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Summary of Ebents as They Happen
Pastor Praised Gen. Robert E. Lee
and is Denounced.
Washington, Oct. 24—Because he
spoke in praise of General Robert E.
Lee, the Rev. John Van Schaich, Jr.,
pastor of the Church of Our Father,
has been denounced by the Bumside
Post, Grand Army of the Republic,
of Washington, as unpatriotic.
lu consequence prominent members
of the organization here are lined up
against each other.
Corporal James Tanner, past grand
commander of the Grand Army of the
the Republic, and Chaplain Couden,
bf the house, made a forcible but vain
fight to secure reconsideration of the
resolutions of censure which were
adopted at a meeting of the post, held
October J.
Part of the condemned address fol
lows:
“Great as were his achievements as
a general, splendid his victories on
the field of battle, the greatest thing
about Lee was his spirit. Thus it
was with Abraham Lincoln. His
greatest gift to his country was his
spirit. ’ ’ —Georgia.
Money Magnates in Conference.
New York, Nov. 3.—A second of
a series of three conferences of men
representing large financial interests
was held at J. P. Morgan’s library,
adjoining his residence, tonight. At
a late hour the party had not broken
up, and no intimation was given out
as to the questions under discussion.
The seventeen financiers present in
cluded J. P. Morgan, George W. Per
kins and Charles Steel, of Morgan &
Co.; Janies Stillman, of the National
City Bank; Henry C. Frick, the steel
magnate; former Judge E. H. Gary,
chairman cf the board of United
States Steel Corporation; Thomas F.
Ryan, Richard Trimble, secretary of
the Steel Corporation, and Grant B.
Schley, of the stock exchange firm of
Moore & Schley.
Most of those present tonight at
tended the all-day conference yester
day, and it is understood another con
ference is planned for to-morrow.
Concerning yesterday’s gathering,
Mr. Perkins said that it had been
arranged primarily for a discussion
of the prospects of moving the grain
and cotton crop.
“A prompt movement of grain and
cotton to the seaboard,” he added,
“and its early loading on board ships
for export means a great deal to the
present situation, indirectly, because
as soon as our cotton and grain is so
loaded, we can draw against it. and
thus relieve the foreign exchange sit
uation materially.”
At midnight, William Solomon,
Isaac N. Seligman and four others
joined the party in the library.
These men came from the Waldorf-
Astoria, where the directors of the
Trust Company of America had been
in session for several hours. Presi
dent Oakleigh Thorne, of the Trust
Company, presided at the meeting,
and it was thought he might have a
statement to make later. At the
«ame time, in an adjoining room, at
the Waldorf, the director of the Lin
coln Trust Company were holding a
meeting. All three conferences had
continued after midnight when noth
ing concerning any of them had been
given out. —Constitution.
Fight Begins at Montgomery.
Montgomery, Ala., Nov. 3.—Spe
cial.)—More people than could be
cared for turned out tonight to hear
Seaborn Wright, of Georgia, discuss
prohibition. The Montgomery theater
was crowded to its capacity long be
fore the time for the address to open.
The greatest enthusiasm prevailed,
and Mr. Wright was given an ova
tion.
Mrs. Nannie Curtis spoke in the
afternoon. It was the launching of
a fight, on liquor in the county that
seems certain of success. —Constitu-
tion.
Wizard Harriman Buys Central.
New York, November 2.—Accord
ing to the Times to-day, E. H. Harri
man was the buyer of the Central of
Georgia stock sold last week by Oak
leigh Thorne and Madden J. Perry,
and has plans for the road in con
nection with the Illinois Central
lines.
The two roads connect at Birming
ham, Ala., and the poesession of the
Central of Georgia will give the Har
riman lines another outlet to the At
lantic.
A close associate of Mr. Harriman,
when questioned regarding th* pur
chase of the Central of Georgia, by
that capitalist remarked that Mr.
Harriman had not been idly watch
ing recent events.
The Times says further that in the
recent annual report of the Illinois
Central, November 1, was fixed as
the date on which its lines to Birm
ingham were to be completed, and
that with that date comes the news
that Mr. Hamman’s influence in
Southern territory is to be extended
beyond Birmingham eastward to the
seaboard at Savannah, and westward
byway of Chattanooga, Birmingham
and Montgomery.
It is known that Messrs. Thorne
and Perry paid about $3,600,000 for
the $5,000,000 of Central of Georgia
stock which they purchased last sum
mer at the Richmond Terminal Re
organization Committee, and it is pre
sumed in the financial district, the
paper says, that the Harriman inter
ests took over the road at not far
from the same figures.—Nashville
Banner.
Farmers' Union to Hold Joint Meet
ing in Florida.
Hon. R. F. Duckworth, president
of the Georgia division of the Farm
ers’ Union, and Hon. G. M. Tra
wick, president of the Florida di
vision, have arranged for a big joint
meeting of the members of the Farm
ers’ Union which will be held in Lake
City, Florida, on November 14th and
15th. The following communication
has been issued and is of interest to
all farmers and planters in Georgia
and Florida:
Barnesville, Ga., October 29.
