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INDICTED as
CONSPIRATORS
Two Alabamians Charged
With Hanipulating
Juries.
THEY SECURED BIG VERDICTS.
Dr. Baker and C. E. Danforth
Will Have To Face
Courts on Serious
Complaints.
Gadsden, Ala., July ‘2O. —The
celebrated case of Danforth & Arm
strong versus the Tennessee and
Cocsa Railroad Company, a suit
for damages took another sensa
tional turn today when the grand
jury indicted Dr. D. 11. Baker, of
this city, and Major C. E. Dan
forth, the plautifT, for conspiracy.
Danforth was also indicted for
bribery.
Last March the attorneys of the
railroad fi ed a motion to dismiss
the suit on the plea that the jury
had been systematically approach
ed for corruption, and also filed an
affidavit that Baker and Dan
forth were guilty of complicity in
corruption and attempted bribery.
Judge Disque declined to dismiss
the case, and issued a rule nisi re
quiring Baker and Danforth to
show that they were not in con
t mi pt.
There was no proof then to sus
tain bribery. However, the judge
considered their conduct reprehen
sible, and bound them over for
SI,OOO. They ex hibited the con
tract signed by Danforth & Arm
strong and Baker, in which it was
agreed to pay Baker SIO,OOO if the
verdict reached SIOO,OOO, and $15,-
000 more if Baker and “associates”
were to render aid.
Letters from both were shown,
and they revealed the plans laid
out. These papers were secured
from Colonel Jack King, of Rome
Ga., through the courts. The suit
has been tried four times, and the
verdicts crept from SO,OOO to SIOO.-
000,
County Commissioner Wofford
suffered a term in jail and a bail
iff was discharged for juggling
with the jury, at one time.
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10. Because it has saved the
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Judge Simonton today at Flat
Rock granted an injunction re
straining the dispensary constables
from interfering with j. D. Payne
in the control of his original pack
age store at Greenvillei
THE SUMMERVILLE NE
COTTON MILLS WILL CLOSE.
Indefinite Shut-Down in the JEast
is to Begin This
Week.
Providence, R, 1., July 19.—An
other curtailment —perhaps the
most far-read ing that has been
inaugurated in this manufacturing
slate for years—will go into effect
this week, probably affecting 20,-
000 operatives, most of whom only
manage at present to exist on their
wages.
Coming close upon the heels of
the announcement by the God
dards, wl ose mills at Lonsdale,
Hope and Ashton, this state, and
at Blackstone, Mass., employ 5,000
hands, that all their mills will be
closed Saturday for at least one
week, comes the statement today
that their example will probably
be followed by the Knights, the
largest cotton manufacturers in
the world; the Littlefields, who
have a large yarn mill at Pawtuck
et, and the Chace plants, owned
and operated by ex-Senator Jona
than Chace at Central Falls and
Valley Falls.
All these mills turn out cotton
goods and yarns and the prevail
ing busines depression is their ex
cuse for another probably indefin
ite shut-down, for which so many
thousands of operatives are unpre
pared.
Mr. C. L. Hasbrouck, a druggist
at Mendon, Mich., says all of the
good testimonials that have been
published by the manufacturers of
Chamberlain’s Colic Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy could be dup
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The man who never knovs
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Folks who buy things because
they are cheap are always com
plaining of the scarcity of ready
money.
“Last summer one of our grand
children was sick with a severe
bowel trouble,” says Mrs. E. G.
Gregory, of Frederickstown, Mo.
“Our doctor's remedy had failed,
then we tried Chamberlain’s Colic,
Clulera and Diarrhoea Remedy,
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thing that cures my cough, and it
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Campbell, merchant of Safford,
Ariz., writes: “Dr. King’s New
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cure for Consumption Coughs and
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It has been tried for a quarter of a
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store.
Mrs. Martha Frank died at
Greensboro a few days ago, aged
nearly 103 years. The business
men of Greensboro honored her
memory by closing their stores
during the funeral, which was
largely attended by relatives and
friends. She had been a member
of the Baptist church over seventy
years. Alexander Stephens, jus
tice of the peace, father of Alexan
der Stephens, officiated at her
marriage.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, JULY 28, 1897.
STATE
STORIES.
Short Items of State And
General News,
BATCH OF PASSING EVENTS.
What The Busy World Is Do
ing.—ltems of Interest.
John M. Dreuuou, a well known
citizen of Rome, died last Wednes
day.
Fire destroyed three building in Dal
ton la-:t week causing a loss of $lO,-
000.
Mrs. Atha Strickland, wife of Dr. G.
W. Strickland, of Villa Rica died last
week.
The erection of a twenty-ton cotton
seed oil mill will be commenced at La
vonia at once.
A negro, Henry Carroll, of Bruns
wick, jumped from a moving train ami
killed himself.
Arrangements are being made for
I the establishment of a bicycle factory
in Albany.
The Gadsden pipe works received an
order last week that will keep the fac
tory going two years.
