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THE BLACKSHEAR TIMES.
VOL. X.
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THE BLACKSHEAli TIMES,
Blackshear, Ga.
Briggs to Continue His Work.
A New York special says: At a
meeting of the board of directors of
the Union seminary Thursday it was
decided that C. A. Briggs, D. D., will
continuc las work in the department
of Biblical theology as hitherto Ihe
directors also decided that special pro
visions should be made so that none of
the students of Union seminary will
suffer from the restrictions which have
been put u pon the board o f education.
NORTH GEORGIA
liiitnimral Coliep J
AT DAHLONEGA.
A branch of the State University
Spring Term legins First Monday in Feb
ruary. Fall Term legins First
Monday in September.
Best school in the south, for students with
limited means, The military training is
thorough, being under a U. S. Army officer,
detailed by the Secretary of War.
BOTH SEXES HAVE EQUAL ADVAN
TAHES.
Bludej‘8 aro prepared and licensed to teach
in the public schools, by act of the legislature.
Lectures, on Agriculture and the Science*
by distinguished educators and scholars.
For health tho ciimato is unsurpassed
Altitude 1237 feet.
Board $ .0 per month and upwards. Massing
at lower rates.
Each senator and representative of the state
is entitled snd requested to '."ypoint one pupil
from his district o- cottaty, without paying
matriculation fee, during his term.
For catalog or information, address Secre
tary or Treasurer Ueard o** Trustees.
Savannah, Florida and Western Railway.
WAYCROSS SHOUT LINE—TIME CARD.
Schedule of through trains to Florida and Southern Georgia. In effect April
23, 1893.
Going {South—llead <l'*wn. G ling Nol'tii— lltJul up.
5 15 27 I 23 i lTl - 7»~T G
130p! 3S0pi 4 38 02i| 610a SOOaj Ar.. Lv.. .....Jesup... ..Savannah. ..At Lv !10 12 0 24a >p: 8 fi 32p...... 25p...... 0 3 20i 38a
5 a! .. 9 20.1 5 15p...... 1 00a
5 lOp! 0 40 lOaill i 915a....... Way Brunswick, cross... 7 20a...........! 7 lOp
7 lOp 11 OOp! 2 00p........ lOaj....... . ...Albany.. 1 15p...... 3 45p
1 l a 2 00n!....... Jacksonville 7 ..... 00a 2 OOp...... 62
8 00p 9 1 40p 00 1 112 4 40p Hanford.. 1 15a! 7 55a...... 12 50y »p
1 2 05a 55p! .. ....Tampa... 8 OOp...... 8 35a
8 55a 5 20p 8 Port Tampa 7 20p|...... ...... ......j 8 00a
9 30a 6 OOp 9 40p... • Live Oak I .....-I------; 6Oop
!!!..!' ... • 00a!
2 wip 2 :«[)!... ..Gainesville 8 • ..j J 3 OOp
.....1128a 1123a ... ...VahiO'ta.. 2 3 28p . 9 7 23p 25p
1 02 p 1 02 p • Thoma-ville " 7 i( . ..
..... 3 25p 3 25p ... .Mont cello... 111 45a . .. 4 30p
... 112 50p,. 5lOp
..... 1 2 29a 2 38i>... .. Chattahoochee Bain bridge... .. ..! 3 OOp
11 59a .....Macon..... 3 35a 10 OOp
4 45 a ...Coin mbus... .. G 50p
19 35a Atlanta-... 115-ip I...... .. ..j 7 OOp
7 4*a ... Montgomery. 7 30pi 7 00a ..
7 35a 8 40|> S 40,, • !...... 12 20a:.. ..
2 Oil;, 3 }05a 3 05a .....Mobile.....
7 20 . 7 3 id i o> iu .New Orleans., :...... 7 50;/..
No. 19 leaves Suvautmli dailv, except Sunday, 3:15 p. ai., arrives Jesup 7-20 p. m. No. 74
leaves Jesup daily except Sunday, 4:25 a. m., arrivis Savanna!! 8:40 a. m. Tnese trains stop at
all stations between Sayanruli au<l Je*up.
SLEEPING CAit HIKVICE AND CONNECTIONS.
Trains Nos. 27 and 14 carry Pullman cura between New York, Havanna'i and Port Tamna. No.
