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L ' -Trmnn— I ... I GEORGIAN •MUlulLLXB TUESDAY, Al’OT-RT 7. 1308- ■K >r3. I ► The Atlanta Georgian. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Telephone H Subscription Rates: Published Every Afternoon ■ One Year $4.50 Except Sunday by 8 Six Months 2.50 THE GEORGIAN CO. 1 Three Months 1.25 st 25 W. Alabama Street, || By Carrier, per week 10c Atlsnts, Ga. ffuterrd aa aeeoud rlaaa matter April 26. INI, at the roatofftcs at Atlanta. Ga.. under act of congress of Marcb t 1*71 The Georgia Encampment. The three regiments of Georgia militia now In en campmcnt at Chlckamauga, together with the Seven' teenth Regiment of the regular army, are. undergoing a discipline and drill which cannot Mil to prove ot great advantage to the atate troopa, at leaat. The beat of good reding prevalla between the regular and the wohinteer troops, and the Georgia boya are profiting to the fullest extent by the advantages they enjoy In being put through various maneuvers In conjunction with the Tegular troopa. The severe weather which has prevailed since the troops went Into camp on Saturday and Sunday has given the boys a taste of the hardships of actual army life. We are Informed that the discipline and exercise are not so severe as they were at Manassas, when the volunteers suffered a great deal and there was much complaint. A happy medium seems to have been found. It la not a mere holiday Jaunt, but real soldiering that the boya are up against, and thsy themselves have accepted tho fact that they are In for all the Improvement they can 'get - It was evidently the part ot wisdom on the part of tho general assembly to Increase the appropriation for tho Georgia volunteers. That this branch of the state, service Is valuable In time ot war was proven once and for all during the recent Spanlsh-Amerlean war. It re quired but a abort time to convert raw recruits Into hardy veterans, and the service they rendered will for ever remain aa a monument to the courage and diligence and patriotism of the volunteer soldier. At tho same time It Is undoubtedly true that In time of peace we can do no better than to maintain tho highest degree of efficiency on the part of these volunteers. They need the experience which can beat be derived from actual operations and from contact with the regular soldiers, under the command of regular of- flccra. This they are getting at Chlckamauga and all are enjoying and profiting by the experience. Pass the “Honest” Election Law. The people ot the state heartily approve of the ac tion of the house In passing the bill Introduced by Mr. Wright, of Richmond, throwing additional safeguards around the ballot box, and It Is earnestly hoped that when this measure comes tip as a special order In the senate tomorrow It will meet with prompt and unanl mous aupport. The leading features ot this bill are that the safe guards now thrown around regular elections shall be made to apply equally,to primary elections, that the Li lng ot persons to work for a’ candidate either before or during an election, the offering of money or other thin* of value for the purpose of buying votes at an election shall be made a misdemeanor, and that “on the trial ot any person for offending agalnat thla section of the code any other person who may have participated In any violation of the provisions of the aame shall be a com' potent witness, and be compelled to gtve evidence," etc. The latter feature la regarded as one of the strong est features of the bill: The fact that heretofore It waa well nigh Impossible to get evidence of the violation of election laws has been t. serious drawback to the purifi cation of the elections In thla state, and It ta hoped that the present provisions will remedy this defect. On the whole, there has been no bill before the pres ent session of the general assembly which more entirely enlists the Interest of the people than this measure of Mr. Wright's. The corruption of the franchise strike* at the very foundations of representative government. Bo long as It Is possible to buy tfnd sell votes In ths open market, and at the same time It Is Impossible to collect evidence ot such violations, the victory In any contest la bound to go to the man or the measure In whose interest the most money and the moet corrupt methods are employed. Under such condltlonn the franchise becomes mockery and b sham. The example of corruption em ployed In elections, which Is the source of all power In representative