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VOL. XII
60th CONGRESS MEETS
Opening Session of Both Branch
es Was Brief.
10 SPEND"pOO, 000,000
Republican Leaders Will Try to Confine
the Work of the Short Session to
Passage of the Money Bills.
Washington, D. C. —Both houses of
congress convened for the beginning
of the second session of the sixtieth
congress. Practically no business was
transacted in either house.
In the senate, ex-Governor Cummins
of lowa took the oath of office, as the
success of Senator Allison, as did Car
roll 43- of Vermont as the suc
cessor of Senator Stewon.. iu uie
house the seven members who were
elected in November to succeed mem
bers who have resigned were sworn
ih. They are .Henry A. Barnhart, dem
ocrat, who succeeds the late Mr.
Brick, republican, from the thirteenth
Indiana district; Albert Estopinal,
democrat, who succeeds the late Mr.
Meyer, from the first Louisiana dis
trict; Otto G. Foclker, republican, suc
cessor to Mr. Dunwell, republican, in
the third New York district; Frank E.
Gurns-gy, republican, successor to Mr.
Powers, republican, from the fourth
Maine district; Ebeu M. Masters, re
publican, successor to Mr. Parker, re
publican from South Dakota at large;
O. C. Wilty, democrat, successor to his
brother, A. A. Wiley, democrat, from
the second Alabama district, and
John P. Swasey, republican, successor
to Mr. Littlefield, who resigned dur
ing the last session from the second
Maine district.
The two houses appointed commit
tees each to notify the other house
and the president, that the two bodies
are organized and prepared to go for
ward with the business of the ses
sion. The senate then adjourned for
the day, out of respect to the mem
ony of Senator Allison, who died dur
ing the recess. The house terminated
its brief session with resolutions com
memorative of the lives of Messrs.
Parker, Wiley, Dunwell and Powers,
who have died since adjournment last
May.
Work of Congress Outlined.
If republican leaders retain their
present views, the legislation of the
session will include very little except
the appropriation bills. These bills
will carry in the aggregate about sl,-
000,000,0C0, and the general opinion
is that in the time that will be al
lowed the two houses will find that
they can best serve the country by
giving proper attention to these ap
propriations.
There will be a general effort to
hold the appropriations down to the
lowest possible limit. It is gene: ally,
undprcitood ik.ut tixciw win *O6 a bill
for the improvement of rivers and
harbors, to carry not less than $25,-
000,000 or $30,000,000. Provision must
be made this year for the census of
1910, and this will require not less
than $10,000,000, There will be other
exceptional demands, so that as it now
looks, congress will do well if it suc
ceeds in holding the appropriations
' for the second session of the sixtieth
congress to the dimensions of those
of the first session. The house com
mittee on appropriations alredy has
begun its work on the sundry bills.
The fact that the managers desire
to restrict legislation will not prevent
other members of the senate and
house from exerting their efforts in
behalf of favorite measures. The first
effort in this direction will be made
in the senate, by Mr. Foraker, who
will renew his attempt to have passed
the bill authorizing the re-enlistment
of the negro soldiers discharged with
out honor on account of the Browns
ville riot. This measure will be the
special order for December 16. Sen
ator Beveridge will make an effort to
obtain early consideration for his child
labor bill and Senator Carter of the
postal savings bank bill.
There also is a considerable ele
ment in both houses favorable to such
changes in the Sherman anti-trust law
as wilt provide Immunity for some
of the combinations, like labor unions,
which have been held to he in re
straint of trade, and which it is con
tended are not injurious. Many also
desire the amendment of the inter
state commerce law, so as to permit
traffic agreements among the rail
roads, and to eliminate the commod
ities clause of the law. The labor in
terests will continue their efforts In
behalf of a modification of the in
junction laws. There is, opposition,
however, to all of these measures.
The advocates of separate state
hood for Arizona and New Mexico de
elm t? will have Support OI
the president for their measures.
There will, however, be an effort to
pass the measures over to the sixty
first congress.
The president will recommend leg
islation looking to the supervision of
telegraph and telephone lines. Bills
will be offered bringing them within
the jurisdiction of the interstate com
merce commission. Ship subsidy also
will receive attention, but the proba
bility of action is remote.
