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County News.
VOL. IV.
TEACHERS TO WAIT
Georgia State Treasnrer Refuses
to Honor School Warrants.
MATTER COES TO THE COURTS
Friendly Test Case to Be Made
By State Officials of a Long
Standing Contention.
Georgia’s state treasurer, Mr. Park,
refuses to use the public property
fund for the purpose of paying the
school teachers of the state and tiding
over the deficiency in the deficiency
in the treasury, and Governor Candler
asserts that the teachers shall be paid,
and that he will endeavor to make the
state treasurer pay them as soon as it
is possible to do so.
Treasurer Park made the announce¬
ment Friday afternoon that he would
refuse to honor the school warrants by
borrowing from the public property
fund, and immediately preparations
were made looking to bringing man¬
damus proceedings against him, and
suit will be filed before Judge Lump¬
kin in the superior court of i'ulton
county.
The matter will, of course, go to the
supreme court which ever way it is
decided. In any event it will be six
or seven weeks before the public
school teachers of Georgia get their
money.
The supreme court cannot assign
the case for hearing before May 20th,
and it will be at least a week or ten
days before a decision can be secured
from that body. and
This means that the merchants
the boarding house keepers and others
to whom the nearly 9,000 teachers in
Georgia are indebted, will have to
wait that much longer for their money.
Treasurer Park says he did not
finally decide what be would do until
t o’clock Friday afternoon. In the
Meantime the warrants for the school
teachers, amounting to $247,000, were
waiting in the office of the comptroller
general. Comptroller General Wright
had declined to countersign them, as
he is required by law to do, until he
had been advised of what the treasurer
would do,
Kuowing that the situation was
waiting on his decision, Treasurer
Park took steps to determine what he
would do. At the dinner hour Friday
he went to meet Washington Dessau,
of Macon, who had already given an
opinion contrary to that of the attor¬
ney general, and with him he had a
final consultation.
Upon his return to the capitol Treas¬
urer Park called on the comptroller
aud asked him what he intended to do
about the warrants.
“If you are going to refuse to pay
them,” said the comptroller general,
“it will only be necessary for me to
countersign one. That is enough for
a test case.”
“But I would not refuse to pay one
of them,” the treasurer replied. “I
have about $77,000 in the treasury
which I cau use for that purpose, and
I would not refuse to pay them until
that is paid oat.”
The comptroller general said he'
could not decide that point. He did
not know whether the governor would
care to pay a few of them and leave
others unpaid. Treasurer Fark said
he would see the governor, and he
did.
“I have determined to pay them all
or none,” was the decision the treas
urer got from the governor.
“Then I shall pay none of them,”
was the conclusion the treasurer
reached.
Governor Candler stated that he did
not intend to select any of them for
payment at this time; when one was
paid all mast be paid. This decision
was reported to the comptroller gen
eral and he declined to countersign a
portion of the warrants. Thus the
matter will go directly into the courts,
Heavy Snow at Knoxville.
The heaviest snow of the year be
gan falling in th^ vicinity of Knox
ville, Tenn., Friday night about 6
o’clock. It is the first time in years
that snow has fallen this late in April,
The change in the weather from a
spring to a winter day was very sud
den.
OLD VESUVIUS STARTS UP.
Long Silent Volcano Again Begins Ac
- tire Pyrotechnic Business..
A New York World dispatch from
Paris says:
Mount Vesuvius is again in a state
of active eruption and many people, ,
scientists, students and the serious,
including American tourists, are leav
ing Paris by every train for Naples.
The first signs of disturbance were
observed a week ago, when for three
days columns of smoke issuing rapid¬
ly from the crater in great volume
towered high above tbe volcano. Then
came occasional rains of the cinders,
sometimes sprinkling the country for
several miles around. Now lava is
to run.
JESUP. GEORGIA. FRIDAY, APRIL 26. 1901.
BANK OFFICIALS SUICIDE.
Defaulting President and Cashiei
End Their Fliserable Exist¬
ence Together.
Charles Brown and E. L. Canby,
president and cashier respectively of
the First National bank of Vancouver,
Washington, which was closed Satur¬
day by the comptroller of the curren¬
cy, committed suicide Saturday night
two miles from the city, by shooting
themselves with a revolver.
