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THE BLACKSHEAR TIMES
E. Z. BYRD, Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XXL NO. 8.
Pierce County Directory.
Clerk Ordinary—J. I. Snmmerall.
Superior Court—John Thomas.
Sheriff—J. R. Carter.
Tax Receiver—J. O. Waters.
Tax Collector—J. A. Jacobs.
County Treasurer—B. D. Brantley.
Couuty Surveyor—W. H. Bowen.
Coroner—Dr. J. M. Brown.
May
COUNTY COURT.
Robt. O. Mitchell, Jr., Judge.
W. A. Milton. Solicitor.
Monthly session, second Friday in
each month; quarterly .sessions, third
Monday in March, June, September
and December.
TOWN DIRECTORY.
Hubert G. Mitchell, Jr., Mayor.
B. D. Brantley, W. G. McMillan,
John A. Strickland, Jos. A. Harper,
Couucilmen.
M. C. McAlpiu, Clerk and Treas
urer.
W. L. McMillan, Marshal.
Police court every Monday morning.
SECRET ORDERS.
Blackshear Dodge No. 270, F. fir A.
M., meets first and third Friday nights
in each month.
A. B. Estes, W. M.
IIobt. G. Mitchell, Jr., Sec.
Alabaha Lodge No. 16, K. of P.
meets every Monday night.
B. D. Brantley, C. C.
E. Z. Bird. K. of K. & S.
RELIGIOUS SERVICES.
Methodist— C. M. Ledbetter, pas
tor; preaching first, third and fifth
Sundays 10 o’clock a. m., 7:30 p. in.;
prayer Sunday meeting Wednesday 7:30 p. m.;
school 3:30 p. m.; Epworth
League, devotional service sreond and
fourth Wednesday 7:30 p. m.; busi
ness day meeting second and fourth Fri-
7:30 p. m.
Baptist— A. It. Richardson, pastor;
preaching first and third Sunday 11 a.
in. and 7:30 p. m.; prayer meeting
Thursday 10 7:30 p. m.; Sunday school
a. m.
Presbyterian —W. M. Hunter, pas
tor; preaching second and fourth Sun
days 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. ni. ; prayer
meeting Tuesday 7:30 p. m.; Sunday
school 9:45 a. in.; Junior Christian
Endeavor every Friday 4:30 p.. m.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
\ EMMET COCHRAN, LAWYER,
Practices in United States courts,
district, circuit and supreme courts,
and iu all counties in Brunswick cir
cuit. Telephone No. 26. Office and
residence upstairs Phoenix Hotel,
W ivcross, Ga.
VV ALTER A. MILTON,
County Attorney-at-Law aud Solicitor
Court. Office iu the court
bouse. Blackshear. Ga.
A T. RA AA NT, M. 1). J. 1,. I.. GRINER, M.
AVAST & GRINER,
** Physicians .V Surgeons,
Calls Patterson, Ga
promptly answered day or
night from residence or office.
VVf N. BROWN, Dentist,
* v « Office Near the Courthouse.
Offers bis professional services to
the citizens of Pierce and adjoining
couuties. Guarantees satisfaction.
Crown and bridge work a specialty.
Blackshear, Ga.
\ LLEN BBO’TN, D. D. S.
Office upstairs in McCulley «fc
Walker’s new building. Tenders bis
professional services to the public.
Grown and bridge work a sjiecialty.
Wavcross. Ga.
T> G. MITCHELL, Jn.,
Couuty Attoruey-at-Law and Judge
Court, Blackshear, Ga.
A. B. ESTES. E. L. WALKER.
TASTES ft WALKER,
Attorneys-at-Law,
Blackshear, Georgia.
BRUNSWICK CIRCUIT.
COURT CALENDAR.
Appling Superior Court—First anil
second Mondays in March; third and
fonrth Mondays in September.
Camden Superior Court—Tuesday
after the third Monday in March;
Tuesday after the first Monday in
October.
Coffee Superior Court—Fourth Mon
day in March; second Monday in Oc
tober.
Charlton Superior Court—Tuesday
after the first Monday in April; Tues
day after the fourth Monday in Oc
tober.
Clinch Superior Court—Second Mon
day in Ajiril; third Monday in Octo
ber.
Ware Superior Court—Third and
fourth Mondays in April; first and
Beuond Mondays in November.
Pierce Superior Court—First Mon
day in May; third Monday in Novem
ber.
