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THE BRUNSWICK N E WR'
VOLUME 1, NO. 259.
POLITICAL HEADS
LIABLE TO DROP
MORE TROUBLE IN THE CAMP OF
P— ITH DISTRICT
'UBLICANS.
i his City Promises to
All Kinds of Skel
ind Some Jobs
y Be Lost.
The meeting of the republican ex
ecutive committee of the eleventh dis
tort. which meets in this city on
Thursday, promises to be ricit. rare
and racy, and i' may cost a number
of republican office holders in this
■ ii ion of the state their jobs.
Among those whose political beads
ere in danger is Deputy Collector of
Internal Revenue Mathews of this
<•;(>•, and Postmaster Grier, of Dub
lin.
Chairman Belcher is also a target
for the wrath of some members of the
district machine, and a strong effort
will be made to oust him from the
i liairmanship.
The following on the subject has
been sent out under a Dublin date
line:
"The republicans of the Eleventh
■strict are now engaged in a war
rtv'nich may result in several of them
losing good paying positions. If ru
mors are true, charges have been pre
ferred against Postmaster Clark Grier
►of this city, and Deputy Internal Rev-
Lcmie Collector Mathews, of Bruns-
Htlck.
J Several days ago Mathews visited
Dublin, and. it is said, endeavored to
induce a young man to put bis applica
tion in for the postmastership of Dub
a, pledging him the support of
Chairman Belchor. of Brunswick, and
enough republican influence elsewhere
to land him the job. which now pays
$1,900. The other stipulation Math
ews made was that Allen Simmons, a
young Dublin negro, was to he made
assistant postmaster.
As soon-as it became known that
Mathews had endeavored to induce
t.cme one to apply for the office held
by Postmaster Grier, charges ace sain'
ti nave been preferred against Math
ews. It is understood that the charge
b that he has been endeavoring to
interfere ww federal appointments
outside of his district, and is caus
ing strife among the faithful.
Allen Simmons, a young negro of
Dublin. Is leading the opposition to
Postmaster, Grier in the effort to oust
him from his present office. Simmons
1 iihlicly stated a few da/s ago that
as soon as President Rxrsevelt re
turned to Washington from Oystei
Bay, Mr Grier would he removed
irom the Dublin office. Just what fne
charges are against Mr. Grier no one
seems to know, and Simmons refuses
to state .
For several months there has been
a fight between Postmaster Grier and
E. it. Belcher, of Brunswick, for the
chairmanship of the republican exec
utive committee of the Eleventh dis
trict. Tills tight has grown to lie very
bitter. Each is now alter the politic
al skalp of the other, and cacn
to have won. In this district, as else
where in Georgia, the negro holds the
balance of power in republiean coun
sels. Belcher Is a negro. He is file
present chairman, and wants to re
main. Recently he made Die charge
that Postmaster Grier was endeavor
ing to organize a lily white party in
the Eleventh district. This Mr. Grier
indignantly denied, and his dental is
backed up by the majority of the ne
groes of this county, who have made
affidavits that i-.ey arc admitted into
bis private office on an equally with
i.ie white people
For some time the Grier Wing of
the party has been confident that it
has Belcner whipped, and has been
endeavoring to induce him to call a
convention of tne republicans of the
district for the purpose of nominating
a candidate to oppose congressman
Brantley, and to elect, anew executive
committee. This Beicues has refused
or failed to do. tnongh he has called
a meeting of the executive commit
tee of the district at Brunswick on the
3d. and that, there will be something
doing at that time goes without say
ing. i
Since the matter has grown so in
teresting to the republicans of the
district. Postmaster Grier has discov
ered hat lie is not elegible to the
chairmanship, owing to the fact that
he holds a federal office. Belcher is
deputy collector of customs at Bruns
wick, and an effort will he made to
oust him from the chairmanship of the
committee on the same grounds. If
tnis he done, the fight will he between
Grier and Belcher as to which one
ai nnan.
Vit Wad* r .!••',iii'Ot- I,y
.1 1.. .
LOOKING FOR A SITE.
Brunswick’s Military Determined to
Have a First Class Range.
The committee recently appointed
.y the Officers Association of this
city to select a suitable site for a
rifle range, were out yesterday looking
over several tracts of land, but have
not as yet reached a decision as to
where the range is to be located.