27 cirries Pullman sleeping cars Waver o- to Nasdville. Louisville and Cincinnati. Train 78 car
ri.s Pn lman sleeping cars b tween N w York and Jacksonvill e Nos. 5 and 0 carry Pullman
etrs between SaV-tunah mid Jacksonvill e Nos. 5 and 6 liav: Pullman cars between Savannah
and Atlanta: and on Wednesdays an 1 Saturdays No. 5 carries Pullman sleeper to Suwannee
Sprint and on Thursdays and at Sundays Jesup for the Macon, sleeper Atlanta returns and from the Suwannee wt-s’. Train Springs. 15 connects
Trams 5 and 15 connect Nashville, Cincinnati and St. Louis. Through
at Wavcross for Montgomery, New Orleans
Pullman sleeper Waycross to St. Louis. Train 23 e irmect* with Alabama Midland railway for
Montgomerv and the southwest.
T ck-t-sold io ail points and sleep:nz car b: rths secured at passenger stations, and ticket
office. 22 Puli sMvet. E. A. Arnntid, City Ticket Agent.
It. G. Fleming. Sup rintendent. W. M. Davidson, Gen-ral Passenger Agent.
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BLACKSHEAR, GA., THURSDAY, J UME 22, 1893.
CROP BULLETIN.
The Past Week a Favorable One iu
Many of the States.
! The weather crop bulletin issued
Tuesday from the Agricultural Depart
ment, says : The warm w eather of the
last week improved the crops greatly
and they are growing rapidly. The
general weather has been good and
several states report it the most favor
able week of the season. Farmers are
more hopeful in the west and in the
south Atlantic states. Following are
some special telegraphic reports:
Mississippi—Nights cool for cotton,
general conditions very favorable,crops
very grassy, but being cleaned rapidly;
corn yellow in bottoms,season late and
crops a little short.
Louisiana—Week rather favorable
to crops, frequent showers interfered
with laying by of cane, but rice bene
fitted; cotton shows improvement,
some blooms; corn silking and tassell
j n , r> overflow of water falling
slowly in the extreme northeast and
lands will be placed in condition as
early as practicable.
Texas—Nights too cool for cotton,
plant irregular in size and prospects,
while good in some sections, do not
tondition, for the state. Corn iu
b d about laid by. ,
Arkansas-Most of the corn laid by,
cotton much improved and crops be
. * r id] cleaned, wheat being har
ve te(J yield good , oats heading and
promiBe * abundant crop, farmers more
ftnd encouraged,
Tennessee-Warm, work pushed
vi “ „ orollB i y during the week.cornbe
. £ worked ftnd looks we ll, early
w eat ttl)0llt ready tl) cut> c l 0V er and
grasses in splendid condition, barley
being cut, cotton small, but improv
ing. Kentucky—Most favorable week of
the season, wheat harvest about to
commence some complaint of rust,
oats and grasses fine, tobacco nearly
set and looks well.
Missouri—Most favorable week of
tho season, work progressing finely
ond the crop outlook improving daily.
GEORGIA BANKERS
In Convention (’ails for the Repeal of
the Sherman Law.
Tho bankers of Georgia mot in con
vention at Savannah Thursday. All the
cities in the state were represented.
Colonel Olmstead, president of tho
Chatham bank, welcomed tho delegates.
Interesting papers were read. The con
vention passed a resolution calling for
the repeal of the Sherman silver law as
a necessity to restore confidence to the
country. Also opposing further coin
age with the present ratio to gold but
favoring the free coinage of all silver,
but each dollar must contain enough
of silver to buy 100 cents of gold any
where in the world ; also, appoint a
3 ub-treasury somewhere in Georgia.
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And Important Happenings from Day
to Day Tersely Told.
The Tennessee Press Association mot
at Nashville Wednesday with seventy
six members in attendance. Tho as
sociation endorsed Secretary Pitkin C.
Wright for consul to Honolulu.
Tho name of the Wilmington, Ons
low and East Carolina railway has been
changed to tho Wilmington, New Berne
and Norfolk. It is being rapidly con
structed northward, and in twenty
days will reach New Berne.
The doors of the Riverside Banking
company, of Riverside, Cal., failed to
open at tho usual hour Wednesday.
The following was displayed on the
door: “This bank is closed under in
structions. Depositors will be paid.”
The Methodist ministers of Atlanta,
Ga., met Monday morning in regular
session and added the weight of their
protestation against tho opening of
the World’s fair on Sunday iu a num
ber of resolutions, which were unani
mously adopted.
