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THE BRUNSWICK Ml VOLUME 2, NUMBER 23. LATEST FROM THE SCENE OF STRIKE —t — MINERS CALL FOR A BIG CON VENTION MONDAY MORN ING NEXT. I HE COMMISSIONERS ACCEPE All New York Railrods Rushing to Coal Regions With Orders For a Clear Way. *• W’Ukesbarre, I’a., October 16.- Al ter largely attended secret sessions covering a period of more than four flours, the district boards tonight is sued a call for a general convent u of miners to vote on the proposition of accepting the arbitration plan ns has been suggested. Over one thousand delegates will compose the covenlion. which Is call ed to meet at 10 o’clock on Monday morning next. The general district boards have approved P&esldent Mitchell's plan and the situation seems to lie well in hand. Washington, October JR.—An oi the members of the strike settlement -commission as named by President Roosevelt, at one o’clock ttiis morn ing, have consented to serve the com missioned is made up of the following well known citizens: Itrigadier Genera! John 51. Wil son, E. W. Parker of Washington, connected with the geological survey. Judge George Gray, of Deeware, E E. Clark of Cedar Rapids, lowa, X. 11, Watkins of Scranton, Pa., Bishop John Id Spauding of Peoria, Carrol) I>. Wright. New York, October Hi. Asa com sequence of the turn in e coal stria: situation all New York railroads are niching trains to the coal regions General orders have been s.-ued giv ing coal trains the right-of-way, Uie price of coal is rapidly drop png and t s expected wil be normal very soon. MANY LUNATICS Report Issued By the-Asylum at Mil led geville Milledgeville, Ga., October Hi. - The annual report of the Georgia State Sanitarium is out and is quite .an in terestlng document. The report is ioi tno year ending September 1, I:nt2. . According to this report the av< age number of patients at the sanitar linn during the year was 2,63a; the to •aI number receiving treatment w;u 3,319. i !i* total number on hand Septcmbci 1, of <...! year was 2.670. of wine! 1.877 were whites and 798 negroes. There arc now on file 390 application; of patients awaiting admission. Them are in the various jails of the stab am* must remain there until room n provided. The two new buildings, un der course of construction, wui ac commodate 1,448 patients and as fnest buildings will be completed by tin first of January, the patients now in the county jails will be brought here. This report shows that the cost o: maintenance per capita for the year was $112„68. Every department of this immeuce institution is in a splendid condition Tne people of ueorgia have a right tfe justly be proud of this great charity: A. E. SCHROEDER WAS WEALTHY Man Who Committed Suicide on Train Worth 5350,000. - Waycross, October 16. —F. if, Ar guimbau, a partner of A. i-j. Schrot der, who suicided on aH Atlantic Coast Line train yesterday, arrived here last night and accompanied the remains to New York. Arguimbau states tha. SchroedcV has tobacco plantations at Quincy and other points ip Florida, valued at 8250,000 and that he bas other inter este in New York. He says the man left Quincy Monday night apparently in good spirits. He does not assign any cause for the deed. Waycross is flooded with telegrams from friends and relatives of the de ceased. and New ¥ork newspapers arc making many inquiries as to the suicide. MERGER OF LIGHT AND WATER COMPANIES HERE YESTERDAY MLXICO YIELDS. Mexico City, October in. 1 .u n- Mariscal, minister oi foreign relations to the Mexican gowruii.. :i, when seen by a newspaper eurrcKpuiiuoni aua asked for the opinion t.e- An icau ;’,o V i.rULin regard' to The Ta guo award on tin- fit. turn! . ; said that it would be undignified on the part of the governin' at to express an opinion. ■'AH that l can say, added Stnui- Maristai, "is that Mexico, as it. i.- Lier (Titty and acvoiuiug to her promidi accepts and w'lli abide iy the avvuni and though the pr>uocit wiitt tne Uui ted . ... .... 1 1.. i*. -■ to ask for a revision, we will wane that, right. Statement by State Department. Washington, „et.>ber 16. me state department, today gave out the ud iowing statement iti rcgtird to a teie gram front J. H. Ralston, United Stales iigctd at The Hague: "The opinion o’ the permhuein court of arbitration tioviuiva u. .. ah parts of the judgment et tue u.upiic of the mixed chums c; mnns.xoj in ihiO colic.