Their bodies were found Sunday
morning lying together in a small
clump of bushes about one-half mile
north of the Columbia school, which
is situated on the outskirts of the
town.
They both used the same weapon,
and Canby evidently died first, as the
revolver was in Brown’s hand. It is
evident that Canby put the muzzle of
the revolver in his mouth aud blew
the top of his head off. Brown then
took it and shot himself in exactly the
same way, falling over Canby’s body.
The fact that Brown’s bicyole and an
umbrella belonging to Canby were
found a short distance out of town
led to the belief that the two bank of¬
ficials had taken their lives. Early
Sunday morning a searching party
started out aud alter several hours’
hunt the bodies were found.
Friday evening, Canby, upon being
told by Bank Examiner Maxwell that
the bank would not be permitted to
open Saturday, went out in the yard
behind the bauk and attempted to
shoot himself. His revolver failed to
explode, although all five chambers
were loaded. After failing to shoot
himself Canby went back into the
bank and he and President Brown
left together, the latter taking his re¬
volver.
When Examiner Maxwell confronted
the bank officials with the shortage of
$81,000, which he pad discovered,
both men admitted their guilt. It i
admitted that Brown and Canby had
been speculating in stocks. Beside
Brown’s body there was found a pack¬
age containing $25 and a note Baying
that the money belonged to his daugh¬
ter. Upon Canby’s body the following
brief nofe was found:
“My Dear Wife—I feel what I am
about to do is for the best. Forgive
me if you can and try to live for our
dear children, God bless you all.
Good-bye. Maxwell, Ned.”
While Bank Examiner who
is now in charge as receiver, has made
no official statement, it is known that
the bank has loaned a large sum of
money on insufficient security. Ac¬
cording to his report to the comptroll¬
er of the currency there is a shortage
of $81,000 in the bauk’s accounts aud
it is understood that a considerable
portion of this was loaned to Brown
and Canby on their personal notes.
About a year ago the bank reduced its
capital stock from $100,000 to $50,
000. At that time about one-half of
the so-called bad assets was “charged
off.”
KICHARDS MAKES REPLY.
Declare* That Carter Hr* Made Many
False Statements In Flea.
j j A General Washington Richards special filed says: in the Solici- Uuit
tor
ed States supreme court Saturday a
reply to the motion made by the coun
set of Captain Carter, to strike from
the files of the court as “irrelevant and
scandalous” the solicitor general’s
brief in opposition to Carter’s motion
to be admitted to bail pending the de
cision of his appeal in his habeas cor
pns proceedings. that he went
Mr. Richards denies
outside the record iu the case, aud as
serts that he always tries to observe
strictly the rules of the court requir
ing counsel to confine himself to the
facts of record in the discussion of a
case. He sets forth that Carter’s ap
plication for bail is supported by af
fidavits of physicians to the effect that
the prisoner’s health is impaired, and
this, Mr. Richards says, is not only
entirely outside the record, but is
false.
Mr. Richards slso says that Carter’s
counsel went outside the recoid in tbe
appeal case in averring that Carter is
an innocent man and wants to be re
leased in order to be tried in the crim
inal case in Georgia. He adds that to
demonstrate the falsity of this last
j statement it was necessary for the so
licitor general to state what the gov
eminent has done in prosecuting the
indictment against Carter and others
in the federal courts of Georgia.
UNITED STATES JUSTIFIED.
Decision in Russian Susar Case Announc¬
ed By Classification Board.
The board of ci vssification of the
Urited States general appraisers at
. j New Y'ork announced a decision in the
Ru88ian BQgar cage -Friday. The
hoard, by a majority vote, holds that
j the United States government was
jn J s t;g e< j in imposing a countervailing
dut Qn Kngsian
j Boers Ambush Britishers.
j Lord Kitchener, in a dispatch from
j Pretoria under date of Thursday,says:
j Ninth “I regret Lancers to report have that been a party ambushed of the
and Lieutenant A. McDonald and
wounded.”
CROP NOT AFFECTED
Cotton Killed By Cold Wave Will
Soon Be Replanted.
TEXAS ONLY STATE TO ESCAPE
Some Localities Report a Scarcity
of Seed For Replanting—Out¬
look Not Discouraging.
