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THE BRUNSWICK DAILY NEWS.
VOLUME 2; NUMBER 163.
TWO RECORDS BROKEN
BY SHIPPING REPORT
FOR MONTH OF JULY
OVER A MILLION
FEET PER DAY
—f —
That is the Average for
the Shipment of Lum
ber, etc.
MAY CROSSTIE RECORD
WAS ALSO SMASHED
During the Month Exactly 33,265,713
Feet were Shipped—Crosstie
Shipmeent Amounted to
340,870 Pieces.
Capt. Otto Johannesen, the popular
official port statistician, yesterday
completed the shipping record of the
port of Brunswick for the month of
July, and the record shows that two
previous records were smashed into
smitherings during the mouth —that
of the shipment of crossties and of
the shipment of wood. By wood is
meant all the shipping of lumber,
timiber, crossties, cedar, etc.
Thiee great record for the ship
ment of crossties made in May of
this year was broken and anew
and greater one established. During
May there was shipped 328,091 pieces,
measuring 13,644,121 superficial feet.
For July shipped 340,870
pieces measuring 14,606,713 -super
ficial feet and establishing the record
lot the shipment of crossties.
For the shipment of eeverythlng
ms. ssplifcp
The record established divided amon&
the different products, is as follows:
Foreign Exports.
Feet of lumber - •• 1,457.000
Feet of timiber 1,871,000
Domestic Shipment.
Feet of lumber • 15,126,000
Feet of timber 6,000
ShlntSes, 1, 042.250; equafl
in feet to 200,000
Crossties, 340,870; equal in
feet to 14,606,713
Total feet 33,265,713
This record is indeed a good one.
The casual observer would hardly
suppose that there is shipped from
the port nearly one and a quarter mil
lion feet of wood on every working
day.
The shipping record for the month,
in every ling, was a very good one,
but had other products been as good
as usual the record of general ship
ping would have been broken. The
record in full is as follows:
Foreign Exports.
By nine vessels, 8,700 registered
tons, crew of 318: 3,800 tons of phos
phate, 14,800 barrels of rosin, 18,075
barrels of turpentine, 1,457,000 feet of
lumber,l,B7l,000 feet of timber. Value
of shipment, $181,341.
Domestic Shipment.
By forty-eight vessels, 51,413 regis
tered tons, crew of 823: 72 bales of
cotton, 25,026 bales of sheeting, 46-.
bales of wool, 150 cases oysters, 15,-
Sl9 barrels of rosin, 5,375 barrels of
turpentine, 260 cases of cedar, 15,-
126,000 superficial feet of lumber,
5,000,000 feet of timber, 1,042,250
pieces shingles 340,870 pieces of cross
lies equal to 14,606,713 superficial
teet, 60 tons merchandise. Value of
shipment, $859,869.
Imiports from foreign and domestic,
100,0U2 tons, valued at $1,046,406.
Arrivals for Month.
Steamers 18
Barks . . . 6
Brigs. . 1
Schooners 38
Total 62
Hundred Cases of Smallpox.
Jackson, Miss., July 31.—One hun
dred cases of smallpox aie reported
from u community in the southern
part of Hinds county, just three miles
from the Oakley prison hospital,
where a majority of the state's siclt
convicts are kept. The disease,
however, is of a mild type, aud thus
far thee Infection has not been pro
ductive of any fatalities. Dr. J. P.
Berry, the prison physician, has
vaccinated all of the convicts at the
hospital as a precautionary measure,
and no persons from the infected
area are allowed to approach (he
prison übildicgs.
WILL BE A GOOD MONTH.
August Will be Lively at Both the
Resorts.
Notwithstanding the fact that here
tofore August has practically ended
the season at the resorts this year
there will be a great change and the
present month will not be a dull one
in any sense of the word.
,At Cumberland nearly every room
in the popular hotel has been engaged
and at St. Simon there are indica
tions that the month will ue a goo,
one.
SEVERAL Pf.OPLE AFTER
THE POSTOFFiCE BUILDINt
Two Merchants and a Bank Said to be
After It.
