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THE BRUNSWICK NEWS. VOLUME 1. NUMBER 101. THE APPDIITMEHT Of SMITH ÜBE HELDUP. POSTMASTER BROWN IS NOW ON THE SCENE IN WASHINGTON AND HARD AT WORK. PRIVATE TELEGRAM RECEIVED IN THE CITY YESTERDAY SAID THAT THE PRESIDENT WOULD PROBABLY REOPEN MATTER. The following is a special sent out from Washington: Former Postmaster Brown, of Bruns wick, Ga., is here today trying to se cure a re-opening of his case. He called with Representative Brantley at the Postoffice department this morning Mr. Brown was removed on account of alleged irregularities, and Mr. A. M. Smith was appointed in his place. As Mr. Smith’s appointment has not yet been sent to the Senate, it is Mr. Brown’s hope to get an immediate re opening of his case, that he may apply for re-appointment." A telegram was received by one of Mr. Brown’s friends in this city yes terday from a prominent republican in Washington, in which was stated that it was very probable that the presi dent would hold up Mr, Smith’s ap pointment and the case would be in vestigated before it went to the 1 sen ate to be confirmed. INTERESTING POLICE COURT. A Number of Cases Tried Before the Mayor. Mayor police .court was a very lively one and a number of in teresting cases were disposed of. Harry Waters, the Bay street sa oonist, was up charged with violating the city odinance which prohibits fe males being in a saloon. He was found guilty and the Mayor imposed a fine of SIOO. 'me following women, half black and half white, were tried and fined $1 each for loitering around a saloon: Retta Fleming, Fannie Thurston, Ber tha Graves, Rosalae Baker, Elfie May wood, Blonde Gasaway and Kate Jenkins. The other cases disposed of were: Rosa Thomas, on the streets after hours; $1 or five days. Clifford Wllford, riding bicycle with out a light; $1 or five days, D. H. Graham, leaving horse untied; $1 or five days. Jefferson Union, loafing and begging on iue streets; discharged. tom Cumming, disorderly conduct; fl or five days. Jambs Alford, drunk and dsorderly; $1 or five days. Ed Clark and Moses Hames, riding bicycle on the sidewalk; *j. or five days. Joe Prayer, fighting; $8 or thirty dayß. A VERY GOOD MINSTREL. Colored Performers Play to a Large Audience. Richard and Pringle’s genuine Geor gia Minstrels was the attraction at the Grand last night, and the performance was witnesed by one of the largest audiences of the season. The entire up-stairs was given to the colored peo ple and there were but few vacant seats, while the whites came very near filling the down-stairs. The show, all in aii, was a very good one, with new jokes, catchy songs and good clog dancing. Of course, as is generally the case with minstrel companies, there were some tiresome acts, but the colored per formers did very well. FIRE IN VALDOSTA. Part of Plant of Valdosta Guano Com pany Consumed. VALDOSTA, Ga., Jan. .1 —The im mense building of the Valdosta Guano Company was destroyed by fire last night. The fire originate 1 in the acid chamber and consumed the major por tion of the works, one of the largest of its kind in the state. Thr lo3s is es timated at $50,000; insurance $30,000. Part of the plant was saved. QUIET IN PANAMA. EVERYTHING IS NOW SERENE AF TER THE BIG BATTLE THERE YESTERDAY. NO MORE FIGHTING HAS BEEN RE PORTED-NUMBER KILLED NOT YET KNOWN. PANAMA, Jan. 21.—A1l is quiet here today after yesterdav s naval battl e. General Herrera, the revolutionary leader, informed Captain Mend of (ho United States cruiser Philadelphia that he came here, to preve.it the t.' ilum bian government from ining the sterner Bantam against the Liberals. He had accomplished this anl Ihere fore retired. The revolutionists Lid 17 wounded in yesterday’s engagement. The.num ber killed cannot be precisely ascer tained. Of the government forces five men were killed and 1 lur wounded. General Carlos Alban, governor of Panama and military commander of the district, was killed during the bat tle yesterday. TWO WERE HANGED ON SAME SCAFFOLD. Mississippi City Scene of a Double Execution Yesterday. NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 21—Two murderers paid the penalty of their crimes at Mississippi City, Miss., at noon today. Both were negroes. Lewis Johnson, tile assassin of City Marshal Richardson, of Gulfport, and Victor Johnson, who brutally mur dered a little girl at Pass Christian, were hanged from the same scaffold in the presence ol a large crowd. Lewis was seized will religious fervor and shouted from the trap, while Vic tor was too badly frightened to speak. Wife-Murderer Hanged. WILKrSBARRE, Pa., Jan. 21.—John Lutz was hanged here today for the murder of his wife. Lutz kept his nerve until the noose was placed over hi§ head, when he gave way and would have collapsed had he not been sup ported by the sheriff. Hanging in Missouri. JEFFERSON, CITY, Mo., Jan. 21. — J. L. Craft, a convict in the state peni tentiary, was hanged today for the murder of Henry Speiker, a member of the posse who tried to arrest him after he escaped from the prison. Still Another. KANSAS CITY, Jan. 21.