*:; mag l i.-u poiuu explain aad serve to i-tuuer prei-i.-n . the souse aud *. , i-uuiu* nt; "poiutt res judicata, tuui, this ruic apphci tief only 1.0 ol'siiiiii.. t-.bflbu..., dip t(. aibitral sentences and to in. . * exu’ arbitrations, tliut tin- co:.tt...ln.ii o. Ifth,. . i veen the t -a am. .imm.iifjou and tic sun; ,; u.t ri a U dial tliore is lu.-nuiy of pari; e an., versy and the r.rblai u< use readei eti at ifciJ, that -Medico ' on.,e; .ulnJu executed uh formin' men. ... uiut L .lUSl'iiniih'tita *. idev a: ii.ei, ih.iA in ~iw oi prcricrij.- ; ;i cannot, b i .hi-; to the present i ox..it::. lip. me wu;;e. .11 W illi II jia;. inch; id annuity L'li- .-iile stipulation unis i hi:. tu;;.t iiu vn.g cm tne ferrnci senteoi-•, relating to e-.c entioa and not to the ua.-uS to UP right in nilgai ion mei not the line* ot res judicata cxcepi for tne term l:o w ild n b ■ i,i• i ;. ~ r. ... "The permanent court tltscuieo tha* I. uc present, claim was -b ieis.iii) u ij,. f Hie pimepie i '"s judicata, Uf&S. ( ill iiioifibiy to tin* former .u-uicmi ;n r* should lie paid by ,'noxico Ibc imm i.eijiail.ied in. d.1e.l bUtea 51,429,632.67 in Ac ail cui s-dic. iViU.-n the ensuing (~ IP months, . ns uiftlicr, li.at .. cMeu aiioulu pay te me United bid,., n-im P i.-i.ruary 2 1993, ana <a> h it.: y.ii.; j. ,n tb sum -Of $42.0,>0,99 ill M'-ii.j-il .■..■ : c.iicy tnc cOlilCiiUun.: oi iK* e .:o > Stall: were sustained in r.veiy paitwuiai ex*. V.l ta it (>■ sole:■son . virtually given to jiexico to pay hi silver. Ivi.vY db A DiGi STRIKE. Engineers f.Tay iis Up 9,0G0 Miles ol Head hi tiic South. Charlotte, N. t... Oc'ulj'-r Hi. T .ore lias been a pc.instm,!. rumor in., a! I,oe.miotiv< ciigiiie-informed a re cm railway would j i UK ir bnnhen n the Georgia rtuiro.ul in their liglu for the mileage mu;.- id' pay rathti than the present per di.t.ni. A prom: netit memobr of the Biomerhoud el Locomotive engineers informed a re porter tonight that should the confer ence in Augusta result in a (iisagre; - merit there woull my of at least 9,000 mii< s of road in this section Oi tne south. Tiie Suuuic. ii'ii o.nelai.-, hero do not think that a strike will result, but seen) to be very careful as try state ments tor the pubio.:. In fact, no one hi an oiiieia! c.ipa . ;■■■ statement for the ; Virulent Cancer Cured. Startling prooi of a wonderful ad vance in mediciue is givttu l.*y druggist (}. W. Kobe res, of Elizabeth. W. Va. An oiu man there had long suffered with what good doctors, pronounced incurable cancer. They believed i.is case hopeifciK till ho used Electric Hitters and applied Buekien's Arnica Salve, which treatment completely cured him. When Electric Bitters are used to expel bilious, kidney and mi crobe poisons at the same time this salve exerts its matchless healing jiowcr, blood diseases, skin eruptions, ulcers and sores vanish. Bitters Sue., BRUNSWICK, GA. FKIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 17. 1902. The Mutual Takes Over the Brunswick Light and Water Cos. i'Po p. opto of Bmntnviek will bo to loam that the Muliial Eight . Wafer Company Yiavo acquired the Hrunawick Eight and We.'or plant, a , :il to that effect bating been > "iHn.o.-itod yeslyrday. '<• 1 . i omp,my is to take charge of and operate tno E unswick Eigiit ai J '.valor Gompuny on,January 1, next. In the near future alio Mutual Light snil Water Company will move their plum (i ahd iiUiMiiidute it. with the plant of the Brunswick Light unit Water Company. SL-so-.it.. F. i*l. Cob,ton, Julian Burk ami John 51. .H-.iison, ot lialtiiflore.ai riv< :in i .ic * / yesterday. b neso gent to men own the Brunswick TJgnt ■in*i Wat--i- Company and all yester day we,i- in go!.o'.i *ig witu Messrs, l-j. ;■ ft-o: n u.fi Bob.-; on. Fond if; am, ‘ *■-H ;• p. ‘otittiig ftP: new rum paiw, ku.l .:ih tup.hl it was author!iu i - .earlH-U tiuii a Oi-al w-us consuni ii.. - ,1 and tiie p.ipciH siguial, wnen. ,-y La piopcrty pat-ecs nuo the hands •Ii 11,.; Hicflj p, apt*. , whose every in e I * .*t lUCUIIuCU Witil BruiioiViCK. ABOUT MILITARY. Interesting Vojunic Just Issued From the War Department. Via (ill, (,c loher 16.