Wayne Superior Conrt—Second
Monday in May; fonrth Monday in
November.
Glynn Superior Court—Third Mon
day in May aud first Monday in De
ceiuber; to contiune for tneb time as
the bn*iae*s may requ-re.
The United State-* vpi-nd*. Sio.ucxj.ooc >
s year on its Indian subjects, more than
five times as much a* Canada expends
cn a similar number,
SOLDIERS REN RIOT
In Maddened Fnry They Wreck a
Saloon at San Francisco.
an exciting battle ensues
i Trouble Only Quelled When Firemen
Turned Hose on the Crowd.
Comrade Was Drugged
and Caused Row.
Soldiers to the number of 600 or 600
Indulged in a riot at San Francisco
Saturday night and wrecked one of the
many drinking places just outside the
Presidio reservation.
There are many conflicting stories
as to the origin of the trouble. The
soldiers of the Forty-sixth volunteer
infantry were mustered out of the ser
vice Friday and the men given their
discharges and pay. Most of the men
had several hundred dollars coming to
them and they did considerable drink
ing in the Presidio resorts.
A man by the name of Morgan, of
the Forty-sixth, was found unconscious
in front of Mrs. Power's saloon. Two
of Morgan’s companions took him to
camp for treatment. The physicians
pronounced it a case where drugs had
been administered. The news spread
rapidly about the camp and soon there
were a dozen or more men running to
Mrs. Power's saloon. They demanded
reparation for the drugging of their
comrade, but any knowledge, of the
affair was denied. Two or three men
lounging about the place sided in with
the woman and ordered the soldiers
from the premises. They went back
for reinforcements and spread the re
port that two of their companions had
been killed in this saloon.
A mob made up of members of the
Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth regiments,
then rushed pell-mell through the Pre
sidio gates to the saloon, which was
entirely wrecked.
The place caught fire from the over
turned lamps. One of the bartenders
was severely beaten and cut. There
were threats to lynch him when a
squadron of cavalry and provost guard
of sixty men from the Forty-fifth ar
rived and rescued him.
The efforts of the cavalry and guard
to disperse the crowd were futile until
the fire department turned the hose
upon them. This and the entire guard
of the post helped to restore order.
A careful investigation of the report
that some of the soldiers had died
from drugged liquor proved that such
was not the case. Morgan, of the For
ty-sixth regiment, was the only man
whom it is thought might have been
the victim of a drug.
COSTLY MAIL PACKAGE MISSING.
Consigned to Bank at Great Bend,
Kan., With $8,000, But Disappeared.
A special from Kansas City, Mo.,
says: A package containing $8,000 In
currency was consigned two weeks
ago by registered mail from the Na
tional Bank of Commerce of Kansas
City to a bank in Great Bend, Kan.,
and it has never been delivered. Tho
officials at the post office deny any
knowledge of the matter, but inspec
tors have been at work on the case
since May 13th, when investigation
was made at Earned. It appears that
the theft must have been committed in
the post office at Kansas City, the reg
istry branch at the union «tation, or at
the post office in Earned.
By some mistake the registered mall
for Great Bend was inclosed in the
Inter-registered sack for Earned, and
when the postmaster at Earned opened
the pouch he found that there had
been a mistake by the registry depart
ment at the union station here. It
would be impossible for the railway
postal clerks to have opened the regis
tered pouch without detection, as the
pouch was locked with a rotary lock,
which is numbered, and every time
the pouch is opened the lock registers
a number higher than the one shown
before.
The postmaster at Earned says that
he received tho pouch and gave his
receipt for it and that the contents did
not include the package of money.
The conclusion arrived at by the
post office officials is that the package
was taken before the. pouch left the
Kansas City office.
GRAND PARADE OF VETERANS.
Memphis Shouts Herself Hoarse While
Grizzled Heroes March.
Witnessed by fully two hundred
thousand cheering, laughing and weep
ing people, the last remnant of the
great Confederate army to the num
ber of 4,000, passed through the
streets of Memphis Thursday morn
ing. The statement may appear a
wide one, but it is safe to say that
such a parade has never been witness
ed in this country.
Memphis shouted herself hoarse.
Old women and young girls wept and
the old rebel yell sounded throughout
the city.
FIFTEEN PROBABLY DROWNED.
Fleet of Fishing Boats 8wamped By
Squall Off Charleston Coast.
