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THE BRUNSWICK DAILY NEWS. VOLUME 3, NUMBER 51. CANDIDATES NAMED Of CITIZENS' ' CLUB —*— C. Downing, Geo. Krauss, Duncan Wright and J. B. Davis A PLATFORM WAS ADOPTED Despite the Inclement Weather a Nnm her of the Members and Friends of the Club were at Meeting. In spite of the very inclement night, a iarge pumber of the members and the friends of the Citizens club met at the city hall last night and nomina ted four candidates for aldermen to be voted for at the city election to be he id Tuesuay next. The ticket nominated was as fol lows: C. Downing. Duncan Wright. G. R. Krauss. J. Basil Davis. AH of these are well known Bruns- Wickians, and as they were in turn nominated by the various members of the club, their names were greeted with tumultuous- applause by those present. . *ji*|*, President Krauss, of the Citizens plan, was in the chair, and in the absence of Secretary Montgomery, W. C. Brobston was elected temporary or-: etary, . The first work of the meet ng was the appointment ;;f a t< .amittee on platform, which retired- and sub mitted the fodiowing platform, which ivas, by a rising vote, unanimously ratified l Whtreas, the Citizens club has been organized and is in existence as op posed to partisan politics in the city of Brunswick, and whereas, this .mass mooting cif citizens and voters of Brunswick in convention assembled, is opposed to such political meth ods and before nominating an alder manic ticket, pledging tlie efforts ofall good citizens to the faithful perform ance and keeping of the pledge here made to the people; 1. This mass meeting of citizens to unalterably opposed to the domina tion 'and control of the affairs of the city by any spirit other than to pro mote the weiraro and uplifting of our lair city by the sea. 2. We condemn the unfair and op pressive treatment the present city administration has heaped upon the mayor of our city, taking from him through petty partisan politics, the power of appointing the engineer of sewerage pumping station, which po sition involves the very life and health of ou r community and should never he a reward for serice rendered to pny political supporter, taking from him also the appointing of the keeper of the park and even the cow catcher and city hall janitor. 3. We commend the mayor of the city and the chairman of the commit tee on public works for the marked im provement and betterment of our streets, particularly Newcastle street. We point with pride to the redeem ing of the pledges made last year with reference to the securement of the new public school for New Town portion of the city of Brunswick. We believe and pledge our support lo the declaration of the principle that more should be done for the schools; and that if necessary a special tax, by charter amendment, be levied to sup port and maintain our public schools to a better standard than now. 4. find to that end, we favor an araenui-cnt of the present city char ter enabling all persons holding Town Ccsgpsons leases for property in the city upci- many of which lots homes of o-r people have been erected, to renetoon *e**bt-s at any time dur ing the hte of their respective leases for Una teiui of ninety-nine years; the lease money, an now, to- go to the educ [' ■ ; jud or ice city, and in this manner . . e u> the holders of Town Commons lau> their improve ments thereon, whici would other wise revert to tire city at me expi. ation of the present lease. 5. We heartily favor the reduction materially of the annual expenses of >.he city government and especially recommend that the assessments of property for taxation he based upon Itß real value and not fixed at an imag inary and fictitious sum a* is now . done and that when said assessment has been once made it shall stand as made for a term of say three yeais when anew general assessment of ail property shall be made, the owner of the city having the right, during any year otf the period in which one may desire to do so, to demand an arbi tration of the assessment. Thus the income of the city may be more readily computed and its ex penses put, as they should be, upon a par with its income and the tax payer will pay taxes upon only the real val ue of his property and the city will pay the salaries of assessors for one year out of the three instead of an nually as at present. 