- -Eaoc,l with *-oitijiltji. .Hoi inletesUng u.ior huiO-.r eoiu-'oririn;f oiery bfalpji ffi every a; lay in Uic world, and replete Ml tine iilu s 11 at toll a ami maps, "No , ol ,\lml iry llitei -xr lor 190 1 made iml * l ii- .0 oily . one ol tile iieHt. voi i-11 , ol keel ew r irrsiicd Irom me wfii* ..Icpartniioit. <)( speciul inti |-| ;jl ill View of the Iter;.-, oi i.ii,- iniiu.-fl riiaii-a uimy to •111. upon a lylie ol hob; gun is tile i.iaio-. r up m art.ioeiy. u ,s pointod out IP,:; llicie are oni> two geiierai '. i>- of iLiodei fl id gi.iia, namely -la;: Ofi rigid carnages and .-.mis with •'■ 'Oil ip vice.-, on Inc carnages, and it ■ I luai, neither ol iliese typos '■• p-i cbLaincil uiianiiiiou;, prcicr a.-. iln :,ia al. si. possible rapimfy l a, in- obtained mill tiie gun:; on rigi ' c:i i riagi-s, but; ; hey possess ip. (i la i a iv. siu ;.- in simplicity, ' • iiih.i ami lie,,Hness ot material •rl C.. r las. are s! alcd to lie i ht ■ oil ,i iin - (.o- tape to maintain tin exact nriiig pop aiul the uncertain action of die spado in hard ground, ANGRY ELEMEN I S. I ypoons and T ioa! Waves Sweep Ja pan—Many Lives Lost. v toria, If. 1 C.. October 16.- -Several •IriUSii.lil lives were lest ill Die typoon raid 1 1 < lai v.-aves wliicii recently swept re,- iroi Japan, according to flic ail | ' .- !•■ eoived by Die t.teamcr Glcngo ... Ic on.ay. i in- (jiongOgic left. Yoks i.aiiiii. on Ocioboi 1, I’regions advices ir<.'oi Japan have, placed the loss o. Ike oi tin.- hi oi tu among Die hundreds, 'll)-.’ breakwater off Yokohama was wi pp awry, .iio-i;, id-e driven ashore me Japan <! HUH,; shi[) Bnnshima stranded al iosukuska, temples, pub- Jie buildings, houses, etc. were ..es- U'cyi.-d and u.eii om.ujiants drowned, il was along lie- Japanese coast from iTndtdHi to Odawara that the great e.:t. loss ; f life occurred. Li age to si I waves swept away villa s' ov- . 0,000 lives being lost in the village of Kuiiiii himary, il. is estimated 'hat, i ~ mi liar number lost their lives. WATERY GRAVE3. Balteau Ca[;sizes and Four Persona are Drowned. Chrisflcld, Md, Octfibcr .16.—Cap •ik'ii Davis Hoffman, of the schooner Kobest T. Lewis, arriving acre today, Iciiughi iu tie; balteau Annie, which he picked up overturned off bmitii s ivjaud last night. Captain Job A. Evans left this port last nght in the Annie, which was heavily laden with merehandse, for Smith's island. With tom ahoid the email craft were his wife arid daughter and a deck baud, it, is supposed that toe Annie was cap sized and her four Occupants drowned. Mr. lirobston was seen by a repre sentative of the News last night and 'oe confirmed the above statement and says that while ho is not prepared to give out any names, he says the prop erty will be owned and operated by hoiuc-l'olks and home capital and In a manner that will give satisfaction. Thai in every sense it is to be a Hrunstvck institution and oe in fact what ils name implies—a mutual llglu and water company. This deal means more than the av i rage citizen would deduce. It means that Ibis city Is to have ;an up to date light and water com panv with electrical effects sufficient ,to afford power for a euy three times Milo size of Brunswick, i it means that anew company, I iouirded on a solid and substantial ! basis, invoivng a quarter ol a million dollars, will be owned and operaum land controlled by Brunswick capital, llu News is pleased with tins deal, it believt u it a forerunner ot good Hdnigs and to all parlies at interest and tenders conglutination. GORDON JAY OPERA COMPANY. Fine Attraction at the Grand Tomor row Night. 'The G iiloii Hhay Grand Opera Com pan; will have undoubtedly Uie most hi Hlimu ah.i sin-i essfiil engugemwiii at l he Grand when they appear here tomorrow night, ever enjoyed by a mu Heal combi nation, ’ said Mr. Will S. Albert, IniMiii-ss imiflagi-r of the com pany h a lepiviscntatve id Uie News when nc was m the city. “Without exception we have packed the theatres in every city tne company ha , visited Hus season, with the ente and most laslionahle socety people. The opera io be gven here is Bizet’s Carmen’' and in Uie leading role Miss bhay is a revealalion. Sue is probably the only singer In the world whose repertory includes Azucena in "il Trov aUn'c".anil Marguricto in "Faust." Ver di wrote toe first lor a contralto, ami Gounod Thtetnhid Mie second for none but a nigh sopraiio. To tie abie to equally acceputbie in both demands a range of voice and a tonal express iveness little short of miraculous. Yet Miss Shay has been bailed as equally great n both. Our organization consists of iili peo ple, an wo carry besides our own or chestra of specially selected musb ii ails, FAUST WAS THE BILL. Middleton Stock Company i-.ayed the Old-Timer. Faust was the bill of tne Middleton Stock Company at the Grand last night ;upl the audience was a fairly good sized one. The company handled this very difllcrrtt masterptay creditably. 