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THE BRUNSWICK NEWS.
VOL. 1. NO. 129,
RIOTS CONTINUE
WITH SERIOUS
RESULTS.
REPUBLICANS IN SPAIN URGE
THE TROOPS NOT TO USE ARMS
IN DEFENSE OF "PLUTOCRATS.”
IN BARCELONA FOUR WERE
KILLED—MANY ANARCHISTS
PLACED IN JAIL.
Madrid. Feb. 21.—According to the
morning advices from Barcelona,
where conflits between troops and the j
mobs took place yesterday, the situa
tion there is improving, though still
threatening. An effort will be made
today to resume ordinary vocations.
Most stringent efforts are prepared to
protect traffic and business.
The strikers have few rifles, but are
well supplied with revolvers and dar
ge rs. The search ol suspected houses
continues, resulting in the arrest of
large numbers of anarchists and rev
olution st3 ot all kinds. The cosmo
politan character of Barcelna makes it
a resort for representative* of all the
revolutionary elements in Europe and
the ranks of the malcontent work
men are swelled by French and other
foreign political agitators.
The Republicans are busy among
the troops urging them not to use
arms against their own class in de
fene of the plutocrats. The working
people of Madrid favor the strikers.
Martial law has been declared in Tar
ragona. The strike is spreading in
Llobregat and Cardona valleys. There
is a general cessation of work at Cas
tellon de la Plana and Carve, and
much excitement prevails at Batea.
Forces of gendarmes have been dis
patched to those places.
Forty Killed at Barcelona.
Barcelona. Feb. 21.—Forty persons
have been killed since the disturb
ances broke out here. The strikers
today attacked the jail in an attempt
to rescue their imprisoned comrades,
but were repulsed by the troops after
a number of rioters were killed or
wounded. The ordinary necessaries
of life are failing and distress is be
coming accentuated. The strikers, it
is said, are receiving large sums of
money from London. lrr the neighbor
ing towns disturbances are Spreading
and increasing In gravity.
They Fly in Terror.
"Hendaye, France, Feb. 21.—People
who arrived here from Saragossa
bring alarming reports of the situa
tion there. They say the working
people have thrown their lot with their
Catalonian comrades and the threat
ening attitude of the strikers has
caused the flight of the richer fami
lies. The civil administration of the
whole province of Saragossa has been
taken over by the military authori
ties.
Jesuit College Attacked.
Saraogssa, Spain, Feb. 21.—A num
ber of rioters attacked the Jesuit Col
lege here lasi night. The fathers fired
on the mob, believing the assailants to
be thieves.
Conflict at Valencia.
Valencia, Spain, Feb. 21.—1n the
conflict yesterday between the rioters
and the police three persons were
wounded. There were 14 arrests.
Socialists Do Not Take Part.
Bilboa. Spain, Feb. 21.—A -number
os anarchists having arrived here
w ith the object of inciting a strike, the
socialists have refused to co-operate
in the movement.
Anarchists at Seville.
Seville, Spain. Feb. 21.—A number
of Italian anarchists have arrived here.
The authorities have taken precau
tions to prevent an outbreak.
FOR COUNTY TREASURER.
Mr. F. M Scarlett Announces in This
Issue.
On another page will he found U e
announcement of Mr. Frank M. Scar
lett for the office of county treasurer.
Mr. Scarlett told a News reporter yes
terday that he won fd make an aggres
sive fight for the position.
So far present Treasurer H. S. Lae
and Mr. Scarlett are the only candi
date*.
TALKS OF
TORTURE.
GENERAL FUNSTON DESCRIBES
THE "WATER CURE” AS IN
FLICTED IN ARMY.
Kansas City, Feb. 21.—General Fred
erick Fustou, in discussing the "wa
ter cure,” a form of torture eharegd
against the soldiers In the Philippines,
said that he had never seen the "wa
ter cure” applied, but he had heard
it described.
"The victim is hound and a canteen
forced into his mouth,” said the gen
eral. “His head is thrown unward
and back and bis nose grasped by the
fingers of the torturer. Strangulation
I follows as a matter of course. When
khe victim is about suffocated the ap
plication is released and he is given
a chance to talk on recovery or take
another dose of it. The operation
is brutal beyond a doubt, but hardly
fatal.