It is understood that two or thru,
parties are after the building on No
castel street, now occupied by the
postoffice, which will be removed into
the public building in the course of a
few months.
Among those said to be after the
building are the Brunswick Bank and
Trust Company, Kennon Mott, the
jeweler, and Fleming & Waff.
This building is one of the best lo
cated stores in the city and will make
an excellent stand for any kind of
business.
THE GOLF GAME.
Was Postponed From Yesterday and
Will be Played This Afternoon,
The game which was to have been
played by the Golf club yesterday was
postponed until today.
The reason of this was the fact that
a large number of the members were
out of the city and as they will be
here today there is no doubt but that
the game will be an Interesting one.
It will start this-afternoon prompt-
Jly
r I f
Isaac Trustee.
" The first meeting of creditors In the
case of W. T. Peek, bankrupt of Na
huuta, Ga., was heard before Referee
CfovatL Attprney Max Jsatte, of
this city, was elected trustee of the
estate. He left yesterday afternoon
for Nahunta to take charge of the
business of the bankrupt and to set
aside the bankrupt's exemption, He
returned to the city last night.
NECK WAS BROKEN
Prominent Augusta Lady
Was Killed in a
Runaway.
Augusta, Ga., July 31.—The com
munity was shocked this afternoon
by the tragic death of Mrs. Charles
H. Howard in a runaway accident.
Mrs. Howard had spent the day with
her daughter, Mrs. Frank M. Butt, and
at 5 o'clock Mrs. Butt had driven to
the ball game in her buggy and sent
the driver back to take her mother
for a drive.
Mrs. Howard stopped by her own
home to leave a message and the
driver went to the front door and left
Mrs. Howard in the buggy.
The horse took fright at something
and started off in a run. He turned
into Greene street and ran as far as
the court house, when aa bicyclist,
seeing the runaway, jumped from his
wheel and tried to stop the horse, but
he dashed by.
Up to this time Mrs, Howard had
been clinging to the buggy and calling
to the horse to stop, but whon the
runaway dashed past the man who
tried to stop him she seemed to lose
her hold and jumped out.
She fell under the wheels and pass
ers-by ran to pick her up as the horse
dashed on. She was unconscious and
one arm was broken, Two doctors
who were passing and witnessed the
accident gave medical assistannee
and sent a call for the hospital.
Examination showed that Mrs.
Howard’s neck had also been hroken
and that death had been immediate.
Mrs. Howard was a most estimable
lady and one of the best known fam
ilies in the city. She leaves her
husband, CJiarles H. Horward, for
years one of the most prominent cot
ton factors of Augusta; three grown
daughters Mrs. F. M. Butt, Misses
Ruth and Louise, and one sou,
George. The tragedy has cast a
gloom ovar a large circle of friends,
CARDINALS ARE
NOW IN CONCLAVE
Work of Naming a Suc
cessor to Leo Begins
in Rome
MAY BE A LONG SYAY
Newspaper .Men Flocking Around
the Vatican in Effort to Ascer
tain How the Cardinals
Stand on a New Pope.
Rome, 31. —Arrangements for the
conclave were completed in the mi
nutest detail today and when tlie
three score of cardinals repaired to
their cells this evening it was to re
main in strictest seclusion until the
successor of Leo XIII. in t tie chair of
St. St. Peter has been chosen.
Speculation now is confined to the
subject of tlie probable duration of
the conclave and opinion inclines lo a
period of three or four days, thougli it
is freely admitted that it is a guess
pure and simple. Should a decision
not be readied by the cardinals in
side of three days it may be, taken for
granted almost that those now re
garded as leading candidates have been
excluded from tlie race and ttiat a
dark horse will be chosen.
Tlie army of newspaper correspond
ents here from al! parts of the world
are busily engaged in devising means
for obtaining early information, but it
appears certain from tlie arrange
ments that have been made by the
Vatican authorities that nc authentic
information will be forthcoming un
til the official bulletin announcing the
result is issued.
