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The Morgan Monitor. VOL. II. NO. 2i. $1 PER YEAR. V e A lc • e. r O * ii i ; mm ii /. ftiJi MV-wirs mE i W' U 'a ? Paul # ■ h Mansfield’s *£* l g Double. By MAJOR ALFRED R. CALHOUN. A U L ’A' field, in 1868, as han'dsome a .ess - ; low of twenty find as one m in a Search. He was civil engineer, the employ of company that at that time making a survey for railroad through New Mexico. .was so noticeable in figure and ing that a stranger would be sure look after him if he passed him on street. But there must have been other man in the world that very much like him, if he were not an actual double, and the adventure arising from this resemblance was a remarkable blending of the tragic and comic. Santa Fe had in it then, and no doubt has still, very many beautiful brunettes of Spanish and aboriginal descent. 54 Senorita Maria Diaz—a year previous to the date I have given—was engaged, according does to the Mexican custom that not consiijgr the wishes of the lady in the matter, to Bernal Valdez, who, like her father, was a rich, middle-aged man. Seuor Valdez would undoubtedly have married the lady had not. a young- army Doctor surgeon appeared on the scene. Brandon met the beautiful Maria Diaz, and it was a case of love at first sight. The young American would have let the cause of his wooing follow the regular and eminently proper chan- _.nels, if there had been time for it, but, unfortunately, week‘before he only met his enslaver a the day an- pointed for her marriage with Valdez To secure the lady there was not a moment to lose, and the only means he could think of was to enact the role of young Loohiuvar. He found friends to help him and the lady willing they They eloped to Fort Union, where positively wero married, aud as it was dangerous—indeedit would have been death—for the doctor to return, with or without his bride, he very City, prudently kept on to New York where Iris parents, well-to-do people, resided, and where he subse- quently The remained. advent of a troop of soldiers or of any considerable body of strangers into a New Mexican town is always celebrated by a “fandango;” or “baile;” the former word, though originally the name of a special dance, is now applied in that region to an evening ° of general dancing? The coming of the ohgineer- corps was celebrated after the usual fashion, Tlie men were encamped near old Fort Marcy, and the officers of the expedi- tion took up their quarters at the Fonda, as the hotel facing on the piazza was called, though it may be amiss to add that “fonda” is the Spanish name for “hotel.” Raul Mansfield was writing up his field notes in his room at tlie hotel the night of his arrival, when Captain La- mar, who commanded the engineer cavalry escort, entered, and, without a word, removed the papers and put away the ink. “Hello, Lamar! Making yourself at home, eh? Come, bring back my profile blanks; I must finish a report to-night!” said Paul Mausfield. “Finish it when we get back!” re- plied Captain Lamar, as he took up a hat and coat, and, putting the former on Paul’s head, evinced a desire to help him on with the latter. “Why, what’s up?” asked Paul. “A fandango.” “That is not unusual here, 1 under- stand.” “But you never saw one, and this is to be a swell affair. Come, old fellow, don’t neglect the chance of seeing a pretty woman. Think of tlie dreary mountains and sterile plains, with not a woman within hundreds of miles, that lie before you. And then every scientific man should know something of human nature. I will show you a new phase of it to-night—” “But I don’t dance,” pleaded Paul Mansfield. “Very well, I’ll dance for both and you can look on,” replied the Captain. After much urging Paul Mansfield said he would go to the fandango “for just one hour. ” The dancing took place in a low, adobe building on the outskirts of the town. The long room was illuminated by suspended oil lamps, and at the entrauce was a “refreshment” counter, at the farther end a platform for the two men with fiddles and the one man wit-h a guitar, while on benches around the walls sat the senoritas—many of them chaperoned by their mothers, and a thoroughly democratic gather- ing of cavaliers, American and Mex^ can. Paul Mansfield stood near the door watching the graceful dancers, among whom was his friend, the Captain; but, though much interested, he could not help noticing that the Mexican men stared at him by twos and threes, and that they whispered excitedly, and that their black eyes burned with anger. As he could not think that he, a perfect stranger, could be the cause of tlieir excitement, he gave it no further thought. When the hour he had set himself was up he decided to go home without notifying his friend. He had gone