Fifteen men were probably drowned
about forty miles out from Charleston
Friday.
A fleet of fishing boats were caught
In a squall and three boats are missing
with crew* aggregating fifteen men,
the majority of whom were colored.
These hosts, together with the crews,
are believed to be lost.
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF PIERCE COUNTY.
BLACKSHEAR. GA.. THURSDAY. JUNE (>. UK)!.
CUBANS REPUDIATED
^* on °f Convention Not Accept
able to United States.
PLATT AMENDMENT CHANGED
Notice of Rejection la Served Upon
Convention and Great Chagrin
Is Expressed By
Delegates.
A Washington special Bays: The
administration has decided that the
action of the Cuban constitutional
convention in accepting the terms of
the Platt amendment, with modifica
tions and interpretations of its own,
was not "substantial” compliance with
Our terms within the meaning of the
amendment, and Secretary Root will
convey this intelligence to the con
vention.
The decision was reached at the cab
inet meeting Friday. The meeting last
ed over an hour and a half and had
been preceded by an hour's confer
ence between the president and Sena
tor Platt, of Connecticut, and Senator
Lodge, of Massachusetts. As the au
thor of the amendment, the president
desired to learn the views of Senator
Platt, and also those of Senator Lodge,
who is one of the influential members
of the committee on foreign relations.
At the cabinet meeting Secretary
Root took the position that the inter
pretation of the Platt, amendment con
tained in the constitution adopted by
the convention, ami the “Whereases”
appended to it went outside of a fair
interpretation of its meaning and were
unacceptable. In this view the cabi
net concurred.
When asked as to what would be
the next step of the government, after
the Cuban convention had been noti
fied of its action, one of the members
of the cabinet said that the govern
ment could do nothing further until
the convention again acted; that as
long as the conditions of the Platt
amendment were on the statute books
compliance with them must precede
our relinquishment of control over the
island.
The cabinet held that the amend
ments and interpretations and the
wealth of whereases placed by the Cu
ban* convention upon the (Julian
amendment amounted to a practical
modification of the Platt amendment,
such as was beyond the power of this
government to accept. The message
of rejection sent to General Wood ad
vises the Cubans, in unqualified lan
guage, mat there is no power resting
in the United States government to
change the terms of the Platt amend
ment, and that this government insists
on the acceptance of the Platt amend
ment without amendment or qualifica
tion. The Cuban convention is still
in session, and the message of rejec
tion will be delivered to it immediate
ly. The administration is confidant
that the Cubans will understand th«
exact attitude of this government and
make a satisfactory acceptance with
in a reasonable period.
Cubans Are Surprised.
A special from Havana says: The
decision of the United States govern
ment not to accept the Cuban const I
tution as adopted by the Havana con
vention caused great surprise and
keen disappointment to those mem
hers of the convention who voted in
favor of tne consul, ition as adopted.
Two of the leading conservatives,
interviewed Friday night on the sub
ject, said in substance that they had
reason to suppose that the constitu
tion would be acceptable to Washing
ton and that otherwise they would not
have voted for the majority report as
submitted.
“it is true,” said one of the con
servatives in question, "that, the com
mittee's Interpretations of the explan
ation of the Teller resolution, which
were offered by Governor General
Wood and Secretary Root, together
witli the Washington commu .Ion’s re
port, were included with the Platt
amendment as an appendix to the eon
stitutlon; but when we voted on the j
report, It was with but one purpose In
view, namely, to accept the Platt,
amendment.'
Both delegates expressed jegret
that a misunderstanding had aiisen
and said they doubted that the conven
tion would now reconsider this action,
as the fight had been hot, the victory
had been won by only one vote, and
those who had tried to do their duty
toward their country had been hittcr v
assailed as traitors and perjurers.
ENVOYS ARE SATISFIED.
Negotiation* With China Are Now
Practically Consummated.
China’s unconditional acceptance of
450,000,000 taels as the indemnity to
be paid the powers has caused great
satisfaction among the foreign minis
ters, as It leaves practically a few
minor details to complete the negotla
tions.
NINETY-NINE WALK OUT.
Atlanta's Quota of Southern's Machin
ists Obey Orders. ,
Pursuant to orders from President
O'Connell, of the International Asso
ciation of Machinists, ninety-one men
went on a strike at the shop* of the
Southern Railway Company In Atlan
ta, Ga., Thursday morning.