The Atlanta Constitution in its is¬
sue of Tuesday morning says: It may
safely be said that the recent cold
snap, though of unusual severity for
this season of the year, will not mate¬
rially affect the cotton crop one way
or the other so far as results are con
cerned.
Severe cold, even after a good por¬
tion of the crop is above ground; may
mean moro work for the farmers, but
it does not mean a reduction of the
size of the cotton crop. This is a les¬
son that history teaches.
In May,1898, nearly a mouth later in
the year than the cold spell just pass¬
ed, the temperature went ju3t as low
as on this occasion, but the cold spell
was of shorter duration, However,
the cotton had advanced considerably
further than is the case in April, and
far more damage was done.
Notwithstanding this, the cotton
crop of 1898 was the largest in the
history of the south—11,200,000 bales.
So far as the ultimate results are
concerned, therefore, it may be said
that this year’s late cold snap, though
it may have damaged aud destroyed
considerable sproutting cotton, will
not materially affect the result. The
chances are that as much, if not more,
cotton than was destroyed will imme¬
diately be replanted. possibly
The only difficulty that can
intervene this year might be the
scarcity of cotton seed, but it is not
believed there will be any material
trouble on that score, though in some
sections the farmers are quite appre¬
hensive.
Reports received Monday night from
all of the cotton growing states, and
the indications from these are that the
young cotton has in many instances
been killed by the cold. In some sec¬
tions, however, the damage was slight
and replanting will not be necessary.
The reports from Georgia show that
considerable young cotton has been
damaged or killed in the southern part
of the state where that planted early
was above the ground. The majority
of the crop, however, is not yet above
the ground, so it will be seen the dam¬
age will be comparatively small. Cot¬
ton planting has been generally late
this spring, and the damage is far less
than it would have been had more of
the seed been put in the ground.
Some damage has been reported
from Alabama, but as a whole it is
slight, because, as in Georgia, so little
of the crop is yet above ground. In
Alabama it is said about one-third of
the crop has been planted, and only
about one-third of that is above
ground. Thus in that state only a
part of one-ninth of the young crop
will need to be replanted.
Advices from Tennessee state that
the cold snap will affect early planting
and in a few instances will necessitate
replanting; but it is stated that it is
too eariy to say that the crop has been
materially damaged.
Mississippi reports somewhat more
serious damage to the young crop
than the other states. Much of the
youug cotton there has been killed
out, while the ground has been so cold
as to prevent proper germination.
Consequently much of the seed put
into the grounl is not yet up.
Texas, the greatest of all the cotton
planting states, reports no damage to
the crop. Heavy rains early in the
season prevented early planting; con¬
sequently there was little or no cotton
up when the cold snap came along.
Reports from that state indicate that
very little if any replanting will be
necessary. holds true of
The same practically planting in
Arkansas as of Texas. The
that state was late and the cold did
little or no damage.
FBUIT LITTLE DAMAGED.
Reports from all of the fruit grow¬
ing sections of Georgia, indicate that
the recent cold snap has not material¬
ly damaged the fruit crop.
The greatest interest is felt in Geor¬
gia peaches, a crop that is worth some¬
thing like a million dollars or more
annually, but np to the present time
the almost universal verdict is that
they are practically unhurt.
Some scattering reports indicate
that there has been damage they to |he
fruit in a few sections but may
grow out of the fears that the unusual
cold weather naturally created.
State Entomologist W. M. Scott is
of the opinion that it will be several
days yet before it can be told what the
exact effect on the fruit crop will be.
It will take the warm sunshine of a
day or two, he says, to develop just
what damage the cold did to th%grow
ing fruit.
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.
The stiltau has appointed a commis¬
sion of ministers to devise measures to
counteract the agitation of tlic party of
Young Turkey, whose members aro
again active.
Nine different languages and dia¬
lects are used in the text of the new
Austrian bauk notes which are design¬
ed by Alender Hedegues, the eminent
Hungarian artist.
Iu 1864 Great Britain possessed
only 551 journals, of which 14 were
issued daily. Now there are no fewer
than 2,448 newspapers aud 2,446 mag¬
azines, making 4,894 in all.
