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STATE MITE
LISTS' COMPLETE
V if
FULL LIST OF CANDIDATES FOR
THE ELECTION IN GEORGIA
- ON AUGUST 21.
MftNY HAVE NO OPPOSITION
* t* “
Only Twg Seeking Governorship, Ac
cording to Announcements for
'•« i'a primary.
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—Atlanta.
Indications are that the list of can
didates for stafe and national .offices,
' who .wilT’paftlihpate in the state-wide
primary on |j?£gust 21, is complete.
The candidates* who have announced
--are: andT, .
.Fojw^^O^ernor —John M. Slaton of
Atlaiffa’" i -4rnd' oe Hill Hall of Ma
con.- i
For United ! States Senator—A. 0.
Bacon, jyjfiosjV; H. H. Perry, Gaines
ville; S.‘ Guyt McLendon, Atlanta. Mr.
Bacon. is* a- candidate for re-election.
For Attginey General —Thomas S.
Felder of "Macon and W. R. Jones of
Greenville. Air. Felder is seeking re
election! 9 •
For/CommiSsioner of Agriculture—
A. of Fayetteville; J. D.
FariAiington; J. J. Brown of
Bowman^-A. , '’iVl. Deal of Statesboro;
W. L. Peek of^Conyers.
Superintendent—
M.' L. Brittain "of Atlanta and E. H.
of Bajney, Mr. Brittain is a
candidate ,fqr 're election.
. Commissioners (three
to be^elected) —Judge George Hiilyer
of Atlanta, J. F. Gray of Savannah,
Paul B. Trammell of Dalton, W. Trox
Bankston of West Point, G. J. Shipp
of' CdldelA, J. H. James of Atlanta,
J. J. Flynt of Griffin and J. N. Mc-
Ghee of Dalton. Messrs. Hiilyer,
Gray and Xrammell stand for re-elec
tion. Vf ., f ,
For Prison Commissioners —Judge
L. .F. Patterson of Griffin, Dr. S. W.
Johnson of J. A. Cromar
tie of Sprfhgfield, Hill Tuggle of
Stcne.,Mofmtain, A. N. Grovenstein of
W. J. Flanders of John
! son. ' JucTge-.'Patterson is a candidate
to succeed .himself.
For Pension Commissioner —J. W.
Lindsay of ; Atlanta and W. H. Lanier
of Savannah,
.. for re-election and who
have, no.'.qpgosition are: Secretary of
SUite Philfp"* Cook, Treasurer W. J.
Speer, Commissioner of fvnimerce
and jj.bpr H. M. StanleV- Supreme
* Justices Samuel r , Atkinson
•agd/yv'ar ,«,i, ana Appellate Court
JfJjidges J;. JR. Pottle and Ben H. Hill.
, For confess: "f
First District —Charles H. Edwards,
Saf&bialM'*.
—S. A. Roddenbery,
'.' </Tbild District —Charles R. Crisp of
Afneriqus; Emmett Shaw of Fort
Gaines, John Mercer of Americus.
District has no incumbent as a re
sult of the reapportionment bill.
Fourth District —W. C. Adamson of
“W District William Sthley
Howard. ;
Sixth,, District —Charles L. Bartlett
of Ma'ccn, John R. Cooper of Macon,
.J. -W. ,Wise of Fayetteville. Mr. Bart
lett is,', a candidate for re election.
District Gordon Lee,
ChickaTiiatiga.
Eighth District —Samuel J. Tribble,
•EltTbrioTi'.’:
Ninth,l)iEtrict —Thomas M. Bell of
Gainesville; W. A. Carters, Gaines
..vilie, -and John N. Holder of Jef
ferson. Mr. Bell is a candidate for
re election.
.- /Tenyi District—Thomas W. Hard
..wick, &andersville; Horace H. Mold
‘ eh, Crdwfordville. Mr. Hardwick is
a candidate for re-election.
"Eleventh District —T. A. Parker of
. aycrcss and Randall Walker of Val
dosta.'*
x Twelfth District —Dudley Hughes of
■faoville.
