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Wayne County News.
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W ay cross, Georgia.
We have a Large Stock of Open and Top Buggies, Spring
Wagons, One and Two Horse Farm Wagons, Crosstie and Tur¬
pentine Wagons. Also good line of
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USING NEGRO LABOR
Steel Trust Imparts Colored Men
To Supplant the Whites.
HUNDREDS AT CLEVELAND, OHIO
Most of Them Are Regular and Expe
Fenced Iron Workers Secured
From Homestead, Pittsburg
and Adjacent Territory.
According to Friday’s dispatches,
the big steel combine is utilizing negro
labor to supplant its white workmen
in the Newburg mHls at Cleveland,
Ohio. Already a couple ox hundred
negroes have reached the city from
Pittsburg. Homestead and adjacent
iron centers in Pennsylvania. They
are brought in by one of their own
race, who is acting as an agent for
the United Steel Corporation. When
the colored men arrive they are sent
to the mill, where a large dwelling
house is used as a domicile.
Many more negroes, it is said, will
be employed, and a general emigration
of the colored workmen familiar with
the manufacture of iron acd steel from
the south is prophesied by a colored
agent of the steel corporation.
The negroes from Alabama and Ten¬
nessee, according to the same author¬
ity, accept the strike as a glorious
opportunity to improve their condition
and they are flocking north in large
numbers.
It is also asserted that the steel cor¬
poration has given authority to its
agents to gather all the colored iron
workers possible and to center them at
the various points of the strike.
It is claimed that the men who are
going into the mills at Cleveland are
practicqjdron similar Vrork elsewhere. workers, having done
LOCOMOTIVE BOILER EXPLODES.
Accident on W. and A. Road Wheeein
Fireman Is killed.
Engine No. 102, which pulled pas
senger train No. 2 of the Western and
Atlantic railroad out of Atlanta, Ga.,
JESUP. GEORGIA. FRIDAY. AUGUST 9. 1901.
Friday morning at 8:15 o’clock explod¬
ed at 8:40 o’clock, twenty-five minutes
later, near Bolton, causing the death of
Fireman John L. Aenchbaeher and th»
Injuring cff Engineer Van Bell. Mail
Clerk J. W. Brown also received a cut
on the arm. The passengers and re¬
mainder of the crew were badly jolted
and shaken, but none of them were
injured.
The force of the explosion was ter¬
rific and completely wrecked the en
glue.
HANNA DENIES REPORTS.
Declares He Is Taking No Part In
the Strike Negotiations.
Senator M. A. Hanna, who is ia
Canton, Ohio, oh a visit to President
and Mrs. McKinley, gave out a state¬
ment Friday night denying as erro¬
neous the reports connecting hkn with
efforts to settle the great steel strike.
"I am just as anxious to have the
strike settled as is the vast majority
of the people, but I am taking no part
in the negotiations,” he declared.
TWO ON SAME GALLOWS.
Brace ef Murderers Swing Into Eter¬
nity at St. Augustine, Fla.
A large crowd assembled at the jail
yar <i j n gt. Augustine, Fla., Friday
morning to witness the execution of
James Kirby and Robert Lee, w'ho
were condemned to die for the murder
of Julius Eskew last May. Lee was
found guilty of being an accessory to
the crime, but when he was on the
gallows he protested that he was in¬
nocent.
Corn King to Resume Business. .
A Chicago dispatch says: George
H. Phillips will issue a circular ad¬
dressed to the customers of his firm,
announcing that he will be able to
resume active operations on the board
of trafle within a few days.
COURAGE SEEMS TO WANE.
Washington Negroes May Abandon
Thei.- Proposed Suffrage Fight.
The movement which was started
by negroes in the District of Colum¬
bia to test the disfranchisement
amendments to the constitutions of
Louisiana and other southern states
does not show much progress.
At a mass meeting Friday night in
Washington there were less than thir
ty negroes present and the collection
taken up for the cause was propor¬
tionately small.
Plant System.
PASSENGER SCHEDULES.
Arrivals and Departures at Jesup, Ga.
Departures. In Effect Apr. 14, 1901. Arrivals.
For Savannah and points North, East and
Northeast.
