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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.