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THE BRUNSWICK NEWS. (VOLUME 1, NUMBER 206 BRUNSWICK PUBLIC BUILDING GETS THE ADDITIONAL $30,000 NEWS RECEIVED FIM CAPITOL 4. IT MEANS THAT TME BUILDING WILL BE BETTER IN EVERY . RESPECT. THE ADDITIONAL AMOUNT DID NOT COME AS A SURPRISE AS IT WAS EXPECTED A telegram was received yesterday from H. C. Taylor, supervising architect, Washington, by Edgar H. Klemroth, su perintendent ot construction of publ’c buildings, announcing an additional ap propriation of iSjO.OOO for Brunswick’s public building, and it is needless to say that the information was the source of great pleasure to every Brunswick citi - zen. I ire additional *30,000 means that the cornices will be otthe finest stone instead of wood as contemplated. MORE ARE MENTIONED. Will be Many Candidates for the May oralty Race. Thr.iv' is Sjtili a great rival of talk about t!u> mayorallty race and tin re is no telling how many names have and will he suggested. II seems that every little faction has a candidate of its own and if half of those whose rmnvs have been writiontyl decide to enter tie race ii will trul.l Ik-, a spirited contest. * A number of citizens flavor a white primary, while many think the colored popple should have a vole.; in this contest inasmuch an the city ejection has always been of an non-partisan nature and they further state that as tlit colored population own( eonuidera hie propery here it is hut proper that they be allowed tovote. BEDE WAS SENTENCED 10 TERM 0E TWO YEARS ST. SIMON MURDEDER WAS CON VICTED OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER. .In'l cp FI in. nit fonvr-n.nl the superior court yeg lord ay morning after a ref egg of a few days, and will now disixise of flie cimiual docket. About the only ea tried during the day wax tliat of the state vs. Henry Blue, the St. Simon negro who was charged with murder. Quite a number of witnesses were introduced jn cane and the evi dence was in favor of Blue, most of it being to the effect that he did the killings in hclf defense. The jury was out only a short while and returned a verdict of involuntary manslaughh r. Judge Bennet sentenced Blue to serve a term of two years in tho, state [K-nitont tary, the smallest sentence that lie could impose on the w-rdict of the jury. Blue was represented hy Attorney Max Isaac. Cheating and Swindling Robert Club, who results u few miles in the country, swore'out. a war rant yesterday against Alex Hardison, colored, charging him with larceney after trust. Mr. Club alleges that Hardison got vegetables from aim and aft? r disposing of tlic same did not make returns. Judge Cor.oly will try the case. NOTICE. We expect'd and were ready to run our electrical tdarit last night, but ow ing to the refusal of the Brunswick I.ight and Water company to connect our plumbing, after agecing to do so, unless we would pay s3l for a meter of tliffir selection, which we refused to do. However, we worked all night driving wells and will not in; delayed more than one day. Our wells are Indus Ufiven by Mr. A. H. Baker and he guarantees us plenty of water. C. J. O’Karrell. RED-HANDED NEGRO CAUGHT. He Claims Eight Accessories in the Shooting of a Marshal. Tifton, Ga., May -b. -Etoisy Brown, the negro who fatally shot and wounded Marshal Hicks, of Adel, Thursday night, was captured yesterday at Pinepolis. He Claims as his accessories six other negro men and two women. All ot ihe men have been arrested arid thewomen will be taken. Sheriff Swindle deserves credit in making tire arrests and for his prompt; work on the case. The parties implicated 1 art held as much to blame as the negro 1 who fired the shot, and were alleged gam blers and are said to have run blind ti gers. Hicks planned to arrest them and the object was to have Brown arrested on a warrant. Their intention was to kill Hicks, it is alleged, before he accomplsh ed his purpose to raid them- Strong ev idence is in hand against ah implicated, j Brown is said to be an ignorant charactei ; hired by the others to kill Hicks. Ex- ; citement is intense in that section nnd ; trouble is expected by the sheriff. His ! prisoners were carried to