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THE BLACKSHEAR TIMES E. Z. BYRD, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXI. NO. 12. Pierce County Directory. Ordinary—J. I. Summerall. Clerk Superior Com t—John Thomas, Sheriff—J. R. Carter. Tax Receiver—J. O. Waters. Tax Collector—J. A. Jacobs. County Treasurer—B. D. Brautley. County Surveyor—W. H. Bowen. ’ Superforcourt^first' Monday in May and third Monday in November. COUNTY COURT. Robt. O. Mitchell, Jr., Judge. W. A. Milton, Solicitor. Monthly session, second Friday in each month; quarterly sessions, third Monday in March, Juue, September and December. TOWN DIRECTORY. Robert G. Mitchell, Jr., Mayor. B. D. Brantley, W. G. McMillan, John A. Strickland, Jos. A. Harper, Councilmen. M. 0. McAlpiu, Clerk and Treas urer. W. L. McMillan, Marshal. Police court every Monday morning. SECRET ORDERS. Blackshear Lodge No. 270, F. & A. M., meets first and third Friday nights in each month. A. B. Estes, W. M. Rout. G. Mitchell, Jr., Sec. Alabaha Lodgo No. 16, K. of P. meets every Monday nigbt. B. D. Brantley, C. 0. E. Z. Byrd, K. of R. A S. RELIGIOUS SERVICES. Methodist~C. M. Ledbetter, pas tor; preaching first, third and fifth Sundays 10 o’clock a. m., 7:30 p. m.; prayer meeting Wednesday 7:.30p. m.; Sunday school 3:30 p. m.; Epworlh League, devotional service sreond and fourth Wednesday 7:30 p. in.; busi ness meeting second and fourth Fri day 7:30 p. m. Baptist— A. R.Richardson, pastor; preaching first aud third Sunday 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. in.; prayer meeting Thursday 7:30 p. m.; Sunday school 10 a. in. Presbyterian— W. M. Hunter, pa< tor; preaching second aud fourth Sun days 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m.; prayer meeting Tuesday 7:30 p. m.; Sunday school 9:45 a. m.; .Tnuior Chrisliau Endeavor every Friday 4:30 p. m. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. 4 EMMET COCIIBAN, * LAWYER, Practices in United States courts, district, circuit aud supreme courts, and iu all counties in Brunswick cir cuit. Telephone No. 26. Office and residence upstairs Phoenix Hotel, Wayeross, Ga. Iy ALTER Attoruey-at-Law A. MILTON, and Solie/tor County Court. Office iu the court bouse. Bla ckshe ar. Ga. A 1. KA A A XT. K. I). .1. 1, V UKINKK. M. A YANT & (IHIKER, ** Physicians A- Sirokons, Calls Patterson, Ga. night promptly residence answered day or from or office. \y ’ r • N. Office BROWN, Near Dentist, the Courthouse. Offers his professional services t« tho citizens of Pierce and adjoining counties. Guarantees satisfaction. Crown aud bridge work a specialty. Blackshear, Ga. ALLEN BRO^N, D. D. S. a* Office upstairs iu McCuIley & Walker’s new building. Tenders bis professional services to the public. Crown and bridge work a specialty. Wavcross. Ga. G. MITCHELL, Jr., County Attoruey-at-Law aud Judge Court, Blackshear, Ga. A. B. ESTES. U. L. WALKER. VSTE3 & WALKER, Attorneys at-Law, Blackshear, Georgia. BRUNSWICK CIRCUIT. COURT CALENDAR. Appling Superior Court—First and second Mondays in March; third aud fourth Mondays in September. Camden Superior Court—Tuesday after the third Monday in March; Tuesday after tho 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 April; third Monday in Octo ber. Ware Superior Court—Third and fourth Mondays in April; first and second Mondays in November. Pierce Superior Court—First Mon day in May; third Monday in Novem ber. Wayne Snperior Court—Second Monday in May; fourth Monday in November. Olynn Superior Court Third Mon day in May und first Monday in De cember; tocoutiuue for such time as the business may requ-re. * Of the foed plants now in use only pumpkins and a few grapes, plums and berries were ong;i.;i!t> fou^d in the sod. [RON WORKERS OUT ! No Agreement Reached on Wage Scale For Ensuing Year. FIFTY THOUSAND ARE AFFECTED President of Amalgamated Association Warns Companies That Con flict Will Be Memora ble One. The Joint conference committee of tho Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers and the Ameri can Sheet Steel Company, in session at Pittsburg Saturday, was unable to reach an agreement on the wage scale tor the ensuing year and adjourned fi nally after a session of less tnaa twen ty minutes. The