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8 PROBABLY INVITE ROOSEVELT HERE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WILL CONSIDER THE MATTER AT DIRECTORS’ MEETING. If Chamber of Commerce I**ie* In vitation. the Mayor atnl Aldermen Mill Also Invite the President in the Name of the City—Chamber of Commerce Will Work for the Es tnblinhment of n Military Hoad on t Tybee Inland. The Chamber of Commerce will probably extend an invitation to President Roosevelt to visit Savan nah. The matter will be considered at a meeting of the directors, to be held this afternoon and it is more than likely that the invitation will be decided upon, though a positive pre diction can not be made. If the Chamber of Commerce de cider to issue the invitation, it can be authoritatively stated that the Mayor and aldermen, on behalf of the city, will also invite Mr. Roosevelt to come to Savannah. Mayor Myers, it will be recalled, stated in an interview in the Morning News some time ago that it was prob able the city would invite the Pres ident to come here at some future time. An invitation just at this time, the Mayor said, should come from the trade bodies and not the municipal government. If, however, the initiative is taken by the Chamber of Commerce the city will also issue an invitation. Hoad on Tybee Island. Another important matter which will be discussed by the directors this afternoon will be the establishment of a military road on Tybee Island. The value of a good roadway on the island would be almost inestimable In case Fort Screven should ever have to defend the harbor, It is argued. It is proposed to get the government to build a splendid roadway from one end of the island to the other. Such a roadway would be of great conven ience at all times, as the beach at low tvater now offers the only way of travel by vehicle on the island. The matter will probably be taken up with the congressmen and senators from Georgia. It will be shown what a benefit such a road would be and the government will be urged to make an appropriation for its con struction. The support of the officers at Fort Screven, will be secured In the movement. For Deeper Witter. The campaign for deeper water, started about a year ago and taken up by all the trade bodies of the city, will be renewed by the Chamber of Commerce this afternoon. Letters will be sent to the members of the Com mittee on Harbor Improvements and the Georgia members of Congress will be urged to push the fight. Every effort will be made to get an appropriation through the present ses sion of Congress. As this is the short session the Chamber of Commerce di rectors realize that extra hard work will have fo be done, if this is to be accomplished. The work will be started at once. It is possible that a committee from the Chamber of Com merce may later be sent to Washing ton to urge Savannah’s claims. DEPARTMENT ESTIMATES ARE ALL VERY HIGH. Want Morp Than There Is Any Chance >f Their (ietllna. Though the estimates from several of the city departments have not yet been received by Mayor Myers, the total of those already in his hands are In excess of the total budget for this year. If all the departments should be given what they ask for the total would be enormous. The total of the estimates now in the Mayor’s hands is $923,000, and there are a number of others to be heard from. The departments will, of course, not get the Increases asked for. An ap propriation of $200,000 will have to be made for the completion of the City Hall, and to do this the departments will have to economize. Only a very few of the appropriations will be in creased. MAN AND WOMAN WILL BE ARRAIGNED TOGETHER. There were no developments yester day in the Chesnutt robbery, and Jane Lindsey and her husband are still held at the police station. The man and woman have not yet been given a pre liminary examination before the Re corder. Although the police have obtained no additional evidence against the man, they are still firm in their belief that he tied his wife and assisted in the robbery. He will be arraigned with his wife on this charge, even though no additional evidence is secured. Lindsey continues to protest that he knew nothing of the theft of the money. WILL ARREST WHITE BOYS WHO DISTURB WORSHIP. Police Looking for Those Who Dls tnrbed St. Stephen’s Church. A sharp lookout is being kept by the police on the St. Stephen's Church, from the officers of which complaints have come recently of rowdy actions of a gang of white boys. Some months ago the police were appealed to to stop these boys from breaking windows and doing other acts of violence against the church, which at times disturbed public wor ship. Although no arrests were made at the time the police were ac tive and the trouble ceased for a while. A special effort will be made to apprehend some of the guilty par ties. who are white boys, and an ex ample will be made of them. The po lice believe they will be able to make several arrests and thus stop the acts of disorder. For Over Mist? Years Mrs. Winslow's "oothing Syrup has been used for children teething. It soothes the child, softens the gums, al lays all pain, cures wind colic, and is the best remedy for diarrhoea. Twenty, five cents a bottle.