Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

THE BRUNSWICK NEWS. VOLUME 1; NUMBER 280. END OF STRIKE NOT IN SIT PRESENT INDICATIONS POINT MORE DEFINITELY NO PRO I LONGATION. SO SAYS GENERAL CORBIN He is Using His With Operators and Mon Who are Trying to Adjust the Differances. Shenandoah, Pa., Aug. 26.—Much Im portance is attached to the calls Gen oral Gobin receives from coal mine op erator:;. who spend hours with the gen el’s! in going over the strike situation. After having met a number of oper ators, General Gubin said today that he dm-b not see any signs of a settle ment. In fact, he slates, all Indications point more definitely to a prolonga tion of the strike now than they did when he first reached here.. He keeps in touch with the strikers, as well ns the operators, and may be seen daily ri< ! ;t:;'. over the hills with members of his staff. Along the road he ire ,l fluently holds conversations with min f era. a’l of whom displayed friendly 1 feeling toward him personally. There is no ill-feeing here against the snl dlers, and the military has become ~o popular that a movement has been set afoot to start, a company in this town. Individual operators are beginning to display evidence of a willingness to end tile strike if a method could be shown them how they could make a concession to the men without stulti fying themselves. In speaking with numbers of the staff at brigade head quarters some have within the past few days stated that if a way could be suggested whereby they could give in without placing themselves in a had light they would favor a settle ment. General Gohin Is using his good offices toward a settlement, and he allows no opportunity to iiass when in conference with operators, to make a conservative plea for the men on strike. COAL STRIKERS RIOTOUS. Special Policeman is Stabbed and Beat en at Hazleton. Tinz< Iton. Pa.. Aug. 2G. —August Scheuch, aged 56 years, a special po liceman in the services of the Lehigh Valley Coal company, was assaulted and stabbed on the outskirts early today while attempting to rescue his non Willie in Sclicuch, a non-union waikman employed at the company’s No. 40 colliery, from a mob of about 3,000 strikers, who had gathered from all parts of the Hazelton region on the roads, loading to the mine to frus trate the plans of the company for a partial resumption of operations with a non-union force of 2.50 hands. A majority of the non-union ipen were taken to the workings in a spe cial train, which the strikers did not expect to Interfere wilh. Mr. Scheuch, who lives in this city, walked from his home toward the colliery and thus fell into the hands of the picket-;. Most of the clothing was torn from hi.- !>-■!: In the Mi uygTe whlcl%follu v ed When Scheuch rushed to his a-d the mob set upon the elder Scheuch, who was finally rescued by a mine foreman and removed to the miners’ hospital. Scheuch was stabbed in the breast and on each hip, kicked in the abdomen and struck on the head with a stone. His injuries are not very serious. The knife which was sunk into his breast struck a rib and that fact probably saved his life. The effort to prevent work at the mine was successful. Many Pickets Patrolling Valley. Tamaqua, Pa., Aug. 26.—-Not since the inauguration of the anthracite coal miners' strike have the United Mine Workers had so many pickets patrol ing the Panther Creek valley as was th- ease today. An official of the company admitted today that prac. tical miners are hard to procure and that none of the coal companies are able to operate any of the mines for this reason. Outlaws Surrender to Officer. Middiesboro, Ky., Aug. 26. —Accord- ing to advices' received here today Tom Mullins and "Son” Mullins have sur rendered to Virginia officers. They . i.m arc with numerous offenses, nave your urea* „ „ ' Jim t arter, who dotKault. of Mlss Cora dm..ne 253.2. ' Va. They were It DOWN TLCUR in the as ’.The Mul m ak-. potter’s WIFE SLAYS HUSBAND. Death of Tennessee armer Charged to Widow. Nashville, Tonn.. An-:. 26.—John F. Wright, a prosperous farmer resid ing near Wnverly. was shut and in stantly killed Saturday night while asleep. The deed was committed with a double-barreled shotgun. The entire top of his head was shot off. The neighborhood was aroused by the cries of his wife and a crowd soon gathered. Sheriff Fentress was tele phoned for and soon arrived with bloodhounds, but they failed to strike a trail. The officers searched the house and found two loaded shells and one empty one, the latter having recently been fired. Mrs. Wright had previously stated to the coroner’s jury that there was no sheil on the place. Shells were found concealed be. tween the ceiling and the floor. Wright and his wife did-not get. along well, and this with other evidence, caused suspicion to rest upon th woman, and she has been placed under arrest. The verdict of the jury was that Wright met his death at the hands of his wife. Later in a private conver sation with Sheriff Fentress the wo man confessed the killing of her hua hand. The corn-'. lon Is being kept quiet for fear of mob violence, as the relatives of the murdered n.an are greatly wrought up. Wright was shout 65 years of ago and highly re spected. He ami his wife had five child! < n. two of who';: were at home at th - time of the killing Mrs. Wright has been taken to Vr.verly and placed in jail Big Building For Tampa. Tampa, Fla. Aug. 26.