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The Brunswick Daily News. VOL. VIII, NO. 225. MAY CALL BOND ELECTION AT THEIR NEXT MEETING COMMISSIONERS TO TAKE ACTION BILL GIVING COUNTY AUTHORITY J. TO ISSUE BONOS HAS BEEN , PREPARTD. While Hundred Thousand Dollars is Named in the Bill It is Not Known What Amount the Commissioners Will Desire Issued* l At the regular meeting of the Glynn county commissioners to he held on the first Tuesday In July, il Is more than probable that a bond election will be ordered and it Will then be up to the people of the county to say whether or not they desire the bridge across the Altamaha river erec ted and other improvements made in the roads of the county. Just what amount will be issued is not yet known, but it is not at all unlikely that the people will vote on a hundred thousand dollar issue. As lias been stated in these columns previously, a bill has been prepared and will be introduced in the legisla ture when that body convenes this month, giving the county authority to issue bonds in that amount, but whether or not the commissioners will call for an election for an issue of the full amount is not known. It will take $50,000 to erect the bridge across the Altamaha, at least Glynn county will be called upon to put up that amount. To improve the roads of the county, or rather to place them in a first-class condition it will also take a large sum. there fore It is believed that an issue for the entire SIOO,OOO will be voted upon. The proposed bridge is to cost ap proximately $90,000 or SIOO,OOO, and the commissions! s of Mclntosh coun- ty will, at their next meeting, prob ably order an election for the issu ance of $40,000. which will be that county's share towards the erection of the bridge. There is now but little doubt that the proposed bridge will be construc ted. Both Glynn and Mclntosh coun ties are heartily in favor of it and the voters, it is believed,, will back up the commissioners in their action in calling a bond election. The indications are at present that before the first of September both counties will vote on the proposition. —♦ * AN EARTHQUAKE IN FRANCE. . Shocks Were Sufficiently Severe to Displace Masonry. Paris, June 12.—Dispatches from the south of France, where a series of earthquakes were experienced last night, say the shocks were felt in the coast department from the Alps through to the Atlantic. People everywhere were greatly alarmed and the oscillations were suf ficiently severe to displace masonry and in a few instances to shake down houses. Thousands of persons slept last night In the parks and on board boats. The shocks were followed by violent hailstorms. ♦ PRETTY PIANO ON DISPLAY. It is Soon to Be Given Away at Rose's; Drug Store. The magnificent S4OO Cote piano, I to be given away by Rose’s drug store, is on display at. their place of busi ness now and is daily visited by hun dreds of enthusiastic admirers. This elegant piano compels admiration for its show qualities. The case design Is very beautiful. It is adorned with rich carvings and the surface of the case attracts at once with its deep mellow color, polished and resplen dant as a mirror. It Is a vr*y desir able instrument and one to lie proud of. And it is a free gift, > l WAS SUNK IN A STORM. St. Petersburg. June 12. —The sub marine torpedo boat Krambala, of the Russian navy, has been sunk in a storm in the Black Sea, while the boat, was undergoing trials. Twenty members of her crew, in cluding the captain, first lieutenant and chief engineer, perished. SLAVONIA'S PASSENGERS SAFE. 111-Fated Cunarder Which Was Wrecked Off the Azores. Horta, Azores Islands, June 12. — The steerage passengers of the Cun- - ard line steamer Slavonia, which was w-recked off Azores island, were land ed on Flores island today. The cabin passengers were taken on board the North German Lloyd liner Princess Irene HOW THE RACERS STAND. Dillon Raffo Now Leads for the Little Automobile. The contest for the little automo bile offered by Dr. E. C. Bruce con tinues interesting and the several little boys *who are in the race are making every effort to win the pretty prize. The standing this week shows a change in the leaders. Dillon Raffo, who has always been near the top. heads the list, with a total of 7,596, while Harry Havm Is second with 7,157. Frank Wilburn, who has also been near the top since the beginning of the contest, is third with a total of 5.286. ♦ FIRE LADDIES HAD BUSY TIME THREE ALARMS IN AN HOUR LAST NIGHT AND ONE YES TERDAY AFTERNOON. ' V Brunswick’s fire department had an unusually busy time of It last night and within one hour responded to three alarms, two of which proved to be false, while the third resulted in small damage being done to a store