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About Wayne County news. (Jesup, Ga.) 1896-???? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 23, 1905)
waync county News. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. - Entered a S second class matter m the post office St Jesup, La. Official Ortpn cf Wayne County. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ONE HOLLAR PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. I TELEPHONE NUMIJSR . * . I), VV. WHALEY, «P. 8. WILKINS, Stockholders. It, tv. TINDALL, Editor. It is a great relief to learn from Cas¬ tro's message to his Congress that, while he has the United States at Ids mercy, lie magnanimously Intends to 1s t It live n Illlle longer. Nothing is vainer In nature than the slim man who lias smlduily grown fat, unless it lie the elderly matron who has just been mistaken for her daughter, asserts the Boston Transcript. AVe any success is easier Ilian failure, remarks the Atchison Globe; that a mail who makes a success In life works less, worries less and lias an easier lime generally than Hie man who makes a failure and spends his time In telling how he Is smarter Ilian other people, but that "luck” lias been against him. By net of the Venezuelan Congress the title of "Restorer of Venezuela" Jins been conferred on “Cilizen General Ciprlano Castro, with the obligation of using it ns a heading to his decrees, resolutions anil proclamations as Pres¬ ident of the Republic." President Cas¬ tro has hitherto prided himself, like J'alstaff, upon doing liolhlng by com¬ pulsion, lint It Is thought he will make fin exception in lids particular Instance. Homo people have formed the habit of borrowing until they think they can not get along without It, declares the Indianapolis News. Never borrow un¬ less compelled to, for there Is nothing made by It. There is a loss of tlmo In going after the article and again h* reluming It, provided it Is returned. Home people borrow so much they for¬ get to retnrn Hint which they have bor¬ rowed, and that Is hard on the lender. It Is at limes a great accommodation, but Die habit grows. Undoubtedly the bill Increasing offi¬ cial salaries within moderation ought to be passed; but not to enable servants of the people in high places to compete Ju luxury with the very rich men of this period, avows the New York Sun. Modesty and slinpllolfy of living com¬ port with the theory of this democratic Republic. As jt Is, there Is too much pmfusivoness In Washington. Private luxury encourages public prodigality. If there is any place where the “simple life” ought to be illustrated practically, 11 is at 1!ie seat of the Federal Gov¬ ernment. The decisive defeat of the Vespers at Henley. In England, by the Leamlcr om-sinen may put an end to the efforts of American oarsmen to conquer such skilful masters of speed. In an eiglit onrnl shell, opines the New York Trib¬ une. English wleldors of the blade, tlie first choice of the amateurs of Great Britain, will be likely to bold tile supremacy over a crew which Is made up of the representatives of a single organization In the United States. This country has at times been championed on (he Thames by young men who bad been victorious on this side of the ocean, but 1ms never sent abroad eight oarsmen who could surpass the accomplished crew at Henley. The abuses of our American ogc trade would not be tolerated by the best residents of England or France, says Country Life in America, Even tho wealthiest women of- those coun¬ tries are trained in a Knowledge of these principles of domestic economy. The French housekeeper would not accept ns a gift much of the dressed poultry that is purchased by the ser¬ vants of the wealthy American faml lies and Is never seen by the mistress until placed on her table. The French woman lino been taught to know the difference between the true table breeds, even when dressed, She in sists that the fowls she purchases shall show the results of proper breeding, feeding and fattening. She will not purchase eggs from a basket that con tains those with w hite, yellow or brow n shells, because she knows that they have come from a mixed flock, prob¬ ably poorly cared for, or have been pick 1 up litre, there and everywhere, from careless and irresponsible people, FOR ARBITRATION Roosevelt Steps Into Breach i to Prevent Peace Rupture. j * HIS TASK DELICATE ONE