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VOL. 111.
GEORGIA NEWS NOTES.
Items ot General Merest Picked Up
All Over me State.
Montgomery county will have a pub
lic hanging on Sept. 29. Five negroes
will pay the penalty for murder.
* * *
The Brush Electric Light company
of Savannah with $250,000 capital,has
gobbled up the Peoples’ Electric Light
company and the Electric Railway
company.
* * *
John McGarrity, eighty-six years of
age, died in Carroll county recently,
leaving eleven children, one hundred
grand-children and thirty-six great
grand-children.
* * *
Orders have been issued to the con
tractors to hire more hands and push
the work on the South Bound for all
it is worth. There are lively times
just now all along the line of that road.
* * *
Lucy Cobb Institute opened with
the largest attendance ever known in
its history. The increasing populari
of the institute is a high tribute to
the ability of Miss Mildred Ruther
ford the principal.
* * *
The Middle Georgia Military and
Agricultural College has added a bus
iness department to its curriculum,
and shorthand, typewriting and book
keeping are taught all the college
classes without extra charge. The de
partment has become very popular
with the students who are taking ad
vantage of the opportunity offered
them in that line.
* * *
A request on the part of the author
ities of Brunswick for permission to
use the arms and ammunition of the
state, gave rise to some sensational ru
mors. There was no occasion for
anxiety. The telegram which was re
ceived at the executive department
simply asked permission to equip, with
the guns in the possession of the
Brunswick military companies, the
guards thrown around the city by the
health authorities. The permission
was promptly granted.
* * *
The old cannon which has lain about
Courthouse square since the Indian war
of ’39 until recently, has disappeared,
and will soon lose its identity if not
seen after. The traditions of a county
ehould be preserved. This old cannon
has been associated with DeKalb for
bo long that it is well worth the atten
tion nesessary to put it again in the
park at the courthouse. We learn that
the cannon was carried to Stone Moun
tain to celebrate for Cleveland. Let
it be brought back.— Decatur Record.
# * * *
Savannah is rapidly becoming a
manufacturing city. A few years ago
there was hardly a manufactory of any
kind there. Now its manufactured
products are all important items in its
year’s business. The introduction of
manufacturing industries brings busi
ness, makes a market for material,
gives employment to skilled labor and
adds to the worth of the city. Savan
nah’s manufactures for the last year
approximated $7,000,000. Within the
next decade and the introduction of
manufacturing industries at the rate
they are now springing up, it will
more than treble that amount.
* * *
The Tybee railroad may be equipped
with electricity when it is rebuilt. It
is known that the Central railroad
officials considered the idea of equip
ping the road with electricity once be
fore, and made investigations as to the
cost of equipment and operation. The
cost of electric railway supplies was
much greater then than it is now, and
the idea was abandoned. It is said
that the Central officials are now con
sidering the idea of engaging with one
of the street railway companies of the
city to equip and operate the Tybee
line. Doubtless they would prefer to
make a complete sale of the road, but
this is not likely.
* * *
Sumter county has a small elephant
on her hands just now in the persons
of a number of prisoners convicted at
the last term of the county court, and
sentenced to terms in the chaingang.
For the past several years the county
has leased her convicts to the Ocmul
gee Brick Company and various lumber
companies, but just now none of these
want additional labor and conoequent
ly the prisoners aie allowed to remain
in Americus in jail, a burden and ex
pense to the county. There are several
strong, able-bodied men among the
number, who are under sentences of
from one to two years, and the county
would be glad to entertain a proposi
tion from any reliable concern looking
to the lease of these convicts.
* * *
All Oathbound Leaviif.
United States deputy marshals have
brought to light a peculiar oathbound
union of illicit distillers with head
quarters in Murray county. It has a
membership of nearly 2,100. The ob
jects of the association are to protect
the members from the government
and to encourage the manufacture and
sale of moonshine whisky. Whenever
a member of the union is arrested it
is the duty of the other members
to see that he is released.
If the marshals get one witness
to swear that he saw the man making
whisky, three or four of the members
of the union would come into court and
swear to having seen the prisoner at
another place at the time he was al
leged to have been at the still. Each
member was bound by an iron-clad
oath, signed in blood, not to give any
information that would lead to the ar
rest of a brother member. And he
swore to kill any member who did in
form on another. In this way they
hoped to protect each other from the
revenue men. But their secret leaked
out and now prisoners are carried to
Atlanta for trial to get them away
from the influence of the union.
