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The Georgia tari Pnbllahnd Weekly—Every Saturday—72l Austell Building, Atlanta, Ga. Entered at the postoffice at Atlanta as mail matter of the second class. subscription: One Year BLOO Six Months 50 .Three Months 30 One Month 12 Printed at 116-118 Loyd St. Advertising Rates Given Upon Application. Remit in stamps, cash, money or express order, or bank check. Address all letters to The Georgia Record, 721 Austell Building, Atlanta, Ga. A GOOD MAN DIED SUDDENLY. Mr. George H. Crump, of Augusta, Ga., died suddenly in that city, on last Tuesday morning. He had only a few minutes before gone into his office, to enter upon his day’s business. Heart failure was the trouble. Mr. Crump was a gentleman of high character, of excellent business qualifications, and was highly esteemed by all who knew him. A good man and modal citizen is gone. We are sorry for such loss. Our sincere sympathy goes out to his family. TIORE ABOUT SERGEANT PIOORE Mr. George A. Webster received the following letter, and handed it to The Georgia Record, as a sequel to the article we published two weeks ago, about Sergeant W. R. Moore: Atlanta, Nov. 13, 1899. Geo. A. Webster, Lieutenant Co. G, First Georgia Cavalbt, At lanta, Ga. : Dear Sib—Permit me, in behalf of myself, my brothers and sisters, to thank you for the kind expressions in reference to my dead brother, made by you in your communication published in The Georgia Record,Oct. 28th,last. We have no words that will express our gratitude to you. He was a noble boy and fell in a cause that will always be dear to us. We appreciate it all the more, coming from one who knew him and fought by his side. Your state ment of the two incidents cited, are correct, as stated to us by our brother. The Federal soldier captured was "■ 1 T l .- 1 -.., «...<! w.s a member of the First Illinois Cavalry. He and my brother exchanged addresses, agreed to write to each other after the war was over, should they be fortunate enough to live through it. Just after the war a letter came to the Rome postoffice, directed to Sergeant Wm. R. Moore. My father received the letter, my brother being dead, and for some length of time kept up the correspondence. After wards my father died, and I do not now remember the address of Mr. Parker, neither have we been able to find any of the letters. This man Parker, on recognizing my brother in jail at Knoxville, wber ■ he and his comrades, Joe Hammond and Harrison Waters, were confined, made a person al appeal to the officers in charge of the prison to be kind to my brother and to give him the best to eat that the place afforded, assuring them that he, Parker, was kindly treated at the hands of my brother when a prisoner. Harrison Waters died a few years after the war, near Rome, Geor gia. Joe Hammond was alive in 1875 or 1876, and lived in Scott county, Tenn. Ido not remem ber his postoffice address. I mention the name of Mr. Waters, as you had failed to mention him in your article. He was with Hammond and my brother on that perilous expedition, was cap tured, and suffered in common with them. Again thanking you, I am, Very tiuly, your friend, Jake C. Moobb. ' STAFF OFFICERS OUT. Charge In Fourth Georgia Regiment Causes Their Release. All the staff officers in Brunswick of the Fourth Georgia regiment received a letter Wednesday from Colonel Wooten, asking them to resign their respective offices. This was done on the part of Colonel Wooten on account of the Brunswick Riflemen being transferred to the First Georgia regiment. The colonel said in his letter that it was with much regret that he had to ask them to resign, but as Brunswick was no longer in his regiment, he would be comrelled to appoint staff officers in the cities of which his regi ment is made up. New Railroad For Texas. The attorney general of Texas has approved the charter of the Houston, Brazos and Northern railway. This is the corporation which has acquired all the premises and rights of way, fran chises and property formerly owned by the Texas Western. GEN. LOGAN KILLED IN BATTLE FELL WHILE CHANGING FILIPI/NOS AT HEAD OF BATTALIO/N. oils ii«mi Engagement Was Most Stubbornly Con tested of the Entire War. A cable dispatch received at the war department Tuesday announced that Major John A. Logan, Thirty third volunteer infantry, had been killed in a fight in Luzon. He was leading his battalion in action. He was a son of the late General John A. Logan, of Illinois, and Mrs. Mary A. Logan, now a resident of Washington. He leaves a widow and three children, who are at present residing at Youngs town, O. The news of Major Logan’s death reached the war deparment in a cable gram from General Otis, under date of Manila. The information came to Gen eral Otis through a report from Gen eral Wheaton describing the battle on Sunday, the 12th instant, near San Jacinto, between the Thirty-third in fantry, to which Major Logan was at tached, and 1,200 intrenched insur gents. Major Logan fell at the head of his battalion, which he was gallantly leading in a charge. His command succeeded in routing the insurgents, who left eighty-one dead in the trenches. Besides Major Logan, six enlisted men were killed, while Cap tain Green and eleven men were