6. There is absolutely no neces sity for injecting or attempting to Inject the race Issue into the pres ent city politics. There is certainly no atempt or desire ( upcm the part of the colored population of this city to dominate and control its affairs, and we affirm that the effort to array class against class is unjust, unfair and un necessary, and believing that the nom inesses named by this mass meeting in convention assembled, all are good and true men and are in favor of the principles and politics herein announced, we pledge them our ear nest support by influence and vote, Reeling assured that those nominees and this platform will meet the un qualified endorsement of the great majority of our citizens. The platform committee consisted of the following; gentlemen: E. H. Mason, chairman; Bolling Whitfield, H. P. Dunwody, C. H. Leavy, J. E. Dart, B. Padrosa, U. Dart, W. E. Dempster, J. H. Tankersley, R. 1,. Grady After the ratification of the platform the nomination were made. Mr. Down ing was nominated by E. H. Mason; Captain Duncan Wright by C. H. Leavy, Mr. Krauss by Judge Bolling Whitfield, and Mr. Davis by Captain U. Dart. In each case the nomina tion was ratified by a standing vote. Following the jnominations, a 30 minute address was made by Hon. E. H. Mason, who discussed a number of features of the campaign. On motion the chair appointed a committee consisting of Messrs. H. F. Dunwody, U. Dart and C. H., Leavy to notify the nominees of the act ion of the club and request their ac cepance of the nomination. The meet ing here adjourned. In this connection another meeting oi the registered voters will be held In the course of a few days, due no tice of which will be given in those columns. , BUSINESS OF WESTERN ROADS. Officers Make Statement That Big In crease is Looked For. Chicago, 111.,Dec. 2—Officers of all the leading western railroad state that traffic is maintained without any de crease and that no discouraging con ditions have developed. In tact, mod erate improvement is noted. Posi tive'assertions are still made that the lines will be as busy during the next five or six months as they were be fore the vast amount of surplus freight was disposed of and before general business had reached its apex. The cold weather in all sections during the last few weeks has had a stimulating effect on the merchantile situation, and increased moderdatoly the ship ment of turkev and other Thanksgiv ing products were the largest in mauy years. Reports show that the southwest ern roads are having an except ion ally heavy tonnage everything cc-n sidered, but it is mostly on account of the big crops that have been raised in those sections. Loading reports show that the business of the rail i reads is not a great deal less than it was a year ago, although officials have no hesitancy in stating that there is not near the in sight that there was at that time. But this is not causing a great deal of apprehension in regard toi future earnings. Most of the lines will benefit largely by retrenchment and by remunerative returns as a re sult of recent improvements and may be able to keep their earnings up to the level of the previous year, regard less of the fact that some of the sta tisticians, who are on the spot find that they ere unable to figure it that way, A Roosevelt Anniversary. Washington, December 2.—Today was the seventeenth anniversary of the wedding of President and Mrs. Rooeeveit, and the event was remem bered by their friends with letters and telegrams of congratulation and floral offerings. There was no cele bration of the anniversary as the Roosevelts are in mourning on ac count of the death of th? president’s uncle, James K. Cracie, of New York. The wedding of Mr;' and Mrs. Roose velt took place In St. George’s church, Hanover Bquare, London, December 2, 1886, Mrs. Roosevelt’s cousin, Canon dluetsridge officiating. BIG MEETING TO BE HELD HERE The Methodist-Episcopal Church, Colored, to Hold Conference Here THE MEETING BEGINS TODAY Same cf the Best Known Negro Min isters in the Bouth are Here to attend the Session of the Oi ganization. Quite a large and distinguished del egatic.n of ministers are in the city for the purpose of attending the annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, colored. The conference will be called to order this morning by Bishop R. L. Cranston, of Porttland, Oregon. Besides the many prominent minis ters who came from different parts of the state,there are other prominent white and colored representatives of ,the Methodist church, hailing from dif ferent sections of the country. Among some of the most prominent