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News VOL. IV. * 0TT & JON TT:s JU a a i a 9 WE HAVE 50 HEAD OF HOLES AND HORSES ON HAN SALE. i We can suit you with almost any kind of Mule of Horse you may want at satisfactory prices. We would be pleased to have you call and examine our stock. OUR STABLES ARE BACK OF JONES & THOMAS’ WA60N A ezr I mm W cross, mm rrisr'ir 1 lirV iirAm/ W lll\k J,vnl/Al A V * llu *■ " v,av “ w 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 J 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 - ri.t.SZ, SE *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. x 1 io , } ,. A . b ? rgood , , b * e and . to a T 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.” NO. 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. _ All trains run daily, with U. S. 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