EVERY WHEEL STOOD STILL,
Marked Honor Shown to Memory of
Late President Kimball,
V,a.. -July 31. Every
wheel on the Norfolk and Western
railroad stood still for ten minutes
this morning during the funeral hour
at Philadelphia of F. J. Kimball, late
president of the Norfolk and Western,
All departments of the road ceased
work and in Roanoke all the city offices
and most of the business houses were
closed from 10:30 to 11:30.
Similar marks of respect were shown
the deceased through this section of
Virginia.
Planning the Trip.
It is understood that a number of
Bunswickians are planning to make
the trip to New Fork this month to
witness tlie race between the Reliance
and 61ie Shamrock, The unusually
low rate offered by the Mallory Steam
ship line will probably be taki P. ad
vantage of generally by the people of
this section,
MEETING IS SCHEDULED TO
OCCUR IN CITY TODAY
Rate on Crossties to be Amaeibly Set
tled Upon,
A meeting between the represen
tatives of the railroad commission, the
crosstie merchants and the railroads
is scheduled to occur in Brunswick
today.
It will be remembered that at a
meeting held before the railroad
commission in Atlanta several weeks
ago, those present failed to reach an
agreement, and it was decided to hold
another meeting in Brunswick on
August 1, V
This case is familiar to the read
ing public generally. The railroads
on July 1, advanced the rate on cross
ties considerably, So much so that
the crosstjie merchants /entered a
complaint with the railroad commis
sion. At the meeting in Atlanta the
advance was discontinued until the
meeting could be held here amt an
agreement reached,
RURAL ROUTE GROWING,
Third Month of Service Shows a
Good Increase.
Yesterday completed the third
month of rural free delivery in Glynn
county, and the report shows that
the number of letters, packages, etc.,
both delivered and collected has
greatly increased since the route was
established.
The people all along the route have
now become accustomed to the ser
vice and it is proving to be popular
with the country people generally.
To Minister Coming.
Rev, S. J. French, rector of Grace
Episcopal church at Waycross, will
officiate at St. Marks in this city dur
ing the absence of Rev, Wylly Rede,
who is away on bit vacation. Rev.
French will arrive in the city today.
BRUNSWICK, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 1, 1903.
A STREET
FAIR FOR
THIS FALL
Merchants of the City
Favor Such an At
traction
IS NOW BLIND DISCUSSED
It Has Been Suggested that A Fair
of this Kind in Brunns
wick Somt Yne During
October.
Brunswick will, in all probability,
have a street fair this fall, at and it will
be one that will attract people from
all sections of tiro state. The mer
chants are already interested and they
will not, wait until it is too late to be
gin work.
At, the meeting of a number of
merchants held yesterday afternoon
for tlie purpose of making arrange
ments to entertain tiie visitors that
are,coming here this month on tlie B.
& B. excursion, tlie matter of a st reet
fair came up in an informal way, and
those present expressed t hemselves as
being in favor of giving a st reet fair,
probably some time in October.
That we can arrange a street fair
that will be a success there is no
doubt, and it is truly hoped that tiie
merchants will not let tlie matter
drop, but will begin work on the fair
as soon as possible.
Brunswick now has anew territory
from which tlie visitors will come.
The B. & B- railroad lias opened it
and tlie people along this line as well
as those on the A. & B. are always anx
ious to come to Brunswick when there
is some attraction. •
A street fair lias never been given
by our merchants, and it is generally
believed that sucli an entertainment
would pro v e a success.
Let's begin the preliminary arrange*
ments at once.
BODY OF A SAILOR FOUND
NEAR THE NEW DOCK
Not Known. However, How the Man
Lost His Life,
The body of a sailor was found
near the new docks Thursday night
by James Christie, who brought it to
the city early yesterday morning.
Coroner Jennings was notified and an
inquest was held and the body turned
over to Undertaker Moore for burial,
It is nor. known bow the man lost
his life, as no vessel along the bay
has reported the drowning of any
member of their crew, It. is thought
that the unfortunate sailor fell from
some outgoing vessel and was drown
ed i clove any of the crew missed
him,
CONFERRED WITH BRISTOW.