Of the total number of strikers fifty
seven are machinists »r,d thlrty-foux
. -
are apprentices.
’
NEGRO DIES BY FIRE
■
Diabolical PeeJ Quickly Avenged
By Citizens of Florida Town.
WOMAN ASSAULTED AND SLAIN
Victim’s Body Saturated With Oil and
Match Applied—Nothing
But Charred Bones
Were Left.
Fred Rochelle, * Degro thirty-five
years of age, who at noon Tuesday
criminally assaulted and then mur
dered Mrs. Rena Taggnrd, a well
known and respectable white woman
of Bartow, Fla., was burned at the
stake in that town Wednesday af
ternoon in the presence of a throng
of people. The burning was oil the
scene 01 the negro's crime within 100
yards of the principal thoroughfare of
Bartow.
The assault and murder was one of
the coldest blooded crimes ever com
mitted in Florida. At xj o’clock Tues
day morning Mrs. Taggart, who was
born and reager In the place and was
a woman of good family and reputa
tion, went fishing alone In a small row
boat tliat she kept at the city bridge
over Piaco creek. This is in full view
of the public thoroughfare.
A few minutes before noon Mrs.
Taggart, desiring to return home, row
ed her boat to the bridge and made it
fast. A negro man was fishing from
the bridge at the time. Mrs. Taggart
started home and had only proceeded
a few steps in the swamp toward the
open prairie and thence to the street,
when she was approached by Rochelle,
who had been hiding in the swamp.
His Awful Crime.
He seized her and she brolto loose
and, screaming, ran from the swamp
into the prairie, where he overtook
her, overpowered her and assaulted
her. After the assault, while she was
prostrate, he held her with his hands
and knees and taking his knife from
his pocket cut her throat from ear to
ear, causing instant death. He then
walked to the negro who had been
fishing from the bridge, and who was
frightened, and asked him what ho
should do with the body. Ho was told
to leave it where it was, hut unheedful
of this request, he took the bleeding
form in bis arms and carried it back
to the swamp, threw it down and es
caped into the interior of the swamp.
A few minutes later the crime had
been reported, and in less than an
hour practically the entire city was in
arms and well armed possees were
moving In every direction in search
of the criminal.
Rochelle was captured by two other
negroes three miles south of the city.
Possees were immediately on tho trail,
but the capturers evaded detection
and succeeded in getting their prison
er quickly into the city and turning
him over to the sheriff of Polk county.
Dragged to the Stake.
In less than ten minutes after the
transfer had been made, as if the news
had been flashed voluntarily through
out the city and neighborhood, tho
streets became congested with people,
and the crowd, augmented as It march
ed, moved upon tho jail. In spite of
the sheriff and a strong guard of extra
deputies, who made every effort to
protect the negro from mob violence,
they secured the prisoner and took up
tho inarch to the scene of the crime,
He was half dragged, half carried to
the bridge, enveloped by a great
throng of people of all ages, who were
resolute and determined, but quiet
and orderly.
The stake was tho only suggestion
as to the proper expiation of the
crime, and without organized effort
and yet with apparently unanimous
understanding a barrel was in readi
ness and was placed by the stake on
the very spot where Mrs. Taggart was
assaulted and murdered. On this tho
negro wag placed and chained to the
stake.
Louder and louder and more deeper
ate grew his pleadings to God and
rnan for mercy, but in the great crowd
around him silence was the only re
sponse. Before the chains around his
body had been made fast, cans of
kerosene oil from many sources were
passed to the center, and one of tho
leaders stepped to the body and slowly
but deliberately poured it upon him
and his clothes, until clotnes and bar
rcl were well saturated.
In an instant the match was applied
and, as if by explosion, the blazo |
quickly leaped skyward In volume.
The burning body could ho seen only
an a dark object In the circle of a
maddened, roaring flame. Then the
fire lessened in fury, and the writh
Ing body came hack In full view, but
already the groans had ceased and the
only evidence of life was In the con
tortion* of the muscles of the limbs,
yor fifteen in half minute* hour tho from body burned, J
a the minute
.1 the application of the match only
the charred bones were left as a re
ml.’der of the negro's horriule crlms
and his fate.
Chaffee and Troops at Nagasaki.
Th* war department was informed
Saturday by cable that General Chaf
fee, w th hi* troops on the transport
had arrived at Nagasaki on
the waj cl, Fresh * l?»