—Albert Garth, colored, who killed Minnie Woods, a negress, was hanged this morning. SCHLEY IN WASHINGTON. Returned From His Visit to Savan nah—Will Leave Again Thursday. WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—Rear Ad miral and Mrs. Schley arrived in Washington today after a ten da; visit to Savannah. The date oi filling the admiral’s appeal from the recent decision of the court of inquiry, which the president has consented to hear, has not ben determined upon. Messrs. Rayner and Teague, of counsel for Admiral Schley, have completed the draft of the appeal and are expected to arrive from Baltimore today to sub mit it to the admiral for approval. Admiral Schley expects to leave for Chicago Thursday. BIG INSURANCE CHECK. Peavy Estate Paid $1,000,000 By the Mutual Life. NEW YORK, *|ml2l.— I The follow ing dispatch has here and published in the nrorning papers. ‘‘St. Paul, Jan. 19. —A check amount ing to $1,000,000 has been received here for payment of the policy on the life of Frank H. Peavy, the lace Min neapolis millionaire. It is said to be tb" largest check ever drawn in pay- This check was sent to the Peavy estate by the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York. Ex-Supreme Recorder a Suicide. ! ST. LOUIS, Jan. 21—William H. Hoffmeister, ex-supreme recorder of the Legion of Honor, committed sui cide at the Planters hotel today by shooting himself with a revolver. BRUNSWICK, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 22,1902. FIGHTINGCUBAN RECIPROCIIY, AMERICAN TOBACCO GROWERS HOLDING INTERESTING SESSION IN WASHINGTON. MAKING EARNEST PLEA AGAINST ANY TOBACCO CONCESSIONS TO CUBA. WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—The ways and means committee today resumed hearings on Cuban reciprocity with special reference to the proposed ■ re duction on Cuban tobacco. The tobac co interests in the United Slates lire largely represented, officers of the Large I.eaf Manufacturers am! Glow ers’ Associations being present. • John R. Young, president of the Na tional Leaf Tobacco Associition, made an earnest plea against any tobacco concessions to Cuba. Th° purpose of reciprocity, he said, was to have tli6 whole expense of Cuba’s relief fall on t .vo American Industries -l banco and sugar. There was now' a tobacco acre age in Ohio of acres, Wisconsin 25,000, Pennsylvania 22,000, New York 72,000, Conneeticutt 11,000, uni several thousand acres in oilier states, in all i,( v i i'-h i loin- Lou woul l ha *■ r 1; sly crippled. As to cigars, Mr Young de dal ed the proposed ounce nit 1.1 would "wipe out the American made iOc. ci gai and W'ould secure for Cuba 'lie er. Lie market for all goods above 5c.” Representative Richardson of Ten nsrsee asked if the price of cigars' would be reduced to the cigar smoker. Mi. Young said La price would no reduced, but lie did not believe the consumer wumt ask liris reduction at the expense of an Amor can indiisli.v. ,). Wertheim of New York, head of a cigar concern employing 0.000 pre pie, presented the serious effect of the cincessions on. the Amoric in cigar ni ton rts. SHOT TO DEATH BY A MOB OF MEN. Negro Scrtooi Teacher Paid Penalty For Shooting a White Man SENATOBIA, Miss., Jan. 21.—A. C. Moon, a planter, near St.ayhorn, Miss., was shot Sunday afternoon by Sam Bowie,a negro planter and school teach or, Stayliom is about fifteen mlies west of this point. Bowie surrendered and W. B. Scrog gin and It. Coe were ('specially depu tized to bring him to this place. When in the Arkadutla bottom, a few miles from town, the prisoner. and the officers were surrounded and or dered to give up their guns. The two special officers were taken a distance of several hundred yards and ordered fo decamp. The prisoner was shot to deatht and the mob vanished. A coroners jury did nt develop any evi dence as to the identity of the mob. Moon, who Is a planter, is in a crit ical condition. Bowie was prominent among the members of his race, ine cause of the shooting has not been developed. STILL PENDING. Looks Like a Decsicn Will Never Be Reached in B. & B. Case. The Georgia railroad commission is certainly taking its time in rendering a decision in the B. & B. case, which was heard some two months ago. At a meeting of the boaru some two weeks ago the matter was referred to the chairman, Judge Spencer Atkinson, who was instructed to investigate fur ther and render a decision, but he has not as yet done so. STORM SIGNALS UP. # At An early Hour This Morning a High Wind Was Prevailing. All vessels in port were notified yesterday not to sail on account of a storm which is said to be making up along the Atlantic coast. All storm signals along the river front were dis payed, as notified by the weather bu reau. At an early hour this morning, a very strng wind ia biowing. INCENDIARIES DO DAD WORK, THEY SET FIRE TO A CHURCH AT SYLVANIA, GA., YESTERDAY MORNING. SERIOUS FIRE AT THAT LITTLE PLACE LAID TO THE WORK OF INCENDIARIES. SYLVANIA, Jan. 21.