
port. Mr. Branan says he will intro¬
duce another similar bill and ask that
it be referred to the judiciary commit¬
tee. The judiciary committee report¬
ed favorably to the house a
bill by Mr. Giles, of Houston,
which provides for the finding
of verdict by a majority of the jury in
any case. It offers au amendment to
the constitution of the state so that the
general assembly may require a major¬
ity, consisting of not less than two
thirds of the jury trying the cause, to
find a verdict in any court in thia
state. The bill has been made the
special order for next Friday. The
following new bills were introduced:
To make the theft of domestic animals,
of a value less than $50, a misdemeanor;
to amend an act incorporating the Sa¬
vannah Bank and Trust Company; to
prevent the sale of liquor at Trion fac¬
tory. Also a bill to prohibit the sale
•of intoxicating liquors within certain
limits of the depot on the Atlanta and
Richmond line at Duluth. The fol¬
lowing bills were passed: A bill to
■create a system of public schools for
the town of Cartersville, Bartow coun¬
ty ; to authorize the payment of insol¬
vent criminal costs to the clerk of the
superior court of Macon county; to
authorize the mayor and council of the
•city of Savannah to condemn property
for the purpose of widening Btreets.
Monday’s session in the house was
principally taken up with the reading
■of new bills. Mr. Broyles’ bill to
amend the charter of the city of At¬
lanta was passed. This bill provides
for the incorporation of 200 acres of
territory running eastward from the
fourth ward to the DeKalb county
line along the southern boundary of
the Georgia railroad. It also pro¬
vides that the city officials, council
men and mayor shall not hold any
•other office. A bill by Mr. McDan¬
iel, of Fannin county, to remove the
county seat from Morganton to Blue
Ridge, which was reported upon had fa¬
vorably by the committee which
it under consideration, was the cause
of considerable discussion. It was
finally decided to agree with the re¬
port of the committee, and as there is
some opposition to the measure it was
made the special order for Wednesday.
In accordance with a resolution intro¬
duced by Mr. Battle, of Muscogee, the
house went into adjournment for ten
minutes to hear an address from Hon.
Charles Jewett, ex-speaker of the In¬
diana house. His remarks were listened
to with great appreciation, Mr. Boi
feuillet, of Bibb, introduced municipal an impor¬
tant bill. It provides that
corporations shall exempt from taxa¬
tion, for such a term as they see fit,all
manufactories seeking to locate
in this state. This bill was
introduced at the suggestion
of the Georgia manufacturers.
The following bills were given a third
reading and passed: To establish a
system of public schools for the town
of Guyton; To amend an act to consol¬
idate, amend and codify the various
acts incorporating the city of Forsyth;
to pay John Faver $2 per diem for
running elevator; To amend an act in¬
corporating the town of Hayne;To es
tablish a new charter for the city of
Covington; To create a board of com
missioners of roads and revenues for
the county of Webster; To abolish ap¬
peals from the police court to the
mayor and council of Savannah; To
amend the charter of the town of Bos¬
ton; To establish and incorporate a
board of tax receivers and assessors for
the city of Savannah; To abolish the
city court of Laurens county. A large
number of new bills were introduced
and read first time. The house ad¬
journed over till Wednesday in order
that the members' might celebrate
“Georgia Day” at the exposition.
A bomb was exploded in the senate
Thursday morning by Senator Little.
He introduced a bill to move the ex
ens^Griffi^has be°en agricuXral dem^ndtg college the
removal of the MhensTs
frorn irom Athens Athens to to Griffin Grriinn. Athens is car- car
rying the war into Africa, and asks
that all be concentrated there. The
fight is od. end it will be livelv. The
senate was engaged most or ns morn
ing session in debating the Dodson in
surance bill. Senator Cummings, Os
borne and Wade opposed the bill,
while Senators Broughton and Harris
of the 22d favored its passage. The
bill was passed by a vote of 27 for
the bill to five against. The bill
as passed is as follows: “That
from and after the passage of this
act all insurance companies issuing
policies on property in this state shall
pay to their policy holders the full
amount of loss sustained upon the
property insured by them; provided,
said amount of loss does not exceed
the amount of insurance expressed in
the policy, and that all stipulations in
such policies to the contrary shall be
uuil and void; provided, that in cases
of losses on stocks of goods and mer¬
chandise and other spe«fies of personal
property changing in specifics and quan¬
tity by the usual customs of trade, only
the actual value of the property at the
time of loss may be recovered. Other
bills passed were as follows: Bill to
amend section 4625 of the code, rela¬
ting to obstructing fish ways with
dams ; To define the rights and privi¬
leges of foreign guardians and trus¬
tees. Senator Shepperd introduced a
bill to amend, revise and consolidate
the military laws of the state, and to
declare what military laws are of force,
This bill is aimed at independent com¬
panies, and if passed will disband such
companies as the Gate City Guard, or
force them to enlist.
