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PAGE FOUR 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. • 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-