The year’s wheat crop is estima
ted at 575,000,000,000 bushels —a
cool 100,000,000 ahead of last year.
Nine prisoners escaped from the
Cobb county jail last Friday night.
They sawed through the iron bars with
a corset steel.
At Abbeville, Ga., last Friday
night five prisoners, all there were
in the jail, broke out of their cages
and made good their escape.
Mrs. Daisy 7 Cade Colley, who was
injured by a piece of piping break
ing through a car window in Wash
ington branch, died at her home
in Washii gton, Ga.
A number of cases of small pox
have developed In Birmingham,
Ala., and considerable excitement
prevails in the adjoining towns in
consequence.
There is living in Waycross, now
Mrs. Griffin, who was the mother
of 27 living children, oneat a birth.
She had 13 sons in the Codfeder
ate army 7 at one time and they 7
were good soldiers too. No use
talking, you can’t down Georgia.
The Rome Cottou mill, Rome, was
lately shut down for eight days in order
to make some improvements in the
picker room. They have had attached
to the tappers the latest improved
beaters and new eveners; also self
feeders to the breakers, and are now
running in full.
The 8 year-old son of G. A. Sny
der, in Savannah, was bitten by a
pet monkey at a boarding house.
The little fellow’s leg swelled to
three or four times its natural size
and it is beared hydrophobia will
set in.
Miss Rossie Humphrey, the 20-
year old daughter of the late Col
onel Perry 7 Humphrey, has filed
suit for damages in the sum of
SIO,OOO against John Bradley, of
West Atlanta, because she broke a
limb falling on a sidewalk owned
by the defendent.
It is said that the prize water
melon patch in Georgia is owned
by Mr. Henry Feagin at Elliston,
on the Georgia Southern and Flor
ida railroad. He has one patch of
forty acres; from which he expects
to get twenty cars. The melons
he thinks, will average fifty pounds
each and are extra fine flavor. A
couple of melons just picked up at
random in the patch weighed fifty
eight pounds and sixty pounds.
He thinks there are others that
will weigh still more. Such mel
ons as Mr. Feagin raises will bring
over SIOO a car, which, if his ex
pectations are realized, will net
him over $2,000 from the forty
acres.
The mystery of the disappear
ance of Charley Ross from his
home in Philadelphia 23 years ago
is at last cleared up by 7 the con
fession of a brother of one of the
fiends who kidnapped him. The
child was murdered in the house
155 Grand street, New York City,
to prevent his rescue by the police.
The child stealers were killed while
'committing another crime.
Dr. W. L . Ryder, who shot and
killed Miss Sallie Emmie Owens
on the night of April 15, 1896, was
hanged by a mob Monday night
July 19. Ryder had been tried and
convicted for the crime and sen ten-
Iced to death, but a new trial was
granted. Monday 7 he was removed
from Muscogee county jail to Tal
botton for a new trial, when the
case was postponed on account of
the alleged sickness of his leading
attorney. That night when he was
being removed to Columbus in
charge of the sheriff a mob cap-
I tured and hung him to a limb
, where he remained all night.
The farmers of Kansas were nev
er so short on harvest hands as
they are now. It is impossible to
obtain help enough to properly
take care of the wheat crop. The
railroads have furnished free
transportation to thousands of
men, yet the demand is as great as
ever. In the southwestern part of
the state wages have gone up to
$1 and $5. In Summer county
and other counties hundreds of
girls and women have hired out as
harvest hands at $2 and $3 a day.
The women do not make as much
progress with the heavy sheaves as
the men, but it is said they stand
the excessive boat better- In many
cases the women operate the bind
ers and the lead teams of the ma
chines are handled by girls. The
women make all the trips to town
to buy provisions.
CHANCE FOR TROUBLE.
Turkey Must Submit To The
Demands Os The Powers.
Constantinople, July 19.—The
terms of the Turkish government as
submitted to the ambassadors by Tew
fik Pasha on Saturday not only pro
posed a change of frontier, but fixed
the amount of indemnity at four and
ene-half million pounds, Turkish, and
renewed the demand for abolition of
the capitulations granted the . Greek
subjects in the Ottoman empire. This
is regarded as clear proof that the em
bassadors of the power will be unable
to effect anything by mere diplomatic
negotations.
The ambassadors have informed the
porte that they wish a written declara
tion as to the intentions of the Turk
ish government, which have hitherto
been communicated orally by Tewfix
Pasha. The ambassadors have stated
that if this is not forthcoming they
will suspend the peace negotations and
refer the whole matter to their respec
, tive governments, with a view of adopt-
I ing coerceive measures.
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Reed’s First Speech.
The one which opened Reed's way
to fame as a man was short. It was
delivered not long after he began his
career in congress. He had not up to
’ that time, taken much part in debate,
but one day, while he was making a
somewhat labored argument, an older
member tried to break him up by put
ting a question to him suddenly and
demanding im an mediate answer.