Nashville jail j several miles out >f the way ol Adel and ■ Sparks, as the crowds had gathered in j these towns and would undoubtedly have I taken the prisoners. Hicks is in a dying | condition. TO oELLCT THE SHOOTERS. Target Practice Tomorrow Will De cide Who is to go to Macon. At the target shunt to b bold on St. Simon tomorrow by members of the Kif!em"u ami Naval Reserves, it will be decided who will represent the two yompani. s at uie state snoot 1 to be bold in '.lav<>n next month, and therefore, the boys are taking great into rest in the shoot tomorrow. Barb company in the state is allow ed to he repn - ntod at tun shoot In Mneon. and the two Brunswick organ izations have derided to send those who make ue beat wore*; at the shoot on St. Simon tomorrow. Rain is Needed. Quill u large numbip of Glynn coun ty fanner# wl re n the city yesterday all r port t1i):....- pr >g mg very nicely in faeir reipcotivc sections Init say rain is badly -reeded to help uhe. crops. Oik* of the most, entorpris |ng fami-v said that lie would have j watermelons op th, market in a short 1 time. Getting Tilings in Shape. Manager O'Farrtali, of the Electric Supply company, is busily engage,; in tmttiDjf his engine in shepe and within a few day - in- iil have tilings in goixl snap, and those who oiave in stated fans will have all the breeze they are looking for. EXAMINATION (ST ALL TEACHERS ON JUNE 14 TEACHERS OF GLYNN COUNTY WILL BE EXAMINED ON THAT DATE. The. annual examination for lead er, in the public schools of Brum wick and Glynn county will be held Saturday. June Jj, IttOJ; the while teachers at the brick school, the colored teachers at Hish y school. The uni orm slate cpms Don- will be used Each applicant, will Ik* expected to provide themselves with the oil-owing byoks from which a mu jorify of the quest ions \\ ill be taken: Sham's School Hygiene, Hoark'.* Metli ois in Education, and Manual of Metli ondg for Georgia Teachers. Tim lasi will is- urnished fr-e by-the eoiinlv school commissioner. No application will be considered by Hie. board without having passed sue cs.tally this ,n;g)j:,i| ~r ~ certificate fromth • hoard now in force. ihe hoard will, on Jane !'j . )!!0;j. elect teachers for both cjfy and eounfv si bools. Ar the same time they will elect not more than .-ix tiers.,ns who will be known as the Normal Class. The hoard agrees to prefer a member of tills class in preference ~,,,, „ ut . side provided they possess equal profi ciency in all vacancies. Any one seeking positions in f }„. schools in the future would do well to enquire of the -mperinfeiidcnt as tt the requirements for this ela N. 11. B.ILLAKD, C. S. O. Glynn County BRUNSWICK, GA,, TUESDAY MORNING, MAY2(f, 1902. SOLDIERS HEARD OR, MUNHALL j + ALL THE MILITARY COMPANIES j ATTENDED MEETINT LAST NIGHT. An Able Sermon Was Delivered to j .. . Them By Dr. Munhall—Tlie Meeting Today. 1 1 j The service at (he tabernacle last night ! was one of the best yet. j It was military and secret order night, ,and the companies in uniform made a j ; splendid appearance, especially the Rifle I men, Naval Reserves and Uniform Rank, IK. of P.’s: Quite a good dumber of the ! old veterans weie there and seemed to en | jay the service. Dr. Munhall, as a soldier of the Un ion army, made some pleasant remarks about the soldiers of botli armies by wav |of introduction. Mis sermon was illus j trated from experiences of the war and j crouched in military figures. It was a splendid gospel sermon and addressed to the reason and judgment, i This afternoon at l o’clock the suhi-c [will be “lhe Resurrection of the Dead,” and tomorrow afternoon. "The Second | Advent of Christ.” Ihe subject for to night will be “Hell.” and tomorrows, night "Heaven.” Everybody is invited to all these sei vices. PRIMARY SCHOOL HONOR ROLL. List of Pupils Who Made High Mark During the Month. Following 13 tin- boror roll of Un primary .school for Hie month of May,: First Ura-lc A Tallulah Raffo, B:. toJ.lo I.a than Irene ].often Idly Lowe, Laura Raffo. John Banks. Daniel, Jack Richardson, Julian Ter ras, Frank Bankston. Katie McDonald First Grade li - Stafford Davis, Doles Ford, Helen Taylor, Sadie Zebu-no. vitz, Mayse Walk inn. Maud Bee John son, I amlse Blliol. 