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VOLUME XIX.
MERE!
Give me your attention a few minutes
and I will tell you something that will
cause you to think. This is the close of
MV NINTH SF" ' ON
in the MILLINERY BTTȣ^ _ j. nave always tried
every point to pleasi Cl®* - ^y. I have found that it did
not ]>ay to carry over a season’s stock of goods, and this
year I am compelled to offer the remainder of my Summer
stock at a sacrifice to get room for my fall goods. 1 have
everything that is up-to-date, such as laces, embroideries,
silks, ribbons, hats, baby caps, etc. All going at a -sacrifice.
My fall line will be handsome See my elegant fall line of
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ARLINGTON, GA.
WAS A CARICATURE.
Macon Paper’s Report So Termed by Hon.
DuPont Guerry.
’ An Albany special to the At¬
lanta Constitution says:
Hon. Dupont Guerry in a state¬
ment given for publication today
puts his friends and the impartial
public on notice “that they need
expect no fairness to him or jus¬
tice from the Macon Telegraph.”
Mr. Guerry spent this afternoon
in Albany en route from Pelham,
where he spoke yesterday, to his
home in Macon. While here he
was shown a copy of this morn¬
ing’s Macon Telegraph containing
a report of his address at Pelham.
The report stated that Mr. Guerry
referred to Col. Estill as “Mr. Dis¬
till,” and charged the Hon. Pope
Brown with having deserted the
people in arbitrating the tax val¬
uations of the Savannah, Florida
and Western Railway Company.
After reading the Telegraph’s re¬
port Mr. Guerry said for publica¬
tion :
“The report in today’s Macon
Telegraph of my speech at Pelham
yesterday is so unfair and errone¬
ous that I will not notice all of
jts misrepresentations, but out of
respect for Mr. Estill, Mr. Brown
and for myself I desire to make
two corrections. I did not refer
to Mr. Estill as 'Mr. Distill’ and
did not use the language attribu¬
ted to me about Mr. Brown in
connection with the undervalua¬
tion of the Savannah, Florida and
Western Railway Company. This
is simply a caricature of
my speech, and I notify friends
And the impartial public now that
they need expect no fairness nor
justice for me from the Macon
Telegraph.”
.Jack Winters, who robbed the
Selby Smeltering Works of San
Francisco of $280,000, has
confessed his guilt and
lias recovered $200,000 of the
amount from the bay where lie
thrown it. For his confes¬
sion and recovery of the gold he
was promised by the president of
the smeltering works that he
would not be prosecuted and that
he would receive a ransom of $25,-
000 in money. Winters had been
working on the robbery two or
three months. He is well paid
for his bold piece of work.
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GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 15. 1901.
SHARK TOOK OFF A LEG.
Thrilling Experience of a Naval Officer Offi¬
cially Reported.
The following special sent out
from Washington says:
Admiral Kempff has forwarded
to the navy department an official
report, thrilling in its details, cf
the biting off of a leg of Quarter¬
master C. McKie, third class, of
the gunboat Annapolis, by a shark
or other mammoth sea monster.
The Annapolis has been station¬
ed of late at. Iloilo, and on June
24 last a party was sent out for
rifle target practice. Commander
Rohrer, in charge of the Annapo¬
lis, states that permission was
given several of the men to go in
swimming, while others were en¬
gaged iu firing. Two of the men
had been in for some time when
McKie joined them and asked if
they had been able to touch bot¬
tom. Being answered in the neg¬
ative he made a dive and was gone
for several seconds. One of the
seamen says he heard a gurgling
sound beneath the water. A mo¬
ment later McKie appeared on the
water and shouted, “Shark!
Shark!” The surface of the wa¬
ter was covered with blood near
where he came up. McKie started
to swim and, though crippled,
reached the boat and was pulled
m by his companions. A horrible
sight met their eyes, the quarter¬
master’s leg having been bitten
off near the knee. With all dis¬
patch he was taken aboard the
Annapolis, where the surgeon
found it necessary to amputate
the limb between the knee and
hip. The surgeon in his report
states that while the accident was
not in line of duty it was incident
to the service. Admiral Kempff,
however, in endorsing the papers,
holds that as the quartermaster
had received permission from the
officer in charge to go in bathing
the accident occurred in the line
of duty. Under these circum¬
stances the crippled quartermas¬
ter will probably receive a pen¬
sion.