A Raleigh special of Tuesday says:
The executive committee of the North
Carolina state board of agriculture
will leave for the world’s fair next
week to inspect and receive North
Carolina’s admirable exhibits, which
are now complete.
Thursday tho Missouri, Tennessee
and Ohio Lutheran Synods, of tho
Lutheran church, met at Newton, N.
C., and made arrangements for uniting
and co-operating iu their work. North
Carolina is greatly interested in tho
work, the Lutherans being quite strong
in tho Piedmont section.
General A. W. Campbell died at his
home, at Jackson, Tenn., Tuesday
night, of cancer of the throat, aged
65. He was a brigadier general in the
confederate army, a member of the
constitutional convention of 1876, and
a prominent candidate for governor
on several occasions.
A Louisville Ky., dispatch of Wed
nesday says: It has developed that F.
B. Smith, ex-treasurer of Clark county,
and tho successor of ex-treasuror Jen
kins is a defaulter to the amount of
$3,339.15, and jiosBilily more. Thera
is a rumor abroad that Smith is miss
ing from his home in New Washing
ton.
In the United States court at Char
leston, S. G'., Monday, Judge Simonton
tiled a decree in tho caso of the state
to forfeit tho charter of tho Port
Royal and Augusta railroad on tho
ground that it was operated against
the interest of the people of the state,
having passed into tho control of tho
Centra of Georgia a competing cor
poration.
A New Orleans special says: A
break in the leveo occurred Tuesday
night just below tho oil mill in Baton
Rouge and at midnight it was twenty
feet wide and washing fast, The
break is on tho left bank of the river,
and if allowed to widen will cause
great damage, us water will follow the
track of the famous Bonnet Curre and
Nita crevasse.
M. F. Barton, who for thirteen
years past has been in tho employ of
the United States government as pos
tal clerk, and who for several years
has been chief clerk of a postal car
running between Nashville and Mont
gomery, on the Louisville and Nasli
ville railroad, was arrested at Bir
mingham, Ala., Tuesday morning, by
United Htates Postoffice Inspector W.
H. Mayer, charged with robbing the
mails.
At a joint meeting of the Savannah
board of trade and cotton exchange,
held Thursday, a resolution w»h pass
ed urging Hon. Rufus E. Lester to
urge the repeal of the Sherman silver
law when congress meets in the fall.
The resolution urged tho importance
of the repeal of that law upon all of
Georgia’s representatives in congress !
and a copy of it will be sent to each
of them, requesting that they work for
its repeal.
At New Orleans, Thursday after
noon, one produce shed, one fruit shed,
of the Louisville and Nashville Rail
road Company, one fruit shed of tho
lllinois Central, fruit shed and the j
wharves in front of them and upon |
which these stood, and 7,000,000 feet
of lumber were destroyed by fire, j
The Louisville and Nashville shed wus
full of fruit. The loss upon the fruit
alone w ill lie $20,000. I he loss of
the railroad companies will approxi
mate $60,000; making the total loss
exceed $80,000.
A Charleston special of Monday
Ml - : The barkeepers are in a state of
exhilaration over the proposed appli
cation to Judge Bond for an injnn (■
tion to stay the execution of the
pensary law. It seems that tli state
liquor dealers’ association is not in
this deal. The move is to be paid for
bv the retail grocers’ association. The
plan embraces a motion to be made
for an injunction in liehulf of the
dealers who have taken out eonnty and
municipal license for twelve months,
The lawyers employed by the associa-
tion will start for Baltimore at onee
and apply to Judge Bond.
As a result of an investigation by
the grand jury indictments have been
returned against George Childress,
cashier, and Connor Easley, assistant
cashier of the Second National bank
of Columbia, Tenn., which recently
failed. They were jointly indicted
Wednesday in three different cases,
two charging false pretenses and one
fraudulent breach of trust. Two in
dictments were returned against Chil
dress individually for false pretenses
and breach of trust. Both men have
been arrested. Easley was released
on $3,000 bond and Childress on $(',,
000 bond.
A fertilizer company some months
ago attempted to secure from the
United States circuit court at. Raleigh
an injunction restraining the state de
partment of agriculture from collect
ing a tax of 25 cents per ton on fertil
ers. The court declined to grant the
injunction, but appointed a oonunis-’
sioner to take testimony as to whether
the tax collected was iu excess of au
amount necessary to securo a proper
inspection and control of fertilizers.