11 it ii it- Harley. Mm ris Holler, Villard Royal, Frank Thom son, Maud Ixi-tt, .Mildred It i.uks, Mattie Coleman. Second Grade —Marg" Ward. Bail hie Lofton, Mary Gatchel. Lizzie. Brown, Lewis Augustine, KrncDino Meyers. Lillian Lob,nek. Gorin South ard, Frederick Waller, liuberl Weaz, DeVoe Coney. Gun Anderson, W. M. Irvine, Nathan Heller, Arthur Tabbot, Bril,-si McCreary,: honorable mention, Wni. Dunwody, Lawrence Wilson. Third Grade- Frances Beach, Ger trude Bid.-fvcnick, Clifford Brock, Jr/a- j me Courier, Clara Gains, Hattie HDt- j del-son, Maggie don. ,;, Hattie Jones, Virginia Lewis, Mary Verdery, Mary lou Vance, l.egctto Huriis, Georg, Blanton, Fairchild Coney, William Mc- Donald, Dillon Raffo, Charlie- Rogowin, Hugh Symrnes, Antonia Silver.). Ray mond Torras, Charlie Barnhill, Willie Cony ill. Read Smith’s Ad. Notice, is directed to the large ad. of Smith’s P'daii rnacy on tlie third page of this issue. Mr. Smith has now tin exivltent biisuiness and he well de serve,# it. Head his advertisement ari l when you want anything in tie- drug line call and sc him. Special Meeting Today. A sjiecial meeting o the Brunswick Board of Trade is called to meet at the I city hall at II a. m . Tuesday, May , I I A all attendance is earnestly request ed as business of importance is to be transacted. i-’. I) AIKEN, Fr.s i i . i>. oat;. Sec’.v. Bankers to Gather Soon. Savannah, May 2d. A commit to of the Savannah Cl ttring Association, consisting of President Mills 1!. Lane, of the Citizens’ bank; Vice President If. A. Crane;, of the Southern bank, and Cashier P. D. tiloodworth, of the National Bank of Savannah,i: busy nr ranging for theVnfortainthent of <h, (tankers of Georgia, North Carolina and Viginia, who will gather here on June 17 and IS. The banker# associa tion of each of these stats s wil.l h,,).) its convention bore, and many of ft, • hankers of Soulh Carolina wili also attend. The commit.!-e is expecting from 2.70 to 300 visiting bankers. Thher regular mouthy session of Judge Conoly’s court was called yes tarday but on account of Uk* superior court little business was transacted. I COL FRANKLIN MAKES J REPLY JUDGE WHITFIELD'S LETTER REPLIED TO BY THE COUNTY ATTORNEY. Asks the Judge Some Questions as to Previous County Com missioners. | Hditor Brunswick News: j. From your issue of Friday last, in j which appears a card from Judge j Whit field,, under 11 ye flaming head lines. "Whitfield talks of the eomniis r loners in plain Hiigtish," it seems, that the judge is still uneasy about the county treasury. As counsel for the commissioners, I take the liberty of offering one or two thoughts suggest; il by Judge Whit field’s card. Of course 11 should be a matter ol public congratulation when a citizen of (he judge's ability and prominence constitutes himself a watch-dog of the public treasury. It i. to lie regretted that the judge and many others of like prominence, e with him did not assume this roll several years ago. Had they dp lie so the eounty would now be better off by som, two hundred thousand dollars. Better lab than never, however. The, commissioners are advised as to tli law touching their expenditure of small stunns of money for the pur pose of aiding the Board of Trade in I"- "irk -it development. While ibis i-igniUc-and expenditure was. perhaps, without express authority of law. the commissioners fell that they weTT' coni routed by a condition rather than in theory,, that this condition called for tie prompt exercise of heir dis cietibo. and they believ- and that they I had the . ndorsemimt of too tax payers of the county in t’neir action. Since then they have bad a very pronounced expression of public endorsement in tlie form of re-election, and no kick er.; have been li< ard front except the judge. Of course, if the judge must mi l • it. and nothing else will satisfy his solicitude for the protection of the public funds from the ravenous inroads of these very naughty commissioners, "by lift the judge hringg an action for the recovery of this little sum of three hundred dollars from the indivi dual members of thfl board. If the courts dc. ..,0 that they must put it back in the treasury, possibly they would be able to raise it. The present hoard of commissioners represents at Imi two hundred and fifty thousand dio/lars of property), and we think they might bet able to raise Judigel Whitfield's part of this three hundred dollars in cash, though they might nee,] p little time on the balance. Whenever we begin this business oi recovering back money illogu!