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VOL. IV. LOTT & J X Wl > 1 V i Georgia. HIVE 50 HEAD OF MULES AND HORSES ON HAND FOR SALE. We can suit you with almost any kind of Mule or Horse you may want at satisfactory prices. We would be pleased to have you call and examine our stock. OUR STABLES ARE DACE OF JONES & THOMAS’ WAGON AND DUGGY STORE. S'o a W cross, Georgia. CUBANS SECRETLY ARMING. if 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. ________ Job Printing r / IS NEXT TO NEWSPAPER ADVERTEM, TUB BEST ADVERTISEMENT IN THE WORLD. We have been very Fortunate in securing the services of the best and most experienced printers IN THE STATU* and are now able to execute Job Printing of every description in all the leading Styles. The class of work turned out by us is acknowl¬ edged to be the FINEST and the PRICES ths LOWEST of any printers anywhere. A TRIAL ORDER WILL CONVINCE YOU. LET IT COME. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. POOR WORK Is UNKNOWN TO US. BEST Qlll LITY PAPER. _ . NO. 43. From Savannah and point* North, E*st and Northeast. 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 Solidatratn Jacksonville to Claolnnoti.