--. Tamer W. rip - vis. one of Cramp .v Co.'s en .iuei . is in the city for the purpose of mak ing preliminary arrangements fir starting work on the government build ing. Mr. Davis-.was interviewed with regard to the plans of his people, and staled that work won! 1 begin on t! o building within three wed s, and that within ten days laborers would be at work excavating for the foun-lat ion.- He gave out that as far a;; practica ble only local labor would ho emidoy. and, and as much as puss 1 hie of the mat; ii aln ur< and 'n tin- building will he p tr eha.; and in . a. Sues For SIOO,OOO. Tampa Jin.. Aug. 26.- ■!. P Munn, the husband of tin- unfortunate lady who war: killed in the collision between a car of the Tampa Electric company and a train ok the Seaboard Air Line at the Twenty second street crossing, has (ih-d. notice of two suits for dam ages iu the ; urn of $50,000 each against the Tampa Klectfic company am! the ben hoard Air Line, respectively. The papers were filed by Mr. Munn, person ally. hut it is understood that he bus retained Judge H. A. l’< .-pics and Golo r.e! Victor H, Knight to proseeute the suits for him. General Dickinson Dies. Ocala. Fla., Aug. 26. General .1. •). Dickinson, one of the mosi ill.-ringuish ed cx-confcdcrates In Florida, died Saturday at his home bote, aged KS years. Gera nil Dickinson won consid erable reputation in the civil war as n cavalry commander and has subse quently been called Hu- Marion of Flor ida. In civil life lie lias served in the governor’s cabinet: nt-rt has held other prominent places. lie has bwn state commander of the confederate \ .d.erane and always took a keen In terest in the organization. Man Takes Fata! Nap. N'-w York. Aug. 26. 1o- ’ L. Con wav, u foreman in the city ehvningd ■ pertinent, laid down on the cliff at One Hundred and Eighty-Seventh street, and Hie Sp— dway for a nap. After sleeping an hour he awoke, and in r* retching, lost his balance, rolled over the edge of the cliff to i be Spi" d way !ielo-,v, a distance of 160 feet, and was instantly killed. Conway's fatal fail was witness, and by several pleasure seekers on the cliff. Top of His Head Torn Off. Ttaleigh, N. 0., Aug. 26. A white man. flagman, named Wheeler, on the f- aboard Air Line between Portsmouth' and Raleigh, was horribly mangled and killed by ...riling the of the Southern railway .across the Sea board Air Line’s track at Franklin. The upper part of his head was torn oil. / Fruit Companies May Combine. Kingston. Jamaica, ,As 26.—Spe cial advices received hero from Lon don say there Is every probability that the United States Fruit company of New Orleans and Boston. Hi Hr Demp ster & Cos., of Liverpool, and the Fy feres of Aberdeen, will combine their fruit interests. Negro Assaults Whits Woman. Raleigh. N. C., Aug. 26.— Mrs. Smith, a white woman, was assaulted by a ne gro near Seven Springs, Wayne coun ty The negro, Tom Jones, made his escape, but is being pursued by a po.ssg. BRUNSWICK. GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING. AUGUST 27, 1902. BRUNSWICK WINS SECOND GAME LOCALS AGAIN DEFEATED JACK SONVILLE BY A SCORE OF S TO 2. DARIEN COMES WEDNESDAY Club from There With Four Savannah Players Will Be Over Next Wednesday—No Game Today. ITrunswick defeated Jacksonville again yesterday afternoon, by a scoi of S to 2. The game did not iu any way come up to the one payed lay the two clubs Monday and neither side pul up as good game. However, the same was interesting at times and homo very puu.y plays were made by both sides. Abiioti was in the box for the id eals and he pitched a very good game ' allowing only a few scatering hits. IHe received as good support lrom the Brunswick boys as could tie wan t'd, only a .e\v -errors being recor ded against (he team. Alien was in the box ior Jackson ville, and had his team supported | him like ~.u other side, the remit ol Lie game might have been different. The Brunswick team got down to cir run making in the first inning land sound two runs. ...rw made two Inime in the third, otic m tne li.Ut, 'ami two in the seventh. Jacksonville did nut score until the sixth inning, and made another in the seventh. Probably the largest crowd ol ._e season was out to witness toe game land although it was not as inline;,t , ing as tile first one, the spectators seemed to greatly enjoy it, and did | plenty of l ooting for the home boys. I Following is the summary of the game: Earned runs, Brunswick -1. Base. I hits, off Abbot. 