Portsmouth Negotiations Are Virtually Transferred to 8t. Petersburg and Toklo—Secret Conference at Oyster Bay. A special from Portsmouth says : Suddenly the eyes of the nations have been turned by a mysterious midnight dispatch from Portsmouth to Oyster flay from the peace plenipotentiaries to the president of the United States. With the i-arly departure Saturday morning of Baron Rosen for Oyster Bay, President Roosevelt once more became the central figure on the world’s stage. The long message re reived after midnight by Mir. Pierce, the assistant secretary of state, was from the president. It was an invito tlon for Baron *osen to come there Immediately for a conference. The invitation was to Russia's ambassador at Washington, because as Russia’s accredited representative to this eouu try, It Is entirely proper for the pres ldent at any 3 time to summon him to conference. . a President Roosevelt is exerting ev ery particle of his great influence to prevent a rupture of the peace confer ence at Portsmouth. In this effort he has the active and cordial support of Great Britain, France and Germany, Tremendous and world wide pressure Is being brought to bear on the government* at St. Petersburg and Toklo not to permit the Washington conference to ! fail of affirmative aesult. After Ms conference with the presklent, Baron j Rosen left Immediately for his sum- j mer home at Magnolia, Mass., where he and Mr. Witte, the plenipotentiary, j spent Sunday. Neither President Roosevelt nor Baron Rosen would dt» cues, even In the moat general terms, j ! tho details or result of tholr confer cnee. The Associated Press Is able to an j noiinte that the feature of the prop osltloti of President Roosevelt com- Mr. j ! munlCAted through Baron Rosen to AVItte and transferred by the latter to j Rmperor Nicholas was based upon the principle of arbitration. j Whether the proposal contemplates arbitration of ail the articles upon which tho plenipotentiaries question have failed of j j to agree, or only upon the Indemnity, cannot be stated with pos \ itlvenoas, but it is more than proha bio that It relates only to Indemnity I or to indemnity and the cession of ! tho island of Sakhalin. I Neither 1* It possible to say whether ; the president has yet mode a similar j proposition to Japan. i To Emperor Nicholas, the author of i Tho Hague peace conference, the sag j gostlon of arbitration which will nec essarlly Immediately command the j sympathy of public opinion of the world will he particularly hard to re joot. If he agrees, Japan, If she has , not already done so, will be all the moro bound to submit her claim to the decision of on Impartial arbitrator. Acceptance by both sides would In volve n great extension of the prln- j c-lple of arbitration as nations have , heretofore declined tholr to “honor arbitrate and ques- dig- j lions Involving nlty.” According to current gossip, Baron Kancko told the president that Japan would yield upon Article X and Arti¬ cle XI. That Japan would yield on these two pouts. If Russia would ac¬ cept V and VUI (Indemnity and Sak¬ halin), Is considered certain. A si. Petersburg special, under Mon¬ day's date, says: Russia’s official at¬ titude regarding the final reply to be made to Japan Is unehanbed. Tho Impression prevails as heretofore that only a very great concession on the part of Japan on the question of In¬ demnity and the cession of Rakhal'n will ninke peace possible. DOUBLE MURDER SUSPECTED. Remains of Man and Woman Found In Ashes of Burned House. The charred remains of a man and a woman were found Sunday morning at the scene of a fire, which occurred Saturday night in DeKalb county. Ga-. some three miles from Atlanta. The t)0d ( es W)>re i ater identified as those of an old white man named Griffin. and a white woman, known as Rosa Thompson. An investigation was heid and evi¬ dence sqcnred which caused the offi cera to suspect that a double murder had been committed. SCORE BURIED UNDER WALL9. Theatre Building at Pittsburg Col lapses. Entombing Many Workmen. At 6:45 P- m.. Sunday, the walls and first floor celling of the A-vemie The au>r but!