"The charge which I have just re
futed at the, request of the war de
partment was most vague. It was
made by ‘a soldier, and to the effect
that he hau 'helped to administer the
water cure to ICO natives.’ That is
the kind of rot a soldier is apt to
write home when business is dull and
he has uiree or four beers under his
jacket to help his imagination. Noth
ing of the kind ever occurred with the
knowledge of that officer or ever oc
curred at all, for that matter.”
AoPHALT TRUST NOW.
All the Separate Concerns to Be
Gradually Merged.
New York, Feb. 21. —It is becoming
quite apparent that the receivers of
the collapsed asphalt companies are
maturing a oomprenensive plan for
the reorganization of the constituent
companies of the trust, according to
The Journal of Commerce. Concentra
tion of the business seems to be the
great impelling motive of the receiv
ers, as thereby expenses of manuge
inent will be reduced, thus enabling
cheaper work to De performed. It is
stated that concentration is to be ac
complished by establishing three cen
tral companies, one on the Pacific
on the Atlantic coast,
and We third in the middle west.
This plan will involve the abandon
ment of the 69 underlying and operat-
ing companies.
It is possible, however, that the plan
of three central companies, noted
above, may finally give way to a mer
ger of all the separate concerns into
one company—the reorganized Na
tional Asphalt Company, if it is de
cided to pursue this course the con
solidation may tie gradual.
I p to date there have been depos
ited with the protective committee
about $18,200,000 of Asphalt of Amer
ica 5 per cent, bonds. It is expect
ed that the auditing committee will
receive the complete figures up to
Dec 01, 1901, from the different sub
sidiary asphalt companies within a
few days. The auditors will then re
-011 ire from two to three weeks to re
vise those figures for presentation in
their report. This report will be taken
up uy the receivers and the commit
tee, but will not lie made public fi'
some time.
ROBBED AND BEATEN;
THROWN INTO CREEK.
Macon, Ga„ Feb. 21.—Mr. Newton,
an aged citizen of East Macon, has
just come in from the swamp vit
Stevens’ pottery, In an almost dying
condition.
He reports that he was robbed and
beaten by several men and thrown
into a creek. He lay in the water all
night, he had one hundred dollars in
his pockets, but having on two pair
of trousers the robbers found only five
dollars. %
LEWIS MORRISON TONIGHT.
Will Appear at the Grand Theater in
“Faust. ’
The attraction offered Brunswick
theater-goers at the Grand tonight
is Faust, 1 with Lewis Morrison as
vfephisto.
Every seat in the opera house will
probably be occupied, as the advance
sale has been unusually large and
there are but few seats now left.
Lewis Morrison always draw's large
rouses wherever he goes, and always
pleases the large audiences. This
year he is surrounded by excellent sup
port, his daughter taking a leading
part. *
BRUNSWICK, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 22, 1903.
CASE WILL END
IN THE COURTS,
SOUTHERN AND PLANT SYSTEM
STILL REFUSE TO HANDLE
B. & B. FREIGHT.
They Ignore the Order of the Geor
gia Railroad Commission
Recently Issued.
The Southern railway ami Plant Sys
tem are not abiding by the decision o£
the Georgia railroad commission and
still refuse to handle freight turned
over to them by the Brunswick anu
Birmingham.
The order, requiring the two roads
to handle the, freight, was issued by
the commission some three or four
weeks ago. Since then, the Bruns
wick and Birmingham has, on differ
ent occasions, turned cars over to
them, but they simply refused to han
dle them, ignoring the order of the
commission.
Asa result, the case, will now go
into the courts. The commission will,
it is thought, within a short while,
file suit against the two roads in the
Glynn supreme court, and it will prob
ably come up at the next session.
It is understood that the Southern
and Plant intend to fight the case to
the end, and if the superior court do
cides against them, it is stated they
will carry the ease to the supreme
court.
At any rate, it will be several
months and probably longer before the
ease will he finally settled.
GEORGIA DELEGATE HURT.
Mrs. Evart Jones Breaks Her Wrist
in Washington.