governments, gangrenes the state and sprends the infection of dishonor everywhere. It per verts the manhood and morality of the rising generation and Indtllls Into their minds a flippant disregard for the Institutions on which our freedom and prosperity rest There have been warnings enough In the pest that something should he done tp purify our elections. We hnve no desire to awaken unpleasant memories, and certainly no desire to reflect upon one faction more then another, but the scones which occurred In Savan nah In the recent election were enough to stir the In dignation ot the entire state. The news that went out to the world that such shameless corruption of the fran chlse -went on in one of the fairest cities' ot Georgia «u calculated to discredit us everywhere. The scenes which have been enacted In Richmond county In time past have left a blight on the fair tame of that grand old eounty which ahe feels to the present day. Georgia and the Sooth have been striving agalnat fearful odds during the past forty years to assume their Just rank In the economic progress of tha country. Our fields end factories have been offering splendid opportu nities to tabor and capital everywhere. The tide of prosperity has at last turned this way. We are growing by leaps and bounds. But there Is. nothing which will reassure timid capital more effec-* lively than to place It upon the records that the elections In this state are not only pure but above the possibility ot fraud. There Is nothing which will more quickly In duce Immigration than the assurance to every man who casts bll lot with us and makes bis home here that he will have a full and fair opportunity to pkYttdpate In our representative government. All of this splendid progress would be nullified and vitiated. In a large degree. If it should go out to the world ‘that we had turned down this opportunity to make our election taws absolutely honest and lair. It is up to the senate. The bouse has spoken In unmistakable terms on the question, and the coopera tion of the senate will make the triumph of righteous ness and honesty and Justice complete for all time to come. A Great People and a Mad Campaign Fifteen months ago there were five prominent Geor gians In the full enjoyment of tranquillity and high repute among tbelr fellow-citizens. Each of these gentlemen was prominent, respected and trusted In his own community snd In the state at large. If any one of these gentlemen had given hli note for a debt of honor It would have been accepted In any section of the commonwealth. If any one of them had been tendered an appointment to a blgb station of trust and responsibility by governor or president the an nouncement would have been greeted by applause tin- mixed with criticism. If any one of them had died the eulogies would have been state wide upon his character and services, and the estimate of his life by press and public might have been printed with pride as the epitaph Upon his tomb., ^ Today these men, without exception, sre smirched with suspicion snd sprinkled with mud thrown wsnton from ths camps oi personal opposition. Not one of them has sscaped the breath of slander or the brand of Infamy'e'xprcase<rin'open'charge or Implied In sneaking Innuendo. One of these men Is charged with cruelty equivalent to crime and with Immorality amounting to misdemeanor. One 61 them Is arraigned for neglect and Incompetence in public duty snd. with demagogy that la akin to knavery. One of them Is charged with treason to the dead Confederacy of our dreams. And two of them—God save the mark!—are sprinkled and spattered from head to foot with mud and Ink snatched from pools of circumstance and suspicion that stain them with the Imputation of every personal iniquity and of almost every civic crime. Lying, hypocrisy, deceit, slander, treason. Impurity, and vice—Infidelity to race, Infidelity to party and Infidelity to country—cowardice In public service, and perfidy In private trust—all these fearful and frightful terms and Imputations sre bandied to and fro with the abandon of savages and the wsnton deduc tions ot anarchy. Shades of our Fathers! Have Georgia politics come to this? Are character, dignity, responsibility and high repute all to be flung away In this mad scramble tor of fice, and In this wild wassail of personal ambition? Are the good names bullded through patient years to be blasted In one fierce campaign of conflicting persons! de sire. Are the traditions of our polities snd of our race to be