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Summary of Ebents as They Happen
Southern Surrenders in Alabama.
After three days of conference at
Montgomery, the state came to an
agreement with the Southern Rail
way last week as a result of
which the license of the company re
cently cancelled is to be restored and
in return the road will put into ef
fect, beginning Sept. 1, the 21-2
cent passenger fare and obey the act
fixing freight rates on 110 commodi
ties. Concessions were made by both
sides, but in the main it was a vic
tory for the state.
Williams Wins.
The Democratic State Executive
Committee at Jackson, Miss., formal
ly declared congressman John Sharp
Williams nominated over Gov. James
K. Vardaman for the United States
Senate by a majority of 648 votes.
After the result was declared Mr.
Williams gave out this statement:
“All Mississippians are brethren.
I congratulate myself on having pre
served their good will and you on
having won victory, notwithstanding
the 15,000 or 20,000 Populists who
take their marching orders from Tom
Watson, while they wear a Demo
cratic name. Thank God, I fought
a clean fight and kept the faith, the
old Democratic faith, midway be
tween plutocracy and mobocracy.
Thank God, again, that I was strong
enough to preach the doctrine of
mutual helpfulness and not mutual
hate on earth.”
Gov. Vardaman has addressed the
following to his supporters:
“The Democratic party, through
the executive committee, has declared
Mr. Williams the nominee, and I ac
cept the arbitrament of that tribunal
without a tinge of regret for any
thing done or said by my friends or
me during the campaign. I am for
the nominee and hope that he will
make the people of Mississippi a
great United States Senator. I hate
made the campaign upon living, im
portant and pertinent principles, and
while I have lost the nomination, T
am thoroughly convinced that the
large majority of white Democrats
of this state agree with my views
upon public questions, and I shali
continue to fight for those principles
as earnestly in the future as I have
contended for them in the past.
“I want to thank my friends for
their loyalty, their earnestness and
their zeal in behalf of principles I
represent, and for my political in
terest. No man was ever blessed by
more loyal and faithful friends than
those who favored my fortune in this
contest. I want them to feel, as I
do, that we have not been defeated
but that the victory is only postpon
ed for the season. I have been a
candidate several times in iny life
and lost the fight, but never have I
felt the sting of .defeat, and I am
not defeated today. I am sure that
I am stronger with the people of
Mississippi today than ever before,
and, God being my helper, I hope so
to live, that my popularity, confi
dence and strength with the people
may grow.
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
“The only life worth living is a
life of service, and to serve Missis
sippians is my chief ambition.”
Four Dead in Wreck at Dalton.
As the result of a head-on colli
sion at Dalton, Ga., between two
freight trains of the Western and
Atlantic railroad, one mile north of
Dalton, four are dead and three oth
er’s are moi« or less seriously in
jured.
The Dead.
The dead are:
<T. L. Heggie, of Tunnell Hill, en
gineer on north bound train.
John Roach, of Dalton, fireman for
Heggie.
C. F. Colbert, of Stilesboro, head
brakeman on north bound train.
Tom Barterfield, of Dalton, brake
man on south, bound train.
The Injured.
The injured are:
J. B. Killebrew, of Atlanta, engi
neer on north bound train.
Brakeman Cooper, of Atlanta.
Brakeman Dan Dilbeck, of Dalton,
deep gash in head.
Engineer Heggie was dug from un
der a pile of rubbish. His body was
terribly mutilated and his face mash
ed beyond recognition.
Decline Increased Salary.
The eleven national officers of the
International Moulders’ Union of
North America, which was in con
vention at Philadelphia, notified the
delegates that they would decline to
accept an increase in salary voted
them, and requested the delegates to
reconsider the vote by which the pro
posed increase was carried. The re
quest of the officers was granted. The
officers said the union required the
money to increase its scope.
Exposition Completed.
Director James M. Barr, of the -
Jamestown Exposition, in a state
ment says:
“The Jamestown Ter-centennial
Exposition, barring minor details
which will be finished within 4en
days, is completed; In the character
of its buildings, the excellence of its
exhibits and the beauty, of location
on historical Hampton Roads, it com
pares favorably with any exposition
held in this country, and it fully jus
tifies its managers in asking the unit
ed support of the people of the coun
try.”
A New Canal.
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The survey for the proposed canal
from Lake Erie to the Oliio River
has been completed. Land for the
right of way is being acquired and
digging will begin next spring. For “
many years the dream of the ore
and coal operators has been to es
tablish a continuous all-water route
between the northwest and the coal
belt. It will require about six years
to complete the canal, and the cost
will tye not less than $75,000,000.
When the canal is completed it will
be possible for lake vessels to carry
iron ore direct from Lake Superior
to furnaces in the Pittsburg district,
and bring back coal from the West
ern Pennsylvania mines.
Rockefeller on the “Persecution.”