The association is determined, how
ever, that the military is to-have a
range, and as soon as the location is
fixed, t -c actual work of building it
will begin.
This will be a smree of great pleas
ure to the members of— military or
ganizations of, the city|, and it is
thought it will be the means ol adding
many new names to the company
rods.
Died Sunday Night.
kittle Eunice, the live-months-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Pear
son passed away at It o’clock Sunday
night, alter an illness of several days.
The funeral occurred at 1 o’clock yes
terday afternoon, alia was conducted
by Rev. G. Bradley, of Si. dudes
church, at -1 o'cirtck yestcruay after
noon.
GREAT BUILDING ROOM
NOW ON IN BRUNSWICK
MANY HANDSOME STRUCTURES
ARE IN COURSE OF CON
STRUCTION.
Just at this time Brunswick is en
joying a building movement, ,ue like
of which lias not hoi u equaled in sev
eral years.
This condition obtains in tin com
mereial. as well as Uio residence per
lion of the city, ami all of The build
ings under construction are io be tin
usually handsome ones.
Among those who are- building res
idences may he named J. J. Lissnea,
F. 1). M. Stracnan, J. E. dußigmm
Howard Waff. (. I . Candler, end a
number of others.
In addition to those the caL.olic
church will tit once lmild anew con
vent on Richmond street which prom
iscs to he one of t o most, imposing
edifices in that section of the city.
In the huriuossTurner quite a mini
her of bundinggs arWbeiug built, old
ones are being repaired, and all in all
business in this lino is decidedly on
the move.
Justice Conley’s Court.
Yesterday was regular court day
I with Judge Conley, and quite a num
her of unimportant matters were dis
pose., of in regular order.
Large Crowds.
Althougn Sunday was an unusually
unpleasant day, both of the island re
sorts enjoyed a good patronage, and
hotel accommodations at St. Simon
and Cumberland were taxed to care
for the crowd.
STRIET CAR ERANCHIST
WILL EXPIRE ON I R!I)A>
IT WILL BE DECLARED VOID IF
WORK IS NOT COMMENC
ED BY THEN.
Unless the parties to whom the city
recently granted a franchise for the
construction of a system of electric
railways in this city shall have, begun
work on same by Friday, August. 1,
under its own conditions, the fran
chise will become null and void.
It was generally thougui when tnis
right was given to the parties in ques
tion that they really meant business,
but subsequent events fail to corrobo
rate this idea, and it now seems very,
likely that the city council will be
compelled to cancel the franchise, as
it is not likely that, any effort will iioi
made to protect it between this tiiqe
and Friday.
SOME GENUINE BARGAINS
Will Be Offered by Mrs. Isaac During
the Coming Week.
Attention is directed to the ad. of
Mrs. I. M. Isaac in this issue. This
jwell known store will offer some gen
tliile hprgains this week, and tho
public is cordially invited to attend
the sale.
1 This house Is well known as having
I been among the very first to reduce
j prices in this city, and the public ap
predates the’ fact and demonstrates
it by a liberal patronage.
BRUNSWICK, GA., TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 29. 1902.
HAS COAST II
WON OUT ELLEN N
—*■ —
CURRENT REPORT THAT SHE HAS
CAPITULATED TO EN
TREATIES.
In Baltimore it is Believed That the
Great Deal Has Been Made.
Would Bea Gigantic
System.
Baltimore, juiy 28.—1f impossible
to obtain an authoritative expression
or opinion on the rumor that negotia
tions are pending, looking to the ab
sorption by the Atlantic Coast Line
of the Louisville Nashville ami Nash
ville railroad, whim is controlled by
J. I’ierpont Morgan & Cos. hi financial
circles here, the general impression
prevails that the -port is well found
ed.
"I. thing Mr. Morgan has already;
practically turned the road over to
the (,oasl Line," said a member of one
of the loading uanking firms. "The
two roaus .o not. parallel anywhere,
and have a physical connection at
Augusta, Ga., through the Georgia
railroad, which runs from Atlanta to
Augusta and which is leased jointly
by them.