but a few paces from the door when ho heard a rush and felt, himself being hurled to the ground, Looking up he saw a number of men bending over bim with knives in their hands, and one of them hissed: “Make an outcry and we will kill you!” Paul was unarmed, and, though brave as a lion, he realized that resist¬ ance would make a bad ease worse. As the men began to bind his arms he asked: “What are you going to do with me?” “We will take you to Senor Diaz’s house and keep you there till Bernal Valdez returns from Agua Caliente in the morning,” replied the man who seemed to be in command. “But why take me there? I will give you all the money I have about me.” (1IXT We do , not want your money.” Vell fl e ance for Bernal Valdez! He wiU . !d)1 Y ou wit!l lj is oml hand for ruttuiu S <way with the girl that was to h »™ boen hia wife--” Upou m Y soul > 1 never ran away wltl * a R a ' 1—:Ilov er dreamed of doing such a thing. You have the wrong man - Let me tul1 you who I am—” “You are Doctor Brandon! Not an- °^ el word. Come, come, padres; let ns _f rl 7 this gHngooff.” Ihe latter part of this remark was addressed to the other Mexicans, who lla< | Bolv b ° uud tb e young man’s feet, aatl .forthwith they picked him up and rallied him oil with much ease, Being a perfect stranger in the town, Paul Mansfield knew nothing about tliu narr °w streets and dark, dingy 5l ? uses which they passed. At length ca P tol ' s entered an arched gateway, au, l, taking him into a dark room, they ttu ' ew him on the floor and told him tbat be would be killed if he raised his voice. He heard the shooting of a bolt in a heavy lock and then the retreating steps of the men. The apartment was very dark, anil i be cords hurt him. His paiu was growing unendurable, when, to his great joy, he heard a door opening softly behind him. Before he could turn his head a beau- tiful girl appeared before him with a lamp in her hand, Without a word she cut his cords, and as he rose to his feet to thank her, indescribable was liis surprise to find the arms of the beautiful girl about his neck and to feel her kisses on his bronzed cheek while she sobbed, “My brother! oh, my brother, you must fly!” It must be confessed that a sense of gratitude prevented tlie young man’s permitting all the kissing to bo on one side; or it may be that he did not wish to retain what was evidently intended for another person, and so gave the kisses back. Briefly, he told her that he was not her brother, and explained, so far as he could, how he came into his present embarrassing situation. And with a bewitching smile she told him how she had heard his captors say that they had caught Doctor Brandon, the gentleman who had married her twin sister, Maria, and that she came to free him. She did not tell him, for it was a sad subject with her, that her father had settled that she should take her sister’s place and become the wife of Bernal Valdez. Paul Through a faithful servant sho had Mansfield conducted back to the Fonda, where he found Captain Lamar anxiously The searching for him. adventure was explained, and the Captain laughed at it very heartily, declaring that lie would willingly un dergo the same suffering if assured of the same treatment by a beautiful gill at the end. Bernal Valdez and a nuin- her of Mexican called at the engineer camp the next day and eyed Paul Mansfield sharply. Though appear - ances were against them, they had to be satisfied that this was another case of mistaken identity. Had the advou- ture stopped here” they would have POPULATION AND DRAINAGE. MORGAN, GA.. FRIDAY. JULY 1(5. 1897. been certain tliat they had hit the wrong man, but it did not. Paul Mansfield’s mind and heart be¬ came so full of the beautiful girl that kissed him and called him “brother” that he lost his interest for the present in engineering, and applied for a leave of absence. In the meanwhile the before-men¬ tioned “faithful servant" became the bearer of many notes between the young people who met so strangely, and more than once he found his way to the garden of the house where he had beon imprisoned. Again Santa Pe was startled; again Bernal Valdez was robbed of a possible bride. Paul Mansfield had eloped with the beautiful Isabel Diaz, News came that they were married at Las Vegas, and had gone on to the East for the honeymoon. • Paul Mansfield has since met Doctor Brandon, now his brother-in-law, and they do not resemble each other so much when together.