- I.V paid out of the county treasury, however, judge, we would pr> for to make wholesale job of it. Th re might be others. By the way, while wo are on this subject of authority of law fin- tlie ex penditure of county funds, perhaps the judge might advize ns by what system el legal gymnastics tlie commission ii s, during the judge’s incumbency, ol tiii - office of county attorney, lot contracts for some three thousand dol lars worth of bridges aml public re pairs on public bufldirtgs without fall ing tlie bonds required by sections 34J and 316 of the political code. We notice that, during the judge's term as county attorney, the com mi s ecn, ns made a contract with the clerk ol the superior court to copy certain oi l execution dockets for the very in .lost compensation o. fifty cents per pag.. Judge, did you advise your clients at that time of the vary salu' !>!iv provisions oi the law conatined in civil code section 436!, sub-suction h, making it the official duty of the clerk of th; superior court to do this "’oil; ■ In tact, it we are going to have a discussion of treasury raiding would it not bo good to go back and uk ■ it up from the beginning ? A. L. Franklin. Returned to His Home. B. 1-. Mann, who ha:; been in Bruns ivii-k for the past year as principal of tlie Nelson Grammar school, has re turned to his home in Richardson, Ga. Mr. Mann has made an able tea- Die: in the schools and lias done much work during the year. His friends will bo glad to learn that he is to re turn next term. , Ail MR. FASH SAYS STREET RAILWAY IS ASSURED FOR BRUNSWICk TWO CANDIDATES WERE HERE Parker and Eason Mingled With Brunswickians Yesterday. Two candidates who are to be voted for in the primary on June 5 were in Brunswick yesterday and spent the entire day mingling with the voters. They were Prison Commissioner Tom Eason, of Telfair county, and Judge ~ A. Parker, of Appling county. Mr. Eason is seeking re-election and is opposed by Capt. Wiley Williams, of Cplumbus, who seems to be making a strong race for the place. Judge Parker i:s anxious to suc cetyl Judge Bennoi as judge of the Brunswick circuit, and lie, too, seems to be making a strong race. He is op posed by Col. Simon W. Hitch, of Way cross. WILL NOT CLOSE AT SIX. Effort of the Ladies in This Direction Failed. It now seems to be an assured fact that the, stores will not close during, the remla,Ruled of the summer at 6 o’clocK. It will be remembered that a com mittee of ladies went around with a petition asking the merchants to close at; G p. m., but it is understood that one merchant refused to sign and this. It is understood, broke imp the arrangement with hose who had agreed to close. TOMORROW’S BICYCLE RACE All Who Desire to Enter Should Do So Today. All desiring to enter the bicycle races on the Riflemen’s field day 'will see Gus tave Anderson, chairman,# and make their entries today. lire following events hive been ar ranged. One-quarter mile dash, three heats. First prize, Tobacco jar; se.ond prize. Pearl handle knife. Two-mile handicap, prize, One pair Hartford tires. The following entries have alreadi been made: Ailie Elkan, John Bvs'ma, Frank Mai lard, Donald Forsythe, Barlow Anderson. Elliott Moore, Malcom McKinnon, I. T. West, li. F. Anderson, John Ross. Off For Charleston. Quite a lar,|c < Kcr.rson left the, city yesterday for Charleston on the cheap excursion via the Southern railway. Although a large number of white pcopli took advantage of the cheap rate tie; majority who went were col orje.l. SHE REJECTED HIM AM) HE MURDERED HER YOUNG GIRL KILLED IN CHURCH NEAR ATLANTA BY INSANE YOUTH. Atlanta. May 2fi.