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The Georgia Record.
VOL. I.
TELEGRAPHERS
ORDERED OUT
Employes of Southern Railway
Are Called On to Strike.
A MAJORITY VOTED TO QUIT.
Railroad Officials, However, De
clare Move Will Not Prove
Serious.
The telegraphers on the Southern
railway system were ordered to strike
at 11 o’clock last Thursday morning
by President W. V. Powell, of the Or
der of Railway Telegraphers.
The order was issued as a result of
the controversy which has been wag
ing between the telegraphers and the
Southern, and was not entirely unex
pected. President Powell is person
ally directing the strike from his head
quarters in the Kimball house in At
lanta. His order to the operators
follows:
Atlanta, Ga., April 12.—T0 All
Telegraphers Employed on the
Southern Railway Turn your
board red and quit work at 11
o’clock today, Thursday, April
12th. Perform no service of any
kind. Stand firm and victory is
ours. W. V. Powell,
President Order Teleg
raphers.
President Powell claims that at least
90 per cent of the men quit "work, and
the officials ot the road say that only
about 10 per cent of the telegraphers
on the system obeyed the order and
went on strike.
CIRCULAR ISSUED.
President Powell issued a circular
approving the strike he had ordered,
in accordance with the constitution of
Order of Railway Telegraphers. The
circular defines the purposes of the
strike as follows:
1. To secure the reinstatement of its
members who were discharged by the
Southern railway without just cause.
2. The right to be heard through
committees in the adjustment of their
individual grievances.
3. A set of rules and rates of pay to
govern train dispatchers, telegraphers,
agents and other station employees,
in their employment, discipline, etc.
4. Twelve consecutive hours work
per day where one or two telegraphers
are employed, including one consecu
tive hour for dinner; ten consecutive
hours, including meal hour, in all re
lay, dispatchers’ offices and offices
where more than two telegraphers are
employed, except that this rule will
not make working hours more than
those that may now be effective.
5. Eight consecutive hours for train
dispatchers. .
6. Pay for overtime for telegraph
ers, dispatchers and others in excess
of the above hours pro rata on stated
salary, but nothing less than 25 cents
per hour.
7. To abolish the practice of com
pelling agents to load cotton, to care
for and put out switch lights, to hire
additional help and pay for it out of
their already meager salary, and the
performance of other menial labor.
8. A minimum wage scale of $45
and SSO per month, according to ter
ritory or location, and the raising of
individual stations to conform to the
amount of work performed or the re
sponsibility of the service.
9. One hundred and twenty dollars
per month for track dispatchers.
10. The Securement of fair and
equitable rules regarding promotion.
While President Powell and the
other strike leaders are jubilant and
declare that they have the entire sys
tem tied up, the Southern officials in
Atlanta do not appear disturbed or
alarmed at the situation.
MR. HARDWICK TALKS.
Assistant General Passenger Agent
Hardwick, who began his railroad ser
vice as a telegraph operator, said in
regard to the strike:
“The public may be assured that the
Southern Railway Company thor
oughly appreciates its duty to the
public in every way, and it gives the
assurance that there has been no
serious interruption of traffic and
there will not be any.”
JURORS CRITICISED.
Their Verdict Recommended Mur-
derers of Cassie Boan To Hercy
of the Court.
A special from Columbia, S. C.,
says: At 3 o’clock Thursday morning
the jury that had for nine hours been
trying to reach a verdict in the case of
John Jackson and Harvy Jackson,
charged with murdering Cassie Boan,
announced an agreement. The judge
came from his hotel and the prisoners
were brought.from the jail.
On a table near where the prisoners
sat were charred remnants of the young
woman’s clothing, her shoes, one of
the fingers burned to blackness that
had been torn off, and her straw hat,
with the edges burned off, showing the
flames had leaped over her head.
“Guilty, with recommendation to
the mercy of the court,” was the ver
dict.
Carolina newspapers will scourge
the jury for recommending mercy in
such a case. The men were sentenced
to life imprisonment at hard labor. It
is understood the solicitor has obtain
ed evidence against a number of other
men who will be prosecuted for con
nection with this crime.
Cassie Boan was a comely country
girl about twenty years old, one-fourth
Indian. Her reputation was question
able.
