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1 he Columbia Sentinel.
HARLEM, GA.
J. M.ATKINSON, Proprietor
EDITORIALS
a carload of shingles shipped to
Annapolis this morning was probably
Intended to be used to break up the
practice of hazing, suggests the Bal¬
timore Herald.
The love of a garden Is never entire¬
ly lost In man, declares the Mitigate
Monthly. Most people would willingly
sacrifice something of their weekly
gains to live in a homely paradise of
flowers and fruit.
With what fine indignation can a
man repudiate the monstrous imputa¬
tion that he was driving his automo¬
bile at twenty-five miles an hour, ob¬
serves the New York Tribune, when it
was really running at only twenty
four and a half miles!
The Tramway and Railway World
says: The question whether it Is prac
tlcable to adopt a fare of one penny
for a Journey Of any distance on elec¬
tric tramways In our large towns has
been discussed and It has been gene¬
rally admitted that St can only- be
done by abolishing halfpenny fares
for short distances.
As a result of recent scientific In¬
vestigations, It may be possible to re¬
vise our ideas of the barrenness of the
Sahara Desert, remarks Harper’s
Weekly, since It has been found by
boring that there are numerous springs
which rise to the surface and make
possible a system of Irrigation. In
the territory to the south of Algeria
n government irrigation survey has
been at work making a series of deep
test borings, some of which arc as deep
ns 2,000 feet. In this way considerable
water has heen encountered, and in
certain oases already twice the usunl
amount of water has been made avail¬
able for the palm groves.
The New Orleans Tlmes-Democrat
•ays that few people have any idea
:>f the requirements demanded of pri¬
vate soldiers in some branches of the
regular army. The non-commissioned
officer in the coast artillery must know
more points in certain forms of ap¬
plied mathematics than the ordinary
well-educated business man or pro¬
fessional man either, has any practical
Jtnowledgstof. tTJie pxart IcaLavorWp.g.
phases of' Irlangulntion, the use of a
level, the taking of elevation, etc., arc
required of the private In the coast
nrtillery before he is passed as either
a first or a second-rate gunner. This
grade renders him available for pro¬
motion to the rank of corporal or
sergeant. In ndditlon he must be able
to handle the Intricate machinery of
the great roast defence guns and must
understand the delicate mechanism of
the various sorts of projectiles other
than solid.
Aftei twenty years of marriage a
prominent couple have decided to live
apart, because "public life has spoiled
the husband," so the wife alleges, ns a
domestic partner. Participation in
civic affairs and the demands of club
membership have weakened his home
ties, relates the New York Evening
World. The complaint seems a novel
one, yet no doubt It might be found
to be the insidious rause of many
cases of incompatibility. With a man
of active interests in tho city It is not
only the occasional "lodge night” which
leaves his wife alone. The claims on
his lime of associations and fellow¬
ships which contribute to his social or
business advancement, but In which
women havo no part, are bound to be¬
come more or less pressing.
To a certain extent they must Inevi¬
tably endanger home attachments.
Where the line should he drawn is
likely to remain, with neglected wives,
at least, a vexed question.
What Is the Influence of the schools
and the universities, the public con
science and public opinion, in the ever
new remoutdlng of the national spirit?
asks Harper's Weekly. These schools
and universities have lieen chaining
their form from simplicity to power
under the pressure pf this same era of
passionate strength, and educational
ideals are more often the result of so
ciai pressure than social ideals are the , ■
results? I claim this much for the
schools: they are today more helpfully
related to the public life of states and
cities than ever before. They are
closer to the needs of that body, who
are neither rich nor poor, and upon
whom rests the solution of our prob¬
lems. They are producing more abun¬
dantly and scattering more widely the
results of their production, They
speak with tho autority of knowledge.
The same protest of our time has there¬
fore come out of them. The scholar¬
ship in them, neither radical nor sub
,c . nt, Is thoroughly permeated with
n cense of public spirit and informed
with a note of hopefulness and serious¬
ness and old fashioned belief in tip
mission of the republic.
queries wor ry bill
Plain Citizen Robinson of the Itshm-is
of Panama Comes Back at War
Secretary Taft
"Are you a Caesarian atavism or
reincarnation of some turbaned, robed,
aworded despot of the Orient?"