—The last notes of the doxolgy had hardly died yesterday, morning in Wesley chapel, the little Methodist church at Ben Hill, when the restarting congregation was .start ted by two pistol shots and the dying shriek of a young woman. Tlic( quiet, little house of worship was suddenly made, the scene of a,n awful tragedy—tlile fruit of the morbid passion of a young man for a young woman who had resisted his every ad vance. Miss Lilia Buttles was shot to death by Millard Lee. the ball from his pis tol piercing her heart. Crying, “O, papa,” she) fell into me arms of her father. Dr. J. M. Buttles, who hart rush ed up at the. sound of the .pistol shot. She died without speaking again. The church was crowded at the time and the greatest confusion ensued. It was sornc minutes before the people ralized what had happened. Before the awfulness of the crime) dawned upon them Lee had walked from the church building. At the door he was ,naught by Karl Buttles, the; young bromer of the girl he had slain. Young Suttles caught hold of Leu- and attemp ted to hold him, but Lee) placed bis pistol against his breast and told him that, he-would shoot him if he dj dnot lejease him. The boy in desperation yielded his hold and Lee took to flight He was pursued, but though lie lias l-on seen by many persons he has not yet been captured. PRICE FIVE CENTS PLEASED WITH IHE SITUATION * WILL LIVE UP TO THE TERMS OF THE FRANCHISE RECENTLY GRANTED TO HIM. THERE SEEMS TO BE BUT LITTLE OR NO DOUBT ABOUT THE BUILDING OF THE LINE. Hobart C. Fash, one jf ihe gentle men interested in the .elecrtic street railway for Brunswick, arrived in the city yeeterdtyj and spent the day in looking over the; ground and making preparations for beginning tliei work at an early date. Mi. Hobart says there is no doubt about the construction of the road and he expects to have it in operation a great many months before the time allowed by council in the franchise. Mr. Fash has great faith in Bruns wick and, being a man of considerable means, will do us a great deal of good on lines of development. Mr. Fash said that his company was well satisfied with the franchise grant ed by council and also with the enthu siastic encouragement they had re eoivQl in the new enterprise at. the hands of Brunswick people generally. He thinks that a street ear line will not only add greatly to Brunswick's appearance as a hustling liille city; but will be a, paying investment to the promoters of the line as well. O’FARRELL MAY START WATER PLANT SAYS HE IS SERIOUSLY CONSID ERING THE MATTER AT PRESENT. C. J. O'Farrell, manager of the Brunswick Electrical Supply company, which will probably begin operating theiir plant today, is now seriously eon sidering addding a water works sys tem to the business A reported of The News heard of this yesterday and at once called upon Mr. O'Farrell to obtain the truth in the matter, and, when questioned on the subject, he said: “Yes, it is true that i am thinking ! >t putting in a water works system in connection with the electrical plant. I have other parties interested in the matter with me and we have oeen considering the possibly of es tablishing the system for some time, and, although no definite, decision has yet been reached, I am under the im pression that we will,, later, decide) 50 Five the people of Brunswick an other water works system.” Mr. O'Farrell slays he is much grati lieii al the encouragement he has re -etved in his electrical business, so ar, and that, he had been well pat ronize,). |f„ iayt! he wj |j Kjve [l|e people good service at all times and guarantees his prices to be as low as in any other city in the state. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. James S. Wright, left last night on a business trip to Washington. A party will, leave for the Old Vil lagtfiage on St. Simon where: they will spend several days fishing. The grand jury inet’ugain yesterday and a great dt-jal of business was at tended to. GharlesC. Fleming is spending some time in Charleston. Hon. Tom Bason, of Telfair county, and a candidate for state prison commis sioner, was among the visitors to tlie uty yesterday. Judge Horace Dart, who has been quite ill, wgs reported better yesterday. Colonel W. E. Kay left for New York fast nigtrt on a business trip.