ones are Dr. I. B. Scott, editor of the South Western Christian Record, published at New Orleans. La., Dr. C. B. Mason, Gen. Cor. Secy, of the Freedman's Aid and Southern Education Society, Cincinnati, Dr. G. G. Logan, fiield agent mf missionary societies, Rev. I. G. Penn, A. M. assistant coresponding secretary of the Epworth League, Dr. W. B. Parr, of Philadelphia, Dr. W. P. Thirfield, cf Cincinnati, Dr. L, G Atkinson, president Gammon The ological College, Atlanta. One of the most important missions of the conference is to elect one min isterial and one lay delegate to the general conference which meets next May in Los Angeles, Cal. Rev. J.j Watts, pastor of the Methodist cht\rch I 'here.leemfT t- fh<- most candidate. ,<W! WILL CONTINUE THE FIGHY*. Clergymen and Lay Worker* Hold a Meeting in Washington. Washington, December 2.—Clergy men and lay workers of all denomina, tions and coming from many parts of the country were present today at the opening of a conference of the state and district superintendents of the ‘Anti-Saloon league. The conference is in the nature of a preliminary to the eighth annual convention of the league to be held in Washington next week. Reports of the superintendents will be prepared for the consideration of the convent ion and other details for the big meet- ing arranged. The year has been one of more than ordinary activity for the auli-a&louu workers and the reports will show a gratifying increase in membership and a widening of influence. An important matter that will come before the convention for considera tion, and probably for condemnation, is the roccmmiendation ofl General Young, chief of the general staff of the army, favoring the re-establish ment of the canteen at posts and bar racks of the united states army. The anti-saloon league was one of the chief factors in the movement that result ed in the abolishment of the can teen and, according to the declaration of the officers and other leading work ers who are here, the organization will do all in its power to prevent its re-establishment. RAID ON A LICENSED STILL. Officers Locate Contraband Liquor Near Greenville, S. C. ..Greenville, S. C. Dec. 2.—The gov-, eminent distillerry of J. H.Beard, 10-l pated about 3 miles from the city, to gether with 2,500 of whiskey jwas seized today by dispensary con stables and United States revenue officers. The valuation of property seized estimated at $5,000. On the interior of the government warehouse office# ound a trap door leading into the base ment, where was found 318 gallnos of contrabrand liquor. Warrants have Deeu issued an a ar rests of several parties will be made today. Reyn olds-Fairbanks Wedding. Chicago, December 2. —A society wedd.r.g of interest today was that of Miss Margaret Fairbanks, daughter of the late N. K. Fairbanks, to Theo dore Reynolds, of Orange, N. J. The wedning took place at Wlnnetka, at the home of tho bride's sister, Mrs, Bsujamin Csrpeater, < BRUNSWICK, GA., THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 3, 1903. CRDSSTIE RECORD BE BROWN £ CO. Just 145,142 Were Ship ped By Them Last Month ANOTHER RECORD BREAKFR Prcbably Not Another Crosstie Firm In the Country Can Boast of Such a Record—A List of the vessels. -•> Messrs. Brown & Cos., the well known cross tie dealers delight in breaking records, in tile handling of this well known product and during the month of November the firm shipped through this port the enormous amount of 345,142 cross ties amounting in round numbers toi $102,000. This great shipment of ties was car ried by the following fleet of vessels: Herber L. Taft, Nov. 1, 26,056. Thos Dennison, Nov. 10,18,284. Irma Turnelle, Nov. 12, 28,154. G. F. McFadden, Nov. 12, 20,817. J Holmes Birdsall, Nov. 19, 25,600. Mailoney, Nov. 23,1,883. E. M. Murdock, Nov 27, 28,650. Total, 145,142. This is the very best indication of the very large amount of busness this energetic firm is doing in the cty and shows what an important factor it is in the shipping industry of the port of Brunwick December has also started out in good shape and the indications are that it will exceede the movement far November. (A KING FOR FIFTY-FIVE YEARS. Yesterday was Observed; Throughout the Dual Monarchy. Vienna:, December 2.—cThroughaut ■ a iT ' I-*** v ■tliftiiaMriirhfwr. •**■ safe w* ce!