1:26,678.753 Made by State Farm.
W Gjje of the most interesting fea
tures of the fifteenth annual report
of the Georgia prison commission,
which is now complete, is the fact
that for the year ending May 31, 1912,
the commission turned into the state
treamufy the sum of 128,678.73, the
amount derived from the sale of prod
uisrrt- the state farm.
' This amount is one of the largest
the commission has paid into the
trsasury since this fund was divert
ed, -frjjm the maintenance fund by
■legislative enactment three years
a-v>. .
The’ report shows that during the
there had been a large in
crease in the number of negro in
mates at the reformatory, making it
necessary to double the size of the
negro buliding at a cost of about two
thousand dollars.
New Gkme Law Decision.
According to the state court of ap
peals, a hunter, under the provision
cf the game law of 1911, is not neces
sarily' a person dressed in fashiona
ble hunting garb and spending lei
sure time after game.
James Robinson was hauling cotton
in a iield in Worth county last sum
,mer and, having a shotgun with him,
let fly at a covey of quail. Robinson
wak’fc poor shot and missed the birds,
but he was fined for violating the
game law just the same. Now the
court says that Robinson's fine must
stick.
LITTLE ITEMS FROM CFORGIA CITIES
Tiger.—A Spanish coin dated 1740,
and in excellent condition, was found
buried in the-Subsoil of Rabun county
recently by Augustus P. Hunter, a
farmer of the region, whose land lies
about two miles" from here. He turn
ed it up with a plow. The thing is
about the siz'd "of a dime, hut is, of
course, as the" date might indicate,
‘‘Philip, by the Grace of God, King
of Spain and the Indies,” stamped
about the edge. On the reverse is
the figure of a crown, the date,. 1740,
a sign “Mo,” .believed to indicate the
Montevideo mint, and a Latin inscrip
tion that yidids no reasonable, sense
when translated literally—“Untraque
unum,” which, according to Caesar,
ought to mean, “from eaph. - one.”
Possibly the inscription bears the
same idiomatic significance as our
own “E pluribus unum.” How the
coin got there is a mystery. There
were no Spaniards in Georgia, except
right on the coast, away back in 1740,
and the English had only been-in Sa
vannah eight years. It may have
been dropped there much later by
some Indian „ trader, as the Spanish
coinage of that day was exceedingly
plentiful and was in active circulation
among the", Spanish and in
ternational’trade, often for more'tharf
a Centnry.after the date of its mint
age. 'j?, • , -
Americus. —Cotton caterpillars or
army wqrpis, the identity not being
fully determined, have been found in
an experimental cotton field owned by
William L. English, and are eating the
tender foliage. In no other localities
have the worms appeared, although
farmers here continue apprehensive.
The cotton crop is late and in a
tender stage where caterpillars would
destroy it quickly and effectually.
Perry.—E. J. Thompson, whose
farm is’ khbut two miles west of Per
ry, has. qn it a large cypress pond
which he fias fenced in for a pasture.
The continuous rains have filled it
with watej. In this pasture he has
his hogs and cattle. One day
one of his neighbors, G. O. Harris,
heard bellowings in the pasture. He
secured his gun and rode over to the
pastnre,- where he found an alligator
5 feet long trying to go under the
fence into the pasture. He killed
the ’gajor. Harris has lost a good
many pifs and small hogs recently
and thinks the alligators are eating
them. Other bellowings have been
heard in the pasture since this ‘gator
was killed and Thompson thinks there
are others in the pasture.
Jonesboro.—The people of this
town feel that they are at last to have
an electric railway line, connecting
thefr community with Atlanta, and
they are eagerly awaiting .the conv
Hieoceinent srf construction. The At
lanta and Macon railway, soon
hul»•"! ’ not fjuijj fnrri
direct/, fhort route between
and but will give frequent
service, bringing Jonesboro into as
close touch with Atlanta as Marietta
now enjoys.
Macon. —A negro chauffeur, appa
rently-with a. desire to establish a
speed record, was the means of giv
ing a country-bred mule a bath in the
horse trough opposite the county jail.