at, the corner of H anti Reynolds | streets. The first alarm was sounded short ly before midnight from box 52, loca ted at the corner of Bay and First avenue.. The department made a quick run, but there was no sign of a blaze. Hardly had the fire wagons returned to the department headquarters be fore another alarm was sounded from j box 52. Again the firemen went on a| long run only to find that some mis- j creant had sent in another false! alarm. The third alarm came a half houri later from box 17. This time a blaze | was discovered in the old wooden store at the corner of Reynolds and H streets. It took the fire laddies only a few' minutes to extinguish the blaze. It Is believed that the alarms from boxes 52 and 53 were sent in by the same person who thought it great fun to see the fire horses driven on such a long run on a hot night. Every effort is going to be made to capture some of these false alarm fiends, and if one is captured he will be punished to the full extent of the law. Afternoon Alarm. The first run of tlie day occurred shortly after 2 o’clock, when an alarm was sent in from box 42. The blaze proved to be only a small one. but gave the firemen a long run. Thus the department is making up for the slow time It has had for the past month. Not an alarm was sound ed for about 30 days, but the firemen have been called out six times since Friday morning. Search for Negro In Automobile Camden, N. J., June 12.—Automo biles are being used today in the vi cinity of Woodbury, near here, in an endeavor to locate the negro who last night shot and seriously Injured Clar ence Kline, aged 22 years, conductor of a trolley car. The car of which Kline was in charge was about to leave Woodbury for this city, when a negro and a woman companion boarded it and In sisted upon being taken in the oppo site direction. The negro became abusive, and drawing a revolver shot the conductor in the abdomen. He and the woman then disappeared. When news of the shooting became known in Woodbury, practically ev ery owner of an automobile turned out with his machine to try to run down the negro. He is believed to be hidden in the woods near Woodbury, and a force of men has surrounded the place. If the negro is caught by the citizens it is thought he will be severely dealt with. + BASEBALL AND GOLF GAME. Darien Coming Over on Tuesday, June 22. Arrangements are being made for a big excursion to Brunswick from Darien on Tuesday, June 22, and dur ing the afternoon a match gmie of golf will be played betweer a club representing the two cities while an interesting game of baseball will also be played. The golf game will probably start early in order that It can be com- j pleted in time for the participants! and spectators to attend the baseball j game. Darien has some of the best j golf players in the state and the match I promises to be quite an interestin one. The ball team will have tne assistance of two or three Savannah players and also promises to be quite interesting. BRUNSWICK, C*, SUNDAY MORN) Ks, JUNE si, 1999. NO INDICATION OF A DEDUCTION IN FLOOD PRICES WHOLESALERS EXPECT NO DE CREASE IN PRICES UNTIL NEXT MONTH. Dealers Believe Patoen is Sill Behind the Market—Price of* Meat is Now Going Up a3 Result of High Price of Wheat. The price of flour, which is now higher than it lias been in Brunswick in a period of five years, is still ad vancing. The present advanc'' is gradual, to be sine, l.ut none the In-, real. Since about six weeks ago the price of tlour per barrel at retail has risen from $6.25 to ♦ f.35. That, of course, is the same as saying that the price has risen somewhat more than of® dollar per barrel since the mailipula tions of Patten and his associates in the Chicago wheat market. And the end is really not yet ia sight, unless one considers the coming j of the new crop as the logical end of the present scarcity of wheat and the] consequent high price of tlour. The new wheat crop, which Is said to be a much more adequate one t ban the j last, will commence to reach south; Atlantic markets about the last part' of September and the beginning of October. It will he recalled that the last : wheat crop was an unusually shot' one. the official figures placing the I wheat harvest as aboul a half of a crop. The present high price of fl-jui is based directly upon the scarcity of wheat, a simple application of the i law of supply and demand. The wheat crop is abnormally short; con sequently there has been an increas ingly higher price asked for flour. The short wheat crop would hav t adjusted itself In a pretty satisfactoiy manner had it not been for the specu lation that arose in the Chicago whea* market. The natural adjustment of consumers to n deficient crop, while j it would not have given