Amalgamated Association offl 'dals asked that the scale be signed for all the union mills, and the manufac turers presented a counter proposition not only refusing to sign for all the union mills, but stipulating that two plants that, were included >ast year be exempt, from this scale this year. The conference then broke up and Presi dent Shaffer at once issued a. strike nrder. The strike will involve all the union sheet mills In the country and about twenty thousand skilled work men. Monday morning President Shaffer Issued a second order calling out all union employees of the various mills .ii the American Steel Hoop Company, known as the hoop trust. It is estima ted that 15,000 men will be subject to the call, which, in connection with the big strike of the American Sheet Steel Company, ordered by President Shaf fer on Saturday, will affect 50,000 men. President Shaffer said Sunday night: "The impression that only the mills of the American Sheet Steel Company are affected by the decision of Satur day Is a mistake. The workmen of all mills in the American Steel Company are interested and will oe officially no tified tomorrow morning that the scale has not been signed and they will quit work. To the well organized mills this notice will not he necessary, as the men will have watched the situation carefully, hut what is known as open mills, where union men have been al lowed to work side by side with the non-union, is where we have to move. Union men must walk out of these open mills in the hoop trust. “The open mills to be notified are one at Hollidaysburg, Pa., three at Pittsburg and one at Honessen. The organized mills, which will close on our call, are the upper and lower mills at Youngstown, O., Pomeroy, O., Sha ron, Pa.. Girard, Pa., Warren, Pa., Greenville, Pa. This, I believe, will bring the number of men affected up to 50,000. "It is a matter of regret that the Is. sue has been forced, but it now looks as though it will be a fight to the death. The Amalgamated Association is not unprepared for it. We have not had a general strike for many years, and In that time we have not been idle. We have funds and will use them. Right here I want to correct an Im pression which has been given out that no benefits will be paid strikers until two months have elapsed. The Amalgamated Association will begin at once to take care of its people.” Mr. Shaffer concluded by saying: “I will say now what I said to Mr. Smith, general manager of the Sheet Steel Company, in tho conference. I said if it is to be a strike we will make it one to he remembered. The officials now dealing with us have but little Idea of the extent to which this strike will go once it is on.” Mills Shutting Down. In order to take inventory, the mills In Youngstown and In the Mahoning valley of the Republic Iron and Steel Company will close for two weeks. The mills here and at other points In the Mahoning and Shenango valleys, which are owned by the American i Steel Hoop Company, will remain Idle pending a settlement of the seals question. KING EDDIE’S CORONATION. Date For Quaint Ceremonial Is An nounced For Next June. A London special says: The royal proclamation announcing that the cor onation of King Edward is to take j place in June next, the exact day nol yet being determined upon, was read Friday morning at st. James palace j Temple Bar and the Royal Exchange with ail the quaint, medieval scenes which marked the occasion of the pro claiming of the accession of the king ■ The ceremonial vras unheralded, sc the crush was not so great a* on the previous occasion LONG STRUGGLE PROBABLE. Though Quiet Reigna In Coal Fields, Both Sides Are Determined. Quiet prevailed Friday In the Thaek er-Matewan coal fields, where 2,000 miners are on strike for recognition of I the union. Though there has been con stant dread of hostilities between the vtrlkers and the guards on duty at the collieries, nothing of the sort appears probable, as both sides have apparent ly settled down for a long struggle. DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF PIERCE COUNTY. GA., THURSDAY. JULY 4. 