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THE BLACKSHEAR TIMES E. Z. BYRD, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXL NO. U. Pierce County Directory. Ordinary—J. I. Summerall. Clerk Superior Court—.John Thomas. Sheriff—J. R. Carter. Tax Receiver—J. O. Waters. Tax Collector—J. A. Jacobs. County Treasurer—B. I). Braulley. Couuiy Surveyor—W. H. Bowen. Coroner—Dr. J. M. Brown. Superior court fiist Monday in May and third Monday iu November. COUNTY COURT. Robt. G. Mitchell, Jr., Judge. W. A. Milton, Solicitor. Monthly session, second Friday in •each month; quarterly sessions, third and Monday December. in March, juue, September TOWN DIRECTORY. Robert G. Mitchell, Jr., Mayor. B. D. Brantley, W. G. McMillan, Johu A. Strickland, Jos. A. Harper, Councilmen. M, C. McAlpiu, Clerk and Treas urer. W. L. McMillan, Marshal. I’olice 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. JIobt. G. Mitchell, Jr., Sec. Alababa Lodge No. 16, K. of I’, metis every Monday niglit. B. D. Brantley, C. C. E. Z. Byrd. E. of R. & S. RELIGIOUS SERVICES. Methodist—C. M. Ledbetter, j as tor; preaching first, third and fifth Sundays 10 o’clock a. m., 7:30 p. in.; prayer meeting Wednesday 7:30 p. m.; Sunday school 3:3 ) p. m.; Epworth League, devotional servico sicoud and fourth Wednesday 7:30 p. m.; busi ness meeting second and fourth Fri day 7:30 p. m. Battist —A. R. Richardson, pastor; preaching first and third Sunday *1 a. sn. and 7:30 p. in.; prayer meeting Thursday 7:30 p. m.; Sunday school 10 a. m. Presbyterian —W. M. Hunter, pa s tor; preaching second and fourth Sun days 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m.; prayer meeting Tuesday 7:30 p. m.; Sunday school 9:45 a. m.; 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 iu Brunswick cir cuit. Telephone No. 26. Office and residence upstairs Phoenix Hotel, Waycross, Ga. IV ALTER A. MILTON, Attornev-at-Law and Solicitor County Court. Office iu the court bouse. Blackshear. Ga. A . 1. RA. A A ST, V. D. J. 1,. tiRIKSK, M. A VAN"]' & GRINER, Physicians & Surgeons, Gills Patterson, Ga. promptly answered day or night from residence or office. _ YV N. BROWN, Dentist, v v • Office Near the Courthouse. Offers his professional services ta tho citizens of Pierce and adjoining counties. Guarantees satisfaction. Crown and bridge work a specialty. Blackshear, Ga. A LLEN BROWN, D. D. S. Office upstairs in McCulley k Walker’s new building. Tenders his professional services to the public. Crown and bridge work a specialty. Wavcross. Ga. f» G. MITCHELL, Jit., -* * • Attorney-at Law and Judge County Court, Blackshear, Ga. a. n. estev. e. l. walker. 1TSTE3 & WALKER, -*- J Attorneys at-Law, Blackshear, Georgia. I BRUNSWICK CIRCUIT. j j COURT CALENDAR 1 Appling Superior Court-First and second Mondays in March; third and 1 fourth Mondays in September. „ , n . rn , after the third Monday in Marcl f ; j Tuesday after the first Monday iu | October. j Coffbe Superior Court—Fourth Mon- ! day in March; second Monday in Oc * ,O ' J01 ’ ! Charlton Superior ... Court Tuesday after the first Monday in April; lues day after the fourth Monday in Oc totier - i Clinch Superior . Court—Second-Ion day in April; third Monday in Ucto “ er ’ Ware Superior Court—Third and fourth Mondays in April; first and scooed Mondays in November. Pierce Superior Court—First Mon day in May; third Monday in Novem ber. Wayne Superior Court—Second j Monday in May; fourth Monday in November. Glynn Superior Conrt -Third Mon day in May and first Monday in De cember; to continue for such time as the business may require. _ keep abreast of these stirring times by subscribing for yoar home paper. J he price is little and you cannot 1 fford te be without it. 1 GIGANTIC STRIKE ON Confererc; cf Steal Trust People and Iron Workers Fails. i ORDER IS GIVEN TO WALK GUI Doth Sides to the Controversy Issue Statements—At Least 150,C00 Workers Will Bo Effected By the Order After a three days’ session in Pitta burg, Pa., the conference between rep resentatives of the American Sheet Steel, American Steel Hoop Company and American Tin Plate Company, sub sldary companies of the United States Steel Corporation, and the general ex ecutive board of the Amalgamated As sociation