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VOL. IV.
LOTT & J X Wl > 1 V
i Georgia.
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W cross, Georgia.
CUBANS SECRETLY ARMING.
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Vu-hentic* ilteport Says Rebellion Is Be¬
ing Outranized Against Uncle Sam.
News, .reaches, Jacksonville, Fla.,
ihat is absolutely authentic authority
that a rebellion is being organized in
Cuba to take up arms against the
United States..
This is as a result of the feeling
inee the recent formal position of the
4 >vernmeut, from
This information comes a mem¬
ber of Mayor Bowden’s family, who is
, resident of^Cuba, and he asserts of
his own knowledge that the extreme
,dement is greatly in the majority and
that they are today secretly preparing
for war and are making heavy pur
.bases of arms and ammunition.
national bank looted.
Defalcation 1« Shown By Receiver To Be
Approxlinitely *150,000.
The comptroller of the, currency at
Washington has,'* ’’ received from the
temporary receive* ' of the. failed First
National bank of S iles, Mich., a pre
liminary statement showing that the
amount of the defalcation will be ap¬
proximately *150,000, which had been
covered up by forged loans and dis¬
counts.
STRIKE WOULD BE WELCOMED.
Certain Coal Operator* Anxlou* to Have
It Oat Witfa the Miner*.
A Philadelphia dispatch says: It is
no longer a secret that a strike of the
anthracite coal miners on April 1st, as
threatened by President Mitchell, of
the United Mine Workers, would not
be looked upon as a calamity by cer¬
tain operators. If the views and de¬
sires of these officials are respected the
question of a fight to a finish is up to
President Mitchell.
UNCLE SAM AND BOERS.
TUI* Government May Shortly Fretcrlb©
Status of Afrieau Itepublic.
A Washington special says: The
status of the Transvaal'and Orange
Free State in the eye of the govern¬
ment of the United States probably
will be for the first time fixed when a
consul general is sent out to Pretoria.
It is said that so far there has
absolutely no official declaration on
that point.
County N ews.
JESUP. GEORGIA. FRIDAY. MARCH 2*2. 1901.
KENTUCKY TOWN BURNED.
Krery Business House Destroyed and Half
The Population Homeless.
In the biting air of the early morn
ing hours of Thursday the citizens of
Cloverport, Ky., looked on, almost
powerless to act. while fire destroyed
*500,000 worth of property and left
1,000 persons—half the population—
homeless. Every business house was
burned and the distress of hundreds
of women and children was relieved
only when trains loaded with supplies
arrived from Louisville and Hender
son.
ENGINE BOILER EXPLODED.
Three Men Killed In Peculiar Accident or
Lehigh Valley Road.
The boiler of engine No. 633, on the
Lehigh Valley railroad, exploded
Wednesday , , . while ... the ,, .
morning engine
was pulling a coal tram near Mud
Run New Jersey, and three men were
killed.
The engine was blown into the Le
high river and the men were instantly
killed. The train was not affected and
ran for some distance without the en¬
gine. All the victims were married
and leave families:
RICHMOND BAKERS STRIKE.
Demanded That Label Be Placet! on
Loaves Made By Them.
Nearly all of the union journeymen
bakers in Richmond, Va., went on a
strike Monday because of the refusal
of the master bakers to agree to place
the union label on their bread. As a
result, the master bakers had to roil
up their sleeves and go to work in
r their One
dead earnest over ovens,
of the largest bakers made the cou
cession asked by the journeymen, yet
but none of the others have as
consented to do so.
COAL COMPANIES AT OUTS.
Suit Brought In Birmingham, Ala., Court
For #100,000 Damages.
Sait has been filed in the Birming¬
ham, Ala., city court by the Alabama
Coal and Coke Company against the
Ivy Coal and Coke Company for *100,
000 damages. The plaintiff claims
that the defendant, during the year
1898, removed about 200,000 tons of
coal from certain lands belonging to
the plaintiff. The land in question is
located in Walker county.
SEABOARD BONDS SOLD.
Securities Valued at S10,000,000 Taken
By New York Bankers
tt is annonnced that Vermifye Ac Co.
and Hallagarten & Co., of New York,
have purchased from the Seaboard Air
Line system *10,000,000 5 per cent
gold bo “fi R at par and interest. Full
details and particulars are to be made
public later,
BROWN CHAMPIONS FILIPINOS.
Oliio Republican ConuMiman Strongly
Condemns a Colonial Policy.
The consideration of the diplomatic
and consular appropriation bill in the
house Saturday developed something
of a sensation, when Representative
Brown, of Ohio, standing in the center
of the Republican eide of the chamber,
made a speech strongly condemning a
colonial policy F and urging that con
« gho uld once give assurance to
Filipinos that the purpose of the
d wa9 to jve them inde .
, enue
P eQ '
SMALLPOX KNOCKS OUT COURT.
