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THE BRUNSWICK NEWS.
VOLUME 1, NUMBER 182.
SOUTH TO HAVE GREAT
RAILROAD SYSTEM
SO ANNOUNCES
HEAD OF LIS
——
TALKS ABOUT THE SYNDICATE
AND THE WORK IT HAS MAPPED
OUT NOW AFTER CHICAGO
AND EASTERN ILLINOIS.
WITH THIS LINE IN SYSTEM WITH
LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE
AND THE SOUTHERN IT WILL
EQUAL THE PENNSYLVANIA.
Chicago, April 28.—A great railway
system for the southern states that
will equal the immense traffic lines
of the Pennsylvania railroad, is the
latest ambition of John W. Gates, the
steel magnate an.l capitalist, who ar
rived home front New York city this
afternoon.
The recent purchase In New York
of Louisville and Nashaville stock,
and the tremendous ittir” it • a.iiel,
are fresh to the memory of financiers.
The ileal of this syndicate. Mr. Oates
admits, is only part of a plan of a
trunk and branch system of railroad
lines that will tap every part of the
southern states. To complete this
scheme the Gates syndicate is now
endeavoring to get a controlling in
terest. in the Chicago and Eastern Illi
nois road, as the Chicago end of the
proposed system. The Louisville and
Nashville will be the link that will
connect with the Southern railway.
“We, that is, the syndicate that
found Louisville and Nashville selling
in the market for less than we con
sidered it worth," said Mr. Gates,
"were aide to purchase the stock un
til we secured a controlling interest.
If we had called for the stock, as we
had a right to do, we could have
caused a panic far worse than that oc
casioned at the time of the now fa
mous Northern Pacific stock rise. As
it was we were content to treat the
street fight, and all settlements were
arranged on a basis that was readily
met. The management is now in the
hands of J. P. Morgan Sc Cos."
Morgan & Cos. also controls the
Southern railway, which taps all the
principal southern cities and dis
tricts.
“1 have great faith in the industries
of the south," continued Mr. Gates.
"The day is not far distant when Chi
cago must he brought in direct com
munication with the industrial fields
by a system of railroads under one
management. The logical Chicago con
nection with the Louisville and Nash
villq is the Eastern Illinois road.
These two roads and the Southern
railway under one control would mean
an immense amount of new business
for Chicago.”
The Clark-Gould Combination.
R. C. Kerens, of St. Louis, spent
today at the Annex in company with
Senator “Tom" Kearns, of Utah, and
Perry Heath, also now of Utah. They
conferred concerning the affairs of the
Los Angeles-Salt Lake railroad, which
they are building with Senator Clark,
of Montana. Mr. Kerens confirmed the
story of the alliance of Senator Clark
with the Goulds, and also told of the
attempts of the alliance to secure an
Atlantic terminus, and thus complete
anew trans-continenta! line. Connec
tions have been secured out of Cleve
land to Zanesville, Ohio, and thence
to Bellinger, W. Va. The combina
tion is now trying to buy the West
ern Maryland, owned by the city of
Baltimore. Tney have offered $10,000,-
000, but Kerens says rival interests
have outbidden them.
Tf the Western Maryland cannot be
bought they will build or connect to
Newport News, perhaps by absorp
tion of the Virginia Central.
The new system will be composed
thus of Senator Clark’s Los Angeles
road, of the Goulds Missouri Pacific
and Wabash and of the line from
Cleveland to either Baltimore or New
port News.
K. P.’S TO MEET IN VALDOSTA.
Pythias’ Grand Lodge Will Hold An
nual Convention There.
The thirty-third annual convention
of the grand lodge of the Knights of
Pythias of Georgia will meet in Val
dosta on the morning of Tuesday,
May 20.
The railroads have granted a rate
of one fare for the round trip from
all points in the state, and a large at
tendance is expected. Within recent
years the Knights of Pythias have
greatly increased in numbers in Geor
gia and the order is now one of the
most popular and influential in the
state.
Delegations from all the lodges in
the state will he present and a great
time is expected. The different Bruns
wick lodges will all be represented by
full delegations.
The uniform rank of this city will
enter the competitive prize drill and
are now practicing daily and promise
(o capture some of the prizes.
