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Witness Magnificent Instalation Cere-
monies at the National Capital—Seetli-
ing and Patriotic Crowds. I
A MOISTED
Vice President Takes Oath in
the Senate, Where Cere¬
monies Were Brief,
But Impressive,
A Washington special says: Under
auspices in every detail perfect, and
with ceremony most impressive as be
fits the occasion, the American peo
pie installed Theodore Roosevelt in
the highest, office the nation"holds.
He took the solemn and binding oatii
Of office before a vast gathering of
the people he had been elected to
serve. The attendant scenes were
unusual. Inaugurations from the time
the east front of the capitol firs. .
came the setting for the ceremonv
have been much the same Manv of
the central figures ^ther have offlf'ated i„
like capacity on oc« when
presidents have acceded African , highest
office in the gift of the peo-
Pie. Chief Justice Fuller, in
function taring the oath hi oeZn, , ,
he hisS , f timeS
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this occasion
The decorations thmiigho.it ,i, C ' • l ,
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were more elaborate of'any a 1 , '.T
than on the occasion pn
presidential inauguration, Twice as
many flags used this year by the in-
augural commission as was ever used
before, and the splendor of the
scheme adopted for the city’s adorn
ment never has been surpassed
The forma! ceremonies of installs
tion began In the senate chamber with
the taking of the oath by the new
vice president. For two hours be
fore that ceremony the galleries were
filled with a brilliant assemblage of
invited guests who watched xith deep
interest the arrival of the various no-
tables, last among them the president,
who, upon this occasion, occupied the
position of president and president-
elect, and upon the short sessions of
the senate necessary to wind up the
ends of business.
One of the interesting features was
the adoption of a resolution com
mandatory of thu retiring president of
tbe senate, Mir. Frye. Senator Bac-on.
a democrat, was called to preside, and
Senator Gorman, another democrat
presented the resolution, which was
unanimously adopted.
A few minutes later, after the mem-
bers of the bouse, the members of
the supreme court, the ambassadors
and ministers had been announced and
seated, Senator Fai ' As appeared
upon th« arm of S« Bacon and
escorted by two rei .’Jean Silent senators, cab-
and as soon as the i and
inet arrived the oatl was administer
ed the to the new vice president. Af er
his address the scene of ceremonies
was transferred to the great stand on
the east side of the capitol, where
President Roosevelt was administered
the oath of office by Chief Justice Ful-
ler.
After the president’s came
the great parade, which was reviewed
by the president from the stand in
front of the white house. In many
respects this was the greatest of in¬
auguration parades. What it may:
have lacked in distinctive features,
it made up in size. There was not
the notable array of governors of
states that marked the Cleveland m-
auguration parades or the first M<-
Kinley "the inauguration.
Of military features the Annap-
olis middies, the West Point cadets,
the jaCKies Tackies from irom several wevciai warships k and
the marine corps deserve special men-
tion. General Chaffee, the head of
the army, was one of the most pop-
ular personages with the crowds. Gen-
era! Fred Grant, who is the image of
his .great father, and General Joe
General Joe Wheeler were both heart-
Wheeler were both heartily cheered,
The Oath Administered.
length all was ready for the
At The sea of hu-
crowning ceremony. ad
manity was stilled. The president
vanned to take the oath of office With
his hand upon the Bible, held by
chief jusiice, he reverently repeated
the oath, kissed the book, and Theo i
dore Roosevelt, a soldier of the re-
public, became president by the votes j
of the people, following the unbroken
presidents , which , , , . his .
line of soldier
party has installed since the close ol
the civil war. He then delivered his
inaugural, which surprised his hearers
by its brevity. As the ceremony clos
ed he was again greeted by the roaring
cheers of the immense throng. Ac-
eompanied by his escort and followed
by the troops and civilian paraders,
he started for the white house.
Never has there been so perfect a
regular army column In any previous
national pageant. Cavalry, infantry,
artillery, engineers, marines, seamen
and, properly classed with all these,
the Annapolis and West Point cadets.
,hrilIert il11 beholders with this expon-
ent of the perfection of our military
arm.
The national guards of states ’ and
,i,„, ,, j. d,S ' . riCt . . f h , ° Wed thp
’
d improvement which , the prac-
! '° a , encami,ments anii maneuvers,
8,,pervised hy re S utar officers, have
* ccbnipliab f d b - v »**« abolition of the
" P,CnicS
' rt was a great success. Great! And
'! 7" 7 b,,nch of cowboys?
,f was a u™ " superb, ft really touched r f-
10 ,b " heart."
This was the comment made hy
Prosiflpnt Roosevelt, as he was leav-
in K tlle reviewing stand for the white
house at the conclusion of the mag-
nifleent parade.
