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ALL IX GOLD. Wonderful Resources Exhibited by Bank of England. "All in gold, please." These are words heard many times A a day by the cashier of a bank, on presentation of a check. And in this instance they were spoken by an ordinary-sized, quiet-looking gentleman to one of the cashiers of the Bank of England. Nonchantly the latter picked up the check, and, at the same time as v ovominpH it made hv force of hab it for the till. Then he drew up suddenly and cafefully scrutinized the customer. For the check was made out for 1,000,000 pounds! Possibly he thought the possessor of the check was one of those amiable lunatics obsessed with the idea that he is worth endless money?not an uncommon experience of a bank cashier. But, in fact, the gentleman was f one of the directors of the English V v ' Sewing Cotton company, which had arranged to buy out for cash the leading American concern, the Williamantic Thread company, of the same business, and the money was j 4.nki'n +a A in rvrrlor I t? 14 Uil CU IU SUip IU ica iu wtuv* to save the rate of exchange, which would amount to many thousands of pounds. The money was to be shipped by the Lucania in a week's time, this being the last available date of doing so before the option expired. Such are the traditions and discipline of the Old Lady of Threadneedle street, however, that the jS, cashier gave no outward signs of his x doubts upon the sanity of the customer, but quietly remarked, "I sup-pose this is all right, sir?" "You can easily find out that it is all right," was the reply, "and I'll have the money in gold coins, no bul^ ' lion. Kindly let me know if you cannot let me have it." > The cashier excused himself for a moment, and the customer was soon joined by the secretary. The necessity and urgency of the m case were explained to the latter, who undertook to find the money within seven days. Thereupon the Bank of England scoured the banks of the principal c'ties of the United Kingdom for their surplus supply of sovereigns, but on- the sixth day they were still j, - about 50,000 pounds short of the required amount. This was fiirally made up of ten yen pieces, obtained from the Yokohama Specie bank. Then the whole amount was pack< ed in iron-bound heavy wooden cases, sent by special train to Liverpool, and reached the seaport well in time * * to be safely deposited in the strong rooms of the Lucania. Thus the Bank of England had faithfully discharged its trust at considerable expense to itself. It is doubtful whether there is any institution in the world, except the Bank of Paris, that could have found the m coin at so short notice.?Pearson's Weekly. Planned Suicide?Pined by Recorder. > * . u Macon, Ga., Sept. 12.?Following his futile attempt yesterday morning to take his life by firing three shots at his head with a revolver, Charles L. Spikes was arraigned before the recorder for shooting inside the city and carrying a pistol without a liy cense. His attorney waived commitment in the pistol charge and he was fined $25 by the recorder for shooting in the city. Tx i? V\tt fViA TVaIi /\rv fVlQf XL 15 auvauLcu uj> LUC Spikes did not try'to kill himself, although a bullet passed through his hat, missing his head only by a marX gin. He declared in his statement to if the court that he did. "When I quit my job in the Atlanta railroad shops ' and came here for the purpose of getting my wife to unite with me again and she flatly refused, the thought of living separately from her and my darling baby boy was more than I could stand and I took death * as my only consolation," he stated. k Stolen Pie May Cost Wilson Votes. f _ Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 12.?A ' stolen pie may cause the loss of two votes to Woodrow Wilson, Governor O'Neal holds the balance. If it tips one way Wilson will lose. If it tips the other the former Princeton president will receive two extra votes In Alabama and two young South Alabama men will have their civil rights restored. Jl ^ The pie was stolen from the buggy f of a farmer at an all-day picnic. The young men were arrested, convicted, fined and their civil rights taken a wnv Thev are free now and have appealed to Governor O'Neal to order 'their names restored to the registra. tion book. The trial judge and other f ? prominent men have requested Gov' ernor O'Neal to grant the request. Fun prompted the men to take the pie, according to their statements, and they meant no harm when they slipped up to the buggy and appropriated the one chicken pie. Governor O'Neal has the matter before him and will act in time for the V young men to register if he decides to restore their civil rights. J MADE CAREFUL PREPARATIONS. Details of the Killing of Boyce by $ Sneed. Amarillo, Texas., Sept. 15.?Jno. Beall Sneed, who yesterday shot and .1 killed A1 G. Boyce, Jr., to-day reaf- i firmed his determination to give out t no statement concerning the shoot- c ing. Sneed's attorney's were closet- I ed with him for several hours to-day, ? but on statement was given out by ? 