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Senate and Hocse Rush Through
Last Honrs of Congress.
CONTINUOUS LEGISLATIVE DAY
Both Houses Convened Sunday
Afternoon and Keep Up Brisk
Business All Night.
The first Sabbath session of the
fifty-sixth congress was held by the
senate Sunday afternoon. It will not
appear in The Congressional Record
as a session of Sunday, as the senate
was working under the legislative day
of Saturday. The day’s session- began
at 3 o’clock, the senate having been in
recess since 10:30 o’clock Saturday
night. The galleries were packed
with people who were in the city to
attend the inauguration ceremonies. confer
After ajspirited fight, both m
•ence ana on the floor of the senate,
tbe final conference report on the
naval appropriation bill was agreed to,
the aenate receding from the one con
tested amendment authorizing the con
stroclion of three additional submarine
torpedo boats.
A conference report on the general
deficiency bill was agreed to. Ihe
senate passed a large number of bills,
among them being that to promote the
safety of railway employees.
IS THE HOUSE.
The house I.J which was still in the
.< Friday, ... fr^S
afternoon°and £ tke°«™nin|!
.crowded in upon it
Everybody ollv was at high tension, ana
U lt ° nly required 4o sensational a spark to create such a
scene. incidents
»s usually occur during the closing
hours, had occurred up to midnight,
The galleries were packed all day and
trening with inauguration visitors.
JESUP. GEORGIA. FRIDAY. MARCH 8, \m.
The confusion on the floor, with speak
er’s gavel going incessantly to preserve
a semblance of order, must have made
the proceedings unintelligible to them.
There was a big fight during the af¬
ternoon over the senate amendment to
the sundry civil bill, which linked to¬
gether the fate of the St. Louis, Buf¬
falo and Charleston exposition appro¬
priations, Mr. Cannon, chairman of
the appropriations committee, led the
fight against them and defeated a mo¬
tion to concur.
A resolution to appoint a special
committee of seven members to visit
Porto Rico, Cuba and the'Philippines
and report upon conditions raised the
cry of “junketing trip,” and was din
cussed at intervals while conference
reports were not before the house.
SOLICITOR SUICiDES.
Hon. Hope Polhill, of Macon, Ga.,
Circuit, Puts a Bullet Through
His Brain.
Hon. Hope Polhill, solicitor general
of the Macon, Ga., circuit, was found
dead in his office on the second floor
of tbe CO urthonse in Macon, Saturday
morning at 5.39 o’clock. He com
mitt€( j gn j c ide some time Friday night
8hooting himself through the brain
pistol. He was seated in a re
volving cba i r a t his desk when he fired
thg fata2 gbot
The c b air with Mr. Polhill in it,
, the floor and
to led backward upon
^ p 0 jbjjp B body was in the chair
an d the back of his head and shoul
n the floor> where he was
{ouad> Hia head reB ted in a large pool
^ blood) wb i c h had flowed from the
• to j gbot wound near the right tern
pie. been in ill health I
Mr Polhill had
lately L.t and was evidently laboring « un- j
d„ de.p.ada.cy to
dlfpo.Uion, «»d no one auppoaed li.
wife and y oung baby.__ — “ , -
King Edward Back in London. j
King Edward arrived in London !
Sunday evening from his visit to Ger
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many.
There are no fewer than 250,000 ha
Ritual criminals in the United States. ;
FATHER AND SON ARRESIED.
Young Man Charged With Hur
der of His flother and Husband
Held as Accessory.
Charged with the murder of his
mother, Arthur R. Foote, a youth
nineteen years of age, was arrested in
Atlanta, Ga., Saturday morning on a
telegram from Bessemer, Ala.
At the same time news was received
from Birmingham that the father of
the boy, Charles A. Foote, was in
jail there, charged with being acces¬
sory to the crime.
The following is the telegram re¬
ceived from Birmingham:
“Mrs. Charles A. Foote, the wife of
a respectable mechanic living in a
modest and comfortable home at Bes¬
semer, twelve miles south of here,was
foully murdered ten days ago, while
working on some sewing for small
children. A big case knife was used,
and the assault was horrible. The
woman was found lying in a pool of
her own blood by one of her daughters
returning from school, and the knife
was under her body. An alarm was
pLople^ere attfacted Membe^o^
the family were not willing for an ex
tensive parading of the story, and an
impression was given out that it might
be a case of suicide wls
‘.iCoroner Paris summoned. and
taking in the situation at once, empnn
neled a jury to investigate the affair.