The automobile came up Bridge Row
at breakneck speed and fan foul of a
spring wagon with a mule hitched to
it. There was a and "the mule
was knocked completely out of the
shafts and harness and landed in the
drinking, trough, from which be“ was
extrica.tetfi'HWth ho little difficulty.
Griffin.— Lightning struck the Kin
caid .cotton mill, in this city, during
a terrific 1 rain- and and electrical
storm and did considerable damage to
the roof cf the building. Ohe of the
operatives was badLyj gtujuaed. but
only ’ slightly hurt. The mill was "put
out for repairs. - . .
Atlanta. —In. the fifteenth, annual re
port which has been submitted to the
which, has just been submitted to the
general assembly, the Georgia prison
commission pays splendid tribute do
the memory of General Clement Ev
ans, .yhtp died while a member of that
body.' The chronicle of his death
was written by. Judge T. E. Patterson
of the commission, is as fololws:
‘‘lt is with proton ndest sorrow that
we chronicle the death of one of our
members. General Clement A. Ev
ans, who had been a member of this
boaTd. since its creation, and whose
sickness was mentioned in our last
annual report, died. .on.- July 2, 1911.
In his death we lost a friend and co
laborer who was ever faithful and
true to the trust reposed in him, the
country a great patriot and soldier,
the state a faithful servant and his
family a devoted father and relative.
His life was full of usefulness and
his death cast a shadow over us all,
and we can only be comforted by the
thought that be hair passed over the
and is at rest under the shade
of the tfireee that - stand by the river
of life that flows from the throne of
God. We desfre to extend to his family
and relatives this slight tesrimonial
of our esteem and love and have
same made a" part cf the record cf
‘his department"
Waycross.—FYom Alaska conies the
report that several more families
have joined the colony that will leave
that country in August for farms pur
chased this spring south of Waycross.
The colony from Alaska will be one
of the largest that has yet settled
in any state from Alaska, and will
prove a valuable addition to the rap
idly growing agricultural settlements
throughout the Waycross district.
Direct reports hate also been re
ceived from agent# in western and
eastern states regarding pros
pects for movements from those sec
tions this fall.
PROCEEDINGS OF TOE LEGISLATURE
1
WHAT THE LAWMAKERS OF GEORGIA ARE ACCOMPLISHING AT
THIS SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
■ EFFECT OF TIPPINS BILL 4
■ IF IT BECOMES A LAW. 4
■ ‘ , —. _ 4
■ If the Tippins-Alexander substi- 4
■ tute, which was adopted by the 4
► house by a vote of 129 to 42, is 4
» passed by the senate and sign- 4
h ed by the governor, it will have 4
h;the following effect: 4
h It stops the issuance of "“near 4
h beer’’ licenses immediately. Li- 4
(• censes novj exiptent arg good, 4
Y however, until the time limit 4
Y for which they, are issued ex- 4
h pires. > 4
k It provides that proof that any 4
► beverage sold or offered for sale 4
Y contains as much as one half of 4
Y one per cent, of alciohol shall be- 4
h considered prima facie evidence 4
h of violation of the law. 4
► jyt prohibits absolutely the sale *
Yof intoxicating beverages by *
Y clubs, hut does not affect the 4
p. “locker” club in the strict mean- 11
► ing of that term. In other words, ■
► members have the right to keep ■
P liquors ..in lookers, hut the club •
► is barred from supplying them. ■
P It does not affect at all the le- *
h gitimate sale of drug preparation ■
► and tinctures, hut it does affect ■
► fraudulent liquors sold under the ■
h guise of medicine. Such liquos ■
► are subject to the same rule of ■
p evidence which applies to other ■
Y beverages. '
A wildly enthusiastic scene was
witnessed in the house galelry when
the Tippins-Alexander substitute for
the famed “near beer” bill was de
clared passed by the house of repre
sentatives of the general assembly.
The vote on the bill was 129, against
42.