One conspicuous feature of the pa
tade, which possibly ’Stfrartefi more
attention and provoked more general
discussion, at least in official and army
and navy circles, than anything else,
was the participation in the demon-
stration s as aids to General Chaffee,
group of cadets from West Point and
.
midshipmen from Annapolis, nearly all
of whom are descendants of army
navy officers who have won distin
guished honors fighting for
country.
In the presence of so many j
fellow citizens as could he crowded
jnt0 the gena t e chamber, Charles War- 1
ren Fairbanks was at high noon in-
ducted into the office of vice president
of the United States. The ceremony j
was quickly followed by the final ad-
journment of the senate of- the fifty-
eighth congress, the beginning of a ;
session, an address by the vie#
president and the swearing into of- j
gce 0 j almost a third of the member- :
ship of the senate. The installation j
of the new vice president was severe- j j
ly simple, and as brief as simple. It.
consisted of a promise, solemnly made,
W ith uplifted hands and bowed head,
t0 perform the duties of the office and :
lo supp ort and defend the constitution
0 f. the Uniled States. This was the
oat h () f office, and it was administered
by Senator Frye as president pro tem-
pore of the senate.
The address of Nice President lair-
banks received oarefui attention, and
at its conclusion he instructed **e sec-
retary of the senate to read pres-
ident’s call for an extraordinary sos
B jon of the senate. The reading an
complished and the senate of the
twenty-ninth congress thus installed,
Dr. Edward Everett Hale, the vener
able chaplain of the senate, came for-
ward to deliver the opening prayer of
the first session,
The organization of the senate was
then completed by the swearing in of
senators elected to serve for the next
six years. They appeared in platoons
of four in alphabetical order a: the
desk of the vice president, each being
accompanied by his colleague. The
oath was administered by Mr. Fair-
banks, and in each case was immedi-
ately followed by signing the senate
roll of membership. This ceremony
concluded the . day s session i and gy. i th tv,-
senate adjourned to the outside plat-
form to witness with others the in-
auguration of President Roosevelt.
The inaugural festivities closed at
midnight with a ball that in splendor,
attendance and artistic effect, fittingly
ushered out. a brilliant spectacular
, day. Thousands of handsomely gown-
ed women, with escorts from every
state in the union, and nearly every
civilized country, in the grand ilium
inated court of the pension
paid their social devoirs to the tu
uon s chief executive.
THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF CLINCH COUNTY.
HOMER VTLLE.GA.. FRIDAY. MARCH 1ft.
TERRIFIC C0NFLIGT!
:
Greatest Battle of War Rag-
ingin Manchuria.
SLAVS IN DIRE STRAITS
Kuropatkin's Forces are Being Literal.
ly Cut to Pieces by Furious On¬
slaught of 260,000 Victorious
Japanese.
A dispatch to The Tageblatt (Ber-
lin) ' from St. _ Petersburg „ . v, sajs.
"General Kuropatkin, in a telegram,
which arrived here at 7 o’clock Satur-
day evening, said 260,000 Japanese had
broken trough the Russian left wing,
^ ^ R WM cut off Irom lh6 r6 ,
maiuder of the army."
At 10 o'clock came another dispatch
from General Kuropatkin, which read:
"The Japanese are marching on
.Mukden. My pwition is extremely
i
In government circles at Berlin there
conviction that Kuropatkin has
is a
fully beaten, that part of his
been
has been dispersed and that the
army prob-
railroad north of Mukden will
abi * be cuL
Reports from Japanese sources
claim that the Russian right flank, |
southwest to south of M/ukden, and |
continuing to the railway, has been
— b >' lhe Japanea *’ ;
forces under the immediate command
ot Genera! ° ku To ,he , ' as,waru
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G(?aeral
ous attack with heavy artillery ag.tmot
strongly fortified Russian positions.
General Kuropatkin is said to he con-
eentrating a strong force in front of
Generals Kuroki and Nogi. It still
seems probable that. General Ktiropat..
kin will find it difficult to retire to
Tic Bass, which appears to be a nec-
ossaxy move. St. Petersburg has
word that affairs latterly have taken
a turn for the Russian arms and the
tactics of Field Marshal Oyama in
sacrificing many of his soldiers in
an attack on impregnable
on the center as a mere diversion,
while the greatest blows were being
struck on the flanks, is criticised by
Russian military officers. .The critics
also point to the attenuation of the
Japanese line as an element of peril
for Oyama and of hopes for Kuropat-
kin. The losses on both sides have
been heavy, but, estimates are lack-
ing.