5, off Allen to. , ivo base oil, Abbott. Double piav, Crovau. Ito Hoyt; to Arnheiter. Williams to I tsi 1 la;;: struck-out, by Abbott 6, by .... ; lon 2; stolen bases, Brunswick l. Jacksonville 3; errors, Brunswick 6, Jacksonville 12. umpire, McCullough. 1 scorer, Weiss. Time of game 1 hour and thirty minutes. No Game Today. Tim, teams will not play toe tti.nl game today m was scheduled, Brunswick having won the series ai i'eady. The .lawksonvijlo clue way we have as strong an ameieur team as tney have played this season, ana at tribute their defeat simply to the su perior playing of the home team. Darien Next. Darien will be the next team to cross bats with Brunswick, and will come over next Wednesday with a | strong team. The club will have the , assistance of four Savannah players 1 and they hope to capture the game. Speaking of the players who are to help Darien, the Savannah News of yesterday ways: "roar of the C. L. A. baseball players will be again in demand this week to help on the teams of other cities to victory, while there is nothing doing locally, tiiq towns around Savannah have not ceased to play and whenever they can they get the use of those of the lo cals whose reputation is wtue. In a dny or so. McGrath, O’Brien and Charlton will go to Waycross to play there against. Cordele. Thence Mc- Grath and Charlton will go to Darien, where they will be joined by Dow icy, tne left fielder, and all three will pay against Brunswick. must tvtarry or Go to Pen. Raleigh, N. C., Aug. 26.—Governor Aycoek last week offered a reward for Paul McDonald, who, after prom ising to marry a young girl in Har nett county, left her. The governor was so much interested in McDonald’s capture that he published his picture in the papers. McDonald was cap tured at Charleston. The governor says he must marry the girl or go to the penitentiarv. Guard Kilted by Convicts. Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 26.—G. W. Thomas, a prison guard, was shot and instantly killed by two negro convicts who were trying to escape from Coal burg prison Saturday afternoon. The negroes were captured soon afterward and returned to their cells. TERRAPINS 11 ffi LIBERATED REPORTED THAT FISH COMMIS SION IS AFTER OWNERS OF SHORT ONES. THE LAW ON IHE SUBJECT Prohibits the Catching of Terra pins At All During Certain Months in the Year.. Tiie News learns from a reliable source that an attempt will, probably bo made to liberate all the female terrapins, less than five and a half Inches, measured lengthwise on tne lower shell, now in tne various craws in Glynn county. The law on the subject says: If any person shall capture terra pins in any of the rivers, estuaries, bays, sounds, creeks or tide-waters of this state, by means of seines, nets, traps or other device, front the first day of March to tao twenty-fifth day of July, lie shall he guilty of misde meanor No person shall capture in any manner, or at any time, female ter rapins of less size than five and unc hain inches measured leugluwise on the lower shell, and when any stieli lei;ai ins are caught they shall be at oj.ee returned, to the waters from wh.ch they wore taken. A violation of this section shall be a misdemeanor. li shall bo taken and deemed as prima larie evideueo ot a violation of the provisions of the two preceding section;;, for any person or persons to be found in possession of any L i rapin of a less size than live and one-naif it.thus measured lengthwise tii the i over shell, at any season cl the y< - or of terrapin of any kind between the first of March and Uiu twenty-fifth of July. Koine who claim lo know say that v In-re the terrapins are raised by tne persons in whose possession they are found that this law should not lie or cannot, he enforced, while the fish commission says it can. In the event; an effort is made to liberate the terrapins in Glynn county there will lie all kinds of fun. BATTLE ABBEY LEASED. Michael P. Grace Will Use Same as Winter Residence. New York, Amt. 26. — Battle Abbey, the historic idle which marks the. spot where Harold, sur rounded by his Saxons, fell before the ax of William the Conquer or at the battle of Hastings, has been leased for a term of years, says the Herald, to Michael P. Grace, brother of former Mayor William R, Grace. Mr. Grace will use the abbey as a winter residence. For a long time Mr. Grace lias leased Lord Howes’ estate in Hertfordshire for his winter home. Battle Abbey, which belonged to the late Duchess of Cleveland, widow of the fourth and last Duke of Cleve land, and mother of Lord Rosebery, was sold at auction last autumn to Sir Augustus Frederick Walpole Webster, a descendant of Sir Thomas Webster, who bought the abbey from the sixth viscount Montague in j.,18, and in whose family the abbey remained for 130 years. The purchase price wan the equivalent of $1,000,000. CHASE OF WHITE SQUADRON. Admiral Higginson to Submit Report to Navy Department. Washington, Aug. 26.