There will be much discussion of
the tariff in the cloak rooms, and the
ways and means committee of the
house will coutinue its efforts to
a bill, but no measure will receive
attention on the floor of either house
until after March 4, when the propos
ed special session will concentrate its
efforts upon this one subject. It is
even probable that action looking to
a change in the print paper and wood
pulp schedules will be postponed un
til the special session.
Both houses will receive recommen
dations from the congressional mou
etarv commission looking to changes
in the laws regulating the supervis
ion of national banks, and the pres
ent indications are that some time leg
islation for that purpose will be en-
It is quite certain that the recent
agreement between the United States
and Japan will receive early consid
eration in the senate. Already a num
ber of senators have privately ex
pressed disapproval of the fact that
the compact was entered into without
consulting the senate.
The Miller Liberal
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COmiEK IN WHEAT.
20.000.000 Bushel*, Biggest Deal on
Record, May Bring $1.40.
Chicago, Ill.—James A. Patten, the
corn king, with his partner, now con
trols 20.000,000 bushels of wheat —
more wheat than any one crowd of
men ever held in Chicago, the scene
of the world’s biggest corn deals, and
$1.40 wheat is looked for on the
board of trade as a result of the co
lossal deal.
With Mr. Patten in the big ring are
William H. Bartlett, George W. Pat
ten and Frank B. Frazer. It is big
ger than the Joe Leiter deal when
that young plunger lost $9,000,000 just
after the world s fair. It is bigger
than the John W. Gates corner, in
which millions were lost by the cor
norer four years ago. It is bigger at
least by 6,000,000 bushels than any
thing um tiutcri ever auemptecr
And yet it is not a corner. It is
merely a colossal deal. The Bartlett-
Patten bull ring is not endeavoring to
buy all the grain in the market and
create an artificial condition, as "Old
Hutch’’ did when he forced wheat up
to $2. Its purpose is merely to use
to advantage what is believed to be a
world-wide condition, and to have a
large amount of wheat to sell when
the price soars. In their opinion it
will go to $1.33 or $1.40, not as a re
sult of purchase, but because of a
combination of circumstances around
the world over which no man can con
trol.
PLAWSFOH BATTLESHIPS
Are Reviewed by Admiral Capps in
His Annual Report.
Washington, D. C.—The annual re
port of Admiral W. L. Capps, chief
contractor of the navy, is very largely
devoted to a review of the navy over
the plans of the battleships North Da
kota and Delaware. Admiral Capps
disposes of various phases of criti
cisms that have been made of the
plans by declaring that the recommen
dations for congress made by the
Newport conference related only to
minor details over which there nat
urally would be differences of opinion
and improvement from time to time.
Admiral Capps refers to the lack of
adequate working facilities at many of
the navy yards for ships under repair,
and says this condition continues to
embarrass the bureau and prevent the
prompt and economical performance
of work.
ELECHoTfRaTdT¥ CHICAGO.
Outrageous Repeating and Ballot Box
Stuffing Charged Oy Grand Jury.
Chicago, 111. The ballots of men
long residents of other cities, the bal
lots of temporary absentees, the bal
lots of the insane and even of the
dead were cast in the primary elec
tion of last August in Chicagjp. ‘’Re
peaters'’ voted in platoons,the
..nnoniyru*«® yi wining: unseeing
judges and clerks of eh von, and
fraud, rampant to an extent hitherto
unknown in a city never famous for
the purity of its political atmosphere,
rendered the resultant party nomina
tions morally worthless.
These and other startling allega
tions are made in the report of the
special grand jury, which, after sev
eral weeks of delving into charges
growing out of Chicago’s first prima
ries and returning sixty-one indict
ments against two-score or more of
politicians and others, adjourned.
HONOR MEMORY OF CLEVELAND.
Exercises Held by Association of Life
Insurance Presidents.
New York City. Notable exer
cises in memory of the late Grover
Cleveland, ex-president of the United
Slates, constituted the opening ses
sion in this city of the Association of
Life Insurance Presidennts, of which
he had been chairman during the year
and a half between the time of its or
ganization and his death.