—ad. floa’t Pul Oil. delecting Christmas presents until the last minute. Hasty decision breeds fu ture dissatisfaction. Handsomest dia monds Jewelry, silverware and cut glass end lowest prices in city, as com parison will prove—d For richest patterns of cut glass sac ttimori 4k Sternberg.—s 4 DOG BIT FOUR PEOPLE BEFORE IT WAS KILLED. H. S. Badger Had to Have Hla Wound Cauterised. "The dog, to gain his private ends, Went mad and bit the man.” A sick dog, of seeming low degree, caused something of a sensation on Whitaker street, near York lane, yes terday afternoon, slightly biting four people before it was finally dispatched by Patrolman Griffin. Shortly after 4 o’clock a dog was noticed laying on the sidewalk near the Georgia Telephone Company building. Mr. H. S. Badger, an em ploye of the telephone company, walk ed to the dog and pushed it with his foot, thinking it was dead. The canine snapped viciously at him, burying three teeth in the young man's ankle. This action on the part of the dog frightened bystanders, who declared it was mad. Patrolman Griffin arrived and prepared to dispatch the canine. He struck it one blow on the head with his club. This seemed to throw the dog into a wild frenzy and It sprang at those nearest, snapping vi ciously. Two or three of the bystand ers narrowly avoided being bitten. The officer finally succeeded in hitting the dog a square blow in the head, killing It. Mr. Badger’s injuries were particu larly painful, and as the surface of the wounds commenced getting blue and swollen he hurried to the Masonic Temple Pharmacy, where he had them cauterized. The physician who dressed the wounds stated they were serious, and in his belief the dog was mad, though not exhibiting violent rabies. Mr. Badger was frightened, but his wounds gave him little trouble after they tvere cauterized. Patrolman Griffin said he did not think the dog was mad, but was sick, and gave evi dence of having been poisoned. It was a dark red dog, resembling an Irish setter. N’o one could be found to claim it. and the scavenger department took the remains to the garbage pile. SERIOUS CHARGE FOR SHOOTING IN FOOT. Negro Turned Oi-or for Assault With Intent to Murder. Assault Avith intent to murder was the charge on which Nat Brown was turned over to the Superior Court by the Recorder yesterday morning. Brown was arrested Monday night for shooting Wilhelmina Floyd. better known as "Bum Lula,” in the foot at a dime party In YamacraAV. The arrest was made by Patrolman Hicks, Avho had an exciting time be fore he finally captured Brown. When the officer went to the negro's house there Avas no response to his knock. He opened one of the wlndotvs and discoA’ered there Avas no one inside. He peered under the house and saw something that looked very much like the negro's head. The officer called to him to come out or he Avould shoot. The object did not budge and the officer craAA'led under the house to have it out at close range. Just before getting to the ob ject the uniformed man struck a match and discovered Avhat he thought was the negro's head to be two pigeons sitting on a rock. The evidence, as related by Avit nesses in Police Court, tvas that Brown and Lula were guests at a dime party at a neighbor’s residence. Brown ap proached the woman and. dratving a pistol, said: "I’ll put one of these In you.” The woman laughed and told him he wouldn’t shoot anybody. "I won't, eh?" Brown exclaimed, lOAvering the muzzle of the pistol and firing at the ground. Lula’s foot hap pened to be where the bullet went, and noAV she is forced to resort to crutches to assist in navigation. Brown claims he merely meant to frighten her. FORMER TREASURER MUST SHOW CAUSE IN COURT. Mr. Henry Anilios Must Tell Why He Holds Books. A petition was filed by E. V. Toom er, as treasurer of the town of War saw in the Superior Court yesterday, asking that Henry Ambos be ordered to appear before Judge Cann and show cause why he should not turn over certain hooks, alleged to be the property of the town, now in his pos session. Mr. Toomer claims Mr. Ambos was elected treasurer of the town of War saw, but that he refused to give the bond required. The petitioner states he was then made treasurer and that Mr. Ambos refused to turn over cer tain books. This case is an appeal from a justice's decision. A full ac count of the case was given in the