—New York Ledger. POP ULAR SCIE NCE. Lord Kelvin, the great British scien¬ tist, declares that the earth is 30,000,- 000 years old. The New York University purposes to establish a station in Bermuda for the study of marine life. Notwithstanding the rapidly increaa ing use of electricity there is no di¬ minution, but rather an increase, in the use of gas in Germany. Last year 733,000,000 cubic metres of gas were manufactured. A complete cure in a case of lockjaw is reported from the German Hospital, San Francisco. The case was treated by an injection of a tetanus auti-toxiue similar in its source to that used in cases of diphtheria. An Austrian Lieutenant named Schimatzel lia3 made an important military invention. It is a cover, made of leather, canvas, or rubber, for keeping out dust of moisture from the breech mechanism of a gun. It can be rapidly opened, and when closed it has the further use of preventing the gun from going off accidentally. The latest enumeration of tli6 Asteroids, or small planets, circling the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, shows that up to the close of 1896 no less than 429 had been discovered. The number of new ones found last year was twenty, but some¬ times it turns out that the supposed discovery of another asteroid is really only the rediscovery of one that had been seen before. They cannot be identified by their appearance, since, except a few of the larger ones, they are mere specks of light, and'the only way to keep track of them is by study¬ ing the orbits in which they travel. Pretty soon after the cricket frog appears the cry of the peeper is heard. Much erroneous information has been published about this tiny the young fellow. Many persons believe cry to be made by tlie young of other frogs. As a matter of fact, the peeper is a distinct variety, and a very curious little fellow at that. He is not more than five- eighths of an inch long. The peepers hibernate under sod and in such places a few inches beneath the sur¬ face, and when they come out in the spring are of a grayish yellow color,or a reddish brown. During the summer they are nearly white, but at all times they bear upon their backs a well-de¬ fined “X” mark in brownish bands. A Bullet in His Heart. “It is generally thought that a man cannot live very long after getting a bullet in his heart,” said a South Carolinian to a Star reporter, “but there is an instance on record in my State of a man carrying a bullet in his heart five weeks before death. The matter is fully authenticated, the post¬ mortem examination having been made by Dr. Curran B. Earle, a nephew of the late United States Senator Earle. The wounded man was named Tom Ferguson, and he was shot by a colored man named Dock Chaney at Greenville, S. 0, Fergu¬ son lived five weeks, and at tho post¬ mortem examination a thirty-two* caliber bullet was found firmly im¬ bedded in the exterior wall of the heart. The cause of Ferguson’s death was the inundation of the pericardial cavity, which impeded the action of the heart, which in plain English means that the cavity surrounding the heart was punctured aud flooded to such an extent that the heart was pre- vented from beating. 1 Tliis carrying a bullet in the heart is a remarkable case, but the physicians were not able to say, without tedious research, whether it has a like in the medical records or not. A patient, it is said, may live several days with a wounded heart, and a metaphorical wound, however severe, may not shorten his life at all, but tho cases, if any, where one carried a bullet in this sensitive organ so long are few and far be¬ tween.”—Washington Star. Electric Hoads In Europe. In mileage of electric roads Ger¬ many is foremost in Europe, having 252 miles. France lias 82 miles: Great Britain and Ireland, 66 J miles Austria-Hungary, 44 miles: Switzer- laud, 29 miles; Italy, 24; miles; Sor- via, Russia, Belgium and Spain have from 0.21 miles to 18.64 miles. Ol 111 lines of electric railway in 93 are worked on tho over¬ trolley lino system, 12 on the underground system and 8 by meant accumulators. GoldfiMh in Niagara Kivcr. Niagara River is said to be teeming jth goldfish, but as they are hard t« ! and bad to eat they aro not re* as a very desirable acquisition. Obey have been seen there only within ; lie past year. Tho fish arc said to come from a creek in Forest Lavu Cemetery, Buffalo, N. Y., where a few . ere placed several years ago. THE FINAL VOTE WAS EIGHT TO TWENTY-EIGHT. POPULISTS HELD OFF FROM MeEnery the Only Pen o'rat to For lh<^ Rill—Measure Will Now Go to Conference. The tariff bill passed the Wednesday afternoon, the vote 38 to 28. This large majority of ten votes was due to the action of some of the populists and silver republicans in withholding their votes. But, one democrat voted for the bill, McEnory, of Louisiana. There was nothing dramatic about the final vote. before it was taken there were some interesting explanations by individual senators as to their position. Every¬ body was anxious for a vote and every¬ body seemed glad when the vote was announced and the end