'This afternoon at a matinee, My Un cle from Japan will be presented and the engagement of the company will be terminated with tonignt’s perform ance. There was a sixth act to tne play last night, in which the drama was decidely move realistic and truly more ntorebting to the actors. After the performance, the leading -man, C. 15. Middleton, and Miss Blanche Lowlor, the leading lady, were united in the holy bonds of rnatrmony in the parlor's of tko Oglethorpe ho tel, Rev. W. F. Hollingsworth, of this city, officiating. After the ceremony, Mr. and Mra. Middle tun and company and Mr. and Mrs. I lease,l celebrated with a sup per at Wilson’s restaurant. Mr’ and Mrs. Middleton have made many friends during their engagement In this city, who will join the News In extending congratulations. I Don’t fail to call early and see the beautiful Monte Carlo hat of Miss 1 Slater's. TAXPAYER TALKS. Has a Stout Protest Coming About Political Conditions. Editor News:—l am not a discord ant. and do not believe in borrowing trouble, the human flsh is afflicted with a whole lots of evils and it would seenj contrary to the ordinary ,aws ol nature to bring more oi it upon us. However, a recent occurrence in the political arena seems to me as a cit izen and a tax payer to give full anti sufficient; cause for a stout protest from the people. in the lirst place, lias the situation so deteriorated in Brunswick that, a committee of nine cftice-lioiders slioulu be held in high conclave and select a candidate for mayor? H—j .i come to pass that, the people oi this city are compelled to oe subservient to t few office-holders tn The matter of tin selection of Uicir chief executive: Has the old inquistion been entaile, upon us? Are we the subjects oi tin king? Aud have we no light iu tin matter? Now, so far as I am concerned, i have no light to nn.ike on the apparem nominee for mayor, but 1 do object to the manner in which liis forthcom mg nomination was immgut about!”' for several yeais the arbiters o. the political situation in Brunswici nave been crying for hammy. "Peaci •inn good wui towards men” ha. ■ n-i n tne inDbold b oi tiie dominan. political faction, and yet when on tin very rhrcsuohi cf nut condition, wi ilnil a committee of oltiee-holderi itaming our candidate for mayor. What sort ol harmony is tn.s? “ iae adherents oi goou govern incut desired their vaunted principle, planted in cliy administrations why dd n-y not call for a maps meetin, or Lie people ■ irrespective of past po di.ieal affiliation to join together ana hi concord aud harmony, nominate i caiiuaiite for tiie people J have no strictures to make oi this committee. They are honorable intelligent men, who. by common sui ft age, have risen to positions of on, ci-al importance, but 1 do think tha the manner in which uiey were as signed was ill timed ami 1 call upoi a common public to agree with me ii the conclusion that the general eiti zenry should have a common voici of the man and men wiio are to reigi over the interests in Brunswick to, the next, two years. A Tax Payer. MURRAY WAS SCA..ED. Ex-Congressman J hought Wnite Mot Would Come to Lynch Him Columbia, S. YE, October 16.— Th‘ lion. George Washington Murray ioouMi Carolina’s last black congress man, was badly scared last night. 