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Calhoun County
ARLINGTON, GA.
Experiments made by German ph>-
slclsus have shown that about 25 per
<xfit. of nil school-children have some
defect In their hearing.
The work of the tropica! hurricane at
Galveston lias lmd the direst results
of any similar disaster In American
history, and will be recorded as one of
the* world’s great calamities.
The Canadian French arc said to
comprise over 23 pr cent, of the popu¬
lation of Rhode Island, and from 10
to 12 jx*r cent, of t he population of the
other New England states-
Consul-General Mason, at Berlin,
states that the Bavarian government
has experimented with American coal
upoii Bavarian railways and finds It
superior to German coal, but that the
price renders Its general use at pre¬
sent hardly possible.
A new law lu Massachusetts, to take
effect on January 1 next, prohibits the
use of arsenic In the manufacture of
paper or textile goods. The problem
of a substitute, therefore, is a matter
of serious consideration for the paper
manufacturers of the state.
The chemists have discovered that
the food value of cotton seed is much
greater than that of wheat. The mon¬
ey value of the products from this
standpoint per 100 pounds is as fl for
wheat to $1.39 for cotton seed oil. Af¬
ter the oil is expressed the residue
of the seed still has a great value in
the form of meal or cuke as a food
for cuttle.
In a report just issued by the United
States weather bureau on the thunder
stomis of 1899 It Is stated Unit the
wire clothesline was tin- cause of at
least a dozen deaths last year. That
number of women were struck by
lightning and killed while taking
clothes off’ the line. Professor Henry
says that a wire clothesline ought
never to lie permitted to come within
ott feet of a dwelling. Much less
should it be fastened to one corner of
the house, as Is commonly done.
lt Is said that the Japanese news-
paper reporter has reduced the Inter¬
viewing brunch of his profession to a
science. He wastes no time over
pleasant Introductory remarks when
assigned to interview a foreigner ar¬
riving In Japan, but proceeds at once
to catechise the victim, beginning with
questions us to the latter’s age, place
of birth, etc., and gradually wringing
from him the whole story of his life.
The final question, according to a re¬
cently returned traveler, Is generally
something like Ibis: “If anything of
Interest has ever befallen you upon
your travels at home or abroad, pleuse
give me full information now.”
Probably no modern discovery In
natural history has appeared inore
miraculous than the finding ol’ an ed¬
ible gum exuding from the bamboos of
Central India at a time when the peo-
pie arc suffering from their greatest
l'amine. This substance is pleasantly
sweet, occurs In white or brown stal-
nctlform rods about an Inch long, and
is found to consist mainly of sugar re-
luted to, if not Identical with cane
sugar. The strange appearance in the
bamboo forests was first made known
last March. The sugar differs from
the bamboo manna of history, which
is not a sugar, but a white, gritty
body occurring Inside the stem of the
plant, largely consisting of silica.
A recent Investigation made with
the purpose of discovering how a col¬
lege education affects the career of
women is said to have revealed that
three-fourths of the college girls marry
men who are also college graduates,
while only one-luilf of the non college
girls get husbands with a degree. An¬
other discovery was that 65 pu euit.
of the college women. 11s compared
with 37 per cent, of the non-college
women, marry what are call ul profes-
sionul men. This is not quite the
satne us saying that the learned ,<is
terhood secure more than their pro¬
portional share of the best husbands,
for there are no statistics at (nival to
prove that professional men, as hus¬
bands. are better than other nun. but
the showing for the college girl is
certainly impressive In its way. Tro
way. however, is open to nij.v than
one Interpretation.
Couiiinartial For Captain Hall.
The navy department has directed
Admiral Remey, at Cavite, to convene
a court of inquiry to inquire into the
charge of cowardice against Captain
Hall, United States marines, preferred
bv Minister Conger at Pekin.
BY THE STREAM.
The sunlight steal* between the leaves
And flickers on the stream;
The little minnows dart about
Like shadows in a dream.
.