The testimony presented by the
state, and not contradicted, was, wil
lingly or unwillingly, the girl was
taken to an island in a swamp in
Chesterfield county by two men at
least—John and Harvey Jackson—
that she was kept there from Sunday
afternoon till Monday night, when
she was seen running through the
woods, a mass of flames.
Those who first reached the suf
ferer found her burnt from knees to
forehead and unable to speak. There
were many gashes on her body made
with sharp knives, and the spot from
which she had come was found by fol
lowing the trail of blood. There was
evidence that the Jacksons had made
threats against the girl, but the cause
of their enmity was not made known.
It was suggested that they were jeal
ous because she showed favor to Sam
Woodward and repelled them.
The defense offered no testimony.
The attorneys in their speeches did
not deny the presence of their clients
at the orgie of the lonely island in a
swamp, but advanced the theory that
the woman had accidentally set her
clothing on fire.
BIG BUILDING COLLAPSES.
Without Waftiinjf a Number of People
Were Caught In the Debris.
Without warning a lour-story brick
building at the corner of Second ave
nue and Wood street, Pittsburg, Pa.,
collapsed Thursday, engulfing in its
ruins a number of people, three of
whom were taken out dead, six badly
hurt and several others slightly in
jured.
The building, which was occupied
by the Armstrong-McKelvey Lead and
Oil Company, was being remodeled.
About forty-eight feet of the middle
partition had been removed, steel
girders supported by heavy iron posts
were in place, and the finishing touches
were being put on the remodeling
work. *
When the accident happened busi
ness was being transacted on the first
floor as usual.
CANAL BILL SIDETRACKED.
Motion By Senator Morgnii to Take It
Up Defeated In Senate.
In the senate Thursday Senator
Morgan made a motion to take up the
Nicaragua canal bill.
The motion tvas defeated by strict
party vote, with the exception of Sen
ator Foster, of Washington. Senator
Simon, of Oregon, dodged, but with
the vote was on party
lines.
Senator Morgan, who has been
watching closely for an opportunity to
bring up the bill, first asked unani
mous consent that a day be set for a
vote oil the measure, but this was de
nied because of objection by Mr.
Lodge, who said the Philippines bill
must come up first. Later Senator i
Morgan found an opportunity to make
a formal motion for its consideration,
the result of which was temporary de- ;
feat.
ATLANTA. GA.. SATURDAY, APRIL 14. 1900.
BOER ACTIVITY
BALKS ROBERTS
A Winter Campaign By Britons
Seems Now a Prospect.
THE WAR MAY BE A LONG ONE.
Continued Success of Burghers
and Delay In Advance on Pre
toria Rattles Britishers.
A London special says: Britons are
now beginning, though reluctantly, to
realize that Lord Roberts is in for a
winter campaign, lasting several
months. This is the end, in a few
words, of the high hopes based upon
Lord Roberts’s brilliant dash to Kim
berly and Bloemfontein.
Preparations are being made to hold
Bloemfontein against surprises. Lord
Kitchener has been given an impor
tant duty, being responsible for the
protection of the railway, while Lord
Roberts is waiting for remounts and
winter clothing for the troops, whose
thin cotton khaki uniforms and boots
are worn out. General Brabant and
General Gatacre are both at a stand
still. Lord Roberts will probably for
some time confine his operations to
clearing the Free States behind him of
raiders and to relieving Mafeking, for
which purpose app4-„ently the Eighth
division, now arrixfcig'at Capetown,
has been ordered tdAtimberley.
What the chances are for an advance
to Pretoria may be j edged from the fact
that only from 6,000 to 10,000 horses
are on their way to the cape and from
the further fact that the military tailor
ing department only within the last
three weeks began making woolen
khaki uniforms. It is said it will take
at least two months to provide 200,000
uniforms.
EMPOWERED TO NEGOTIATE PEACE.
Mr. Steyn’s address to the Free
State raad at Kroonstad is confirmed.
The Fischer-Wolmarans deputation
has full power to negotiate for peace,
subject to the raad’s sanction
The Bloemfontein correspondent of
The Daily Telegraph, telegraphing
Sunday, says:
“Confirmation has been received of
the report that the Boers are in laager
in considerable force, with guns, at
Donkerspoort, eighteen miles south
east.