Washington, Feb. 21. —Mrs. William
Evart Jones, delegate from Georgia to
the D. A. R. conentiou, slipped on
the tee at the entrance to the theater
where the convention is in progress
today and broke nor wrist. She was
hastily carried to the Emergency hos
pital, where she received medical nt
tention.
The announcement was made of th
results of the elections tor vice presi
dents general as follows: Mesdames
b. P. L. Moragn of Georgia, Hnrri<
Simpson of Massachusetts, D. D. Col
ton of California, Arthur R. Bedloe of
New Jersey, J. Herron Crossman o
New York, and Elizabeth C. Williams
of Maryland.
Mrs. Stratton of Minnesota, offered
the following resolution, which was
unanimusly adopted:
“Resolved, That we recommend to
congress that the Sunday followin'
the liiru. lay ol' our late beloved Pr
ident McKinley be set apart as a day
ot prayer in memory of our martyr
president."
JUDGE STOPS ATTACK
ON A. T. STEWART’S WILL.
Refuses to Order Speculative Liti
ation of Claimant.
New York, Feb. 21. —Another at
tempt to throw the estate of A. T.
Stewart into litigation has been stop
ped by Justice Scott of the supreme
court, rt was in the form of an action
brought against the estate, which vir
tually, was an action in ejectment, af
fecting all of the property left by Mr.
Stewart.
Counsel for John Stewart, the plain
tiff, made a motion for the appoint
ment of a commission to take the tes
timony of a great many persons at
present living in Ireland as to the
alleged relationship of the plantiff to
the dead millionaire merchant.
The court said that ordinarily such
a motion would be granted, but that,
in the present case he was satisfied
that the case appeared to be a spec
ulative action, and had not been
shown to differ from similar actions
which had been dismissed.
"There should come a time,” said
the court, “when merely vexations
and harassing litigation will not In
ordered oy the court. It would seem,
therefore, that as to the estate of A.
T. Stewart, that time has come.”
To Teach Filipino*.
New York, Feb. 21.—The transport
McClellan, which sails for Manila on
Saturday will carry 120 men and 80
women teachers, who go out to estab
lish schools in the Philippines.
EACH SHOE
TOOK EFFECT,
KENTUCKY JUDGE PROVES HIM
SELF TO BE QUITE A
SHARPSHOOTER.
Prominent Citizens Engage in a Fight
With Very Serious Re
sults.
Lawrenceburg, Ky., Feb. 21.—As the
result of a pistol tight, Alt Wither
spoon, president of the First National
Bank of this city, lies seriously
wounded at his home, and Judge Por
ter Walker is under official surveil
lance, awaiting a change in the
wounded man's condition.
The trouble was begun last fall,
when Witherspoon came under the
iianus of the law by recklessly firing
his revolver and shooting through
some windows. He was arrested and
Walker, as judge of the police court,
lined inm S2OO. .mice that time, it.
is said, bad feeling has existed be
tween the men.
Walker had occasion to go to Haw
kins’ dry goods store and lOUin With
ers poo.i there. With' rspoon cursed
Walker but the latter, making no re
sponse, retired. Aver ho had eaten
ids luifeheon Walker returned to the
store, and, finding Witherspoon stii
there asked him to , retract his lan
guage. Witherspoon, realizing that
trouble was coming, retreated to the
door, where he turned and attempted
to draw his revolver.
The Weapon uad caught in his pock
et and he was compelled to turn side
wise while using both hands to release
it. Meantime Walker, seeing Wither
spoon reach for his gun, drew his own
and fired point blank at Witherspoon
The latter ducked and the bullet clip
ped his ear. Walker then tired again
and this time grazed the shoulder of
his n.'iiagonist. Before Witherspoon
could bring his revolver into play, the
judge had fired a third shot, which
struck Witherspoon in the back be
low and slightly to the left of tin
right shoulder.
Witherspoon fell to the floor and
was removed to his home, where his
life is despaired of. Y/alkor gave
himself up to the authorities and was
released upon his own recognizance.
Witherspoon comes of a wealthy
family anu is a Lading business man.
His brother, Horace, after killing two
men, was himself killed by a man
named Portwood.
ST. LOUIS’ GIFT.
Will Present Prince With Handsome
Casket.