of the senate Speaker Reed, Chairman Diugley and many of the members of the house of representatives were in the rear, while every seat in the galleries save those reserved for foreign representa¬ tives was occupied. The early part of the day was spent on amendments of comparatively minor importance, the debate branching into financial and anti-trust channels. By 4 o’clock the senators began manifest¬ ing their impatience by calls of “vote,” and soon thereafter ihe last amend- ment was disposed of and the final vote began. There were many interruptions ns pairs were arranged, and then at 4:45 o’clock the vice-president arose and announced Ihe passage of the bill— yens, 38; nays, 28 The vote in detail was as follows: Yeas Allison, Baker, Burrows, Farter, Clark, Cullum, Davis, Doboo, Elkins, Fair¬ banks, Foraker, Gallingcr, Halo, I (.-in mi. Hawley, Jones of Nevada, Ledge, McBride, MeEnery, rill, McMillan, Mai le, Mason, Mor¬ Nelson, Penrose, Perkins, Platt of Con¬ necticut, Platt of New York, I’rttehard, Proctor, Quay, Sewell, Shoup, Spooner, Warren, Wellington, Wetmore an l Wilson— 88 . Nays—Bacon, Bate, Berry, CatTery, Han¬ non, Chilton, Clay, Cockrell, Faulkner, Gray, Harris of Kansas, Jones of Arkansas, Mitchell, Kenney. Morgan, Lindsay, Mallory, Martin, Mills, Pasco. Pettus, lt.-uylins. Roach, Turner, Turpie, Vest, Walthall and White -28. The following pairs wero announced. The first named wou'd have voted for the bill and the last named against: Aldrich and Murphy, Chamber and McLaurin, Frye and Gorman, Gear and Smith, Hansbrougli and Daniel, Hoar and Harris of Tennessee, Thin s ton and Tillman, Wolcott and George. An analysis of the final vote shows that the affirmative was east by thirty- five republicans, two silver republi¬ cans, Jones, of Nevada, and Mantle, and one democrat, MeEnery, total thirty-eight. The negative vote was cast by twen¬ ty-five democrats, two populists, Har¬ ris, of Kansas, and Turner, and one silver republican, Cannon, total twen¬ ty eight. Eight republicans wero paired for the bill and eight democrats against it. The senators present anil not vot¬ ing were: Populists five, viz: Allen, Butler, Heitfeld, Kyle and Stewart, Silver republicans two, viz: Teller and Pettigrew. Following the passing of the hill a resolution was agreed to asking the house for a conference, anil Senators Allison, Aldrich, Platt, of Connecticut; Burrows,.Tones,of Nevada; Vest,Jones, of Arkansas, and- White were named ns conferees on the part of tlie senate. Story of tho Debate. The tariff debate began on May 25th, on which day Mr. Aldrich, in behalf of the finance committee, made the open¬ ing statement oil tlie bill. The actual consideration of the bill began the next day, May 26th, when schedule A, relating to chemicals, was taken up. The debate was continuous since that time,covering six weeks and one day. Mr. Aldrich’s illness took bim from the chamber after the first day, and the bill was then in the immediate charge of Mr. Allison. The opposi¬ tion has beon directed in the main by Mr. Jones, of Arkansas, and Mr, Vest, while Senators While, Oaffory, Gray and Allen have frequently figured in t.ho flplmfp HOSPITAL EOR ASHEVILLE. Milliouftire Vanderbilt Will Erect One For Treatment of Indigent Sick. Asheville, N. C., is to have a mam¬ moth hospital. Tlie institution is to be erected and maintained by the Biltmoro millionaire, George W. Van¬ derbilt, and is intended for patients who are unable to pay for treatment. All kinds of diseases will be treated, especially tuberculosis, and ailments that ,, . are contagion.. . . A corps of ex- l ,er ^ physicians will bo m charge, and f] ’UJ’U’w c 'J eon ™ ‘ nen ™ ‘T “jd 1 /somfort °"-,7! 1! '-'W'' poss.- s<a 0 / V v «n.lwl.ilt i p wi 1 begin the P™ject with n an outlay of $100,000. KEEK TRUST PROBABLE. Twent,v-Stx Itrinverli-H In Detroit Contem- plate Doing Into One Syndicate. It is reported that the proprietors of the twenty-six breweries in Detroit are planning to sell out to a syndicate composed chiefly of English capital¬ ists. Nearly all tlie brewers have signed an agreement for the above purpose. The result of the combina¬ tion will lie a rise in the price of beer from $1 and $5 to $6 per barrel. CYCLONE KILLS FOURTEEN. House* Demolished ami ltailron<l Trains Wrecked By Wind In Minnesota. Fourteen people are known to have been killed in the cyclone and cloud¬ bursts in Minnesota Wednesday. The storm was general and it is impossible to estimate the amount of damage with y degree of certainty. The cyclone, which was central near Glen wood, was the worst that ever struck the state. The list of dead at Gleuwood, so far as known, is as follows: ToleffLnvan, Samuel Morrow, Mrs. Samuel Morrow, Winnie Morrow and Oswald McGow¬ an. Others were fatally