' Bevond the shade the clover-field
Is quivering with the heat,
j But here the children’s water ripples feet. cool
About the
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The leaves stir softly overhead:
The shadows verge toward noon.
And they will have to leave their play
And go to dinner soon.
—Katharine Pyle, in Harper's Bazar.
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J A MIDSUMMER DAY'S DREAM. %
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#*■ Ity Marian C. X.. Keoven. *
4. to
¥ ADGE started violently as
her eyes fell on the pic¬
ture, well placed in the
gallery, to catch the eye
even of a careless passer-by.
To catch It, and to hold It, with Its
warmth and depth of coloring and its
quaint tone, like that of a Valkg-Lled.
“Nt. John’s Eve In Norway.”
Madge would have known it at a
glance, without that label 011 it.
For an Instant she stood staring.
Then, rather that her limbs failed
under her than that she desired to sit
down opposite the picture, she dropped
upon the bench before it, her some¬
what shabbily gloved hands folded
on her lap.
Her dress was a little shabby, too.
The long, black mourning veil tluug
about her limply, as she pushed it
back out of her way.
To any passer-by she might seem
but one of the crowd in the Corcoran
Gallery on this free day.
But Madge, the real Madge, was not
here at all. She was yonder in the
picture, in the midsummer night in
the midst of the St. John’s Eve pro¬
cession.
A year ago. Was It only a year
ago?—it seemed a lifetime, back Into
that happy Wauderjahr which ended
so abruptly.
It was on the homeward passage to
America that her father had died,
suddenly, of heart failure, It was said.
But Madge knew lie had gotten ids
death blow from the latest American
paper which the pilot brought on
board as they entered the bay, a pa¬
per lightly opened, and which con¬
tained latest particulars of the great
i >an ie failure, sweeping clean away the
' fortune he had
meant to leave his
child.
“A beggar”—-Madge, bonding over
him, bad caught that last faint word
upon his lips. “A beggar-”
Madge straightened herself and
knotted her hands about the little
black silk bag which had carried her
lunch 11lls morning to the office, and
which was now bringing back in its
mouth a bunch of field daisies bought
from a street boy on the way up town.
A beggar?—no. but never farther re¬
moved from that than since she had
become a worker.
But that Wauderjahr, in which her
only work had seemed to be to work
out her own happiness.
The glamour of it was in her eyes,
gazing back into the picture. How
like one valley to another, sunk among
those Scandinavian mountains. It
might have been tills very one, into
which she and her party had descend¬
ed, drenched with a sudden cloudburst
on the mountain top. There was noth¬
ing for it but to borrow peasant cos¬
tumes nt the friendly guard below;
and a bright color flushes up Madge’s
face now as she feels again the eyes
of the artist of the party upon her,
as, with the farmer’s daughter, the
three girls traveling together come
out, and for a moment fall into line
with the St. John’s Eve dancers troop-
1 ing there from the neighboring vil¬
1 lage.
8he remembers it all; the artist’s
eyes, ns be looked on; the speedy de-
lection of the three make-believe vil-
| lage girls; the merry stirs, the laugh-
j tor and light repartee among the tour¬
ists; the gay village music; the farm¬
house glowing in the- background, its
h'h chimney ending iu a cross, built
high against the sky.
How like, how like It was!
But Madge’s thought broke off with
a gasp.
In one of (hose faces, half turned
toward her, she had recognized bin-
own, as In a looking glass.
How well—too well—she remem-
be red! The artist's eyes; no words
of his. Few words had passed be¬
tween them, indeed, though for three
weeks they had been meeting almost
daily.
Over those uncrowded routes the
ways of sight-seers are apt to cross
and re-cross; us had theirs from the
time when, with an apology, he put
an extra rug across her lap in the
weird day-night when she sat on the
deck of tlie stout citast steamer, watch¬
ing for the midnight sun off Norway,
to that Eve of St. John, that midsum¬
mer eve, which ended it all. For while
Madge slept in the queer little nest
under the eaves, and dreamed her
strange, bright, confused, little, inno-
cent midsummer night's dream, in
which fairies’ and peasants’ dances
were intertwined in TItania’s train,and
the artist was Lysander standing
apart, looking on at It all, with his
hands in his pockets and a cigar in
his mouth, and that in his eyes.