swept away in this mad modern method of aban doned vilification? Why, In the age of our ancestors, there would have been a doxen rifles to ring the answsr to the furious personalities ot this one tempestuous canvass. In the civilisation which- our fathers bullded the field of honor would have run crlmaon with the response to one-half the mortal Insults that have passed between Georgians who are neither cowards nor knaves. The age of chivalry has gone. The day of personal combat la discredited all over the land—and we Justly plume ourselves upon the advancing civilisation which has wiped away from personal, quarrels .the arbitrament of. blood. But In the mortal revulsion which good men and true men are feeling everywhere over the abandoned license of vituperative politics, the suggestion Is re viv'd thst there may be deadlier things than the re volver and the knife. Men who remember the day when honor was held above life, are asking themselves It wp have Improved upon the customs of an earlier time. The age qf personal responsibility was the age of courtesy and the age of purity. In the day of Its regnant yule men were not leas careful of the stain upon a good man’s "honor than they were of the slightest shadow upon the crystal of a woman's name. And If this wild tide of passionate abuse Is to go unchecked through the customs of the present day, men who have both courage and honor may go backward to the primal and the elemental law. Better the ago of personal responsibility than ihe age of character-wrecking and abuse. Better the knight than the fishwife. Better the code duello than the age of billingsgate Voters of Georgia. In this crisis of economic prin ciple and of both civic and personal honor, there rests a great responsibility upon you. Upon your wisdom, Justice and moderation we must depend for the straight ening of this passionate tangle, and the solution of this Issue which has become not less personal than racial and economic. The traditions of a great race are with you. and you live In an age of enlightenment and widespread in formation. You are wiser ond greater than the men who Insult your Intelligence when they proffer you paaalon for argument or bitterness for reason. The state and the future confidently expect that you will keep clear minds and tranquil tempers through this vindictive storm. And ws have confidence that you will vindicate your great history |n this serious crisis. You know thst If these five Georgia gentlemen were guilty ot one-halt the chargee hurled against them by their Jealous rivals, not one of-them would be fit for private association, much less for public trust. You know that not one of them Is ot the dye and kidney painted by those who bate and envy him. You know these five Georgians are as good today as they were upon that tranquil June of ltot In which they looked unluatful upon the offices ot the state. As they were worthy of trust and honor then they are each worthy of trust and honor now. Put back with scorn the small and envious rage In which cavilling competitors have covered those men with disrepute. Spew out the persons! issue from this shame ful and sad campaign, and looking straight and deer upon the brave white ballots of the Democratic primary, bold your minds steadfast to the three greet questions which the campaign holds— 1. What are the Issues of this campaign? t. Where do my convictions take their honest stand amid these issues as they- are framed? and }. Whst man ot all thla list of honest Georgians carries best and bravest and most definite the banner of my convictions here? The whole duty of the voter and the citizen J framed In the questions and the answer which he makes. Every man's ballot Is his civic conscience. It ex presses his high conception of his duty to the people and the atate. It expresses his Judgment of the wise and prudent policy which will make for the prosperity of his business, the betterment of society and the safety of hts home. L«t every citizen carry bis conscience to the polls. Let personalities be lost In patriotism, and let pas sion be forgotten In the high and holy Interests of the atate. Let a puro ballot rebuke a passionate campaign Mr. Candler’s Bill for County Tax * Boards. The Georgian speeds Its best wishes to the Candler amendment to the Hall bill providing for county boards of tax assessment. Mr. Hall's bill for a state board is good, but would be Incomplete and Ineffective without the Candler amendment providing for county boards ot assessors. The