—Admiral Hig ginson soon will submit to the navy department an elaborate report of the results of the chase of the white squadron by the north Atlantic squad ron, which ended yesterday. In the meantime the official report of the af fair is confined to the brief telegrams also received from Commander Pills bury announcing his surrender and a dispatch from Admiral Higginson tell ing of the disposition he had made of the vessels engaged in the chase. Naval officers here say that while the capture of the white squadron scorned to be a foregone conclusion, owing to the discrepancy in strength between the two squadrons, yet this chase has had instructive and impor tant results. It is the expectation that perhaps next year another such chase will be made in which the problem presented to the defending squadron will be much more difficult than that in which it has Just been engaged. OHIO LEGISLATURE. Body Convenes In Extraordinary Ses sion at Columbus. Columbus, 0., Aug. 26. —The Ohio legislature convened at 3 o'clock p. in. today In extraordinary cession to en act laws to provide for the govern ment of municipalities and to restore lost jurisdiction to the supreme court, these matters having been rendered chaotic by the action oi that court during the early summer. Promptly at the hour named ea"h branch of the general assembly was called to order and after roll call the governor's message, accompanied by a municipal code bill, prepared under the direction of the chief executive, was received and adjournment taken. In his message Governor Nash urges the repeal of the act passed last May, depriving the supreme court of near ly all the appellate jurisdiction for merly possessed by court. Continu ing, the message saja: “During the last days of June the supreme court of the state handed down sever, l decisions which prac tically deprive our municipal corpor ation:; of all government. The ques tion now is. not what we think would be a ’model’ municipal government, hut v. kat wo can get considering the constitutional limitations and-all the circumstances surrounding ns.” The governor ah,vises the legislature to ignore requests for a constitutional convert .in. • He th- . mi' ml;- his ideas of the necessity of the situation in the form o. a municipal code bill, the enact j•■ 'of whir', he recommends, Con cluding, the governor says; “I suggest that, by joint i(.solutions you refer the school laws to the state commissioner of common schools and the attorney general, and the laws re lating to the compensation of county officers to the auditor of state, secre tary of state and the attorney gener al: the laws relating to registration and elections to the secretary of state, and the laws relation to annual boards of i '.uulizntinn to the auditor of state, with instructions to revive and recodi fy said laws, remove therefrom all lt'l ■ rfeetiom; and have, their work ready for presentation to the next gen eral assembly of Ohio, on the first Monday In January. 190-1.” SPORT FOR ROOSEVELT. President Will Be Given Bear Hunt In Nort.li Carolina. Knoxville!. Aug. 26.--A special to The Sentinel from Asheville, N. 0., says: “President. Roosevelt will visit. Ashe ville in September, after !> dug i: Chat tanooga- Sept. ft. He will he given a bear hunt in the North Catulina moun tains under t! ■> lcad. i; ~p of “Big Tom” Wilson, v.iin 1 iv. in the shad ows of Mount Mitchell and who found the body of the celebrated Professor Mitchell, who was drowned and for whom the mountain was named. Wil son is said to be the champion bear hunter of the state, and he claims 10 have killed over 1,000 of the woolly giants. Hi is making extei live prep; arations for a chase with the presi dent. - MET INSTANT DEATH. Wife of Former U. 3. Senator Hopkins Killed by Street Car. St. I.oulh, Aug. 26.—Mrs. Mary An toinette. Hopkins, widow of the late Edward A. Hopkins, former United States minister to Argentine, was in stantly killed by stepping in front, of a street car going it the rate of SO miles an hour. Deceased was born in Paris in 1539. She was a mar chioness by liirt.li and a baroness oy her marriage, in 1860, to the Baron Rentliel. She was the widow of the lato Edward A. Hopkins, United States minister to the Argentine republic, who died in 1894. Five children survive her, ail of whom, except Constantine L. von Rentin'!, are residents of oilier coun tries. TORCH APPLIED TO BUILDINGS. People of Gilmer Excited Over Incen diary Fires. Eilijav, Ga., Aug. 26.