The program, which was brief, in
cluded addresses by President Paul
Morton of the Equitable Life Assur
ance Society and Dr. John H. Finley,
president of the College of the City of
New York, and the reading of letters
which had been received from former
Vice President Stevens and Governor
Hoke Smith and Hilary A. Herbert,
members of Mr. Cleveland’s cabinet.
Seventeen Bead in Storm.
St. Johns, Newfoundland. —Seven-
teen persons have perished in a storm
which has lashed the Newfoundland
coast .for forty-eight hours. In all ten
fishing vessels have gone ashore, most
of them breaking into fragments on
the rocks. The victims of the gale
were members of the crows of three of
these craft.
Over 300 Fisherman Drown
Tokio, Japan.—Thirty-five Japanese
fishing boats were caught in a ty
phoon off Hatsu Island, in Kawatsu
Bay, and wrecked. It is reported
that 350 fishermen lost their lives.
Glad Treaty Is Signed.
Tokio, Japan.—News of the signing
of the Amerlcan-Japanese agreement
was received here with glad acclaim.
Crowds thronged about the newspaper
bulletin boards and the announcement
that Secretary Root and Ambassador
Takahira held affixed their official sig
natures to the document was greeted
by 'enthusiastic cheers.
Mrs. TardeH Dead.
San Francisco, C*l.—The wife of
General Wardell, who was exiled in
Arizona, died here. The romantic
attachment of General Wardell for
his wife who was afflicted with lepro
sy and his devotion in remaining at
her side at the risk of his own life
was commented on universally.
Shippers of the South.
Louisville, Ky.—Discussion behind
closed doors about an interstate com
merce commission ruling on the sub
stitution of commodities was partici
pated in here by a large body of rep
resentative shippers from many parts
of the south.
None of the conferees would di
vulge the nature of the proceedings,
but it was definitely stated by a prom
inent railroad authority that a plan
of battle was arranged against the
commission’s order. - . ,
COLQUITT, GA., Wh DECEMBER 9 190 S.
PRESIDENTON SUFFBAGE
Roosevelt Thinks Women Should
Vote. Is not Enthusiastic.
WOMAN’S CHIEF FUNCTION
Her Work in the Household and Rear
ing of Children More Important
Than any Man's Work.
New York City.-—The attitude of
President Roosevelt and of Secretary
of State Elihu Root on the subject of
woman suffrage was disclosed at a
meeting under the auspices of the
National League for the Civic Educa
tion of Women.
The Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, editor
of The Outlook, in the course of an
sdSr«nß in oppoaiUon to granting the
rights to vote for women, read the fol
lowing letter from President Roose
velt, which he said he read with the
president’s permission, although it was
not ‘‘written for publication,
’’Personally, I believe in woman’s
suffrage,” says Mr. Roosevelt, al the
outset of the letter, which is dated No
vember 10, 1908, “but I am not an en
thusiastic advocate of it because I do
not regard it as a very Important mat
ter. I am unable to see that there has
been any special improvement in the
position of women in those states in
the west that have adopted woman
suffrage as compared with those states
adjoining them that have not adopted
it. I do not think that giving the
women suffrage will produce any
marked improvement in the condition
of women. I do not believe that it
will produce any of the evils feared,
and I am very certain that when wom
en, as a whole, take any special in
terest in the matter they will have
the suffrage if they desire it.
"But at present I think most of them
are lukewarm; I find some activity for
it, and some activity against it. I
am, for the reasons above given, rath
er what you would regard as luke
warm or tepid in my support of it be
cause, while I believe in it, I do not
regard it as of very much import
ance.
“I believe that man and woman
should stand on an equality of right,
but I do noWvbelieve that equality of
right means identity of function; and
I am more and more convinced that
the great field, the indispensable field,
for the usefulness of women is as the
mother of the family.
“It is her work in the household, in
the home, her work in bearing and
rearing the children, which is more
important than any man’s work, and
it is that work which should be nor
mally -the woman's special work, just
as normally the man’s work should
be that of the breadwinne’ sup
porter of the home, and, ify,"isary,
the soldier will light gs the
home — v
“There are exceptions as regards
both man and woman; hut the full and
perfect life, the life of highest happi
ness and of highest usefulness to the
state, is the life of the man and wom
an who are husband and wife, who
live in the partnership of love and
duty, the one earning enough to keep
the home, the other managing the
home and the children.