flour to those) too pooi to buy It. would, neverths- i less, have been a much more sal’s-, factory one than it is when rendered 1 much more difficult of accomplish ment by the undue advahee in the price of wheal. On the other hand, when there is a good crop of wheat, that of itself tends in check ttie attempts of spec ulators to corner the market, for the simple reason that it is much more difficult for one man, or a group of men. to get so much wheat together in the market that someone else can not pour in an additional supply and break the corner. This year, h iw ever, f’atlen and liis associates saw their opportunity on account of th • scarcity of the crop and succee led in completely cornering the market, mu ting five million dollars or more as the reward of their greediness. The price of wheat, when it ad vances. as pointed out by the local dealer, always advances the prices of kindred commodities. In the present instance, corn, oats and. even meats are selling at higher prices thin in the past two years. It seems llior ouglily natural (hat corn and oats should tend to keep pace with the ad vance in price of flour, but the ad vance in meat seems hardly as easily explained. The reason given for this, however, Is that meat is so closely re lated in the line of provisions with wheat that any change in the price of wheat practically always affects the price of meat, as well as other gral. 1 .) We May All Soon Be Able to Fly Minneapolis, Minn., June 12. — Working secretly in a windowless ce ment shop in this city, J. Stewart, a retired railroad engineer, and H. Brownell, a mechanical prodigy, have completed an aeroplane which is ex pected to revolutionize the aeronau tics. Tlie machine weighs 200 pounds less than the machine of the Wright broth ers. A recent midnight test shov ed that the machine worked perfectly and long flights can easily be taken in it. There is talk of organizing a company to manufacture the ma chines. PRINCETON DEFEATS YALE, 3-2. Princeton. N. J., June 12. —In a .sensational fielding game today the Princeton nine defeated Yale by a I score of 3 to 2. Myers, batting for ! Pitcher White, made the hh bringing 1 in two runs in the ninth im ug JOE BILL HULL" IS OPPOSED TO BIEIIIIIILSESSU 8183 COUNTY LEGISLATOR WOULD EXTEND TIME OF THE PRESENT SESSIONS. He Thinks the Legislature Should Meet Annually and Continue in Ses sion for One Hundred Instead of i Fifty Days. Macon, Gu.. June 12.—Instead ot favoring the plan iaat has been sug- I gested lo have bienn a! sessions of ! the state legislature, Hon. Joseph II Hall, one of the representatives from Bibb, is in favor of doubling the length of the present annual sessions making them one hundred days in length instead of fifty. "Why it seems most unreasonable this talk about having the legislature meet but once every two years. The amoimt of business that the legisla ture has to do has been rapidly in creasing each year and as It now stands, it is almost impossible to get through on time. Were the legisla ture to uieel blit once every second year, and for a session of fifty days it could not begin to complete the work that if should. “Back in 1877, the state constitution provided fur biennial sessions and the system was in vogue until 1891, but during that time there was a provis ion for extending the sessions and this had lo be done often. In that period the legislature convened in Oc tober and several times it had to meet again in the summer. One time the extended session lasted nearly all the summer. “In 1892 the slate decided to take up the annual sessions again, and limited them to fifty days. Since then that plan has been In effect and i each year has shown that more time | is needed. Under the present ar rangement it requires several days for the speaker of the nouse to get his] committees together, and then it re- i quires four or live more for the lax and appropriation bills to be passed. After all this is done the regular business must be taken up and it is always a rush for time. A biennial plan would be utter folly and corpor ations are backing the movement. Of course the railroads and the other large interests are opposed to legis lation and legislatures In general, and if they could have their own sweet way about it there would be no legis latures. Over in Alabama they have pretty good control of things as in that slate the legislature meets but. once in four years. A system like that in Georgia would play havoc, and even hi< nnial sessions would have the effect of doing injury. "This summer the legislature will meet again and it is going lo require every minute of the time to pass on the different matters that are coming up. If a biennial plan was in pffect all of this year's work would have to go