This question has beep put to Sec¬
retary of Wlar Taft by no less a per¬
son than Mr. Tracy Robinson, former
resident of New York, who, for forty
five years has been a resident of the
Isthmus of Panama. Mr. Robinson
has a grievance and Secretary Taft is
it. He does not at all like the refer¬
ences to himself in thej secretary’s
very pointed comment upo on the so
called expose of Panama conditions
written by Poultnyy Bigelow.
Mr. Robinson confesses that he did
give Mr. Bigelow much of the mate¬
rial for that article to which Secre¬
tary Taft took such strong exception.
"Mr. Bigelow can take care of him¬
self. He can doubtless apply a ready
antidote for the venom from your ca¬
pacious distillery," he writes. “I am
obscure, more easily crushed by your
great weight.” He' resents the sug¬
gestion of having "an animus
against the government,” because he
failed to get a good job under the
canal commission.
Mr- -(Robinson calls him “brave
Ponltney Bigelow," and says he told
the truth about the swamp conditions
Colom “You,” he says to Secre
fair faff, “are posing as a great man
which you are not.” And thereupon
he puts to the secretary these ques¬
tions: “Are you above and beyond
the law pf libel? Do you hold the fair
fame of men in your keeping? Havo
you expropriated ‘for canal use the
vast outlying jungle of lies?’”
Secretary Taft wears a worried look.
He is. wondering whether it can be
true that he is a Caesarian atavism.
Ho is wondering, also, what a Cae¬
sarian atavism is!
There is some mystery about this
letter. It has been sent to the press
as coming from Mr. Edmund Clar
ence Stedman, the author, to whom
Mr. Bigelow in his testimony referred
as a close friend of Mr. Robinson,
but Mr. Stedman has repudiated any
connection with it.
YOU MUST CLAIM KIN,
Or Be Deprived of Invitation to Wed¬
ding of President's Daughter.
President Roosevelt authtrized the
following statement, which was given
out at the white house Friday:
“The president and Mrs. Roosevelt
ask the kjnd consideration of many
friends who would under ordinary cir¬
cumstances receive invitations to Miss
Roosevelt’s wedding. The capacity
of the white house required that under
existing circumstances invitations be
limited to the closest kinsfolk, the
personal friends of Miss Rooseve?e
and Mr. Long worth and. certain classes
of officials in Washington. No friends
of the president or Mrs. Roosevei* are
being asked unless they also come
within otff’of those Classes; and even
with these limitations the number of
guests threatens to overtax the capac¬
ity of the white house.”
DEAD BODY IDENTIFIED.
Remains Found In Virginia Woods
Were Those of Missing Cashier.
The badly decomposed body of a
man with a bullet hole through his
head, which was found in a thicket
on tho outskirts of Roanoke, Va., is
that of Sturley C. Armstrong, cashier
of the Washington National Bank,who
mysteriously disappeared from Pitts¬
burg on January 2. The identification
was made possible when the number
243241, attached to a hunch of keys,
which were found on the body, was
Identified as tho number of the acci¬
dent insurance policy carried by the
missing cashier.
Mr. Armstrong was well known in
banking circles, His accounts were
found to bo entirely correct, He
leaves a wife and four children.
Mall Carrier Arrested for Robbery.
Tho chief inspector’s office in Chat:
tanooga has been notified of the ar¬
rest of Rural Route Carrier James
F. Warren. Tito charge is robbing the
mail.
SEEKING SOUTHERN HOMES.
Prospective 3ettlers from North Vi«e
Itlng Georgia and Florida.
More than a hundred homoseekera
arrived in Atlanta a few days ago
over the Southern railway from Chat
tanooga. These homeseekers were
for the most part farmers from Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois and the north¬
west. The entire party continued on
to points in Florida and South Geor¬
gia. For this purpose the homeseek¬
ers wore taken to Savannah and Jack¬
sonville, from which places the party
will break up for the purpose of vis¬
iting many sections of the wire grass
and the fruit country.
