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BRIEF LOCAL ITEMS. Events of a Week Epitomized In Curtailed Paragraphs. Though we hear cry of “hard times” in these dull summer days, the fact is that Atlanta never was more actively progressive than now. We see new houses, dwellings, stores, work shops being constructed in every part of the city. The consolidation of the electric car lines will prove to be of great benefit to the city. People appreciate facili ties for rapid transit for business and pleasure. The Georgia Bar Association will convene at Warm Springs, Ga., on the fith and 7th of July. The members of the Bar Association are respectfully requested to read the suggestions and draft of a bill on “Supplementary Process” in this pa per. Consideration, comment, and amendments are invited. The Georgia Record has not come for the purpose of makiug a “fool’s frolic,” nor to “raise a row” about official records or personal politics, but we expect to deal fairly and firmly in our comments of any public affairs. The Christian church congregation in West End will soon break ground to lay the foundation for a new church at the corner of Dunn and Gordon streets. All persons who may receive The Georgia Record of this issue are re quested to subscribe at once. Help us to push forward a good thing. The Georgia Record will be sent to any address in the United States for one dollar a year, fifty cents for six months, thirty cents for three months, single copy by mail four cents, single copy at news-stand and by newsboys three cents. No free samples. Send four cents in etamps for copy. Readers of Thb Georgia Record are requested to send us items of news for publication. Anything that is of any importance to you or your neigh bors, let us have it. You need not care to “fix it up” in such fine style. We w'ill arrange the matter for the printer. You just give us the facts plainly, we will do the rest. If a baby is born, or dies, or if a marriage or death occurs in your family or amongst your neighbors, let us have the facts and names and we will print for you. Tieports of meetings, picnics, anil ev erything is w'hat we want. WOMAN CONTRADICTS HERSELF. Mrs. Graves Is Welding Strong Chain of Evidence. Each day the evidence against Mrs. Graves, in jail at Valdosta, Ga., charged with the murder of her hus band in Echols county, seems to grow stronger and the woman herself is welding the chain. Her first story was to the effect that it was a case of sui cide. The inquest disproved the suicide theory, the physician stating that the wound could never have been inflicted by his own hand. Seeing the fallacy of her suicide statement, it is said, Mrs. Graves then changed her statement at the prelimi nary hearing to about as follows: “I was in the kitchen and Mr. Graves on the porch just outside. We were talking and I had my hand on the coffee mill. I turned my head and as I did so I heard a pistol shot, and turning saw my husband fall, but do not know who fired.the shot.” PREPARING FOR BATTLE. Opposing Forcos In Philippines Making Ready For Collision. A Manila dispatch says: A collision between the two armies at San Fer nando seems inevitable soon. The insurgents are all active all around the town and can be seen working in the trenches to strengthen their posi tion. Day and night forces are at work. It is estimated that 3,000 men were seen marching in the road north of the town Friday. COLLEGE HONORS M. CARBON. Harvard Confers of D. t. Upon Noted Frenchman and Others. Among the honorary degrees con ferred by Harvard university at Cam bridge, Mass., Wednesday, were those of doctor of laws upon Jules Cambon, the French ambassador of the United States; General Leonard Wood, United States army, military governor of San tiago; Rear Admiral W. T. Sampson, United States navy, and Arthur T. Hadley, president-elect of Yale. NEW ARTICLES FIILED. By American Panama Canal Company In New Jersey. The American Isthmus Ship Canal Company filed at Trenton, N. J., Fri day, articles of incorporation, leaving out that part of the orginal papers in reference to the increase of the capital stock, which met with the disapproval of the attorney general and which were turned down. • The authorized capital stock in the papers filed is placed at $30,000. WAR TALK IN CAPE COLONY. Big Mass Meeting Held and Ceces sion From Oom Paul Is Discussed. Advices from Cape Town, South Africa, state that a meeting of 4,000 loyalists, under the presidency of the mayor of Cape Town, was held there Wednesday evening and adopted, with the greatest enthusiasm, resolutions supporting Sir Alfred Milner,governor of the colony and British high commis sioner in south Africa, in his recent negotiatisns with President Kruger and thanking the Canadians and Aus tralians for their offers of assistance. An immense overflow meeting was also held. The former, at which Rt. Hon. Sir John Gordon Spring, former premier of the colony, and numerous other po litical leaders were present, was ad dressed by several citizens of Jo hannesburg. Sir Gordon Sprigg also addressed the meeting, declaring that unless Sir Alfred Milner was absolutely support ed there was danger that the Cape Col ony would secede from the empire. He declared himself convinced that Great Britain was solidly behind the imperial secretary of state for the col