of Iron, Steel and Tin Work era, adjourned finally at 6 o’clock Sat urday evening without reaching an agreement. In less than an hour later President Shaffer, of the Amalgamated Association, had wired the following order to all the Amalgamated lodges in the tin plate, steel and hoop and sheer steel mills of tho country: “Notify your men that the mill is on a strike and will not work on Mon day, July 15th.” For the present President Shaffer says that nvly the three companies named will be affected, but later all the union men in the' Federal Steel Company. National Steel Company and the National Tube Company may bo called out, if it shall be found ncces cary to resort to extreme measures to win the fight. At tho start, it is claimed 45,000 skilled workmen, 30,000 unskilled men, and directly many thou sand more will be affected. Statement by Steel Trust. After the adjournment of the con ference the following statement was given out by tho officials of the com panies interested: "The conferences between the Amal gamated Association and Sheet, Koop and Tin Plate Companies failed to come to an agreement, because the Amalgamated Association did not re cede from its original position. The manufacturers did not refuse their rights to organize, but have got many men in their mills not In the Amalga mated Association who do not wish to become association men and claimed they must respect these men in then wishes, as well as those who are mem bers of the association. In order to effect a compromise, the manufactur ers offered lo sign for several mills which have always in tne past been out of the association. No compromise was offered by the Amalgamated As sociation. The American Tin Plate Company has only one non-union mill. The company required the privilege to make a special scale for this mill and sign the same. This was refused and the company was given to understand that men In all the tin mills would he called out, even though the scale has been signed for all the tin mills. The privilege requested above would settle all differences between the tin plate company and the Amalgamated Asso ciation.” President Shaffer Talks. The Amalgamated people are very sanguine of success. "The strike was not of our own seek ing," said President Shaffer. “It was forced upon us. We were not contend ing for wages, but for principle, for self-preservation. The tin and sheet people will not he able to turn a single wheel tomorrow'. We have onr forces thoroughly organized and there will be some surprises in store. I have not heard today from a single lodge in an swer to my strike order, but an answer is not necessary. The order will he promptly obeyeu by all our men. But there will be no trouble. Labor organ izations have changed. The Amalga mated Association is not the associa tion it was twenty years ago. not even five years ago. The men are more readily controlled; in fact, we have our men under control." President Shaffer could not give the ^ a ' ot f rn that ' vo,, ' d ,,Ue ’ h,lt e8timatfl1 ,r “' m from lh " le ' l ,ur,K f,om th * oth ‘ K enf ' raI offlcers of t.he organization aa at h ast 150,000. H was his intention to have the strike as general as possible at the earliest possible moment, so as to force a set tlement of the dispute quickest. A week will be required to reach all the men that are to be ordered out. and it will only he then that it would be possible to tell how effective the strike wou ] ( i |„. an ,j how complete its effect rjn ,h e business of the country. As soon as the mills shut down the ship ment of raw material, of coal and coke for the variouR planU wll j oeas( , )t ig said. The depression in this respect is »P<>n as threatening more rious results than the simple closing of the mills of the United States Steel Corporation, PUT OFF AT BUFFALO. Georgia Pen Pushers Reach Their Des tination In Fine Shape. 