The famous observatory on the Wee
berg, near Gotha, once the scene of
the labors of the famous astronomers,
Euckel, Zach and Lindeuau, was de¬
stroyed by fire recently.
It is contemplated to issue a new
coin from the French mint of the value
of two and a half centimes, It would
be principally for the use of very poor
persons, who would be able thereby to
buy the equivalent of a farthings
worth.
Fools Are Not All Dead.
Among the public servants who are
worried by foolish questions the su¬
perintendent of mails iu the postoffice
gets his full share. One of his visitors
last week was a man who said to the
deputy who answered the call at the
window:
“I am going out of town today aud
want to get a letter to my brother, who
is on board the Majestic, aud she is
not due until Wednesday. I don’t
know where be will stay in New York
or where he will go from here. Can
you help me?”
“Certainly we can,” said the clerk
“A mailboat goes to meet the steamer,
and if you address your letter properly
and put domestic postage on it it will
be delivered all right.”
“But how shall I address it—where
shall I send it?”
“Address it ‘John Smith, passenger
on board incoming steamer Majestic,
due in New York December 12.’ That
will reach him.”
“No city? No nothing?” you.”
“That’s all—just as I told
The man thanked the clerk and went
away, and came back a little later with
an addressod letter in his baud.
“Say,” he said to the clerk, “about
tl^it letter. I’ve addressed it and
stamped it all right, but the mail’s
name isn’t John Smith. How about
that?”—New York Tribune.
UNPARDONABLE.
“No, I never shall forgive him.” said
eld Mr. Sllmington, referring to the
young man with whom one of his
daughters had eloped. ‘‘The die Is
cast!"
“But,” said the friend who bad gone
to intercede in behalf of the lovers,
"you must admit that his character is
good, that he stands high in busi¬
ness circles, and that his habits are
excellent. Most men would be proud
to have such a son-in-law.”
“I admit all that. Still, I shall never
forgive him.”
"Why not?”
“Because he took the youngest and
prettiest one in the bunch. Why did
not he run off with one of her older
sisters, confound him!” — Chicago
Times-Herald.
AN EASY MATTER.
"The reason some men don’t get
along happily,” said Mr. Meekton, "Is
that they don’t know how to manage
a wife."
“You know this?” was the skeptical
query. thing
“Certainly. It is the simplest
in the world. All you have to do is to
say ‘yes’ whenever she wants any¬
thing and always let her have her own
way.”—Washington Star.
NOT HER WAY.
"I suppose th’at woman orator spoke
her mind freely on the subject?”
"Not much. She demanded half of
her $50 in advance before she went
on the platform.”—Philadelphia Bul¬
letin.
Slemiiiid lor More Battleships*
When the Secretary of tho Navy recently
demanded more battleships, Congress favorably, con and "
sidered his recommendations several
authorized the construction of power¬
ful warships. Protection is what our sea
ports require, and fortifications will not ade¬
quately supply this. Defense against all dis¬
orders of tne digestive organs, such as dyspep¬
sia, constipation, biliousness, rheumatism
and nervousness, is adequately afforded by
that efficient remedy, Hostetter’s Stomach
Bitters. Try it.
Don’t worry. A gnat of trouble may
evolute into a camel of calamity or an ele
piianl. of woe.
_ _
Each package of Putoam Fadeless Dye
colors more gopds than any other "dye and
colors them better too. Sold by all druggist*.
The British Government will be asked
for $45,000,000 to-start the construction of
thirty-three new war vessels.
The man who writes the prettiest love
letters seldom makes the best husband, _
A Month’s Test Free.
Racine, If yon Wia.. have Box'148, Rheumatism, for six write bottles Dr. Shoop, of his
Rheumatic Cnre, exp. paid, fiend no money.
Pay $5.50 if cored.
Visitors to Mount Vernon, the home of
the Father of'His Country, have tbe choice
of two steaahaaU routes* from ^Washington—electric
car.or .—a
Plant System.
PASSENGER SCHEDULES.
Arrivals and Departures at Jesup, Ga.
Departures. in Effect Mar. 20, 1901.
For Savannah and points North, East and From Savannah and points North,
Northeast. and Northeast.