Such a deal would eliminate thai
hostility in Tennessee and Kentucky
which aroused tne rumor that the Lou-,
isville and Nashville will ue merged
with the Southern railway. ’luose
roads parallel and are competitors in
both states and, following the report,
Governor -ic„,.na, of Tennessee, uns
threatened to call a special session of
the legislature to pass a law that
tvouUl prevent a merger. It. is thought
that when Mr. Morgan purchased the
Ixniisvilie and Nashville he had in
view ltd transfer to the Coast Line.
"Morgan & Cos. manage the South
ern railway, and have been working
in complete harmony with the Coast
Line. Tne absorption of t.ie Loui e
ville and Nashville would give tile
Coast Line control of the railroad .sit
uation in the section southeast of the
Mississippi river.
The outstanding lock of the Louis
ville and Nashville amounts to st;o,-
000,000, and if the plan of Morgan &
Cos. to pay $l5O a share .or it is ear
ned out, $90,000,000 will be required
fo complete the ueal. m round num
bers tne combined mileage of the
coast Line system and the Louisville
and Nasuville is 9,401).
Henry Walkers and aiiehael Jen
kins, who control the affairs of the
Coast Line, are out of tho city. Mr.
Walters is thought to b.o in New York
and vvoui— likely conduct the negotia
tions wirii Mr Morgan or his repre
sentative. Mr. Jenmni left Baltimore
Thursday with uis family for the
White Mountains. Mr. Waiters is
vice president of the Coast Line Rail
road company, and president of the
parent company. Mr. Jenkins is a di
rector of tne former, and was vice
president of the latter.
A Complimentary Smoker.
The laboring people of 4h<e city
complimented Eugene S. Odell, of New
York, with a vory pleasant smoker at.
the union headquarters on Bay street
Sunday afternoon. Quite a number of
gentlemen were present, and toe oc
casion was a pleasant one.
Thousanas of Watermelons.
The Brunswick market is simply
crowded with watermelons this sea
son. and those who are fn a position
to know, say that they arc larger this
year than has been the case iri many
years.
Not Until September.
London, July 28, —The body of the
%i< .John W. Maekay, who died in
London a few da./s ago, will not be
taken to the United States until Sep
tember, Mrs. Mackay's health forbid
ding her earlier departure.
Happy Time in Old Town.
“We felt very happy,’’ writes It. N.
Bevilie. Old Town, Va„ “when Buck
len's Arnica Salve wholly cured our
daughter of a had case of scald head.”
It delights all who use it for cuts,
corns, burns, bruises, boils, ulcers,
eruptions, infallible for piles. Only
25c. at all druggists.
New Workmen
of a higher grade and improved fa
cilities make Jim Carter the leader
of clothes cleaners Phone 252-2.
TUROUGHTRAINTO
NICHOLS FRIDAY
— * —
BRUNSWICK AND BIRMINGHAM
WILL MAKE CONNECTION
THERE TODAY.
Superintendent Westrich Announces
That the First Through Train
Will Run to Terminus On
That Date.
On Friday .next, the Brunswick &
Birmingham will run its first, train
from Hnmsw.ek to Nieliolts, and on
that date a regular scnedule between
these points will go into effect.
This information was received in
the city yesterday in the shape of a
telegram from Supt. Westrich at Of
foriuan, announcing that the connect
ions would be made today and that
the truck would be ready for trains
by Friday.
The superintendent also instructed
that a iime card lie arranged to go in
to effect Friday, calling for a regular
schedule between Inis city and Nich
olls, with regular stops at all Interme
diary points.
This means that Friday, next,
the line will celebrate us first really
great step to its destination.
This only verifies lhe opinion that
. the people of this city have ahvayip
hold, mat the I!. &. B. was hacked up
jby capitalists who were not in Hie
game for their health, and who meant
to redeem every pledge made to the
people.
According to the present arrange
ments the first through train over tho
line will leave inis city Friday morn
ing, next.
A HARDSHIP.
Western Union Telegraph Cos. Fails to
Deliver News Dispatches.
Because of the fact trial the West
ern Union Telegraph Company failed
to deliver a portion of tile jircss dis
patches to the News last, night, al
though they arrived in ample time to
'nave been in this office before the
closing hour of Inc telegraph compa
ny, the News must ask tho indulgence
of Its readers for the scarcity of tel
ographic news in its columns this
morning.