1901. JUDGE DECLARES A DIVIDEND. Shareholders of Southern Mutual to Receive Ten Per Cent on Stock August 1st. In an order Issued at Atlanta. Ga., Friday morning Judge J. H. Lumpkin declared a 10 per cent dividend to be paid to the stockholders of tho South ern Mutual Building and Loan Assocla tion. The payment Is to begin August 1st of th# present year, and the amount in the hands of the receivers, including the assets, and the amounts afterwards received, are to he distrib uted pro rata among the stockholders according to the amounts standing to their credit. The order specifies that the non-bor rowing shareholders are to receive payment in cash and the borrowing stockholders are to receive a credit of 10 per cent upon such part of the stock as is still neld by them. The order states that the receivers. Judge James A. Anderson ana M. A. O’Byrne, now have sufficient funds on hand to declare a 10 per cent dividend. The payment is to be made on presen tation of the certificate of stock. The receivers are authorized to make pay ment or to credit the dividend in cases of the loss or destruction of the certifi cates, provided satisfactory proof is presented. Judge Lumpkin also overruled all of the exceptions to the auditor's report made by the advanoed or borrowing members. He rendered judgment, in fa vor of the receivers against all ad vanced borrowing or stockholders or members of the association for the amounts found due by eRch liy the au ditor; not only a general hut special judgment in each instance. The equi ty of redemption of each of the borrow ers In and to the property deed, mold gaged or transferred to secure an ad vanoe is foreclosed and forever barred. Judgment is also rendered against the advanced or borrowing members for $20, the equitable taxation of cost against them to date. The exceptions filed by the stockholders, claiming to have given notice of withdrawal, are ovorruled. Under the order they rank with the other stockholders and do not become creditors. It is adjudged that each party pay the cost of his ow-n Intervention. Judge Lumpkin sustained the excep tions filed by the stockholders holding certificates, whether paid up or not. guaranteeing dividends, to the effect that they were in the nature of credi tors and entitled to preference of pay ment out. of the assets. They are re garded as stockholders and not credi tors and are entitled to shares in the distribution of the assets. NEGRO KILLS PURSUERS. Hemmed In By Enraged Mob H* Uses Knife With Deadly Effect. Peter Price, a negro, cornered in a house by infuriated citizens bPiit. on meting summary punishment to him, charged with insulting a lady, in bis desperate effort to escape, cut and killed George Hooks and F. M. McGran and seriously cut Charles Davis. Tho murder occurred at lager, a small town five miles south of Panther, W. Va. Price took refuge in a small room in the rear of a saloon. The mob battered down the door and as they entered the room Price threw himself at -lera with the ferocity of a tiger, with a knite in each hand. After the onslaught Price leaped from the window, but was pur sued and captured by officers, who hurriedly sent him to the jai) at Welch to avoid the vengeance of the Infuria ted populace. Hooks and McGran were both well known citizens and indgna tion runs high. COMING HOME IN STYLE. Millionaires Leaving London Charter Entire Deck of the Deutchland. According to a dispatch from Lon don to The New York World when the steamship Deutschland leaves South ampton for New York all the state rooms on the promenade decks will be exclusively reserved for ten million wires. These mllionaires are J. Pierpont Morgan, Clinton Dawkins. Clement A Oriseom, Bernard M. Baker, William L. Elkins, P. A. WIdener, Harry Payne. Pierre Lorlllard, Timothy L. Woodruff and John T. Waterbury. TEN YEAR8 FOR MRS. KENNEDY Husband 8layer Given Long Term. Case Will Be Appealed. At Kansas City Saturday Mrs. Lulu Prlnec-Kennedy was formally sentene ed by Judge Wofford to serve ten years In the state penitentiary for the murder of her husband, Philip Kenne dy, In the corridor of the Ridge build lng January last. She heard the sen tence without the slightest display of emotion. After the sentence leading counsel for Mrs. Kennedy stated that he ex j pected to appeal the case to the su preme court. i MISS MORh.SON APPEALS. : Sentenced