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THE BRUNSWICK TIMES.
VOLUME 8, NO. 81.
WOULD GRIND THEM
INTO TINY BITS.
Hot Talk in the Senate By
Cuba’s Friend From
Nebraska.
RIVERA AFFAIR THE SUBJECT.
Hoar Called the Whole Story a Rumor.
The Motion to Refer Was
Defeated
Washington,' April s.—The resolu
tion offered by Senator Allen on
Thursday last, in regard to the drum
head courtmarnal on General Rivera
in Cuba, precipitated quite an ani
mated Cuban debate in the senate to
day. Allen’s resolution declared it to be
the duty of the United States to pro
test against this violation of the laws
of civilized warfare. Hoar de
clared that the whole resolution was
founded on a rumor and that the sena
tor from Nebraska had no facts to go
upon.
Allen bitterly retorted that for his
own part he felt so strongly on this
matter that be would ‘‘grind into a
million infinitesimal bits the hearts of
the brutal Spaniards.”
Hale moved that the resolution be
referred to the committee on foreign
relations. After quite an animated
debate the motion to refer was lost
ayes 21, noes 27.
THE TRAIN FELL.
Fatal Acci dent on a Trestle in Pitts
burg.
Pittsburg, April s.—About 6:15
o’clock this morning a Pennsylvania
railroad freight train crossing the
Ohio river connecting bridge broke
through the trestle at Hanover street
near McClure avenue, lower Alle
gheny City, and fell to the street be
low.
Charles Haggerty, fireman, was in
stantly kiled. William E. Graham,
engineer, was scalded by escaping
steam and taken to St. John’s hospital
in a dying condition.
The Baptists.
Gainesville, Ga , April s.—The Geor
gia Baptist convention devoted the
most of today’s session to missionary
work. Many speeches were made and
a large collection taken up. Much en
thusiasm was shown by the members
at the success ot their appeals for aid.
Bisbee’s Suits.
Jacksonville, April 6.—Demurrers to
the suits of W. 4. Bisbee vs. Collector
Bisbee and Captain Kilgore, of the
Boutwell, for $20,000 each,.for deten
tion of tug Dauntless, were argued in
United States court this morning. De
cision was reserved.
Another Day Lost.
Frankfort, Ky., April s.—Forty odd
members paired and the rest were ab
sent from today’s joint session. On
agreement only one vote was cast for
each candidate for senator.
Dr. Depew Very 111.
New York, April s.—Dr. Dhaunoey
M. Depew is still confined to bis room
by his physician’s orders. He is al
lowed to see no one except members
of his family.
Nobody Wants It.
Jacksonville, April s.—The J. TANARUS, A
K. W. railroad system was offered at
publio sale today. There were no bid
ders. and the sale went over to May.
Judge Clark’s Bon.
Perry, Ga., April 5 —Richard Clark,
son of the late Judge Clark, of At
lanta. was shot Sunday night near
here by Joe Irby and killed.
All are invited to take a look at our
window. Nothing but colored shoes
in it. Palmer’s.
UNCLE EVAN OUT.
He Retires Altogether From Connec
tion With the Constitution.
Atlauta, April 5. —A sensation was
caused today by the announcement
that Evan P. Howell had retired from
all connection with the Constitution.
He was president and editor-in-chief
and resigns both offices.
The company is to be entirely re
organized.
No reason is given for this “bolt
from the blue” in southern newspaper
affairs.
WOMAN FOR WOMAN.
King’s Daughters to Aid Mrs. Nobles’
Fight for Life.
Macon. April s.—The King’s Daugh
ters will endeavor to raise money suf
ficient to defray the cost of appealing
the case of Mrs. Nobles to the United
States supreme court. If this oourt re
fuses to hear the appeal, Governor At
kinson will be appealed to for a com
mutation of sentence.
Shoved the Queer.