Special Counsel to Assist Government
in Prosecution,
Washington, July 31, —Holmes Con
rad mid Charles J Bonaparte, speoial
counsel to assist, the governmeent in
the prosecutions growing out of the
postoifice investigation, were in con
ference here today with Fourth Assis
tant Postmaster General Bristow and
Assistant Attorney G<Jieral Robb,
familiarizing themselve®' with the sit
uation. 4
The federal grand jKry, it is con
fidently expected, will report tomor
row on the postal cases, Five indict
ments are expected
DIXIE DRUG COMPANY
READY FOR BUSINESS
The Enterprise Begin* Work. To
day.
The Dixie Drug Company, which
was recently organised, will begin
work this morning in the Morrison
building od Oglethorpe street and
will be in charge of C. B, Gowan,
At first the plant will only employ
a few workmen and will manufacture
soda water and a few drugs, but. later
on, when the necessary supplies are
received, the plant will employ quite
a number of help and will manufac
ture chemical goods of every descrip
tion
The News wishes the new company
much success,
WATERMELONS THIS SEASON
HAVE BEEN RATHER SHORT
The watermelon season around
Brunswick has been very short this
year, and as a result the prices have
been rather high. The melons that
have been shipped here from Florida
havo also been higher than in the
past years, It is said that the prep
to nvw almost exhausted,
GAU TIME EON
OUR VISITORS
Merchants Meet and Ar
range Program for
Excursionists
■ - t -.v,
BIG CROWD COMING DOWN
The B. & B. has Offered an Unusually
Cheap Rate from All Points on
its Line—Ball Team Is
Coming, Too.
Pursuant to a cal) a number of mer
chants field a meeting in tiie board of
trade rooms at tlie city ball yesterday
afternoon for the purpose of arrang
ing a program of amusement, for tlie
visitors who will be here tlie middle
of this month on the B. Jfc B. excur
sion, which is to come from Oeilla,
Trwinville, Douglas and all other
points on tlie road, u* welt as from
points on tiie A. & B.
It was decided to have a merchants'
carnival on August 12, 13 and 14. That
is those dates will be selected if ev
eryting can be arranged to bring the
excursion here at that time, if not it
will occur on August 19, 20 and 21.
It is proposed to have a program for
each day of the carnival and among
the attractions scheduled so far is bi
cycle races, batteau and naptha
launch races around Marsh island,
military prize drill and dress parade
and baseball games.
B. J. Ford, of the B. & 8., was
present at the meeting, and stated
that if the merchants of tlie city
would arrange the amusements his
line would attend to t lie rest, and as
sured the merchants that hundreds
of people would be brought to the
city. Mr. Ford said that the Oeilla
baseball club was anxious to come to
Brunswick and agreed to bring them
here free of charge on the above oc
casion. Baseball fever is at its height
in Oeilla and Mr. Ford says nearly
the entire town will come down to
witness the games.
The rate to be offered by tile B. &
B. will be an unusually low one, and
Mr. Ford thinks that it will be taken
advantage of generally by the people
along the line.
From Irwinville alone the ageut
stated that at least a hundred people
would come, and equally that many
from Douglas, while Oeilla will furn
ish the largest crowd of any of the
points ou the line,
A committee composed of Capt. T.
Newman Messrs. L. H. Heyin, and
Constance Miller was appointed to
take charge of the affair, and the com
mittee will at once arrange the at
tractions for the visitors.
Tiie B & B. will well advertise the
excursion all over their territory and
send special canvassers out, and It is
expected that we will entertain the
largest number of people that, have
been in the city in some time,
A subscription list will liecireulaled
among tlie merchants for the purpose
of raising funds to defray tlie ex,
peases of entertainment, but as the
cost will be very light tiie amount
will lie easily raised,
Catholie Sooietiee ta Meet.
Atlantic City, IV, J., July 31.—Dis
tinguished Catholic churchmen and
laymenarejfilling the hotels here in
anticipation of the opening tomorrow
of the annual meet ing of the Ameri*
can Federation of Catholic societies,
Tlie federation movement, which was
inaugurated but a few years ago by
Bishop McFaul, of Trenton, lias made
rapid strides recently and the result
will be an extraordinarily large at,-
tendance at the coming meeting.