Madge’s color was flickering up Into
her weary face again at that memory,
and then it faded out; for while she
slept her father had been revising his
plans for further travel. That unlucky
meeting on the mountain had damp¬
ened ids desire for northern travel. The
next morning (when the artist had gone
forward, with the tacit understanding
that at the foot of a certain famous
waterfall, deep in the mountain fast¬
ness, one might very well meet mid¬
summer friends again) over a rather
late breakfast her father unfolded his
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new arrangement to Madge. They
would Retrace their way, and take the
returning steamer on the morrow; and
after all return home to America a
little earlier. “Ater all. there Is noth-
Ing much better than the home moun-
tains and seashore for the summer
weather, Is there? And then,
hail h.™ „„ IW
fur poor tittle 'latte. Her .ter, -vaa
finished, she told herself.
And, indeed It had been so very lit-
tie of a story! Just a mere hint of a
Sketeh (hat might have been made
If she could have told her father!
But what could she have told her
father? r hat she wanted to climb and
climb along tin- rough wild moun-
tain ways, in the* wake of a man who
had flung a spare rug across her knees
In a bleak midnight sea wind; who
lmd caught her once staggering on a
slippery, rolling deck; who lmd
Plucked a hit of mountain moss for her
on the edge of an abyss; who had stood
apart on a midsummer eve, on the edge
of a village dance, with a cigar iu his
mouth, and his eyes—
Madge put a hasty hand across her
eyes, shutting out the picture. What
had she to do with pictures like that?
lain dreams! Her part was not with
dreaming, but with work-a-day real-
1\ ell, well, „ she , w ould ,, go home. Al- ,
though her home was a back build-
ing room, and no one waiting for her
lu
She rose the more sloyly for the
thought. She was turning toward the
door of the main entrance, when sud-
denly—was it with that strange sense
of being watched, that sometimes
moves one?—she turned around. And
in his eyes—in his eyes the same look
she remembered.
While she stood motionless, he came
up, and before she had recovered
breatli, was shaking hands with her,
qulte ns though they had met Iasi
week. Instead of last year.
But she saw him glance quickly at
her mourning veil, which she gathered
about her, her nervous hand strok-
ing its folds.
‘‘I came to see the pictures,” she
said, with an effort at ease. “I did
not expect to see a--”
”x4n old friend,” he said promptly,
filling up her slightest hesitation. “But
I did.”
“You?”
“I came to see you,” he said, nod¬
ding at. tiio picture. “I tried iu vain
to find you. So I was obliged to call
you up there,to my own eye and yours.
No stranger would recognize you. I
took enre of that. But I had, at least,
a forlorn hope that it might prove a
clue. Every one sooner or later comes
to Washington, you know, And sc
it has.”
“A forlorn hope, indeed,” she said,
with the ghost of a little laugh, sad¬
der thau tears. ‘‘It is a pity it did
not fail you. We were all so merry
and happy that midsummer night.”
• When 1 dreamed a dream,” he said,.
“that is just beginning to come true.”
lie drew her hand, with its little,
worn, black glove, gently in his arm.
“You won’t vanish so suddenly
ngaiu like the vision of a dream?” lit
said. At least, you will let me take
you home? •
£?lie did not answer at once, and he
said, quickly;
“Pardon me; but it is a year and
three weeks for me since I have
known you. I forget that it is not
the same tiling to you. You must not
lie angry with me if I bog that you
will sometimes let me see you at your
home.”
She stroked again the folds of her
veil, with a hand that trembled.
“I have no home. 1—1 have noth¬
ing.”
It was his voice that trembled.
“Nothing but an old l’rieud,” lie said;
“an old friend of a year and three
weeks.”
