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VOL. IV.
□CLOSING : SALE. 0
J. A. JONES & SON, Wayeross, Ga.,
Are Selling Their Entire Stock of Clothing, Dry Goods, Shoes, Hats, Etc. at
New York Cost.
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Worth of goods must go at New York Cost. As we are going out of this bus
iness we desire to close out our entire stock at once, Thisisyour opportuni¬
ty to buy goods.
J. A JONES & Georgia.
MASCARDO QUITS THE FIGHT.
Filipino General and Over Three Hun¬
dred of His Followers Surrender.
A Manila special says; General
Mascardo, with 328 men, has surren¬
dered to Captain Joseph F. O’Neil, of
the Twenty-fifth infantry, at San Ana
tonio, Zambales province.
Aguinaldo, in an interview, ex¬
presses the opinion that the American
government of the Philippines, in or¬
der to be satisfactory, should conform
strictly to the constitution. Asked
whether he considered the Filipinos
capable of exercising all the privileges
guaranteed by a literal interpretation
of the constitution, he declined to ex¬
press an opinion.
BURLINGTON IN NEW HANDS.
Necessary Stock of the Road Has Been
Deposited with J. P. Morgan.
J. P. Morgan & Company has an¬
nounced that two-thirds of the stock
of the Chicago, Burlington and Qunicy
Railroad Company has been deposited
at the Colonial Trust Company, of
Boston, and the Metropolitan Trust
Company, of New York city, thus
marking the consummation of the deal
by which the Great Northern and
Northern Pacific Railroad Companies
acquire the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy.
PREACHER GOES WRONG.
Sent to Penitentiary for Fraudulent
Use of the Mails.
At Washington Friday Rev. Liston
D. Bass, recently convicted of using
the mails for purpose to defraud, was
sentenced to three years in the
Moundsville, W. Va., penitentiary, and
to pay fines aggregating $1,000. The
case was appealed.
Judge Barnard, in pronouncing sen¬
tence, scathingly denounced the pris
Mr. Bass is the pastor of two
churches in Virginia
MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF PRIEST.
Partly Decomposed Body of Prelate
Found in New York Lodging House.
The body of a man found In a house
in Ninth avenue. New York, has been
identified as that of Rev. Edward S.
Phillips, of St. Gabriel’s church, Hazle¬
ton. Pa., who recently had a conference
with J. Pierpont Morgan in reference
to the threatened strike in the iron
and coal regions of Pennsylvania.
Kirk Stanley, a massage operator. In
whose room the body was, is under
arrest as a suspicious person.
Wayne County News.
STRIKERS ARE PACIFIED.
Pontoon Bridges Built For Benefit of
Tampa Cigarmakers.
All striking cigarmakers in Tampa,
Fla., returned to their work Thursday
morning and a pontoon bridge was
thrown across the river and this
means afforded the people for getting
across, which was all they desired,
there being no further grievances and
their desires accomplished, the men
resumed work and all the factories
were soon running on time.
Bricklayers Locked Out.
Between 15,000 and 20,000 bricklayers
in the employ of contractors who are
members of the Masons’ Builders’ As¬
sociation, in New York, were locked
out at noon Friday.
TO FORCE DARDANELLES.
Unless Turk Yields French Fleet Will
Menace Constantinople.
“It is rumored here,” says the Con¬
stantinople correspondent of The Lon¬
don Daily News, “that an arrangement
has been agreed upon whereby the
French fleet is to force the Darda¬
nelles with a European mandate un¬
less Turkey yields on the postaJ ques¬
tion.”
DAYTON PLANTS CLOSED.
Machinists’ Demands Not Complied
With and Strike Follows.
Not one concern in Dayton, Ohio,
has acceded to the machinists’ de¬
mands. Several plants agreed to the
hours and wage scale, but reserved
the right to employ and discharge.
When this was declined by employees
the plants closed.
There are now idle the National
Cash Register, W. P. Callahan, Buck¬
eye Brass Works, Stillweu-Bierce
Company and many smaller plants.
Thirty-five hundred men are out of
work. The carpenters’ strike is prac¬
tically complete.
Strike in Denver Averted.
The threatened strike of the manu¬
facturing machinists of Denver, Col.,
has been averted, the local members
of the National Metal Trades’ Associa¬
tion having granted the nine hour day
and the scale of wages demanded.
Two Reports Formulated.
The committee on relations of the
Cuban constitutional convention will
submit minority and majority reports
to the convention.
JESUP. GEORGIA. FRIDAY. MAY 24. 1901.
Inland Harbor For War Vossels.
Secretary Long has appointed
1 rout'd of naval officers to inquire intc
i.ic advisability of utilizing a lam
fresli water 'ake in the State of Wash'
iugton, not far from the Pacific coast
for the purpose of accommodating
vessels of war. It is proposed to dig
a canal connecting the ocean with tills
lalte, to be used for commerc.al pur
poses, but the board is to inquirt
whether the plan should not be en
larged so as to take into consldera
tion the needs of the navy.
New Connection for Southern.