4 special from Buffalo, X Y., says; The Georgia editorial party, composed of the Georgia press and weekly asso ciations, were safely "put off at Buf falo” Thursday evening. All are well and In the beat of good humor. They will be the guests of the Rinooln note! while lu the city. DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF PIERCE COUNTY. BLACKSHEAR. GA., THURSDAY. JULY IS. H>01. TUMBLED THROUGH A BRIDGE. Loaded Freight Train Caused Collapse of Structure and Ten Men Are Killed Outright. Thursday morning at 10 o'clock three i cars of the east and local freight went j through the Nickel Plate bridge at Springfield, Pa. The train left Con neaut, O., only a few minutes before j j the accident in charge of Engineer William Griffith, of Buffalo. The bridge gang was at work on the bridge, and I the ten men killed are mostly work j men. A fill was being made at the bridge and about twenty-five workmen were about the structure. The horrible affair occurred just af ter passenger train No. 3 pulled through. The local, after the passing of tho passenger train pushed three cars, heavily loaded, out on to the structure to unload stone for the ma sons working beneath on the large stone foundations. The work of un loading had barmy begun when, with out any warning, the whole structure bearing the three cars, filled with la borers. fell with an awfui crash Into the valley. Bo sudden was the affair that only one man had a cffiance to leap in time to save himself from in jury. The list of the dead includes Con ductor Phil A. Moore, Buffalo; J. Sea boss, workman, Cleveland; George Swartz, workman, Springfield; Homer Beckwith, foreman, Conneaut. Five Italians, names unknown. HARVEY SHORTAGE GROWS. City cf Brunswick Now Claims Sum of $43,000 t-rem Ex-Treasurer. A big surprise has been sprung at Brunswick, Ga., in the civil suit now pending against former City Treasurer Harvey, his property now being held in trust by order of the court, and the Fidelity and Casualty Company of Bal timore, which was on his bond for sev eral years. Briefly stated, the city 1ms filed an amendment to the original petition, in which it is now alleged that the for mer treasurer is short over $43,900 in his accounts instead of twenty odd thousand as the original petition shows. Coming just at this juncture, and in view of the many peculiar phases connected with both the crimi nal as well as the civil suits, the amendment is destined to be produc tive of more interest than the original petition. Legal fighting over the amendment will bring out some fine points of law, as in it the city’* attor neys seek to hold the bond company for the entire shortage of $43,000 now claimed, this responsibility being in stated amounts of $15,000 per annum, which was the amount of the treasur er’s bond. The bond company claims that their contracts read that they must be notified six months after the expiration of the year in which ar, al leged shortage occurs, or in lieu of such notice they are released from re sponsibility for that year, and In this particular suit they deny all liability on the grounds that no such notice was ever given. FLORluA QUARANTINE STATIONS Are Offered to the federal Govern ment by Governor Jennings. Governor Jennings, of Florida, had a conference in Washington Wednes j day with Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Spa,ding and Surgeon Gen ; era! Wyman on the subject of the gov , ernment taking over the four state quarantine stations. ’lne omy ques tions involved are those of the author ity on the part of the treasury depart menf to purchase or tease the stations and the availability of funds for that purpose. To Fast and Pray For Rain. Governor Dockery, of Missouri, has ; received numerous petitions asking him to issue a proclamation setting a day of fasting and prayer for rain. It , is said tl at unless rain shall e.omo soon the failure of crops In Missouri will be the greatest since 1854. General Wood Improving. A special from Havana states that Governor Wood was feeling much bet ter Thursday. He has hardly any fe v f r ’ »*■ caw is c r,t ' ca ' an<1 h,H l'losih'ans , ore confident t of his recov WHEELER ASKS FOR TROOPS. - General Is Anxious to Make Fete Day at Newport a Big Success. General Joseph Wheeler, marshal of the coming fete day parade at New port, H. I., has sent to Governor Crane, of Massachusetts, a request that the Second and Nintn Massachusetts regi ments he sent to take part In the pa rade. General Wheeler Is anxious for the presence of these, two regiments that served with him In the hantlago