Soon after the senate met Friday, it
adjourned to the hall ot the house of
representatives to assist in the recep¬
tion of the visiting governors. Upon
reassembling a number of bills were
read the second time, and the follow¬
ing bills passed: A bill by Senator
Tatum, taking Cherokee county from
the Cherokee circuit and putting it in
the Rome Circuit; House bill of Mr.
McDaniel to repeal the act of 1883 in¬
corporating the town of Morganton,
Faunin county ; Bill by Air. Longley
amending the charter of Dalton.
Senator Mercer introduced a bill to
prescribe how elections shall be held
in counties on the fence question,
when previous elections had been
held on the subject. The senate ad¬
journed until Monday at 10 o’clock.
The senate was not in session Satur¬
day and on account of the large num¬
ber of absentees there was no business
of importance transacted in tbe house
during the short morning session. The
session was principally devoted to read¬
ing bills for a second time while a few
new measures were introduced, among
which were the following : To amend
an act authorizing the town of Wash¬
ington to issue bonds; To change the
time for holding the Pulaski superior
court; To authorize, iu counties of
60,000 inhabitants, the payment by the
county for dockets of justices of the
peace; To fir compensation for elec¬
tion clerks in Pierce county; To pre¬
vent the sacrifice of real proper¬
ty at legal sales by providing
for the appraisement of the same and
allowing the defendant to redeem the
same under certain circumstances. J.
W. Law, the colored member from
Liberty county, introduced a rather
unusual bill. Its object is to compel
all persons who sell or offer to sell, in
the county of Liberty, any beef, pork
or mutton, to exhibit the ears of the
animal killed and to state the brand of
the same. Air. Tatum, of Troup, in¬
troduced a resolution, which fixes tbe
time for Hon. Hoke Smith to deliver
an address before the legislature. The
time fixed is the evening of Decem¬
ber 3d.
Senator Harris, of Macon, introduc¬
ed an important bill in the senate
Monday morning. His bill seeks to
give relief to the supreme court by
creating a court of appeals,to be com¬
posed of three judges, to be appointed
by the governor at once and to sit at
six different places in Georgia. Air.
Harris thinks his bill a good one and
that it ought to pass, as it would give
the needed relief before the bill of
Air. Fleming to amend the constitu¬
tion could be adopted by the people,
and that if the bill of Air. Fleming be¬
comes a law, this one could be repeal¬
ed. In the meantime, for the next
two or three years, the court could re¬
lieve the pressure. Senator Boynton
introduced a bill which seeks to amend
the code, and to allow sheriff-! and their
deputies to carry weapons concealed.
Senator Muuro thinks counties should
have the right to hire their convicts to
private parties, and therefore he intro
duced a bill to that effect. Senator
Beeks introduced a bill to provide for
three conductors to conduct the coun¬
ty teachers’ institutes in the state.
The senate, by a unanimous vote,
adopted the resolution inviting Secre¬
tary Hoke Smith to address the gen¬
eral essembly in joint session on the
first Tuesday in December at 8 p. m.,
in the hall of the house of represents
tives. The senate then adjourned over
until Wednesday that the members
might mingle with their constituents
and have a, good time taking m the ex
position Tuesday.
Both Have Fund9.