Morning News when It was being heard in the justice’s court. The de fendant Is ordered to show cause on Dec. 17 why he refuses to turn over the books. T E N A N T<Tw AnTcltT~ TO CONDEMN BUILDING. Prizell and Alleyn have filed a peti tion with Council to have the city building inspector condemn the build ing in which their olfices are located at No. 21 Bay street, oast. The build ing is unsafe, the petition states, and efforts that they have made to have it fixed have failed. It is further stated in the petition that Mr. Bartlett, the building Inspec tor, examined the building and pro nounced it unsafe, hut refused to put his opinion in writing. The firm wants the opinion of the building Inspector in writing, so it may be used in case of accident. The agents for the build ing have been appealed to in vain, they say. There is grave danger for the people occupying the first floor, the petition states. COMMITTEE REJECTS ALL BIDS SUBMITTED. At a meeting of the Streets and Lanes Committee of Council yester day all four of the bids which were some time ugo opened for furnishing the city with vitrified brick for next year’s paving were rejected. New bids will have to be advertised for, though no time was agreed upon by the committee for again opening bids. Psually the brick contract Is very easily awarded, but for some rea son the committee’ this year could not agree about It. The bids have been under consideration for several a eeks. Beautiful toilet aets, matchless In the city at Blmon & Sternberg.—ad. A Yew Line f Fine l itters. The Delmonlco has become the sole selling representatives In Kavgnnsti and adjacent territory of Park A Tel ford's Ml Favorlta Key West clear Havana otgars, announcement of which la made In the advertising eo|. urn ns of the Morning News to-day. The Delmonfi'O quotes prices of tht various brands in hundred lots to con sumers and announce that it can sup ply dealers at special prices SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY.DECEMBER 7. 1904. OLD CON GAME TRIED ONCE AGAIN INTERNATIONAL SWINDLE. LETTER FROM SPAIN OFFERING FORTUNE TO SAVAXXAHIAX. Writer Claim* to Bela a Spanlxli Prison and Say* He Ha* an Enor mous Sum of Money in a Sew York Rni k—Will Arrange to Turn It Over If SavnnnHtiiau Will Only Advance Small Sum “to HaUe the Embargo”—Same Old Story. Same old letter in the same old tone; Same old "fortune” and the same old “loan;” Same old “prison" and the same old "child;” Same old con-game and the same old guile. A cleA'er, but time-worn international “con game” has again come to light in Savannah by the recipient of a let ter from Spain, shotving it to a number of his friends. The letter purports to come from a Spanish prisoner, confined for life In a castle in Spain, because of his part in the Cuban rebellion. He appeals to the Savannahian on the usual ground that his Avife Avas a distant relative, and protection is beg ged for a daughter, said to be confined in a Spanish convent. The writer, who signs himself Augustin Le Afuen te, claims to have a large sum of money deposited in a NeAV York bank. As he Is confined In prison, he cannot get this, but will arrange to turn it oA'er to the SaA’annahian, if the latter will only aid him financially now and give protection to his “dear daughter.” Solieme Worked Once. It is a time-honored graft, but In the present case the letter is put up in such an artistic manner that It Is Interesting. The man Avho receiA’ed it here Avas not for a moment fooled. It will be recalled that an American about a year ago Avas taken in by a similar appeal and made efforts to prosecute after being duped. Several of the letters have been re ceived here, it is thought, but only one man has been found who would con sent to make it public And he agreed only with the express understanding that his name should be withheld. He did not want the people to know, he said, that even a man in Spain took him for such an “easy mark." PrnlMP* Hi* Honesty. The wording of the letter is peculiar and it is almost entirely Avithout punc tuation. Following is an exact copy: Castle port of Barcelona. iMr. Dear Sir and relative: Having not the honor to knoAV you but for the references which my dead wife. Mary tioning the individuals of our family praised the honesty and good quali ties that distinguished you, I address myself to you for the first time and perhaps the last one considering the grave state of my health explaining you my sad position and requesting your protection for ray only daughter child of 12 years old who I keeps as a pensioner in a college. Watched by Enemies. As I am strictly watched for, my enemies, I hope you will reveal to no body the most insignificant detail of this letter. Being a secretary and treasurer of Mr. Martinez Campos in the last Cu ban War, and deserving the