TO SEPARATE THE RACES.
Asheville Inaugurates New Regula
tions for Street Railways.
The board of aldermen of Asheville,
N. C., unanimously passed an ordi
ranee, effective June 1, requiring (he
streat railway companies to provide
separate cars and waiting stations for
white and colored people. A line ol
$25 is provided against any person
who shall go into a ear or compart
nient provided for another race.
JUROR GOES INTO HYSTERICS.
Couldn’t Stand Strain During Trial of
Young Woman’* Assailant.
The trial of Ed Johnson nt Chatta¬
nooga for criminal assault on Its third
day was sensational. The strain on
the men who are to decide the negro’s
fate fa great, and Juror Warden broke
dow-n and became hysterical when
Miss Taylor said, pointing to John¬
son: "1 believe that is the man.”
ANNA IS BUNCOED
Boni Played Havoc With Cash
of Gould’s Daughter,
SPENT $2,017 EVERY DAY
Story from Paris Tells of 8ome of
Count Castsliane’s Crazy and Sen¬
sational Propinquities as the
King of Spendthrifts.
A Paris special says: Count Bonl
and his family are striving by every
means in their power to induce the
countess to withdraw her suit. They
know that if Jay Gould’s daughter
pushes her suit Count Boni will be
left practically penniless.
Even if Count Boni effects a recon¬
ciliation with the countess, his income
will be so cut down as to practically
extinguish one of the greatest spend¬
ers that even prodigal Paris has ever
known.
Of all the American investments in
Old World titles, Anna Gould's has
probably been the most costly. ,
Reduced to cold figures, the price of
her title has been approximately $2,
017 each and every day for the eleveq
years they have been married, or the
equivalent every four weeks of Presi¬
dent Roosevelt’s salary for a year.
Recently Frank Work, the New
York millionaire, and his daughter
had a dispute that led Mrs. Roche to
leave his home because for a time
she spent about $350 a day, one-sixth
of the daily expenditures of the count.
Furthermore, Mr. Work permitted his
daughter’s extravagances for only a
few weeks, while George Gould’s titled
brother-in-law has hammered away
until he has made the record $9,000,
000 for the eleven years of his mar¬
ried life.
The count has smilingly spent $4
for a cherry and cheerfully given
enough to pay the bonded Indebted¬
ness of a small city for a piece of
brie a-brac. He has made for himself
a reputation as a spender that caused
the famous literary men of this and
other capitals to write about him, and
he has inflamed the Parisian populace
more than once so that he has had
to placate the city by great gifts to
charity.
One of his little foibles was a
vaudeville performance given at Au
teuil when, for 350 guests, he present¬
ed an all star bill, no act of which
cost him less than $500.
Eclipse! That has been the one
idea of the count from the moment he
got his hands on the Gould fortune.
Ha waited for others to give fetes
or to buy jewels or antiques only
that he might eclipse them, and gene¬
rally he has succeeded. He has lived
to hear his praises sung, and the coun¬
tess paid the cosi.
For his world-famed mansion on the
Avenue Bois de Btffltongnyto i t mn
the ‘‘Red Palace,” Boni spent morm
money than he can accurately tell. He
liked the location so well that he
paid $740,000 for the land alone, and
before he got through he had pro¬
duced a palace (hat any king in Eu
ropo might envy.
Here are some of the ways Castel
lane made money fly:
Bought $150,000 equipage and em¬
ployed the outrider Montjarrett, for¬
merly in the service of the president
of France; bought $60,000 clock;
bought $280,000 antique cabinet;
bought cherries at $4.00 per cherry;
purchased mantelpiece for $50,000 ;
purchased necklace at $100,000, hall
of which he gave his wife; spent a
fortune monthly on dollies; built, the
Little Trianon at $1,500,000.
JUDGES INAUGURATE REFORM.
All Legal Lights In Minneapolis Will
Scorn Annual Passes.
All the judges In Minneapolis, Minn.,
will henceforth scorn railroad passes.