4. "U ~ i*e rnnnrtoH f A VI Q va } CiitSUl. OUCCU AO A. wv UUIW spent a sleepless night and was ner- t vous to-day. - i Mrs. Sneed is expected to arrive J here this week. It was the elopement of A1 G. Boyce, Jr., with Mrs. 2 Sneed to Winnipeg, Canada, last De- r cember, that led to the killing by t Sneed of A1 G. Boyce, Sr., at Fort c Worth, last March, and the killing t of A1 Boyce, Jr., yesterday. Henry Boyce, banker, of Dalhart, Texas, brother of A1 G. Boyce, Jr., 2 arrived here to-day and consulted s with his other brothers, Will and Len Boyce. 1 Friends of both the prisoner and t the dead man arrived here to-day 1 from different parts of the Pan- i handle, and others are expected to- s morrow. t The police theory is that Sneed had s made careful preparations to kill i young Boyce. This belief is based on s the fact that only two days before g the tragedy a inan giving the name of W. A. Walker, and answering the t description of Sneed, rented a small l cottage from which it is thought the d first shot at Boyce was fired. One \ window of this cottage commanded t a view of the Boyce home, three s blocks away, as well as a wide range s of the sidewalk. Families living on either side of i the cottage leased by the mysterious c party complained to the owner of the 1 property that the new occupants be- t b.aved suspiciously and asked that v an investigation be made. The in- \ vestigation was delayed and the cot- t tage now is vacant. v It was stated by eye witnesses v that Boyce's slayer removed a r gun from a box when the shooting took place. At the cottage immedi- } ately after the tragedy yesterday a j. box was found conforming to the s size of the weapon. X T+ J,. nnnr 1- M /"VTI*? + V> Q t fl 11 T*i 71 V f Vl P 1, It lO U\SW *VUV??U tiiuc uwi*-D ?w 1( days the cottage is believed to have c been occupied by Sneed that Boyce c passed several times on the opposite t side of the street, but so far as is known he was in company with one a or more parties. Yesterday, it is be- 0 lieved, was the first time he walked v down the street alone. So far as Is c known, Boyce had no intimation that u Sneed had been in Amarillo since he ^ himself returned. P The grand jury is expected to con- s vene at 8 o'clock to-morrow for an 0 investigation of the case. t The body of Boyce probably will v be buried here to-morrow. ^ ? a WIFE OF JOHNSON KILLS SELF. c t Shunned and Unhappy Because She Married a Negro. A A dispatch from Chicago says be- J ing shunned and unhappy because she had married a negro, the wife of Jack Johnson, world's champion heavyweight pugilist, shot herself a nicrVit a n rl HioH ThlircHflV a ?? Ui^UV UUU U*VU i MMA wv?v.j ^ morning. She was 31 years of age a and the daughter of Mrs. David Ter- c ry, of Brooklyn. When she married ^ Johnson, she was the divorced wife v of Clarence Duryear, a well known E New York turfman. [ During the trip to. Las Vegas, N. ^ M., where Johnson fought Jim Flynn, 2 the black's wife told friends she was very unhappy, as her former friends ^ avoided her because she was wedded ^ to a negro. c Soon after Johnson left his home j. Wednesday night she called her two ^ maids and placing an arm around p each asked that they kneel in prayer. v After she had prayed for some ? time, she sent the maids into differ- ^ ent rooms. Hardly had they closed p the doors behind them when they r heard a shot and rushing in found a the woman on the floor. She had been in such a condition ^ for several months that, on the ad- ^ vice of a doctor, Johnson had employed two women attendants to watch her. He was to have taken her to Las Vegas. N. M., for her 1 health, and was away getting tickets when she shot herself. v Woman Asks $25,000 Damages. Columbus, Ga., Sept 9.?Essie n Carter, the young white woman who ^ f was horsewhipped by W. S. Dozier _ and others in Dawson on July 20, on 11 account of attentions being paid her s by Mr. Dozier's son. Voight, has en- t tered suit for $25,000 damages a againts W. S. Dozier and those who 1 participated in the whipping. The suit was filed here in the * United States court for the northern v district of Georgia, the Carter girl d being a resident of South Carolina. ^ W. S. Dozier, his two sons, Clyde and ^ J. C., Pope McClung, Jim Geise, Duke Marshall and Erwin McRare are p made