over until 1910 and how could it be completed in fifty days? I for one am opposed to any such movement and believe that the people of the state would promptly vote it down at an election. If the movement grows enough it may be pui to a vote at the next general election, but I have my doubts. I feel sure that there are but few representatives of state senators who would ever vote or support such | a plan unless their interests and those of the railroads or large corporations) are common. It all looks like a move’ to play upon the sympathies of cer tain classes for the supporters of it have stated that biennial sessions would save the state money. This would not be the effect at all.” Unlike his brother in the service Mr. Hall, Mr. W. Hamp Evans, who is in the house, wants the legislature to meet but once every four years as is the case in Alabama. This morn ing Mr. Evans was asked for an ex pression and he said: “1 would be perfectly willing to have the sessions so arranged that the legislature would meet but once in four years. Perhaps I am expect ing too much but I certainly think that all the business could be proper ly transacted each two years in place of meeting annually. The quadrennial system is working all right In Ala bama and If we can’t secure it here then biennial sessions should be in augurated.” Mr. Evans was elected to the leg islature along with Mr. Roland Ellis) and Mr. Hall, and he will serve for] his first, time this summer. He is a strong man and will probably aid the leaders of the aovement to secure a two-year pla . CHICAGO HIGH WINS FIELD MEET Marshall Field, Chicago, June 12. The University of Chicago high school team won the eighth annual inter scnolastlc track firid meet today, ' scoring .33 points. SENATE STILL AT WORK ON THAT TARIFF BILL ALLEGED TRAIN ROBBERIES. They Declare That They Did Not Ran sack Exoress Packages. Rochester. X. Y„ June 12.—The five men taken from the New York Cen tral fast mail train, westbound, when it reached here this morning and charged with train robbery, gave their names as Benjamin Marsh, of Albany; Harry Brutidage and James Maroney, of Pleasantville; Harvey Ferris, of Brooklyn, and Harry Ed wards, of New York. They admitted boarding the train at Albany, but denied ransacking the express packages. None of them is over 30 years old. Several carried bunches of keys, but none were armed. THIS DECISION IS OF INTEREST LANDLORD’S RIGHT TO LIEN FOR RENT AS SEEN BY JUDGE SPEER. Judge Speer has rendered an opin ion of importance and interest sus taining the right of landlord to lien for rent. It is the first time that this question has been before the court in this district. Judge Speer says; “The right of the landlord is one j upon which every permanent hope i of general prosperity must depend. Our legislature in the several stat- . ut.es sot forth in the various sections j of the code of Georgia have made very j clear the policy of the state on this subject. Section after section reite; - j ates not only the right of the landlords to a general lien, but they also give a special lieu u| on the crops made oil the land. The general lien at taches to all the property of th l ' deb tor liable to levy and sale. It is true that this lien attaches from the date of the levy, but that does not mean that tlie right of the landlord to the general lien or to the special lien is created by the levy. The right exists by virtue of the statute. “Of course if there are other liens which have been perfected by opera tion of law and which anteeede the date of the levy, it may be that, the right of the landlord cannot prevail against them, tor to the vigilant and not the slothful does the law afford its assistance. But the state law has created the general right as well the special right, and the lien of the land lord thus created is one of those debts having priority by the law of the state which, under the express provisions of the bankruptcy act, must be paid from the assets of the bankrupt, pro vided the lien has attached before the general creditors can participate therein. It follows in my judgment, that the bankruptcy of the tenant does not defeat this lien of highest dignity, except the lien of taxes. "The question is an exceedingly im portant one, affecting, as it must do, the values of all lands. If it lie true that under the law' of Georgia the lien of the landlord must be dis solved in favor of general creditors, the most calamitous results would follow in the diminution of the value of land, the incomes of land owners, and especially the owners of farm lands. It, is said in argument that the contrary view has been recognized since the act went into effect, but the question has never previously been presented here. The rule of the state on this subject is enacted to conserve that great prosperity which flows from the stable and hich values of landed property. It but makes ef fective the ancient right of the land lord, which as contended by the coun - sel, comes down from feudal times. Indeed, Trom the time whereof tlie memory of man runneth not to the contrary.” ♦ NEW YORKERS VICTORS IN BOWLING TOURNAMENT New York, June 12.