wounded. The news of Afajor Logan’s death was conveyed to his mother, Mrs. John A. Logan, by a personal note from Secxetary Root, sent by Major Johnson, assistant adjutant general. Mrs. Logan was prostrated by the shock, but later in the day recovered her composure, and driving down town communicated with young Mrs. Logan at Youngstown, 0., over the long distance telephone. Fiercest Battle of the War. A description of the battle in which Gen. Logan was killed is given in the following advices from Manila: The Thirty-third infantry, in one of the sharpest two-hour engagements of the war, with an equal force of insur gents, five miles from San Fabian, Saturday, lost one officer and six men killed and one officer and twelve wounded. The Americans captured twenty-nine Filipinos and 100 rifles and found eighty-one insurgent dead lying in the trenches and rice fields. Many more Filipinos doubtless were killed or wounded. General Wheaton was informed that the enemy was gathering at San Ja cinto for the purpose of preventing ■ the caravans from controlling the road I from Dagupan north whereby Aguin aldo might retreat. The Thirty-third, Colonel Howe commanding, nnd a de tachment of the Thirteenth with a gat ling gun, Hoeland commanding, were sent to disperse them. The troops encountered the worst road ever found I in the island of Luzon.- There was n succession of creeks, whose bridges the Americans had to stop and repair, and miry ditehes, and at certain places men and horses struggled waist deep in quagmires. A hundred sol diers had to drag the gatling gun part of the way, the horses being useless. Shiirpsliaoterg Get In Their Work. The insurgents opened the fight two miles from San Jacinto, while the lead ing American battalion was passing a clump of houses in the midst of a co coauut grove knee deep in mud. The Filipino sharpshooters,hidden in trees, houses and a small trench across the road, held their fire until the Ameri cans were close to them. When they began firing other Filipinos opened fire from thickets, right and left, fur ther away. The insurgent sharpshoot ers picked off the officers first. Five of the Americans who fell wore shoul der straps or chevrons. But the Thirty-third never wavered. Its crack marksmen knocked the Fili- ; pinos from the trees like squirrels and I the Americans rushed the trench,leav- I Ing four dead insurgents there. The I STOCK IS CUT DOWN. A Receiver Will Conduct Exchange Bank at Athens, Oa. The stockholders of the Athens,Ga., Exchange bank met Monday morning. • Tho experts have not finished their ex amination and no definite report could be made. A committee from the directors re ported that the capital stock has been reduced from 875,000 to 845,000. The discrepancy in the accounts amounts to between $14,000 and $15,- 000. The stockholders decided to place the bank into the hands of a receiver and Mr. A. S. Pariser will be the per manent. receiver. regiment then deployed under fire with Major John A. Logan's battalion in the center; Major Cronic’s on the right and Major Marsh’s on the left. The skirmish line, which was a mile long, advanced rapidly, keeping up a constant fire. The Filipinos made an unexpectedly good stand, many of them remaining under cover nntil the Americans were within twenty feet of them. Major Marsh flanked a trench full of insttr gents, surprising them and slaughter ing nearly all of them before the town. The gatling killed five of the force holding the bridge and swept the country beyond the town, driving about 150 Filipinos into the hills. Marsh's battalion, entering the town first, captured a flag, which was flying over a convent. The insurgents are supposed to have retreated toward Dagupan. It was impossible to pur sue them, as the Americans were ex hausted and their supply of ammuni tion was low. The outposts killed five Filipinos during the night. The body of the Filipino lieutenant colonel com manding was found among the killed. The regiment retired to San Fabian Sunday, it being impossible to get supplies over the roads. Blanco Imitated. A proclamation of the Filipinos’ secretary of war was found in all the villages giving accounts of Filipino victories and saying 7,500 Americans had been killed and 15,000 wounded during the war. SOLD DEAD BODIES. Memphis Undertaker Did Big Busi ness In “Cadavers.” Four zinc-lined trunks, such as are used by traveling men to carry sam ples, each containing a corpse, were taken from the baggage room at the union station at St. Lonis, Tuesday, and E. D. Thompson, a brother of Frank Thompson, who says he is city undertaker at Memphis, Tenn., is un der arrest Charges against Thomp son are being formulated. For some time the police have been aware that a traffic in human bodies has been going on through St. Louis and have been on the watch for evidence. When taken to police headquarters ' Thompߣj,,madej»Llean breast of the ■ whole affair. Tldaaidhe had the con tract for burying the city dead of Memphis. For some time he had been ■ selling the bodies to medical colleges throughout that part of the country. PHOSPHALE LAND DEALS. Valuable Property Changes Owner ship In Tennessee County. An interesting review of the sale of phosphate land in Columbia, Tenn., is given by The Chattanooga News, from