By a vote of 111 to 10 the house
virtually passed the Alexander anti
child labor bill, ending peacefully an
agitation of many years and much
bitterness. •>,
Mr. Alexander, in presenting his
substitute for his original bill, re
viewed the fight for this legislation.
Upon motion of Mr. Westmoreland
of Fulton, the words “other mercan
tile establishments,” in the list of
places prohibited, were' eliminated
from the substitute as something un
necessary and likely -to create confu
sion and possible in
the. enforcement of the law.
The present law: prohibits
■pl'jyment of child laboT unde^^^^’" v !
•years, but by excepting-certain.
to a limit of ten years, Its practAC*
operation has been to make the lowel
limit the rule rather than the except
tion.
Under the substitute adopted the
age limit is set in all cases at twelve
years for the year 1913 at thirteen
years for the year 1914 and at four
teen years for the year 1915 and
thereafter. ,
The places of business specifically
prohibited from employing child la
bor are mills, factories, workshops,
laundries and public service corpora
tions, V scH / ~ J
Mr. Alexander's substitute was-the
ohtc'ffnrc of a series of conferences be
tween friends of his original bill and
the heads of various mills and facto
ries affected by it./ ,
rJt differs from the original lull only
in some particulars touching its con
venience of operation gnd its gradual
rather than immediate enactment in
detail and to its final purpose.
.-.lt is the general impression that
the passage of this act foreshadowed
the adoption of a compulsory educa
tion law.
McElreath’s proposed constitutional
amendment providing machinery
whereby justice courts may be abol
ished in cities of more than 20 000
population in Georgia, was passed by
the house by a vote of 148 to 5.
The ultimate object of this consti
tutional amendment is to do awjiy
with justice courts in the larger cities
of the state, if those cities so desire,
and to establish in their stead munic
ipal courts, such as are now in exist
ence in the larger cities, of
and West.
The house of representatives, by a
vote of 135 to 27, passed the McEl
reath constitutional amendment, es
tablishing in Georgia the office of
lieutenant governor.
The opposition was neither insist
ent nor at-all aggressive.
Mr. Payton of Worth introduced a
bill aimed at insurance combined,
both life and fire, made for the pur
pose of advancing rates.
The senate confirmed the following
nominations made by Governor
Brown:
Mrs. Maude Barker Cobb of the
county of Fulton, to be state librari
an for a term of four years from
June 26, 1912.
P. C. King of the county of Clay, to
oe solicitor of the city court of Fort
Gaines for a term of two years from
August 27, 1911.
Roger L. Gamble, of the county of
Jefferson, to be judge of the city court
of Louisville for a term of two years
from November 1, 1911.
John B. Phillips of the county of
JefTerson, to be solicitor of the city
court of Louisville for a term of two
years from November 1, 1911.
E. C. Elmore of the county of Bry
an, to be judge of the city court of
Pembroke from September 28, 1911,
until January 1, 1913.
Thu house declined, by a vote of
119 to 42, to pass the bill by Mr. Al
len and Mr. Fullbright providing for
the abolition of solicitors general in
Georgia and the substitution therefor
of county prosecuting attorneys in
the several counties of the state, on
a salary basis.
The defeated bill provided for a sal
ary cf not more than $5,000 to any
one county attorney, and that the sal
ary night be made .as much less as
the county authorities determined. It
requi'edthat all county prosecuting
|attoni iys should bring into the coUn
jty tf- asury in fines and forfeitures
not less thaji the salary awarded
them, or lose such portion as they
I failed to bring in.
I Mr. White of Screven offered a hill
jin the house providing for a codifica
| tion of the educational laws of Geor
-1 gia. this joint legislative com
imittgp of three the attorney general
j and superintendent of education will
j serve.
Mr. Christopher of Hall introduced
j a bill to raise the pensions of indi-
Igent Mind pensioners from S6O to SIOO
I per annum.
j Mr Payton of Worth introduced a
, bill fxing the fee of justices of the
peace in Georgia at $2.50 for issuing
j criminal, search, ppeace or possesso
iry warrants, unless the party taking
the same makes affidavit that he is
unable to pay same.