The investigation committee, in the
anti-barroom bill corruption charges
^ ano Jher ‘ /k session Hugl J Monday e8 Who morning. th e
CU8t d f the Prohibitionists’ l ’. f fund ,
wa8 ° g rgt T e x ° amine d. He showed that
3425 had been paid to him and that it
had been exoended for nostawp 'ex'penses urint
ing & and n his own traveling f e M? ei ? ae8 ;
J 7 r- Steiner, . of Atlanta, testified
, as custodian for the liquor
men a
° n » ** e ha received $2,800; it had
a11 been expended for legitimate pur
poses. ^ te ® n hundred dollars of
J? 118 amount had come front the retail
Savannah, $600 from
Macon, and the remaining sum irom
th ® brewers of the state,
Thl8 18 substance of what was
brought out. Both sides have a small
fund and contend equally as to the
legitimate usage of the same.
PERJURY CHARGED.
Shoemaker, One of Holmes’ Attor¬
neys, in Serious Trouble.
The argument for a new trial in the
continued murder case of Holmes was
heard at Philadelphia Monday morn
ing in the criminal court before Judge
Arnold, who tried the case, Judge
Wilson and Judge Thayer, as presid
ing judge of the court. Like all the
phases of this singular case this OTdi
narily routine procedure furnished a
sensation.
The sensation was furnished by Mr.
Shoemaker, oue of Holmes’s oounsel.
Mr. Shoemaker presented aD affidavit
from a witness purpoting to be named
Blanche Hannigan. In the affidavit
the witness swore that she kept a cigar
store on Callowhill street, near the
house where Pietzel was killed, and
that she knew the dead man and that
he told her that he intended to com
mit suicide.
District Attorney Graham asked
that the witness bo called to the stand
and Mr. Shoemaker replied that he did
not know where she was. Then Air.
Graham called a private detective
named Swetzler to tbe stand. The de
tective testified that Shoemaker,weeks
ago, had written out the affidavit and
given him $20 to pay some one to
swear to it.
Then Detective Geyer was called,
and he testified that Swetzler had
shown him the affidavit before it was
signed. stand
The woman was called to the
who said she was the “Blanche Hanni
gan” who signed the affidavit. She:
swore she knew nothing about the
statements in the affidavit. Her name,
insteadof being Hannigan, was Rhea,
and she is the matron in the fourth
police district. It was at tbe sugges
tion of Detective Geyer that she went
with Swetzler to Shoemaker and im- j
personated'Blanche Hannigan. Shoe
maker gave her $20 and took her be
fore a notary public aud she swore to
the statement.
The astonishing testimony, that I
seemed to clearly point to a perjured
affidavit, evidently surprised the court
and when Shoemaker attempted to
make some confused statement, Judge
Thayer suggested to him that his
greatest safety lay in silence.
Shoemaker’s Shame. 1 i
makerf Judge Thayer, addressing Air.Shoe
told him that he had a most
unpleasant duty to perform. He said
that Mr, Shoemaker having made the
affidavit he presented, the court had
no alternative but to bold iu $100 bail
for subordination of perjury. and
Mr. Shoemaker stood pallid
nerveless while Judge Thayer was
ppeaking, and when his honor had fin
ished he made an inarticulate effort to
sav something, but his voice choked !
and he sat down silently. . I
The court reserved its decision up
on granting Holmes anew trial, but
that the new trial will be refused from.
the line of questioning adopted by the
bench is undoubted. •
Shoemaker procured bail but refused
to make auy statement in regard to the
affidavit.
GOLD DISAPPEARING.
Now Down to the Lowest Notch Since
Last March.
The actual gold reserve Saturday af¬
ternoon was less than $89,500,000.
The official figures given out at 2
o’clock put the reserve at $91,823,039,
but from this must be taken one and a
quarter million withdrawn Friday and
one million one hundred and thirty
four thousand dollars taken out Satur
day, which had not been deducted
by the treasury bookkeepers. This is
the lowest notch reached by the treas
ury since last March.
FOURTEEN KILLED.
TROLLEY CAB GOES THROUGH
AN OPEN DRAW BRIDGE.
Fourteen of the Passengers. Dead,
While Only One Was Rescued.
A frig htful accident, by which four
teen people loBt their u occurred
ftt Cleveland, O., Saturday evening,
0tdng to tbo crimi ual and still unex
plainable carelessness of a street car
conductor, a car well filled with peo
p)e took an awful plnnge of oue bun .
dred and twenty feet from the draw of
the Central viaduct into the dark wa¬
ters of the Cuyahoga river.