Covington, Ga., April 5. Tony
Keel, a white farmer living ten miles
from here, was arrested for counter
feiting coin. He had moulds and
spurious coin in his pockets when ar
rested. Much counterfeit money is in
circulation in this county. Keel was
highly respected. The arrest created
great surprise. He has a wife and
child.
At Home Again.
Quarantine, L. 1., April s.—Mrs.
Fitzbugh Lee and daughter, Miss N.
Lee, arrived from Havana today on
the Ward line steamer Washington.
Sailor Sharkey.
San Francisco, April s—Tom5 —Tom Shar
key left here today for New York to
begin training for the Maber fight.
Athens Fire.
Athens, April 5. —The residence of
Miss Lou Pipkin was burned today.
The loss is SI,OOO, partly insured.
THE MARKETS.
Quotations By Telegraph for Tim- s’
Commercial Readers.
(Paine, Murphy & Co’a Xew York cotton letter).
Savannah, April s.—l’ricesadvanced
for a time today, influenced by higher
Liverpool cables, and advices reported
extensive floods in the Mississippi Val
ley. Prices advauced 3 to 5 points, but
reacted in the absence of continued
support and slowly receded, closing
barely steady at a net decline of 1 to 4
points. Bears fought the advance,
and their sales caused the reaction
Receipts were light, and show spot
markets were firm and fairly active.
The trading here in the morning was
fairly active, but later on tbe market
became dull. Sales were 121,300. Cot
ton exchange will be closed Friday
and Saturday, April 16 and 17. New
Orleans opened 1 point higher, lost
this and declined 3 points, but recov
ered the loss. Liverpool advanced
1-32 on spot, with sales of 12,000. Fu
ture? there advanced 2(g3, closing
Arm. Manchester was quiet. Bombay
reoeipts for half week 25,000 vs. 43,000.
Port receipts 7,269 vs. 6,791 and 11,733.
Thus far 14,874 vs. 15,863 fast week.
New Orleans expects tomorrow 4,300
to 4,700 vs. 2,601 and 5,010; Augusta
received 191 vs. 289; Memphis 422 vs.
306 and 790; St. Louis 28 vs. 202 and
161; Houston 1,179 vs. 204 and 2,309.
f pot cotton here advanced 1-1 G; sales,
300 for export and 94 for spinning and
100 delivered on contract. Mid. 7 7-16
vs. 7% last year. Savannah, Norfolk
and St. Louis advanced 1-16; Augusta
%. New Orleans sold 4,000, Augusta
400, Mobile 300, Norf ilk 47, Savannah
46 and St. Louis 16.
Cotton futures opened firm.
May 7.11
June 7.15
July 7.*;0
August 7.20
September 0.0 ►
Oetobei 6.>55
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Chicago Market.
Chicago, April 5. —The leading quo
tations closed as follows:
Wheat, May, G9lj£@%; corn. May,
pork, May, 8.20; lard, May,
4.50; ribs, May, 4.52>^.
BRUNSWICK, GA.. TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 6 1897.
BOSS BUCK, ERWIN
AND ANGIER WIN.
The President Showers Lus
cious Plums on the Geor
gia Brigade.
ALL ABOARD FOR JAPAN.
To the Land of the Mikado Goes the State
Republican Dictator—Merion Erwin
Ail Right—Angier Too.
Washington, April s.—The president
todav sent to the senate the following
nominations:
A. E. Buck, of Georgia, minister to
Japan.
James Boyle, of Ohio, consul at Liv
erpool.
E, S. Day, of Connecticut, consul at
Bradford, England.
F. R. McCreery, of Michigan, secre
tary of legation at the City of Mexico.
United States attorneys —W. S.
Reese, jr., for the middle district of
Alabama; E. A. Angier, northern dis
trict of Georgia; Marion Erwin, south
ern district of Georgia.
W. W. Rollins, postmaster at Ashe
ville, N. C.
Queen Buried.