campaign. It Is thought there will he 3.000 men in line, including the me# from the north Atlantic squadron, na va! apprentices, naval brigade, local and state militia. BURGLARIOUS BAND FLUSHED. Detected In Hotel They Wer* Met By 1 Bullets and One Wae Killed. Four masked men entered the hotel of Peter Hoke, at Yorkvllle, Pa., at midnight. Thursday night and encoun tered the proprietor and Michael Reit zel and Joe Wachter, guests. During , the fight which followed one of tt* -obberj wes *hot and killed and Mr. j Hoke was wounded In the 1*,$. TO WATERY GRAVES Six Members of Happy Fxcursion Party Swept Dow n by Waves. BATHERS WASHED OUT TO SEA Five Women and Girls and One Man Were the Unfortunate Victims. Trapped By the Incom ing Tide. A Savannah, Ga., special says: The twelfth annual excursion of the He< brew Gaemahl Hasad, commonly known as the H. G. H„ had a tragic ending Sunday, six members of the party being drowned. The H. G. H. is a popular society with the orthodox Jews, chiefly from Russia and Poland, being of a benevolent character. One of Its features is au annual excursion for the members and their families. The excursion was to Daufuskle Is land, twenty miles down the Savannah river on the South Carolina side. The beach at Daufuskle is a poor one, and it has been largely given up as a re sort. This accounts in part for the ac cident. ’1 he day passed pleasantly enough until between 3 and 4 o clock In the afternoon, by which time tho excur sionists were scattered all about the island. A party of twelve or fourteen, mostly women and children, decided to go In bathing on the sea side of the island. Between the shore and tho deep water there is a wash or sluice, then a shoal and then a fairly good shelving beach. The tide was out when the party noticed that the incoming tide had covered the shoal and decid ed to return. They were all right until they reached the sluice, where the wa ter was running like a mill race. Al most the entire party was caught and a struggle for life began. Some man aged to get back on the shoal and a few got across the danger spot, but six—live women and girls and one man—were caught by the tide and car ried down. Their screams attracted those on shore and the alarm was giv en. There were no boats on that side, and by the time word reached the oth er side of u.e Islands and the boats were gotten out It was too late. BRYAN’S FRIENDS AROUSED. Ohio Democrats Who Remain Faithful to Nebraskan Will Hold State Convention. On July 31st the c.ilo democrats who believe in Bryan, the Issues which he represents, and which the recent democratic convention Ignored, will as semble in Columbus and make up a state ticket, Ten met met Sunday morning in Cleveland and decided that a bolt should be made, and that a new party could enter the field of Ohio pol Itics. The attendance at the conference It was stated, was larger and repre sented a greater area in the state than was expected by those who called tho meeting. A formal statement of principles was submitted to die conference, and was auopted. This will he printed and sent throughout tho state to those who are known to be faithful to the No hraskan. A convention was decided upon to he lieu! at the Great Southern hotel on the last day of July. TROOPS GUARD MURDERER. Florida Governor Protects Colored Prisoner In Jail at Lake City. Governor Jennings, of Florida, called out company H. state troops, Friday night to protect T. J. Hampton, col ored, confined In Columbia county Jail at Lake City for the murder of two white men at Fort White. This was on advice of the sheriff, who was informed that a mob of sev eral hundred was preparing to move toward Lake City from the southern part of the county for the purpose of lynching Hampton. A cordon of sixty soldiers was im mediately thrown around the Jail and the prisoner In the meantime quietly taken elsewhere. Mining Strike In Northwest. The biggest strike In many years among the miners of the northwest Is on at Uossland, Wash., and 1,200 min ers are idle. The strike affect* the Le rol and other mines owned by British companies, The trouble started through the locking opt of union smelt er men. Christian Converts Slaughtered. Tho reported upslslng on the Island