Train No. 24 Leaves . 6 45 a m Train No. 23 Arrives , 3 47 a m
“ •• 38 “ . 3 40 p m if 53 . 6 27 am
ft 32 if , 11 25 a m 35 if . 9 10 am
ft ill 3 05 p m i f 31 ft 11 40 a m[
.
3fi if 10 45 p in " 37 . 12 15 pm
if f f 78 C f 11 4U p m 33 If 4 40 p m
Waycross and points South, West, 7 25 ft 6 50 p m
For West,
Southwest and Northwest. From Waycross and points South,
Train No. 2S Leaves . 3 47 a m Southwest and Northwest.
“ 53 0 27 a m Train No. 24 Arrives....... 6 45 a m
i f 11 35 9 10 a m “ 38 3 40 p m
i i “ 81 11 4u a m “ 32 if 11 25 a m
f f “ 37 12 15 p m “ 30 f C 3 05 p in
“ 33 f f 4 40 p m f “ 36 if 10 45 p m
f f “ 25 f f 6 50 p m “ 78 11 40 p m
“ 15 4 30 p m
For Jacksonville and points South. From Jacksonville and points South.
Train No. 13 Leaves 5 30 a m Train No. 16 Arrives 4 09 p m
Solid train Cincinnati to Jacksonville. Solid train Jacksonville to Cincinnati.
Trains 24, 36, 78, 32,23, 13, 53, 35, 33 and 25 are daily. Trains 15, 37, 31 are daily ex,
cept Mondays. Trains 30, 38 and 16 are daily except Sundays. Peninsular and Occi¬
Connection made at Port Tampa with I . S. Mail Steamship of
dental Steamship Line for Key West and Havana, leaving Port Tampa Tuesdays,
days and Sundays at 6 30 a. m. through trains making local stops, and sched¬
For further Information, car service,
ules to other points, apply to Station,
A. W. STRIPLING, Ticket Agent, Passenger
J. H. POl.KEMUS, Traveling Pass. Agent.
B. W. WllENN, Passenger Traffic Manager, Savannah, Ga.
Illustrated playing cards can be secured at 25 cents per deck upon application to
agents of the Plant System.
WHOLE FAMILY SLAIN.
Path cr ami Five Children Horribly
Butchered By Two Tramps.
A cable dispatch from Chartres,
France says: This community has
shocked by the brutal murder of five
children and their father, a farmer
named Briere, residing in the neigh¬
borhood of Chartres.
Two tramps entered the farm house
Sunday night and killed four girls,
aged respectively 14, 11, 5 and 4, and
a boy 7 years old, with knives and
cudgels, while they were in bed and
apparently asleep.
Briere returned while the murderers
were robbing the house. They heard
him cuter the court yard, attacked him
aud after a desperate struggle left him
dead with four wounds iu the head.
The murderers then escaped with
1,600 francs and a number of objects
of value.
AGUINALDO IN NEW QUARTERS.
Captive Filipino Leader is Transferred to
a Privato Kesldence.
A Manila dispatch says : Aguinaldo
has been removed from the Malacan
ang Palace to a private residence, No.
56 Solano street. The guard placed
over him has been modified.
General MacArthur informed the
representative of the Associated Press
that the effect of Aguinaldo’s address
to the Filipinos would undoubtedly
be beneficial.
Aguinaldo composed his address
without assistance. The original was
in Tagalog. It was afterwards trans¬
lated into Spanish.
JUDGE INSTRUCTS JURY.
Testimony In tlie Ripley Case at Frunk
fort Is Summed Up.
At Frankfort, Ky., Thursday, Judge
Cantrill delivered his instructions to
the jury in the case of Captain Gar¬
nett Ripley, the Goebel assassination
suspect, and argument of the case was
begun.
The instructions are practically the
same as those given in the case of
Caleb Powers. The first holds that
the defendant must be found guilty if
the charge that Ripley conspired with
Taylor and others to procure Goebel’s
death, as alleged, has been proven to
the satisfaction of the jury.
BOERS CAPTURE SUPPLIES.
I'hey Swoop Down Upon a Train Load of
Cattle and Coal.
Advices from Cape Colony state that
a train loaded with cattle and coal was
captured by the Boers near Molteno
Friday evening. The locomotive es¬
caped and ran to Stormburg and re¬
turned with troops, who found the
train on fire’. A couple of natives
were killed. The train hands had
been stripped and then released.