—Incendiaries got in their work in Sylvania, Screven county, last night. The school house was burned about 2 o cloclt and It is almost certain it was set on fire, as there had been no fire in the building yesterday. Professor Johnston, the principal, will no doubt try to secure the Masonic Hall for a temporary school room. At three o’clock last night someone, perhaps the same person, liteiially smashed to pieces the elegant plate window in front of L. H. Hilton’s store. They were very large and costly glasses, being six or seven feet square. The purpose of breaking them was evi dently pure malice, as nothing was taken from the show windows. At Thyre, in this county, the store of W. J. Walker & Go., which carried a good stock of goods, and in which the postofflee was situated, was burned. Walker carried about $1,500 insurance. Mr. Hilton had his plate glass win dows insured, but there was no insur ance on the school building. m STRONG ATTRACTION COMING. •When the Laug.. worries In”—A Big Musical Comedy. Managers Fleming & Waff are surely to be congratulated on securing tho above attraction for Brunswick theatre-goers for Saturday matinee and night, January 25. “Where the Laugh Comes In" is a big musical com edy, interpolated witn varied high class specialties, new songs, catchy dances, etc., making in all one of the best comedy hits of the season, as is daily attested by press and critics ali along theJine. "Where the Laugh Comes In" is a fun-producer and a sure cure for the blues, and in the entire peri’ormancf there is nothing to mar the pleasure of even the most fastidious. Jess. M. Frysinger, the advance and press agent for this big comedy suc cess, says managers everywhere want, return dates, hut as “Where the Laugh Comes In” is ..booked to the Pacific coast via Te-xas, alter six stands in Florida, it will be impossible to oblige managers this season. As an evidence of the appreciation of our managers’ enterprising ability, our theater-goers should give them and “Where The Laugh Conies In” a crowded house. GOVERNOR TAFT ILL. Says Wheaton Thinks War Will End By Last of March. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 21.—W. B. Taft, civil govenor of the Philippine Islands, who arrived last night, is quite jll, the Philippine climate and arduous duties having told on his con stitution. After a few days rest 'he will be strong enough to undergo the trip east. He says the war is confined ; o the two provinces ot Batangas and Samar, and that General Wheaton is ruing splendid work. That office.’' assured him shortly before he sailed thiil the natives of Batangas and vicin ity will be pacified before the close of next March. LIQUOR LICENSE WILL REMAIN THE SAME. Understood that Council Will Not Raise it to S3OO. The News understands from an au thentic source hat council will, at the reular meeting tomorrow night, fix the liquor license at S2OO, tlje same as it is at present, and the recommend ation of the iccnse committee, to raise it to S3OO will be turned down. It is a well known fact that a num ber of the aldermen have been op posed to raising the license all along and it is practically a settled fact that it will remain at S2OO. MAY VOTE ON SALE. PEOPLE OF DENMARK TO DECIDE SALE OF DANISH WEST INDIES BY BALLOT. FRANZ VON JESSEN, SPECIAL COMMISSIONER, SAILED YES TERDAY FOR BREMEN. - ■ ■II ■*! NEW \ ORK, Jan. 21. —Franz Von Jessen, special commissioner of the Danish West Indies, sailed for Bremen today. He has been ascertaining the sentiment in the West Indies in re gard to The proposed sale of the is lands to the United States, The com missioner says' he w'ill suggest that the question of selling the islands be submitted to a vote of the people oi Denmark. Ninetenths of the people of the Danish West Indies, he claims, are opposed to any change in rule. STATE TEACHERS WILL GEET $5600,000 THIS WEEK. Checks Will Be Sent Out on Friday or Monday’s Atlanta Journal says: School teachers of Georgia will be paid in full the money due them for last year’s work on Friday or Saturday This announcement was made this morning by Governor Candler. It will be the first time since the deficit in the school fund that the teachers have been paid in full in January and Gov ernor Candler is natdrally pleased with the result am. the teachers will be more so when they learn the news. The amount due them is $600,000, and they will get it all at one payment. The warrants are now being made out by State School Commissioner G. R. Glenn and will be ready for the gov ernor’s signature by Wednesday. The payment will be for the work done during the last two school months of the year. It is highly probable that the first payment for this year’s work can be made next month and that another one can be made in March. Governor Candler and School Com missoner Glenn have made every ef fort to get ready to pay the teachers all that was due them on last year’s work. The treasury has considerable money on hand at present, and the disbursements will begin as soon as the warrants are signed. The teach ers will not have a claim against the state when they receive the money and will not have a claim until the month of January is completed. TALK OF TAX REDUCTION. Revenue Taxes on Beer and fea to Be Considered by Committee. Washington, Jan. 21.