St. I oh is, Fob. 21. —The solid Bold
and silver casket which will be pro
sen ted as a souvenir to Prince IJonry
by Mayor Wells, wilt he finished in a
day or two. It will bo 18 inches long,
4 1-2 inches high, and 4 1-2 inches
from front to back.
The material is solid silver and gold,
with decorations in full reli.d'. -v ,
cut ny hand in solid metal and ere
el. The most ornate embellishment
will be the device on the cover. ThP
consists of the common seal of St.
Louis, on either side of which the
American and Roman eagle, and th<
key to the city profilin'"- -t til-. tot
and bottom, about the lower part be
ing a spray ot forget-me-nots.
Inside the souvenir will he lint
with navy blue water silk.
The casket itself will be placed in
a black seal leather box, which will
be lined with royal purple velvet.
The casket will hold an address of
welcome, handsomely engrossed on
parchment.
Not Coming South.
New York, Feb. 21.—Notices have
been mailed to all the players under
contract to the Now York baseball
club—2l in an up to the present—to
report for their preliminary sprint
practice on March 24. The men will
train at the Polo grounds, the club
having deciued ueflnitely to abolish
tne southern spring trips.
Located in Norfolk.
Mr. Jake Rothoiy, for many years
head clerk in Kaiser’s gent s furnish
ing department, and wno resigned
some time ago, has purchased a third
interest in one of the largest dry goods
stores in Norfolk, Va. He is now in
Brunswick visiting, but will return to
Norfolk within the next few days.
RUMOR OF
BIGSALE.
STATED THAT BRUNSWICK PEO
PLE HAVE PURCHASED GRAY
LUMBER COMPANY.
The following is a special from
Waycross to the Savannah News:
It is reported here today that the
large saw mills of the Gray Lumber
Company, at Pine Bloom and Leilaton
have been sold to parties in Bruns
wick. A gentleman who has just re
turned from there states uiat the rep
resentatives of the Brunswick syndi
cate have been inspecting the saw mill
property at Leilaton and Pine Bloom,
and it is thought have closed a deal
for the property, as it is known that ,
they held an option on it which ex
pired today. The Gray Lumber Com
pany is one of the largest saw mill
concerns in South Georgia, and is do
ing an immense business. They op
erate tiam roads out in various direc
tions for the purpose of hauling tim
ber to their mills.
TO INSPECT SEWERAGE SYSTEM.
Bide Wili Be Received by Board of
Health.
Bids will be received until noon
Wednesday, Feb. 26, 1902, for the in
spection of the sewerage system of
the city of Brunswick, upon the fol
lowing conditions: the inspections are
to be made under the supervision ot
the Board of Health, and are to com
prise the passing through all of the
main sewers and laterals, of such ap
pliances as will determine that said
sewers and laterals are clear of all
sand, diit, trash, or anything likely to
impede the proper How of sewage in
such sewers. A report shall be made
to the Board of Health by the party
inspecting, on the condition which
each sewer or lateral shall have
shown and in case of obstructions the
reason of such shall be determined as
near as possible, to enable a proper
estimate lor its clearance, and a re
port be madras above. Should any
■ontrivance or appliance used for such
inspection become lodged in the sow
er. the amount stated in bid shall in
clude ds rimoal and the replacing of
me sewer in its original condition,
bald inspection must include an in
spection and report of the condition
of the flush tanks. The plan of the
.soweraeg system on file in the City
Engineer’s office, shall be the basis
of the inspection. A bond of five hun
dred dollars, ($500), will be required,
indemnifying the city against any
damage to the sewerage system. Nol
more than thirty days shall be con
sumed for the inspection and report,
dated from acceptance of bkl.
Council reserves the right to reject
any and all bids.
Alfred V. Wood,
Secretary Board of Health.
AN ELECTRIC SUPPLY HOUSE.
Brunswickians Will Now Be Able to
Run Electrci Fans.
C. J. O’Farrell, Jr., who has been
in the city several days with a view
of establishing an electric supply
house, has completed arrangements
and has decided to open here.
Mr. O’Farrell has rented the Kaiser
building, formerly occupied by The
News, and will open for business on
or about April first.
Besides carrying everything in the
electrical supply line, he will put in
power to furnish electricity for fans.
This will be good news for Brunswick
ians as there is at present no day elec
trical current furnisiied by the Bruns
wick Light and Water Company.