of Qqelpart, off the Korean coast, and the killing of several hundred Chris tlan converts Is confirmed In mall press advices reaching the Japanese legation at Washington. TO TEST CONSTITUTION. Louisiana Franchise Law Will Run Gauntlet of the Courte. Tho foundation was laid at New Or leans Thursday for a suit to t*- K t the validity of the provisions In the new constitution of Ixiulslana and similar provision* in the constitutions of other southern state* disfranchising negro voters, and etj^cie.ily to test the con stitutionality of the grandfather clause THE “ONLY WISE SOLUTION” Noted Mississippi Ex-Chief Justice De livers Sensational Address en the Race Problem. At the Mtllsapa Normal school In Jackson. Miss., ex-Chlef Justlco J. A. P. Campbell, of the state supreme court, anti one of Mississippi's most distinguished citizens, delivered an ad dress on the “Only Wise Solution of the Race Problem," which has created a tremendous sensation. Judge Campbell in his address took ultra ground. In the first, place he boldly advocated the abolition of the common school education for the ne gro rate, ulalming toat It had done no good whatever, and bad been produc tive of much evil. The younger gener ation had Imbibed just enough smat tering of learning to render them ab solutely worthless and to attract them to the towns, where they became lost’ ers and criminal characters, danger 0118 to the community. The Immense appropriations which are being spent every year In the southern states for the common school education of the negro, lie says, are worse than wasted, and are making more dangerous a problem already complicated In Hie ex treme. "There can never he harmony be tween the races In the south," declared Judge Campbell emphatically, "until there Is a universal recognition of the known fact In nature that the Caucas ian Is the superior of the negro race, and will Insist on Its natural prece dence and the authority which such su periority gives within reasonable bounds. Common school education for the negro causes him to forget tills fact, and leads to dangerous desires and aspirations for social equality on his part which c an never possibly be realized. He becomes discontented, dangerous, sullen and Intractable, lose ing his sole claim to consideration, which Ih that ordinarily he Is a good worker. "To refuse to make this common school appropriation for negro educa tion would require a change in our state constitution, but., I am convinced, would not ho obnoxious to any provls loll of the federal constitution 111 fact, the United States supreme court has expressly decided that education Is a gratuity and not a matter of right to he demanded equally by the races. "But, since there seems to he an opinion In many quarters that wo owe the negroes education, 1 would he In favor of selecting a number of the best specimens of the race and educating them well at the expense of the slale, as the government educates at West Point. Theso could then be turned loose as missionaries among the race. They would he proud of their superior position, superior education and grate ful to the state which thus set them shove their race, and would therefore be (It, leaders and advisers for the race. The same principle of fealty which causes a West Pointer to adhere to tho government would cause these men set apart for this special purpose to stand for the best, interests of the state, and to give their race the wise counsel which their superior education and position would make fitting." ITALIANS ASSASSINATED. - Refused to Decamp When Ordered and Mob Fills Them With Bullets. Two Italians were killed and another wa n seriously wounded at Erwin, Miss., a small station some thirty rr ,n,, H HO uth of Greenville on the River side division of the Yaoo am! Missis sippl Valley railroad some time Wed nesday night. They ail came from Ce fain, Sicily. The three had been living near Glen Allen, but on account of Home trou ble were ordered to leave the commun ity by the citizens. This they refused to do. The Italians In the county are con siderably wrought up over the mat ter, hut no farther trouble Is anticipa ted. Governor Longino was notified of the occurrence, while the Italian con sul at New Orleans was also apprised of the killing. Kittridge Is Now Senator. Thursday Governor Berried, of Pouth Dakota, appointed A. It. Kit tridge to till the unexplred term of the late United Plates Senator ITyle. FINE AND IMPRISONMENT. 