question of taxation la one very near to the people of Georgia, and the question of the equality of taxation Is growing more vital every year. The ceaseless effort of Individuals to evade Just taxation by the return of property at prices far below the normal value of these possessions entails a burden of vast proportion upon tho poorer classes and upon the honest people of the atate. There does not appear any way on earth by which these things can be remedied except by the Impartial supervision of the law. And no state board of assessment can cover the returns of the individual tax payers of the state. There seems to be no reasonable doubt of the passage of Mr. Candler's bill, and we sincerely trust that It may have safe and overwhelming Indorsement at the ballots ot Tuesday’s session. The Alabama Election The Birmingham News Is authority for the state ment that the late governor. Joseph E. Johnson, of Birmingham, la certaln'to be one of the alternate sen ators from Alabama. The other place, according to The Newt, Is between John B. Knox, W. p. Oates. R. H. Clark, John H. Bankhead. Jesse Stallings and W. C. Flttf. Comer and Cunningham are still fighting It out In vigorous style for the gubernatorial chair. Two months ago Mr. Comer's election was regarded as certain. Of late, however, Cunningham has entered an element of doubt Into the campaign because of his vigorous candi dacy. The chances are still In favor of Comer. But with all the rush of the campaign, Alabama Is to be congratulated upon the fact that Its state politics are lacking In the pitiless and vindictive personalities which dtsfigure our own campaign. CHORUS OF DEMANDS THAT CHEATHAM RESIGN Mr. Cheatham Should Resign. From the Macon Telegraph. Secretary Cheatham, of the Southern Cotton Aa socle tion, ehould reelgn—“by request," If necessary. The associa tion's Interests are of too great and grave concern to the entire South to be tampered with by an unfaithful trustee. Mr. Cheatham admits having broken the trust reposed In him. The association was organised for the pur pose, chiefly, of counteracting the causes and Instrumentalities which the growers believed were reeponslble for depreciating the price-of their staple below a figure at which It could be profitably produced. Chief among these Instrumentalities, as they regarded It, was the widespread selling and buying of future options on cotton, and so cer tain were the growers, the association and others that thts pny-tlce was prej udicial to the profitable handling of their product that a bill was introduced In the Georgia legislature and succtss- slbla and should be censured. Ths motive <or the attack upon the association's officers, they declare, was spite on the- part of the bucket shops for the abolition ot which there has ben a campaign waging in Georgia. That Is a matter of no Importance. The only thing to be considered Is the truth of the charges made against a high officer of the association which has undertaken to represent the farm ers of the South snd to guard their Interests unselfishly. It has not been established that Mr. Cheatham made Investments In cotton futures on his own account, nor that he Involved the association In any way In his transactions, but, from the point of the asoclatlon's interest, there can be no palliation or excuse of his undertak ing to speculate even vicariously In the cotton market The association's usefulness will be entirely destroyed once the confidence of the cotton farmers In it Is shaken, and It Is to be feared that thts Inci dent will go far toward disintegrating the organisation, which has done much for the benefit of the cotton growers of the South. reeentatlves abolishing cotton changes and bucket shops. As the sec ond most prominent officer of the as soclatlon, Mr. Cheatham was In the thick of the fight being waged agalnat the speculation tn cotton futures and against the exchanges and bucket shops through which It was carried on. It le at this critical Juncture that the cry Is raised that there are "traitors" In the Southern Cotton Association's ranks. The apparently absurd charge was made that some of those who were denouncing bucket shops were finan cially interested In bucket shop*. That among the most vehemest denunciators ot futures speculation there were some who secretly speculated In futures. That prominent olficlale of the associa tion were hunting with the hounds and running with the hares. Mr. Cheat ham was prompt to make Indignant denial of personal Implication