its special correspondent. The sales of phosphate lands within the last two weeks have amounted to about $125,000. One of the places sold was the Orr farm, near Mt. Pleas ant. There are about 300 acres in the farm, and it brought $75,000. It is estimated that there are not more than 100 acres containing phosphate rock, of consequence, on the farm. The price paid for the rock proper, there fore, was something like $750 an acre. This will give the public some con ception of the value now placed upon phosphate lands in the district. ALMOST A SAM HOSE. Farmer Brained With Ax and His Home Robbed. News reached Columbus, Ga., Tues day, of a case in Harris county, which, for fiendish coldbloodedness and de liberation, almost equals the notorious Sam Hose case, near Newnan. Sunday night Mr. Bartlett Horn, a well known and highly respected farmer of Harris county,was assaulted by a negro named Will Stapleton, who struck him on the head three times with an ax, crushing his skull and in flicting probably fatal injuries. The negro’s purpose iras robbery, and he was successful in this, securing $65. It is thought had it not been for the timely arrival of neighbors the second chapter of the Sam Hose case woold have been enacted, as Mr. Horn’s wife was in another room, helpless. A L ACK OF FUNDS. .Tany League Island Navy Yard Eiid ployes Discharged. A general reduction of the force of the department cf construction and repair at the League Island navy yard at Philadelphia has been made. Os the 380 employes 102 have been dis charged, and it is believed that more will follow. The discharged men in clude shipwrights, ship fitters, paint ers, shipsmiths, joiners, plumbers, boat builders and laborers. Naval Constructor Linnard says the reason for tho cut down is a lack of funds to keep all the men employed, although there is plenty of work for the full force. BIG EXPLOSION. A Nitro-Glycerine Magazine Blows Up and Causes Death and Widespread Damage. A magazine used by the Bradford nitro-glycerin factory to store the ex plosive, located two and a half miles east of Gibsonburg, Ohio, exploded Monday afternoon. The shock was heard in towns within a radius of forty miles and the effects of the explosion in the immediate neighborhood were terrific. The magazine was located in the woods a quarter of a mile from any dwelling, and this alone prevented greater loss of life. Benjamin Card, driver of a stock wagon, had brought a load of 720 quarts of nitro-glycerin from the fac tory at Bradford and was unloading it when the explosion occurred. Just how it happened will never be learned. Card and the two horses driven by him received the full force of the explosion. He was blown almost to atoms, only a few shreds of his body being found and pieces of horse flesh were hurled several miles. It is supposed that Card had a com panion, but this is not positively known. The explosion made a hole seven feet deep in the solid rock and trees in tho vicinity were torn to splinters. People within a mile of the place were knocked dowm, pictures torn from the walls, dishes thrown out of cupboards, windows shattered and houses moved from their foundations. All the windows in Gibsonburg were broken. There were about 1,500 quarts of glycerin on the wagon and in the magazine. Card lived in Brad ford, 0., and left a family. The shock was distinctly felt at Tiffin, forty miles away. GROWTH OF THE SOUTH. List of New Industries Established the Past Week. The new industries reported during the past week include, among the more important, 200-ton blast furnace in Tennessee; a carriage factory in North Carolina; coal mines and coke ovens in West Virginia; a construction company in Arkansas; a $200,000 eotton mill in Mississippi; cotton seed oil mills in Alabama, Missis sippi and Texas; a creamery and eold storage plant in Arkansas; an electric light plant in Mississippi; flouring mills in Tennessee, Texas and Virginia; foundries and machine shops in Alabama, Tennessee and Vir ginia; a gas retort manufacturing com pany in Alabama; a harness factory in Tennes»ee;a handle factory in Alabama; an ice factory in Florida; an ice and cold storage plant in Arkansas; lum ber mills in Alabama, Arkansas, Mis sissippi, Tennessee and Virginia; lig nite mines in Texas; phosphate plants in Alabama and Florida; a planing mill in Tennessee; a shingle mill in Alabama; a stave factory in Georgia.— Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.) DECLARED TO BE FRAUDS. Four Pension Associations Are Barred From the Mails. Officials of southern first-class post offices have received a statement from the pcstoffice department in regard to the organization of associations for the purpose of agitating the question of pensions for the ex-slaves aud their decendants. The department investigated the “ex-Slave Petitioners’ Assembly,” of Madison, Ark.; the “ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty and Pension Associa tion” and “Vaughan’s National ex- Slave Pension Club Association,” of Nashville. The report made on these investigations is that the three organi zations named were operating through the mails systematic schemes to de fraud. The department prohibits the delivery of all mail addressed to these concerns. MORE MEN FOR WHITE. British