hurt. Trainmen say that a number of houses were blown from the founda¬ tions by their storm, and undoubtedly more lives are lost. Railroad traffic is paralyzed because of the heavy fall of rain. The rain came places so suddenly and so fiercely in some that many trains ran into washouts before they had any intima¬ tion of danger. A bad wreck on the Great Northern is reported about eight miles west of St. Cloud, twenty freight ears being ditched. Charles Washburn was in¬ stantly killed and W. H. Pepper, the engineer of the train, was seriously injured. A freight train on the Chicago, Mil¬ waukee and St.Paul road was wrecked near Faribault and two of the crew were killed. Crops have been damaged to an irreparable extent, and a large amount of live stock was killed. Re¬ ports of washouts, floods and cyclones arc being received hourly. Every rail¬ road in the state has some damage to the tracks and rolling stock. It is hard to even approximate the loss, 1ml Cllll- sidering other damage it will probably exceed $1 ,000,000. TRANSFEREI) TO GOVERNMENT, MoiiDiignlieln lilvt-i Is Now Open Cm- Na¬ tional Commerce. Tlio formal transfer of tiie property of the Monongahela Navigation com- puny to the United States government was made at Pittsburg "Wednesday aft¬ ernoon. The Monongahela river is now free to the commerce of the na¬ tion. The transfer was made to Assistant Secretary of War Micklejohn, who de¬ livered the warrant drawn on the United States treasury for the amount awarded .$3,601,615.50, to President Donnell, of the Navigation company. The freeing of the river meant a sav¬ ing of $225,000 annually to the coal operators. The transfer will release nearly 10,000,000 bushels of coal which has been held in the pools by the opera¬ tors to save lockage tolls. This coal will be carried down to Pittsburg at once. THORNE MAKES CONFESSION. IlenndMrs.Nack Made Way With William A New York dispatch states that the positive identification of the man arrested Tuesday night as Martin Thorne, the alleged confederate in the murder and dismemberment of the body of William Guldensuppe, was made Wednesday. Acting Inspector O’Brien says that he has in his possession a full confes¬ sion from Thorne admitting that ho had murdered Guldensuppe aud giving all the details of the crime. Mrs. Augusta Nack, who is held as an accomplice in the murder, is in prison under a charge of murder nml with a complete chain of circumstan¬ tial evidence woven about her. The detectives claim that there will be no trouble in convicting both parties. MORE TROUBLE FOR BERESFORD. Fitzgerald Authorities Ask For “Mo I.ikI'k” Arrest. Sidney Lascelles, whose meteoric financial career startled the sober- minded citizens of Fitzgerald, Ga., is again in trouble, it will seem. A number of telegrams were sent to Savannah Wednesday asking that Eas¬ ed I es be arrested and held until an officer from Fitzgerald could arrive. The telegrams Were placed in the hands of the Savannah detectives, but Lascelles could not be found after a search of the city. Several days ago Lascelles left Fltz gorald, going to Savannah. The war rant issued charges him with cheating and swindling. Ho is wanted badly in Fitzgerald, and if he is located, ha will be carried hack to his home to face the charges which have been pro ferred against him in his absence. RUSSIAN CROPS RUINED. Excessive Ka In fa 11 If as Nearly Destroyed If ay and Beets. Tho London Daily Mail’s eorro spondent at Ht, Petersburg Bays: The harvest,prospects in Central and South Russia are growing worse and worse. Continuous rains are destroying the hay crops, while the exceptionally poor beet crop in Pollution has prac¬ tically ruined tho sugar industry. The crops in some of the Baltic provinces also have suffered heavily from rains, and a significant sign ol the gravity of tho situation is the fact that an unusually severe censorship is exercised over news concerning it. SENATOR HARRIS SERIOUSLY ILL. Too Weak To Bo Kornoved to the Teimcs- Mountalni*, Am Proponed, A Washington special says : Tlie condition of Senator Harris is proca- rioiis. During the heat of Wednes¬ day afternoon there were fears that in his debilitated condition he would not rally again, but us tho atmosphere be¬ regained came cooler towards night tho senator during partly what he had lost the day. liis proposed removal to mountain resort has been dismissed. T. P. GREEN, MANAGER. RECORD OF GREATEST OF WAGE STREGGLESFOR A WEEK. THOUSANDS OF WORKERS ARE IDLE. Miners Ate flubilimt. Over the Situation So Fur—SneeeHS Depends on Wcfit Virginia Diggers. Sunday marked the beginning of the second week of the coal miners’ strike and already it gives promise of being one of the greatest wage strug¬ gles in the history of this country. The coal operators in the