A movement started recently by the
district bench of Hennepin county has
resulted in all tho judges in the state
sending back their annual passes.
FOUR WERE KILLED IN WRECK.
Official Report of Accident on South¬
ern at Greensboro.
The official report cf the accident
on the Southern railway at Greens¬
boro. N. C., Saturday morning, re¬
ceived at the offices of the company
in Washington, states that four em¬
ployes were killed, as follows:
Owen Norvell, engineer train No.
34; Yard Engineer Sellers, Yard Com
ductor Newman, Fireman Johnson.
Fireman Sparger of train 34 and
William Bailey, an outsider, who was
on the cwitch engine, were badly
injured.
HAD DYNAMITE IN POCKET.
Edward Dutton Meets Horrible Death
in Peculiar Way.
Edward W. Duttoir, a farmer, Is
dead at his home near Bristol, Tenn.,
as the result of the explosion in his
vest pocket of three dynamite caps.
A great hole was torn in his breast,
extending to his lungs. Death was
instantaneous. The cause of the ox
plosion Is unknown.
MOORE WAS TIRED OF LIFE.
Manager for Firm of Cotton Brokers
Shuffles Off Mortal Coil.
Eugene Moore, 26 years old, mana¬
ger in Americas, Ga., for Clark Co.,
cotton brokers, shot out his brains
Wednesday morning in his apart meats
at the Hotel Windsor. Moore was a
native of Albany, and located in
Americas Jess than a month ago. No
cause for tho suicide has yet been
revealed.
T p5liti ! L TRAGEDY.
Revolvara Crack on Streeta of Savan¬
nah and Many Bullets Find Vic¬
tims—-Ante-Election Row.
In a pistol $ght of political partt
>ans In front of the dft? hall at Sa¬
vannah Friday afternoon Babe Dyer
was killed; Frank Nagle, a bystander,
was shot throijigh the eye and is In a
critical condt'lon, with a bullet in bis
brain, it is thought; Pat Kearney,
t policeman, ott) duty,was shot through
the neck, and ip. H. (Sap) Dyer was
shot twice In the legs.
Under arrest at the barracks are
“Snatcher” Dyer and Thomas Hewlett,
a private detective. The parties
known to be concerned in the fight
besides those tinder arrest or wound¬
ed are Harbor Master James McBride,
Plumbing Inspector Richard McKenna,
Tim McBride,■ a-nfferk in the harbor
master’s office,, and James Lane, keep¬
er of the police stables.
It cannot be said by whom Babe
Dyer was shot He is said to have
been fired at mainly by Tim McBride,
Sap Dyer seems to have been shot by
James McBride and Tim McBride.
Kearney wajyohot by Sap Dyer.
f 'ho jiffaUr created tremendous
excitement, ver-heat, andlfeher poetics fights now being having at fe
pre¬
ceded It. J
Earlier thanin years before a heat¬
ed localcampaign has been
inaugurated iit, Savannah. So violent
already had the difference between
the Citizens’ Club faction and the op¬
posing People’^ League faction become
that prediction of serious trouble had
been freely made, and the shooting
Friday afternoon was no surprise.
Though the election is yet many
months off, feeling had reached a fe¬
ver heat among those most actively
concerned.
On Thursday there was a fight be¬
tween the two Dyers and John Mun
roe, driver of”a police patrol wagon,
and at times a wholesale shooting af¬
fray was threatened. .Several revolv¬
ers were presented during that af¬
fair, and it was believed that the
bloodshed that had been averted was
Rure to follow In time. Friday morn¬
ing an altercation at the court house,
where the registration for the election
is taking place, resulted in a fight
in which “Babe” Dyer was beaten
with a billy by Inspector McKenna,
one of the city employees, who has
been hanging about the polls to
watch the progress cf the registration.
The two Dyers had determined upon
vengeance. They knew that McKen¬
na was expected at the city exchange
for the afternoon's work and lay in
writ for him. When he got off the
car and was about to enter the build
ing the Dyers attacked him, and it
was then thaj Kearney went, to Mc¬
Kenna’s aid and that the shooting be
gnn. 3
PRISONERS CREMATED IN JAIL.