—Tne republi can members of the ways and means committee today decided to begin consideration of the bill reducing war revenue taxes and after a conference attented by all republican members of the committee,. Chairman Payne gave out a statement, ying: “The republican uemoers of the committee on Wc./s and means met today and decided to have a hearng before the full committee on Monday, the 27, on the question respecting the duty on tea and the war revenue taxes upon beer. There will be no further hearing.,, The desire of the beer interests is to take off 60 cents from the $1.60 per barrell now levied on beer, thus bring ing the rate to SI.OO, where it stood prior to the Spanish war. The total reduction in revenues on this item would he $24,000,000. The reduction on tea would aggregate about SB,OOO - TO START SOON. Sash, Door and Blind Factory is Nearly Ready. Manager Gosch, of the sash, door and blind factory, tells The News that his factory will soon be ready for busi ness. This company will make the best grade of sash, doors, blinds, Mould ings, etc., from Georgia pine and cy press. The News feels sure that the factory will be successful. Horses for South Africa. NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 20. —The steamer Drayton Grange cleared today for Capa Town with 910 hor**. PRICE FIVE CENTS. THE ENGAGEMENT OF NARCONS IS IFF, INVENTOR OF WIRELESS TELE GRAPHY RELEASED FROM HIS PROMISE BY MISS HOLMAN, OF NEW YORK. THEREFORE THEY WILL NOT BE JOINED IN THE HOLY BONDS OF MATRIMONY NEW YORK, Jan. 21.—Mss. H. B. Holman of this city announced today that her daughter, Josephine, had asked William Marconi, the developer of wireless telegraphy, to release her from her engagement to marry him, and that Mr. Marconi had complied with the request. The engagement of Marconi to Miss Holman of Indiaua was announced soon after the inventor’s feat of tele graphing aerorss te ocean. It was said they first met on a ship while making an ocean voyage. Recently it was announced that the wedding would take place within the next month or two. Then, however, tho announcement was made that the mar riage had been postponed because Marconi was so busy with his inven tion that he had not time to spare to get married. Now the statement Is made that the engagement is broken. MURDERERS BREAK JAIL. Three Notorious Criminals Saw Their Way Clear to Liberty BIRMINGHAM, ALA., Jan. 21. Early today Frank Duncan, a notorious safe blower, under sentence of death for murder, and three other prisoners made their escape from the Jefferson county jail by sawing through numer ous bars and cutting the lock off the outer gate of the prison yard. Duncan gas from Cincinnati, where bis wife resides, and it is believed that friends of that city furnished the saws with which the escape was made. The others who escaped are: George Bullard, charged with murdering a man in the railroad yards at Bessemer and placing his body across a pair of bumpers on a freight train; A. J. Dye of Nashville, charged with grand lar cency, and Jeff Van Horn, of En* sley, charged with highway robbery. ALBERT F. PATRICK NOW ON TRIAL IN NEW YORK. He is Charged With the Murder of William Price. NEW YORK, Jan. 21.—Albert T. Patrick was called to trial today be fore Recorder Goff on an indictment charging him with the murder of Wil liam Marsh Rice, who died in this city September 3, 1900. Rice was a millionaire recluse. He lived in an apartment house with his valet-secretary, Charles F. Jones. Af ter his death,Patrick took chare of tho funeral arangements and notified Rice’s relatives in distant parts of the country. Before the funeral services checks signed with Rice’s name were present ed at the private bank of Swenson & Son, and to the Fifth avenue bank for certification. All were made payable to Patrick's order. It was discovered later that he was forging and he is now .being tried for the murder of Mr. Rice. IN HANDS OF RECEIVER. Two Large Corporations in Louisiana Forced to the Wall. . .NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 21.—The Caf frey Central Sugar Refining Company and the Franklin and Abbeville Rail road Company went into the hands of a receiver today. Suit was brought in the federal court by Alfred Hennen Morris, one of the bondholders. Some $160,000 is involved in the sugar re finery company and nearly as much in the railroad company, which is en gaged principally in hauling Cane. A. O. Brie# was appointed receiver.