<fbrai*Bu -.otSark the titfli afth aunt* veraarv.nf ihc*. wSOTw TYanchs Joseph ta the thorne. Busi ness was suspended generally in the capital, and in all the churches spec ial thanksgiving services were held. The emperor signalized the day by granting Amnesty !to a number of prisoners guilti of minor offenses and also issued a proclamation to the army in which he thanked the soldiers for their loyal and fearless valor during his reign. Despite his age—seventy-three years —the emperor continues to enjoy good health and devotes a large part of each day to the business of state, giving personal attention to much of his voluminous co{respondence and giving interviews on one day of each week to any of his subjects, no matter how humble their station, who may wish to make a personal appeal or’ request. QUINLAN AND WALL MINSTELS. Will be the Attraction at the Grand December 10. The eminent success, The Quinlan & Wall Imperial Minstrels, while scored such a triumph last season, wi;i be seen here at the Grand on Deiem ber 10th, and will add to its record, ry? heretofore undoubtedly. It n> one of the most reliable, amusing a"rt mod ernized entertainments now Jo) ore our theatre going public, and, wish its host of A 1. arm specialists may be justly considered one of the best talented, well equipped and most expensively fitted out com panies of the season. Everything that i3 possible and probable to be incor porated in a program has been pro vided for in the one offered by this combination, until that it would seen that nothing novel and amusing coulJ be further found, with which to create j surprise, merriment and entertain i ment. COLDEST OF THE SEASON. Thermometer Went Down to 28 Du- 1 grees This Morning. The rain yesterday was accompan ied by a severe cold wave, which re mained with us, anu the thermome ter early this morning went lower jffian it has been at any time this winter. The mercury began ta drop short } after noon and continued during tho day. At ten o’clock last night it w;-.s at 35, at 12 it had gone to 30 and at. an early hour this morning it reg is tered 28 degrees, which is several be low the freezing point. Inspecting the Wires. An insurancce inspector is in tic city at present inspecting ihe w.r lng in the different buildings in tie City. Those not in compliance with the regulation s of the insurance com panies will h*v# to he rspairsd, BREAD ANTHRAX ATTACKS STOCK Columbus Now Fears a Spread of this Bad Disease HEALTH BOARD TAKES ACTION Malady Which Worked Havoc with Live Stock in Europe Thought To Have Gained Hold. Health Board Acts. Columbus, Ga., December 2.—ln the opinion of the Columbus board of health, based upon microscopical ex amination of the blood of the dead animals, proven a terrorr to Europe, destroying horses and cattle by the thousand;, is the cause of the death of six untie; and a horse of Seabrook & Crawford of this city. The stock died very suddenly and it was supposed they had been poisoned, but the local experts now believe that anthrax has made its appearance here and is responsible for their deaths. The .state board of lie ,th has been tel egraphed and it is ought that the board’s pathologist ill come down if torn A-tlanta tomar ow and investi gate the situation. At a called meeiii of the board of health this aftermo v, the follow ng resolutoin was ado, ed: “Resolved, that t is board being satisfied from evidt .ee before thorn and from microscopical examlnaton of the blood of som< of the mules of Mesrs. Sonbrook and Crawford which have died in the labt few days that the cause of death was antlrax, a high ly dangerous and contagious disease, do recommend to the city council,- to tike some step to prevent^Uri}-spread of tk; Uir.caso, and to that end red o®' 0 ®' m^nti the premises where these be quarantined that all infected #l* rials beguiled and that the carcasses be destroyed by burning. The disease bo far has been confined to the stock of Seabrook & Crawford. The mules were apparently well until ii few hours before death. The bodies did not swell and there were no out ward symptoms of disease. When the blood was turned over to the chemist to be examined it was al most black. Under a microscope tho bacilli were plain!” seen in the biooid A healthy rabbit was innoculated with siime of the blood aad died within a few hours. Anthrax has proved a deadly ditea.se among cattle in South America. The local health authorities are de termined to stamp it out. TALKING OF ANOTHER LEAGUE. Georgia and Florida Cities May Have Good Bnoebali. The coming season promises to bo the best ever known in baseball cir cles in -c 11 sections of the country, and. already cities are busy securing their