Jury Saves Whit© Assaulter’* Neck By
Recommendation to Mercy.
Court in Marion county, S. C., ad¬
journed Tuesday because of smallpox
at one of the hotels. The most impor¬
tant case tried was thst of John M.
Huggins, white. He was convicted of
assaulting a twelve year old white
girl. The jury recommended him to
mercy and reduced the sentence from
hanging to life imprisonment.
Back In Washington.
President McKinley and party re¬
turned to Washington at 1:35 Tuesday
afternoon from Indianapolisvmd Can¬
ton.
PRINTERS DIE IN FLAMES.
Newspaper Office* In Boston Take Fir*
And Three Proofreader* PerUh.
Three live* lost, nearly a dozen men,
more or less, injnred, and many thous
ands of dollars damage, were the re
suit of a fierce fire in The Daily Adver
tiser and Record, seven-story granite
front building in Newspaper Row.Fri
day night. The dead are: ♦
James Richardson, Sr., proofreader, of
Boston; Judson Craft, proofreader, proof
Cambridge; Walter Luecombe, started
reader, of Salem. How the fire
is not yet known. i
QUEEN’S FUNERAL COSTLY.
jlvil Service Kfitinatei that
Death Cost England S 150,000.
A London special says: The civil
Irvice supplementary estimates
aturday show that the expenses
inflection with Queen Victoria’s
■al amounted to £35,000, of
And 11,400 was expended for the
entertainment of foreign guests.
f WINCHESTER’S MAYOR SHOT.
Executive of Tenne**ee Town Fired On By
a Man He Had Fined.
A special to the Knoxville Journal
and Tribune from Winchester, Tenn.,
states that Horace Brannan, mayor of
Winchester, was seriously shot by
h named Shadow, whom he had
fi] mL The latest r^twtejn^icate He
n m sail may recover. was
i mediately below the heart.
bieneral Harrison’s Will Opened.
It Indianapolis Monday the will
date General Harrison was
| read in the presence of the family,
thing can be learned of the
la of the document
stateITelegates naked.
bama Democrat* Nomioa**
4 > Representative* to Convention. of the
She state convention
<3 tic party of Alabama called to non
ii jp four delegates to the constitn
’ invention from the state at
1 et in Montgomery Tuesday,
ndance was fall and the con
spirited. The nominees
:
Kn B. Knag, of Anniston,
■ illiam C. Oates, of Montgomery.
jbert J. Ldwe, of Jefferson.
PULLMAN CARS BURNED.
Bn Boat* to Florid* Lot* All
f J Two Their Pullman Clothing sleeping »nd Valuables. cars, of tram
No. 32 of the Plant system, Tampa to
Jacksonville, were completely burned
kt an early hour Snnday morning at
^Buffalo Bluff, seven miles from Jack
The sleepers were filled with ton
and all of them were asleep at
time of the fire. So quickly did
flames spread that there clothes was prac
tically no time for saving or
Plant System.
PASSENGER SCHEDULES.
Arrivals and Departures at Jesnp, Ga.
In Effect Oct. 1, 1900. Arrlvalg.
For Savannah and points North, East
Northeast.
TlMln No. 16 Leaves ........ 8 30 am
.. .< 22 ........ 5 20 p in
<4 32 4 4 ......11 23 am
4 4 V 36 ........10 45 p m
44 78 44 ........11 20 pm
For Waycross and points South,
Southwest and Northwest.
Train No. 23 Leaves........6 8mm
<< “ 53 “ 6 34 a in
« “ 35 *' 9 40 a m
“ “ 33 “ 4 44 p m
“ *•*$.. Jacksonville ” 7 00pm m "
For and points South.
Train No. 13 Leaves ........ 5 30am
train Cincinnati to Jacksonville.
All trains run dally. S. Mall Steamship of Peninsular and Ooal
Connection made at Port Tampa with U.
dental Steamship Line for Key West and Havana, leaving Port Tampa Mondays, Thurs¬
days ard Saturdays at 11 p. m.
For further Information, through oar service, trains making local stops, and sched¬
ules to other STRIPLING, points, apply to Passenger Station.
A. W. Ticket Agent,
J. H. POLHKMUS, Traveling Pass. Agent.
B. W. WRENN, Passenger Traffic Manager, Savannah, Ga.
Illustrated playing cards can be secured at 25 cents per deck upon application to
agents of Die Plant System.
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From Savannah and point* North, E*st
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Train No. 23 Arrives........5 15 a m
“ «« 53 6 34a m
36 8 40 am
*‘ 33 4 44 p m
“ 15 6 45 p m
From Waycross and points South, West,
Southwest ana Northwest.
Train No. 16 Arrives . 8 20 a m
" 22 . 5 20 p m
44 “ 32 ,1123am
•< 36 10 45 p m
“ 78 ,11 20p m
From Jacksonvllleaad points South.
Train No. 14 Arrives 10 46 p m
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