“The British scouts report another
body still closer. The Boer patrols
have grown very daring, venturing
nearer our tents.”
A London special under date of
April 9 says: The amazing activity of
the Boers southeast and southwest of
Bloemfontein continues, the Boer com
mands seemingly coming and going
throughout a wide region as they
please, but taking good care not to
throw themselves against strong bodies
of the British.
The retirement of the Irish Rifles
from Rouxville to Aliwal leaves Gen
eral Brabant without communication
with the other British forces. He has
2,000 or 3,000 colonists holding a fine
defensive country, but he is apparently
invested so far as London knows.
Lord Roberts’last message bore date
of April 7. The absence of news as
usual disheartens the people and pro
duces an altogether discouraging ef
fect. The last unofficial message notes
that good spirits at Bloemfontein are
continuing and tells of the arrival of
animals and two fresh cavalry regi
ments. Lord Roberts has now 15,000
mounted men altogether.
In the Orange Free State the situa
tion is complex, with scanty material
for forming a correct estimate of the
situation and the afternoon newspa
pers not being in the confidence of ■
the managers are criticising the con
duct of affairs as they see them. Thus
the St. James Gazette reviewing the
army system says:
“As a consequence of the foolish,
sporting, boyish estimate of the war,
General Buller is anchored indefinite
ly, as he must wait for transports un
til Lord Roberts is adequately sup- I
plied.”
DETECTIVES ON RACK.
Two Atlanta “Sleuths” Charged
With Attempt to Corrupt
• Juror In a Will Case.
David S. Looney and William A.
Bradley, two private detectives of At
, lanta, were declared Monday night by
1 Judge J. H. Lumpkin to be in con
tempt of court and were sentenced to
twenty days in Fulton county jail.
A few minutes after announcing this
decision Judge Lumpkin granted a
1 supersedeas and placed the two men
under SI,OOO bonds, making the pro
vision that the bill of exceptions is to
' be filed within twenty days. The case
will be taken to the supremo court for
final decision, and if the judgment of
Judge Lumpkin is affirmed the two
detectives will at once begin serving
their sentences.
All of this was the outcome of an at
tempt to corrupt two members of the
Atlanta bar—Lowry Arnold, of the
firm of Arnold & Arnold, and R. J.
Jordan—which is said to have been
made a few days ago.
The charges were in substance that
a juror named T. J. Penn, had ap
proached the detectives and offered to
“sell out” if they (the detectives)
could arrange the matter with the at
torneys interested in the will case.
The lawyers alleged that they were ap
, proached on the subject in an indirect
way, and forthwith reported the mat
ter to Judge Lumpkin.
, Judge Lumpkin, in announcing his
decision, refrained from dealing with
the evidence heard during the day, for
the reason that he did not desire to
say anything that might prejudice the
minds of the members of the grand
jury in the event that body decides to
investigate the evidence. The attor
neys on both sides repeatedly made
reference tc a probable action by the
grand jury, and there were other cir
cumstances connected with the hear
ing which gave the impression that it
is the present intention to have an in
vestigation into the criminal aspect of
the case.
CARNEGIE AND CRAMPS
May Combine Their Mammoth
Steel Interests—Representa
tives In Conference.
The New York World says: Nego
tiations are in progress for a combina
tion of the gigantic new Carnegie com
pany and the Cramp ship building
concern. If the conference now going
on in Atlantic City results in a satis
factory arrangement the coalition be
! tween these two great interests will
soon be announced.
Charles M. Schwab and Henry C.
■ Frick have been respectively at the
I Brighton and Traymore hotels in At
lantic City for several days.
William and Samuel Cramp, of the
William Cramp & Sons Ship and En
gine Building company of Philadel
i phia, are at the Traymore. These four
i representative men have had frequent
’ meetings. They have not progressed
I beyond the point of denying that their
i talks have anything to do with a steel
I and ship building trust.
It is well known to New York steel
men that ever since the Carnegie-
Frick difficulties have been settled,
the newly formed company has been
looking for an offensive and defensive
alliance with some great ship building
concern. The new Carnegie company
with its $160,000,0000 capital, al
ready stands at the head of the steel
making interests of this country.