That was his plea, with a slight al¬
teration a little later.
“Wo have been friends for a year
and four weeks,” lie said. “How much
longer do we need to wait to know
each other better? I knew you,
Madge, the first time that I looked
into your houcst eyes. Why should
we wait? Let me take all my life
to make you know, better and bet¬
ter, how I love and cherish and-”
“Obey?” areldy.
“Obey my wife, when she bids me
have my way—as she will now.”—
Waverley Magazine.
Civilization and “Ads.”
The tendency of people to make use
of the advertising columns of newspa-
pers is a result of the progress of civ-
illzation. Even the woman who wants
a servant no longer h:\ugs over the
back fence to ask the housemaid next
door to find one for her, but adver-
tises her need. The time is coming
when a business establishment of any
kind that shall not consider the con¬
venience of the public enough to use
the advertising columns of newspapers
will be regarded as belonging to the
old horse-car period.—Mexican Her¬
ald.
Clock of Tree Graces.
Count Isaac de Comondo is the own-
er of a white marble dock, which is
ed to be worth $250,000. It is called
the “Clock of the Three Graces.” The
graces are connected by festoons of
flowers, surrounding a broken fluted
pillar, which serves as the base of a
two-handled vase decorated with fes-
toons of oak leaves. This vase con-
tains the works of the clock, to the
dial of which one of the nymphs is
pointing with hor finger.—Kansas City
Journal.
Soldiers XVI10 Don’t Drink.
In three British regiments—the Black
Watch, the Argyll and Sutherland
Highlanders aud the Queen's Royal
West Surrey Regiment—over half the
men are total abstainers.
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Nomination. ,‘ Confirm.*^
v conttrmed
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J * and ^oliStoi sent in by the
g °R T°Ca8tellow, county court
judge
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^emO^sLn. solicitor city court of
D K iu Coffee couuty.
pi chard Hobb ju(1 city court
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Wi!coXj BO l ic itor county court
t x? v \
N< j Norm solicitor county court
()f J f puberty
w . Williams, judge city court
TattnftU count [
p P . Long 6 e y, J judge J city court of
jjaGrange
W , T Tuggle, solicitor city court of
LaGrange j'
hu p Cheatfie i d) j udge county
oourt of WilkitlRoa CO unty.
w F Eve j u d ge city court of
Klchmond county .
D. L. Henderson, judge of the
county court of Dooly county,
w . M , Weaver, judge of the county
court Greane.
P. P, Profitt, judge city court of
Elberton
P _ N> R am sey, judge county court
G f Jefferson.
Robert U. Hardeman, solicitor coun-
ty courti of Jefferson,
J ame8 P Clements, judge of county
court of Irwin.
R. W , Roberts, judge of the county
court of Bahlwiu.
The senate also confirmed the fol-
lowing as trustees of the State Uni-
versify;
Clark Howell, for the state at large.
A. O. Bacon, Sixth congressional
district.
D. B. Hamilton, Seventh district,
May Repeal Dog Law.
The dog law fight is to be revived.
Two bills were introduced in the house
Monday morning to repeal the cele¬
brated dog law of“Dewesof Randolph,”
passed at the last session of the legis¬
lature.
These bills were introduced by
j Foster of Floyd and Stewart of Cal¬
houn. They provide for the uncondi¬
; tional repeal of the present law, which
| becomes operative in any county of
the state upon the grand jury recom-
j 1 mending its adoption.
The law is very popular in some
| sec ti ons 0 f the state and very unpopu¬
j lar in others. These bills will pre¬
cipitate one of the warmest fights of
the session.
Five Contests on File.
Clerk Boifeuil]et received Monday /
morni auother uotice of contest ov r
a hou90 8eat maki * fiye colltests in
ftU tbat tbat bod ' m be caUed upon
to deoide at this e88 ion. The latest
| notice received wa8 from W . A . Buch-
auaD> who contests the seat, of Repre-
sentative C. R. Narramore, of Early,
The other contests, of which notice
] lag a i ready been received, are as fol-
lows;
W. E. Mann, who contests the seat
of Representative W. II. Yates, of
Catoosa.