clubs. The Southeastern league has just been organized and will begin playing the first of the spring. It lias now- been suggested that an other league, composed of small cities of Georgia and Florida be organized, and Brunswick is mentioned among them, s hip of the others being Way cross, 'S jmandiua. Valdosta, Tifton, Cor dole, Gainsville, Fla,.and others. it has been .stated, however, by those host posted in baseball circles, that a league of this kind, playing every cay, would hardly be a paying investii nent, and it has been sug gested hat. so many games be played each w ink. Brim ;wick would, no doubt, sup ' port in i league of this kind and If any ,s orga.iized we will surely bo in it. MANY RAILROAD OFFICIALS. A Number o Them. Were in Atlanta Yeett lay. The following i taken from yes terday’s Atlanta Ci stltution: The presence of number of bistin guisheo railroad ; n In the cit; yes terday gave a rise ’ many turn- rs in regard to the ,si ation locally and throughout the so th. Sever;. 1 solution of the mystery were off by th se who are soppos ed, generally to know what is going on in this section. One cf these w;*s that the Georgia road and the Atlanta and West Point would soon be consolidated; another that th; roads represented by those who were here would enter the new pasnengsr station when that building i* completed; >llll another that it had reference to the leasing by the Seaboard Air Line of the Western and Atlantic. None of these rumors could be con firmed yesterday, although many of the local people were seen and asked concerning them. The party of railroad men did not call on the governor nor the attorney general. That is certain. They did not confer with the local people, with one exception—C. E. Harman, gener al passenger agent oi the Western and Atlantic. Mr. Harman was with them for a short while. Captain English was asked about their visit, and he said that it had no reference to entering the depot, as they had not spoken to him about such a thing. Sir. Wickersham, president of the Atlanta and West Point, .said that he had not seen any of the party. Noting defiuite could be ascertained I yesterday afternoon, but that the visit means something is conceded on all sides. The party consisted of Milton H. Smith, president of the Louisville and Nashville;J. W. Thomas, president of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis; Harry Walters, chairman of the board of directors of the Atlantic Coast Line and T. K. Scott, general manager of the Georgia. SOME SHORT NEWS NOTES. Interesting Iteme Gathered by News Reporters. There were only one or two cases before Mayor Crovatt at the session of the police court yesterday. The contractors at work on the pub lic building are now hard at work on the finishing toucher It is expected that the building will be turned over to the government the latter part of this month. The handsome new church of the Second dventists is now rapidly near ing completion and the contractors will turn it over to the congregation in the course of a week or ten days. Rufus Wise has accepted a position with Morgan & Davis on Gloucester street as mixologist. The mail service recently establish ed on- thte B. & H ,now working to •- _ -.MHWiy $ "" vans - .3—, WS— . figuring on erecting anew church and the matter will be taken up early next month. Wilson's restaurant, which- was slightly damaged by fire last week, is being repaired and a number of im provements are also being mado. Tho price of eggs continue to re main out of the reach of the average working mac, and are selling at 30 cents per dozen. The price is also high in other nearby cities. Brunswick is having but few fires since the cold woathed arrived. In fact the department has not rosiwml ed to an alrm in saverai weeks. The Mallory steamer this week had an unusually heavy cargo for Bruns wick merchants. Most of the freight was Christmas goods. “CLEANING HOUSE.” A change of Food Cleans the Soul's House. When the body is clogged up by tho |ise of improper food and sickness sets in there is nothing so good as a “house cleaning" and the right way to do this is to change the food, for although temporary relief a complete change of food is much the surest, and safest way. The highest medical authority in the world, "The Lancet" of London, says of Grapo-Nuts: “Our analysis shows it is a nutritive of a high order since it contains the constituents of a complete fooid in very satisfactory and rich proportions and in an easily assimilable state.” "About two years ago,” says a resident of Spring,ville, Ind., "I had a terrible stomach trouble and although I tried all kinds of med icines nAne of them cured me. I was so very run down I could not eat, got very little sleep and was dizzy headed and miserable all of the time About that time a friend told me that the onlv way to cure my trouble was to change my food and recommended Grape-Nuts. 