confidence of such an illustrious gentleman plac ing my capital in public funds trans acting it so that I might make a bril liant position for my daughter whom I ever loved with passion since when her mother died. I saw my fortune increase and at last would have been happy had my protector continued at the end of the campaign as no sooner was he replaced by the general Weyler than my mis fortune presented itself as I could not succeed in making him company to Spain and not being in my power to see Cuba by an adversary politic I Joined the rebellion in behalf of the republic but as we were victims of the greatest treason I tvas obliged to emigrate in American North ground taking along with me my money valued to dollars 198,000. After having been some time in New York T received the sad news ray wife had died leaving my dear daughter in despair and without help. In this sad situation I found myself in the necessity of coming back to Spain to help my daughter and bring her in my company to Amer ica. Pnt Money In Bank. “Before starting considering it im prudent to take along with me this respectable sum of money, I decided to place it in the New York against a special private contract and only as a deposit, as it appears In the se curity document, payable to the hearer that the bank gave me as a guarantee, which document I hidden In a con cealed hollow of my portmanteau very well made, which the keenest eyes can not find out. The very satisfied that the money was in security I started for Spain, where I was discovered by the mllitar authorlty brought Immediately before the Government militar of Cartegena and condemned to 16 years penal servi tude, destined me to ending my con demn at the Castle fort of Barcelona where I bitterly suffer deprived of all communication from outside, even with my daughter. ( hniilnlu Only Visitor. When I was sentenced my equipage and the portmanteau have been confis cated this embargo was made as a guarantee for the payment the costs of niv process. 1 am only visited by the chaplain of this castle who besides being my con fessor Is my last friend. I owe to him to being able to write this let ter being aware of my grave state of health which will be a fatal and prompt one I trust In your discretion and Induces me the. noble wish of pretending your protection, should you be kind enough to be support of my daughter, trying to make her happy as perhaps I may be able not to see her again. My equipage have confiscated fh Cartegena but nobody know. That dls einbled secret you only are aware of it. If you are good to be the protector of my daughter and to advance the necessary funds for to raise the em bargo I exited you will Jet me know by cable. Mull Is Prohibited. I will send to you to home the re spectable chaplain with my daughter Amelia also the equipage In tny testa ment and the fourth part of my for tune for you ua a just reward. I trust to your discretion the future of my darling daughter meantime. I remain your faithfully and rela tive August In la* Afuente As It la prohibited to ms to receive anv direct nubile rorreepondenes if you accept my proposal pleaae send me a cable in the following form (Here the adores* in given > Aa auwi ae I rt e| ve your cable I evlii give you total informs*lon CITY WILL PRACTICE STRICTEST ECONOMY. Appropriation of $200,000 Will Com plete City Hall. Economy in the strictest sense will be practiced by the city during 1905 and Mayor Myers is authority for the statement that not a dollar wilt be needlessly spent, so far as it is in his power to prevent. It is the intention of the Mayor to hold doAvn the expenditures in every department so he will be able to pay for the new City Hall without having to borrow money. In his effort to saA-e every dollar possible he will be as sisted by the members of Council. A mistaken idea preA'ailed In some quarters yesterday that the City Hall would cost $200,000 more than the amount first figured on by the Mayor and aldermen. Such, of course, is not the case. It will. howeA-er, require an expenditure of $200,000 during the next year to pay the contract price and to decorate and furnish the handsome building. With an appropriation of $200,000 it is believed the City Hall can be paid for in full and furnished, and this is the appropriation that Avill probably be made. It is not the purpose of the Mayor, or of the members of Council, to let up in street paving, but the strictest economy will be practiced in all of the departments, so the treasury will not be embarrassed by the large appropriation that it Avill be necessary to make for the City Hall. DROUGHT AFFECTELDIrHE SALE OF UMBRELLAS. Dealer* Have Stock on Which They Did Not Renllzc. During the long drought tvhich pre vailed for weeks recently umbneJla dealers in the city accumulated large