onies, Joseph Chamberlain, whose re cent speech before the unionists of Birmingham, England, dealing with the Transvaal problem, he warmly commended. President Kruger, it is understood at Capetown,persists in his demand for arbitration as an essential condition to any settlement. The Transvaal con tinues buying provisions and "war ma terial and it Iras arranged with the Netherlands Railway Company to have absolute control of the railway lines in the Orange Free State in the event of war. NINE GRADUATES GET DIPLOMAS. X Tenth Annual Commencement of Georgia School of Technology. The tenth annual commencement of the Georgia School of Technology at Atlanta was held Wednesday morning in the chapel of the institution before one of the largest and most enthusi astic audiences that ever assembled on a similar occasion. A program of varied interest was rendered and diplomas were delivered to the graduating class of nine young men who received the degree of bachelor of science. Six thousand dollars were given to the school. Three thousand was the contribution made by Colon?! J. W. Rucker, of the Maddox-Rucker Bank ing Company, of Atlanta, aud is to be expended in any way the president and board of trustees think best. Three thousand came from Mr. Aaron French, of Pennsylvania, whose fortune has already been lavishly di vided with the institution. RAILROADS CREATE SURPRISE By Taking Hold of At lanta Depot Question With Alacrity. A. dispatch from Atlanta, Ga., says: The railway officials have taken hold of the union passenger station in ear nest and to the surprise of everyone, themselves included, they have agreed on a general plan. After last Tuesday’s meeting with the state commission, the representa tives of the roads held a conference and they worked on the depot prob lem until well on in the night. At this conference it was agreed to recommend to the several boards of directors and lessees that they approve a plan for building a union passenger station in Atlanta extending from Loyd to Whitehall streets. INCORPORATION REFUSED. Panama Canal Company Turned Down By New Joraey Secretary of State. A dispatch from Trenton, N. J., says: Attorney General Gray Wednes day morning filed an opinion with the secretary of state advising the refusal of the articles of incorporation of the American Isthmus Ship Canal com pany. The articles provide for an author ized capital of $30,000, with the pro vision that the capital stock might be increased to $250,000,000 by a vote of the holders of not less than three fourths of the capital stock. This proviso is in conflict with the New Jersey statute which gives to the hold ers of two-thirds of the capital stock the power to increase the authorized capital. EMPLOYED NEGROES To Take Places of White Men Who Joined The Union. Nearly all the white pnddlers em ployed at Moorehead Brothers & Co. ’s iron works at Sharpsburg, Pa., were discharged Wednesday and the places filled by negroes who were brought from other places. The firm has opposed the affiliation of its employes with the Amalgamated association and recently a large num ber of .puddlers joined the union. There was no trouble at the plant on account of the change and quiet pre vailed in the vicinity. Four deputies accompanied the negroes. DREYFUS BUCK 11 FRANCE. EXILE LANDS AT (jl IBORON UN DER HEAVY G( ARD. EXCITEMENT OF MODERATE ORDER The Noted Prisoner Is Placed In Confine ment at Rennes to Await the Revision Trial. A cable dispatch from Rennes, France, states that Captain Dreyfns landed at Quiborou Friday and was conveyed by train to Bruz. There he entered a landau, accompanied by the chief of detectives and the prefect in the afternoon and was driven to Ren nes, where twenty-five gendarmes waited his entrance into the town. Ten of the gendarmes entered a wag on and followed the carriage. The rest followed on foot. The party ar rived at the prison without incident. A large crowd and witness ed the arrival in silence^and without manifestation. The authorities had arranged a se cret landing at the little village of Moulin Blanc, about four miles from Brest, but the vigilance of the news paper men led to a change in the ar rangements and Dreyfns was disem barked at Quiboron, in Britanny, near L’Orient, where the telegraph office closes at 9 p. m., thus rendering it impossible to telegraph to Rennes the fact of his arrival. It is also said that the government had advices from Azores, when the Sfax passed Fayal, that the health of Dreyfus was precarious. This is held in some quarters to explain the anx iety to prevent the public seeing him. The Parisian public is rather listless about his arrival, and there was no excitement at Rennet, although the railway station there was full of re porters awaiting the coming of the famous prisoner. COLORED MINERS AMBUSHED. A Train Load In Fired Upon By Large Party of Strikers. A special from Marion, 111., says: Friday, as the train on the Illinois Central, carrying a coachload of ne groes from Pana to Brush’s mines,one mile north of Cartersville, stopped at the Fredonia mine, three miles north west of Cartersville, a large number of striking union minors opened fire on the negroes, killing one woman and wounding about twenty others. Before the bloody work could be carried further, the train pulled out for Johnston City. The miners numbered