However, this matter will be ta
ken up with the proper authorities and
an effort, made td the mid that such
excuses will not nave to bo made in
future, because of the laxity or care
lessness of a great concern who are
apparently carried awaw with the idea
that they are a monopoly and must
bo implored as well as paid for ren
dering a common service to the pub
lic.
MANILA’ CHOLERA REPORT.
One Hundred and Fifty Cases in For
ty-Eight Hours.
Manila, July 28. —During the forty
eight hours ending this morning, one
hundred and fifty fresh cares of chol
era have developed in Manila. No re
ports regarding the disease were re
ceived from the provinces owing to
the storm.
Floods in Luzon.
Manila, July 28.—The typhoon
which prevailed over central Luzon
is subsiding. Telegraph and tele
phone wires arc prostrated. Floods
have prevailed in central Luzon and
considerable damage has been done.
CHARGED WITH BOY’S MURDER.
Alex Harris, a Negro Committed to
Jail for Killing.
Valdosta, Ga., July 26. —Alex Harris,
colored, was committed to jail here
yesterday to await trial for the kill
ing of the five-year-old hoy of Sam
Smith, colored, who lives in the Cat
Creek district of this county.
Harris claims that tne lulling was
an accident. He had been playing
with the boy for some t me, and be
coming tired, 0,.d the hoy to go away
and not bother him. 'tne child in
sisted, and Harris, plcaing up a rifle
which was in the room, said: “I am
going to kill you. He men pointed
the gun at the hoy and fired, the bul-
Irt ai. m effect in the head and
passing through its brain Harris
claims that he had no intention of
killing the boy, and thought the rifle
was unloaded.
CAPTAIN SPRAGUE SAiIED.
Wound Sufficiently Healed to Allow
Him to Command His Vessel.
The schooner John H. Butterick.
Captain Sprague, finished loading a
cargo of lumber yesterday, aim sailed
during the day for New York.
Captain Sprague, it will be remem
bered, was shot some two weeks ago
by his negro steward, but was suffi
ciently recovered yesterday to go in
command of the vessel.
The ball, however, which is from a
38-calibre pistol, has not yet been re
moved, and the captain is afraid that
he will yet have trouble with it. He
says Hun as soon as he arrives in tne
metropolis he wid consult a special
ist, and will have it removed.
The Atlanta View.
The Constitution of yesterday says:
“Rumors of recent purchases of sev
eral small south south Georgia roads
by the Brunswick and Birmingaam
have renewed interest in Colonel Ma
chen’s proposed transcontinental
route. At the same time it is uotiea
lde that the people who are building
he Atlantic and Birmingaam are qui
etly pushing the road westward an
arc dolling very litue talking. .
MICHIGAN SWEPT BY
A HOWLING IYPHOON
GRAIN CROPS AND VEGETATION
IN GENERAL SUFFER SE
RIOUSLY.
Oxford, Mich., Juply 29. —The worst
storm ever known in the history of
Oxford . swept over a "trip of country
reaching from St. Thomas to Roches
ter, a distance of eighteen miles this
afternoon.
The corn crop is leveled, while
wheat and oats arc lying in a tangled
mass. Orchards are stripped of their
fruit, and the losses to farmers will
amount to tin u anils of dollars.
Detroit, Mich. July 28.—As the re
sult of a terrific wind storm this after
noon. the large Brown hoist, used in
lifting and carrying heavy plates used
in shipbuilding, lies on the deck of
the Michigan Central car ferry trans
port at, (lie Vtyandotte shipyard, a to
taltal wreck, while the upper works of
the car ferry are for the most part
smashed into kindling wood. The
Brown Hoist is an immense piece of
machinery which runs on a track forty
feet high, and audit. 500 feet long.
Jure before the storm broke the hoist
was safely anchored about 400 feet up
the track with two chains. The
Michigan Central car transport lay at
the dock directly in front of the
hoist track. When tne storm broke
the chains snapped. The immense
hoist ran to the end of the track and
jumped thirty feet to the car ferry,
inc damage is esumated at SSOIOOO.
Other towns wichin fifty miles of De
troit report considerable damage to
property, but no lives lost.
YOUNG AUSTELL LORGiVEN
BY Eli A COOK’S PARENTS
THE ATLANTA MAN StiOWS DEEP
SORROW AND GETS AB
SOLUTION.