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McLAURIN ACCEDES
In Deferero to Wishes of Gov*
ernor He “ Reconsiders.”
WILL RETAIN SENATORIAL TOGA
Writes Letter Giving His Reasons For
Retaining His Seat and Dis
cussing the Unfortunate
Senatorial Muddle.
Senator McLaurin has written Gov
ernor McSweeney a letter acceding to
tlie governor's request that, lie with
draw his resignation. In part he says;
“My Hoar Sir: Your letter of the
Hist of May, in which you decline to
accept my resignation ns United
States senator, is received.
“The grounds upon which your de
clination is predicated are that the
people are entitled to one year of
peace and freedom from political bat
tles and bitterness, and that a cam
paign tills year would be a calamity
to the state, to be torn asunder by a
heated canvass in the off year of poli
tics without any possible good to come
of it.
“As an additional reason you stig
gest that any disturbance of the har
niony of the people in their work for
the achievement of the material pros
pol ity of the state might result in re
tardlng (his progress. I appreciate
fully the force of the reasons given by
you and the effects upon the people of
the state of a heated and strife produc
ing contest for United States senator
this year. For tile sake of the ‘peace,
prosperity and happiness of the peo
ple of this state’ I am willing to hold
my commission of United States semi
tor and to serve the state ns i have
done in the past to the ‘best of my
ability.'
“But, in retaining my sent In the
senate, 1 will not consent to bo iianili
capped or bossed by any one claiming
a right to judge luy motives and ac
tions. 1 propose to exorcise my judg
ment on all national questions under
the influence of a high sense of respon
sibility to the people ami to work for
the upbuilding of the political and nm
terial Interests of my state.
“The people are entitled to hear
both sides of these questions and to
form judgment. Personalities and bit
terness in a joint, debate would Inter
fere with a fair and full suggestion of
them, and, instead of educating, would
mislead and deceive them.
“In consenting to hold by commis
sion, I wish It understood that It Ik
in response to your patriotic appeal
that It is for the good of the state, and
not because I feared to go before the
people anil discuss with the senior sen
ator, or others, the national issues of
the day. 1 am a public servant, of Uic
people, and It Is my duty and pleasure
always to promote their interests in
every way I can.”
TALK OF AN EXTRA SESSION.
Leading Politician* Suggest Meeting
of Lawmakers to Untagle the
Philippine Muddle.
A Washington special says: While
the president Is bowed down by grief
and anxiety occasioned by the perhaps
fatal illness of Ills wife, there is a
fierce agitation going on in the politi
cal world as to whether an extra ses
sion of congress should tie culled to un
tangle the Philippine snarl.
It seems that Representative Living
ston, of Georgia, sizes up the sltuft
tlon from an administration standpoint
in his recent interview when he stated
that many of the president's advisors
deemed an extra session Inevitable in
view of the recent decision of the su
preme court in the Insular cases.
it Is said now that Senator Spooner,
the author of the Philippine amend
ment to the army bill, admits that In
the light of the decision of the hii
preme court, the president has no an
thority to levy customs duties upon
goods coming from the Philippines
into the United States. It In the wish
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whi"" the present duty on products
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w lou as|,<<la 1 0,0,1 ° rongiesH.
MOB HANGS FIVE MEN.
Alleged Crime of Unfortunate Victims
Was Only Simple Larceny,
Details have been received of the
lynching of five men at l ookout. Mo
doc county. California, early Friday
morning. The men lynched were Cal
vln Hall, seventy-two years of age;
his three half breed sons, Frank,
James, arid Martin, aged respectively
twenty-six nineteen and sixteen, and
B. D. Yantls, aged twenty- seven,
As reported, the victims had been
suspected of petty stealing for some
time. I^st Saturday they were ar
rested for stealing barb wire, pieces
of harness and some hay forks.
Date Named for Cup Races.
The America'* cup race* will begin
on Beptember 21, Blr Thomas Llpton
having by cablegram agreed to that
date and promised to have a formal
request fixing that, as the new time
sent by the Royal Ulster Yacht Club
Thought His Wife a Burglar.
At Louisville, Ky., Sunday morning
f • r Richardson shot and killed hie
|^^ Klttle Richsrdson. mistaking
Subscription, One Dollar a Year.
ESTABLISHED 1880
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m Railroad Co.
Schedule In Effect Sunday, March 31, 1901.
_SCHEDULE SHOWING LBAVINO TIME.