In these charges. In the Investigation which followed he was forced In the face of overwhelming testimony to admit that he had been doing the very thing against which he was fighting ns an officer of the association—that he had been dealing In cotton futures and thus helping to hurt the Interests he was paid and trusted to protect, If he be lieved * ■“ the professions and principles he publicly avowed. Whether he specu- ated for himself or others did not *f- fect the question In the slightest from his standpoint. Unquestionably such a denouement destroys Mr. Cheatham's capacity for further usefulness to the Southern Cot ton Association. If the association could ever trust him again It can scarcely continue Its Interests In the hands of a man so foolish as to make a bitter war upon people who he must have known had the power by retaliat ing to destroy him. No Palliation or Excuse, From the Charleston Post. The committee appointed by the president of the Southern Cotton As sociation, relative to their participa tion In cotton gambling, finds that Secretary Cheatham engaged In bucket shop transactions for account of friends and that hi* conduct was reprehen- Ssnd Richard Homs. From The Thomson Progress. The Southern Cotton Association should send Richard Cheatham back to his Mississippi plantation. It will have to do It If It values Its own ex istence. It may be that all that has been going on In the headquarters of the association will not come to light, but enough has already come to put an end to Dick's days of usefulness. Over his own signature ho admits that he has been speculating In cotton future* and writing editorials agalnat It. It la true that he says he waa act ing for other parties—a Mr. O'Grady and a Mr. Lee—but he refuses to re veal the Identity of Mr. Lee. In the eyes of the people of the South he has been condemned os un worthy to occupy the poaltlon he holdi and the association had better sen- him home. The farmers and business men who compose the association are not going to have a gang 'of cotton gamblers la charge of thetr affairs, arid Ilarvte Jordan had. batter appl’ the knife vigorously, or his associa tion will go to pieces like a house of cards. t TAKES SOLEMN OATH TO SUPPORT FAMILYr ESCAPES PUNISHMENT By taking a solemn oath before Act ing Recorder Joseph Hlrsch Tuesday morning that he will properly support his wife and three children, and that he will never again drink a drop of Intoxicating beverage, John Smith, young white man residing In Decatur street, escaped punishment for alleged mistreatment of hla family. The young husband 'was arrested at the Instance of Probation Officer Gloer, on complaint of Mrs. Smith. She In- formed the officer that Smith recent ly beat her and tore her clothes, after which he abandoned her and her chil dren. Smith denied he best his wife. family In the future and woult drink Intoxicants again. TRIO OF CANINES BITTEN BY MAD DOG "Guilty'* Was Enough. From The Columbia State. . The dispatch that tells of ths decis ion In ths Cheatham csss relates that the committee that found the secretary of the cotton association guilty of spec ulating In Ita report “does not censure him or make any recommendation." Oh, well, whst was the use? "Guilty" was enough. 8Hould Resign at Once. From The St. Matthews (8. C.) Com mercial. • Secretary Cheatham, of the Southern Cotton Association, can bs of valuable service to the members of the associa tion by sending in his resignation at once. Cheatham Had Batter Hurry, From the Brunswick News. Cheatham had better move before the national committee gets hold of him. GAGE GIVES UP HIS HOME TO SAN DIEGO THEOSOPHISIS lly Prints Leeeeu Wire. San Diego. Cal, Aug. 7—Former Secretary ot the Treasury Lyman J. Gage, who has been a resident of Point Loma, almost within the circle of the "universal brotherhood snd the- osophlcsl society," of whtch Katharine Ttngtey ta the outer head. Is to leave the Point for Chicago and the East, but whether temporarily or permanent ly he will not say. He declines to say s word regarding hts intentions. The movement on the part of the former secretary of the treasury Is In dicated by the filing of a deed at the county recorder’s office In which Mr. Gage transferred to Katharine Ting- ley the seven-room home owned by him on Point Lome. This home was completed but s short time ago. The eonelderatlon has not been made public. INSANE WOMAN SETS FIRE TO SELF AND FOUR OTHERS By Prime Leased Wire. South Bend, Ind., Aug. A* s reeult of a