New Havan, July 28. —The parents
of Etta Cook, the unfortunate young
woman who suicided at the feet of
Alfred Austell, the Atlanta man. Sat
urday, iasf, have fully forgiven the
young man for the rash act of the girl,
for which lie was largely responsible.
At first Mr. and Mrs. Cook were
very hard on Austell, and announced
their Intentions of airing the matter
in the courts.
However, the sincere grief of the
southerner, together with his manly
course in the matter, lias won them
over, and this evening they have an
nounced that ho has been freely for
given for the part he played in the
case.
Since the tragedy Austell’s grief has
been most pitiable, and has excited
sympathy of the people in general.
!: i iaims he nad no previous warn
ing of the intentions of the girl, and
that-tne suicide was as much a sur
prise and as great a shock to him
as it was to any one else. His state
ment are credited by the members of
the Cook family, who, while heart
broken over the sad affair, are in
clined to take a charitable view of
tne facts surrounding the case.
PRICE FIVE GENTS
IE RAILROADS
TO RETALIATE
THEY DON’T LIKE THE SWITCH
ING DECISION OF THE
COMMISSIONERS.
It is Now Intimated That They Will
Make the Ruling Cost the
Shippers by a Different
Procedure.
Discussing tile recent “switching
contest’’ before me railroad coininis
sinu the Atlanta Constitution of yes
terday, sayß:
"Railroad men are greatly dissatis
fied with the change made in rule 25
uy the railroad commission, as they
Hold that by it an injustice has been
done tne loads in allowing them to
collect only l a switching charge for
what they consider a transportation
movement.
However, it is the opinion o* a num
uer of Atlanta railroad men that the
shippers on whose complaint the
change was ma.e, will receive little
benefit from It. If the opinions of the
railroad men are correct, tne shippers
may have cause to regret tnat they
were instrumental in having the rule
changed.
It seems that switching movements
neld a different piaoe under the. law
from transportation movements in the
respect that roads are not obliged to
make them unless they want to, while
all common carriers are compelled to
receive and forward ail traffic deliv
ered to them for transportation.
Some time ago, it is understood,
one of the roads entering Atlanta, an
ticipating the action of the commis
sion, asked os counsel to investigate
the matter, and the opinion rendered
was, that if the commission declared
the movements in question switching
movements, tne' the roads could not
be forced to make them.
The roads claim that where ship
ments originated and terminated with
in the switching limits, shippers were
quite fortunate in getting them moved
for $5 per car, as it would cost them
much more to have tim.r traffic dray
ed. The roads claimed the right to
apiily the minimum tariff, but did not
do so, making a uniform charge of $5
per car tor such movements.
Now it is understood that the pres
iey of the roads will be to decline al
together to move shipments within
the switching limits, and shippers will
in consequence have to have tneir
goods drayed.
The matter may come to be one of
great Interest, and may eventually ter
minate in the courts. If it does, the
railroad men express themselves as
being sure of their ability to win out."
NEWS OF THE SHIPS.
Small Marine items of the Doings of
a Day.
The following is the movement of
the vessels at the port of Brunswick
yesterday:
Arrived—Schooner Abbie C. Stubbs,
Whitney, New York; 'steamer Rio
Grande, Johnson, New York,
Sailed—Steamer Navahoe, Johnson,
Boston; schooners John H. Butterick,
Sprague, New York; Evadue, Col
lins, Havana; brig Sunlight, Wright,
New York; brig Sobreano, Maristany,
Valencia; bark Vilasar, ltoldos, Ve
iencia.
Passengers on tho Mallory: W. S.
McDowell, J. S. Raymond, Mr. and
Mrs. Edsall, wife and child; Cain
Foul, Chin Seng.
The Malory steamer Alamo will ar
rive here tnis morning enroute from
Galveston to New York.-
The tug Vigilant is having its boil
ers cleaned at Briesenick’s.
The Ocmulgee steamer George Yar
butt is in port.
The Mallory steamer Rio Grande
came in at an early hour yesterday
morning.
Took Charge Yesterday.
J. G Morgan, who recently purchas
ed the Polhill drug store, an account
of which has appeared in these col
umns, yesterday took possession of
the store, and was warmly congratu
lated by his many friends.
Mr. Morgan has in contemplation a
number of changes in tho appearance
ot' the store, and lie proposes to make
it one of the most attractive in the
city.