fifty, and were armed with rifles, and were hid den in grass behind the country de pot. When the train stopped, the leader, who was an Italian, got on the platform and commanded the negroes to get out. Conductor Bryan interferred, but was stopped by a revolver in his face. The train began to move, and the miners poured in a withering fire. Conductor Bryan yelled to the negroes to throw themselves on the floor. All escaped serious wounds save the wo man, who was killed instantly. When the train reached a point one mile north of Brush’s mine the negroes were unloaded and marched across the country to their destination. It is said that a majority of the rioters were negroes, whom Brush brought from the south about a year ago, and have since joined the union. There is great excitement in the neighborhood of the Brush mine, and a battle between the working negroes, who are well armed, and the strikers, who are on the ground ready for a fight, may be precipitated at any mo ment. Superintendent Brush wired for Sheriff Gray immediately after the riot, and asked for protection. The sheriff went at once tiw. scene, but he took no deputies with him. He had no guns to arm them. NEW YELLOW FEVER REMEDY. Test of Serium to Be Made In the South ern States. The New York Herald has presented three hundred bottles of samarelli serium for yellow fever to the Louis iana state board of health. Experi ments of particular interest and value to southern cities will be conducted this summer to test the value of serium as a preventive and cure in case yellow fever appears. MRS. SOUTHWORTH DEAD. Well Known Authoresa Passe. Away After Brief Illness. Mrs. Emma D. E. N. Southworth, the authoress, died at her residence in Washington Friday night, after an ill ness of several weeks. About a month ago Mrs. Southworth was prostrated by the heat and the infirmity of ad vanced age, she being in her seventy ninth year, rendering her unable to recuperate from the attack. She lived for many years a retired life in a picturesque mansion of the old-fashioned type, located on a hill in west Washington, overlooking the hills of Virginia. A WHOLE FAMILY POISONED. Two Members of It Dead—Great Excitement In Banks County, Ga. A special from Toccoa, Ga., says: The whole of the northern part of Banks county and southern Franklin have been thrown into a frenzy of excitement by the mysterious death of two children of Mr. and .Mrs. Jack Andrews, and the serious illness ol seven other members of the family. Mr. Andrews is a renter, living on the farm of Mr. Mack F. Arrin, in Banks county, sixteen miles from Toccoa and twelve miles from any railway station. Mr. Andrews has nine children, the -oldest being eighteen and the young est three years. Tuesday afternoon Clifton, a son of twelve years of age, and Harry, another of fourteen, were taken suddenly ill. They appeared to be in the throes of death. A physi cian was summoned hurriedly and during the whole night worked heroi cally to save the lives of the two child ren, but to no avail. Both died early Wednesday morning. They were in terrible agony of suffering for some time before death with lockjaw. During the night other members of the family became ill and before morning only two, a little boy and a little girl, were well enough to attend the rest. Later during the day the farm mule and milch cow appeared to be suffering intensely. Excitement runs high and many people have openly charged foul play, and some have gone so far as to charge that the family was poisoned by some enemy, and the names of two or three persons have been mentioned in that connection, but there has been no evi dence deduced which tends to crimi nate any special person. That there is a mystery surround ing the illness and death in his family there is no doubt, but no one has offered a plaeaibls solution. The physician did not ftel justified, under the circumstances, in holding a post mortem examination, but is not satis fied in his own mind as to the cause of the death of the two children and the illness of the other members of the family. It is believed by many, however, that a wholesale attempt at poisoning has been made. HOWLING MOB IN BRUSSELS. Capital the Scene of Disgraceful Acts of Revolutionists. A special dispatch from Brussels, Belgium says that the storm of verbos ity was renewed in the chamber of deputies Thursday. The socialists hurled anathemas at M. J. Van Peere biom, who endeavored to explain the action taken by the police.on Wednes day, and the socialists persistently in terrupted and insulted the premier,re proaching him with being responsible for the conflict between the people and the police. Although a vote censur ing the government was rejected by a vote of 87 to 31 and the turffult in the chamber was so great that the presi dent suspended the sitting. The so cialists then led a cheering crowd, shouting, “vive la republique!” to the park, where a conflict with gendarmes occurred. Orders were issued prohibiting street assemblies Thursday night, but at the conclusion of a great meeting in the town hall thousands attempted to cross the Grande Place, in which the town hall stands. The gendarmes charged with drawn swords, and the crowd retaliated with stones. Shots were fired on both sides. Three persons were wounded, and a police officer was severely stabbed with a