“THEODORE ROOSEVELT.’’
LIQUOR TO DRY TERRITORY.
Common Carriers Must Accept Ship
ments Tendered.
Richmond. Va. —The supreme court
of appeals affirmed the decision of the
state corporation commission in the
case of the Fortner Brewing Company
against the Southern Express Compa
ny. The effect of the decision is lhat
while common carriers must receive
shipments for delivery to parties in
“dry territory,’’ wholesalers, brewers,
distillers ar.d manufacturers cannot
avail themselves of lhat right, for by
so doing it could be made possible
for violators of the law compell com
mon carriers to aid and abet violations
on account of the consignees receiving
the liquor when shipped in large quan
tities and then selling it contrary to
law.
INLAND WATERWAY ROUTE.
This is the Purpose of the Convention
at New Orleans.
New Orleans, La. —Between two and
three hundred delegates gathered
here in attendance upon the fourth
annual convention of the Interstate
Waterways League, which has for its
object the construction of an inland
waterway from the Rio Grande to tho
Mississippi.
It is planned to connect and dredge
to sufficient length all of the rivers
and bodies of water lying just inside
the Louisiana and Texas coasts, the
route extending from Brownsville,
Texas, to Donaldsonville, La. A gov
ernment appropriation has resulted in
a portion of the work being completed
already, and a further appropriation
will be asked of congress.
NIGHT BAIL.
Sheriff Ordered to Release Them When
Sufficient Bond is Made.
Nashville, Tenn. —Judge T. E. Mat
thews delivered his opinion on the
writs of habeas corpus by which the
eight alleged night riders now con
fined in the Davidson county jail
sought to obtain their release from
custody, granting the relief asked, and
fixing the amoqpt of bail.
Four of the prisoners were granted
bail in the sum of SIO,OOO, and four
for half that amount each. The sher
iff of Davidson county was ordered
to turn over the prisoners to the sher
iff of Obion county and that official
1b directed to release the prisoners
when a sufficient bond is made.
DEFICTToF $58,070^201.
United States Treasurer Treat So
States in Annual Report.
Washington, D. C. Charles H.
Treat, treasurer of the United States,
in his annual report, calls attention
to the fact that owing to the disturb
ed relations between the income and
outgo of the government there was a
deficiency last year of $53,070,201 as
against surplus for the preceding year
of $84,236,586, and points out that the
total revenues for 1993 exceeded any
preceding fiscal year except 1907.
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Ti* C NUEJPOSTAL LAWS.
Propose! T .Irrunste Assistant Post
's General.
Wasjiinp 3 C , The four offices
of as a“ _ inat -r general will
be •director of posts, with
seven assist U.1 ,, provided for, and the
entire pO&-W isi-rtice of the United
States, dl into fifteen separate
districts, ii i (fcje bill providing for the
revision of Ml U postal laws which is
being prey j by the joint postal in
vestigation ur.itttee of congress, ap
pointed two jars ago, Is passed by
congress. 1
It is claim that a director of posts,
appointed t( old office until remov
ed for caus • and who shall receive
a high sala» . tend to improve
the service ih a continuity of
policies for ’ ©nefit of postal serv
ice. By pro (; for seven assistants
to the direct! - ~-.bcrs
of the comiri
advantages tlu tiges
and the appolt inced
men to the f.lr offices ol assistant
postmaster ge.Aral can be obviated.
There assistant directors are, accord
ing to the pioy lions of the bill, also
to hold offirjp faring good behavior.
The postnujs;sJ v | general would cou
tinue as the -Yfutive head of the de
partment. ’
Much information was gathered by
the commission last year in an effort
to find some means of improving the
accounting systete of the postal serv
ice. To perfectfthe, system of man
agement, provisfWe-r fifteen super
intendents to lirect charge of
the fifteen 'separrie postal districts,
which it is propped to create, has
been decided upitf. According to the
bill, each separat; district would in a
sense be a branc’f office
In addition to Hese charges, many
of which have to .e recommended by
Postmaster Genei 1 Meyer, numerous
minor alterations -in the postal laws
are included in th i bill. The commis
sion is composed 'f Senators Penrose,
Pennsylvania, ch firman; Dolliver.
lowa and Clay, G-orgia, and Repre
sentatives Overstret, Indiana; Gard
ner. New Jersey; ind Moon, Tennes
see.
