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12 NEWS OF THE WEEK. Measles have attacked the sailors on the battleship Georgia. ■t A small island rose out of twenty feet of water in Pensacola bay. An anti-clerical riot was a feature of Monday in the city of Rome, Italy. Vice-President Fairbanks will re turn to Washingtoii within the next few days. The pope will hold a consistory on April 15, when six cardinals will be created. * Secretary Taft and his party visited Charleston, S. C., on their way to the isthmus. Gypsy Smith, the famous English evangelist, is drawing great crowds of hearers in Atlanta. The Nicaragua troops captured and sacked Tequcicalpa, capital of Hon duras, on Monday. Two statues for the Carnegie Insti tute at Pittsburg, shipped from New York eight days ago, are missing. Atilla F. Mallory, brother of Senator Mallory, of Florida, was found dead in his Pensacola office Monday afternoon Justice Fitzgerald has not yet de cided to appoint a commission to in vestigate the sanity of Harry Thaw. A mill fire at Spartanburg, S. C., destroyed 46 tenement houses, render ing 100 families homeless on Monday. One death from ptomaine poisoning occurred among the 900 veterans at Leavenworth made ill by eating taint ed hash. * At Montgomery, Ala., on Monday, John Hippo, a passenger, hanged him self in the toilet room of an L. and N. train. •6 Prof. Don Q. Abbott, of the Univer sity of Georgia, died in Baltimore on Monday from a long illness of nervous prostration. * Six persons were killed and seven teen injured in a collision between a train carrying students and a limited at Santa Fe. Speaker Cannon and his party of Panama canal explorers reached Kingston, Jamaica, on their return trip on Monday. •5 The quarterly bulletin of the New York state department of labor show ed lessened activity of trade and an unprecedented influx of aliens. R Headquarters of the southern di vision of the Southern Railway Com pany, with M. M. Richey as manager, are to be located in Atlanta. Illicit distillers near the town of Charity in Virginia killed one woman and wounded another, supposing them to be spies for revenue officers. •t Emma Kames, the opera prima donna, sues her husband for a divorce. Hitherto she has neglected this spe cies of operatic advertising. R Advices to the state department in dicated that alarm was felt in China over the spread of seditionary propa ganda incident to the famine. Railroad men to the number of 135,- 000, employed on forty roads, are threatening a general strike for 12 1-2 per cent increase of wages and a nine hour day. k Automobiles are about to be used in the work of exploration in the ant artic regions, according to information just received at the department of commerce and labor. The presentation of Mr. Henry White as ambassador of the United States to France took place at thq Elysee palace the other day with a great fanfare of trumpets. Peyton Gordon, pardon attorney of the department of justice, made an ab solute denial of ex-Senator Burton’s statement that President Roosevelt of fered him a pardon. Baron Rothschild, in London, de clared on Monday, that President Roosevelt is the cause of the brain storms and stock avalanches in our own dear Wall street. The campaign against militarism continues to be carried on in France with undiminished vigor, and there are indications that so far neutral elements are beginning to be affected by the agitation. Ex-Gov. L. F. C. Garvin, of Rhode Isl and, has announced his engagement to Miss Sarah Emma Tomlinson, of Lons dale, who is just half his age, and who has been blind since she was seven years old. * At El Paso, Tex., on March 23, Col. Ralph Hoyt, commanding the Twenty-fifth infantry, received a tele gram from Washington saying: “Sail ing of Twenty-fifth for Philippines April 5 is canceled.” William Lloyd Garrison, in a speech in Boston, said that he was more dis turbed by the concessions of northern friends of the negroes than the atti tude of southerners who are making capital out of race hatred. * Tn the graduating class at the naval academy at Annapolis this year the Georgians stood as follows among the 106 who passed: Mandeville, of Car rollton, 77; Haines, of Savannah, 76; Wilcox, of Macon, 78; Atkinson, of Waverly, 86. At Carthage, Mo., on March 24, the jury in the unwritten law murder case against Arthur Sanderson, who slew Dr. S. D. Meredith, a brother member of the Order of the Eagles, and his family physician, on the morning of January 1, brought in a verdict of not guilty. President Roosevelt went sprinting Sunday. Leaving the White House on his way to the Dutch Reform Church, as he was alone and on foot and in a hurry he showed the other pedes trians some real walking. From the executive mansion to the house of worship the president consumed just thirteen minutes. A proposal said to be without prece dent is made by Capt. E. F. Griswold, a Union soldier entitled to sl2 a month service pension by recent act of congress, who writes from St. Johnsbury, Vt., to parties in Rich mond, Va., offering to turn the pen sion over to any Confederate soldiers’ charitable organization that will re ceive it THE WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. For the Information of our Friends who are Helping us increase the Circulation o f The Weekly Jeffersonian. The Union News AND THE WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN 12 months for 51.50 The Weekly Jeffersonian $1 00 Review of Reviews 3 00 Woman’s Work, Athens, Ga... 1 00 $5 00 ALL FOR $3.00 The Weekly Jeffersonian $1 00 Bob Taylor’s Magazine 1 00 $2 00 OUR PRICE $1.50 FOR BOTH. 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