For Five Years For Murder of Mrs. Olin Castle. At Eldorado, Kans., Saturday, Miss Jessie Morrison, who was convicted of the murder of Mrs. Olln Castle, and given a sentence of five years in the state penitentiary at Lansing, through her attorneys served notice in court that they desired to file a motion for a new trial. Judge Alkroan set the hearing for Saturday next. OUR PLETHORIC TREASURY. Qovernment Surplus For Past Fiscal Year Will Reach Aggregate of Seventy-six Millions. The comparative statement of the government receipts and expenditures for the fiscal year ended last Satur day will show an excess of receipt* over disbursements of approximately *TC.c»y,oo.>. Tl.is is ( 1 iy about $4,000,000 below the estimate made by congress at the beginnlug of the last session In De cember, 1900, at which time the secre tary estimated the receipts from cus toms would bo about $245,000,000. Tho receipts from internal revenue sources were estimated last December at $300. 000.000, while the final figures will show over $307,000,000. The receipts from miscellaneous sources were esti mated at $34,000,000. These will also show a considerable increase. The expenditures for the year will be $7,000,000 in excess of the esti mates. During the fiscal year 1900 tho surplus revenues amounted to nearly $24,000,000, while the surplus for tho present year will reach $7G,000,000, and possibly a still higher figure. view of the fact that the revenue reduction bill passed at the last ses soion of congress went into operation Monday, treasury officials estimate that, the loss from this source will be about $40,000,000. It Is not. expected, however, that, tho net reduction from this source will reach that amount, as the officials look forward to a yenr of even greater prosperity than the one just, closing. If this expectation Is realized the officials believe that the revenues from internal sources alone will be greater than $30,000,000 below the figures of the present year. It Is also confidently expected that the re eelpts from customs will materially Increase during the coming twelve months, so that, notwithstanding the redurtlon made In the last revenue bill, the total receipts front all sources may even reach or exceed those of the fiscal yoar 1901. TWO REPORTS SUBMITTED. Suffrage Question Brought Up In Ala bama Constitutional Convention. Chairman Coleman, of the commit tee on suffrage, made a report of the committee to the Alabama constitu tional convention Saturday morning. The reading of the article met with considerable applause. A minority re port was submitted as to a single sec tion—the grandfather clause—which Is signed by Frank S. White, of Jeffer son; Captain S. H. Dent, of Barbour; cx-Governor William C. Oates, of Mont gomery, and General George P. Garri son, of J^ee. The principal features of the major ity report as as follows: A registration board for each county to consist of three persons, to be ap pointed by the governor. Any person denied right of reglstra tlon may appeal to city or circuit court. All qualified voters must be able to read and write any article of consti tution of United States. If unable to read, must own by self or wife 40 acres of land in state, or other real estate to value of $300. Any person offering to sell his vote or buy vote of another shall he dis franchised. Poll lax upon each male between 21 and 45 years of age to he $1.50. FOURS, THREES AND TWOS. Tennessee Couple Married Five Year* Have Ten Little Prattlers. Mm. W. H. Burnett, of Jasper, Tenn. wife of tho head miller of the Jasper, Tenn.. flouring mills, has just, given birth to four children, all of whom are doing well. Previous to the advent of these babies, Mrs. Burnett gave birth to triplets, and then twins. The cot* pie has been married five years and ten children now adorn their home. Alleged Train Wreckers Caught. Five negroeH who have given ficti tious names were arrested at Connells vllle, P* , charged with the wrecking of the Southwestern express near Greensboro .Saturday, in which a num ber of passengers were hurt. EVEN THE GUARD SLEPT. Detective* Capture Obstreperous Min erg Who Acted as Bushwhackers. During Sunday night Detective T. I,. Felts, assisted by John