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IMPORTANT INSURANCE SUIT.
Chief Justice of Georgia Supreme
Court Claims Damages.
Chief Justice T. J. Simmons, of tho
Georgia supreme court, has brought
suit for $2,000 damages against the
Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association,
of New York.
According to the petition, the chief
justice secured from the association a
policy for $5,000, and the suit is the
outgrowth of alleged assessments
made on the policy, which are claimed
by the petitioners to be excessive.
When the assessments reached a cer¬
tain figure Judge Simmon* refused to
meet them, and it is stated that his
policy was then revoked by the com¬
pany.
It Is alleged that when the policy
was first issued the bi-monthly pay¬
ments amounted to $20.80, but that de¬
mands were later made on him for
increased assessments. It is claimed
that the company is due Justice Sim¬
mons $2,000 and it is for that amount
he sues. •
Frightful Holocaust In Russia.
According to a dispatch to the Lon¬
don Daily mail from St. Petersburg,
in the recent connagration at
Whitebsk 1,000 houses were destroyed
and 100 lives lost.
Big Fortune Goes Begging.
Agents are in Knoxville. Tenn.
searching for tho heirs of William
Pelham Humphreys, who owned land
in the Beaumont oi! territory said to
be worth over $3,000,000.
First Bale of New Cotton.
Georgia’s first bale of entirely new
cottoii was marketed at’ Cochran Mon¬
day.-bjo J, Martin -and bough* by the
Pianibf*' 'warehouse at 10 cents;
•■weight, 555 pounfiB.
Texas Bank Goes to the Wail.
The Bank of Childress, Texas, own¬
ed by U. 8. Weddington, failed Mon¬
day afternoon. Assets and liabilities
are unknown, but It Is thought the
hank will pay Its creflltors in full.
FLOODS IN TENNESSEE.
Section Which Suffered So Severely
In May is Again Affected.
A Knoxville special says: Sudden
high water in upper east Tennessee
has caused great damage to the rail¬
roads and to private property. The
section affected is the same which suf¬
fered such great damage by floods in
May.
JESUP. GEORGIA. FRIDAY, AUGUST 16. 1901.
HACKETT ANSWERS INQUIRIES.
Only Admiral Schley Knows What
Witnesses Will Be Summoned.
In reply to numerous Inquiries, Act¬
ing Secretary Hackett, of the navy de
partment, gave out a statement Tue3
day in regard to the witnesses to be
summoned before the Schley court of
inquiry. He says in part:
"The court will convene on the 12th
of September. What witnesses will be
brought before the court in behalf of
Admiral Schley is for the admiral
himself to decide. No one can possi¬
bly know what witnesses the court is
going to summon before them.”
ROAD MAKES BIG LEASE.
Southern Secures Over Three Thou¬
sand Cars and Thirty-Five Engines.
The Southern railway has made one
of the largest leases of cars and en¬
gines ever made by a railroad com¬
pany in the south. Howard T. Stotes
bury, trustee, and acting for the Prov¬
ident Life and Trust Company of Phil¬
adelphia, is the lessor. The lease
covers a period of seven-years, dating
from July 1 and extending to Septem¬
ber 30, 190S. The lease is for 3,27-3
cars and 3a Baldwin locomotives.
VOTE TO CUT WAGES.
Fall River Manufacturers Wifi Reduce
Pay Rolls After September 3d.
Monday afternoon the Fall River.
Mass., cotton manufacturers at a
meeting for the purpose of discussing
the question of wage reduction
mously voted to reduce wages to a ba
sis of 17 cents for weaving, the reduc
tion to go into effect September 3.
This is about a 14 per cent cut, the
present price of weaving being 19.S
cents. An agreement will be drawn
up for the signatures and will be pass
ed by the executive committee of the
association.
RAILROADS REGISTER A KICK.
Lines In Tennessee Take Exceptions
to Commission's Assessment.
Complaints taking exceptions to as¬
sessment of their property in Tennes
see were filed Tuesday with the state
railroad commission by the Louisville
and Nashville, Nashville, Chattanooga
and St. Louis, Atlanta, Knoxville and
Nortbern, Kansas City, Fort Scott and
Memphis, and the Harriman and
Northeastern railroads. The excep
tions in each case allege the assess
meats to be excessive.
