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THE BRUNSWICK TIMES.
VOLUME 8, NO. 105.
The Wiregrass Campaign Has the Advantage of a Good Start and Has Extended Over the State. It’s a Winner.
KING GEORGE WAS
OET FOR THE STUFF.
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Claimed That He Has Made Mill
ions Out of the Eastern
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Crisis.
HE SPECULATED WELL IN BONES.
Desperate Battle Waging at Arta, the Greek
Forces Numbering Six
„ Thousand.
London, May 4.—A special dispatch
received here from Arta this afternooD
says that a force of 6,000 Greeks, com
manded by Colonel Bairactharis, while
advancing on Pentepigadia has been
engaged by the Turks. A battle, ac
cording to this dispatch, is now in
progress.
THE WICKED KING.
Paris, May 4.—The Gil Bias says the
king of Greece used the crisis in the
affairs of his country to speculate in
Greek and Turkish bonds, with the re
sult that his majesty has cleared 30,-
000,000f. to 33,000,000f.
AT VALKBTINO.
Athens, May 4.-—A dispatch from
Pharsalos says the Turks have avoided
making any further attack upon Val
estino, oontenting themselves with re
connoitering the neighborhood of that
place. The Greeks, it is announced,
occupy strong positions, which enable
them to repulse a superior force.
TWO POWERS OPPOSED.
London, May 4—A dispatch to the
Daily News from Berlin ascribes the
failure of the proposal of Lord Salis
bury, the British prime minister, to
hold a conference with the powers in
Paris to settle the Turko-Grecian ques
tion, to the opposition of Germany and
Russia, both of which powers insist
upon Ureece evacuating the island of
Crete and upon her requesting the
mediation of the powers to bring about
the end of the war.
THIRTY CHARRED BODIES.
A Fire Horror In Paris Appalling In Its
Results.
Paris, May 4.—Fire broke out at 4
o’clock this afternoon in a crowded
charitable bazaar in the Rue Jean-
Goujon, at which the Duchess d’Uzts
and other well-known patronesses
were present.
Many people were burned to death,
and there was a terrible panic, during
which a number of persons were in
jured. Thirty bodies have been re
covered, thirty-live injured ones are
being cared for by physicians, and
many are reported missing.
Loses His Job.
Washington, May 4.—lt is probable
that the recent embezzlement of $15,-
000 at the St. Louis postoffice and the
subsequent arrest of Cashier Hays and
the recovery ot the money will be fol
lowed by a change in the postmaster
ship. Cashier Hays was removed by
telegraphic instructions from here
Saturday.
Davis Designated.
Washington, May 4.—The president
today sent to the senate the following
nominations: Interior, Webster Da
vis of Missouri, assistant secretary of
the interior; war, Lieutenant Colonel
William Henry Forwood, deputy sur
geon general, colonel and assistant
general. Also other army promotions.
Debqe Departs,
Frankfort, Ky., May 4.—The delayed
certificate of Hon. W, T. Deboe’s elec
tion as United States senator reached
the governor this morning and he com
pleted the preparation of his creden
tials two minutes before the departure
of the morning train for Washington
. The Weather.
Atlanta, May 4.—Generally fair to
night and Wednesday.
THE TARIFF BILL.
A Number of Amendments to the Measures
Are Introduced.
Washington, May 4.—Senator Petti
grew of South Dakota has presented
the following amendments intended to
be proposed co the tariff bill: F!ax
straw, $7 per ton ; flax not hackled or
dressed, 2c per pound; llax not retted,
?4C per pound ; tow of llax retted, lc
per pound. Another amendment pro
posed adding to the free list sawed
boards, plauks, deals and other lumber
of white pine, when not planed or
finished.
Senator Aldrich presented the tariff
bill to tlie senate today and gave no
tice that it would be called up on Tues
day, May 18. The time for the bill to
take effect is made July 1,1897, instead
of May 1, as provided in the bouse,
and the words in tlie first paragraph,
‘•or withdrawn from consumption,”
are stricken out. *
KNOCKOUT DROPS.
A Wisconsin Railroad Man Suffers In the
Gay Capital.
Washington, D, C., May 4,—William
M. Foreman, a railroad man of Wis
consin, was the victim of a knockout
drop robbery in a disreputable quarter
of the city last night. The robbers se
cured $75 and a railroad pass for Fors
man and bis wife between Washington
and Chicago. Three policemen were
about to arrest one of Forsman’s com
panions for pro f anity, when the rail
road man interposed and begged him
off.
Within five minutes afterward Fore
man was brought into the stationhouse
dazed from chloral. His assailants es
caped.