(1 j Ug a , pittsbur*. Pa . which burned some time agto. and was being wrecked, preparatory to the con struction of a new building, fell with a crash, carrying down atxsn. • *■*' • Ita!ian '" ir: ' ln ' e under the debris. TURN TO ARSENIC TREATMENT. Affrighted Citizens of New Orleans Are Crazy to Take New Remedy. A New Orleans dispatch says : Spurned by the health authorities, Dr. Reginald B. I<each, the St. Paul phy eiclan, who has come protesting that arsenic is an Invariable preventive of yellow fever, has become the Hon of the city. His office Is besieged dally by thousands anxious to place selves under his treatment. The turning of the public to Leach has shown the widespread terror that prevails. Manifestly citizens in all the walks of life are moved by the same spirit of affright against the lurking fever, and, like a drowning man, are willing to catch at whatever may hap pen along. Belief is growing in the doc tor’s preventive, and Leach holds to tits statement that more than one bun dred thousand persona throughout the city are now taking his treatment. Beyond the statement that the daily ftgurbs present solid evidence that the modern scientific campaign in progress Is controlling the fever, the authorities in charge of the work had little comment to make Saturday. They find justification for their opti¬ mism in the fact that the number of deaths remains low, far below what they kad reason to expect, Following Is the official record for Saturday up to 6 p. m.: New cases, 68; total cases, 1,340; deaths, Satur¬ day, 4; total deaths to date, 192; cases , )nd<8r treWmWt , 40 1. Sunday’s report was as follow* ; New cases, 45; total cases to date, 1,- 386; deaths Sunday, 4; total deaths, 196; remaining under treatment, 381. SANFORD IS DENIED BOND. - Wright's Slayer Must Stay In Jail Until January Term of Court. At Rome, Oa., late Saturday after noon Judge Wright announced that he would not admit Vincent T. San¬ ford to hail and the prisoner waa re¬ manded to Jail to await the January term of court. Sanford was fried recently for kill Ing George Wright for alleged undue Intimacy with Mrs. Sanford. The juyv was unable to agree on a verdict, ai¬ though it considered the case for about six days. It was reported that th* jury stood eight fo r conviction and four for acquittal, Soon after the mistrial Hanford's at torneys gave notice of a motion for bell and Saturday, the 19th, was fixed for the hearing, The attorneys for the defense filed a motion for a bond, before Judge Wright, at ]l o’clock. Saturday morn ing, and after long and exhaustive arguments on both sides, the motion w#8 overruled and the defendant ro mantled to jail to await trial, PLACES GIVEN COLORED WOMEN White Employes of Savannah Cotton Mill* Discharged, The mule spinners of the Savannah, G*., cotton mills have walked out be eaeso they claim the carding In the mills is an inferior quality of work, Several weeks ago the one hundred white women and girls employed la the carding department wore dlscharg od and their places were filled by colored women. It is to the work dona by the new hands that the mule spin ners object. They complained, but without result, so they determined to stop work. The superintendent of the mills says lm does not know why t*e white la l or was supplanted. He says it whs done by N. H. Tifton of Vermont, ths owner of tho mill, ITALIAN CRUISER ARRIVES. Consul at Charleston Visit* the Vessel and Entertains Officers. The Italian cruiser llogall, bound for South America on a special mis¬ sion, arrived at Charleston Sunday morning to remain until Thursday. Italian Consul Sottlle paid a forma! call on Captain Capomaxza and *fto r return of the call took the officers for carriage drives through the city and then to the Isle of Palms. The Dogali has twenty gun® and her com¬ plement Is 250 men. She left Italy in May, 1904. CAR LOAD OF HYMN BOOKS Adopted by Northern and Southern Methodists Shipped to Chicago. The largest single shipment of a re ligkws publication over known, ac cording to the book publishers, was made when the Methodist Book Con corns at Cincinnati *«nt a freight car containing 21.194 copif*. the first con¬ signment of the new Methodist hymnal to the branch house In Chicago. The new hymnal Is the only one on which the two Methodist churche*. north and south, have united since 1846. The book contains 717 hymns and 600 pagee. CONGER MAY TRY HAND. proposition to Send Him to China to Fight the Boycott. Edward H. Conger of Iowa, formerly United State* minister to China, and since last April the American am¬ bassador to Mexico, will return in the near future to China if present plans are carried into