Justice, deputy United States marshal, and a posse -if six men. went to the Kentucky side of Tug river, near Thacker, W. Vs. and captured the nine persons who are charged with terrorizing the min ers for the past, ten days by shooting at all who could not give the proper strikers’ sign. The m»-n were surprised in their sleep with their winchesters under their pillows. Even their guard was captured, asleep on duty. GORMAN A CANDIDATE. Noted Maryland Statesman Will 8tand For Re-election to Senate. The candidacy of former Senator Ar thur P. Gorman for re-election to the United States senate by the Maryland legislature, which is to bo chosen this fall, was formally announced Thurs day at a dinner given In his honor at the country home of Joseph Frieden wald. one of Mr. Gorman’s most ar dent admirers. HUNDREDS SUCCUMB Fearful Work of Heat Wave In Crowded Cities of the North. VICTIMS DROP ON EVERY HAND Blistering Rays of Old Sol Send Mer cury Skyward and Past Records of Torridity Are Completely Wiped Out. Monday was the hottest July 1st on record at New York, at 3:10 p. m. the thermometer at the weather office reached 98 degrees, one degree hotter than Sunday. The records show that on only two days In the last thirty years has ft higher temperature been reached. These were July 9, 1870, and July 3, 1898. On these days the thermometer reached 99 degrees. Tho suffering in the city, particu larly in tho crowded tenement house district, was most Intense. As the day grew the deaths and prostrations In creased, and, although provision was made In all the hospitals for this emergency, the authorities were scarcely able to cope with the great tax made on their resources. Between 2 a. m. and midnight, there were reported fifty-seven deaths and 14] prostrations in the boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx, l-’or the pre vious twenty-four hours twenty-one deaths and thirty-six prostrations had been reported in Brooklyn. If the heat was killing to mankind, it was worse on the horses. They drop ped right and left. At one time there were eight dead horses lying on Broad way between Twenty-third and Forty second streets. There were fourteen horses prostrated In the vicinity of Madison Sipiarc alone. The rush of the crowds to the parks and to the nearby seashore resorts Monday night was unprecedented In the history of the city. At 2 o'clock Tuesday morning the death record for the twenty-four hours ending at that time In Greater New York was eighty-seven; the prostra tions 183. For the previous live days, covering the heated term, the total deaths In the same territory were 130. At Newark tile mercury touched 100 at 2 o’clock Monday afternoon. This was the maximum. The reported deaths were fourteen in and about Newark. At Philadelphia. Philadelphia and vicinity experienced the highest temperature recorded In that city Monday, the government thermometer on the top of the post office building, 170 feet from the street, registering 102 degrees even. At. (■rump’s shipyard the prostrations were so mum rolls Hint the 5,000 men employed there were relieved from further duty at noon. At Baldwin’s lo comotive works, Ike Midvale Steel Works and numorous other places, scores of heat sufferers had to quit, lteports from all rectlons of the state show that the temperature was exceed ingly high; In some places the record was broken and In other places II wiih equaled. Up to midnight fourteen deaths were reported and upwards of 100 persons were tn-ateo at hospitals for heat, exhaustion. Spell Broken at Cincinnati. The spell of torrid heat, which had been in sway at Cincinnati during the past week and which left death and prostration In Its wake was broken Monday evening by a squall. The storm <ame suddenly from the south east, and for a time the wind blew at a rate of sixty miles an hour. This was followed by a thunder shower, and the thermometer dropped lo 75. The maximum temperature during the day was 96 at. the government station and 99 on the street. There were live deaths from heat. This makes seven teen dialhs since the Hot spell began. There were numerous prostrations during the day and about twelve are now at the city hospital In a serious condition. Fourteen Dead a* Baltimore. According