Iw -& u a n a d .a n a.
Three Men Lose Lives.
^^ie town jail at Eastman, Ga.,
burned Friday night, together with
three inmates—D. A. Cooper, Elbert
Mullis and John Hart. These men
were locked up Friday afternoon on
account of being intoxicated on tho
streets.
About 9 o'clock, it was discovered
that the jail was in a blaze, and before
an entrance could be gained the men
named had been burned to death, and
when taken out were practically noth¬
ing more than a mass of bones.
Mr. Cooper and Mr. Mullis wwe
each about fifty years of age, and
among the most highly esteemed and
prominently connected men in tho
county, having only the unfortunate
habit of occasionally getting intoxi¬
cated. The other was some younger,
but is said to have been an extremely
good citizen. All three men have large
immediate families.
Fifty Die In African Gold Mine.
Fifty five natives were drowned Fri¬
day. owing to the flooding of the South
Rose, a deep gold mine near Johannes¬
burg, South Africa.
TO GRIND SIX WEEKS MORE.
Greene and Gaynor Trial is Far from
a Termination.
The trial of Greene and Gaynor en¬
tered upon its sixth week at Savannah
Monday. The most, recently express¬
ed opinions-*-etmn.se! for the govern¬
ment, as wSl as tho defense, indt
cate that it j will continue at least
six weeks longer.
Greater progress lias been made
during the laot two weeks than seem
od likely during I the earlier stages
of the trial.
cleared the church.
COTTON BURNS ON SHIP.
Steamer Alberta Catches Fire and the
Cargo is Damaged.
A lighter vi|ith 410 bales of cotton
from the Austrian steamer Alberta,
which arrived at Trieste, Austria, Feb
tuary 2, from Galveston, Texas, caught
fire Thursday and sank alongside tho
wharf. Two hundred and fifty of the
bales were damaged by (ire and water
and a number were destroyed.
WORK OF MACK THE STABBER."
Girl* in St. Louis Being Knifed by a
Mysterious Young Man.
While Bertha Rude, a 13-year-old
school girl, waa walking in the street
it' St. I/>uls, Monday, she was stabbed
in the hip by an unknown young man.
l ilts makes the seventeenth gill mys¬
teriously stabbed on tho streets with
iu the past two weeks, but marks tho
first case of stabbing during the day
time. None has been seriously injur
od. The mysterious knife wield Or,
now known as "Jack tho Utabber” is
being searched tor zealously.
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PUTTHEFLAC AWAY
Is the Gratuitous Demand of
Grand Army Wen.
DISLIKE STARS AND BARS
Southerners Consider Arbitrary Action
Taken By Department of Potomao
as Absolutely Unworthy of
Consideration.
A Washington special says: Resolu¬
tions protesting against the display
of the confederate flag on public^oc
caslons were adopted at the annual
encampment of the department of the
Potomac, grand army of the republic
Saturday night.
Tho resolutions, which were unani¬
mously adopted, read:
“Whereas, it is creditably report¬
ed that the flag of the late so-called
Confederate States of America is be¬
ing displayed in public places and on
public occasions; and,
“Whereas, to all defenders of the
stars and stripes and all who wero
loyal to the union, that was, is and
ever will be, the insignia of an attempt
by force of arms to divide our coun¬
try and destroy our government; and,
"Whereas, if in this reunited land
there is room for but one flag, and
that one the star-spangled banner;
therefore, he it
“Resolved, by the department of the
Potomac, grand army of the republic.
That we view with regret and sorrow
the public display of an emblem
which tends to keep alive the bitter¬
ness and animosity engendered by the
war, which it should be the aim of
every good citizen to allay.
"Resolved, That such a course
serves to instill in the minds of the
coming generations aversion, if not
hostility, to our national emblem, and
is not in accordance with the oft-re¬
peated profession made by the south¬
ern people of their love for the na¬
tional emblem.