No. 1 "NoT 3 | I No. 15 No.' lT
STATIONS. Daily Sunday Daily Dally
Only Ex. Hnu. Ex. Sun.
Wnv cross..... 11 00 am 0 115 pm) 7 00 am 1 00 pm
Jamestown.... 1 16 pm
Upchurch..... Waltertowu ... 1115 am 5 30 pm! pm) 7 19 am 1 24 pm
11 22 am 6 37 7 28 am 1 88 pm
Bolen......... Elsie.......... 11 11 29 36 am 5 5 44 pm) pm! 7 34 am 1 61 pm
am 51 7 43 am 2 06 pm
Beach........ Murrays....... 11 11 54 46 am 0 6 01 09 pm | 7 8 03 54 am 2 2 25 30 pm
am pm am pra
Sessoms....... 12 02 pm 0 17 pm 8 14 am 2 57 pm
Granville...... Nicholla....... 12 12 05 pm 0 20 pm! pm! 8 18 am 3 01 pm
12 pm 0 28 8 20 am 3 18 pm
Saginaw....... Chat ter 12 17 pm 6 83 pm! 8 35 am 3 35 pm
ton .... 12 25 pm 0 42 pm 8 53 nm 3 49 pm
Douglas...... IS 45 pm 7 03 pm 9 21 am 4 23 pm
Upton........ 12 53 pm 7 10 pm 9 82 am 4 44 pm
Wadlejs Mill.. 112 pm 5 36 pm
Ambrose...... 114 pm 7 30 pm 10 10 am 5 48 pm
Tracy......... Fitzgerald 2 1 86 00 pan 8 7 50 12 pm;ll pmjlO 33 00 am 6 7 27 00 pm
.... pm am pm
No. 2 No. 4 No. 16 I NoTiF
STATIONS. Daily Sunday Daily Doily
j Only Ex. BunJEx. Sun.
Fitzgerald... 6 00 pm 7 00 am 0 00 arn 12 00 m
Trnoy....... 6 27 pm 7 27 am 6 31 am 12 32 pm
Ambrose .... 6 47 pm 7 47 am 0 57 am 1 00 pm
Wadleys Mill 1 12 pm
Upton .... 7 pm 8 11 nm 7 28 am 1 50 pm
Dougins .. 7 pm 8 19 nta 7 89 am 2 10 pm
Ghutterton 7 pm 8 38 am 8 05 am 2 20 pm
Saginaw... 7 jim 8 46 am 8 17 am 2 67 pin
Nicholls.. 7 pm 8 52 am H 28 am 3 18 pm
Granville. 7 pm 8 50 am 8 42 am 3 35 pm
Sessoms... . 8 pm 0 01 am 8 45 am 3 40 pm
Murrays .. . 8 pm 0 08 nm 8 55 am 3 58 pm
Beach...... 8 pm 9 15 am 9 08 nm 4 13 pm
Bolen...... 8 piu 9 25 iuu 0 15 am 4 32 pm
IClBio Upchurch. ...... 8 8 pm 9 9 38 32 am 9 9 24 32 am) 4 5 02 50 pm
. pm am ami am) pm
Walterlown I m 9 45 am 9 II 5 14 pm
Jamestown. ....... 9 48 am] araj 5 21 pm
Wayerosti ,... 1 9 00 pm 10 00 nm 10 00 5 40 pra
Connections — Wnycross with Plant System; Fitzgerald with Seaboard
Air Line Railway; Fitzgerald with Tifton and Northeastern Railroad.
Gitouorc Dole Wapliey, 1J, C. McFadden,
Vico Pres, and (Jen. Mgr. Gen. Freight and Pass. Agent.
Alex. Ronhymah, Superintendent.
General Ofiicos, Wnycross, (la.
CENTRAL TAKES CONTROL.
Management of Three Newly Acquired ,
Road* Now Under One System.
Notwithstanding reports to the con
trary, the Central of Georgia railroad
Saturday assumed the control and
management Home of the Chattanooga, j
and Southern nnd Chattanooga
and Durlia’m railroads. Control was
also assumed of the Savannah, Grif
fin and North Alabama railroad, from
Carrollton to Grtfiln, Ga. The three
newly acquired roads will he consti
tuted and operated as the Chattanooga
division of the Central of Georgia ays
tem. (3. it. Wilburn, formerly presi
dent, of the Chattanooga, Home and
Southern, lias been made superintend
ent of Ibis new division with head
quarters at Kerne, Ga.