* * *
- Special Report on Cotton.
The season has now reached a point
where an estimate of the yield of cot
ton can be made with some accuracy,
all crop reporters were requested to
Bubmit estimates of the condition of
the crop in their respective sections
for tbe past week’s weather bulletin,
and a summary of the results follows:
It will be remembered that the seas
on opened with a considerable increase
in cotton acreage, not far from 10
per cent. The spring was late and
cold, giving the crop a poor start.
More favorable weather followed in
May, but a severe drought set in the
latter part of June and the early part
of July, which did much injury. Again
in August there was a period of defi
cient rainfall.
.The unfavorable features of the
weather seemed to be most marked in
the northwest section of the state and
here, as a result, we find the crop in
lowest condition. Reports from this
section give in every case a shortage
of the crop, varying from one-third
to over one-half, with an average value
of 43 per cent.
In the eastern section the conditions
were farily good until the hurricane
of August 27th and 28th and the heavy
rains which followed. These so dam
aged cotton as to bring it at present
to nearly as poor a state as in the
northwest, the average shortage being
41 per cent.
The south and southeast sections
make the best showings, with short
ages of 24 and 22 per cent, respect
ively. Other sections of the state re
port shortages ranging from 27 to 30
per cent.
For the entire state there is found
an average condition of 30 per cent
below full crop condition. This is
some 5 per cent in advance of last
year, and, taking the entire acreage
into account, would indicate a crop of
somo 100,000 bales more than that of
last year in Georgia.
While this, of course, is not offered
as an accurate statement of the final
returns, it is likely to prove rather
less than more than the final figures,
unless we have abnormally early frosts.
♦ * *
Taxes of the State.
The net decrease in the taxable
property for the state as a whole is
$11,064,745. Thisisthe first decrease
in fifteen years and a study of the dif
ferent items will, for the reason, be of
special interest.
The item of improved lands shows a
decrease of nearly five million —to be
exact, $4,930,622. Wild land also shows
a decrease, amounting to $1,049,851.
City and town property, on the other
hand, show an increase of $857,474.
Among the other items are:
Bank shares, an increase of $647,876.
Surplus in banks, decrease of sl,-
817,962.
Gas and electric light companies, de
crease $318,362.
Building and loan associations, in
crease, $240,256.
Money and solvent debts, a decrease
for the state of $2,946,299.
Merchandise, decrease, $320,125.
Shipping and tonnage,
$11,501.
Stocks and bonds, decrease, $1,401,-
097.
Cotton manufactories, an increase
of $1,036,989.
Iron works, etc., decrease, $3,519.
Capital in mining, decrease,s27,o93.
Household and kitchen furniture,
an increase of $34,314.
Watches and jewelry, decrease,
$12,993.
Horses and mules, decrease, $75,894.
Plantation and mechanical tools, de
crease, $451,746.
Cotton, corn,etc., for sale, decrease,
$281,788.
Other property, decrease, $182,810.
Property of railroads, decrease,
$659,446.
Property of street railroads, an in
crease of $99,457.
The change in the law of which the
boards of equalization are done away
with was more largely responsible for
the decrease than any other one fac
tor. The general hard times had, of
course, something to do with the de
crease, but the fact that the greatest
slump is in real property with no very
great decrease in the items of person
al property shows that the abolish
ment of the boards had most to do
with it. Another interesting feature
in this connection. The state has lost
554,723 acres of land in the past year.
There is returned less improved land
by 313,123 acres, and less wild land
than by 241,500 than last year. This
is quite a big item in itself, as the av-
TRENTON, GA. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29,1898.
erage value is about $4.25 per acre.
But the question is, where has the
land none?
THE NEWS IN GENERAL.
Conleei from Onr Most Important
Telegrap&ic Aims
And Presented in Pointed and Reada
ble Paragraphs.
A special of Monday from Hamburg,
Germany, says: During the past twen
ty-four hours eight new cases and four
deaths from cholera have been re
ported.