shoemaker’s knife. The rioters, on being dispersed, as sembled nt another point. A large crowd gathered in the Rue Royale, tearing up the paving stones and using them as missiles. Finally the civic guard was ordered out to relieve the police. Despite these attempts to sup press the disturbances, rioting contin ued to a late hour, many persons be ing injured. A feature was the gen eral tearing up of paving stones to be hurled at the police and guards. A tramway conductor received two bul let wounds. Ultimately the troops were called and thirty-five arrests were made, many of those taken in custody being in possession of rivolvers. LYNCHERS ORDERED TO JAIL. Texans Are Charged With Deliberate Mur der of the Humphreys. At Athens, Texas, Thursday, Walter ■Wilkinson, Joe Wilkinson, Polk Weeks, William Brooks, John Green haw, Arthur Greenhaw, W. E. Johns, William Gaddis, John Stevens and Samuel Hall were remanded to jail without bail, charged with with having with malice murdered James, John and George Humphreys,by taking from their homes and hanging them until dead. 'lhe prisoners expected this and will institute habeas corpus proceedings. The case is the most celebrated in Texas criminal history. EASTERN MEN INVEST CASH In Big Properties Located In State of Alabama. GREAT BOOM FOR THE SOUTH Prominent Capitalists Show Their Faith In This Section In Substantial Way. A Birmingham, Ala., special says: Messrs. John E. Searles and Abram S. Hewitt, of New York, aud some of their leading New York and Boston associates, the International Trust company, pf Baltimore; Messrs. Mid dendorf, Oliver & Son, of Baltimore; John L. Williams A Sons, of Rich mond, aud others, have just succeeded iu arranging one of the most impor tant coal aud iron consolidations ever effected in the south. A syndicate with a capital stock of $5,000,000 has been organized, all of which has been underwritten, and has purchased the Clifton Iron company, one of the most noted iron properties of Alaba ma, owning 30,000 acres of land and two furnaces. "*The Standard Coal Company, a reg ular dividend-paying property, own ing 32,000 acres of coal land. The Mary Pratt furnace in Birming ham. The Gate City properties adjacent to Birmingham—which were purchas ed some months ago by Baltimore and Richmond interests —and the Gadsden, Ain., furnace aud large ore properties in connection therewith. The consolidated properties will cover about 70,000 acres of land, four furnaces and several coke ovens. Re pairs on some of the furnaces, the building of four or five hundred coke ovens and the trebling of the coal out put are now under way, and will be completed within about four months, when the company will have an aggre gate capacity of 180,000 tons of pig iron per year and a daily output of over 2,000 tons of coal. These properties have beeu exam ined by some of the ablest exports in the country, including Ricketts & Banks, of New York; J. P. Witherow, of Pittsburg, and Nicholas 8. Hill, Jr., of Hill A. Howard, Baltimore. Ail re ports indicate that these are among the most valuable coal and iron prop erties in the south and it is believed that the company will have the best combination of brown ore and red ore and high-grade coking of any compa ny in Alabama, and with its furnaces located at the most available points for the cheapest production of high grade iron, will be able to make iron at a profit even should prices ever re turn to the low figures prevailing two or three years ago. T. G. Bush, president of the Clifton Iron Company, one of the ablest and most noted iron men of Alabama, will be president of the consolidated com pany, and F. M. Jackson, general manager of the Standard Coal Com pany, who has operated that property for the last ten years, will have gener al* charge of its coke and coal interests. The options on some of these proper ties were secured eight or ten months ago before the present activity iu iron commenced and could not possibly be duplicated at present. The properties will be paid for in full. All improvements and enlarge ments of operations of mining coke and iron makiug have been provided for aud the new company’ will start without any indebtedness of any kind, as no bonds are to be issued, aud with ample cash working capital. Messrs. Joshua Levering and Richard H. Ed monds are in Alabama representing the International Trust Company in arranging for the transfer of these properties. Abram 8. Hewitt, one of the most noted iron men of the world, who has long been identified with come Alabama interests, will be a airector in the company, as will John E. Searles. This is one of the first fruits of the trip made by Mr. Searles last winter in company with Richard H. Edmonds, of Baltimore, in the study of the resources of the south. CONFEDERATE GENERAL DIES, Well Known Officer In the Service of lit® South Paesee Away. General Delaware Kemper, consul to Amoye, China, under the first Cleveland administration, died at his home in Alexandria, Va., Friday. General Kemper wars a distinguished soldier in the Confederate army during the civil war and was wounded in the second battle of Manassas, aud was subsequently in command of the Con federate forces in Charleston. He was a prominent member of the Confeder ate Veteran’s Association, and up to * year ago was in charge of The Alexan dria Times.