Charged With Embezzlement.
A. J. Schrotz, a boookkeeper in the
First National Bank of Birmingham,
was arrested in Pittsburg, Pa., Thurs¬
day night by United StateB Marshal
Leonard, charged with the embezzle¬
ment of $35,000 of the bank’s funds.
Big Tanning Plant Burned.
The tanning plant of the A. Platz
Leather company at Racine, Wis., was
destroyed by fire Friday. Loss, $100,
000. Insurance, $75,000.
“ SOFT SOAP” FROM WOODRUFF.
Commissary Contends That Affairs at
Manila Are Satisfactory.
Commissary General Weston, at
Washington, has received a cablegram
from Colonel Woodruff, chief commis¬
sary at Manila, in which he says:
“Do not permit scandalous reports
to worry you. Affairs in the subsist¬
ence department of the army are ad¬
ministered honestly and to the satis¬
faction of officers and troops.”
NQY48.
ANARCHIST BA1)LY WANTED.
Whole World Is Notified to Watch Out
For KouiangnoU.
A Berlin cable dispatch says: With
reference to the statements cabled from
the United States of a plot said to
have been concocted against Emperor
William and other European rulers by
anarchists iu Argentina and New Jer
s ®y» a representative of the Associated
Press ascertained in a reliable quarter
that the Berlin police presidency is
sued an order April 6th for the arrest
whenever or wherever caught of the
alleged anarchist, Rodolfo Romang
noli, alias Romalisso, alias Langwick
Mueller.
1 The order simultaneously requested
all inland and foreign authorities to
assist in apprehending Romangnoli.
Photographs of the alleged anarchist,
with a minute description after the
Bertiilon method, were furnished for
identification.
GASPED IN COFFIN.
Supposed Corpse Showed Signs of Life
During Funeral Services.
Mrs. Frank Marlow’s funeral ser¬
vice was being conducted at her late
home at Merrimack, Ala., Thursday
afternoon, when to the great astonish¬
ment of all persons present, the sup¬
posed corpse gave a gasp and showed
every sign of returning life. Relatives
sent for a doctor, who examined Mrs.
Marlow, found her body warm and
discovered a feeble pulse. For an
hour and a half the physician worked
with her in an attempt to bring the
woman back to consciousness, but she
eventually died.
JURY REARS PATRICK CASE.
They Consider Charge of Murder Against
New York Attorney.
Friday the grand jury at New York
took up its consideration of the charge
of murder against Albert T. Patrick,
who is accused of having caused the
death of William M. Rice.
The principal witness of the day was
Charles F. Jones, the former valet and
secretary of the dead man.
Other witnesses in the grand jury
room were Charles Wetherbee, the
clerk in Swenson & Sons, bankers,
Professor Witthaus and John R. Potts.
PEKIN PALACE BURNED.
Von Waldenee Headquarter. In Chinese
Capital Destroyed by Fire.
Field Marshal von Waldersee re¬
ports that the best part of the winter
palace at Pekin was destroyed by fire
Wednesday evening. Gen. Schwartz
kopf met his death in the fire, the
cause of which is not explained. He
adds that the French and Japanese
troops gave the most prompt assist¬
ance. The field marshal and the other
officers lost nearly everything.
TRANSPORT FROM MANILA.
The Garonne Arrive* at ’Frisco With Sol¬
diers of Twenty-Sixth Infantry.
The transport Garonne arrived at
San Francisco Saturday from Manila
via Nagasaki and Honolulu. On board
were 1,000 men of the Twenty-sixth
volunteer infantry. This regimenthss
seen seventeen months service in the
Philippines and was raised at Platta
bnrg, N. Y. Most of the men are from
New York and Massachusetts and saw
service during the Spanish war.
SNOW IN KENTUCKY.
Heavy Rains Cause Freshets Which Ren¬
der Many Families Homeless.
A heavy snow storm raged through¬
out eastern Kentucky Friday. Two
days’ heavy rains preceded the snow
storm and brought on freshets in Pow¬
ell’s valley, which rendered twenty
families homeless in that section.
There was two inches of snow in Yel¬
low Creek valley and it was a half foot
on the mountains.