EVANS MAY RUN FOR CONGRESS.
fix Pension Commissioner May Return
to Chattanooga to Make Race.
Chattanooga. Tenn.. April 2b. —Those
who have been forecasting a promo
tion for 11. Clay Evans, who has re
signed as pension commissioner at the
hands of President Roosevelt, have
missed the mark, if a reimrt which is
in circulation here, and which has the
earmarks of genuineness anout It, is
true.
It Is believed here quite generally
iwnoag democrats and republicans, es
pecially among the former, that Mr.
i.vans is going to return to Chatta
nooga and make the race .or congress
again. lie once represented the third
district in congress, hut he failed to
get bade on account of Ins advocacy
of the force bill.
If Mr. Evans decides to run, his op
ponent will be Ihe present congress
man Judge John A. Moon, who is
now serving his third term. The lat
ter will have no opposition for renom
iuation in his own party.
Air. Evans was in Chattanooga re
cently, and it is known that he con
ferred with Newell Sanders and some
of the other euief republican pollti
■ ians here. He refused at mat time
to discuss his resignation from the
pension office or his future intentions.
It is not at all certain that. Mr.
Evans would have smooth sailing in
ids own party if he seeks the nomina
tion. Robert S. Sharp, postmaster of
Chattanooga, who was defeated for
congress in the lust election, is still
ambitious to represent me district.
Sharp is a good friend of Evans, and
the probabilities are that if the lat
ter decides to urn he would not stand
in ids way.
THE MAYOR’S MONDAY MATINEE
Several Cases Were Tried in Police
Court Yesterday Morning.
The following cases were tried in
the police court yesterday morning:
Obe Thomas, failing to hitch horse
after being duly notified; bond of $lO
forfeited.
W. W. Wallace, disorderly conduct;
fine of $8 or 20 days on the streets.
Sandy Williams, drunk and disor
derly; fine of $8 or 30 days on the
streets.
Lewis Sunberg, disorderly conduct
and resisting arrest; fine of $8 or 30
days on the streets.
Manlicw .jack.-on, fighting; $2 or
ten days on the streets.
Eddie Ford, fighting; discharged.
Excursion to Fernandina.
The fh-st excursion of the season
left by the earner sic for Fer
nandina yesterday morning. The crowd
was an unusual large number, and,
after spending the day in the little
Florida city, leturned at a late hour
last night. The excursion was accom
panied by the colored band, which
made the occasion a lively one.
Dynamite Kills Two.
Seattle, Wash., April 28. —Will Price
and Bernard Cutter were killed by
an explosion of oynamite at Issaquah.
To ere were not enough of Cutter's re
mains left to hold an inquest. The
cause of the explosion is not known.
BRUNSWICK, GA., TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 29, 1902.
COL, TERRELL
COMING lOOHI
—t— —
WILL BE THE GUEST OF BRUNS
WICK FRIENDS FOR SEVERAL
hvll RS.
Well Known Gubernatorial Candidate
Has Many Warm Support
ers in Glynn County.
Hon. Joseph M. Terrell, of Merri
weather county, candidate for gover
nor of Georgia, will be in Brunswick
today and will mingle with his many
friends here.
Mr. Terrell is making a strong race
for tile governorship and has, on sev
eral occasions, expressed the opinion
that he was satisfied bo would be vic
torious.
The friends of Mr. To-rell in Bruns
wick have invited him here on sev
eral occasions, but he found it im
possible to come, having datcis in
other sections of the state, it was also
the intention of his friends to have
him deliver an address to the people
of Glynn county, and lie may return
later during the campaign.
Today he will only be in the city
for a few hours, and will spend the
time with his friends.
Mr. Terrell has a large following
in Glynn county, and it is the general
impression that it will be found in
bis column on June f>.
THE OIL MILLS AT BLAKELY.
Virginia Carolina Chemical Company
Purchases Ware House There.
Blakely, Ga„ April 28.---it has been
generally supposed for some weeks
nast that arrangements had been per
fected for trie erection of a cotton
seed oil mill In Blakely, backed prin
cipally by local capital.