The Japanese, on Friday, advanced
on the Russian position at Shakhe vii- j
lage, but were beaten off. Twice they !
attacked Poutllof Hill, but both at- |
tacks were repulsed. At Oubenepusa,
a Japanese guard of over twenty ba,- ;
talions made thirteen attacks the I |
night of March 3 and the morning of
March 4, storming the redoubts most
furiously. AIJ these attacks were re j
pulsed with heavy loss. The ground |
in front, of the redoubts was strewn !
with Japanese corpses. The Japanese
arid Russian artillery are engaged in 1
the heaviest duel of the war. Russian
^ ars ar( . fired at the Shakhe
mor 11-Inch guns
brl(J ” „ e ami the Japanese
’ fu)) play but the Russian for-
arg n had
(ideations, on which the Russians
be(m work i n g all winter, offer a fairly
gecure protection of their defenders,
There is little news o-f General Kuro-
patkin s operations on the extreme
east of the line. The Rusians are
holding their ground and even advanc-
ing, but it is reported that the Japan-
e se’cavalry division, with twelve quick-
flri gung js swe eping far to the east-
_ movement,
ward on a rapj( ] f„ rn i n g
The carnage at the center and on
both flanks has been enormous. The
| Japanese at. many places simply threw
[ away their lives heating against the
RugglanB « powerful fortifications in at-
; laoks which in the center apparently
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were intended chiefly as a demonstra-
tjon to ,. over the driving home of Gen-
cral Nogi’s blow.
j PLANTS MAY CLOSE DOWN.
Fertilizer Manufacturers Facing a Seri-
1 ous nation,
The wholesale redaction in the use
i of fertilizers by cotton planters, says
; a Huntsville. Ala., dispatch, makes a
i serious situation for the manufactur-
1 era. and many of them will have to
close down. Tt fs not possible for the
j factories to sell as much as 75 per
^ ccn t of the usual amount sold to cot-
1 ] ters. Many country merchants
ton p an
, arfi flg . htlng the movement of tbe
planters to reduce their cotton crop
. this seal on.
ULTIMATUM by strikers
Renewal of Labor Outbreaks Threaten,
ed in St. Petersburg — Anarchy
Reigns in Moscow.
A St. Petersburag dispatch of Pri-
Russia The 3trike * Moscow lias
been resumed on a large scale, an¬
archy reigns in the Caucasus and at
St. Petersburg, the measures which
the government advanced to quiet Uis
content ami restore good relations be¬
tween masters and men appear to
have failed, with the probability of
causing the storm to break anew.
The labor delegates representing the
whole of the industrial population of
st. Petersburg and who were elected
to choose fifty members of the Schid-
lovski reconciliation commission, met
again Thursday and reaffirmed the
resolution adopted at the previous day
| threatened, in case the demands are
not granted, not only to refuse to
lebor representatives to the
sion, hut to order a, resumption
| the general strike.
These demands are for the
of imprisoned workmen and
from arrest; unhampered speech,
publicity of meetings of the commis
sion and the abolition of the
ship.
A practical ultimatum was issued,
calling for an immediate answer. There
is little expectation that the govern*
ment w j]i gran t the conditions do-
raan ded. The strike already has as
sumed , arge proportions in St. Peters-
burg, about 50.000 men being out.
Among those who struck Thursday
nre the employes of the St. Peters-
sbopB of <»" Wantaw railway
Tbe has " ot extpnded
«he trainmen, but the loaders may do-
n,d ® •" order rhe,n out m order to
paralyze one of the most important
railroads In Russia,
DEA3LY POISON IN MEDICINE.
stuff Taken by Mrs. Stanford Heavily
Charged With Strychnine.
The receipt Thursday by the acting
chief of police of San Francisco of n
cablegram from High Sheriff Henry of
Honolulu, stating that there wore no
less than 662 grains of strychnine in
the bottle of bicarbonate of soda from
whioh M’rs. Jane Stanford took a dose
shortly before her death has aroused
the whole detective force of San Fran¬
cisco, and every effort is being mad ’
to discover who placed the poison in
the medicine.
The bottle containing iho bicarbon
a t,e of soda and its death pqtion orig
mally was purchased in Australia, but,
according to Miss Berner, Mrs. Stan
for< ,.„ pr j vat<s secretary and the maid,
May Hunt, the bottle was refilled in
San Francisco at a local drug store.
Dr. W. G. Slevens, a medical ex¬
pert, made this positive statement:
“Six hundred and sixty-two grains
of strychnine easily would kill 662
personS- * be maliim »ni dose admin In
tered is only 1-15th of a grain, while
the average is l-4«th mt a grain.”
The apparent abseme* of a plausible
motive for such a crime baffles Mrs.