COATMHpMSIONS.
Demonstrated by jc 'erriment Testing
Station at . Itsburg, Penn.
Pittsburg, Pa.—J operators, mine
owners, enginers, ; iractical miners, j
scientists and natimal and state of
ficials here for to meeting of the
American minlnig «igress .participat
ed in the formaiSedication of the
federal governagS laboratory and i
testing Ratios»PH|l V established In j
this city. . AmaßMMAiesis in an
iiti nditiona of I
real mine* vo far a9 !
eateryThobi. IBBT?'
esting feature u, "uV ceremony.
The first test was pith safety pow
| der, fireclay and bituntnoiis coal .’list,
the latter placed on sielve: ropre nr.
; ing ledges in real mites. The powder
! w»3 ignited for the Hast and d’ not
I oxHode the dust.
There was a terri explosion -luring
the fourth test, w. i 1.1 pom s of
black powder and ienty pc .is of
road dust (actual tine -lus , were
used. The recoil v I strong u d the
flames covered the- til length ,f the
artificial mine. T! *’ est pr-’ -d the
combination to be • eding d nger
ous.
At this point, ex i of station
appeared wearing i Drae oxygen
apparatus, ineludir r, elal d glass
hoods, chemical ch bar a; ir bag,
designed to render athi 1 :.. normal,
or nearly so, whi ihc i , rn.'Or is
surrounded by tbe bst beat 1> gas
ard ve.o- - Tte m ’lurried into the
gallery, still fli’ed 1. tin fumes of
the explosion and a j-ently re not
affected by ai.y o' p gases This
device is designed irtici-lar’ • for
rescue work, and v se 1 with good
results at Marlanm
DETECTIVES EIIOT.
Fired Over Heads Strikers and
Were Attache y Mob
Perth Ambcv, N -When drink
crazed detectives e. ted to guard
the strike-breaking iloyes of the
National Fire Proof!- ompany. fired
their pistols over th ads of a gath
ering mob about th. lickade of the
plant, the word weal that strikers
and their sympathiz were being
murdered, and in a a'.-rt time men
and women were riot r and blood
was flowing freely. .Gt • excitement
prevailed following >h. ooting. No
one was struck by ui :s and the
only wounds were ffi 1) by flying
bricks and clubs.
Emperor oi CDto" romied.
Pekin, China. —The oronatiou of
j Pu Yi the 3-year-old enperor of Chi
na, successor of the la Kuang Hsu,
took place at the taper palace. The
new ruler was given the iame of Hsu
en Tung.
24 Bridges De- inyed.
Cleveland, O. —Twenty’our bridges
just finished or in coursetif construc
tion by the National Ere'iors’ associ
ation, otherwise calleu ‘he bridge
trust, have been destroy* by dyna
mite during the last year fnd the or
ganization announced itsjdetermina
tioa to fiud and puniau ie dynamit
ers. A reward of $1,009 ias been of
fered.
Trial of the Coo ire.
Nashville, Tenn. —On aviication by
the defense, the trial of ‘Monel Dun
can B. Cooper, Robin Co ; r and ex-
Sheriff John D. Sharp, ind • 5d for the
murder of former United ates Sen
ator E. W. Carmack, htr een post
poned until the January ti of court.
Conservation ComnilssW
Washington, D. C. —“Lain;’Was the
subject discussed at the foe session
of the national conservator commis
sion. Assistant Attornej General
Woodruff of (he departmtt of the
interior reed a report, whic declared
that the facts regarding tlioer lands
3how a decided tendency towards
monopoly. It was asserted hat there
are eighty million acres o swamp
lands in the United States hich can
be reclaimed at a profit aq that two
fifths of the country is a ’yrsert.
ROBERT F. MADDOX.
Atlanta’s Nexl Mayo?.