MAJORITY HAVE STRUCK.
Reports Show that Over Half of South
ern’s Machlnlsta Are Out.
Reports receive Thursday by the
Southern railway officials showed that
more than half of the machinists em
ployed at the Southern's shops nt.
Charleston, Atlanta, Knoxville, Selma,
Columbia, -Hpeneer, Manchester and
Birmingham are out, on a strike. The
advices announce that there Is no trou
ole at. the Alexandria, Memphis and
Eawrencevllle shops and all the men
there are, at. work. About 500 men are
employed by the Southern In allMt*
shops. The reports do not state the
exact number of strikers.
TEXA8 CROP DAMAGED.
Hail Storm Visit* Wide Area and En
tails Heavy Losses.
A heavy rain and hall storm coveted
u wide area of Texas Friday morn
ing and great damage lias been done to
all crops, especially to fruit, eastern
Texas having been affected to a great
er extent, than any other section.
A special from LongVIew say* hall
was twenty Inches deep In places and
much damage was done.
MILLIONAIRES VISIT EDWARD.
Caller* and His Nib* Both Gratified
,ind Pleased at Meeting.
Twenty-two American gentlemen,
rircKHod ■ In the deep black of British
court mourning, representing many
mllffoiiH of money and vast commercial
interests, were the guests of King Ed
ward Saturday at Windsor. They
were tne delegate* of the New York
chamber of commerce. The visit was
arranged by the London chamber i
The visitors were greatly Impressed
| 11,1,1 pleased who by their Just audience of tho
king, was a* Interested at !
meeting them a* they were at meet- i
tug him.
!
LOOMIS NOT TO RETURN J
For Good Reasons Minister Will Re
sign Venezuelan Pott. ,
It is officially admitted in Washing
ton that Minister Loomis will not re
turn to Venezuela. There are two rea
sons for this decision. In the first
place, Mr. Loomis has suffered In
health at his uncongenial post, and In
j the second place, the president Is not
disposed to expo*e him again to the
attacks be lm* suffered iu Venezuela
as a result of the cxeeutive orders of
th* state department,
BARBER . . SHOP.
JOHN ALlHtIDGE, Proprietor.
ULAOKSHICAIl, (Il'iOIKIIA.
Hair Cutting, Shaving, Dyeing,Mham
pooing, . _ etc., done at the following
prices:
(Jutting liair, 15 cents,
Shaving, 10 cents,
Shampoo, 20 cents,
Blacking, 25 cents. Deo
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J. C. BREWER,
DENTIST,
BLACKSllKAR, O'A.
Gold Crowns and Bridge Work a
specialty. 5-5, ’99
GoodPositions
5 > Secured
n % Jilt Young 0/ Attfv'f* .Wide, Men Awaty
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INSTRUCTIONS tS/Mfitf.M/rOt/ffl/UMVMXZ. BY MAIL
Oil Boom In Kentucky.
Accordng to a Lexington dispatch
Kentucky's oil Inom has been launch
ed and thousands of capital is < < nter
log In the oil regions,
HAUGHTON CHOSEN COMMANDER
Con* of Veteranu at Memj.1 Closo
Meeting With Stormy Session.
The Hoiia of Confederate Veterans
elosed their convention at Memphis
In one of the stormiest : i m ; In the
history of the organization, it. all
arose over the choice of a command
er in chief to succeed Hi: cue Hindman,
who declined to become a candidate
for re election. Judge it. II. Ilaur.htou.
of Ht. Louis, waa finally declared elect*
oil by acclamation, hut the decision
was reached after a hard parliament
ary battle.
ROBINSON SECURES BONDS.
Bid of Atlanta Man Captures Securi
ties of Goldsboro, N. C.
In the opening bids of til" Goldsboro,
S. C., township school bond Issue.
amounting to $25,000, It is ascertained
that. Koby Robinson, of Atlanta, Ga..
is tho highest bidder, and tho cliool
board, by unanimous vote has award
ed him the entire issue. Tho bonds
bear 4 1-2 per cent Interest arid Mr.
Robinson bid $33,050, he to bear the
expense of engraving the bonds. They
will bo Issued July 1st. . here were
bidders from all parts of tbe United
Htatea.
now, luiler'e eat'tn has ueets
discovered la one place and alabastej
Va another American soil.