“Resolved, That in the interest of
the peace and good will to all, which
wo earnestly desire to promote, we
earnestly request all ex-confederate
soldiers, once our gallant foes, but
now our fellow citizens, and sharer*
with us in the pride of American
valor and heroism, and all the noble
spirited people of the beautiful south¬
land, to abstain from all public dis¬
play of that emblem, which tends
only to keep alive feelings which
ought to be buried."
The publication of these resolutions
Sunday morning attracted some atten¬
tion among southerners in Washing¬
ton, but the general feeling among
ex confederates is that they are not
worthy giving serious consideration.
Southerners feel that the action of
this grand "aVniy of the republic post
- s e rv e s to show how little the real feel¬
ings of southerners are appreciated at
the north.
CANE GROWERS NAME OFFICERS.
President Purse of Savannah Again
Heads Organization.
The conventirn of the Interstate
Cane Growers’ Association, which was
held in Mobile, Ala., elected the fol¬
lowing officers,
I). G. Purse of Savannah, Ga., was
unanimously re elected president, and
(he other officers chosen are as fol¬
lows:
First vice president, R. E. Rose,
Tallahassee, Fla.; treasurer, J. A.
Holloman, Tallahassee, Fla.; secre¬
tary, T. O. Hoffman, Mobile, Ala.; as¬
sistant secretary, John W. Jackson,
Palmetto, Fla.; assistant secretary, H,
B. Ellis, Scranton, Miss.
Vice Presidents by states were atao
elected.
Heavy Loss Caused by Flames.
Fire early Monday completely de¬
stroyed the car barns and power house
of the Canton-Akron Traction compa¬
ny at Canal Dover, Ohio. Loss $100,
000, with $60,000 insurance.
SHERIFF KILLED BY NEGRO.
Officer Met Quick Death While Trying
to Make an Arrest,
Word reached the governor's office
at Jackson, Miss., Wednesday of the
killing of J. A. Robertson, sheriff of
Covington county, his slayer being a
negro named Robinson, whom he was
trying to arrest.
The murderer escaped immediately
after the shooting, and the governor
has offered a reward of $250 for his
capture, which will be supplemented
by a reward offered by citizens of
the county who are much excited over
the tragedy.
DECIDE ON BIG BOND ISSUE.
Southern Asks Stockholders for Twc
Hundred Millions.
Announcement is made in New
York that the Southern railway corn
pany lias decided to ask the stock
holders to authss'ize an issue of $200,
000,000 development and general mort¬
gage four per cent bonds. Of this
amount $15,000,000 will be issued im¬
mediately for betterments.
AID COTTON ASSOCIATION.
Is Urgent Advice of the Wilmington
Chamber of Commerce.
Supplementing the efforts of tbs
Southern Cotton Association, the Wtl
mington, N. C., chamber of commerce
has adopted resolutions urging con¬
certed action by trades bodies all
over the country looking to a reduc¬
tion of acreage for the next cotton
crop not less than 10 per cent from
last year's crop,
RESENT GOVERNOR’S ACT.
Negro Suspect Lynched In Alabama
Because Jelks Sommuted Death
Sentence of Hie “Pal."
Bunk Richardson, colored, charged
with the murder and assault of Mrs.
Sarah Smith, July 15 last, was forcibly
taken from the jail at Gadsden, Ala.,
at an early hour Sunday morning,
and hanged to the bridge of the Lou¬
isville and Nashville railroad, which
spans the Coosa river.
Twenty-four masked men went to
the jail, overpowered the' sheriff and
jailor, and made short work of the
prisoner.
Four negroes^ were charged with
the crime against Mrs. Smith, two of
whom have been legally executed.
The third. Will Johnson, was recent¬
ly convicted, and sentenced to death,
but a few day’s ago Governor Jelks,
believing there was strong doubt cf
the prisoner’s guilt, commuted the ne¬
gro’s sentence to life imprisonment.
Richardson, the man lynched, had
not yet been indicted, but was in
jail awaiting the action of the grand
jury.