A. Wilson, who contests the seat of
Representative E. J. Stafford, of Cam¬
den.
Henry J. Strickland, who contests
the seat of Representative Calvin
Thomas, of Pierce.
Thomas A. Brown, who contests the
seat of A. S. J. Hall, of Fannin.
All notices of contests will first go
to the committee on contested elec¬
tions as soon as that committee is ap¬
pointed by Speaker Little.
Will Tackle Income Tax.
Efforts will be made at the present
session of the legislature to pass an
income tax law for Georgia, similar in
its provisions to the late federal in¬
come tax law. Such a bill will proba¬
bly be introduced by the chairman of
the appropriations committee, who will
be Colonel Ed Wight, of Dougherty.
It will come as a part of the general
j tax will act, and the indications are that it
pass.
To Limit Taxing Power.
Senator Chappell laid before the
senate Tuesday his scheme to limit the
taxing power of the legislature. His
bill provides that after January, 1905,
it shall be unlawful for the general
assembly to impose a tax exceeding
1 five-tenths of one per cent, The bill
provides that the question shall be sub¬
; mitted to the people at the next geu-
eral election,
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Test Vote on Terminal.
A test of strength on the Atlanta de¬
pot bill was made in the bouse Tues¬
day morning, and the friends of the
depot bill came out with flying colors,
notwithstanding the strenuous effort of *
Mr. Hall, of Bibb, to stem the tide,
The vote was 72 to 48. This was on
the King substitute to Senator Allen’s
resolution to appoint a joint committee
of seven from the senate aud ten from
the house to consider all questions af-
fecting the depot problem. The King
8nb stitute made this committee a
standing one, and conferred upon it
tke power to send for men and papers,
take ora l testimony and report in
writing ° their findings.
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A Good Bill.
Mr. Park of Green introduced a
measure providing for the admission
of females to the textile department of
the school of Technology. The devel-
opment in cotton mill building in
Georgia for the past few years has
made this step imperative, and opera-
tives in these mills will be in great de¬
mand in the near future.
Wants Negroes to Pay.
The senator from the 39th district,
Mr. Bell, is the father of a proposition
to make the negro pay for the educa¬
tion he gets. He sent in a bill Tues¬
day morning forbidding the appropria¬
tion of any taxes to the education of
the negro except those paii by per¬
sons of his own color.
Constitutional Convention.
A bill was introduced by Mr. Ellis
in the senate Tuesday morning to hold
a constitutional convention on the
fourth Monday in July, 1901. The
bill provides tbat the election of mem¬
bers to the convention shall be held
on the first Wednesday of the same
month. This aetion ha3 been antici¬
pated for some time.
ANNUAL REPORT
Of Chief Engineer Wilson, Giving
Estimates For River and Har¬
bor limprovements In South.
A Washington special says: The im¬
portant subject of coast defense is the
first consideration in the annual re-
port of General J. M. Wilson, chief of
engineers. Generally speaking he re¬
ports most gratifying progress iu the
execution of the various projects during
the last fiscal year. Because the re¬
port included the fiscal year only, the
subject of the destruction of the Gal¬
veston defenses by the September hur¬
ricane is left for treatment in a subse¬
quent report.
The estimates above $25,000 for the
river and harbor work next year in the
south are as follows;
Inland waterway from Chincoteague
bay, Virginia, to Delaware bay, $60,-
000; Patapsco river and channel to
Baltimore, $522,362.
Harbor,southeast Baltimore,$80,000.
Potomac river,Washington,$200,000.
Potomac, below Washington, $80,-
400.
Rappahannock river, Virginia,
$25,000.
James river, Virginia, $390,000.
Norfolk harbor,Virginia, $56,700.
Waterway from Norfolk, Va., to the
sounds of North Carolina, $29,870.