Stanford’s acquaintances, as well
as the detectives. Revenge or ani-
mosity are not regarded as possible
factors of the question, and nothing
J j bas been shown to indicate inheritance that a de-
a j re to obtain an expected
j j f , ou j f j have prompted the deed,
1 Mxs. Stanford did not leave so large
an estate as was supposed, for during
! her life she deeded the -property she
| inherited from her husband to the
: nf Stanford university, to he
I held in trust for that institution after
j her death.
East African Cotton Cron.
The cotton crop of German East, Af¬
rica for 1905 is about four million
pounds, according to Tho German East
African Gazette.
loving cup presented.
Speaker Cannon and Representative
Williams Honored in the
; In the final session of the house
! Saturday morning one legislative act
wag performed by the passing of a
bjl! but the session for tho most part
was devoted to the congratulatory
ceremonies ususal to the close of a
congress. Speaker Cannon was not
only thanked by a unanimous vote ot
the house, but was presented with
a loving cup by the members. Repre-
sentative Williams of Mississippi,
i leader of the minority, was given
j like compliment by bis associates.
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Cement, Plaster and Hair.
Paints, Oils, Leads,
Brushes, Mantels,
Tiles and Grates.
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ANENT WAREHOUSE SYSTEM.
President Jordan Calls for Meeting o'.
Committee in News Orleans.
President Harvie Jordan of the
Southern Cotton Association has is¬
sued a call for a meeting of the com
mitten on establishing a system of cot
tnn warehouses in the southern states
for March 13. The meeting will he
held In New Orleans. Bankers, ware
housemen, insurance men and others
have been invited fo attend the meet
ing, which will be an important one
In the call President Jordan says;
"There is considerable interest at¬
tached to a proper solution of this
matter, and the coming meeting of the
committee, which proposes to get
down to business, will attract the at¬
tention of the people generally al!
over the country. W!i.h a first class
system of local bonded warehouses
the cotton crop could be handled at a
largely decreased cost to the grow¬
ers."
AS TO "DISTRESSED” COTTON.
President Jordan Suggests That Cot¬
ton Companies Buy It Up.
Hon. Harvie Jordan, president ol
the Southern Cotton Association, has
written an interesting article regard¬
ing "distressed cotton.” He suggests
that the cotton which is being sold in
the small towns and cities where there
are not the proper Warehouse or bank¬
ing facilities be bought by some cot¬
ton company and kept off the market
at the present prices.
WOMAN SUICIDES WITH GUN.
Dead Body of Mies Mary Dodson c4
Pooler Found in Woods.
The body of Miss Mary Dodson O'
Pooler, Gn., was found dead in the
woods near her home Wednesday
morning. ‘Her death was caused by
a double barreled gun, which was
foun< , f)eaide the Wy
HERMANN TO FACE COURT.
Member of Congress from Oregon In-
dieted by Washington Jury.
Binger Hermann, member of con-
gress from Oregon and former
missioner of the general land
wag indicted by tbe federal grand
in Washington Friday on the
of destroying public records. The
dietment was found on the
of certain general land 0 fifed
l and of the secretary of the
KILLS MAN, WOUNDS WOMAN.
Negro Does Deadly Work Near Jack,
sonville, Florida.
Early Saturday night Baldwin Marr,
a white farmer living eight miles from
Jacksonville, Fla., was shot through
the heart and instantly killed and his
daughter, Mrs. Brittle, was seriously
wounded by Clarence Mason, a negro
employed by Marr. M>ason made his
escape, but is being pursued by a
posse.
FOR JAMESTON FAIR.
A Quarter Mi! 11 ion Appropriation is
Voted by the House.
Government participation in the ex-
position to celebrate the first perma¬
nent settlement of English speaking
people on the western hemisphere in
the vicinity of Jamestown, Va., was
provided by the house Thursday when,
by a vote of 192 to 91, the bill for that
purpose was passed uniter a suspen¬
sion of the rules. The amount appro¬
priated is $250,000.
ROOSEVELT NAMES CABINET.
All Renominated Except Wlynne Whom
Cortelyou Succeeds.
A Washington dispatch says: Tho
president departed from precedent in
sending in a long list of diplomatic
appointments on the first day <yf the
senate session. It is customary that
none but cabinet members are sent
in that day. Most of these had been
foreshadowed in previous announce*
ment. All were renominated except
Postmaster General Wynne, whom
Cortelyou will succeed.
RETURN PEONAGE INDICTMENTS,
Unitod States Grand Jury at Mor.tgom
ery After Law Breakers.
The grand jury in the United States
court tor the middle district of Ala-
; bama In session at Montgomery
; Thursday, reported a number of true
hills charging peonage and whitecap
piag.
| 3 . j>. Miay, recently sheriff disappeared, ot Crenshaw
cmln ty who was
dieted for peonage. The jury in
vestigatod one lynching case, but fail
ed to return on indictment.