defendants in the suit. A FEAT OF INDIAN HERO. swam the Icy Columbia With Child ( on His Back. To swim the Columbia river at Jmatill, where it is half a mile in i vidth, is a test of human strength i iven under the most favorable con- r litions, but to accomplish that feat 1 mrdened with the weight of a child s md in the dead of winter with the c (wollen river made more formidable I )y the presence of hundreds of jagjed ice floes is an achievement al- i nost unbelievable, says the Oregon t rournal. i Yet this was just what was done a ibout eight years ago by a Columbia t iver Indian who had almost reached J he age of 50. He is slill living to-day * >n the Umatilia reservation to testify o his performances, though no man J sver heard him boast of it. t The Indian's name is Sees-Yuse t teady. , w Several times he was struck by an ^ ce floe and the jagged end of one s ut a deep wound in his neck. Final- E y, after what seemed an almost in- c erminable time, he reached the shore 1 vith his burden, his strength spent ^ >y his heroic efforts and loss of ilood, and almost frozen by the chill e yater. Before the flow from his * round could be checked he had al- e aost bled to death. a Not long after the incident Sees- t fuse was awarded some heirship ands on the Umatilla reservation and a ince that time has lived among the E Jmatillas, Cayuses and Walla Wal- E as, but through the death of the ^ f hieftains of his own tribe he has ome to be regarded by his people as 0 heir head man. a f The old Indian, whose facial charcteristics are so different from those ^ >f the prairie Indians, is a frequent ^ isitor in Pendleton, Ore., and alaost regularly once a week calls c ipon his friend,* Major Lee Moor- v louse, not, however, so much for the g lurpose of talking with the major ,s to gaze at a full length painting 'f himself,, which adorns the walls of F he Moorhouse office. The painting t*as made from a photograph of Sees- c fuse, taken by the major, and the 1 t ged redman often sits by the hour, " hildlike, admiring the likeness on r he wall. i LLLENS SENTENCED TO DEATH. r C udge Staples Fixes November 22 as t Date of Execution. s Wytheville, Va., Sept. 11.?When h djournment was taken for dinner a o-day in the trial of Victor Allen for d lleged participation in the Hillsville E ourt house murders, Judge Staples 11 iad Floyd and Claude Allen, who vere found guilty of first degree aurder on the same charge brought nto court and passed sentence of ^ [eath upon them, fixing November t 2 as the date of execution. c The feature of the evidence of the \ rial of Victor Allen to-day was the estimony of the defendant. He ac- ^ ounts for the fact that he was in t lillsville at the time of the tragedy p iy saying that he had been tele- f honed to and asked to bring a sick v witness. He admitted being armed n he day preceding the tragedy, said p lis brother, Claude, had taken his 1; istol, and claimed that he had a v ight as a rural mail carrier to be rmed. j A few other- witnesses testified as j o the prisoner's character. The evi- e ence will be concluded to-morrow. n WHITE MAN FOUND DEAD. ??- ? Jody Discovered Near Cartersville. G Attempts to Identify a Failure. r Timmonsville, Sept. 11.?There s ^as a white man found dead by the t ailroad track this morning one-half t aile from Cartersville. The men of t lartersville have put forth every efort to identify him. He had nothag about his person to give the lightest clue to his identity except t he clothes that he wore were bought ^ t Coker & Company's at Hartsvile. e t is supposed he fell from train 55 v n nf lv T-T n ic. oiv fnaf" iiu U1CU llisiaiiti%v . lib ia OIA xv/wu ^ all, sandy hair, sharp features and \ weighs about 150 pounds. Has on p lark gray suit. He will be buried a iere at 11 o'clock Thursday unless r te is identified. js We cover all kind of umbrellas and arasols, Write F. G. MERTINS, p lugusta, Ga. g md he is now the head man of the c mattered Columbias. It was in the t sarly years of the new century that ? le attempted to make the passage of c he Columbia in a frail canoe, accom- ? >anied by a boy of 9 years. When n mid-stream his little craft was c rtruck with such force by an ice cake s hat it was overturned. Sees-Yuse a eized his boy companion, and plac- 1 ng him on his back, breasted the tream and commenced his battle to r ;ain the shore. c If men who witnessed the feat are c o be believed, no white man could t lave accomplished what this old In- r lian did. Foot by foot he made his ^ vay toward the southern bank, and J hough swept down stream by the 1 wift current, his progress was a arth the sand and dust settled into he depression. The drift of ages siftd over