Re-Enforcements Are Finally Landed at Cape Town. A dispatch from Cape Town to the war office in London announces the arrival there Monday of the troop ship Armenian,with three batteriee of artil lery and ammunition column, and the troop ship Nubia, with Scots Guards and half a battalion of the Northamp tonshire regiment. This brings the ♦otal number of re-enforcements to 12,- 802, of which about 6,000 are already on the way to Durban. M’HUGH PLEADED GUILTY. Ex-Mayor of Pensacola, Fla., Receives n Heavy Sentence. A Pensacola, Fla., dispatch says: Ex-Mayor Pat McHugh, against whom several charges were pending in the criminal court for malfeasance in office in 1897, and who returned home a few days ago and gave bond, appeared be fore the court Monday morning and pleaded guilty. lu one case for maliciously threat ening to accuse, he was sentenced to pay a fine of SSOO, but this sentence was suspended. On the charge of conspiracy he was sentenced to one year in the county jail or to pay a fine of SSOO and costs. The third case was nol prossed. THE CHARLESTON ON THE ROCKS Vessel Wrecked In Unchartered Wa ters Off Luzon Island. ALL THE CREW SAFE. Admiral Watson Sends Particu lars of the Mishap. Advices received from Manila state that the U. S. cruiser Charleston ran aground near Vigar on a hidden reef with 35 fathoms of water on both sides. She worked her machinery two days and nights trying to get afloat, but a typhoon arising, the crew were compelled to take to their boats and seek refuge on an island five miles away. The natives are friendly. Lieutenant McDonald and a number of sailors put off in a small boat and reached the Callao, which carried them to Manila. The gunboat Helena was dispatched to bring away the crew. Lieutenant McDonald describes the Charleston w-hen he last saw her as hard aground, with bottom badly stove and well out of the water. Watson's Report. Admiral Watsou cables to the navy department the following official re port of the wreck of the cruiser Charleston: : “Manila, November 14. —Charleston wrecked on uncharted coral reef three miles noithwest of Guinapak rocks, north coast of Luzon, 5:20 the morn ing of November 7th. Everybody safely landed at Kamiguin island, armed with rifles and two Colts. Na tives friendly. MacDonald made Lin gayen gulf in a sailing launch. When he left he had no opportunity of ex amining the condition of wrecking op erations, a heavy sea prevailing. He reports that the ship struck easily, then thumped violently. Fire room completely flooded. First watertight doors closed promptly. The ship lies settled aft; water one foot from name. Well out of water forward; apparently very steep bank; ten days’ provisions, one-half rations, landed. Helena dis patched from Lingayen by Oregon to Kamiguin; due today. (Signed) “Watson.” Was In Prime Condition. The Charleston has been in Asiatic waters more than a year. She was one of the first vessels to be sent to Ma nila after the destruction of the Span ish fleet by Admiral Dewey, the navy department utilizing her for the pur pose of sending ammunition and other supplies for the Asiatic squadron. Just previous to her assignment to that duty she had undergone an over hauling at the Mare Island navy yard, San Francisco, and therefore was in prime condition for her duties. The Charleston was built in San Francisco in 1888. She had a • dis placement of 8,730 tons, was 312 feet 7 inches in length, 46 feet 2 inches in beam and 21 feet 8 inches in draught. She was of steel,having two propellers, one funnel and two masts with mili tary tops with the following armament: Two 8-inch guns, six 6-inch guns, four 6-pounders, two 3-pounders, six 1-pounders, two machine guns and one light gun, with four torpedo tubes. She had a complement of 306 men. WILL FIX RESPONSIBILITY. Wrecking of the Charleston flay Re sult In Courtniartial. A Washington dispatch says: As soon as possible a court of inquiry will be called to fix the responsibility for the wrecking of the cruiser Char leston. This will follow irrespective of any action of the navy department and will be ordered by Admiral Wat son. Should it appear that the w-reck was caused by negligence of any of the Charleston’s officers, a courtmar tials will follow the inquiry, but in view of the very dangerous character of the north coast of Luzon aud the lack of necessary aids to navigation, it is not believed to be probable*that any of the officers will be found se verely censurable. Child Labor Bill Failed. The Nesbit child labor bill failed to pass iu the Georgia senate Tuesday morning. The vote stood 20 to 17, and the measure not having received the requisite constitutional majority, was lost. TO SUE ROADS. Clmttauoogans Will Attempt to Col lect For Overpaid Freights. The merchants of Chattanooga are preparing to bring many suits against the Southern, the Western and Atlan tic, tho Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railroads to recover from them money overpaid on freight. The decision of Justice Harlan at Cincinnati that these roads could not charge Chattanooga more for freight than they did Nashville merchants, is the cause of the suits. They will sue for all amounts over paid since the first decision in favor of Chattanooga waa given about six years ago.