Pamlico and Tar rivers, North Car¬
olina, $32,500.
Cape Fear river, above Wilmington,
N. C., $25,000.
Cape Fear liver, at and below Wil¬
mington, N. C., $.200,000.
Wiuyah bay, South Carolina, $525,-
000 .
Santee river, South Carolina, $38,-
000 .
Congaree river, South Carolina, Co¬
lumbia to Granby,. $50,000.
Charleston harbor, $50,000.
Savannah harbor, Georgia, $50,000.
Savannah river, Georgia, $100,000.
Doboy bar, Georgia, $30,000.
Altatnaha river, Georgia, $26,000.
Ocmulgee river, Georgia, $40,000.
Cumberland sound, Georgia and
Florida, $400,000.
St. Johns, river, Florida, $400,000.
St. Johns river, at Orange mills
flats Florida, $40,000.
Key West harbor, Florida, $100,000.
Sarasota river, Florida, $37,500.
Tampa bay, Florida, $137,000.
Hillsboro bay, Florida, $175,000.
Apalachicola bay, Florida, $41,000.
Flint river, Georgia, $300,000.
Chattahoochee river, Georgia and
Alabama, below Columbus, $80,000.
Pensacola barbor, Florida, $180,000.
Coosa river, between Rome, Ga.,
and the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia railroad, $450,000.
Coosa river, between the East Ten¬
nessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad
bridge and Wetumpka, $35,000.
Mobile harbor, Alabama, $350,000.
Black Warrior river, Alabama, $53,-
676.
Warrior and Tombigbee rivers,
$255,000.
Tombigbee river, from its mouth to
Demopolis, $200,000.
HOVVELL TRIAL BEGINS.
Indicted For Alleged Embezzlement of
A. and W. P. Railway Funds.
The case of Albert Howell, Sr., in¬
dicted for alleged embezzlement of
$30,816 from the Atlanta and W T est
Point railway, was taken up in Atlanta
Monday morning. The defendant filed
through his attorneys a demurrer to
the indictment.
The first paragraph alleges that the
charge of conspiracy between Mr.
Howell and Thomas J. Hunter is
barred by the statute of limitations
and should be stricken.
The second paragraph says that the
oourt in the indictment does not with
sufficient particularity set out the sum
charged to be embezzled within the
statute of limitations, the indictment
alleging the embezzlement of a certain
sum, part of which was without the
statute of limitations.
Judge Candler overruled the objec-
tion and ordered the trial to proceed.
Some difficulty was experienced in
getting a jury, each side being ex-
ceedingly careful in regard to qualifi¬
cations.
Mr. Howell did not appear to be in
as good health as usual. He pleaded
not guilty.
It will be remembered tbat Thomas
J. Hunter, co-jointly indicted with
Mr. Howell, was sentenced to five
years’ imprisonment on April 27th,
1900.
Captain Hall to Be Courtmartiaied.
The navy department has directed
Admiral Remey, at Cavite, to convene
a court of inquiry to inquire into the
charge of cowardice against Captain
Hall, United States marines, preferred
by Minister Conger at Pekin.
FAMILY TRAGEDY.
Farmer Wilson Slays His Son-In-
Law Through /Tedium of a
Double-Barreled Shotgun.
Thursday morning about 10 o’clock
Wiley F. Wilcoxon, a farmer living
seven miles west of Eatonton.Ga., shot
C. C. Flowers, his son-in-law, killing
him instantly. Wilcoxon used a shot
gun, filing both loads, but only one
took effect, in the left side of Flowers.
Flowers has been living on Wilcox-
on’s place for several years, managing
the affairs of the farm and bearing the
brunt of the burden.
The killing was the result of a se¬
rious misunderstanding the two men.
had a year ago or more ago, which, at
the time, so Wilcoxon says, necessi¬
tated his giving up home and family
and seekiug peace elsewhere. After
being absent some time he returned
several months ago, where he resided,
apparently contented, until the terri¬
ble tragedy which transpired Thurs¬
day morning.