The Northern Pacific steamer which
reached Victoria, B. C., Sunday night,
brought word of the burning of the
Russian steamer Alphonse Zeevecke,
with a loss of sixty lives.
Solomon L. Simpson, banker, of
No. 50 Broadway New York, made an
assignment Monday to William Keily.
He negotiated loans, bought paper and
promoted various companies. In
Aj>ril he claimed to worth $300,000.
The L. & C. Wise Company, jobbers
in boots and shoes at No. 396 Broad
way, New York, suspended Monday,
having been unable to meet notes
which fell due today to the amount of
about SIO,OOO or to have them extend
ed. The liabilittes are $250,000.
Advices from Brussels state that a'
mass meeting of the miners of the
Mons coal district, was held in Wasmes
province of Hainaut. Sunday, Reso
lutions in favor of an immediate strike
were passed almost without dissent.
A Washington dispatch of Saturday
says: Statistics compiled from official
data show that from January to Sep
tember this year 560 state and private
banks in the United States failed, and
that seventy-two have resumed busi
ness. In the same time 155 national
banks failed, and seventy of which
have resumed.
The arrest Saturday of fourteen an
archists at Vienna, Austria, and the
capture of sixty-eight members of a
secret society at Bruem, has revealerj
the existence of a widespread anar
chist plot. Monday seven more mem
bers of the gang were taken into cus
tody, and the proof agaioat all those
arrested is said to be overwhelming.
The sovereign grand lodge of Odd
Fellows concluded its annual session
at Milwaukee; Wis., Saturday, and
adjourned. The action of the grand
secretary in declining to furnish
-Archbishop Kaiser a copy of the ritual
was confirmed on the ground that no
authority exists for revealing the se
crets of the order to any man except
by initiating him as a member.
Three solid blocks of the business
houses of Sf. Joseph are in ruins and
a million dollars worth of property has
been destroyed. About 10 o’clock
Monday morning fire broke out in the
eight-story apartment house of Town
send <fc Wyatt. The entire building
was soon in flames. A strong wund soon
carried the flames across the street to,
the magnificent Commercial
structure, and it was soon destroyed.
The Central Savings bank went next
and then followed the Cejter block.
The Regnier & Shoup Crockery Com
pany’s new house was next to suc
cumb, and $75,000 worth of goods
dropped into the cellar, The Carbrey
block was next attacked and then
Binswanger & Cos., the Hong Kong
Tea Company, the Spencer Cigar
Company and a dozen smaller institu
tions went up.
TRAIN ROBBERS KILLED.
They Attempt to Hold up the Wrong
Train—Met by Policemen.
The Kansas, St. Joe and Council
Bluff road foiled an attempt to* rob
one of its passenger trains, killed two
of the bandits and captured three
others, at Francis, Mo., one and a half
miles frum St. Joseph, Sunday night.
The officials of the road had been
notified that a robbery had been plan
ned, and notified the police. When
the train arrived at St. Joseph a dum
my train was made up and sixteen
police officers, under command of the
chief of police, were put aboard.
When the dummy reached a point
two miles north of St. Joseph, it was
stopped by six masked men. One
mounted the engine and presented a
revolver at the engineer’s head and an
other at the fireman and held them in
subjection while the other five men
hurried to the express car. They or
dered the messenger to open the door,
which he did. Three of the bandits
entered, leaving two to keep guard.
The police secreted in the car or
dered the three men to surrender.
The robbers were taken by surprise,
but opened fire on the police. The
police returned the fire and a general
fusilade followed. Two of the robbers,
Hugo Engel and Fred Kohler, were
shot in the head and killed, and three
others, T. N. A. Hurßt, Charles Fred
ericks and William Garver, were des
perately wounded. The sixth man,
Henry Gleitz, escaped. None of the
police were injured.
Very lew emigrants from Spain com*
to the United States. Most of them
take up their new residence in South
and Central America.
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS
Tbe Drift of Her Progress and Pros
perity Briefly Note!
Happenings of Interest Portrayed to
Pithy Paragraphs.
The largest cotton dealers in North
Carolina say that upon a careful sum
mary of reports, they find that the
cotton crop of the state promises to
be 9 per cent larger than last year.