6trike Leaders Hit Hard In Contsmpt of Court Case st York, Pa. In the county court at York, Pa., Thursday Judge Htewart rend' red his opinion In contempt esses growing out of the molders' strike, In wblph George W. Test, corresponding representative of the Iron Molders’ Union of North A merles, arid others were adjudged guilty for vlolutlng the court’s Injure tion restraining them from picketing and otherwise Interfering with the York Manufacturing Company. Test and leaders of the strike were sentene ed to pay a fine of $250 and costs and undergo Imprisonment of thirty day* BOER LEADER SURPRI8EO. 8teyn’s Brother Captured By Britons, But Steyn Himself Escapes. The London war office has received the following dispatch from Lord Kitchener, dated at Pretoria: * Broad wood ’s brigade surprised Reitz, capturing Bteyn’s brother and others. Hteyn himself escaped In hla shirt sleeve*, with one other man omy. The *o-cailcd ’Orange River govern ment' and paper* were Subscription, One Dollar a Year. ESTABLISHED 1880, II (*), Railroad Co. Schedule in Effect Friday, June 7, 1901. eouicpri.n showing i,having time. STATIONS. No. Daily! 1 |~No. Sunday 3 ~| | NoTlfT Daily No. Daily 17 j Only Ex. Sun. Ex. Sun, Jamestown....... Way cross .... 11 01) amj 5 15 pm 7 10 am 12 45 pm 1 14 pm Upchurch....... Wnltertown..... 1118 11 24 amj 5 5 3‘2 39 pm 7 7 32 40 amj am 1 1 33 22 pm anu am) pm ppi Elsie.... ........ 1131 5 45 pin 7 47 anil 1 43 pm Bolen........... 11 37 am 5 52 pm 7 50 an 1 54 pm Bench.......... 11 46 am 6 01 pm 8 07 un, 2 01 pm Murrays......... 11 51 am 6 09 pm 8 10 amj 2 21 ) pm Sessoms......... 12 02 pm (I 17 pm ,8 28 amj 2 33 pm Granville"........ 12 05 pm 6 20 pm 8 3‘2 am) 2 37 pm N icholls........ 1212 pm 6 28 pm 8 42 am 2 50 pin Saginaw........ 12 17 pm 6 88 pm 8 18 am 3 20 pm Ohftttertou...... 12 25 pm 6 42 pm 8 58 am 3 30 pm Douglas..... 12 45 pm 7 00 pm 0 21 am 4 16 pin Upton............ . 12 53 pm 7 10 pm !) 32 am 4 40 pm Wmlleys Mill....... 1 12 pm 6 30 pm Ambrose........... 1 14 pm 7 30 pra 10 10 am 5 40*pm Tracy........... 1 36 pm 7 50 pm pin|ll 10 33 am G 27 pm Fitzgerald...... 2 00 pm 8 12 00 am 7 00 pm No. 2 I No.' 4 j c 1(1 i No. 18 STATIONS. Daily Sunday | 1 = lly Daily Only Fx. Sun. Ex. Sun. Fitzgerald....... ..... 6 00 pin! 7 00 amj 6 00 am.12 00 m Tracy ... ....... ..... fl 27 pm 7 25 am! amj 0 27 am 12 30 pm Ambrose........ ..... fl 47 pm! 7 15 6 51 am 12 55 pm Wadlcys Mill . .............j........ ........j 112 pm Upton.......... Douglas........ ..... 7 7 18 10 pm j 8 8 10 19 amj amj 7 7 34 24 am] amj 1 1 44 56 m Chntertou...... ..... pm amj -r in ..... 7 38 pm 8 32 am 7 57 2 26 pm Saginaw......... ..... 7 46 pm pmj 8 38 amj 8 07 am 2 38 pm Nicholls......... ..... 7 52 8 43 am am| 8 14 am 2 50 pin Granville........ ..... 7 59 pirn 8 49 8 24 am 3 05 pm Sessoms......... ..... 8 01 pm 8 51 am 8 28 am 3 10 pm Murrays ........ ..... 8 08 pm 8 58 am 8 39 am 8 26 pm Beach.. ........ ..... 8 15 pm 9 04 am 8 48 am 3 41 pm Bolcu........... ..... 8 26 pm 9 12 am amj 8 59 am 4 (II pin Elsio........... Upchurch....... .....j 8 H 31 86 pm 9 24 19 amj 9 9 OH 16 am amj 4 4 80 16 pm ..... .....i pm 9 pin Walter town..... 8 48 pm 9 29 am! 9 24 am 4 43 pm Jamestown...... ...... 9 31 am 4 53 pm Way cross .... .....! 9 00 pm 9 45 am 9 48 am 5 15 pm Connections Waycross with Plant System; Fitzgerald with Seaboard Air Dine Railway; Fitzgerald with Tifton and Northeastern ltadroad. George Dor,it Waiu.ky, II. 0. McFaodicn, Vico Pres, ami Gen. Mgr. Gen. Freight and Fans. Agent. General Offices, A lux, Bonnyman, Superintendent. Waycross, Ga. FORESTALLS BOND ISSUE. Carteravllle Light and Power Company Files Interesting Injunction. Tho Carti rsvlll* Light and Power Company tins (lied a lull in the United Stoics court at Atlanta to restrain the city of Cartersvlllo from going con trary lo a contract made by tho mayor and general council ol Carlersvllh- An giml li, l« 8 x, with the Orient. Illuinlnat ing Company, of Maine, for the right to provide