It appears that Wilcoxon borrowed
Flower’s gun to go hunting. After
questioning particularly as to the
manipulation of the gun, it being a
breech-loader, and about the character
of the cartridges with which it was
loaded, he turned and walked away,
ostensibly to go hunting. When
twenty-five or thirty feet distant, he
suddenly, and without provocation, contends
turned and emptied the gun’s
into the side of Flowers, who was still
standing in the kitchen door.
The deceased leaves a wife to mourn
his untimely end. Wilcoxon was a
confederate soldier, serving through
the entire war iu the Third Georgia
regiment. After the tragedy he was
arrested.
GERMANS ARE RELENTLESS.
They Show No Quarter to Chinese
Who Fall Into Their Hands.
Considerable impatience at the mea¬
gerness of the news from China is
finding expression in Berlin. The in¬
ference is that German censorship
over such information is very strict.
Letters from privates in China began
to llnd their way into the Social Dem¬
ocratic papers showing that the Ger¬
man troops give no quarter. The
Bremen Buerger Zeitung publishes a
letter from a soldier in Pekin, who
said he witnessed the following scenes:
. “Sixty-eight captives, some of them
not yet adults, were tied together by
their pig tails, compelled to dig their
own graves and shot en masse - ”
Halberstadter-Volke-Zeitnng (
The
prints a communication from Pekin,
in which the writer says:
‘‘No prisoners are taken. All are
shot, or preferably, sabered to save
ammunition. On Sunday afternoon
we had to bayonet seventy-four pris¬
oners. They had killed one of our
patrolmen. An entire battalion pur¬
sued them and captured seventy-four
alive. It was cruel. It was inde¬
scribable.”
SHOT HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW.
Hammond, Enraged, Empties Con¬
tents of Gun Into Wall’s Body.
Thursday afternoon Jim Hammonc^
shot and killed Thomas J. Wall, a
few miles below Elberton, Ga. The
shooting occurred near Wall’s home.
Full details have not been learned,
but from the best information it seems
that Wall was beating a negro tenant.
Mrs. Wall, his wife, tried to stop him,
and failed. She sent for her brother,
Jim Hammond, who came, and re¬
monstrated with Wall.
This seems to have angered Wall,
and he made a rush at him. Ham¬
mond ran and was followed part of
the way by Wall. Hamnnnd went to
a neighbor’s, where he secured a shot¬
gun. He then returned and met Wall,
who shot at him, but missed him.
Hammond then shot Wall, the entire
load entering the left eye, killing him
instantly.
Both men belong to good families,
and were brothers-in-law. Wall leaves
a wife and several children. Ham¬
mond has not been arrested. Wall
was constable of his district.
Status of Public Debt.
The statement of the public debt
shows at the close of business October
31, 1900, the debt less cash in the
treasury amounted to $1,104,402,320,
a decrease as compared with last
month of $1,573,351.
HOWELL PLEADS CHJ1LTY.
Embezzlement Charge Reduced to
Misdemeanor and Case Settled.
Col. Albert Howell, Sr., plead guilty
Tuesday to a misdemeanor in Judge
Candler’s court in Atlanta. Solicitor
Hill consented to a plea of guilty on
condition the offense should be treated
as a misdemeanor. Judge Candler
can use his discretion in sentencing
the prisoner.
Solicitor Hill, in speaking of the
case after the verdict had been render¬
ed, said to a reporter that the fact that
Mr. Howell had not followed Hunter’s
example in running away, and had
made good the shortage had mitigated
in the prisoner’s favor.
LAWMAKERS IN “FRACAS.”
Fight Takes Place on Train and Knife
Does Bloody Work.
Wednesday night’s special train
from Atlanta carrying legislators and
stopped senators t Forsyth, state fair at Taldosta,
a and while waiting
for a freight train to pa^s Senator
Canu, from west Georgia, seriously
cut and stabbed Representative Har¬
din, of Wilkes county, in a row on a
car of the special.