The accident occurred at 7:25 o’clock
n £oue m The Central viaduct is a long
and iron structure which crosses
the Valley railroad and the Cuyahoga
ri and connect8 Jennings avenue
on “ the t J® ® east. 8 / h T^e bridge is onehun- h?,n
^red and twenty feet above the river,
The draw was open for a tug draw¬
j ng a 8cbooner> which was about to
pass beneath the bridge. As usual, the
g a t e8 W ere closed on both sides of the
draw and dange r lights were displayed
guard against an accident. An elec
trio car wag eeen coin i n g * a i ong the
east toward the 8onth sid but Cap .
tain Charles Brennan, who has charge
of the bridge, had no thought of dan¬
ger, as the usual precautions had been
observed. The car was one of the Ce¬
dar and Jennings avenue branch of the
big Consolidated liue, and had fifteen
passengers, a conductor and motorman
aboard. At what is known as the “de
railing switch,” some two hundred
feet from the draw, the conductor me¬
chanically alighted, as is the wont of
conductors at this point, to see if
all tras right. The car came to a stand¬
still and the motorman waited for or
dtis. •
The conductor, for some unaceount
ble reason, failed to see the red signal
of danger or the closed gates, or per
haps custom made him cureless, and
he signaled to the motorman, John
Rogers, to come ahead. The motor
man turned on the electric current,the
conductor jumped aboard the car, and
at considerable speed the vehicle near
ed the deathtrap.
Why the motorman did not see tie
danger lights or the closed gates soi -
er than he did will always remain a
but the fact remains that Lu
did not.
A few feet from the draw it dawned
upon the motorman that it was open,
AVith a speed born of desperation he
threw the handle and applied tho
brakes.
The bridge captain, seeing the np
proaching car, shouted like a madman,
but availed nothing. The car was al
ready on the down grade to the draw
and the brakes were not able to hold
tho car on the slippery rails. The
motorman, realizing his danger, for
sook the precious cargo he was haul
ing, and with a wild cry leaped oil the
front platform, ran down the viaduct
in the direction of Center avenue and
disappeared in the darkness.
At the same instant two male pas
sengers jumped off the rear platform
and escaped death as by a miracle,
The car reached the closed iron gates
and in an instant the crash of snapping
iron and breaking glass was heard,
This alarmed the conductor, who had
stepped inside, and he was seen lo
make a dash for the rear door, but he
too late. ‘
was
The Fatal Plunge.
A second later tbe car swayed on
the edge of the awful space, steadied
for an instant, as though in a frantic
endeavor to maintain its equilibrium
and toppled over. There was an ago
nizing chorus of screams and in an in
slant all was qniet.
The car struck upon a projection
of piles in the abutment beneath the
draw, then turning and collapsing it
fell ffito the dark river below, scatter
ing its passengers in all direction8 and
breaking the tow line between the tug
* n d schooner that were passing.
A few suppressed groans were heard
by the men who happened to be on
the docks below. Men from the
bridge above and from the docks who
had witnessed the accident, called to
the men on the tug to pick up the peo
pie, Ld but only two passengers, one man
one woman, were rescued. The
woman, however, died while being re
moved to the hospital.
The news of the accident spread
rapidly and in a few ‘ minutes a fire
boat, six ambulances, six dead wagons
and a squad of policemen were on
hand and the work of rescuing the
bodies was taken up. One by oue
they were found and taken to under¬
taking establishments in different parts
of the city.
The scenes which were enacted in
Detroit after the Journal accident
were repeated at the viaduct disaster
and undertakers, like ghouls were
struggling for possession of the bodies,
The moment the accident becanae
noised about they hurried to the docks
with their dead wagons and engaged
the unseemingly wrangle for the
corpses
The motorman was found after mid
night by two detectives and he insists
that the reason he ran was because he
was panic-stricken aud he did not see
the gates or the lights until the crash
came.
Later.
Up to 6 o’clock Sunday evening the
bodies of fifteen victims of Saturday
night’s catastrophe had been recovered.
This accounts for all but four of the
passengers known to have been on the
car at the time it made its dreadful
plunge from the open Central viaduct
down into the Cuyahoga river.