Nearly every Catholic society of prom
inence in the entire country lias been
taken into the fold and all will be well
represented In addition to the reg
ular delegates t hose present will in
clude a number of eminent prelates
who have accepted invitations to ad
dress the meeting
In Memory of Rriooson,
NetvYork, July 31.—One hundred
years ago today, in a little town in
far-otl Sweden, there Was bom one
who was destined to revolutionise the
mentliods of naval construction and
naval warfare aud incidentally to aid
in no small measure in the preserva'
tion of the United States of America
—the land of hia adoption- John
Ericsson was his uame aud the "Mon
itor’ - his monument. The anniver
sary of Ericsson’s birth tias for a num
ber of years been a festiie day among
the Swedish citizens of the United
States, but this year, which is the
centenary, is to be marked by celebra
tions on a scale more than usually
elaborate aud widespread,
A BRIDGE COLLAPSED;
FIFTY ARE DROWNED
IN PORTLAND, OREGON
ADMIRALITY LAW INVOKED.
First Case of Kind in Federal Court
at Colu/nbus.
Columbus, Oa. July 31.—The first
petition ever filed tn this division of
the federal court, under the admiralty
law has just been tiled here by the
Georgia and Florida Navigation com
pany, of this city.
The steamer, Naiad, the property
of this company, burned in Florida
waters last year, and with Us freight
was almost a complete loss. The
company claims the burning was
through no fault or negligence on its
par'. Two parties who iiad freight
on the steamer have sued for its val
ue. The company now claims tlie
benefit of the federal law, limiting tiie
liabilities of ship owners, under which,
it Is claimed, those who suffered loss
by tiie wreck will receive only a pro
portionate share of the proceeds de
rived from ihe sale of the remnants
of the. vessel.
W. G. Love was appointed trustee
to conduct tlie sale and N, a. Brown
commissioner lo divide the proceeds.
COMMITTEE ON STATE ROAL.
Annaul Inspection of Western & At
lantic will be Made this Week.
Chattanooga., July 31.-a commit
tee appointed by the Georgia legisla
ture to Inspect the Western and At
lantic railroad will arrive in this city
tomorrow afternoon on board a special
train.
The special will leave Atlanta at
noon. Accompanying (lie committee
will be General Manager John W,
Thomas, Jr., Superintendent J. L.
McCullum and General Passenger
Agent <). E. Harman.
The committee will report on the
advisability of extending the line to
Brunswick for a coast outlet, for
which purpose a bill Is mow pending
In tlie legislature.
A report will also be made on a
proposition to sell tiie road in Hie
event tiie extension is not built.
Repairing the Hsstl*.
The steamer Hessie No. 2, which
met with quite a serious accident a
few days ago, 1s now being repaired
and will probably tie back on her reg
ular rim early next, week. The Pass
port is making the dally trips to Da
tieft In her place.
ARE CUMING HOME
Nejjroe# Have Enough of
Living With People
of llllnoiit,
Maron, (la,, .July 81,—Fleeing from
the wrath of an Illinois mob and de
claring that the north is no place
for the negro, three men of that race
arrived In Macon today on their wuy
from Danville, 111., to Florida.
The refugees are William Herbert,
Samuel Evans and Jacob Anderson,
and that they are now alive, t?ie,y as
sert, can be considered more good
fortuue than any wlilllngness of the
Danville mob to spare their lives.