At the coroner’s inquest, held to in¬
vestigate the lynching, the only wit¬
nesses to testify were -Sheriff Chand¬
ler and Jailor William Dixon, who
said they tqgte overpowered, and Po¬
lice Officer Sam O. Brandon, who said
he heard the shooting, and ordered
by the members of the mob to go
back to town. The verdict of the
coroner’s jury was as follows:
“We find that the deceased, Bunk
Richardson, came to his death by
strangulation from hanging, or a
wound in the head, at the hands of
a party or parties to us unknown."
Governor Jelks states that he will
use ev*y power of his office to bring
to justice the lynchers of Richard¬
son, He left Montgomery Sunday
night for New York, and on hts re¬
turn in about a week he will offer
rewards and do everything possible to
discover the lawbreakers and t<5 deal
out to them every punishment for the
offense.
PROPRIETORS OR EMPLOYEES?
Florida Tlmes-Unlon Caustically Com¬
ments on Strike of Its Printers.
Apropos of the strike of union prin¬
ters on tho Times-Union, Jacksonville,
Fla., because of the refusal of the
proprietors to discharge a foreman
who is alleged to have violated all
precedents, rules and regulations
which must obtain in offices under the
jurisdiction of the typographical union,
that paper prints the following:
Det it be clearly understood that
the Times-Union is not fighting the
Typographical Union—the union is
fight the Times-Union.
The paper claims and has advocated
for many years the right of men to
organize in their mutual interests and
for the maintenance of their rights,
justly and equitably administered, but
has as vigorously denied the right of
any organization to inaugurate unjust
rules and manipulate them for wrong.
The Issue forced upon the Times
Union is, who shall run the business
of the paper as applied to the me¬
chanical department, whether the
union shall dictate arbitrary and un
just rules as to the method and the
fashion of conducting this business, or
whether the management shall assume
its inherent privilege and right of do¬
ing so.
The management, while requiring
nothing unreasonable, has decided
firmly upon the latter course, and
this decision shall be maintained at
all hazards to the end, without amend¬
ment or concession.
PROMINENT ALABAMIAN SUICIDES
Captain Norman Webb of Birmingham
Blows Out His Brains.
Captain Norman E. Webb, a well
known capitalist, took his life at his
home in Birmingham, Ala., by firing
a pistol bullet through his forehead
Sunday. He had been in ill health
for some time.
Captain Wlebb was one of the weal¬
thy and public spirited men of the
district, having large holdings of ore
lands on Red mountain.
FOR POISONING HER HUSBAND.
Mrs. W. C. Stewart is Indicted by a
Mississippi Jury.
Advices from Woodville, Miss.,
state that the Wilkinson county grand
jury has returned an indictment
against MYs. W. C. Stewart, on ths
charge of poisoning her husband, the
alleged motive of the crime being that
she held a $10,000 life insurance pol¬
icy the life of ’ husband.
on her
Mrs. Stewart is a relative of Hon.
M. Hi Wilkinson, circuit judge of the
district, who impaneled the grand jury
that returned the indictment.
JOHNSON FOUND GUILTY.
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Public Sentiment Against Negro Will,
It is Said, Cool Down.
The jury at Chattanooga in the
case of Ed Johuson, the negro charged
with assault, on tho fourth day of
the trial, reached a verdict of guilty.
For some time they stood eight to
four for conviction, but became a unit
in their action. Public sentiment,
which was much wrought up, will now
subside.
PHYSICIAN GOES PISTOL ROUTE.
Well Known Citizen of Toccoa, Ga.,
Blows Out Hi* Brains.
Dr. JR. H. Hutcherson committed
suicide at his home in Toccoa, Ga..
Wednesday evening by shooting him¬
self with a pistol. The deed was wit¬
nessed by his wife and daughter.
Dr. Hutcherson has been in bad
health for several years, but no one
had any idea that ho contemplated
killing himself.
RATE BILL PASSED
The House Overwhelmingly
Adopts Hepburn Measure.
EVERY DEMOCRAT IN LINE
Only Seven Members Voted Against
Bill, and They Were All Republi¬
cans — Pension Bill Also
Goes Through.