Court convened at Clinton, Tenn.,
Monday. In his charge to the grand
jury, Judge Hicks paid special atten
tion to the Drummond lynching. True
bills are expected to be returned
against the soldiers for the crime, and
the trials will come up at once. The
cases of the Coal Creek rioters in the
recent miners’ war will also be tried.
At the Monday noon meeting of the
board of health of Brunswick five new
cases of yellow fever were report
ed: Mrs. Lorenston and child, 907
Oglethorpe street; Mrs. William John
son and mother-inlaw, on Amherst
tftreet; Callie Mitchell, 1015 Ogle
thorpe street. Mullins, the policeman,
was buried Sunday. Five hours after
his death the case of his was said to be
very serious.
The famous Four Seasons hotel, at
Harrogate, Tenn., closed its doors
Sunday night. It has been in a re
ceiver’s hands for four months, in
whibh time they have spent $45,000 in
receiver’s certificate. Eighty persons
were thrown out of employment. Chief
Clerk Hess beat the hotel receivers by
paying himself off in full Saturday
afternoon and skipping to Kentucky.
Officers are after him.
The North Carolina state crop report
issued Monday evening says cotton
has opened with remarkable rapidity
and the prospects is that the entire
crop will be gathered earlier than usual.
Cotton has improved greatly. Tobac
co curing is progressing, but the crop
is below the average. Cotton in the
western district will probably all be
open by the middle of October and
th* picking is far advanced.
A San Antonio special of Sunday
says: Cattle are being driven out of
Uvalde county by the thousands. The
range has at last succumbed to the
long continued droughts. Stockmen
in the vicinity of Sabinal, who have
been ranching there for forty years,
and never before had to move their
cattle on account of scarcity of grass
and water, are now compelled to take
them to places that have L • ..APored
with rain. *
A New Orleanjfaispatch says: The
leaders who had called a meeting for
the colored people to protest against
the late lynching in Jefferson with
drew the call Saturday. This was
done at the suggestion of those whites
who are opposed to lynch law. They
took the position that a colored meet
i nefeo denounce the Jefferson outrages
w .and arouse race prejudice and that
/*. should unite, regardlessof color, to
lynch law and suppress vio
lence.
A Memphis special of Monday says:
Cplonel H. Clay King, murderer of
David H. Poston, now serving a life
sentence in the Tennessee penitentiary
as a punishment for the crime, has issued
an address to the public in which he
makes some sensational charges. He
alleges his conviction was brought
about by a conspiracy between Judge
Julius J. Dubois, of the Shelby county
criminal court and the relatives of
Poston.
The sensation of the day in Bruns
wick Saturday was the enforcement of
martial law, and the punishment of
Mike J. Eagan, the newspaper corres
pondent, by banishment from the city
on account of his slanderous state
ments. The census of the city shows
white males, 600; colored males, 1,670;
white females, 570; colored females,
2,428; total population, 5,628, im
munes, 235, total sick from yellow
fever and other cases, 40. There are
about fifteen cases of malarial fever
under treatment.
The Savaniah Press made the fol
lowing statement Sunday: “We have
information from reliable parties in
Brunswick tint Egan’s action is en
dorsed by nuny prominent citizens,
notwithstandug the intimidation and
the whitewashing of the accused by
the health bolrd and the relief com
mittee. It seems to become a case of
persecution br the authorities and ev
ident spite by Deming in his reports
to his The action of the
Brunswick au.horities is far from be
ing approved by the public outside
their city in instances of late.
Reports coning in Monday from
eastern anti entral Texas state that
the present dnught, one of the long
est and most severe on record, has
been broken liy good rains. The open
cotton will lardly be damaged, but
cisterns were drying up in many sta
tions and stocl had to be driven seve
ral miles to
at Houston Hnce the 3d of August
last, while in lome counties the pres
ent rain is tin first rain since June.
The cotton estknate has been cut down
to 1,700,000 against 3,200,000
last year.
Application was made in the United
States circuit court at Mobile, Ala.,
before Hon. H. T. Toulmin for a w r rit
of injunction against Frank Seheur
man and others, striking Louisville
and Nashville employes, to restrain
them from interfering with workmen
sent to Mobile to fill the strikers’
places. No new men have been se
cured by the railroad company on ac
count of this interference, the men
being shipped out of the town as soon
as they arrive, the strikers giving
them a few dollars and sending them
back from whence they came.