GOOD ROADS CONGRESS
Elect Officers and Form Per
manent Organization.
BONO RESOLUTIONS ADOPTES
Coun ties of Georgia Urged to Raise
Money for the Improvement j
of Roads.
Atlanta, Ga.—Good i
Diem and how to keep
pair, held the
gates to the Sou:
in Atiat-gM
of the comity coin mis- \
Blotters of Fulton; Judge W. F. Eve, .
county comfissi'iner of Richmond for ;
the past thirty years; L. W. Page,
director of the office of public roads |
of the United States department of
agriculture, and Dr. S. W. McCallie,:
state geologist of Georgia.
The governor was elected perma
nent president of the congress. Geu-S
eral Clifford L. Anderson was elected i
vice president. J. A. Ross of North 1
Carolina was named second vice pres-j
ident and H. A. Alexander of Atlanta j
elected secretary.
Resolutions were adopted calling |
upon the counties of Georgia 1 1 issue i
-bonds for road improvement, and also j
one urging the federal government to !
take action towards aiding roaL build- \
ing, and, in addition urging the sen- j
ators and representatives to the Unit-!
ed States congress to lay the mat- j
ter before that body, with the end in
view of having a definite plan of im
provement adopted.
GRADES Os WHEAT DEFINED
By Association of State Chemists of
the South.
Atlanta, Ga.—The Association of
the State 'Chemists of the South, con
nected with the various departments
of agriculture, after a most success
ful convention in Atlanta, have ad
journed.
For the first time defint.ions as the*
different grades of wheat products
were adopted. It is declared that
wheat bran shall consist of the
coarse outer skin of the wheat berry
separated from the finer offal. Brown
middlings shall consist of the fine
particles of the outer bran, as well
as the inner, or "bee wing,” brand
when separated from the wheat bran
and wheat middlings. White mid
dlings shall consist of that part of
the offal from wheat left after sepa
rating from it the bran and the brown
middlings. Ship stuff shall be tom
posed of the brown middlings and tho
white middlings of wheat when run
together. Wheat offal shall bo cow-'
posed of the bran, the brown m\j-'
dling and the white middlings of
wheat when run together.
PUBLIC UTILITY CORPORATIONS
Will Pay $624,916-14 Into the State
Treasury This Year.
Atlanta, Ga.—The public utility cor
porations will, this year, pay to the
state taxes amounting to $624,916.14,
or about one-eighth of the total funds
to be derived from all sources for the
support of tbe slate government.
Railroads $4e7.918.32
Street railways 63,618.31
Gas and water companies 18,246.70
Pullman, express and tel
egraph companies . . . 12.922.71
Electric light and power
companies 4,273.38
Steamship and steamboat
companies 13,299.45
Telephone companies. . . 24,637.27
Total $624,916.14
MITCHELL GIVEN TWELVE MONTH'
Jury Found Him Guilty of Assault
and Battery.
Thomasville, Ga. —W. H. Mitchell,
alderman and former county treas
urer of Thomasville, was found guilty
of the charge of assault and battery,
on his former ward, Miss Lucile Lin
ton, who Wfis his wife’s most intimate
friend. The verdict was received by
the defendant with little show of emo
tion. Mitchell was sentenced to 12
months’ imprisonment.
THROUGHOUT THE STATE.
Robert F. Maddox is the next may
or of Atlanta. He won a decisive
victory over his opponent, James
i G. Woodward, by a majority
us 3.149* in the eight wards of tho
! city He carried six of the bight
j war-lb in Atlanta and lost two wa-ds
•by very small majorities. Mr. Mad
dox and nis friends are more than
| pleased Tiu ’>' sa $ that
good gov i
ißßflgii/SialaUßOß'T ''' bi d .„,
-
-PWW* s■*!('!:(■ (for ol the coun for ihu
| same period.l
The city council of Brunswick open
| ed bids for $ 4,000 of refunding 5 per
! cent bonds to mature in January,
• 1921. Townsend, Scott & Son of : >:1
I tiroore, were awarded the entire issue.
! In all there were eighteen bidders.