It M. t t*.. VI,
•'inla-Carollna Chemical company pur
chased the Alliance ware house just
north of the Central railroad depot
for the purpose of erecting thereon an
oil mill. Whether this means two
mills for Blakely or none remains yet
to be seen.
Blakely is recognized by all the oil
mills as one of the best seed towns
in southwest Georgia, there being from
125 to 175 cars of seed shipped from
here each season. With oil mills sit
uated though ail around this place,
at l.otjian, Ala.; Fort Gains, Ga.,
Shellinan, Ga.; Arlington and Bain
bridge, it is questionable whether a
mill here would prqve a profitable in
vestment.
Four More Bodies Recovered.
Cairo, 111., April 28. —Four more
bodies of the victims of the City of
Vittsburg wreck were recovered to
day, making forty to date. One was
identified as that, of Joseph Redding,
a striker engineer of Louisville. The
other three were colored, two men
and one woman.
CAPTURED A THIEF.
“Baby” Graham, Colored, Placed Be
hind the Bars.
Officer Luther Lamb, early Sunday
morning, captured “Baby” Graham, a
negro well known In criminal circles
in Brunswick and Glynn county.
Graham Saturday night robbed a ne
gro woman of her groceries. The
case was reported to the officers and
Policeman Lamb soon had him behind
the bar*.
Graham is a bad negro, and will no'
doubt serve a term on the ehaingang,
!le is now under bond on the charge
of assault with intent to kill. He is
a’.m (he negro who was tried at the
last sees:, n of the superior court for
being implicated in the Shriver rob
bery, but was acquitted as there was
no one who could identify him. Since
the trial, however, it is understood
that t'ne negro has made the statement
that he was a party to the robbery.
Officer Lamb is also of the opinion
that in capturing Graham he has the
man who has been entering the
suburban stores lately, three or four
of them having been entered during
■ e past few weeks.
Fire Yesterday.
Two small houses, occupied by col
ored families, were destroyed yester
day morning. Harry Tatnall owned
one, and C. J. Thomas the other.
CAMDEN COUNTY
HAS A KILLING
+.
JON Z. DOTSON, A WELL KNOWN
WHITE MAN, SHOT AND KILL
ED BY A NEGRO.
Affair Has Greatly Wrought Up Peo
ple in Vicinity and Search Being
Made for Negro.
John Z. Dotson, a well known white
citizen of Owens Ferry, Camden coun
ty, was shot and killed Saturday by
a negro named Prince Gibbs. The
story of the killing is told in the fol
lowing dispatch from White Oak:
Dotson was shot and killed by a
io ro mimed Prince Gibbs. It ap
peared that Adam Smitn, a ’half
brother o; Gibbs, was giving Mr. Dot
son some trouble, and upon Doing re
proved entered into a conspiracy
against Dotson. When Dotson was
talking; to Smith, the negro Gibbs,
witnout provocation, shot Dotson
twice, noth balls entertalng the ab
domen.
"Dotson fired four time at Smith,
thinking that Smith had snot him.
Dotson was on his horse and followed
Smith about 100 yards. He then fell
from his horse and within a few min
utes was dead.
' Prim e Gibbs is about 20 years old.
bight about five feet nine inches,
black, with one front upper tooth out.
A reward of SSO is offered for his
apprehension, and every effort will be
qiade lo have him arrested for his
crime."
ODD FELLOWS CELEBRATE.
Ttieir Entertainment Last Night a
Big Success.
The Brunswick lodge of Odd Fel
lows celebrated thou eishty-third an
niversary of Odd Fellowship in their
hall lust night and the affair was a
big success.
A largo number of Odd Fellows
and members of Essie Dietz lodge and
their friends were present, the capac
ity of the hall Doing tested, and the
evening was a very enjoyable one and
will long lie remembered by all those
who were present.
To Be Promoted.
The following from yesterday's Sa
vannas News, will be of Interest to
Mr. Orr’B friends in this city: It is
said that Mr. G. J. Orr, at present
an assistant instructor in the High
school, stands the best chance of be
ing promoted to the position of prin
cipal of Massie school. Mr. Orr has
been in Savannah less than a year,
coming to the city from Brunswick,
hut he has sustained admirably the
high reputation as an educator he
brought ith him. What ac ti >n li e
hoard will take cannot he known in
advance of the Dueling, hut present
indications are tine its choice will
tell upon Mr. O r.