W. B. Crenshaw, assistant engineer
of the Southern railway, has begun
the survey of the line from London to
Clinton, Tenn., which when completed
will give a direct connection from
Cnattanooga to Cincinnati with prac¬
tically the same mileage as the Cin¬
cinnati Southern.
i-riand’s Decreasing Population.
special from London says: The
<. _jsus of Ireland shows the popula¬
tion to be 4,456,546, a decrease of 5.3
per cent. This is less decrease than
during the previous decade. Scotland,
the census shows, has a population
numbering 4,471,957 persons.
ATLANTA MACHINISTS OUT.
Three Big Plants Cease Operations
as Result of Strike.
Three Atlanta, Ga., machine shops
were affected by the demand of the
machinists for a nine-hour work day,
and as aresult about 100 men are out
on a strike.
The concerns involved are the Van
Winkle Gin and Machine Works, the
DeLoach Milling Company and the At¬
lanta Machine Works. The two for¬
mer are shut down completely, while
the machine department of the latter
is closed. All of the strikers, with a
few exceptions, are union men.
OIL COMPANY IN KENTUCKY.
New Corporation is Organized With
Capital Stock of $200,000.
The Kentucky Union Oil Company
has been organized with a capital stock
of $200,000 and has purchased 3,000
acres of oil lands at Sunnybrook,
Wayne county, Ky. Capitalists of
New Britain, Conn., own the larger
part of the stock. Machinery is be¬
ing shipped from Knoxville for the
company to begin operation at once.
In this (lay of extraordinary faith in
the efficacy of combinations marriages
aught to he more popular. If two cor
porations which could not earn dlvi
dcmls when separate can be made a
very valuable nnd productive property
" ben united, almost any sort of men
and women ought to be of more use to
the world married than single, sug
gests the Cleveland Plain Dealer,
FEVER FUND DONATED.
Jacksonville To Have Use of Long
Idle Surplus Contributions.
At acksonville, Fla., Monday, Cir¬
cuit Judge Call granted an order
turning over to the relief asso¬
ciation the sum of $19,880.03, which
has been in the hands of the Jackson¬
ville Auxiliary Sanitary Association.
This sum is a surplus of contributions
to yellow fever sufferers during the
epidemic of 1888.
REBELS STILL IN EVIDENCE.
Detachment of Americans Have Lively
Scrap With Body of Filipinos.
It is unofficially reported from Ma¬
nila that a body of rebels, under An¬
geles, attacked a detachment of Amer¬
ican troops, supposed to be of the
Twenty-seventh regimnt, near Uasaco,
in South Camerines province, killing
two soldiers and one native scout and
taking one soldier prisoner.
JACOB HAAS VICE PRESIDENT.
Jewish Publications Society of Amer¬
ica Elects Its Officers.
The annual meeting of tlie Jewish
Publications Society, of America, in
session at Philadelphia re-elected the
old officers, including Morris Newber
ger, of Philadelphia, president; Jacob
Haas, of Atlanta, Ga., and Rev. Dr.
Max Heller, of New Orleans, La., hon¬
orary vice presidents.
Chaffee to “Evacuate” Pekin.
General Chaffee, at midnight Satur¬
day, issued his farewell order, ending
the American relief expedition in Chi¬
na. The American troops will within
a few days leave for Manila.
Townley to be Courtmartialed.
Lieutenant Richard H. Townley, a
retired officer of the navy, will be
courtmartialed for alleged participa¬
tion in the commissary frauds at Ma¬
nila.
Plant System.
PASSENGEIt SC HEDULES.
Arrivals and Departures at Jesup, Ga.
In Effect Apr. 14, 1901. Arrivals.
For Savannah ami points North, East anil
Northeast.
Train No. 24 Leaves 0 47am
32 11 26 am
30 10 45 p m
U 73 1 1 11 4U p m
For WttVcross and points South, West,
Southwest and Northwest.
Train No. 23 Leaves ...... 3 47 a m
• 53 ..... G 27 a m
‘ 35 ...... » 30 a m
‘ 83 ...... 4 40 p m
(4 ‘ 25 ..... 6 50 p m
For Jacksonville and points South.
Train No. 13 Leaves 5 30 a m
Cincinnati to Jacksonville.
Trains 21, 36 78, 32, 23, 13, 53, 35, 33 and 25 aro dally. Hteamship of Peninsular and , Occi¬ „ ,
Connection made at Port Tampa with U. 8. Mail
dental Steamship Line for Key West and Havana, leaving Port Tampa Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Sundays at 11 00 p. m. service, trains making local stops, and sched¬
For further information, through car
ules to other TRIPLING, points, apply Ticket to Passenger Station,
A. W. Agent,
j. H. PO HEMUS, Traveling Pass. Agent.
B. W. VVItENN, Passenger Traffic .Manager, Savannah, Oa.
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From Savannah and points North, Last
nnd Northeast.
Train No. 23 Arrives .... 8 47 a m
tt 63 .... 0 27 a m
35 .... 9 10 a m
( ( <( 33 .... 4 40 p m
“ 25 .... 6 50 p m
From Wayeross and points South, West,
Houthwest and Northwest.
Train No. 24 Arrives . 6 45 a m
“ “ 32 - .11 25 a m
33 i 10 45 p m
“ 78 : , 11 40 p m