stocks, and have had little sale for them, despite the fact that several rainy days have prevailed since then. “The umbrella trade is picking up once more, but for a while I was be ginning to think Ave AA’ould have to car ry our stock forever, and I was about to sell it out at a loss to get some of my money back,” said one dealer yes terday. "People are queer about umbrellas. Unless they are going on a journey, or Avant to make someone a present of an umbrella, they will not buy unless it is raining. A man never thinks of an umbrella unless the rain is falling. He will pass my store a dozen times a day and see the window full of umbrellas, but unless he is actually getting wet he will not think of buying one. "All this is changed when the rain begins to fall. Then we do a rushing business. This rain, small as it Is, has meant that Ave can get rid of some of our stock, which has been dead on our shelves for the last few months.” FOUNTAIN FOR CITY HALL WITH MONEY OF ALDERMEN. Bat Alrlerman Dixon’s Offer Not Likely *o Be Accepted. If the members of City Council will agree with their chairman, Alderman James M. Dixon, and give their sal aries of $lO a meeting for ten months, making a total of $2,400, there will be a magnificent fountain in the ro tunda of the new City Hall. But this will not happen for the very excellent reason that the eleven aldermen will not agree to part with their hard-earned cash In the manner suggested by their brother alderman. They would like"’' to see a handsome and costly fountain in the rotunda of the city’s new home, but there are strings tied to the gold pieces of most of the aldermen. When the law was passed providing for the payment' of $lO to each aider man for each regular meeting, a ma jority of the mernfcers of the board, in the goodness of their hearts, agreed to turn each gold piece over to his better half. Of course, it is too late to change now, and there is little or no likelihood of the fountain being put In the City Hall by means of the salaries of the members of Council. officersoflbremeF TO BE ENTERTAINED. Mayor Myers Received Letter from Governor Terrell Yesterday. Mayor Myers received a letter yes terday from Gov. Terrell Informing him of the proposed visit to Savan nah of the German Warship Bremen. The Governor enclosed the letter from Secretary Hay, which he had re ceived. Mayor Myers acknowledged the .receipt of the Governor’s letter and assured him that the officers of the German shin would be received with every courtesy here. Commander Henry S. Coldlng of the Naval Reserves has not yet been offi cially notified of the ship's coming. He said the officers of the Naval Re serves would entertain the German offi cers during their stay here. Just what form the entertainment will take will be determined at a meeting of the Naval Reserves later. GILBERT WAS "BOUND OVER FOR LARCENY. Harkness Gilbert, better known as Peg-Leg, was given a preliminary hearing in Police Court yesterday morning, and was bound over to City Court for larceny of a boat from Joseph O’Brien and copper wire from the Savannah Electric Company. Patrolman Broome Ilna Resigned. Patrolman Allen Broome filed his resignation as a member of the police department with the superintendent yesterday morning, to take effect Im mediately. Mr. Broome will return to his former occupation as bar tender at the Pulaski House. The one great virtue of Burnett’a Vanilla Extract la purity. It Is real vanilla extract and nothing but va nilla extract. If Burnett’s Vanilla Ex tract was no better than other ex tracts Its price would be the same. Once tried, always used.—ad. Diamond Hendiinnrlera. When you buy diamonds buy them from a reliable expert. Sternberg & Cos. are the diamond people of Savan nah. fall and make your selections early.—ad. Wailirrn omn n porno! employer's Address. Mrs. O. R. Poll* of No. 1*25 Mont gomery street reported to the police yesterday morning that a negro wom an. w hose name she did not learn, had taken her washing last week, and had failed to return 11. Detective Muse Davis was sent on the casr, and aoon fixated the wom an. Nh> said she had forgotten where her employer lived. The detective says the woman is erasy The clothes were returned to Mrs Potts, We can convince you that wa main tain lowest prices Motto. A Stern beig —ad. THE COUNTY MAY BREAK CONTRACT GARBAGE CAUSING TROUBLE. LETTER STATING CITY MUST LIVE IP TO ITS CONTRACT. County Threaten* Jfot to Allow Any More Garbage Dumped on the Connty Farm—County Owe* City Over $4,000 and Some of the City OfHelala Say Commiaioners Are Making an Effort to Get Ont of the Contract on a Technicality. By direction of the Board of Coun ty Commissioners, Clerk G. Reuben Butler has sent a letter to the city In forming the officials that “unless the city lives up to its contract