SCHLEY ARRIVES AT MEMPHIS
Admiral Will Be Guest of the City Un
til Wednesday Night.
Memphis, Tenn., April 28.—Rear Ad
miral and Mrs. W. S. Schley arrived
In Memphis, over the Southern rail
way, at 8:10 o’clock this evening, and
were at once driven to their rooms
in the Gayoso hotel. A reception com
mittee met the distinguished visitors
at Grand Junction and escorted them
to the city. It was generally under
stood that it was the wish of Admiral
and Mrs. Schley that no demonstra
tion in their honor should occur upon
their arrival, but despite the publish
ed statement, "several hundred people
were at the union station to bid the
visitors an enthusiastic welcome. I
Admiral Schley will be the guest of
the city until Wednesday night, when
he will visit several cities in Missis
sippi. Tomorrow morning a parade
will be given in honor of the admiral
and his wife. In the afternoon he will
be presented with a silver service,
and in the evening a superb banquet,
wil! be spread at the new Oayoso ho
tel. Coveis will he laid for 300 guests,
and many distinguished men will re
spond to toasts. On Tuesday morning
there will be a reception at the Cot
ton Exchange, and in the afternoon a
BEEF WILL SOON BE IN
POOR MAN’S REACH
regatta excurtion on the Mississippi
will take place. At night there will
he a grand bail under the auspices of
the ladles of Memphis. On Wednes
day the admiral will be handed over
to his Masonic brethren, who have
prepared an entertaining program in
his honor.
TO INVESTIGATE COLLISION.
Seaboard Must Report to Corporation
Commission.
Raleigh, N. C„ April 28. —The cor
poration commission has called on the
Seaboard Air uue for a report on
the collision of freight trains here
Friday. This is the hrst step in the
investigation which will be made' by
the commission. This investigation
will be of particular interest because
It will be the first made by the com
mission.
Gov. Aycock was profoundly im
pressed by Robert C. Ogden, of New
York, and declares that at Athens
Mr. Ogden made the best speech he
ever heard in point of language,
thought and purpose. He also says
he never saw an abler presiding offi
cer than air. Oguen.
A gentleman oi this city who is
prominently connected with cotton
mills said: "1 was at the Underwood
meeting or conference at Charlotte
and Kept tab on the mills represented.
There were only eighty-four reprer
seated, witn tx4,000 spindles. But
some of these were weaving mills,
wmeh have no idea of going into this
combination, and in these weaving
mills are 24,000 spindles, thus leaving
only 550,000 in the yarn mills. There
were seventy-five persons present, i
will say lo you, irankly, 1 do not be
lieve any of the nulls are going into
the combination.”
President George T. Winston, of the
state Agricultural and Mechanical col-.
lege here, left looay for Annapolis
as a member of the hoard of visitors
to the naval academy, lie is a grad
uate of the latter.
NUMBER OF REUNION TICKETS.
et. • •i. .i, ■Deiiwj ■ iyuic VJ jj
the Total.
Dallas, Tex,, April 28. —The passen
ger depots of the roads entering Dal
las will learn the exact number ot
tickets sold into Dallas during the
national Confederate reunion. They
know as little anout it now as out
siders do. Their estimates vary be
tween 200,000 and 225,000. It will be
thirty days before the exact number
of tickets sold can be ascertained.
The Dallas officials of the Southern
Pacific system today received a high
ly prized note of thanks sent to them
by Miss Anne Hobson, of Greensboro,
Ala., sponsor for the Alabama division
of Confederate veterans, and sister o,
Captain Hobson, of Merrimac-Santi
ago fame. Miss Hobson thanks the
railroad men for sortie luscious straw
berries furnished her that were grown
in southern Texas.
MURDER IN A CHURCH YARD.
Man Who Had Row With Cherko Is
Charged With the Crime.
Hazleton, Pa., April 28. —Michael
Cherko, aged 38 years, was murdered
about 100 feet from the Greek Cath
olic church at Freeland, this morning
during the progress of the Greek Eas
ter service.