Altered so that the constitutional
! objection, which caused former Gov
-1 ernor Hoke Smith to veto a similar
measure, had been removed the Har
ris tesolution providing a standing
commission to re-lease .the Western
and Atlantic railroad was adopted by
the senate without opposition.
Tlje resolution stipulates that three
seniors and five representatives, ap
pointed .from the present legislature,
be nimed to constitute a commission
1 which shall hold office until all the
leasts of the Western and Atlantic
. railnad shall have been consum
mated.
As the present leases of the West
ern end Atlantic do not terminate un
til this commission, should it
be atitWi tied by the house, will be in
j existence for several years.
Pfivision of a similar act vetoed
: by Governor Sn.ith gave members of
jthe commission egislative per diem
while in session. Governor Smith
| held This to be an action of the legis
latorß to create/salaried offices for
theiteeives. Jibe present ireasure
Kelf'around Whis objection by allow
the commission 47
Pa-'day for expenses.
After spenmmg two hours and a
half on the question of whether or
not ex-Governor Hoke Smith’s ap
pointpients should be returned to the
senate, the senators got down to the
•egular work of the day and passed
md introduced several bills
Representative Lovejoy of Troup ;
FuUßlght of Burk; Jones of Meri
wethei and Turnipseed of Clay intro
duced in the house a bill providing
for a lonstitutional amendment abol
ishing the Georgia court of appeals.
The iil! provides for the usual leg
islativt and elective machinery nec
essary to the accomplishment of con
stitutional amendments and provides
fer the abolition of the court imme
diately upon ratification of the pro
posed amendment.
This oill may have no connection
with the late special gubernatorial
campaign, but it is a faet that during
that campaign numerous’Uhreats to
start thjs movement against the court
of appeals were made.
To relieve possible congestion in
the supreme court because of the
abolition-of the court of appeals, the
same gentlemen presented a com
panion bill providing for three addi
tionai justices of the supreme court
A resolution ealiing for an investi
gation cf the fee system as it applies
to the offices of the secretary of state
and the iomptroller general, was in
troduced In the house of representa
tives.
-Mr. Hollis of Taylor, who is the au
thor of the resolution, said that there
is an understanding throughout the
state that the earnings of the secre
tary of state amount to $20,000 a year
and those--«f the comptroller general
to $30,000.
For the benefit both of the secreta
ry of state and the comptroller gen
eral and of the citizens of the state,
Mr. Hollis said, he wished to ascer
tain just wha tthese officials do earn.
“A great deal is being said about
the fee system. But we are invest!
gating only at the bottom. I think
we should go higher up, and partic
ularly that we should furnish the pub
lic a statement regarjjlhg the fees of
the secretary of state and the comp
troller general.
"Such a statement is due to the of
ficials yiemseives, for there is a grow
ing opinion that these officers receive
excessively large compensation.”
The following bills were passed by
the house:
By Ashley of Lowndes —Charter
amendment for Valdosta.
By Strickland of Pierce —Creating
board of commissioners of roads and
revenues for Pierce county.
By Foster of Floyd—Amending act
creating board of roads and revenues
for Floyd county.
By Burnett of Quitman —Amending
act creating board of roads and reve
nues for Quitman.
By Ellis of Tift—New charter for
town of Omega.
BOATS TO SOUTH AMERICA
New Steamship Line to Open Fine
Market for Southern Products.
Washington, D. C. —President Fin
ley of the Southern Railway compa
ny announced today that he had been
advised of the purpose of the Mun
son Steamship Line to inaugurate reg
ular service between Mobile, Ala., and
South American ports. The new ser
vice is to begin on September 11, on
which date a steamer will leave Mo
bile for Montevideo, Uruguay, and
Buenos Ayres and Rosario, Argenti
na, all of which ports wil lbe regular
ports of call for the new line. Sail
ings will be made every fourth week.