Herbert the leader of the trio, la an
InleUfgtant, tfrlghi colored mulatto,
and is quite well educated, ,
Four years ago, he aavs, after Pa
teulng to alluring pictures drawn by
a Boston negro of social equality,
easy tinjas and the great love north
erners had for the down-trodden
black man, he decided to quit the land
of his birth and emigrate to this eJ
dorado, What be heard the tjltw'k
man from Boston say aud what ho
found to be the tea! facts are entirely
different,
"For nearly four yean*,” he said,
“I aave been constantly remindeit of
the color of my skin and have bad all
kind* of Insults aud abuse heaped
upon me Inm * bricklayer by trad*)
and althuugh I au> considered a good
workman I was ostracised by the
unions and was discharged on several
occasions because white men would
uot work with me And yet these are
tho sunns people wfiu make Hin ts a
howl when a negro Is lynched in the
south, All this talk of eating at a
white man's table and all ting in l tie
same pew with him at church is hot
air,”
Negroes Pay Death Penalty.
Montgomery, July 31. Will ,Si arks
and Alexander Means, negroes, wete
hanged in the county jail here today
(Of the crime of murder,
PRICE—FIVE CENTS.
TERRIBLE TIME
IN THE WATER
*
The Majority of Those
Drowned were Women
and Children
WAILHING ARMUNLS MAN
GIVI AN EXHIBITION
Bridge Across the Williamantic River
Gave Way While Hundreds of
People were Watching Ex
hibition From It.
Portland. Ore., July 31.—in „ U e of
the worst accidents ever known In
this section of the country, fifty peo
ple were drowned here today in the
Williamantic river.
The accident was caused by the
collapse of the large bridge across
the river, which occurred this after
noon when over a thousand people
were standing on It.
Just what caused the collapse is
not known, but It is thought that a
certain portion of it was weak, and
the large crowd that liappeued to
be on the bridge was more than the
weak place could etantl, and with a
terrfllc crash it went down and the
people could be seen fighting for their
lives in tlie water. Probably u dozen
were injured In the fall and were
therefore unable to swiinl out, that u
those of them who could swim.
Most of those drowned were ladles
and children and a large force of men
havo been at work since the accident
in searching for the dead bodies.
As soon a<s the bridge collapsed,
people from all over the city rushed
at the scene and rendered assistance
as best they could. Men, women
and children were clinging to the
bridge screaming for help, and the
scene was Indeed a heartrending one.
The large crowd on the bridge was
there to watch the free exhibition or
an armless man in the water, who
was doing all kinds of stunts, His
entertainment, was marvelous, and
caused hundreds of people to stand
on the bridge to watch the exhibi
tion,
The exact number of drowned is
not yet known, but a careful estimate
IfcdW.hnt fifty lost their lives
BTEAMGR SUNK IN COOSA RIVER.
Willis C. Wagnon Strikes a Log and
Goes Down
Romo, (Ik,, July 31. —The steamer
Willie O Wagnon, of the Georgia aud
Alabama Steu|nbbat Company, wa*
sunk near, Centre, Ala , this morn
ing,
The boat was under a full head of
steam when It ran into a big log.
breaking in the bow of the boat.
A large- hole was knocked in the
bottom of the craft, causing the hull
to fill quickly with water The U,t
dunk within ten minutes after it
struck (ho log, No one was drowned,
but tho loss of the cargo will be
heavy,
The steamer was 1 n en route to
Rome from Gadsden and Im the finest
owned by tho Georgia and Alabama
Steamship Company,
it wl!i take a week to sai.u the
olearner and put It into coma Msfeo
iignin,
ADRIFT IN DORY MANY HOURS
Rasims of Mrs, Cjrter When She
Wan Almost Dead,
Rockland, Me., July 31.- -After be
ing adrift in a dory for forty-eight
hours, amt blown 75 miles out io sea
during n gale last Monday, Mr.-: ear
ter, of Mon rue island, was resc ed
yesterday afternoon by a Gi,.us.„..er
Uniting schooner. Sin? war almost
dead from exposure anil llio cfiei.u of
largo quantities of salt water Ui.on
to quench her tiiirsi.
Cheap to New York.
Attention is directed to the au *or-
Use limn l of \v. M. Tapper A sju.,
agents of the Mallory Line in this
city an unusually good opportunity
to see the great boat race between
tho Reliance and Shamrock.
This offers the people of till#
issue. The rate for the single trip.
Including meals aud berth, will be
116.00, aud tr u* round trip 13u.00