George Smith is under arrest charg
ed wilif having committed the crime.
It is alleged that. Smith, upon entering
the church failed to remove his hat,
and when requested to do so by Cher
ko, one of the trustees, drew a black
jack and assaulfbd Cherko. The lat
ter ran out of the door, followed by
Smith. Cherko had not gone far when
Smith, drawing a revolver, shot him
through "the back, deatn being instan
taneous. Friends of the uead over
powered Smith and took him to the
station house. The services came to
an abrupt termination amid great ex
citement.
Egmont to Touch Ocean Pier.
Beginning this morning the steamer
Egmont, Captain U. Dart commander,
will make double daily trips to Ocean
Pier, St. Simon. This will be a great
accommodation to Brunswick people
and others desiring to spend the day
at the well known resort and Cap
tain Dart says that several parties
from Waycroßs and other points are
now on the island. The Egmont is a
swift little steamer, and Captain Dart
extends a cordial welcome to his
friends and public generally to travel
by his line when visiting St Simon.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
TEXAS CATTLE
ON TOE MARKET
+
SULZBERGER SAYS THE PRICES
WILL THEN DF.CLINE AND
COME DOWN TO A REASONABLE
PRICE.
CONFERENCE OF THE “BIG SIX”
TO BE HELD AT WASHINGTON
NEXT THURSDAY WITH ATTOR
NEY GENERAL.
New York, April 28.—Relief is prom
ised definitely from the present ab
normal prices of meats, and within a
month they win have reached nearly
or exactly their former normal level.
This statement will appear in The
Press tomorrow, which will also
say:
“The promise of relief was made
last (Sunday) night by Ferdinand
Sulzberger, one of the ’big six,’ when
he was conferring with the members
of the committee of investigation ap
pointed by the Republican club of this
city. While this conference was only
preliminary to the important one to
te held in Washington with all of the
meat ‘barons,’ Mr. Sulzberger felt
called on to make some definite prom
ise to the insistent committeemen.
“ T can say with assurance,’ he
said, when pressed for some promise
of relief, ‘that a month from now
prices will have sought their former
level, or close to it, and that that
level will tie found soon fii..r,wfr,,,
I can make that promise, because
there will be an influx by that time
of the new grass-fed cattle from Tex
as, and with thousands of them on
the market a break in prices is hound
to follow.’
“It was learned that the conference
to be held in Washington will be
held next Thursday, in a place not
yet selected. Those at the conference
will he G. F. Swift, Ogden Armour,
J. Lyman, of Hammond & Cos.;
Michael Cudahy and Ferdinand Sulz
berger, of Schwarzchild & Sulzberger.
These men will confer ! n Washing
ton with Attorney General Davies, of
this state, and Alfred L. Bullowa,
Senator Slater and James W. Hawes,
members of the committee appointed
by the Republican club to investigate
the meat‘question and assist in pros
ecution if relief could not be obtained
in any other way.”
ONE BROTHER SLAYS ANOTHER.
Badly Cut, Slayer Gets Gun, Inflicting
Fatal Wound.
Raleigh, N. C., April 28.—1n Stokes
county two sons of Joseph Leslie quar
reled. One cut the other dangerously,
but the wounded one went home, got
a gun, killed his brother, and was by
friends aided to escape.
At Tnomasvllle yesterday Roy Ed
mondson, a negro barber, was put on
trial for arson. The state insurance
department is the cause of hie proue
cution, and an official of that depart
ment declares the evidence to be ex
ceeding strong.
The Atlantic Fisheries company,
which has two very large plants on
the Cape Fear river, opposite Fort
Fisher, has a fleet of ten v.wsela
catching menhaden. T'ne catch of
fish is la^ge.
The First Pole Erected.
The first electric light pole of the
new electric supply company was
placed in position at the intersection
of Newcastle and Gloucester streets
yesterday afternoon. The occasion
was marked by quite an attendance of
citizens and the initial po!“ of the
new company was tastefully decorated
in the national colors. Brunswick is
glad to welcome this company and
from all indications it wiU be a suc
cess.