A Birmingham, Ala., special of
Monday says: The organized state
democratic executive committee has
been called by Chairman Smith to
meet in Montgomery on October 12th.
It will consider the proposition made
by the Jeffersonian democratic execu
tive committee, which is that the next
candidates for state officers shall be
selected by a primary. At such pri
mary all white men who were demo
crats before the election of last year
shall participate. Kolb claims that if
such a proposition is accepted the Jef
fersonians will fill th 9 state offices next
term.
TRADE TOPICS.
Report of Business for Past Week by
Dun & Cos.
R. G. Dun & Cos. ’s weekly review of
trade says: There is no longer only a
miscroscopic or sentimental improve
ment. that cannot be measured.' Home
increase is seoH-botlun production and
in the distribution of products, True,
it is small as yet, but' after the worst
financial blizzard for twenty years it
is not to be expected that all roads
can be cleared in a day. But all con
ditions, except at Washington, favor
a gradual recovery. Business goes on
in unquestioning confidence that
the genera] desire of the people will in
some way prevail. Money has become
abundant and easy at 3 per cent at
New York on call and stagnant specu
lation fortunately favors greater free
dom in commercial loans.
Monetary conditions favor a revival
of trade and industry. While renewals
are as large as ever, commercial loans
are no longer unknown. The maturi
ty of large western obligations has
brought hither unusual sums of money
from that section, but the banks while
retiring part of the circulation recent
ly taken out and some certificates have
not retired a large proportion, keep
ing a weak eye on the body of com
mercial indebtedness to mature in
October and November.
Foreign trade grows more favorable.
Cotton has fluctuated much and it is a
shade stronger, though nothing ap
pears to warrant and estimate which
would reduce the world’s supply of
American, including the quantity
carried over, within 500,000 bales of
the largest consumption ever known.
The industries are giving strong
proof that the consumption of goods
was not as much arrested as many
feared when the collapse of trade and
manufactures came. While manufac
turers show extreme caution and de
cline to start work without orders,
piling on goods at their own risk, the
improved financial conditions enable
them to accept many orders which
would have been or were refused weeks
ago, and actual orders are rendered
frequent by the exhaustion of retail
supplies in many directions. The
number of works resuming this week
has been at least fifty-eight wholly and
twenty-four in part, against only fifteen
concerns mentioned as having closed,
and eight reduoing force. The gain has
been greatest in cotton, where some
goods touch the lowest prices ever
known. The industry which shows
the least actual gain is the manufac
ture of iron and steel, where the only
changes in price are downward, and
in spite of the great decrease in pro
duction, the consumption seems to
have shrunk even more. But even in
that branch a distinct increase is seen
in the demand for a few products.
Failures for the week number 319
in United States, against 188 last
year, and in Canada 40, against 23 last
year. Only five failures were for over
SIOO,OOO each. The liabilities in fail
ures for the second week in Septem
ber were but $3,042,129, against $5,-
319,098 the first week.
CORBETT AND MITCHELL
Agree to Fight for a Purse of Forty
Thousand Dollars.
A New York dispatch of Sunday
says: The international prize fight be
tween “Jim” Corbett and “Charley”
Mitchell for the heavy-weight cham
pionship and a purse of $40,000 will
take place before the Coney Island
Athletic club, if there is no interfer
ence from the authorities of Kings
county. Mitchell'signed articles Sat
urday in the Hoffman house, bind
ing himself to fight the Californian in
the arena by the sea in December. The
articles were sent to Corbett, who is
training at Lock Arbor, Asbury Park,
and he signed them there Monday.
The Mayor Will Return.
A Richmond, Va., dispatch of Tues
day says: Mayor Trout states that he
will return to Roanoke Friday. He
thinks there will be no more trouble
in Roanoke, and is not surprised at
the action of the citizens’ committee,
calling everybody back who left the
city. ,
OUR LATEST DISPATCHES
Tbe Hapcnuigs ol a Da; CtaclM li
Brief and Concise Paragraphs
And Containing the Gist of the Newa
From All Parts of the World.
Whittenton mills at Taunton, Mass.,
started all departments on full time
Tuesday, giving employment to more
than 1,000 persons.