Tho court now decides that the tax is
not excessive, thus sustaining the ton
nago tax at all points. Tho fertilizer
company appeals to the United States
supreme court.
A New Orleans special says: Adjt.
Gen. Morohain has announced the fel
lowship of the following named camps
in tho organization of the United Con
federate Veterans and their respective
numbers, viz : Elmore County Camp,
No. 225,Wetumpka,Ala; Harbor Camp,
No. 256, Andalusia, Ala. ; Collings
worth County (’amp, No. 257, Welling
ton, Tex. ; Pelham Camp, No. 258,
Anniston, Ala. ; Joseph E. Johnston
Camp, No. 259, Childrcs, Tex.; Joe
Wheeler Camp, No. 260, Bridgeport,
Ala. ; Lee County Camp, No. 261,
Opelika, Ala. ; Rodes Camp, No. 262,
Tuskftloosa, Ala. ; W. N. Estes Camp,
No. 263, Fort Payne, Ala. ; Feliciana
Camp, No. 264, Jackson, La.
THE SENTENCES QUASHED
And the Panama Unnal Swindlers arc
(liven their Freedom.
Advices from Paris state that con
siderable excitement lias been caused
by tho decision of the court of cessa
tion on the appeal of Chnrles do Les
seps and the other defendants convict
ed of fraud in connection with the
Panama Canal Company, Tho court
handed down its decision Thursday
(plashing tho sentences on tho ground
that the statute of limitation covered
the offences charged and that the in
dictments on which tho prisoners were
charged were irregular. M.
In consequence of this decision
Eiffel was at once liberated. M.
Charles do Lesseps, who is in tho Ht.
Louis hospital suffering with acute at
tacks of dyspepsia, was informed that
he was at liberty. He was too ill to
leuve the hospital. There were five
defendants convicted on the trial,
which ended on February 9th last.
There were Ferdinand de Lesseps, his
son Charles, Marius Fontaine, Henri
Cottu and GustavusEiffel. Ferdinand
de Lesseps was sentenced to five years’
imprisonment and to pay a fine.
M. Fontain was also notified of tho
reversal of his sentence and was at
once given his liberty. In addition to
the sentence of five yours’ impwson
nieht imposed upon M. Charles do
Lesseps, he was sentenced at a later
trial to serve a year for hrifiing certain
members of the chamber to vote for
the Panama lotte ry bond bill.
And thus ends one of the greatest
criminal cases France has ever known,
in which the names of men prominent
in political and social life were badly
smirched and which caused Baron do
Reinach to commit suicide and two or
three others to flee the country.
MCKINLEY RE-NOMINATED.
The Republican State Convention of
Ohio In HchhIou.
A Columbus, O., special says: A
ff!W minutes after 10 o’clock Thursday
mo rning General Grosvener called the
n bli C an state convention to order,
aI)d tk( . Kev 1)T x. H. Holmes irn
plored th( . d i v i ne biasing on the pro
ccedings. Hon. H. M. Dougherty was
introduced as permanent chairman
and made a three-minute speech. The
report of the committee on resolutions
was read by Congressman G. W. Hu
licit, of Clermont. Each plank was
loudly applauded. presented
McKinley’s name was Colonel as
t},< : nominee for governor by
]job Nevius, of Dayton, and seconded
}, y Senator J. W. Nichols, of Belmont,
There were no other nominations and
tJje governor was declared the r.omi
nee arnid a scene of wild enthusiasm.
A committee was appointed to con
duct him to the hall, and a few mo
rrients later he made his appearance,
He was greeted with cheers prolonged
for several moments
A Bank Threatened with Dynamite.
Ihe Farmers and Merchants State
bank at Fairrnount, Ind., closed its
doors Wednesday. Quite a crowd of
farmers rushed for the bank and
threatened to use dynamite under it.
r lbe bank had a paid up capital of
$50,000, with a surplus of $5,000 at the
last report.
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
Happenings from Day to Day in me
National Capital
Appointments In the Various Depart
ments—Other Notes of Interest.
Postmaster General Btssell has re
scinded his order that no republican with
postmasters should be removed
out charges being filed against tho in
cumbent.
Tho papers in the Blaok-Watson,
contest for seats in the house have
been opened, and Clerk Kerr says that
some rare and racy testimony has been
reached.