Tokio Japan, April s.—The formal
funeral of the Queen of Corea, who
was assassinated two years ago, took
place today .J
KIDNAPPING.
A Case of a Grocer, Two Pretty Girls
and Their Mother.
Mrs. Balacio, an employe of the
Brunswick Steam laundry, went be
fore Justice Hitch yesterday and
swore out a warrant for the arrest of
Mr. A. F. Latham, the well known
grocer, who does business at the cor
ner of L and Albany streets. The
charge preferred was kidnapping.
Mrs. Balacio charges that Mr. Lath
am enticed away from home her
two daughters, both prepossessing
young girls, and persuaded them to
make their home with his family.
Mr. Latham promptly engaged
Johnson & Krauss to defend him. The
case was set for a preliminary hear
ing before Judge Hitch yesterday, but
was, on motiou. continued until Wed
nesday.
A Times man asked Mr. Latham last
night for a statement of his side of the
case. “I have nothing to say,” be
said, “except that the charges are ab
solutely false and malicious, and will
be proven so at the hearing.”
Mr. Latham bas many friends who
indignantly deny that he could be
guilty of such an offense. They point
to the fact that he has proven a good
citizen, and claim that he will come
out of the bearing on Wednesday
cleared of all the charges.
WILL PUBLISH BIDS.
Taxpayers to Have Before Them Va
rious Courthouse Proposals.
The county commissioners meet to
day in regular monthly session. It is
not likely that ihey will, as otherwise
published, give out the contract for
Glynu’s new court bouse at this ses
sion.
The commissioners have new before
them about a dozen bids from differ
ent architects, acoompanied by plans
and specifications, for the needed
structure. It is probable that the com
missioners will advertise the various
bids received, in order to allow the
taxpayers to see just what is offered,
before making any decision between
the competitors.
Shorthand.
Prof. Fry’s shorthand classes are
now running. Arrangements should
be made to enter before they advance
too far. For terms and particulars
write or call on him at Jeffers, Monk
and Union streets. His little book,
“What It Is and What It Does,” given
free.
BRANTLEY BALI;
TALKS TARIFF.
Hopeful of Success of Fight
for Sea Island Cotton
in the Senate.
BACON AND CLAY WILL HELP.
The Congressman Comes Home to Con
duct the Prosecution in a Murder
Case, and is Looking Well.
Hon. W. G. Brantley, congressman
from the Eleventh district, was at
home yesterday from his first period
of service in the national legislature.
The house has finished its principal
work—the tariff bill—and is recessing
from day to day, pending the senate’s
action. Mr. Brantley took advantage
of the recess this week to come to
Brunswick for the purpose of attend
ing to legal business of an important
nature.
He will go to Charlton superior
court, which convenes today, to con
duct the prosecution of Black for the
murder of Higginbotham in that
county. He will also argue the Down
ing company’s insurance suits before
Col. Owens Johnson, the master in the
caee, before he returns to Washing
ton.
Speaking to a Times man about the
tariff bill, Congressman Brantler said :
“In my opinion the Diugley bill will
be found quite a different document
when it comes out of the senate.
Many changes are to be made in its
provisions by the upper house. The
fact that only nineteen pages of the
bill were ever read in the bouse gave
little opportunity for amendment.
Th# cotton schedule was never reached,
and, consequently, our sea island cot
ton fight had small chance of a good
result.
“We are all hopeful, however, of se
curing the Egyptian cotton tax amend
ment in the senate. Senators Bacon
and Clay will personally lead the ef
fort to secure it.
“The house,” continued Mr. Brant
ley, is in the attitude, just now, of
having nothing to do. Speaker Reed’s
plan is to leave the house unoccupied
as much as possible, in order to focus
tbe public attention on the senate and
its dealings with tbe Dingley bill.”
Mr. Brantley is undecided as to
when be will return to Washington.
He is looking well and tbe congres
sional atmosphere evidently agrees
with him.
TWO TWOMEYS.