effect. His mission to Cbina will be to allay, if possible, the agitation aroused in parts of the Chinese empire against the use by Chinese of American prod pets. FROM OPEN DRAW Train of Negro Excursionists Plunges Into River, WATERY GRAVE FOR MANY Engine and Two Passenger Coaches Under Twenty Five Feet of Water. Engineer Lost Control of the Brakes at Critical Moment. the lnaW|tty of Engioeer . *elg to control his airbrakes, an ex cursion train from Kinston, N. C„ bound to Norfolk, Va., plunged through an open draw in a bridge over the western branch of the Elizabeth river at Brace Station, eight miles from Norfolk, Thursday, end a half bun dred persons, mostly negroes, were drowned, Up to a late hour Thursday Dlght only seven bodies had been recovered from Ibe wreckage. The list of n jured, ao far ns can be ascertain, number* nearly one hundred, though most of these are slightly hurt, A large number of physicians from Nor¬ folk and nearby cities went to the scene. Among the victims, the only white om* were Edward Joliaffe, manager of the excursion, and Edward Forbes, who assisted him, both of Greenville, N. C. The Merritt Wrecking organization. Thursday night, d spaie.hed au expedi¬ tion to the scene for the purpose of raising the sunken cars, which He in about 25 feet of water. Unt'l the cars are raised, no accuratea estimate of the number of dead can he given. Engine and Two Cars In River. The train was composed of an en¬ gine and six passenger cars. The en gisie and two cars went through the draw, leaving the four rear cars on the track. One ear was completely submerged, and the other partly sub¬ merged. Nothing Is visible of the en glne, not even the smokestack. It Is believed that every occupant of the first car perished. The (lend esn be gotten only by diving under the car. The scene following the wreck was one of indescribable horror, with the shrieking of men, women and children who vrv.re (irowuitng, struggling out of the partly submerged coach and float¬ ing Ithe river. The passengers who were uninjured Immediately started to rescue those Imprisoned In the cars. Norfolk and Portsmouth were communicated with and physicians were sent out on a wrecking train. Many people In the neighborhood went to the scene of the wreck and helped in the rescue. Ths Injured were taken to the track em¬ bankment and were attended there bv the physicians. Collins Ferguson, the negro bridge tender of the Atlantic Coast Line, wss knocked from the bridge by the im¬ pact and killed. Engineer Reig nud Fireman Alfred Cooper, a negro, escaped by Jmn;> tag. The wrecked train left Kinston. N. C., at 7 o'clock Thursday morning with 165 negro excursionists for Norfolk It was due to arrive at Norfolk nr 1 o’clock In tho aflernoon Following tills train was another excursion train over the same road bringing :l (l " cx curslontsts from Rocky Mount, N. c Preceding the wrecked train wes still another excursion train carrying some three hundred merchants and others from Augusta, G.i Charleston, S. C and Jacksonville. Fla., bound to Ilal tlmore, Philadelphia and New York for the purchase of fall goods. The first trfitn arrived in Norfolk at 8:30 a m.. without accident end the Angus's, Jacksonville and Charles ton merchants all left for the north by water. The Atlantic Coast Line officials are at a loss to know why Engineer Relgs failed to stop k!s train before coming to the draw, as required bv the rules of the road. An Investigation of the cause of the wreck will he mad, at once and the responsibility place i where it belongs. RGge himself could make no explanation. STRIKE IS RECOMMENDED. Union printers Prepared to Wage War for Eight-Hour Day, The convention of the Internal ion:-’ Typographical Union of North Amec ca in session at Toronto decide \ Thursday to meet tn Colorado Spring, next year. The eight-hour committee presented Its report, which indorses the eight hour campaign now being waged, and recommends a strike on January 1905 against employers who do no* accept the new hours laid down hv the union. OWES FORTUNE: OWNS NOTHING Enormous Liabilities and P gmy Asset! Scheduled by Clerk to Promoter. Liabilities of $292,677 and assets o: $50 were scheduled in a petition in bankruptcy filed at F --ion by George 15. Appleton of Cambridge. Appletot was a clerk in the office of Arthur E Appleyard, the street railway promo ter. who is now contesting