Baron Fava was presented to tho pres
ident Wednesday afternoon by Secre
tary Gresham under the new title ns
ambassador from Italy. Tho usual
felicitious speeches were exchanged.
Thursday tho names of sixty-seven rolls
clerks were dropped from the
of tho general land office, ()f this
number, six were from class 4, $1,800
per annum; nineteen from class 3,
$1,600 per annum; sixteen from class
2, $1,400; ten from class 1, $1,200;
eight from tho one thousand class, and
eight from tho copying class, $990.
Tho president appointed the follow
ing postmasters Monday: Win. B.
Copeland, at Birmingham, Ala., vice
R. H. Houston removed; James M.
Davis, at Cordele, Ga., vice M. G.
Hull removed; Richard F. Moore, at
Columbus, Miss., vice 1). Hale, com
mission expired ; Win. A. MoCanless,
at Tupelo, Miss., vice J. C. Eckles re
signed.
Acting Land Commissioner Bowers
rendered a decision Monday in which
he orders canceled, on the ground of
fraud and collusion,about twenty-three
timber and stono entries of valuable
timber lands made in the Vancouver
land district, Washington, and now
held by J. B. Montgomery, of Port
land, Oro., to whom the lands were
transferred immediately after the final
proofs were made.
Officials at the state department, are
of tho opinion that tho argument of
counsel before the Behring sea arbitra
tion will ho concluded within the next
ten days, and that, with tho exception
of Secretary Foster, all the officers
connected with tho preparation and
presentation of the American case will
then return to tho United States. It
is also expected that tho decision of
the arbitrators will bo announced by
tho first of August. Arbitrators lfar
lan and Morgan and General Agent
Foster will remain in Paris until the
arbitration is concluded.
The president, Tuesday, appointed
1). Price Porter postmaster at Jackson,
Miss., vice W. H. Gibbs, removed;
Thomas R. Robertson, at Charlotte,
N. C., vice A. Brady, removed; Ben
nett Dunn, at Rocky Mount, N. C.,
vice W. L. Person, removed; Willium
A. Gillum, at Covington, Vu., vice G.
T. McGlintie, removed; Frank W.
Shield, at Hampton, Vu., vice It. R.
Wood, resigned. The president also
appointed Holmes Conrad,of Virginia,
to bo assistant attorney-general, resigned, vice
John B. Cotton, and Ben
nington It. Bedle, of New Jersey,to bo
cousul at Sheffield, England.
The Duly on I.onf Tobacco.
Assistant Secretary Hamlin has in
structed the collector of customs at
New York to refund tho duties paid
under the conditions involved in the
suit of Blumlein A Co. against the
United States, recently decided
against the United States. The ques
tion raised in this suit was as to the
proper construction of tho tariff act
of March 3d, 1883, relating to the
proper classification of leaf tobacco.
The law provides that whenever 85 per
cent of leaf tobacco was suitable for
wrappers the duty should be 75 cents
per pound; otherwise 35 cents per
pound, but no unit for computing the
percentage was named in the law. Tho
collectors, nnder instructions, fixed
upon “the pound” as the minimum
unit, whereas tho court decides “the
bale” to constitute the unit in ques
tion. All entries of tobacco, there
fore, awaiting determination of this
question will be reliquidated in ac
cordance with the court’s decision,
and it is estimated that at least $2,
000,000 will have to bo refunded to
importers.
CURRENCY SHIPMENTS
To the South and West to Relieve the
Stringency.
The shipment of currency to the
west and south by the New York banks
was continued Wednesday and excited
much comment in financial circles.
The amount sent out Monday was es
timated at more than a million dollars
and another $1,000,000 was ordered
Wednesday. When asked the cause
for this large shipment of currency,
which is mainly to the west—the
amounts in the last ten days is be
lieved to exceed four millions of dol
lars—bankers agreed in saying the de
mand was largely duo to the distrust
prevailing everywhere in this country,
especially in the west, where there
have been a great many failures, both
of banks and commercial houses.
NO 46
TRADE MORE PROMISING.
Dan A Co.’s Report of Business for
the Past Week.
R. G. Dun A Co.’s weekly review of
trade says: The severe depression of
a wook ago, which culminated in very
tight money and numerous failures
has been followed by some recovery.