'From my very first meal of Grape Nuts my stomach began to get better and all the improvements that come from a healthy Btomach in place of gn unhealthy one soon followed, and this was not all, for just as great an improvement came in my brain. All of the dizziness is gone and my brain' is now clear and active. I can eat anything I want, sleep well and am al together anew man mentally and phy sically. "At the time t commenced to uso this food I was nothing but a skeleton weighing 130 pounds but now I have got back my normal weight of nearly 200.” Name given by Postum Cos., Battle Creek, Mich. There’s a reason. Look In each package for a copy of tth famous llttl* book, "The Road to Wallvlll*." PRICE—FIVE CENTS. MERRILY fi GOES RIFLEMEN'S FAIR I j The Third Night Proved to Bea Very Success ful One IHE VISITORS DID NO I COME Waycross Rifles Wired at Last Mo ment Thaht it Would be Impoasi ble For Them to Come Here. The Waycross Rifles failed to make their appearance at the Riflemen's fail last, night as was expected, and, while those present were di appaointed, still the night proved to boa very en joyable one. Late yesterday afternoon Lieuten ant Twomey received a telegram from the captain of the Waycross com pany stating that it would bo impos sible for his company fa come down, and he expressed regret over the fact. A genuine good time had been ar ranged for the wsifars aud had they arrived, as v.as expected the evening would have been, tho banner one of the fair. However a large numlier of Bruns wickians were present and tire nlglu passed off very pleasanty i a spite of the disappointment occosioned by the itifles not coming and the very in* clement weather. The booths and the supper room all reported a goods night’3 business and the receipts kept well up with those of the two previous uights. There are a large number of pretty ar* ( 'z. ■ m r 3:*-.-.Tiie t 'have.ljJtpoa unusual pretty and useful ones and jt is hoped that the'ladies will be able to dls pose of all of them. Notes of the Fair. The race between the little boys /or the handsome goat, wagon and harness, is growing interesting, and all of the young contestants and their friends are' had at work for the prize. Raffling for tho many pretty ar tides at the different hocth.s will prob ably begin tonight. The ladies havo been busy during the week getting up the chances and ate now ready to toss the dice box for them. The children are anxiously await ing Saturday ufterno.'ii when they will have full sway at the fair. The mas querade ball will boa feature of the afternoon, and many little children will participate. WILL MEET TODAY. The Board of Trade Will Hold An Im portant Session this Morning. The Brunswick board of trade will hold a very important meeting at their apartments in the city hall this morning and every member of the or ganization is urged to be present. In addition to the routine business the locating of a number or indus tries is to be taken up and decided upon and it, is very necessary that ail of the members of the board be pres ent. FOUR MANGLED BY WEIGHT. Beams Under Cottun Compress ai Dothan Injures Four. Ozark, Ala., fine. 2—The new beams on one side of the compress at Dothan broke about, 2 o'clock today and the ponderous machine fell over toward tlie ether side. One negro was killed outright and three others seriously injured. COL. KAY IS A MEMBER. Appointed to Assist in Securing a Building at St. Louis. Col. W. K Kay, of this city, has been appointed a member of the committee cf the state to assist in securing a Georgia building at St. Lorn.- Col. Kay is appointed as the repre sentative from this congressional dis trict and ! vk! make a ' cry able man on tho board II- is - ally in favor of Georgia 1: . ring a building at the nig exposition ril will .0 everything possible in assistng the committee. Two Lives Lost {or 3 Cents. Clinton, Tenn., December 2.—Th sheriff of Andersen co.iutv today exe cuted Wid Smith, colored. Smith's crime was tac murder of W'U Tlt-ris, another negro, The murder resulted from a quarrel over 3 cents lest in a crip gams.