Train No. 24 Laavos ........ 6 45 ft m
•• 32 . ...... 11 25 a m
A I “ 36 ........10 45 pm
“ 78 4* ........11 40 p m
For - Wiyotos's ’and anil points Nc"*Invest. South, West,
Southwest
'Brain No. 23 Leave# ..... 3 47 a m
„ .. 5;! ..... 8 27 a m
“ “ 83 ..... 9 10 a m
33 *« ....... 1 40 pm
‘ 25 «< ...... 6 50 p m
For Jacksonville and points Heath,
Train No. 13 Leaves ........ 6 38 a *
to Jacksonville.
Train* 24, 36. 78, 32. 23, 13, 63, 36, 33 and 25 arc daily. Steamship of Peninsular and Oooi
Connection made at Port Tampa with IL 8. Mail
denfai s*«am*!iip Lino for Key West and Havana, leaving Port Tampa Tuesdays,
Xhurwdavs and Sundays at 11 00 p, m.
For furtifot information, through car service, trala* making local stops, and sched¬
ules to other TRIPLING, point?., 114,ply to Agent, Passenger Station.
A. W. Ticket
J. II. PO HE MU 3, Traveling Pass. Agent.
B. W. WKENN, Passenger Traffic ,Manager, Savannah, Ga.
Illustrated playing cards caa be secured at 25 cents per deck upon application to
agents of the Plant .System.
A man in Connecticut has been fined
$50 and costs 'or shouting "scab” at
non-union men who had taken the places
left by strikers in the shops at An
sonia. The fact that to hum abusive
epithets is equivalent to an assault is
often overlooked,'but such is the law
of the land.
CAPTURED STRIKE LEADERS.
Tampa Business Men Corral Many
Members of Resistencia Union.
Monday night luO business men >f
Tampa, Fla., in order to end the strike
of the Resistencia union, cigar mak¬
ers, searched the streets of the city
and seized many of the strike leaders,
and it is rumored that they were sent
on a vessel outside the bar and to the
gulf. Excitement prevailed, but n«
rioting occurred.
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CLAIMS AGAINST SPANIARDS.
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Florida Man Demands Heavy Indem
nity From the Dons.
Joseph Martin Duanes, of Jackson
ville, Florida, through hi* attorneys,
has filed a claim for $11#,627 indem
nity with the Spanish claims commis
sion at Washington.
The attorney in the ease has claims
aggregating three million dollars
which he will file.
From Savannah and points North,
and Northeast.
'train No. 28 Arrives .. 3 4ff a m
<« ft 53 .. 6 27 a in
ft If 85 <f .. 9 10 a m
>> it 83 ft .. 4 40 p m
“ AO .. 6 50 p m
From Way cross and points South,
Southwest and Northwest.
Train No. 24 Arrives ...... 6 45 a m
n “ 32 * < ........11 25 a m
I* “ 36 1 1 ........VO 46 p m
“ 78 <i ........11 40 p m
I —The article on suffrage passes the
! Alabama constitutional convention,
, and Is now with the engrossing clerk,
! —Articles of Incorporation for the
• Monroe Greenville railroad have
and
been filed with Alabama’s secretary
of state.
—The labor leaders and trust offl
oials have absolutely failed to agree
and a general strike will be ordered,
involving nearly half a million men.
—Governor Longlno, of Mississippi,
has issued a statement n regard to the
Carrollton lynching. He claims that
the sheriff did not do his duty.
PACKING HOUSE DESTROYED.
Fire In Dallas, Texas, Causes Finan¬
cial Loss of $60,000.
The plant of the Max Hahn Packing
Company, at Dallas, Texas, burned
Sunday night. It was a total loss,
1 amounting to about $60,000, and oov
j All esed the with cooling insurance of about filled $20,000. to
j | their rooms were all
capacity with dressed meats,
| stock on hand having been slaught¬
ered Saturday afternoon. Nolan
| : Brothers, wholesale butchers, had the
uge 0 f one of the cooling rooms, which
j was packed full of meat at the time of
the fire, all of whiah was lost.
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A singer must have a pretty good
compass before he ventures on high C’s.
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