exmiditior to the state of New York, where ht is wanted for grand larceny. WASHINGTON EXPLAINS Colored Educator Denies Feature of Wanamaker Episode—Practice* So¬ cial Equality Only In the North. A New York dispatch say*; Book¬ er T. Washington, the Tuskegee negTO educator, has made a statement in ref erence to dining with the family of John Wanamaker, formerly postmaster general, at a Saratoga hotel. Wash¬ ington admits that he dined with Wan amaker’s family, but5 denies that he escorted. Sirs Barclay Warbutoo, tVtmamaker's daughter, to the dining room. Washington statement follows; T have just seen for the first time false , , report* , in . the misleading and southern newspapers referring to m - y escorting female members of Mr. It an amaker’e family, but denies that e of a Saratoga hotel. I have w ferred to these reports because t ey have just come to my notice. "I did not escort any female mem ber of Mr. Wanaisakeris family to or out of the dining room. I did dine with Mr. Wanamaker and members of his family at a hotel at hie request, for the purpose of talking on a mat¬ ter of business, but at the time was a guest myself at a colored hotel in Saratoga. “During the last fifteen years I have been at the hotel, where Mr. Wan amaker was, on three different occa¬ sions when I was to speak at public meetings, as I was this time, and no comment was made of it. "Wihen in the south, 1 conform, like all colored people, to the customs of the south, but when In the north 1 have found It necessary during the last twenty years, as stated fully In my book, ’Up From Slavery,' to come In contact with white people in the furtherance of my work in ways I do not in the south. “BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. ’ On Friday and Saturday The Mo¬ bile (Ala.) Herald asked by wire for the opinions of The New York Sun, Times. World, Herald and Journal, concerning the Booker Washington in¬ cident at Saratoga. No reply was sent to either of the messages, whereupon The Herald then sent the following to each of the five papers: “Friday and Saturday we wired for your opinion on the Booker Washing ion uffalr. Lot your silence give the Impression that you are subsidized by Wanamaker’s advertising we are especially anxious to hear from you, and we stand ready to pay cost. "HERALD." Tho following was also sent person ally to William H. Hears!: “As ona who has appealed for southern votes for president, the silence of your pa pers on tho Booker Washington af¬ fair is significant and create* com meat, especially in view of the fact that you have frequently proclaimed the pride of Virginia blood. Answer our telegrams of Friday and Satur day.” QUITS BOARD OF TRUSTEES. Former Mayor 0 f Birmingham Washes Hla Hands of Bookers Institute. Former Mayor W. M. Drennen of Birmingham. Ala., has tendered his resignation as a member of the board of trustees of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, because of the recent Saratoga affair. Ilrennen addressed the following letter to Book er T. Washington: "j regret exceedingly that I cannot oonststently serve longer as one of th( , trustees of Tuskegee normal and lndu8t rial school, and I now tender my resignation. Yours truly, -WALTER MELVILLE DRENNEN." ____ MOTHER CONFESSES TO MURDER, On Death Bed Woman Admits Poison¬ ing Little Daughter. Mrs. John T. Lynch of Bloomington, lnd w pom the attending physician has pronuneed to be in a dying condl , ]on confessed to her si s’or and two nel g hbors Saturday that to 1885 she her three-year-old daughter by g(v(nR child morphine. She said a( aamrt time she told the doctor the baby had eaten green acorns and ,h ero never* was any suspicion of a cr | me j;he sa jd remorse had been gnawing at her heart ever since. OCCUPATION TAX FOR GEORGIA. Measure Passed in House Assess , : Ail Coiporations in e a e. An occupation tax upon each and | every corporation doing business in Georgia, ekat the domestic house of and representative* foreig^. was adopted with practically no oppo.l i Lon. ; This occupation tax is graded in ! Pccordance with the corpora!ion’s capital stock, varying from *5 on cor j porations whose capital stock is ,es^ i than 825,900 to $100 on corpora:.ons having a rapital of more than $1,000. i 000. The same tax is put upon for j sign as upon domestic corporations SEVEN BABES IN SIX DAYS. j Such is Remarkable in Record Hawaii. Creditec to a Woman j \ dispatch to Honolulu by wireles* , -elegnaph from Hilo says that Hana the Hawaiian wife of Kailua, a Ch: j neS(? , «ave birth to one child on las’ Thursday, two on Sunday, one on Mor. day, tw-o on Tuesday morning and out on Tuesday night. AU are dead. ATLANTIC COAST UNO. PASSENGER SCHEDULES. Arrivals and Departures at Jesup, Gx, In Effect May gth, 1905. Departures. For Savannah and points North and East. Train No. 58 Train No. 32 leaves......11:30am Train No. 32....... .. . .Yl-.EOatr. Train No. 40 leaves .. ..11:20pm For Wavcross and South, west. No. 89 leaves .. .. 