FREAKY PHYSICIANS.
Trying Their Fellows in the Profession for
Violating the Ethics.
Atlanta, May 4.—A disruption of
the local medical association may re
sult from the trial of so many promi
nent doctors for alleged violation of
ethics of the profession. The general
public thinks old fogy notions are
driving the association too far and it
is rumored that many members will
resign if extreme action is taken in
the pending cases.
The Atlanta physician whose name
appears in the newspaper these days is
in danger of medical courtmartial.
CALL CLIMBING.
He Got Thirty-seven Votes In the Ballot
Yesterday.
Tallahassee, Fla., May 4.—ln today’s
joint session only one ballot for United
States senator was taken, with the fol
lowing result: Call, 37; Cbipley, 30;
Raney, 20; Hocker, 3; Burford, 1; Mc-
Kay, 1.
The result showed a distinct gain
for both Call and Chipley and one
vote more for Raney.
They Are Trembling.
Atlanta, May 4.—The directors of
several small banks and building and
loan associations in Atlanta recently
gutted by officials are very nervous
over'the prospect of the indictment
of some of the directors. They are
very prominent men, but the feeling is
strong and growing stronger that
owing to their negligence thousands
have been robbed. The grand jury
will probably consider the matter
soon.
Belles in Court.
Augusta, May 4—John Welch,
charged with the murder of Bruce
Wilson at a country ball near Augusta,
went on trial today. A sensational
feature of Ihe case was the appearance
of a bevy of rural belles who are wit
nesses. Richmond county outside of
Augusta is intensely worked np over
the case. -
Collinne Lost in Collision.
Aberdeen, Scotland, May 4—A col
lision occurred off Girdless light
house between the British steamers
Collinne and Gringoe. The Collinne
sank and all her crew were drowned.
BRUNSWICK, GA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 5, 1897.
RABI RAPIDLY
REPGLSES REY.
Cubans Win a Big Battle, Thanks
to Terrible Dynamite
Gun.
LOSING. GENERAL BRANDED COWARD
The First Real Battle in Many Months in
Cuba Results in a Complete Span
ish Rout.
New York; May 4.—A dispatch to
the Journal from Havana says : Cuban
troops led by Gen. Jesus Rabi defeated
the Spanish column of General Rey.
The Spaniards numbered 1,300, or over
twice as many as the insurgents who
are pitted against them.
Rey’s rout was so complete that he
has been removed from his command
by Weyler and will be sent to Spain to
answer charges of cowardice before a
military tribunal. Rabi was en
camped near Bayamo when his scouts
brought the news to him of the with
drawal of the regular Spanish troops
from that city and the abandonment
of the place to local volunteers.
Gen. Calixto Garcia, commanding
the department of the east, sent one
of his dynamite guns with the best
trained crew under his command with
instructions to Rabi to fall upon the
city forthwith.
The slaughter of the Spanish troops
by the dynamite guns was terrible.
The insurgents were practically un
scathed,the enemy having had scarcely
a chance to fire on them. Garcia de
cided not to hold Bayamo, having
need of the men for more important
work.
WSYLEK TO THE FRONT.
Havana, May 3.—Captain General
Weyler will leave tonight to resume
charge of the operations in the prov
ince of Santa Clara.
American Physicians.
Washington, D. C., May 4.—About 500
members of the medical profession,
among them some of the most distin
guished specialists in the country, are
in Washington to attend the fourth
triennial congress of American physi
cians and surgeons, which convened
this afternoon at the Columbia theatre
and continues until Thursday evening.
Dead in the Hold.
Cleveland, May 4.—The body of R.
E. Osborne of Detroit, Mich., was
found in the hold of the steam barge
Olympia in the harbor this morning
Osborne’s head had been crushed in
and his clothing had been stripped of
all yaluables. The police believe that
he was murdered.
The Episcopal Convention.
Macon, May 4.—The convention of
the Protestant Episcopal Diocesan
convention and of St. Andrews
Brotherhood, which meets tomorrow,
will be largely attended. Bishop Nel
son will preside, and delegates from
every parish in the state will be pres
ent.
Hawkinsville’s Big Week.
Hawkinsville, May 4.—The Chautau
qua is drawing large crowds. Splen
did lectures and music make up the
program. General Gordon will lec
ture tomorrow night.
Valuable Horse.
Chicago, May 4.—Joe Patchen was
sold for $15,000 today. The purchaser
was J. W. Marks, of Chicago.
Burglary at Sterling.
B. F. Howard telephoned over the
long distance wire from Sterling last
night that his house had been bur
glarized and a suit of clothes, shotgun
and other valuable articles taken. The
burglars escaped and are thought to
be in Brunswick.