the coun ty will not allow any more of the city garbage dumped on the County Farm.” City officials, or rather some of them, assert that this is an attempt on the part of the Board of County Commissioners to evade, by a techni cality, paying the city money already past due on the garbage contract. The county owes' the city some thing OA'er $4,000, which the city has already paid the Savannah Electric Company for hauling the garbage. Ef forts that have so far been made to collect this alleged debt have failed and the letter from the commission ers yesterday still further complicates the matter, as it indicates the con tract may be broken. There is a possibility of the city and county fighting the matter out in the courts, if efforts for a peaceful settlement are unsuccessful much longer. If the County Commission ers flatly refuse to pay the bill, the city AA'ill probably institute suit. Ev ery effort, hOAvever, will be made to adjust the matter. The County Commissioners claim they haA-e not been getting what the county is entitled to under the contract. They say the city has been using a portion of the garbage for its own purpose. City officials admit Avhat garbage the city has used. A little of it, they say, has been used to fill up the grass plats on West Broad street. This and one or tAVo other Instances constitute the entire use of the garbage by the city, they assert. They claim the county has been getting just as much garbage as Avas contracted for. The commission ers are quibbling about a technicality, some of the city officials claim. It is said that the letter Avritten by Mr.' Butler was not authorized by a unanimous vote of the board. One member was not in favor of it, it is stated. Mayor Myers is considering the letter and will prepare an answer. Until this is done, he will not discuss the matter. PIPE LINE"ALL ATLANTA NEEDS To Mnke It n City by the Sounding .Sen. Atlanta men are noted for talking of their city in season and out. If they can get anybody to listen to them they will talk about Atlanta all day, and all night, too, for that matter. There is no doubt they believe in ad vertising their city. That is the main reason probably Avhy It is the growing, thriving city it is. But sometimes the subject is overdone. That seems to have been the case recently on a Cen tral of Georgia railroad train, in one of the cars of which there were men from a good many parts of the state. It was during the time Avhen there was much talk about the effort of the Atlanta Freight Bureau to get lower freight rates for that city. As usual an Atlanta man was holding forth about the hustling characteristics of the Atlanta people, the progressive ness and go aheaditiveness of the Crate City. “Why,” he said, "all that Atlanta needs Is water to be the greatest city on this continent. If Atlanta only had water Netv York, New Orleans, Balti more and Savannah In comparison with her would toe no more than Nor cross.” “Why don’t you lay a pipe line down to Savannah?’’ asked a Savannah man. “Huh. don’t you know Atlanta Is higher than Savannah? Water won’t run up-hill.” said the Atlanta man. “But.” said the Savannah man, "if you Atlanta people are as great suck ers as you are blowers you could soon have Atlanta on the shore of a great inland sea.” WEBSTERIANSMSIXTH ANNUAL BANQUET. The sixth annual banquet of the Webstcrian Literary Society was given at the De Soto last night, at which time earnest pleas of the members were made for a revival of Interest In the society and the rejuvenation of the sentiment which fostered It. The fol lowing toasts were responded to: Je rome P. Eckstein, toastmaster; address of welcome. Morris P. Mover; "Our City,” Charles E. Donnelly; “Daniel Webster,” Charles V. Hohensteln; ’’Oratory,” Arthur B. Levy; “The Fair, an Appreciation,” Edmund H. Abrahams; “Woman," Sigo Mohr; “Our Society," Julius W. Hohensteln; “Reminiscences,” Sidney H. Levy; “Anecdotes,” Charles A. Price; poetry and closing address, Simon N. Gazan. A short business session was held before the social features of the even ing were entered into and the fol lowing officers were elected for the coming year: President— Jerome Eckstein. Vice President —A. B. Levy. Recording Secretary—H. M. Prager. Corresponding Secretary—Charles D. Donelly. Treasurer—Charles V. Hohensteln. During the banquet Mr. Charles Donelly contributed several vocal se lections which were most enjoyable. MAYOR WILL INVESTIGATE!. Mayor Myers will make an Investi gation of the trouble between the po lice and a Port Screven soldier at the football game played here on Thanks giving Day. He said yesterday he would look Into thp matter carefully. So far no steps have been taken. Christmas Ornimea. If you contemplate shipping Plorlda oranges and grape fruit us Christmas presents this season, we