Plant System.
PAS8ENGEB SCHEDULES.
Arrivals and Departures at Jcpup, Ga.
lit Effect Apr. 14, 1901. Arrivals.
For Savannah and points North, East and
Northeast.
Train ho. .. 6 45 am
32 ..11 25 a m
«4 36 «« .. \tt 45 p to
• 4 M 78 << . .11 40 p in
For Wayoross aniT points South, West,
Southwest and Northwest.
Train No. 23 Leaves ....... 8 47 a to
•• 63 ....... 6 27 a m
<4 “ 8.5 ....... 9 10 u m
“ 88 H ....... 4 40 p m
ti “ 25 M ...... 6 60 p m
For Jacksonville and points South.
Train No. 13 Leaves ........ 5 30 am
Solid train Cincinnati to Jacksonville.
Trains 21, 36 78,32,23, 13, 53, 85, 38 and 25ara Mail,Steamship dully. of Peninsular and Occi¬
Connection made at Port Tampa with U. 8.
dental Steamship Line for Key West and Havana, leaving Port Tampa Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Sundays at 11 Oh p. m. sarvloo, trains malting local stops, and sched¬
For further information, through car
ules to other TBPPLINQ, points, apply Ticket to Agent, Passenger Station.
A. W.
J. H TO .HE.VW.S, Traveling Pass. Agent.
1). W. t. WKENN, Passenger Tragic Manager, Savannah, bents Ga. application to
Illustrated playing cards can. be secured at 25 per dock upon
agents of the Plant System.
SANTIAGO GUNS DESTROYED.
Thieves Steal and Break Up
Won By American Troops.
A d.spatch from Santiago says:
eral days ago it was discovered
the two modern six-inch Spanish
comprising the Punta Gorda
which commands the entrance to
harbor of Santiago, were missing.
harbor police discovered the guns
been carried to a forest on the
side of the bay and been broken
explosives, ready for shipment as
metal. ,
Several Spanish ships have
searched by the police, who had
pecte(i t0 discover that the guns
be . pg ghipped by ^ gpaniard8
gpain Latest report8 state
thieves are now in jail.
EXAMINERS UNDER SUSPICION.
Custom House Officials Alleged to
Swindling the Government.
At New York Appraiser
has called in the goods of a number
silk importing houses, and is making
an examination to see whether the
goods had been properly appraised,
This is because of a belief that cer
tain examiners in the employ of the
government have been making large
sums of money from the importers by
passing Japanese silks with under-val
uatlons,
Prom Savannah and points North, Hast
and Northeast.
Train No. 28 Arrives ........9 47 a m
: 63 _________ 6 27 a to
: 36 (( ........ 9 10 a m
: 33 ........ 4 40 p m
»« : 25 «< ........ 6 60 p m
From Wayoross and points South, West,
Southwest and Northwest.
Train No. 24 Arrives....... 0 45 a m
*• " 82 “ ........ll 25 a m
<< " 36 t * ........10 45 p to
»t " 78 ........11 40 p m
Revolutionary Movements.
The state department Tuesday
ceived mail advices from
quarters in Colombia, all showing
olutionary movements in progress,
a rather serious condition of affairs.
CREDITORS WILL BE PAID.
“Corn King” Phillips Says that
Wili Get Their Money.
George H, Phillips, speaking for
firm, which recently suspended
tions on the Chicago board of
because of confusion of accounts,
declared that every customer having
claim against the company would
paid in full. Notices of their
will b« mailed customer within a
or two.
ENGLAND RAISES OBJECTIONS.
Delays Signing Final Protocol In the
Chinese Agreement.
The state department makes
the following:
“A cablegram received from Mr.
Rockhill late yesterday reports that
the delay In signing the final protocol
of agreement between toe powers an i
China is due to objections raised by
Great Britain against the internation¬
al commission for the revision of the
tariff. The nature of the British objec¬
tion is not
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