demented women's craving for fire, Mrs. H. E. Dcnslow was burned to death. Dr. H. E. Denstow snd Mrs. Eugene Balfour were probably fatally burned, and Mrs. O. E. Hunt snd her CARDS AND USER RESULT IN MURDERt SLAYER GETS AWAY. As ths result of ths comblatlon ot a pack of cards, a keg of beer and a lit tle game In the woods near the plant of the Atlanta Ice and Fertiliser Com- pony, five mltss north of tbs city, on gro. Is dead, snd officers child were seriouily burned. Mrs. Denslow, taking advantage of a temporary release from her husband's watchfulness leaf night, poured gaso line on the parlor carpet and applied s match. She was st once enveloped In fiame*. The others were Injured while trying to sld the burning women. are searching for Charlie Randolph, another negro, on the charge ot mur der. During the progress of the game, In which four negroes were engaged, s dispute arose between Randolph and Thomas. It ended by the former pull ing a pistol and shooting Thomas, aftsr which he made his escape. Thomas died Monday morning. Coroner Thompson held an Inquest Monday afternoon, the Jury charging Randolph with murder. Bitten by a mad dog a week ago, a big bull dog developed hydrophla on Tuesday morning In Hilliard street, near Irwin, and waa shot and killed by Bicycle Policeman Pate. The dog went on a rampago In tho community and bit three other dogs. These canines had gotten away by the tltpe Officer Pate arrived on the scene the mad dog In the neighborhood caused considerable ex citement. MARBLE RATE CASE MAY GO BY DEFAULT President J. B. Roberts, president of the Georgia Retail Marble Dealers' As sociation, has written the commission asking a further postponement of the marble rate case. President Roberts gives as his rea son for asking for further postpone ment III healthi As this case ha* al ready been postponed twice at the re quest of the dealers, the commission will dismiss the matter unless good' reasons sre shown for Its further con tinuance. At the meeting Thursday of the commission the question of Jurisdic tion In the-Atlanta Northern railway will be decided. This matter has puttied the com mission no little, as a very delicate point Is Involved. It resolves Itseit into the question, when Is s street railway not a street -railway? The commission will render a decision on Thursday. Representatives Mitchell and Roun tree, of Thomas county, will appear before the commission. It Is'claimed that the freight rates on all commod ities from over the state to Boston are much higher than to Quitman and Thomasvllle. They will ask for a re adjustment of the rates. A party of Dublin people will ap pear before the commission to ask for a reduction on the port rate on cot ton to Savannah. By Private I,oiis,m| wire. New York. Aug. 7.—The -lid" is down In Saratoga, but before It was clamp- i-d> John A. Drake demonstrated that "23." the hoodoo number, can be beaten. Mr. Drake was In Canfield's after he had eaten a hearty dinner and was In a happy mood. Buying *1,000 worth of checks, he said to the dealer: "Let'a see about thla deadly number anyway." • i<>;'t ,r *i?(w£ e pIave<1 “ M " for ttWhHe ana J , b / lle X e , that W™ In earnest," said Mr. Drake to the smiling dealer and walked over tn unnihas tnM. >.* and walked over to another table. He played there without success, taking "23" each time, and then with hli re- malnlng cheeks, walked back to the first table and agnln placed his checks on “23." It came 23 nnd Mr. Drake, who had bought 31,000 worth of checks had 31.000 In front of him. "I was taught In my early years to quit whenever I got even. Cash these checks. Good night. "Twenty-three" ond he walked back Into the restaurant. The question as. to what the services of a doctor are worth has again corns to the front. For five years' medical services to ths late William T. Rainey, the millionaire oil magnate ond horso owner, of Cleve land, Dr. Samuel T. Banes, of this city, wants the Rainey estate to pay him 333,000. To enforce the payment. Dr. Banes brought suit In the supreme court against Roy A. Rainey, son of the deceased and executor of the 36 - 000,000 estate. Dr. Banes declares that he has not been paid anything for his treatment of the millionaire from Sep tember, 1898, to September, 1903. H» says he put In 100 di.ys attending Mr. Rainey. This would make the average charge about 3300 per visit. While 3800 a visit seems pretty high to a man who Is well, there are times when a man would be willing to pay the right kind of a doctor almost