In making this announcement Presi
dent Finley said:
“The inauguration of this new ser
vice will be of great benefit to the
merchants and manufacturers of the
Southeastern States and of the entire
Mississippi valley. The markets of
South America are rapidly increasing
in Importance with a growing demand
for commodities which can profitably
be produced in our Southeastern sec
tion. Many of our enterprising man
ufacturers and merchants' l 'are giving
special consideration to the possibil
ities cf these markets. Our South
Atlantic and gulf ports are adwtage
ously located with reference to the
South American trade, and I am con
vinced that direct and regular steam
ship service such is now assured from
Mobile will result in the building up
of a profitable business. The people of
other Southern seaport cities are now
moving in the matter and I hope that
additional lines may be inaugurated
in the near future.”
NEWSY SUMMARY.
Household cares never worry a wo
man when she has an engagement
with the dressmaker.
No woman is happy who knows her
husband too well.
Over a hundred feet in the air,
while paitning the steeple of St. Ste
phen's P. E. church, painters at Bev
erly, N. Y., encountered a swarm of
busy bees. The men were painting
the very top of the church spire, when
the bees came out of an opening. As
soon as they could get the scaffold
working the painters descended, ward
ing off the bees with their paint
brushes. In the opening the bees
have a hive, and they are seen daily
flickering around the weather-vane,
striking it with such force as to cause
the vane to move, giving onlookers
the impression that the wind was
changing. It is believed the steeple
will yield a big crop of honey.
Agostino Bassi, a country doctor in
the north of Italy, early in the last
[ century, the starker o£ the germ
theory of \disease. At that time a
peculiar disease was killing the silk-,
worms, bringing ruin to the whole
silk country of Italy. Bassi, by the
microscope, discovered the germ
which is the cause of the disease.
Mrs. M. A. Baldwin was recent!)
elected school trustee at Groton, N
Y. She is the president of the Politi
cal Equality League and more than
half the men present at the school
meeting are said to have voted for
her. Although the only woman on
the board she was made a member
of its executive committee.
Caruso, who is said to derive not
less than $50,000 a year from his
fees and royalties on musical records
of ..his - voice, is only one of many
vocalists and instrumentalists t»
whom the new invention has brought
not only a substantial increment of
cash, but a vastly extended area of
educational influence, according to
the Baltimore American.
Benjamin L. Hoyt, said to he the
oldest practicing lawyer in the Unit
ed State's, died in Penn Yan, N. Y.,
at the age of 93 years. He practiced
his profession up to two months ago.
cuse in 1841 to practice in the com
cuse in 1841 to pratcice in the com
mon pleas court and afterward to the
supreme court. With the exception of
a term he held the office of justice of
the peace of Penn Yan since 1850, be
ing elected each time on the Republi
can ticket.
A dispatch from Burlington, Vt.
says Elizabeth Ann Howard, widow
cf Maj. Gen. O. O. Howard, whose
death a few months ago removed that
last surviving commander of a Union
army in the Civil war, must sell her
homestead. Her income is less than
SI,OOO a year, not enough to support
the place. She is 78 years old.
General Botha’s election campaign
for control of the first parliament of
the unfbn of South Africa, was seri
ously hampered by the announcement
that his daughter proposed to s'ng
the part of Carmen in an amateur
opera production at Johannesburg.
This levity on the part of a member
of the family of their leader and pre
mier so offended the straight-laced
Boers that General Botha had to for
bid and disavow his daughter s in
tention.
The woman who queens it over a
man’s heart is too proud to do culin
ary stunts.
There will not be as much wine and
champagne made at Egg Harbor this
year as formerly, owing to the short
grape crop. It is estimated that the
farmers will not get 40 per cent, of
their former crops, while many -will
not have 10 per cent., due to the late
frosts and wet weather in the spring.
Hundreds of tons of granes received
frrm New York state annually will
this year a'so fall short, as the crop
there is but a half one. With what
grapes are obtainable, the wineries
here are in full blast and thousands
of gallons of grape ju>'oe are being 1
converted into wines and champagne. j
WILL SHIP COTTON
AGREEMENT REACHED BY SHIP
PERS AND THE STEAMER
LINES.
RESOLUTION WAS ADOPTED
Steamer Lines Rescind Order Requir*
ing Cotton Bales to Be Entire
ly Covered.