Pittsburg district atjd the miners themselves little dreamed that within one short week such an era of general suspen¬ sion could Ije wrought as now exists in the bituminous mining industry. Then the mouth of the many coal pits throughout the Monongahela, loughioheny, Creek Allegheny and Peters Tom’s valleys, and the valleys of and Miller’s Run were open and turning out thousands and thous¬ ands of tons of the best coal that ell- ters into the competitive markets of the world. Now, all is changed. The vast CUV erns are like so many graveyards, On the hillsides basking in the shade there is an army of 18,000 men, who are anxiously waiting for more to join the troops of idlers. On nearly every railroad track leading to the mines there stand empty ears, apparently anxious to be loaded that their burdens may he carried to the ports along the lakes. The success that has attended the movement has greatly elated the miners and during the next few days every eftort will lie made to bring out the men in the few mines that are still working. This will be a difficult task, but they express confidence in their ability to make the suspension co m- plote. From the best information obtaina¬ ble the Pittsburg operators are in no hurry to have the difficulty adjusted, so many of them having stocks on railroad sidings which they hold for an advance. Much of this was disposed of Saturday at. a good profit. One prominent operator said that it would take another week to determine the exact, state of the markets, and by that time a general cleaning up will have taken place. All interested will lie ready to begin business on a new basis and probably at a higher price. “This whole thing will result in a compromise, ” said another prominent operator. “The operators are in a position to stand it for some time arid 1 believe the miners are in about the same condition. It looks as if bnsi- ness will brighten up and in that. event Ihe operators will be able to get better prices and the condition of bus¬ iness and tlie condition of the miners will he simultaneously improved.” Tho effect of the strike is being manifested in the price of coal, An increase of 60 cents a ton was shown when an application was made for con¬ tracts and a number of Pittsburg op¬ erators, not boing able to work their own mines, are seeking to buy coal in tho West Virginia field in order to reap the advantage of the advance. Thorn has been no intimation of lawlessness as yet in tho region, but Bhoriff Lowroy, of Allegheny county, has ant icipated any trouble by swearing in 500 deputies. The miners say there will he no overt acts. No openly aggressive work was done Saturday by either side, but the mi¬ nors’ officials held a secret meeting, at which it is believed a vigorous cam¬ paign against the New York and Cleveland gas coal miners, which will be inaugurated at once, was decided upon. The operators apparently®!!! e doing little and are saying less. How¬ ever, tlieir confidence of defeating the miners has not abated in the least. DEMAND FROM AMHAMSADORS. Turkish GovRi'ninonl; Is Asked to Not Ob¬ struct Fence Negotiations. Acting upon instructions received from their respective governments,the ambassadors of the power: atOonstun tinople Turkish presented a collective note to the government Friday de¬ manding a cessation of the obstruction of the peace negotiations. A SUNDAY SESSION H©1<1 By (lOiifcrccM of House and Seniito on Tariff Kill. A Washington dispatch says: The conferees on the tariff bill held a four- hour session Sunday. The anxiety to reacli n complete agreement as early as possible induced them to meet on the Subbath and at present both the house and senate conferees appeared satisfied with tho progress that lias been made. Several hundred of tho minor amend¬ ments have been agreed upon. Many of them were changes of phraseology and on a large majority of these the house conferees naturally have yielded. COMPETITOR PRISONERS To He Brought to Trial In Havana at an Karly Date. The state department at Washing¬ ton has been informed that the cases against Competitor prisoners will ho brought to ati issuo at Havana within a very short time. It is expected that the eases of the Americans, Melton and Leavitt, will bo separated from the others and they will be leniently dealt with the Span¬ ish authorities. THROUGH GEORGIA. A consultation will be called'at the chamber of commerce, at Atlanta, next week to organize for the enter¬ tainment of the confederate veterans next year. This meeting will be only a preliminary discussion, and will be probably followed by a movement to organize, * * * E. C. Flanagan’s trial is set for July 26th at Decatur. His first trial ■ as to his sanity, and he was found to be sane by the verdict of the jury. Now he has to he tiied for murder. Flanagan is in the DeKalb county jail. His victims were Mrs. Allen and Miss Ruth Slack, * * * Fulton county’s delinquent tax pay¬ ers must pay up or lose their property. The board of county’ commissioners have resolved to force a collection of back taxes due the state and county. A resolution was adopted directing: the sale of all property of persons who have failed to pay their tax assess- mentis. The state school commission is bus¬ ily engaged considering some means for reducing the expenses of school books throughout the state. The ques. tion of uniformity is being discussed, but the commission refuses to give out their deliberations. 