-—The barn, crib and one or two other small outbuild ings on the Roberts farm on the Kill jay river, 2 miles north of town, have been burned within the last two days. The burning took place mostly in daylight. An outbuilding was first burned. Next, the crib and stabi -s adjoining were burned. The crib contained about 50 bushels of corn. Saturday morning another small build ing was burned. A man whose face was blackened is reported to have been seen to run into the woods. A fire on a previous night was also discovered in the kitchen and a light ed broom was thrown through an open window into the top of the dwelling. These were extinguished. *. The shep herd dog had been shot and filled on the premises some tifno before the first burning. Tho people here are greatly excit ed over this burning. PRICE FIVE CENTS. STEVENS ISSUES A CHOP REPORT THE AVERAGE IS CONSIDERABLY BEHIND REPORT ISSUED LAST YEAR THIS TIME. CONDITIONS ARERATHER BAD Cotton, Corn, and Other Crops Show a Consideraole Falling Off Account of Bad Weather. The crop conditions just now are somewhat worse than they were last year this time, according to the crop report issued yesterday by t lie de partment. of agriculture and last year the crop conditions were consider ably below the average, The average condition of cotton throughout the state at the present time according to tho reporf. is 70 per cent as against <o per cento la; year, and that was considered a rather poor showing. Cotton is the great staple crop and the condition of the other crop at this time does not. vary inttcn from that of cotton. Corn is even below that average, being 68 per cent, while the condition of rice is .82 per cent, being the highest o a;, the crops. The report of crop conditions as isued by Commtsioner Stevens is as follows: The crop report from the Geor gia department of agriculture repre sents the crop as it stood in the August 20, R)(2. it. is made up frpm nearly a thousand blanks sent out into differed t sections of each county to parties who'are considered capable of giving the desired inform ation concerning the conditions and prospects of the crops in their neigh borhood. Most of these were return ed with tho desired information, The conditions Uiis year have been peculiar. Over large, acres of the state, hot, dry winds have prevailed affecting very materially the condit ion and prospects of all crops. Some uf the reports coming in trom the different localities in tne same county in some of which a long continued drought is reported, while in others the seasons and conditions are said to be good. Tim general condition discloses conditions and prorpects icss i'avoraoie titan, at tuis time last year. INHABITANTS FLED IN TERROR. Earthquake Depopulates Town ol Chamerico, Guatemala. Fan Diego, Cay., Aug. 26. —The Kos mo. liner. Kambysses, which has ar rived here from Hamburg via the east coast of South and Central America, reports that while running through tho tropics she was in many electrical storms, which lighted up the heavens in a wonderful manner. When she approached Chamerico, on the west coast of Guatemala tho lights of active volcanoes were seen for many miles at sea. On reaching port it was found that, the inhabitants of tiie town had all fled an account of an earthquake and the steamer had to discharge and take on freight with her own new, as no longshoremen could be found. King and Queen on Tour. New York, Aug. _6.- The king and queen are slowly sailing north in the royal yacht and are expected, saya a Tribune London correspondent, to land at Aberdeen at the end of tha week. Thence they wiii proceed by special train to liallaster for Balmoral. The duration of their stay in Scotland Is yet undecided. Much will depend upon the nature of the weather. in all probability they will go for another yachting trip next month, from Aber deen to Copenhagen to pay a visit to the king of Denmark, and to meet the emperor of Russia. Will Be Ordered to Panama. Washington, Aug. 26 —The navy de partment will shortly order the pro tected cruiser Boston, which recently was placed in commission and which is now at Bromerton, to Panama to relieve the gunboat Ranger of the watch upon the isthmian affairs from hte Pacific side. Boy Drowns In Well. Tifton, Ga., Aug. 26.—Quite an un usual deatft occurred at Urbans, at. H. I. Thomson & Co.’s saw mill on tha Tifton. Thomasville and Guif railroad, when a negro boy fell in a well iu tho mil) quarter and was drowned. Ha had been dead some time when found.