—The bowling tournament closed here tonight. The Corinthians, of this city, won the five men team event with 2.899 pins. E. Setterwait and S. Rodgers, of Phila delphia. won the two-men team event with 1,298 pins. V LARGE CROWD WILL GO TO FERNANOINA TODAY The excursion to Fernaudina today on the steamer Atlantic will no doubt take over the largest crowd of the season. The past few days have been the warmest of the summer and many people are anxious to en joy such a trip. Amelia Beach is one of the most delightful resorts on the coast, while the trip to Fer nandina on the fast, steame • Atlantic is a very pleasant one Thp steamer will leave the city this morning at it o’clock. The fare for the round *ri:> ir*. SI.OO. including csr fare to and from the beach. PRICE: 5 CENTS. IH REICH VOTE Of LOO OF WEEK WORKS OF ART OVER TWENTY YEARS OLD ARE PLACED ON THE FREE LIST. Starch Industry is Protected by Duty of One Cent Perr Pound on Tapioca and Sago Flour —Crude Potash and Potash Carbonate on Free List. Washington, June 12. —Works of an over twenty years old and col lections of illustrations of art over 100 years old were placed on the free list today by the senate after a very interesting debate, the vote standing 53 to 5. Before the senate finally adjourned' this afternoon the tariff bill was ) completed on its second reading. When the bill is taken up Monday the items which have been passed over after, much debate will again be taken up and settled. The 3tarch industry received pro tection today when a duty of 1 per cent, per pound was put on tapioca and sago flour not imported for food. Crude potash, potash carbonate, caustic potash and radium were alt put on the free list. It was stated tonight by senate leaders that the bill would probably be completed by the end of the week, hut it does not seem that a final vote will be taken before the end of the month, as long debates on several schedules are expected. BIG SALE FOR TWO DAYS. ' A. Zelmenovitz, the Great Bargapn- Maker Offering Many Inducements. Monday and Tuesday of this week are the days selected for a great trade carnival at Zelmenovitz’s dry goods store. While the mercury is registering high these hot summer days Zelmenovitz has run prices down below zero to freeze out all kinds of competition in his line. The trad ing public appreciate the fact that this is not a "cheap John bargain house,” but sells values that are be yond criticism at prices offered. To make this sale a greater suc cess than any previous one the goods have been marked down to such low prices as will attract the attention of every buyer in the city in need of summer dry goods. Ladies' lawn and lingerie waists are offered at extra ordinary low prices. Silks, voile and poplins are reduced to cost, children hats and bonnets, ladies’ tailor-made suits, all will be features of the 3ale. White goods, calicoes and ginghams, muslin underwear and gauze waists are also marked down to bottom prices. In fact the prices in every line of goods have been so much reduced that it will require but a small amount of money to buy a complete outfit dur ing the two days of the sale. f Second Attempt Was Defeated Chicago. June 12. —The second at tempt of attorneys representing Otto, Gresnam, administrator of the estate of the late John S. Cooper, to pry into the financial standing of Theo Slionts, Paul Morton and Robert Ma ther, all in connection with the pur chase sale of tlie capital stock of the Three I railroad, was defeated by Municipal Judge Dickey today. Whether or not the defendant made $5,000,000 in the deal remains un told. + MRS. RITTMAN ENJOINED, CAN'T PAY ATTORNEY FEES Chicago, June 12. —A suit begun to day enjoining Rose B. Rittman, the high chief ranger of the Woman’s Catholic Order of Foresters, from paying $2,792.50 for legal services. The bill contains charges that the chief ranger is trying to drive Mrs. Julia McDonnell, high secretary, from the order. It is claimed the attor ney’s fees should be charged to Mrs. Rittman personally. WALL STREET MARKET. Volume of business Yesterday Was Rather Small. New York, June 12.—The opening prices of stocks today were hut little changed from last night and the vol ume of business was small. The tone was hesitating and uncertain, with prices moving In both directions with in a narrow range. Copper indus trials somewhat depressed.