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NOW IN THE IUCE
ANNOUNCEHENT OF TURNER
A SIGNIFICANT ONE.
Apparently Places Him in the Race For Gov¬
ernorship. Hon. J. H. Estill Makes State¬
ment to Effect that He Will Not
Withdraw From the Race.
From Atlanta Constitution.
In a carefully worded but high¬
ly significant statement issued
yesterday to the press of the state
by Hon. Henry G. Turner, that
well known south Georgian all
but announces himself a candi¬
date in the gubernatorial lists
along with Hon. J. M. Terrell,
Hon. duPont Guerry, Hon. Pope
Brown and Hon. J. H. Estill.
While deprecating the condi¬
tion which has brought out can¬
didates for the governorship al¬
most a year before such announce¬
ments are ordinarily made, there
is no mistaking the language of
the well known Brooks county
citizen when he says:
“Here are the people of more
than thirty counties who, for
many years, through all the viscis-
situdes of a trying political era,
have given me their unwavering
confidence and support, I have
heard their cheers too often to be
indifferent to them now. Nat-
urally it would make me happy to
see all their aspiratiops gratified.
After full consideration by friends
and by me, it is not likely that I
will lightly or without good cause
decline their confidence.”
This apparent announcement
coming from Hon. Henry G. Tur¬
ner after a season of careful con¬
sideration on his part is accepted
by his friends as a definite assur¬
ance that he will enter the fight
as the champion of south Georgia.
If this conclusion be accurate,
south Georgia has accepted in
real earnest the oft-repeated state¬
ment that the next chief executive
should come from that section,
since Hon. Pope Brown and Hon.
J. Ii. Estill both hail from south
Georgia counties.
SOUTH GEORGIA SITUATION.
Coming on top of the announce¬
ment of Henry G. Turner and ad¬
ding double interest to the situa¬
tion in that section is the state¬
ment made by J. H. Estill, of
Chatham, to the effect that the
candidacy of Captain Turner will
in no way interfere with his race
for the nomination ; that he is in
the race to stay until the last.
Thus the situation revolves it¬
self more or less into ^ matter of
geography, and leaves the public
to judge in this way of the rela¬
tive strength of the three south
Georgians. Than the three coun¬
ties from which they hail—Chat¬
ham, Brooks and Pulaski—it
would be difficult to select three
that are further apart and yet
strictly in south Georgia. Chat¬
ham, the home of Hon. J. H.
Estill, is further east than any
county in Georgia. Brooks coun¬
ty, where Hon. Henry G. Turner
lives, is on the Florida line, while
Pulaski, from which Hon. J. Pope
Brown hails, is directly below the
tier of middle Georgia c'"’'“ •
and completes the triangle
formed with Brooks and Chatham.
Being as far apart as they are, the
strength of the candidate of one
of the counties need not conflict
with that of the others.
Tho other two candidates, Hon.
J. M. Terrell and Hon. DuPont
Guerry, do not claim south Geor-
gia as their habitation, and both
of them are looked upon as
“lines.”
No man is better known in the
southern part of the state than
Hon. Henry G. Turner. For a
number of terms he represented
the Eleventh district in congress,
aud before his successor, Mr.
Brantley, was elected, he retired,
at least for the time being, to
private life.
statement to the press.
The statement given to the press
on yesterday by Hon. Henry G.
Turner and which constitutes an
apparent announcement of his
candidacy for governor is as fol¬
lows :
Jt is well known, I suppose, that
for many months my name has
been mentioned by partial friends
for the gubernatorial nomination.
Being content with, the. ease and
independence of a private station,
I gave no encouragement to these
demonstrations of favor. Recent
events have greatly multiplied
these suggestions, both in the
press and in private letters.