5:00am No. 35 leaves .. .. .. ..11:05am No. 21 leaves .. .. .. .. 4:45am No. 57 leaves .. . .. .. 8:35pm For Jacksonville and points south via Short Line. No. 85 leaves 10:53am For Folkston via Shi rt Line. No. 27 leaves.......... 5:06am Arrivals. From Savannah and North and East. No. 39 arrives...... 4:55am No. 35 arrives .. .. .. ..10:48am No. 21 arrives .. .. .A: 40pm No. 67 arrives .. .. .....8:30pm From Jacksonville and points South via Short Line. No. 32 arrives 11:15am From AVayeross and points South and West, via Waycross. No. 58 arrives .. . .. 7:40am No. 32 arrives .. .. . ..11:05am No, 40 arrives .. .. . ..11:45pm No. 22 arrives .. .. .. 7:45pm From Folkston via Short Line. No. 26 arrives 7:3bpm Nos. 2« and 27 daily except Sunday. All other trains daily. Connections made at Port Tampa with United States mall steamship of Peninsula and Occidental Steamship line of Key West and Havana, leaving | Port Tampa Sundays, Tuesdays and j Thursdays at 11:40 p. m. I For further Information, through services, trains making local stops and schedules to other points, apply TICKET AGENT, Jesup, Ga., or M. TICKET AGENT, Jesup, Ga., or Thos. E. Myers, Trav. Pass. Agent, ; savannah. j p, r. white, Div. Pass. Agt., Savannah j W. J. Craig, Gen. Pass Agt., Wilming¬ f ton. N. C. H. M. EMERSON, Traffic Manager. | j REPORTED KILLED. TWENTY In Collision Between Train and Trolley Car at Butte, Montana. A special from Butte, Montana, says: A Great Northern freight train struck :i crowded Columbia Garden car at the Butte, Anaconda and Pacific station Sunday night. Twenty persons are re ported killed end many injured. ENVOYS ARE STALLED, Stumbling Blocks Are Reached and the Peace Negotiations Slow Up In Consequence. j The crisis In the peace conference ; at Portsmouth was reached Thursday, and pessimism SB again the note. But the darkest hour is just before the dawn, and there is stili hope. Pre¬ dictions of a final rupture certainly i will not be justified unless Baron Komura figuratively picks up his hai | and announces that it is useless ' > proceed further. Mr. Witte, at leas*, will not he precipitate. The pessimism Thursday night was based upon rhe fa(t ihat no progre.-ot | was made during the day. The exchange of views at the morn I ing session upon Article IX (remun : eration for the “cost of the war”) showed at once that the plenipoten¬ tiaries were as far apart as the polen and It was passed over. Article X ) (the surrender of the interned Rus¬ sian warships) was also passed. Article XI (limitation of sea power) is also adjustable after modification, and Article XII will present no diffi¬ culties. So that Thursday night the situation was practically what it was when Mt. AVItte last Saturday pre¬ sented the Russian reply with its non possimus to Articles IV and V (in demnjty an(| Sakhalin) . The only chance is now compromise _ R „„, a t0 Wd Sakt;3!ln and ., apalf 5ndemn;ty Neltber wll , vie!d hoth . end . perhaps. Jap an, at ihe fin*l show hands y, eId neither . Mr . WUe uader th# imperia , !Ddiratlons contained in the instructions given him before he left St. Petersburg, can agree neither to pay war tribute nor cede a foot of Russian soli. St. Pe¬ tersburg, therefore, on the last resor', remains to be heard from. Baron Ho¬ niara probably will welcome an ad¬ journment ot two days In order that he also may lay the situation before his government for its final decision. No very great hope was vouchsafed in the Japanese camp. "We are not bluffers," said Mr. Sato, and from an authoritative source the Associated Press correspondent rereived a distinctly bad impression regarding the outlook. It was coupled. however, with an expression of the ho;e that if it developed that the con¬ ference was going to pieces, President t Roosevelt might again step in.