1, seems that he had a quariell early ii tile day with a white man at Gail lard’s Cross Roads, Sumter county Lati r in the day one of Murray'* brother's saw a crowd of whites gatfl cring and heard them tauiing abou the row with the ex-congressman. Ho immediately tnought there wai to boa lynching, aud ran four mllet to tell his brother. Murray hastily summoned his friends and neighbors and sent for the sheriff of the county County Supervisor Seale left Sumtei at. once for Murray’s home, arriving there near midnignt. He found thi place guarded by about a hundred and fifty negroe men and women, am. it took Mr. Seale some time to per suade Murray and his friends that the man with whom Murray had quar reled was was then in the city oi Sumter. TO SUE KING LEOPOLD. His Daughter Will Go to Court to Secure Fortune for Mother. London, October 10.—Emily Craw ford, in truth, says the nountese de Ixmyay, formerly Crown Princess Philip, of Saxe-Ooburg, probably wih ,T,c forced to sue their father, King Leopold, of Belgium, to obtain their mother’s fortune, amounting to |2, 000,000 which she left equally to her ttvo daughters. It is believed that the king claims the money. Miss Kate Slater wishes to call the attention ot the ladies to her new fancy work in batten berg and renas aunce work. PRICE FIVE CENTS. TNE CUT COUNT QUESTION IC ON PETITIONS BEING CIRCULATED IN THE CITY AND COUNTY. ONE FOR, ONE AGAINSI IT The Fight for the Aboltion of tie City Court of Brunswick Has Begun in Dead Earnest. The friends of tiie city court, as well is those who hold a contrary view, are all at. work, and as yet the fate of the court seems to be the balance. Those of our citizens who are inter ’sting themselves in the interest of the court, point out that its aboiition would be a retrograde movement ana while they admit that a few amend ments embodying certain changes would be beneficial, they do not favor any act looking to the complete abol ■ tion of the court. On the other hand, those who fa vor abolisning the court ciami that it is an expensive luxury, and an unnec essary expense. They want the act repealed, whereby indictment by tiie grand jury is denied. They say the ialary of the judge is exhorbitant in comparison witli the servee performed they demand that city court juror a houid be paid de same per diem as .s allowed the superior court jurors On these and several other issues -wo sets of petitions are being freely irculated, the one favoring and tho other opposing the abolition of the court. Just how the matter will end cannot, oe saiefv Hepresentatlve Butts and Senator Symons, it Is said, are both iu u; d' abolishing the court, that is they were so during the campaign, and It low seems that the situation has re duced itself to that point where those who are in favor of tne court must act and act quickly, if they) wish to save that tribunal from aboition As stated above, friends of both sides were out with petitions yester day and the News understands that doth petitions were pretty well signed. SULTAN BARS ELLEN STONE. American Missionery Will Not be Al lowed to Return. Boston, Mass., October 16. Ellea M Stone, the American missionary, who was captured by Bulgarian or Turkish brigands last, year ami held for a ransom, cannot go back to Tur key. This is the unofficial notice which has reached Miss Stone from the officials of the Yihliz, at Constan tinople. Roberts College, a.t Con-, itantinople. has also advised to the tame effect and the American board tf commission for foreigns also knows Jhe ultimatum of the sultan. Miss Stone intended to go back to Turkey as soon as her lecture contract with Major Pond, of Boston, expires She will not it Is asserted tonight make any attempt to return until the sultan is willing for her to do so. If Miss Stone should persist in return ing to the Ottoman empire, she would have to do so at. her own expense vs the American board, in view of existing conditions, will refuse pos tively to send her out under their auspices. Secretary of State Hay was asked tf the Turkish government had tha right to exclude an American citizen, from its domains, and he replied: “It Is an excepted rule of inter national law that any sovereign power has the right to exclude from its territory any or all foreigners.” Chas. A. Stone, brother dt the mis sionary, said to a reporter tonight that his sister would not return to Macedonia, although her heart was in the mission work there. "She would be a marked woman,” said he. Do You Want a Horn*? 51,900 will buy tu handsome resi dence where C. McGarvey now re sides. This is one of the prettiest homes in that section of the city and the price is unusually low. See Brob 9ton & Fendig Cos. ,