My failure to make any state¬
ment to the public under these
new and sudden conditions must
not be attributed to indifference
or insensibility. The office of
governor is too high a one to be
sough pell-mell, and the precipi¬
tate and active contest on for that
dignified and responsible station
seemed to me hardly justifiable.
A campaign, ruging through all
the seasons and through some
seasons twice, would scarcely be
an unmixed boon. In a contest
involving the whole state, I deem¬
ed it not unwise to be assured of
the sentiment of the people in
other'sections. Such of couso I
thought due to the dignity of the
governor’s office, to my friends
and to myself. Much has been
said about general concession of
this nomination to the southern
portion of the state. Such gen-
erosity ought to impose on this
section the duty of presenting a
man who will be acceptable to
those who have made this conces-
sion, and to all the people of the
state.
I did not think that I ought to
hastily assume myself this very
high honor. For this good reason,
chiefly, I have been holding this
important matter under considera-
tion. But there is one considera-
tion which makes this reported
tender to the Wire Grass region
extremely gratifying to me. Here
are the people of more than thirty
counties, who, for many years,
through all the vicissitudes of a
trying political era, have given
me their unwavering confidence
and support. I have heard their
cheers too often to be indifferent
to them now. Naturally it would
make me happy to see all
aspirations gratified.
After full consideration
friends and by me, it is not
that I will lightly, or
good cause, decline their
dence.
HENRY G.
NUMBER 34.
A MIDNIGHT COURT.
Gamblers Tried and Fined at Dead of Night
at Indian Springs.
From the Atlanta New*.
A raid on a poker game at In¬
dian springs yesterday lias devel-
°P e d into the most sensational af¬
fair of the kind the state of Geor-
£ bl bas ever known, as well as one
^ be mos ^ interesting.
The fifteen men caught iu the
raid by the officers were allowed
continue the play until mid¬
night last night, when the table
was cleared of the chips and cards
an< ^ ^he gambling room converted
into a courtroom, after which the
j uc te e came in and tried the gam-
blers > winding up the proceedings
b y a88e88in 8 fines amounting to
$1,500.
Half a dozen of the men caught
in the raid were Atlanta men.
One of them was Robert Harris,
an employe of the Piedmont Turf
Exchange. Another was a liar-
tender here. Others came up from
Macon to get in the game, and
they, too, were caught.
The game started Sunday after¬
noon. Deputy Sheriff Ed Wells,
of Butts county, suddenly appear¬
ed in the doorway with two large
guns presented at the players.
“You are all under arrest,” he
announced.
“Don’t stop, boys,” the officer
hastily said. “Keep on playing
if you wish, but none of you had
better try to get away.”
Later, according to the story
Ropert Harris tells, the judge
eame in and looked on at the
game.
“You can play on until mid¬
night, boys,” he is alleged to have
said. “But at that hour I shall
bigin court. I would begin soon¬
er, but this is Sunday and 1 want
to wait until Monday morning.”
Promptly at midnight he called
his court to order. The gambling
outfit was soon out of sight.
Eleven of the fifteen men plead¬
ed guilty and were fined $100
each. Four gave bond and will
be tried later. The man who ran
the game was fined $600, it is
said.
Tom Watson the Father of it.
It is claimed that Hon. Thomas
E. Watson is the originator of the
rural free delivery of mails in this
country, says the Savannah News,
au d that his services as the
pioneer of this great step in
progress have been ignored, while
the credit was given wholly to
others who took up the work later
a nd pushed it to success, The
first small appropriation of $10,-
000 for this service was made in
1898, and it is said that Mr. Wat-
son pushed it through in the face
of ridicule: “Postmaster General
Bissell refused to obey the law.
At the instance of Hon. Charles
L. Moses, when Mr. Watson was
no longer in Congress, another
appropriation of $20,000 was vot¬
ed at the next session. Again
Bissell ignored the law. It was
only after Hon. W. L. Wilson he-
came Postmaster General that
the system was inaugurated—with
the success which is now appar-
ent.
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