lo weather bureau re ports Baltimore was the hottest city In the United States Monday. The weather bureau thermometer recorded 80 degrees at 5 a. m., and from that hour the mercury steadily mounted upward until 102 was reached at noon. Up to midnight, fourteen deaths and twenty eight prostrations had been re ported. Five at Chicago. Five persons dropped dead on the stre'ts In Chicago Monday from heat. and fifteen other* were no badly over come that they bad to be removed to hospitals. A number of profitrated are in a serious condition and may die. At noon the temperature In the weather bureau in the Auditorium tower was 93 and on the streets over 100. A severe thunder storm at 1 o’clock brought relief and the mercury dropped 20 d< green. MAJORITY REPORT POPULAR. Alabama Suffrage Provision* Not Like ly to Be Changed. The suffragi scheme of th<- majority of the committee of the Alabama eon vontion meets with lavor among the delegates generally. No one has com' out In open advocacy of the minority re port, though It ha:; some supporters The committee entertain* no doubt of Iti) ability to pass that section prae th aily unchanged, Subscription, One Dollar a Year. ESTABLISHED 1880- vU 0 ‘•'■'•'-Ty g). Railroad Co. ®5P@ Schedule in Effect Friday, June 7, 1901. SCHEDULE SHOWING GRAVING TIME. No. 1 I No. 8 No. 15 No. 17 STATIONS. Daily Sunday Daily Daily Only Ex. Sun. Ex. Sun. Wnycross .... 11 00 am 5 ID pm 7 10 ant 12 45 pm Jamestown... 114 pm Wnltertown .. 1118 am 5 32 pm| 7 32 ant 1 22 pm Upchurch. ... 11 24 am 5 39 pm 7 40 ant] 1 33 pm Elsio........ 11 31 am 5 15 pm 7 47 am 1 43 pm Bolen........ 11 37 tint 5 52 pm 7 Dfi ami 1 54 pm Beach....... Murrays..... 11 40 am 6 01 pm H 07 am amj j 2 04 pm 11 54 am 6 09 pm H16 2 20 pm Scssoms..... 12 02 pm 6 17 pm 8 28 ant 2 33 pm Granville.... Xieholls..... 12 05 pm 0 20 pm 8 32 am| 2 37 pm 12 12 pm 6 28 pm 8 42 am 2 50 pin Saginaw..... 12 17 pm 6 33 pm 8 18 am 3 20 pm Chatterton ... 12 25 pm 6 42 pm 8 58 am 3 36 pm Douglas .... 12 45 pm 7 00 pm !) 21 ant 4 16 pm Upton....... 12 53 pm 7 10 pm U 32 am 4 40 pm Wadlcys Mill. 1 12 pm ........ 1 5 30 pm Ambrose .... 111 pm 7 30 pmllO 10 am! 5 40‘pm Tracy........ 1 30 pm 7 50 pm pm|l 10 33 am I 6 27 pm Fitzgerald ... 2 00 pm 8 12 I 00 am 7 00 pm I No. 2 , No. 1 No. 16 j No. 18 ) STATIONS. Daily Sunday Daily Daily Only Ex. Sun.iEx. Suu. -------- Fitzgerald..... <i 00 pm 7 00 am 6 00 am! 12 00 ni Tracy......... (i 27 }>m 7 25 am 6 27 am 12 30 pm Ambrose...... Wadleys Mill.. 6 47 pin! 7 45 am 0 .......I 51 am 12 55 pm 112 pm Upton........ ... 710 pm! 8 10 am! 7 24 ami 1 44 pm Chatterton Douglas...... .... 7 7 18 pm 8 19 atnj 7 7 84 57 am' 1 26 56 pm . . 38 pm, 8 32 am am 2 pm Saginaw....... .... 7 46 pm 8 38 am 8 07 am 2 38 pm Nicholls. ...... .... 7 52 pm 8 43 um 8 14 am 2 50 pm Granville..... ... . 7 50 pm 8 49 am! 8 21 am 3 05 pm Bcssoms....... .... 8 01 pm 8 51 nil) 8 28 am 3 10 pm Murray a...... ,... H 08 pni 8 58 am 8 39 am 3 26 pm Beach......... . .. . 8 15 w lie 9 04 am H 48 urn 3 41 pm Bolen........ .... 8 26 -r m 0 12 am 8 59 inn 4 01 pm Elsie......... 8 31 pm 9 19 niu 9 08 am 4 16 pm Upchurch..... 8 36 pm 9 24 am 9 16 am 4 30 pm Waltertown .. . 8 43 piu 9 29 am! 9 24 am 4 43 pm Jamestown.... .............. 9 31 mu 4 68 pm Wayeross..... 0 00 pm 9 45 am 9 48 nm 5 15 pm Connections Wayeross with Plant System; Fitzgerald with Seaboard Air Eiue Hail way; Fitzgerald with Tiftou and Northeastern llailroad. Ukoiuik Dome Waulrx, H, C. McFaimirn, Vice Pres, and (len. Mgr. (len. Freight and Toss. Agont. A mix. Bonnyman, Superintendent. General Offices, Wayeross. (la. Advice again:.I speculation is sendhTe hut unavailing. People who won do not nerd ii anil those w ho lost have no mor* ineiiey. , Trade of New Orleans Port, Tho imports for New Orleans for the fiscal year Just closed are $20,083,910, ns against $17,390,811, making the lo ini trade of the port. $171,771,533 as against $132,14(1,702 Inst year, an In crease of 80 per cent. Total List Is Thirty-six. The total number of dead bodies found to dale ns a result of the t’oea Imntas flood In West Virginia Is llilrty one. Five oilier persons are missing making the total list o. drowned thlr ty-fllx. BURNED BY BLACKMAILERS. Farmer’s