ADMIRAL SAILS FOR
DNKNOWN SHORES.
Meade, One of the Navy’s Oldest
Veterans, Succumbs to an
Operation.
APPENDICITIS WAS THE TROUBLE.
The Admiral Had a Personal Disagreement
With President Cleveland—He Saw
Some Hard Service.
Washington,May4.—Admiral Meade,
retired, U. S. navy, who has been ill in
Washington for three weeks past, died
today at Dr. Johnson’s private sanita
rium. An operation had to he per
formed for appendicitis, and from its
effect the admiral failed to rally. The
funeral will be held at Miss Patter
son’s house, 1100 Vermont avenue, and
the interment, with military honors,
will be at Arlington.
Admiral Meade was one of the best
known officers in the modern navy,
saw hard service before and during
the civil war, and had cruised in all
parts of the world on important naval
and diplomatic missions. During the
last administration he and the presi
dent had a serious disagreement, re
sulting from the admiral’s criticism,
in an interview, of the policy of the
administration.
HERE’S A JOB.
The Postoffiee is in Need of Substitute Letter
Carriers.
Postmaster Symons says that he
finds it exceedingly difficult to obtain
substitutes for his letter carriers
whenever one of them happens to be
sick or on leave of absence. The po
sition does not pay enough to warrant
a person in giving up a private situa
tion. but in the course of a year one
can make from $125 to $l5O at it, the
most of which would be made in the
two summer months during which the
carriers are allowed fifteen days each.
If some bright young man employed
in the city can make arrangements
with his employer to let him off occa
sionally when needed at the postoffice
he can materially increase his yearly
income. To obtain a permanent posi
tion as substitute carrier it is neces
sary to pass the civil service examina
tion, all applicants for which must be
United States citizens over 21 years of
age.
The next examination will beheld on
June 5, and applications must be filed
at the postcilice not later than May 17.
The postmaster is very much in hopes
that several persons will apply. It is
further stated that in case of a vacancy
in the regular carrier force the sub
stitute carrier would receive the ap
pointment.
THE PICNICS.
Three Parties Spent the Day Out of the
City Yesterday.*
Three joyohs picnic parties spent
yesterday out of the city.
St. Mark’s went to St. Simon on the
Pope Catlin.
St. Jude’s enjoyed a very pleasant
day at Camp Walker, making the trip
in wagons.
The Second Adyent school spent the
’day at Island View.
The First Baptist Sunday-school
will go on the steamer Governor Saf
ford to Cumberland today.
McKendree will picnic at St. Simon
today.
Jugged For Jugs.
For some time Jake Hopkins, the
South Brunswick ferryman, lias been
losing jugs, supposed to he stolen from
his boat while it lay at the city dock.
Yesterday John Williams, a colored
boy, was arrested on a warrant from
Justice Hitch’s court, charged with
the theft of the jugs. He is in jail.
GIVING THE LAUGH.
The Constitution Tells How Brunswiok Feels
Over the Deveaux Matter.
Yesterday’s Constitution has the
following:
“The people of Brunswick are chuck
ling over the old saw that ‘chickens
will come home to roost.’ In other
words they are venting continued
cachinations up their sleeves. It
grows out of the probable appoint
ment of J. H. Deveaux, the colored re
publican, to the coilectorship of the
Savannah port.
“Deveaux is a prominent negro, but
there is always intense objection, and
especially in southern coast towns, to
any intimation that a negro will hold
office. Some years ago Deveaux was
an applicant for the coilectorship of
the Brunswick port. His appointment
was fought bitterly by the people of
that town, but the leading citizens of
Savannah gave him strong recom
mendations. Prominent Savannah
people gave him strong indorsements.
“Since then Deveaux has moved to
Savannah and now has become
an applicant for the coilectorship
of that port. There is an organ
ized effort to defeat him, but his
appointment is probable. as his
most telling ammunition Deveaux has
brought out the former indorsements
given him when he was an applicant
for the office in Brunswick, and this
has been added to by stiff recommen
dations by tiie Brunswiokians, who
claim that he is the best man they
know for the place.
“Thus it is just now that one coast
town of Georgia is giving another
coast town a revengeful ‘horse laugh,’ ”
AT ST. SIMON.
Notes of How the Resort Is Being Prepared
For the Summer Visitors.
Things at Hotel St. Simon are be
ginning to assume a summer aspect.
One hundred and fifty new electric
lights are now being placed in the ho
tel by Messrs. Crichton and Dexter.