John D. Rockefeller, in discussing
the recent speech of Judge Grosscup,
in which the latter declared that the
wealth of the country was co widely
distributed that it was really in the
hands of the moderately well-to-do
class, today said:
Judge Grosscup has shown very
well indeed how widespread is the
damage resulting from the persecu
tion, through prejudice, of the coun
try’s transportation lines. The same
applies to thoughtless attacks on other
lines of industry.
Who is more interested in the ma
terial prosperitv of this county than
I am?
I am harnessed to a cart in which
the people ride. Whether I like it or
not, I must work for the rest.
We are servants, and not masters,
we who are to have been engaged in
large business affairs.
Admitting for the sake of argu
ment, that the business world is a
patient that needs treatment, must it
be said of the result that the opera
tion was successful but the patient
died?
The United States cannot develop
enough drawbacks to make me lose
the feeling that there is no place
like home, and that this is home, in
what I firmly believe is the greatest
country in the world.
Telegraphers Strike.
Practically the entire West and
South is tied up by a great strike.
The telegraphers are out in the fol
lowing cities:
Kansas City, Denver, Colorado
Springs, -Helena, Salt Lake City,
Fort Worth, Cleveland, Cincinnati,
Butte. El Paso and Houston. In Los
Angeles, where the strike started, the
strikers hold the commanding hand.
Little business is sifting from Los
Angeles to the East, because union
operators in other cities are refusing
to handle it.
Editors Warned to Censure the News.
St. Petersburg, August 6. —Draeh-
ivsky, the prefect of police at St.
Petersburg, has issued an order no
tifying all editors that they render
themselves liable to a fine of 3,000
roubles ($1,500), or three months’ im
prisonment by publishing, without
permission, anything about the em
peror or the members of the impe
rial family, or any comments upon
a trial before the rendering of the
verdict.
This order is inspired for fear of
public criticism that might be made
during the coming trial of the per
sons accused of being implicated in
last month’s plot against the em
peror, the Grand Duke Nicholas and
Premier Stolypin.
Accused Letter Carrier a Suicide.
George Buerckstummer, a letter
carrier, in the business district at
Wheeling, W. Va., was arrested on a
charge of robbing the mails.' He en
tered a plea of not guilty and was
released on bail. his wife
missed him and searching for him
found his dead body in the cellar of
their home. He had shot himself
through the head.
Gov. Smith Sffhs Prohibition Bill.
Gov. Hoke Smith, of Georgia, ap
proved the Hardman-Covington-Neel
state prohibition bill in the presence
of two or three hundred people, who
pushed their way "into his private
office. As he concluded the act he
laid aside the pen with the remark,
“It’s a law.”
Monument to Jefferson Davis.
The final act of the Alabama legis
lature, which adjourned at Montgom
ery, was for the erection of a mon
ument to Jefferson Davis. It will
stand within a few feet of the place
where he received the oath of office
as President of the Confederacy, and
just in front of the old capitol where
the ceremony took place.
Gen. Jackson’s Granddaughter Elopes.
Pursued through three states by
an angry father, who was only twen
ty miles behind her all the way, Miss
Julia Jackson Christian, the only liv
ing granddaughter of Stonewall Jack
son, the famous Confederate general,
eloped and was married at Charlotte,
N. C., to E. Randolph Preston, a
lawyer and a member of the legis
lature.
Ralph Peters Held Criminally Liable.
Ralph Peters, president of the
Long Island railroad, who, with Gen
eral Manager McCrea, w T ere held re
sponsible by the coroner’s jury for
the deathsi of Dr. Gallagher and Miss
Madigen, who lost their lives in an
automobile collision with a Long Is
land railroad train at St. Albans
crossing, New York, was served with
a warrant of arrest at Jamaica and
held by Coroner Ambler in SIO,OOO
bail to await the action of the grand
jury. General Manager McCrea was
served with a warrant last Saturday
and also held in SIO,OOO bail.
The coroner’s jury found both
railroad officers criminally negligent
for not safe-guarding the St. Albans
crossing.
Income Tax for Railroads is Adopted.
By a vote of 98 to 68 the Georgia
House adopted just before adjourn
ment on Friday an amendment pro
posed to the general tax act by Mr.
Alexander, of DeKalb, to impose a
tax of one per cent upon the gross
receipts arising from all business
done within the state by all rail
roads and street railroads, such tax
to be paid monthly, commencing in
Januarv, 1908.
The language in which the Alex
ander amendment is couched is al
most identical with that used by
Governor Smith in his special mes
sage urging the legislature to pro
vide for the levying of an occupation
tax in order that the revenues thus
derived may be devoted to the
prompt payment of the salaries of
the teachers of the public schools in
Georgia. The prompt manner in
which the house of representatives
passed the measure carrying out the
second request which Governor Smith
has made of the general assembly in-