The house Thursday passed the
Hepburn railroad rate bill. Three
hundred and forty-six members voted
tor the bill; seven, all republicans,
voted against it. Applause greeted
the announcement of the result by
the speaker. Those who voted against
the bill were Littlefield of Maine; Mc¬
Call and Weeks of Massachusetts;
Perkins, Southwick and Vreeland of
New York and Sibley of Pennsylva¬
nia.
Mr. Sullivan of Massachusetts voted
“Present,” and was not paired. There
were 28 members paired, but these
pairs were generally political ones.
None of them was made on the bill,
and did not consequently Indicate
opposition.
The following is a summary of the
provisions of the bill: jJtrrfi
-The bill, according to Mr. Hep l
statement, in closing the debate on
file measure, was introduced, and did,
s» far as it could be made, he said,
eomply specifically with the recom¬
mendations of President Roosevelt pn
the question. It gives the interstate
commerce commission, when a rate
has been complained of as “unrea¬
sonable” by a shipper, to investigate
the rate, state whether or not it is
unreasonable, and, If found to be un¬
reasonable, to name a rate which Is
to be just and reasonable and fairly
remunerative, which is to be the maxi¬
mum rate to be charged. This rate
so fixed is to go Into effect thirty days
after it is announced by the commis¬
sion, subject during that time to bo
set aside or suspended by the com¬
mission or by the courts. After it has
gone into effect, it is to remain the
rate for three years. During this time
the opinion has been expressed by
those who have participated in the de¬
bate that the rate may also be re¬
viewed by the courts, and if found
to be in conflict either with the terms
of the act or with the constitution
by being confiscatory, can be set aside
by the courts. .
Another important feature is Jt
definition of the words "railrog^
"transportation'’ in a
elude all auxiliary i
of the common
them within
mission,
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rornmtssion^lH
increasing salarie^^
000 a year.
The pension appropriations^
rying $139,000,000 for pensions
$1,245,000 for pension administration,
was taken up, debated and passed
without amendmer» The feature of
the bill, aside from the appropriation
made is a provision making statute
law of the famous order of the pres¬
ident declaring age evidence of dis¬
ability.
Mr. Garrett of Tennessee advocated
higher pensions for Mexican war vet¬
erans. It would be a most graceful
act to increase these pensions to $ 2 u
a moftth. This would entail an added
annual cost of but $415,000.
A number of bills were passed at
the close of the day, including one
providing a penalty of $5,000 and ten
years’ imprisonment for the premature
revelation of government information
which might have a bearing on the
market price of commodities, the same
penalty being provided against gov¬
ernment employees who speculate la
commodities rogarding which the gov¬
ernment furnishes statistics.
BAILEY DRUBS PATTERSON.
Wash Day for Democratic Linen in
Senate Was a Hummer.
A Washington dispatch says: Dem¬
ocratic wash day in the United States
senate proved an interesting, if not
altogether edifying, spectacle.
Not in years has Washington wit¬
nessed so complete and thorough an
oratorical drubbing as that adminis¬
tered at Wednesday’s session or the
senate to Senator Patterson of Colo¬
rado by Senator Bailey of Texas.
Patterson precipitated the trouble
by speaking on his resolution declar¬
ing against the reoent democratic
caucus.
Millions for Fortifications.
An appropriation of $4,838,993 for
fortifications in 1907 has been agreed
upon by the house committee on ap¬
propriations. The appropriation for
this purpose in 1896 aggregated $6,-
747,893, and the amount asked by the
war deartment in estimates for 1907
amounted te $8,953,112.
MEMORIAL DATE CHANGED.
Exercises in Honor of Wheeler Will
Be Held March 27,
The Wheeler memorial, a move¬
ment set on foot some two weeks ago
In Atlanta by the members of Camp
A, Wheeler’s Confederate Cavalry,
and an event which now promises to
draw to the city more United Con¬
federate Veterans and Gram} Army of
the Republic men than Atlanta has
ever entertained, will bo held Tues¬
day, March 27, nearly a month latsr
than the day originally contemplated.