TRADE TOPICS.
Very Tittle Change Was Noted During
the Past Week.
Bradstreet’g review of business for
the past week says:
“The condition of general trade con¬
tinues irregular and without material
change. There is a distinct falling off
in the demand for iron and steel, with
perhaps the heaviest reaction in quota¬
tions in those lines reported in any
week since the late boom in those met¬
als reached its climax. Central west¬
ern cities continue to feel the unfavor¬
able influence of unseasonably mild
weather, which is true as well of cities
in the northwest. Then there is the long
list of decreases in quotations for mer¬
chandise. The converse includes an
unexpected improvement in woolen
goods.
“October gross railroad earnings
reflect generally improved trade anc|
an especially heavy movement of
spring wheat is the largest gain shown
for any month’s but June and July
this year. With the exception of the
southwestern ronds and the coalers,
which show decreases, every other
group shows gains. All the trunk
lines and nearly all the southern roads
show increases, the latter in spite of
the short cotton crop.
“lienewed gold exports, amounting
for the week to $3,250,000, have
checked the bullish tendency of the
New York stock market. The selling,
however, is professional, the short in¬
terest enlarged, and the liquidation
apparently completed. Further gold
shipments are expected next week.
Bank clearings at cities throughout
the United States aggregate $1,171,
000,000 this week, 4 per cent mors
than last week. As compared with th©
corresponding period in 1892 at a tims
when bank clearings totals were ex¬
ceptionally heavy, the falling off thif
week is 12 per ceDt.
“There are 279 business failures re¬
ported throughout the United State*
this week, compared with 2601ast week,
280 in the week one year ago, and as
contrasted with only 205 in the cor¬
responding week of 1892. The in¬
crease in the number of failures thia
week over last is more than acoounted
for by southern and New England
states.
“Other features include very gener¬
ally satisfactory mercantile collection©
east, west and south, exceptions being
conspicuous by their infrequenoy.
There is a disposition in the gulf
states to market cotton more freely,
and Texas cities report a checked vol¬
ume of business resulting from lower
prices for cotton.”
SAYS HE WAS NOT INVITED.
Gov. Atkinson l ook , „ No _ Part . in , Ccle- _ ,
bratlng Georgia Day.
Governor Atkinson did not partici
pate in the Georgia Day exercises at
the exposition Tuesday,
The governor said he was not m
vited to take part in the exeroises.
President Collier said that the Georgia
Day exercises were placed in the hand©
of the governor, and that no further
invitation for him to participate in the
exercises were thought necessary
A pretty muddle hasgrown out;of it
n ■ e governors< igniy iso en -
exposition directors surprised
a « f the pu lie wi 1 >e amuset.
The governor said that he had m
° nd °. d to take P art “ exer c i Be8 ’
.
°1 C<mr8e ’
1IJ ^' t e d ? ‘ °.?. 0,
T 1 , ^ad written to . all the members
of my s aff to come and take par in
tkeda - V 8 observance,” said he, “but
a ® as mo ^ en ’ no avln ^ r e
alved . station . to participate . .
? an in
th e observance of the day,I telegraph
ed . “^bers of my ataff living outside
0 an a 180 o enme.
President „ Collier expressed regret
a an *^ mi8 ^ n < an mg a< arisen,
“We placed the Georgia day exercises
10 the governor s bands smd the
president “and thought that was all
the invitation he required to take part
^ 1 e exercises. e ,ssu ^ e pro
clamat.on announcing the day.
THREE LOSE THEIR LIVES.
A Match Factory Burns at Detroit.
Michigan.
The factory of the Improved Match
Company at Detroit, Mich., a branch
of the match trust, was destroyed by
fire at 3 o’clock Saturday morning.
Three persons were burned to death—
Reuben Davis, fireman; Thomas Wag¬
ner, watchman; Agnes Getke, an em¬
ploye.
About twenty-five persons, mostly
girls, were at work when the fire broke
out. Miss Getke, after getting out,
went back for her clothing and was
not seen again. Davis and Wagner
were unable to get out in time and
burned to death. The monetary loss
is $45,000. The fire started from one
of the employes stepping on a match.