would urge you to book your orders at the earli est possibls moment to insure, not only careful attention, but to obtain timely transportation. Ws will lm provided with an ample supply of finest fruit, and can In most esses deliver shipments prepaid to tb* house in any pari of the Culled Mutes Our Siloes* | n th|* feature of our bialiiMi for the post tweniy.ihree rears is a guaranies far the future, w f> Minikins A C, sls and HA May ateaat, west, Asvannsh, Os-ad. DECLINE TO REMOVE MONUMENT RAILING. Veteran* Believe Such Course Would Injure Monument. At the December meeting of the Con federate Veterans Association last night a communication was presented from the city asking the veterans if they would object to removing the iron railing now surrounding the Con federate monument In the Park Ex tension. The communication stated that the object of asking the removal of the railing was to do away with the square corners, thus completing the symmetry Avhen the proposed walk is placed through the Park. After considerable discussion the A’et erans unanimously voted against re moving the railing. The position that was taken was that such a course would result in the destruction of the banks cn which the monument rests, owing to the fact that it Avould become a faA'orite playground for the children. The stone of which the monument is made is of a soft kind and visitors to the city and the thoughtless ones AA-ho would congregate there would be con stantly chipping aAvay parts of it, thus soon destroying Its beauty. Attention was also called to the fact that the railing at the Pulaski monu ment was all that protected It from the rough playing of the children. It was also pointed out that the grass about the unprotected monuments in the city Avas constantly being torn up, and that the elevations on which they stood Avere the favorite places for the nurses to take children and while away an afternoon. On these grounds the camp thought the best course to pursue was to take a position against the removal of the railing. The Memorial Committee presented resolutions on the death of Maj. G. M. Ryals, together Avith a sketch of his life. High and deserved tribute was paid to Maj. Ryals* Avorth as a man and to the valiant service he had given the cause. Gen. P. A. S. McGlashan presented to the camp copies of the reports of the recent state reunion at Rome. The address of Lieutenant Comman der Morgan on the Fifth Georgia Cav alry was postponed until the January meeting of the camp. . After several matters of routine business had been transacted the camp adjourned. BLOW FROM AN AX CAUSED NEGRO’S DEATH. Woman Responsible for Tragedy on St. Catherine'* Monday Night. For killing Willie LaGree with an ax on St. Catherine’s Monday night, LeAvis Hamilton was arrested early yester day afternoon at the market dock and is held at the police station for the authorities of Liberty county. There had been bad blood betAveen the men groAving out of the fact that a woman on the island had transferred her affections from one to the other. LaGree was employed as cook on the steamer Nannine and Hamilton was also employed on the boat. It was claimed that LaGree went to Hamilton’s room with a heaA'y oak club and knocked on the door. He Avas held by a woman, it is alleged, and Hamilton struck him in the head AAith the ax. LaGree staggered from the house and died a few minutes later. Hamilton made no effort to escape, and was brought to Savannah on the Nan nine, together Avith the body of the dead man, by Capt. Oemler. When the Savannah officers heard of the homicide they took charge of La- Gree’s slayer and held him. pending the arrival of the sheriff of Liberty county. Two witnesses were also ar rested, but AA-ere later released on their own recognizance. Hamilton claims he Avas justified in using the ax and coun sel was retained to represent him at the preliminary investigation to be held in Liberty county. Capt. Oemler stated that Hamilton is a peaceable negro and that he thought LaGree’s mind was weak. For several days he had noticed peculiarities about the cook of the Nannine. CONCORD LODGE HAD SPIRITED ELECTION. At a spirited session of Concord Lodge No. 17, I. O. O. F., held last night, the annual election of officers took place. Many candidates were in the field for some of the offices, while others were filled without opposition. Vice Grand N. S. Hanson was promoted to noble grand without opposition, and Mr. J. D. Frew was elected to suc ceed him as vice grand. There were six candidates in the field for that of fice. Mr. Wynn, as secretary, was re elected without opposition. Mr. W. D. Clairborne, who has been treasurer for four years, declined to offer himself for reelection and was succeeded by Mr. J. D. Rodenburg. 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