Reed gave the answer readily. Then
he paused, turned toward.the speaker's
desk and drawled out: “And now,
having embalmed that fly in the liquid
amber of my remarks, I will go on a
gain.” The house roared. The gal
leries took it up. The newspaper cor
respondent sent it flying all over the
country, and to his own surprise more
than any one’s else, Reed found him
self a man of note from that hour.—
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BLALOCK
COMMITTEE.
Weak Spots Found In
Educational Depart=
ment.
OVERHAULInFsUPT. GLENN.
Blalock Committee Putting
on Foot a Plan to Abolish
the Agricultural and
Geological Depait
ment.
The Blalock committee will un
doubtedly be grievously disappoin
ted if it does not succeed in abol
ishing something or getting some
body to resign.
“There is a radical but at the
same time a well defined scheme
on foot ic abolish the agricultural
department, of which Commission
er Nesbitt is now theofficia’ head,”
says an Atlanta special to the Ma
con Telegraph. “It is going to
come with a mighty crash, but it
is just as certain almost as the
meeting of the legislature itself.
“The story leaked out this morn
ing at the capitol during a confer
ence between several representa
tive members of the legislature
and the Blalock committee, and it
appears now that this will be one
of the main features in the report
of the committee to the legisla
ture. It is no little ripple on the
surface, and the fact that every
thing connected with the move
ment has been guarded with the
utmost secrecy indicates that the
purpose all along has been to strike
one terrific blow and shatter the
whole department.
“On the strength of the Blalock
recommendations a bill will be in
troduced, it is said, which will a
bolish the department of agricul
ture and throw the appointing
power of oil and fertilizer inspec
tors with the governor. The plan
is to allow the governor to appoint
these inspectors and let them make
their reports either to some head
inspector or to the governor him
self. The department which comes
under the classification of “agri
cultural” will be brushed entirely
away and no vestige of it left re
maining.
“An effort will also be made to
abolish the geological department,
but there is so much division over
the proposition that it is thought
a compromise can be effected in
the end.
“The discussion which went on
during the morning in the Blalock
committee room broke up the soil
somewhat and several things leak
ed out that have heretofore been
wrapped under the tongues of the
committee. It seems now that
several “raw” places were found in
the educational department during
the investigation which, the com
mittee wiil embody in their report
to the next legislature. Last fall
a bill was introduced in the house
requesting the appropriation of
S6OO for the purpose of employing
a stenographer in Commissioner
Glenn’s office. It was defeated,
and by this action the legislature ■
it would be supposed, intended to I
convey that a stenographer was
either unnecessary or that S6OO j
was an excessive price. This did
not please the board of education
and at a meeting only a few days
after the defeat this bill they
set aside S6OO for this very identi
cal purpose, which is squarely in
the teeth of the legislature. It
stirred up the fire of the Blalock
committee, and it is said they pro
pose making it warm for the edu
cational department iu openly de
fying the authority of thfe J.egisla
l tore.
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“Another thing that came in for
j its share of criticism is the custom
[of Commissioner Glenn in holding
‘ back the pay of all the teachers in
the state until every county had
I sent in its itemized statement.
The committee snys this is not
full justice to those teachers who
are prompt and who observe tho
law and that as each county has
its apportionment, and there is no
danger of any mistakes, why not
pay off those teachers from coun
ties sending in their itemized state
ments in place of holding up their
pay for weeks at a time.
“It was also discovered that
there are some very wide discre
pancies between the amount ap
portioned for the different counties
and the amount paid out on their
itemized statements. It seems
that a great many count} 7 school
commissioners do not know what
amount is coming to them and
they make out their itemized state
ments, which are in a number of
cases considerably under the a
mount they are entitled to. There
is a considerable fund created iu
this way which is imt benefitting
the state or the teachers. It does
not revert to the general fund, as
is generally believed, but it is
separate and distinct and lies idle.
The committee has not made an
estimate of the full amount of this
surplus money, but it reaches up
considerably, for it has been accu
mulating for years.
senator~vesWjoke.
u oh, No Doubt, Sir, You’re an
Exception, Sir.”
Senator Vest has a favorite sto
ry which he has told on the occa
sion of many a political speech,
but, so far as known never on the
floor of the United States senate.
“A temperance lecturer was
struggling against odds in Kentuc
ky,” says senator. “He was talk
ing to a not very large audience
that had been drawn to the hall
by curiosty. The effect of alcohol
is to shorten life, said the lectur
er.
“An old man at the rear of the
hall rose at this juncture and said,
‘You’re a liar.
“ ‘Why?’ inquired the advocate
of Adam’s ale.
“ ‘Because, sir, I've been drink
ing foj seventy-five years and lam
90 and likely to live to be 100. I
am strong enough to lick you now
if you’ll step outside.’
“ ‘Oh, no doubt, sir. You’re an
exception, sir. If you keep on
drinking ,’ the lecturer paused.
“ ‘What?’ asked the impatient
old toper.
“ ‘lf you keep on drinking you’ll
have to be shot on judgment
day.’ ”
CASTORIA
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