Wife Meet* Horrible Fat* Because Money Was Not Paid. A Topeka, Kans., dispatch says: Horribly burned and dying In Intense agony was the fate of Mrs. VV. C. Car son, wife of a Cowley county farmer, because her husband refused to depos it $5,000 in a place named by unknown blackmailers. The tragedy happened Saturday night In an obscure settlement, away from post office and telegraph stations. DEADLY HEAT IN GOTHAM. Eight Fatalities and Fifty Prostrations Reported Friday In New York. . New Yorkers experienced the hot j tftgl wea thor of the year last Friday, the official thermometer registering 9:: degrees ai 4 o’clock In ‘he afternoon, while street thermometers r ’) up at high as 100 with the humidity 04 per cent. In Greater Now York eight rieathn and fifty prostrations from the heat were reported up to midnight. Japa ease Pi.g'l/ns, The J.ipaite-u- peasants. when (hey pH theimclvrs up for the busincs, of a pil grimage, arc the quaintr-t liguri. imag inable The women generallj luck up their petticoat well above their knees, either leaving the legs hare or else swath ing them in while bandage-, which form a kind of leggin . Their hair is done in the usual elaborate Japanese style, and : generally an artificial (lower is luck in *' *he top It do- look -o comic to <t the wizened fai r- of an old woman with | a large red rose hobnobbing over it, And ! this lloral decoration is not confided to the women; v.heti you meet a party of I pi| K rim you often th- old men also with a flower -tuck coquettishly above the ear. 1 found out the reason of this rather inappropriate ornamentation when 1 *t Nagano It appears that many , f " ir U’ or f, ! ' 1 '•/’V'' fr '"” ‘he country get <o bewildered , 1 by tho magnificence* j of the places they go to and the dis tractions of -hopping that they quite lose ! iheir heads and r« n-erpicntly their way. ; So the ever thoughtful Japanc e p dire , have insisted that every party of pilgrims i- Nagano to have a distinguishing badge. At | it was the commonest thing po« si Me to some ancient dame rushing | about wailing "W here is my party? ! Where is the purple iri- party?’ Or, ‘■‘Where * i- tlie yellow towel-rotmd thc neck partv?” And ’’yclli.w-iowcl-rrmiiU then she would he to i,| that tin- the j neck party" was on it- way to the station. or that the ’’purple irisis" wen- still saying their prayer? m the Unipie.-, f j«od Words BARBER • • SHOP. JOHN AMMUIHIE, Proprietor. lSI.Al'KNII RAH, GKOItOIA. Hair Cutting, Shaving, Dyeing.Sham jiooing, etc., done at tho following prices: Cutting hair, 15 cents. Shaving, 10 cents. Shampoo, 20 cents. Blocking, 25 cents. Deo 9-”i7. cLM |TEETH ij ■ J. C. BREWER, DENTIST, nr.A CKSllKAlt, a a. Oold Crowns and Bridge Work ■ ipeciulty. 5-5. ’99 iv OSITIONS if c f Secured git f 'y t By ActiVc .Wide, & Young Men sko Sf ggW/OWIEN practical our ICHMONqv f Business (odrse "business /s/ia/marf/Sri/ icioa ' '■ 5r*d/or COLLEGE Cala/ogut | INSTRUCTIONS BY MAIL 'Saau.flmoi/m/iEMaMSUs I* WOMAN CONFESSED MURDER. To Save Life o. Her Husoand She Ad mitted Killing a Policeman. Mary Ruthven, wife of the Cleve land, ()., murderer who was electro cuted at. the penitentiary In Columbu* Friday morning, made a last effort tc save the life of her husband. In the presence of Kev. W. M. Lang ford and others she declared that sh* herself killed Policeman Shipp. GOMEZ EN ROUTE NORTH. Noted Cuban General Will Have Con ference With President McKinley. General Maximo Gomez arrived at Tampa. Fl.i . Thursday evening from Havana, and Is en route to New York. He left immediately for that city. General Gome/, appears to be In the best of health and vigorous as a man ninny years his Junior. Me talked frioly, but was v< ry reticent concern ing vital Cuban matters with which he is supposed to have much to do. ROBBERS TORTuRE VICTIMS. Six Masked Men Ransack Residence of Retired Millionaire. Early Friday morning six masked men entered the summer residence cf Jacob J,. White, retired millionaire, at Brothers station, W. Va., on the Balti more and Ohio. Jus', over the Pennsyl vania line, overpowered, bound, gagged and tortured the seven occupants of the house and ransacked for valuables. They got $3,000 In money and double that amount la jewelry.