Among the most profitable branches
of activity in steel manufacturing is
making armor plate for warships. The
Carnegie mills lead all others in the
industry. If the Carnegie company
should obtain control of, or a strong
alliance with, the greatest ship-build
ing concern in the United States, it
would be able to undertake contracts i
of unprecedented magnitude.
With power to issue bonds to the
I extent of $160,000,000, the new Car
i uegie company can easily acquire a !
j big interest in the Cramp company if ,
, the negotiators come to terms. The
Cramps’capital is $5,000,000 stock and i
$1,500,000 bonds. The profits of the
concern last year were $707,800.
The heads of the great ship-building !
house are not far from seventy years
of age. New York steel men say that i
the Cramps are not averse to an ar- j
rangemeut which will permit them to
i give up the arduous labor of managing I
i their gigantic shipyard.
NO. 42.
THIS FROM WHEELER
Writes Significant Letter 'to a
Friend In Florence, Ala.
vacates his seat in congress
! Sneh In the Practical Inference Drawn
Through Verbiage of the
Document
A special from Birmingham says:
The first positive information as to the
probable action of General Joe Wheel
er regarding his seat in congress was
made public in a letter received by a
close friend of the general at Florence,
Ala., from the general dated at Wash
i iton on the 9th inst., which reads as
follow’s:
“William Bunting, Florence, Ala.
; —My Dear Sir: When W. J. Wood
I was here (about three weeks before
the writing of this letter) I asked him
to tell the governor the situation, with
the hope that the governor would im
mediately order an election. I also
stated to Judge Wood, both personally
and in writing, that I would devote
myself to the interests of the district
until the arrival of my successor. I
feel more deeply than I can express the
embarrassing position in which I have
J been placed. With highregards, truly
your friend, “Joseph Wheeler.”
Upon receipt of the letter a telegram
was sent to Governor Johnston asking
if he had taken any action regarding
the calling of an election to fill Gen
eral Wheeler’s seat, to which the gov
ernor’s private secretary replied that
no action had been taken by the gov
ernor.
BLOOD ACCOUNT GROWS.
British Losses In South Africa Up
to April 7th Placed at
«3.365 Men.
Wednesday afternoon the war office
in London issued a return of the total
British casualties up to April 7th. It
was as follows:
Killed in action, 211 officers and
1,960 men; died of wounds, 48 officers
and 465 men; missing and prisoners,
168 officers and 3,722 men; died of
disease, 47 officers and 1,485 men; ac
cidental deaths, 3 officers and 33 q>en;
repatriated invalids, 288 officers and
4,934 men. Total, 13,365, exclusive
of the sick and wounded now in hos
pital.
To the war office returns of casual
ties must be added the losses of last
week and the wounded, aggregating
about 19,000, making a grand total of
upwards of 23,000 officers and men
put out of action.
In a dispatch to the war office Lord
Roberts says telegrams, books, cloth
ing and luxuries are freely distributed
to the Boer prisoners in his hands;
that small sums of money are given.
MUST STAND TRIAL.
Supreme Court Refuses To Dismiss The
“Peg Williams Case.
The supreme court of Georgia hand
ed down a decision Wednesday refus
ing to interfere with the lower court of
Morgan county in holding “Peg Leg”
Williams for trial on the charge of do
ing business as an emigrant agent
without license. The decision means
that “Peg Leg” will have to stand
trial under the charge both in Morgan
and Greene counties.
Williams is at present out on bond
and was strongly of the hope that his
contention before the supreme court
would be accepted. It is understood
that Williams’ lawyers propose to carry
the case to the supreme court of the
United St ites on the ground that the
detention of “Peg Leg” is in viola
tion of the fourteenth amendment to
the constitution.
Williams, in carrying on the busi
ness of an emigrant agent in Greene.
Morgan and Clarke counties, failed to
obtain a license as an agent, which
entails an expense of SSOO in each of
the counties. The date of his trial in
Morgan county has been set and con
siderable interest attaches to the ver
dict of the court. The sentiment
against Williams in the counties where
he has been operating is as strong as
ever, it is said, and attempt may ba
made to change the venue.