Reports that final action by congress
on tho money question has been as
sured have done much to cause tho
hotter feeling, hut the stringency was
realizing on the unprecedented stocks
of wheat, so that the Invest prices
ever known have been made, at New
York and at tho west. This has helped
exports and in other respects monetary
conditions are distinctly more favora
ble.
At Philadelphia hanks aro holding
money cautiously. At Cleveland trade
is fairly good, but money close. At
Cincinnati trade improves and money
is active, but collections slow. At In
dianapolis the grocery trade is bettor,
and at Detroit trade is only fair and
banks are calling money loans, Ohi
eago reports trade orders satisfactory.
Bunks aro considered safe, but are
pursuing a very conservative policy.
Receipts increase, compared with last
year, 4 per cent in cattle; 10 in hidos;
24 in butter ; 55 in sheep; 80 in oats;
100 in wheat and 170 in corn,
hut decreased 18 per cent in flour,
20 in barley and dressed beef, 22
in rye, 45 in cheese, 60 in hogs and
lard, 70 in pork and seeds and 90 in
cured meats. Tho excitement is sub
siding in Milwaukee. Trade at Min
neapolis and Ht. Paul is fairly activo
and tho lumber trado strong, with
crop poor, At St. Louis hunks aro
cu ling loans, but tho jobbing trado is
satisfactory, with tho south much im
proved. At Omaha trado is good, at
St. Joseph good, and at Kansas city
fairly healthy, though receipts of grain
and hogs nro light. Trade at Denver is
fair, but at Little Rock dull, and at
Louisville restricted, with money very
close. At Memphis trado is very
quiet, at Nashville fair and at Knox
ville slow with money closo. At At
lanta, Macon and Augusta similar
conditions exist. At Galveston trado
is fuir, hut collections slow and busi
ness dull, exoessivo rains making crop
prospects doubtful. Whcutnasgono bo
low 71 cents at New York and 63 cents
at Chicago, receipts boing 400,000 bush
els; exports 200,000 bushels. Corn
has fallen 2 cents with lurgo roeoipts;
oats 1 cent, pork $1.75 per barrel;
lard 65 cents and hogs lOoontspef 100
pounds. But oil in 8-4 of a cent
stronger and ooffoo unchanged. Cot
ton is 1-4 highor with better foreign
buying. In wool, sales aro small with
a lower tendency. In low grade cot
tons there has been some advance.
The financial outlook is not helped
as yet by foreign trade as imports con
tinue heavy, while exports are still bo
low last year’s. But the depression in
stocks brought in somo foreign buying
ami prices liuvo recovered on on over
age $1.50 per share siuco a week ago
ago with railroad earnings continuing
large. Foreign payments for securi
ties have helped tho exchange down
ward and also hills against severs!
millions of bushels of wheat taken for
export, so that some hankers believo
tho rest of the summer may pass with
out ronowal of gold exports.
The failures for the week hove been
822 in number in the United Htates,
against 168 for the same week last year
and 27 iu Canada, ugahist 24 lost year.
Last wook tho total number of failures
was 259. *
TENNESSEE INSURANCE MEN
To Decide Between Being Taxed or
Withdrawing from the State.
A most important meeting of in*
snrauco men representing Tennessee every com
pany doing business in will
lie held in Nashville, June 26th, and
upon the result much depends. The
question to be decided is whether the
companies will comply with the state
law or withdraw from the state.
Chapter 122 of the acts of 1891 pro
vides that each and every corporation
created or organized under or by vir
tue of any government other than that
of the state for any purpose whatever,
shall first file in the office of the secre
tary of the state a copy of its charter
and cause an abstract of the same to
be recorded in the office of the reg
ister iu each county in which such
corporation desires to carry on it«
business. The insurance companies fear
that if they complied with this law they
would become domesticated and fie
liable for a tax of 1 1-2 per cent, on
their capital stock.
GERMANY’S DAY
At the World’s Exposition-Over 200,
000 Teutons Parade.
Thursday was the biggest day of the
World’s Fair, thus far. It was German
day. (>ver two hundred thousand Ger
mans were in procession and the streets
were congested with human beings. The
parade was the fiu«aund largest ever
seen in Chicago. \,
Distinguished Oenni were present
from all parts of the l/»n. One hun
dred and fifty thousand*Jmiple exp^ition, had en
tered the gates of the and
when the procession arriv the at
tendance had swelled to ovi luarter
of a million people.