(Special.)—The members of the
Farmers’ Union in the eea island and
ribbon cane belte of Georgia and
Watsojts weekly Jeffersonian.
Florida have asked for a joint con
vention that those interested in the
two crops who live in the States of
Georgia and Florida may get togeth
er and form plans by which and
through which they may handle these
products to the best interest.
In consideration of the above re
quest, w r e, the State president of
Georgia, and the State president of
Florida, do hereby call a convention
to be held at Lake City, Florida, on
Thursday and Friday, November 14
and 15, 1907.
Representation to be one delegate
from each county union at large, and
one delegate from each 200 members
or a majority fraction thereof. In
counties where there is no county
union each local union may send a
delegate. All commissioned organiz
ers who can attend will be seated as
delegate*.
Fraternally,
R. F. DUCKWORTH,
President Georgia Division.
G. M. TRAWICK,
President Florida Division.
—Griffin Times.
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Governors Hold Rate Conference.
The governors of three Southern
States held conference here last week,
on the general situation in the South
regarding railroad passenger rates.
The chief executives at the confer
ence were Governors Smith of Geor
gia; Glenn, of North Carolina, and
Comer, of Alabama.
W. D. Nesbitt, Railroad Commis
sioner of Alabama; Judge S. D.
Weakley, and H. C. Selheimer, of
Birmingham, the last two special
counsel for the State of Alabama in
the passenger rate litigation now
pending in that State, are also tak
ing part in the conference.
The conference was held behind
closed doors at the executive mansion.
’Quake Horror in Turkestan.
Teheran, Persia, Oct. 30. —News re
ceived here to-day by caravan from
Bokhara, Turkestan, tells of the oc
currence there of a disastrous earth
quake on October 21.
More than 15,000 persons, accord
ing to the brief message brought here,
lost their lives in the catastrophe,
which wiped out the city of Kara
tagh, from where only the Turkish
governor and his mother escaped un
injured.
Details of the convulsion are yet
unavailable, but the news so far re
ceived leads to the belief that a great
chasm opened in the valley where the
city stood, and that almost the whole
vicinity was engulfed in one pile of
ruins.
There is also reason to believe that
other towns and cities in the neigh
borhood of Karatagh were badly
shaken by tlje same convulsion of na
ture, and it is expected that the full
tale of death will reach a total which
will mark the disaster as one of the
greatest in the history of all Asia
Minor. —N. Y. Journal
Three Indian Killed in Short Battle
With Soldiers.
Washington, Oct. ?1. —In a battle
between United States troops and In-
dians, which occurred in Southern
Utah several days ago, three persons
were killed and another wounded, all
believed to have been Indians.
The news of the occurence was con
veyed to the Indian Bureau in a tele
gram from Superintendent Shelton, of
the San Juan agency, which, though
dated yesterday, was not received un
til today.
The report of Superintendent Shel
ton, on which the Indian Bureau based
its request for troops, was dated Sep
tember 18, and in it Mr. Shelton de
tailed some of the transactions of one
Bylillie and his followers, and told
of a conference which he had with
them, and also of efforts made by the
friendly Indians to reconcile the dis
contented.
When some of the friendly Indians
visited Bylillie, he refused to talk
with them, but challenged them to a
fight. The friendly Indians, who
compose the vast majority of the
Navajoes, regard him as a wizard, and
one of them, who died a few months
ago, attributed his illness to the
witchcraft of the disaffected leader.
It is presumed that when the
troops appeared he met them with
force of arms, and was captured
Vhile fighting, but not until four of
his followers had fallen. There was
an intimation from Mr. Shelton of
possible further trouble from some of
the Black Mountain Navajoes, but the
officials of the Indian Office are not
apprehensive on that score. —Louis-
ville Herald.
THE OKLAHOMA CONSTITU
TION.
Oklahoma’s constitution is said to
be a perfect model in many respects.
It contains some radical departures
from the constitutions of other states,
but these departures are made to
meet modern demands.
It admits of verdicts in civil cases
and in criminal cases less than felo
nies by three-fourths of the jury.
Thus in cases not involving the life
and liberty of a man nine members of
the jury may decide the case, al
though the remaining three dissent.
It allows one hundred taxpayers of
a county, by petition, to convene a
grand jury. If a crim© has been
committed and the best interests of
the public can be served by an imme
diate investigation and indictment,
one hundred taxpayers may petition
the court and cause the jury to be
convened. This means that lynch
ings in Oklahoma ought to be reduced
to the minimum.
It provides that the records, books
and files of all corporations shall be
at all times liable and subject to the
full visitorial and inquisitorial pow
ers of the state. In other words, it
simply means that when a corpora
tion is licensed to do business in Ok
lahoma, it is entirely subject to the
laws of the state, and if the corpora
tion doesn’t walk a chalk line its li
cense will be revoked.
The prohibition of the liquor traf
fic in the Indian Territory part of
ths state is continued for twenty
one years and the question of apply-