Mr. Foote, the husband and Arthui
Foote, the eldest son of the woman,
carried the remains to Atlanta for in¬
terment, and the elder Foote returned
to Bessemer a few days later,
The'coroner’s jury for the first few
days were not satisfied that the death
was not a case of murder, though the
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*ooto h«l aever.l hood,ad dollar, id
.< Evidence b l ame more ’ tangib i e
“ B( d j lat «f ”« the W returned 0 a ver
dtet that the woman came to her death
by foul means, and her son was ao
bused of her murder. Her husband
was accused of being an accessory to
the crime and brought to Birmingham
to the county jail.”
ARTHUR FOOTE’s STORY.
Arthur Foote was seen by a reporter
in the Atlanta city prison shortly after
his arrest. He was sitting disconso
latly on the side of a small iron bunk.
He sa ig he was nineteen years old.
»i ( ] 0 not like to talk about it to
adybody,” he said. “I am not guilty.
You can say that for me. It is enough
that my mother should have been mur
dered without having me humiliated
and disgraced by being charged with
the crime. I will tell my whole story
to you, and I hope you will treat me
as kindly as you can.”
He straightened himself up and
continued:
“I was the last member of the family
to see my poor mother alive. My
father left to go to his work, and my
little sister went to school. I saw
mother sitting near a table in the kitch
en, and she was lively and appeared
to he better than she had wfththVIri/ heen in man v
davs days. »ne She had naa teenill been in witn tnc g p,
and was complaining for two or three
weeks. I believe she was sewing, or
she might have been washing dishes.
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Then I went to a butcher pen;
tbere ^en somebody rode up in
a aad sald that 1 would hare to
«° h °.“ e a ‘ OD ee ' as “T. moth( ! r Wa “
vel T He did , not tell me she was
dead > and 1 did no ‘ kno \? u “ td \
that my little sister had come home
from school and had found our mother
murdered in the kitchen. The news
was a terrible shock to me. They
would not allow-me to view the body.
“I came to Georgia to attend the fu¬
neral, and I and my father and sister
were in Atlanta a few days last week.
My uncle kept my sister with him and
persuaded me to remain here. I se¬
cured a position with Mr. Baer, of the
Atlanta meat market, and was doing
I was charged with killing my mother.
It is all like some horrible dream to
me. I am innocent, as innocent as an
angel in heaven, and I shall not rest
until I know why it is they have ac¬
cused me of such an awful crime.”
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Plant System.
PASSENGER SCHEDULES.
Arrivals and Departures at Jesup, Ga.
Departures. In Effect Oct. 1, 1900. Arrivals.
__ and Prom Savannah and points North, East
For Savannah and points North, East Northeast.
Northeast. and
Train No. IG Leaves 8 33 am Train No. 23 Arrives 5 15 a in
“ “ “ 5 20 p m 53 6 3-lam
11 23 a m 35 V 40 a m
,, ,< jjg <■ 10 45 p m 33 15 6 4 45 44 p uv m
78 11 2u p m p
For Way cross and points South, West, From Waycross and points South, West,
Southwest and Northwest. Southwest and Northwest.
Train No. 23 Leaves........ 5 3oam Train No. 16 Arrives .... . 8 20 a m
« <■ 53 “ 6 34 a m “ “22 “ .... . 5 20 p m
“ “32 “ .... .11 23 am
„ .• .< 4 44 pm “ “36 “ .... 10 45 p m
•< « 15 “ 7 00pm “ 78 , 11 20 p m
pSTjacksonville and points South? From Jacksonville and points South.
Train No. 13 Leaves ........ 5 30 a m Train No. 14 Arrives........10 46 p m
Solid train Cincinnati to Jacksonville. Holid train Jacksonville to Cincinnati.
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All trains run daily, with U. S. Mail Steamship of Peninsular and Oeci
Connection made at Port Tampa Havana, leaving Port Tampa Mondays, Ttmrs
dental Steamship Line for Key West and
d and Satur( i ayB at ll p. m.
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