A Brunswick Man About to Discover
a Long Lost Uncle.
John Twomey, of Brunswick, Ga., is
looking for Jeremiah Twomey, of
Queenstown, Ireland—and vice versa.
J-U _ l, - .t- .. L - *l -
uuu to uic pupuiai abtacuc ui cue
local custom house, and Jeremiah is
chief engineer of the steamship
Heathfield. Each is confident that tlie
other is a long lost relative. When
they meet there may be revelations.
The Brunswick Mr. Twomey had an
uncle in Queenstown,whose first name
was Jeremiah. He hasn’t heard from
him since childhood, but has letters
written by him to his father. When
John heard the name of the chief en
gineer of the Heathfield he began to
look for him. He visited the vessel,
but his supposed unole was not aboard.
Captain MacKenzie, however, told the
story to the engineer, and now he is
looking for his supposed nephew.
When they run up againateaeh other
the sequel to this story can be written.
Grand Opening
Of spring millinery and pattern hats
selected by the best artists of New
York. For beauty and cheapness they
cannot be excelled; will he found at
Mrs. Earle’s. Ladies are respectfully
invited to see for themselves.
We have the greatest variety of la
dies’ and misses’ new style shoes to
show you that can be found in Bruns
wick. Palmer’s Popular Shoe Store
DIDN’T TAKE THE ISLAND.
But ihe Dwellers on Latham’s Ham
mock Carried Off Everything Else.
Latham’s Hammock is a small island
rising from tbe marsh, just west of
Jekyl. It is the property of the estate
of E. J. Allen, and was at one time fa
mous as the abiding place of “Old
Man” Morns, who founded a Mormon
colony there.
After Morris’ departure Mr. Allen
established a white man, Ed Williams,
aDd a German known as Georgeon the
island. They were to raise a crop and
divide tbe proceeds with the owner.
Williams had a wife and four young
children, and in the only Louse on the
Hammock —a patchwork structure,
standing on the bluff —they made
their home and proceeded to occupy
the lonely place.
Yesterday news was brought to the
oity by a colored fisherman of the
evacuation of the island by the set
tlers. They took with them two boats,
a horse, three cows, a few bogs, a large
lot of farming implements, and even
some of the timbers of tbe house. All
of these things belonged to the Alien
estate, Williams and his people left
nothing but a part of the house and
the island itself.
Deputy Sheriff Taylor is at work on
the case. He thinks the deserters have
gone to Fernandina. Tbe fisherman
says they showed much ingenuity in
preparing the horse and the other
animals for transportation in sail
boats.
It the men are found they will have
to answer charges of horse-stealing,
cattle-stealing, bog-stealing and lar
ceny after trust.
ALONG THE BAY.
Items of Shipping Interest and Other
Harbor News.
The Russian bark Finland arrived
yesterday from Iluelva to load from
Benito Padrosa.
The Mallory liner Rio Grande ar
rived yesterday.
The American schooner Sarah Pot
ter cleared yesterday for Providence
with 263,000 feet of lumber, valued at
$3,150, from the Ililton-Dodge Lumber
company.
The American schooner St. Lucie
cleared yesterday for New York, with
10.240 ciossties, from George S. Baxter
& Cos.
The Norwegian bark Cato oleared
yesterday for Garston with 300 barrels
of turpentine and 4,425 barrels of
rosin from the Downing company.
Insist on your grocer furnishing
you with Ferguson’s breakfast bacon
and hams.
On the Heathfield.
“Yes,” said Captain McKenzie ot the
British steamship Heathfield to a
Times man in his cozy cabiu Sunday,
“we had a rough passage—twenty-one
days of gale and mountainous seas.
But the sfeip is a good one and we
came through all right.” This is Dsn
tain McKenzie’s first visit to Bruns
wick. He is a comparatively young
man and talks interestingly of the
British Naval Reserves, of which he
is an active member.
Miss Clark Dead.
Miss DollieClarke,daughter of Capt.