7 It is proba- ble, though, they will agree on a rec- ominendation of non-uniformity of text books. Dr. Payne, the state chemist, has just sent, a magnificent carload of Georgia wheat, oats and rye to Nash¬ ville for exhibition in the exhibit of this state in the agricultural building. The specimens wero among the finest, ever seen in this section, the rye being nearly nine feet, high aud the oats six. The wheat came from DeKalb county near Decatur, aud is of an exception¬ ally fine growth. This exhibit will take a stand in the front, rank of the agricultural products of the south. The members of the Blalqpk eom- mitt.ee have resumed their investiga¬ tions at the capitol. The committee has reopened the investigation corn- rneneed some weeks ago in the comp¬ troller general’s office and it is said that fresh data has been secured for tlie purpose of attacking the present methods employed in the issuing of licenses to insurance companies in Ibis state. The fact that the commit¬ tee saw fit to hold up its investigation on this matter fur several weeks and now begins on new lines, gives prom¬ ise of some sensational developments. The state fair is assured and Presi¬ dent Brown will call his committee to¬ gether in a few days to make final ar¬ rangements. Mr. Brown makes the following statement: “I think that the sum sufficient has been raised. The people of Atlanta have shown u dispo¬ sition to help, and this encourages the fair committee. I did not like the at¬ titude of the Atlanta people at first, but they have come to our aid and there now seems to bo no doubt but the fair will be held.” The regular meeting will of the State Agricultural Koei- efy bo held atTybee in August. * * * State Treasurer W. J. Speer has re¬ ceived notice from the treastuy de¬ partment of the United States that-a credit of $23,000 has been audited for Georgia on account of colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts. This is the annual payment which has been increasing $1,000 each year for eight years. This is part, of the fund the department of which Hon. Pope Brown’s committee is to investigate. The other part is the landscript fund of $17,000 per annum. Together they amount to $40,000, and constitute the bulk of the financial support of the state university. Several of the Georgia papers have been publishing statements to the effect that. Governor Atkinson Was op¬ posed to the plans of tlie state pliar mnceutieal board in spending the ap¬ propriation of $1,000 from the legisla¬ ture for analyzing aud preventing the sale of adulterated drugs. The gov¬ ernor was not sure the law granted the board the right to send out an in¬ spector as they wished and requested that he be not employed until the attorney general could ho consulted. The governor wishes it stated he is heartily in sympathy with any lawful plans tlie boat'd may have for the dis¬ position of tho money to good ad¬ vantage. A final order in the cases of the Central Trust Company of New York against the Marietta and North Geor¬ gia Railway Company and V. E. Me Bee against the Knoxville Southern railway was placed on record in the United States court at Knoxville, Tents., last Tuesday, whereby the receivers are. dismissed, the final payment having beon made on the road by the recent purchasers, the Atlanta,Knoxville and Northern Railway Company. The new owners have had possession of the property for some time and have al¬ ready made many substantial improve¬ ments. The road is 200 miles long, running between Knoxville, Tenn., and Marietta, and does a very heavy freight aud passenger business. MANY DEATHS IN ST. LOUIS. Fearful Heat Fontlnnes With No Kollef In Slight. A St. Louis dispatch says: Thurs¬ day was the eleventh day of 100 de¬ grees heat in St. Louis. By 3 o’clock in tho afternoon seven people had died from the heat, one man attempted sui¬ cide aud there were at least four out of tho many prostrations which will prove fatal. There is no relief in sight. It is a cool bedroom in which the temperature at night is lower than 92 degrees, and in consequence the vitality of the peo¬ ple is becoming exhausted.