Colonel Dan C. Kingman, who hit:,
! lor some time been conducting a joint
! investigation of damage done in and
around Augusta by the recent flood,
with Mayor B. M. Harrod of New Or
| leans has returned to his home in Sa
vannah. Major Harrod took a six
mile tramp of the river bank on the
. Georgia side, in company with Nisbet
! Wingfield, commissioner of public
| works, for the purpose of examining
j carefully the damage wrought, to
shore lines and adjacent properly by
tbe high water.
Postmasters appointed for Georgia;
I Bopettevilie, Decatur county, Albert
:F. Kenley, vice J. H. Cheshire, re
signed; Emmalene, Jenkins county,
| William M. Tinley, vice W. Parrish,
I resigned; Hughes, Murray county, A.
j L. Brady, vice R. H. Keith, resigned;
Masset*, Berrien county, Jacob Gibbs,
‘ vice J. Newbern, Jr„ resigned; Mistle
| too, Columbia county, David C. Cltatt,
! vice B. F. Ciiatt, resigned; Rocky,
ford, Screven county, Maude Miller,
pice J. M. Newton, deceased.
On De; ribor 15 next Atlanta Ma
j sons will im litute a lodge of St. Jus
*■- tin conclav f the Red Cross of Con
stantino, iii l officers will be installed,
it is announced that Samuel E. Bliss,
grand sovereign, and George W. War
velle, gtv.ud secretary, will attend the
ceremonies, and Samuel P. Cochran
i of Dallas, Texas, illustrious intendent
. general of Texas, will conduct the
'ceremonies of constitution and in
stallation. The ceremonies will take
place at tho Masonic temple, Mitchell
’ ard Forsyth streets. It is expected
• j to make the affair one of the most
, 1 im; ortant ever held by and Masonic
■ i ord :r in Atlanta.
I I Jl t the next sessftu of the general
I assembly of Georgia a bill will be in
•j troduced by fro ”,
; Richmond county to amend the state
j constitution so that any city may
i have the right to issue municipal
bonds on 50 per cent of its income
bearing property. A draft of the bill
has been made out by Mayor Dunbar
jof Augusta by whom the proposed
; amendment was conceived, and sub
mitted to the legislative committee of
the chamber of commerce for their
approval, so that it may be possible
to carry out the original policy of
j preset ting a -bill that bears the’offi
cial iidorsement of both municipal
authorities and organized commercial
i interes*s. Obviously, the purpose of
the bill is to provide Augusta a means
of raising money necessary for tho
erection of a levee for protection
against future disaster by flood. Tho
j assessed tax valuation of the city’s
: income-bearing property is more than
$1,500,000, so it will be an easy mat
ter to raise sufficient funds by the
issuance of municipal bonds if the
amendment is ratified.
At a mass meeting of the citizens of
Conyers and Rockdale county it was
i unanimously agreed to extend to the
citizens of DeKalb county who live
!in the territory contiguous to Rock
• dale county a cordial invitation to
- ■ become citizens of this county in the
• event of the dissolution of DeKalb
county.
’ The Elberton Air Line railroad,
: with all its assets, was soid by Com
-1 missioner H. J. Rowe of Athens for
the sum of $581,252.18. This was the
. only bid that was made. The road
- will be operated as an independent
! line between Elberton and Toccoa.
NO ]
REVOLUTION I? H‘
Aged President of P
From Por
Ufpi fr’iLNP
pA-lcxi# ,f rap i ■
j' Aw. Mr,’, . V,
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rented
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loader of fK in.sus t- in
up the p-.dlnsu-a nv , in,
■ l{oo end a nev.
r g'tiuie' has b, n '>roc'i- lrv !
! At GIN ... ' 4!axls >
i lAiu c.tid deck! -d to
‘ I tffo B'rOi'Vjli T. I , . ii’ r’Vtj.
ufUbw.vgd p fc*} «
day. pfrl ti »- L A p u
• entrance? ciiroii t i: .
’ha walls *o ,i*.-ive o ,
ard Th lh\ l ’ •
curses on the .he,*: oi
So serious was life situa
(1 -i F-'-nch miuiste'% M. Gar tare
t Sjhh.ea ,-•- i- ”*-
upon the i,
seiitt-d to wi
him as he s. ! f.
and into a carii. .
provided.