hint, light and power to thn city and private citizens. The Orient company, It is claimed, carried out Its contract, hut later failed anu was sold to John W, Allien, of Cartersvlllo, who 111 turu sold tho plant lo the Carlera vlllo Improvement, Gas and Water Com pa ny. According to the bill, the new com pany begun to carry out all contracts originally assumed by the Orient com pany and to lids end erected a large plant. It Is stated that, the city of Cartersvlllo bail the company’s gas tested and pronounced it, satisfactory. Later, It Is claimed, the city of Car tersvlllo passed a resolution refusing to recognize the new company, and as a consequence the International Trust Company, of Baltimore, filed a bill of foreclosure ori a trust deed held liy It to secure the company’s bonds. As an outgrowth of this action on October 2, |M)3, W. B. Alien was ap pointed receiver of tlx* company. Sub sequently the proerly was sold lly this sale John W. Aiken again became the owner. In the bill the company claims that, it has In every way carried out Its con tract; that the city agreed not to charge it taxes and Hint this agree ment has been Ignored. The direct cause ef Hie bill is the lact that the city of Carteravllle Is said to bo now preparing to issue bonds for the erec tion of a lighting plant. Hoon after the filing of the hill Judge Don A. Pardee Issued an order re straining the city municipality from putting Its purpose Into effect until a hearing Is had to decide upon tho question of a permanent Injunction. NON-UNION MEN GET RAISE. Tube Works at McKeesport, Pa., Com ply With Demands of Employees. The 4,500 employees of the National Tube Company, at Mekei-sport, Pa.. 1 were notified Monday of ari advance In wages of 10 per cent. The men ore not organized, hut the Amalgamated Association was making efforts to In duee them to Join the union, lievera) months ago the men demanded a 10 per cent advance, but w, re refused. Monday morning a committee waited . on Manager Crawford and insisted | upon the Increase. Within a short time the officials gave out a statement : granting tho advance. FIVE DIE IN COLLISION, Engineer, Two Brakemen and a Couple of Trampe Were the Victims. j j brakemen Five persons- and two an tramps—were engineer, kill- two ed in a collision of Missouri, Kansas and Texas freight trains three miles north of Muscogee Indian Territory, Monday. Kansas ha* 140,000,000 tr%!t tree* 1« senrlnx. j BARBER •• SHOP. 1 JOHN Al.DRIDGK, Proprietor. BI.AOKHHRAIt, OKOKOIA. I Hair Cut ting, Shaving, Dyeing.Shara I pooing, etc., done at tho following prices: Cutting hair, 1.5 centa. Shaving, 10 cents. Shampoo, 20 cents. Blacking, 2.5 cents. Dec I [V I iU ! J. C. BREWER, DENTIST, nr,A cksiwa (TA. Gold Crowns and Bridge Work • ipeciulty. 5-5. ’99 GoodPositions v ECU RED c rl JKti “i - By Activ e virff. xxaif Young Men -fir Women - in p|CHMQN|w[ ~ (oUrse "business { CULLEGE ( Sendfor CnlafayuA INSTRUCTIONS tsmtt.j!iaramiAluMuauL BY MAIL LORD ROBERTS ON LEE. British Commander Pays Tribute to "Greatest Soldier of Any Age.” In a letter Just issued at Richmond, Vs., by Miss Mary Custls Lee, Lord Roberts, commander In chief of the British army, said he hoped some dsv to visit, Lexington, Va., and there look Upon Hiv tomb of Lee, the great south ern chieftain The following Is an ex tinct taken from the letter to Miss Le,-: "|t may that 1 shall never he able to carry out my wish of vlslttng your great country, but 1 hope that some day 1 shall do so, and that 1 may see the monument In the college chapel at Lexington. I shall consider u a privl lego to be able to show my respect and admiration for one of tho greatest sol dlers of any age.—Lee, of Virginia, "With kind regards from Lady Hob frts ttn ,i mynelf, believe toe, dear Miss Lee, yours sincerely. "FRED ROBERTS.” Porto Rican Mails Looted. A cablegram received at the post office department In Washington from Han Juan announce* the arrest of Ricardo N’avare Rivera, assistant post master at Mameyc*. on the charge of embezzling letter* of value. Appropriation For State Fair. At a special meeting of the Savan nah, Ga., city council Monday that body decided to appropriate $2,500 to the state (sir to he held In that_ city this tall.