T. G. Clarke, died at her home at
Dock Junction Sunday morning of
consumption. Miss Clarke was 25
years of age. Besides the bereaved
parents the deceased leaves two sis
ters, Mrs. R. M. Latimer aud Mrs . R.
E. Cobb, of Macon, who attended the
funeral, which occurred yesterday af
ternoon at 5 o’clock from St, Jude’s
church.
Another Horse Race.
Messrs. L. V. Carroll and Emmett
Taylor have arranged another race.
On Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Car
roll’s blaze faced mare aud Judge Leh
man's mare will he matched in three
half-mile heats, for $25 a side. The
race will occur at 4 p. m. on E street,
where the last race was run, J. J,
Lissner will drive Lehman's mare and
Carroll will do bis own driving.
PRICE, FIVE CENTS.
AIKEN WILL LEAD
GEORGIA’S NAYY.
The Battalion Officers of the
Service and Who They
Will Be.
ELECTION AT AN EARLY DATE,
Other Officers to Be Appointed—Colding
Lieutenant Commander-Vote at
Brunswick and Savannah-
Commander—Lieutenant Frank D.
Aiken, First Division, Brunswick.
Lieutenant commander and execu
tive officer—Lieutenant 11. T. Colding,
Second Division, Savannah.
Navigator with rank of lieutenant—
Seaman Walter J. Thompson, Third
Division, Savannah.
This is the “slate” for officers of tbe
Georgia battalion of naval militia,
just created by an order from state
headquarters. The three battalion of
fices named above are to be filled by an
an election, fixed for Monday night,
April 12.
Tbe Savannah officers will vote in
Savannah and the Brunswick officers
in this city. Each commissioned offi
cer in the service Las a vote. There
are eight in Brunswick.
The eleotion must be held under the
superintendence of one or more jus
tices of the peace and one or more
freeholders ot said county, or any two
officers of volunteers not connected
with said company, who will trans
mit tbe returns thereof to the gov
ernor.
The honor which will be bestowed
upon Lieutenant Aiken by bis election
to tbe highest place in the naval mili
tia service in the state, is one richly
deserved. Lieutenant Aiken was one
of the original Reserve men in Geor
gia, and, as the first commanding offi
cer of the first company in the state,
it is Gtting that he should be the first
commander of the battalion.
Lieutenant Aiken’s promotion to
tbe command of tbe battalion will
result in the promotion of Lieuten
ant C. L. Elliot to tbe command of
the First Division, and the promotion
of EDsign J. S. M. Symons, of that di
vision, to the rank of lieutenant, jun
ior grade.
The election of Thompson as navi
gator is not fully decided on, as
Brunswick may have a candidate to
offer. Commander Aiken will have a
number of staff officers to appoint.
Our stock of tan shoes for men and
ladies is the largest and most complete
of any ever shown in Brunswick, Pal
mer's.
FREIGHT TO BURN.
Ma lory Liner Rio Grande Brings the
Largest Cargo in Years.
Yesteruay was the busiest day that
the workers on the Mallory wharves
have witnessed in a number of years.
Tbe Rio Grande brought the largest
cargo of freight bandied on those
wharves since 181)2.
The stevedore, dock laborers, rail
road and steamship clerks were over
loaded with work, and all of last night
tbe place was a scene ot hustling ac
tivity.
Among the freight shipments re
ceived was one of four carloads of
bats for a Knoxville Arm.
Young Lady Hurt.
Miss Jeßsie Freeman, of Savannah,
jumped from a buggy on George street
yesterday and severely sprained her
ankle. The horse was running away,
and Miss Freeman adopted the heroio
measure to save herself.. Drs. 11. Bur
ford, Branham and Blain attended
her. Miss Freeman is a niece of D. 17.
Lee, of Morris & Lee.
Sales Today.
Today is legal sales day. Sheriff
Berrie and Chief Beach will sell many
pieces of oity and county property.