The large mercantile establishment
of Wolf & Goldman, at Newport,Ark.,
was destroyed by fire Tuesday even
ing. Loss, $50,000; insurance about
half.
By request of the Charleston health
authorities, Governor Tillman, on
Tuesday, established quarantine for
that city against Brunswick and all fe
ver infected points.
. A Chicago dispatch of Tuesday says:
Armed men will in the future accom
pany every train hauling express or
mail cars from Chicago to any point
east or south.
A cable dispatch of Tuesday from
London announces that Benjamin
Whitworth, the great manufacturer, of
Manchester, England, and a well
known philanthropist, is dead.
Three deaths from smallpox were re
ported in New York Tuesday morning
from Riverside, North Brothers’
Island. Only one new case was re
ported at sanitary headquarters.
A Louisville, Ky., dispatch says:
The Louisville and Nashville switch
men struck Tuesday afternoon. There
were rumors that despite the recent
agreement, the trouble may extend and
tie up the whole system.
The American Wire Rail mills at An
derson, Ind., resumed operations
Monday with six hundred men on a
non-union basis. All but three of the
old Amalgamated association signed
the scale and went to work.
A Knoxville special of Tuesday says:
Affairs in the Drummond lynching case
assumed altogether a different shape
Monday. The report comes from a re
liable source that not soldiers but citi
zens of Briceville are about to be con
victed of the lynching. Only a little
evidence is lacking and that is said to
be forthcoming.
Eight desperate prisoners escaped
from the branch prison at Big Mount
ain, Tenn., Monday. Their escape
was effected by way of an old aban
doned airshaft. It is thought that
they Wtre assisted in their escape
either by trusties or civilians, other
wise escape would have been impossi
ble. *,
In the chancery cpurt art Richmond,
Va., Tuesday, at the request of the
Citizens’ bank of Richmond, B. R.
Welford 'was-' of the
Vulcan Iron Works. The', receiver is
ordered to take immediate possession
of the property and make such dis
posal of it as may please the-.c* editors.
Mr. Welford qualified by giVir.g bond
in the sum of $40,000. The Vulcan
Iron Company is one of the best
known from manufacturing establish
ments in the city.
A New York dispatch of Tuesday
says: The Morgan ' line steamship
Algiers which was loaned to Health
Officer Jenkins by Q. P,. Huntington
to carry food, supplies to the yellow
fever suffered at 'Brunswick, Ga.,
now lying* in Erie-Basin in Brooklyn,
is being ; rapidly fitted up for her er
rand of mercy,. Dr. Bell, the editor
of The Sanitarian and former quaran
tine commissioner, has volunteered
his services to Health Officer Jen
kins. He will accompany the expe
dition as the medical officer in charge.
The general assembly of democratic
societies of Pennsylvania was called
to order in the fifth annual conven
tion, at Allentown, Tuesday morning.
For half an hour before the time the
Academy of Music rang with cheers
for the democratic leaders and a tre
mendous ovation greeted Vice Presi
dent Stevenson when he entered the
hall. Two thousand people filled the
hall at the opening of the convention.
President Black immediately deliv
ered an admirable address, which was
punctuated with thundering applause.
Representatives of conductors, en
gineers, firemen, switchmen, etc.,
employed on the Louisville and Nash
ville, Nashville, Chattanooga and St.
Louis and Western and Atlantic rail
roads held an important conference in
Nashville Monday. The present situ
ation of the men and the acts of the
heads of the orders in accepting the
recent reductions, especially that of
the Louisville and Nashville, was un
der discussion. No definite action,
however, was taken, but another meet
ing will be held at an early day.
A special of Tuesday from Guthrie,
O. TA NARUS., says: The Cherokee strip has
been settled a week and things are
getting down to a basis. Of the 200,-
000 who entered the land on the 16th,
over half have left. The population
of the new town is about as follows:
Pav,nee, 1,000: Kirk, 3,000; Kildare
1,000; Ponca, 1,000; Enid, 1,000;
Pond Creek, 1,000; Alva, 1,000;
Wooward, 1,000; Perry, 12,000. Perry
is destined to be the leading town of
the strip, and the governor has issued
his proclamation declaring it to be a
city of the first-class.
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