Mr. O’Farrell corn's well recom
mended as an electrical man of much
experience and will no doubt build
up a large business in this city.
BANK OF ENGLAND
NOTES ARE FORGED.
New York, Feb. 21.—The official
heads of the medical profession of
Great Britain are determined to unite
for a systematic investigation into the
causes, the prevention, and the treat
ment of cancer, according to the Lon
don correspondent of The Herald.
The king has given countenance to
the movement and it is likely interest
ing developments will follow shortly.
The councils of the Royal College
of Surgeons the and Royal College of
Physicians have adopted a joint, reso
lution empowering delegates to draw
up a detailed scheme of work.
| Sir Vvilliam Church, Sir William
Brogdbcnt, and others equally well
known are on the committee.
PRICE FIVE CENTS,
PIERPONT MORGAN
TO 01 THE
PRINCE,
AN ELABORATE ENTERTAINMENT
BEING PREPARED BY THE RAIL
ROAD MAGNATE.
WILL TAKE PLACE AT SHERRY'S
AND WILL COST MANY DOL
LARS.
New Y'ork, Feb. 21. —Of all the en
tertainments organized in honor of
Prince Henry, there will tie none more
elaborate than the luncheon to tie giv
en for him at Sherry’s on Wednesday
next by the representatives of Amer
ican finance, trade, and industry.
The moving spirit in the affair is J.
Pierpont Morgan, in the way of giv
ing the royal visitor an idea of the pos
sibilities of American gastronomy, it
it projected to surpass anything of
the kind that has ever taken place
here before. The cost of the luncheon
will be great, and among the Items
of expense will be the highly ornate
liveries now being made for the en
tire staff of waiters employed in con
nection with the entertainment.
The prince and his entertainers will
be surrounded by servitors, who will
loo!: as if they had stepped out of a
canvas painted in the days of the
Georges of England. Each of these
set vitors, smooth-shaven end of impas
sive countenance, will wear instead o r
th " conventional swallow-tail, a black
cloth coat, with seven cloth-covered
black buttons on either side, beginning
at the neck and extending to the
waist. A fine piece of black brain runs
from the button to the edge of the
coat, which is without lapels, and has
a clerical collar. A white stock en
circles the ncek and at the front of
the throat is a white satin how.
Under the coat is a white, buttonlenu
waistcoat, the bottom coming well
down over the waistband of the black
plush breeches of full cut, gathered in
at the knee with a band which tops a
pair of white stockings. Patent leather
pumps with buckles, complete the cos
tume. The whole outfit is a com
plete reproduction of the livery used
in England a century ago, but of much
finer texture.
DENIES THAT BULLER
TAMPERED WITH TRUTH.
New York, Feb. 21. —Henry Nor
man has succeeded in inducing Mr.
Tlallour to throw some fresh light on
the famous Spion Kop dispatches, says
a London dispatch to The Tribune. It
now seems that Sir Redverse Duller
contented himself with forwarding Sir
Charles Warren’s account of the bat
tle, with two opinions of General War
ren’s conduct. In both of these Gen
eral Iluller adversely criticised his
second in command, but the one in
which he really spoke his mind was
marke . "Not necessary for publica
tion." General Buller refused to write
a connected story of the whole af
fair.
Mr. Balfour indignantly repudiates
the suggestion that General Buller
was asked to tamper with the truth
in order to please the war office.
TALK OF A NEW
TELEPHONE COMPANY.
Another Likely to Be Started in
Brunswick.
There is much talk going the
rounds in Brunswick at present rel
ative to anew telephone system, and,
from what a New reporter cab learn,
it seems that there is much truth in
the rumor.
At. a recent council meeting a com
munication was received from a Chi
cago company asking for a franchise.
The matter was taken up by council
and the city clerk instructed to have
further correspondence with the com
pany. '
It is now understood that a gen
tleman from Cmcago, who is interest
ed in the company, will shortly visit
Brunswick and personally appear be
fore council.
Brunswick is ample able to support
another telephone company, provided
of course, they give us the service we
deserve, and it is hoped the new con
cern will complete their arrange
ments and locate here.
Call on L. A. Miller Tor kiln dried
lumber.