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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.