New York. —A compromise was el*
fected here between the steamship
lines and the cotton shippers in the
dispute over the refusal of the steam
ship companies to issue ocean bills
of lading for cotton shipments after
September 1 unless the railroads de
livered the cotton thoroughly covered
and entirely free from all evidence of
damage.
By the agreement reached the de
cision of the steamship lines is auto
matically rescinded, and while the
cotton bales need not be entirely cov
ered, the steamship lines will assume
no responsibility for damage result
ing from imperfect covering.
The settlement was. brought, about
by a report of the special committee
of ten appointed at a general confer
ence of interests affected. < •
The demand of the steamship lines
was virtually for better haling of
coltm because of damage they were
often' forced to pay for cotton which
they said was damaged before it was
received for "nment. The cotton
shippers met this demand with the
statement that it wo ’d be impracti
cable and unnecessary to cover the
sides of hales.
It was contended that the method
of baling was as good as could be and
that they were not responsible for
damage caused en route to the sea
ports.
The subcommittee reported the fol
lowing resolution, which was adopt
ed at once:
“It is mutually understood and
agreed that the description of the
condition of the cotton does not re
late to insufficiency of or the torn
condition of covering nor to any dam
age resulting therefrom and that no
carrier shall be responsible for any
damage not caused by its negli
gence.”
E. J. Glenny, president of the New
Orleans Cotton Exchange, who acted
as chairman of the conference, said
after the adoption of the resolution:
“The acjicn "of the conference in
adopting the vesoluuon of the sub
committee is a step in direc
tion towards the better handling ot,
c-Ottoh and I believe it is also 15
: men! in the prepay direction"' tp wards
tWcuring the perfect methods of bal
ing cotton.’'' j .'
CRAZY NEGRO RUNS AMUCK
Took Refuge in House, But Was
Smoked Out and Shot to Death.
Tampa, Fla. —Bob Harris, a crazy
negro, cn a rampage bore, killed"
three persons, wounded two others,
one of whom was white, and himself
was slain by policemen after a siege
in which gasoline was used to bum
him out of a house. He was insane
from drugs. <
He first went to the house of a wom
an and killed her and a man he found
there. He then went to another house
and fired on a woman with a baby.
The former was slain. On his way out
he shot another negress,- Virginia
Simpkins, who is expected to die, and
a white policeman named Riggs.
He took refuge in the Simpkins
woman’s house, where he lived and
ban leaded the doors and windows.
Being plentifully supplied with car
tridges he kept a . large force of po
liceman at bay, and was dislodged
only after being smoked out of one
room. The house was then set afire
with gasoline. When he made a dash
for liberty he was shot and killed.
Six Men Killed by Explosion.
Richmond, Va. —Two' white men
and four negroes were killed in an
explosion in the mines of the Gayton
Coal company, 15 miles from here.
Three negroes were injured. The men
were at work when the explosion oc
curred and it is supposed that the
premature, setting off a "shot” or
charge of blasting powder was the
cause. None of the men working
near enough to the explosion to know
its cause escaped.
Gambler Rosenthal Murdered.
New York.—Herman Roseitthal, the'
proprietor of a New York gambling
house, whose sensational charges that
the police were guilty of grafting and
oppression were to he investigated,
was shot down and killed In front of
the Hotel Metropolc by live men who
escaped in a tig gray automobile. Ro
senthal was murdered only a few
hours before he was to appear in tha
home of District Attorney Whitman
in an attempt to substantiate his
charge that the police were grafting
on gambling houses.
Wild Buffalo Kills Aviator.
Paris, France. —Hubert Latham, the
Anglo-French aviator, was killed last
month by a wjld buffalo while hunting
in the Frenph Congo. The governor
general of French Equatorial Africa,
in telegraphing the news to the min
ister of the colonies, says Latham
was out with a number of natives
in the forest when he shot and rind
ed a buffalo which charg
ed him and gored and tramn’ef) him
to death. cocnr-ed on
the Chari river near the Bahr Es Sal
am&t.