The new bathhouse, which is theequal
of any on the Atlantic coast, is nearly
completed. Ther.e are 100 rooms, with
electric lights, and the entire structure
is 210 feet long, Anew plank walk
leads from the hotel to the bathhouse.
A portion of the hotel porch lias been
enclosed with lattice-work. Manager
JackClancey is personally superin
tending all the preliminary arrange
ments.
There is now but one thing needed
to make the resort complete in every
particular—a big ocean pavilion on the
beach, where the guests can lounge in
the breezes and listen to soothing
strains from the orchestia. The own
ers have not yet decided whether they
will make this much-needed addition.
Hardy Turner has the street car line
in working order, and the finishing
touches are being put to the new
Ocean Pier, which is strongly con
structed and amply large.
The owners of cottages along the
beach are having them repaired, pre
paratory to moving in for the summer.
The hotel season will open on May
15, but no large crowds are expected
before June 1.
TO SUE THE SOUTHERN.
The State Will Claim Encroachment on a
Right of Way.
Unless a compromise is reached at a
conference to be held here on May 17,
the state will sue the Southern railway
for encroachment on thirteen miles of
right of way, six miles out of Atlanta
and seven out of Dalton. The South
ern, as successor to the old East Ten
nessee road, is suing the Nashville,
Chattanooga and St. Louis railway
and the state of Georgia for one-fourth
the depot at Chattanooga, and the case
is to be heard June 7. Colonel Hen
derson, assistant general counsel for
the Southern, is negotiating with
Special Attorney Wimbisb, of the
state, for a settlement whereby the
Southern will dismiss its suit and be
come a Georgia corporation if the
state allows it the use of the right of
way.—Atlanta Journal.
PRICE. FIVE CENTS-
SERIOUS STRIKE
OF IAM MINERS,
It is General Throughout the Coal
Fields of East Tennessee
and South Kentucky.
COAL CREEK MEN WILL GO OUT.
The General Reduction of Eighteen Per Cent.
Leaves the Mines Without
Workers.
Chattanooga, May 4.—Advices re
ceived from upper east Tennessee
and southern Kentucky show that a
general strike in all the coal mines in
that section will probably occur dur
ing the next few days. Already the
miners at Jelico, Glenrnary, Robbins
and Helenwood.numbering 2,500 in all
are out, and the indications are that
every mine between Chattanooga and
Somerset, Ky., will soon be aband
oned.
It is possible that the miners at Coal
Creek, the scene of open war a few
years ago, will also go out. The cause
of the trouble is a general reduction
of IS per cent in the wages of work
men in all east Tennessee mines,
which went into effect last Saturday.
RAILROAD CHANGES.
Henley, of Way cross, Made Night Operator,
and the Office Moved.
The telegraph office at the union
pot has been moved from the ticket
office to the baggage room. Mr. W.
A. Henley, of Waycross, arrived yes
terday and has taken a position as
night operator at the union depot.
Mr. Barnes, formerly night operator,
will now be day operator. Mr. Mont
gomery’s successor as ticket agent has
not yet taken the position. Mr. J. W.
Carr, of Savannah, came down Mon
day with instructions to take the po
sition, but decided he would prefer
taking a position in Atlanta, so he
left yesterday.
The railroads will soon have two
men doing the work that Agent Mont
gomery alone did for so long. Harry
Clover will go with Mr. Montgomery
to the Brunswick Cycle company’s
store, and James Barnes will take
Clover’s place as messenger.
SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.
A High Testimonial to the Excellence of
Rider’s Rendition of Ben Hur.
Wesleyan Female College,
Macon, Ga., March 20,1897.
Captain J. A. Rider :
Dear Sir—lt gives me pleasure to
commend with hearty approval your
presentation of Ben Ilur.
The goodly company of students and
citizens gathered in the chapel this
evening on rather short notice mani
festly enjoyed both your admirable
resume of the story and the life-size
illustrations projected so brilliantly
on the screen.
Being instructive as well as pleas
ing, the entertainment should receive
an appreciative welcome and meet
with financial success in every place
where refinement and Christian cul
ture are to be found. Yours truly,
\V. B. Bonnell.
The Druggists.
Druggist VV. J. Butts will attend the
state convention of pharmacists,which
meets in Macon on May 18. Other
Brunswick representatives will prob
ably go.
Notice to Cyclists.
I am just in receipt of samples of
bicycle goods from the Standard Cycle
Clothing Cos. of Chicago, including
suits, caps, shoes, stockings and sweat
ers for both ladies and gentlemen.
These goods are of the highest grade
and up to date, both in price and
style. J. A. Hill, the Clothier.