anything. Brooklyn Is to have a great cathe dral and It Is announced that Pope Plus Is to decide upon the plans for It In person. All Europe Is to be searched for a model of sufficient grandeur and digni ty for the projected edifice. Bishop McDonnell and the Right Rev. John I. Barrett,- are both said to -be abroad studying ecclesiastical architecture, and conferring with his holiness as to the type of the building which Is to eclipse all other similar structures In Ruen, France, Is said-to'be as a pattern for the Brooklyn edifice. Love flew out of the front window hen ‘‘fat” came In the doer of ths household of Louis Link, the tailor. Becauss:hls wife had become too fat to please his taste, Link declared that, try as he might, he could not love her as In the days of yore, when she was slender and sylph-llke. He was forced to leave her, he said, and thereby he furnished the ground upon which she obtained a limited divorce In the su preme court. GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM. By Private Leased Wire. New York, Aug. 7.—Here are some’ of the visitors In New York today: ATLANTA—F. L. Beers. C. DuBose, R. DuBose, S. Johnson, Jr., H. Kaplan, E. 11. Macon, Miss M. O'Toole, J. L. McGarrlty, Miss O. Mulligan, W. H. Steele. AUGUSTA—W. H. Doughty, F. E. Fllber. MACON—R. P. Brooks, H. B. Er- mlngar, O. F. White. SAVANNAH—Miss Ludlngton, T. McAullffe, C. H. Strong. JN WASHINGTON. By private Leased Wire. Washington, Aug. 7.—At Washington hotels: ALABAMA—Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Mc Gowan, Mobile; John C. Webb, John B. Merrlwether, Demopolla; Mrs. Rich mond P. Hobson, Greensboro, New Wil lard; Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Kennedy. Corinth, National: G. W, Payton and wife, Mobile, St. James. GEORGIA—F. W. Holt, Eatonton. Ebbltt; L. D. Leu-man and wife, At lanta; Mr. and Mrs. John E. Murphy, Julia Murphy, Mary Murphy, Atlanta, New Willard: A. D. Guelman, Atlanta. Raleigh: C. M. Mears and wife, At lanta, National; J. C, Tretwany, At lanta, St. James. NEGRO MAIL CLERK - IS BOUND TO COURT Special to The Oeorglsa. Savannah. Os.. Aug. 7.—Raymond Hill, s negro mailing clerk, was.bound over yesterday afternoon on a charge of rifling the malls. Complaints had been received snd a decoy letter was prepared by Inspectors snd mailed on iundey night while Hilt was on duty. The letWr was not in the pouch sent out. Hill waa taken Into the poet- mseter's office and made s confession. Two 310 bills were found on him. The negro I* In Jail. 1,500 MEN PARADE IN THE JR NIGHTIES By Private Lena*! Wire. Michigan City. Ind., Aug. 7.—Michi gan City was shocked last night by l.ldO employees of a Dayton, Ohio, factory who piraded the principal streets attired In their night clothes. The company's employees have been In camp here for some time past. It will break up Wednesday. The Day- ton people have been presented with the keys of tha city. THIS DATE IN HISTORY. AUGUST 7. 1106—Henry VI, the Orest, emperor of Ger ms ny, died. U14—Pern** concluded among England, France a uil Scotland. 17R3—Prince** Amelia, daughter of George HI of England, born. 1821—Caroline of Brunswick, consort of George IT. died. 1SSS—Ottawa made the capital of Canada, 1881—Hampton, Va„ homed. 1870-Paris declared In a state of slegt; Franco-German war. 1878—Beginning of the Auitro-Botnlas war. 1B8&-1*. Tanner soceessfally completed n fait of forty days. 1884—Oklahoma “boomers'* ousted from Indian Territory by United Btatea 188d—Funeral of Samuel J. TUden. 1887— Hawaii adopted a new constitution. 1888- -Larry Donovan, American bridge* Jumper, leaped from HnOgerfonl bridge. London, and waa drowned. ►—Mrs. Florence Maybrlck found guilty of murdering her husband tu Liver* 1881- Knott, famous ran horcc, M. 1S93—tifi.T-'hlnl enngresa cw»«i.l I. «■ trsonllssry session. Subject: Sher man set. . Korean war. -It. trial of Captain Dreyfus at 19M— tlrltlsk force. under Colonel Youu-- husband, enters Lam. SOUTH CAROLINA FARMERS’ INSTITUTE. By Print, LMseil Wire. Columbia, S. C„ Aug. 7.—There was a large add representative attendance at Clemson Colie at Clemson College today st the open ing of the four-days' meeting of the South Carolina State Farmers' insti tute. The feature of the Initial session this afternoon wss an address by Col- onel R. B. Watson, who spoke of the Importance of the South producing Its own meat. The agricultural resources and possibilities of the South In every phase will be discussed during ths succeeding days of the convention.