the edges of the huge bowl nd assisted in the work of covering he meteorite. But the most remarkable thing bout this meteorite, apart from its irodigious size, is the fact that in all irobability it consists of one huge :iamond! This is inferred from the act that numerous large fragments if the meteorite found in the crater, nd which are unusually heavy, were ound, upon investigation, to contain, iesides meteoric iron, large, hard ilack diamonds of great value. Even if the meteor itself consists inly of black diamonds its value ^ould be quite inconceivable, for a ;cod black diamond, though worthess as a gem, is worth even more han a white one for mechanical purioses. It is quite probable, however, hat the bulk of the meteor consists >f white diamond, in wlr'ch event here would not be enough wealth in he world to pay for it at the current irice of the precious stone. The largest diamonds in the world ncluding the Koh-i-noor, the CulliLan, the Great Mogul of Russia, the )rioff, the Great Premier diamond, he Tiffany diamond, the Etolie Pol,ire, and a dozen others of the same tandard, worth in the aggregate lundreds of millions of dollars, might .11 be placed together in an ordinary lerby hat and not reach the top. This neteoric diamond, scientists believe, aust be at least half a mile thick! Fraudulent Votes in Greenwood. The Greenwood Journal of September 12, has the following to say of he meeting of the county executive ommittee in Greenwood last Vednesdav: The countv executive committee 0-day finished its report to submit to he State committee, the most imortant features of which are: 103 raudulent votes were found; 60 men oted more than one time, and four ainors were found to have cast balots. If any of the men who thus vioated the law can be located warrants all be issued for them. W. H. Yeldell, for clerk of court; . B. McCombs, for supervisor; and . F. Wideman, for superintendent of ducation, were officially declared ominated in the second primary. The committee decided that there rill be no more county primaries in 1-reenwood this year, and Messrs. Joe ,ake and J. W. Canfield will have to lin Air/ir f Ar on/^if at* qi +TirVl^n tho tate committee calls a primary for he office of attorney general or if his is not done their contests will be hrown into the general election.. Wrestler Found Dead Under Sofa. Newburgh, N. Y., Sept. 12.?With he skull fractured and circumstances ndicating that he had b-een dead sevral days, the body of John Grace, a - restler, was found under a sofa in he rooms of the Century club at Valden last night. The police suspect that Grace was murdered -.and re making an investigation. Grace ecently came here from Hoboken, I J. All children's wash suits at half rice. Write F. G. MERTINS, Auusta, Ga. DIGGING FOR A METEOR. )ne Worth Billions of Dollars Believed to Be in Arizona, Several years ago a syndicate of nining men began sinking a shaft in Arizona to reach the largest dianond in the world, believed to be no ess than half a mile thick. This ihaft is now 1,600 feet deep. Three >r four hundred feet more, it is exacted, will reveal the great prize. The scene of this most wonderful nining operation is Meteor Mounain, Ariz. The mountain is such in iame, only, as it is little more than i butte, rising 200 or 300 feet above he desert, about 10 miles from Canron Diabolo Station, on the Sante re Railroad. Viewed from a distance Meteor rlountain looks little different from he countless other buttes that rear heir heads above the southwestern lesert. But as soon as one begins 0 climb its sides, strewn with meteoric fragments, he realizes that he is >n the threshold of one of the world's greatest scientific mysteries. From the top of the "mountain" ne gazes into a bowl-like depresion in the earth 600 feet deep and 1 mile across. It is in appearance ike a volcanic crater. Scientists agree that this crater arks the place where a giant meteirite, as large as the circumference if the bowl would indicate, struck he earth in ages past, perhaps a nillinn nf venra and hnried itself leep in the bowels of the earth? list how deep it is the purpose of the aining syndicate to find out. When this giant mass struck the arth there was no butte there; the lutte was created when the meteorite truck, its tremendous weight disilacing strata of rock, sending huge louds of dust into the air and formng the "mountain" as it exists tolay. After the meterite sank into the LOOK! LOOK! LOOK! '-rj Ladies Must Have Attention As Men | Uncle Sam's Pressing, Laundry & fiat Cleaning Parlor provides for all. We represent the largest laundry in the State and will satisfy all. 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