M. CarUron, ca ytii, r.
tri-colcu, sut besMe 1 im ; nd t u
colors at tap flag .-vor to-* 1 mn
of the deposed presidorl..
him.
All along the rtnrfe paop;;
shoqted, JPeredjM cursed ’at .aetata
president, bpi when rhe 1a, 4, > -
was reached the ; A lost ail i
Infuriated Tvomcl, br.oki 1 1*tonga Hi
cordon of troop* and vshr eked the
coarses' insults into .me Lice of the
piesitionl, who strove bravely .to ap
pear undismayed. *
They tried to "burr U' mseljrej* upon
Alexis, and fought with uids and feet
tbe soldiers. Asjaqefl:. 'v Wss mleur ;
od and Nord Affcx’V wj* hurried
aboard a skiff ’r- of . stc-am
launch, his i.taling in ifte>‘
him A- ~ch die-away thu.
Haitie- uc.ts and t'tetff'Freucn ami
Ar.nn-.. warships in Ufr harbor- fired
0 -'Ai-o .. 4/g, .J |
of i he, leaders cnargod that 1 Jjo
African rnffttster, D W Ftjfttegtftas*
■SJkturaglpg tho pres idem
Ptß} he is: tied " ■ ’-life.
we rfrk U ao not
i rni’ft Thfi Tvv in would
! have given up ancady were 1t not for
i the advice of u dip! mat - pr—
parirg l’or onr. annexation. . class is
I expected, and this diplomat > h*-s u.
i pretext for colonizini; us . us,
I t.heryfote, b. docile, . . o- supine.”
Tim flags of the nation* are flying
I over the doors and from tile wtudowa
! of tne homes of the foreign • sklents,
for, muwlthstandir,-- their eiUimiions
of hostility ngaiu i ’heir fallen presi-
I dent the nations «-« L. dread of the
I landing oi forces ir>m the warships.
! The> espeei.olt tear - v ~ men ot the
United -tates . niseis Ta'-oma and
I DesMotnes whose reputation for put
ting down riot and disorder have gone
before them Cener tl -."anai is doing
everything p.wrible r o maintain eru.---r.
| ERISA THANKS' ILtITED STATE j
; For Remission c.f Jli.O’.’O.oOO rs -a
Doxs. n.dern.iit;
Washington. P. C - “Long .a...,- mr
j excellency en. , 1 i
| piness. Mt on l
blessed vviti. , o ■ -ri; -
These at
The abov.
pressed in a
perm of Cli i
ve!t, preset''. , k
Yi. the special ■
thanking the t
retri-siou ot sl4,
nity guaranteed 1
resulting from
MILLIONS PA
For Transmittiri..
Through
Washington, P
government dorim;
ended June 50 i
transmisiion f: in ; a
of department
franked matt $-.:
I -ording to th, utniual r.
! third assistant po«tma.--ei g.
This figure includes thu mattei cx.
J rfed by th-- postoffi, -1
I ,-.s. ,i. ana the pos.ai service,
to this is $57,(K>').000 for unr- i
ed service in the handling
porting of second tlass tm
lishers of newspapers and
TO CURB RAISE:' Wl
Socialists Want Chare
sponcible for Rule
Berlin, German;.. —Tr
and distinct prerositi u -
power of the kaiser rtd
to secure to the Gcrmat uei ;-k
constitutional governmi-nt tv
ed to the reichstag. Tbe S
suggested that the ktis.-r
of all power to declare war
the consent of both the feu.iai
cil and the reichstag also niak.;.. •
chancellor who fails in his du*.
should permit flic kaiser -o invoi.
any nation in a position ot dive-,,
is liable to prosecution 1l the ''r.u ioat
Courts.
NO LIQUOHIn OKLAHOMA
State Dispensary System Abolished
by Vote of the People.
Guthrie, Okla. —Governor Haskell
has issued a proclamation declaring
lhat the state dispensary system had
been abolished by the vote at the re
cent election, which leaves the citi
zens of Oklahoma without any lawful
means to purchase Inside tho state
liquor for medicinal purposes This
situation wall continue until the leg
islature provides for the sale of liquor
for medicinal purposes.