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CLEANED OUT BANK,
Vice President of a Detroit Sav= ,
ings Institution Goes Wrong.
MADE WAY WITH A MILLION j
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Other Banks Victimized for $600,000. j
Money Was Secured By Means
of Overdrafts and Certified
Checks?Panic Results.
Vice President Frank C. Andrews,
of the City savings bank, at Detroit,
Mich., which is in the hands of State
Bank Commissioner Maltse, was arrested
Monday afternoon and arraign
ed on the charge of "wilfully,, fraud- ulently
and knowingly" securing from
the bank, without security and without
the knowledge of the directors, a
sum exceeding $1,000,000. He was released
on $10,000 bail and his examination
was set for February 21/ Cashier
Henry C. Andrews, through whom
F. C. Andrews is said to have secured
the money by means of overdrafts and
certified checks, is seriously ill at his
home with nervous prostration.
In addition to a total indebtedness
to the City savings bank of $1,155,000
to secure which Mr. Andrews has signed
over to that institution all his real
estate holdings and stocks, bonds and
other securities, which, it is estimated
will total about $1,000,000, four local
banks and a trust company hold his
checks, certified to by Cashier Andrews
to the amount of $662,000. A
considerable number of these checks
are protected by securities deposited
with them by Mr. Andrews.
Owes Bank Nearly $2,000,000.
As scon as Commissioner Maitse
took charge of the institution he im
mediately began an examination cf its
books. It was found that Cashier Andrews
had permitted F. C. Andrews to
overdraw his account $914,000. Other
liabilities brought F. C. Andrews' total
indebtedness to the bank up to $1,158,000.
In addition to this Cashier An
drews had certified checks for F. C.
' \ Andrews which he had deposited in
other banks to the amount of $662,000.
At the close of his examination Commissioner
Maltse has issued the
following statement cf the bank's eondtion
at the close cf business February
8:
Resources, total loans and discounts,
bonds, mortgages and securities, $2,363,093;
overdrafts, $913,852; real estate,
$10,899; cash in bank, $288,697; ,
other assets, $18,922.
Liabilities, stock, surplus and undivided
profits, $225,212; deposits, $3.- ,
370,251.
The examination showed that the
record of F. C. Andrews' transactions
was not kept in the regular way, but
in a memorandum book. The first
record of a transaction between Cash- (
ier Andrews and F. C. Andrews is January
11, but the examiners estimate
that the transactions have been going
on ror aoout six wecus.
The City savings bank was the depository
for the funds of the county ,
auditors, their balance there being
more than $150,000, and F. C. Andrews
was arrested Monday on a com- (
plaint sworn out by Auditor Christian
after a long conference between the ,
auditors and Prosecutor Hunt. The ,
warrant was served on Andrews, who
is commissioner of police, by two of ;
his detectives in the office of the Detroit
Trust Company, where he had
been in consultation with the officers ,
cf the banks holding his certified
checks. The City savings bank was ,
also the depository for the board of
education, which had a total of $467,000
on deposit. ]
Caused By Copper Speculation. ,
Unfortunate speculations, especial- .
ly heavy purchases of Amalgamated
Copper stock, are believed to be responsible
for Andrews' ruin. President
F. C. Pingree, of the City Savings
bank, says that Andrews told him
that h elost $400,000 in Amalgamated
Copper .
Although no warrant was issued for
Henry R. Andrews, an officer was stationed
at his home as a guaru. He is .
in a serious condition. In addition to
the nervous prostration he has had a
severe attack of heart trouble.
NEW COTTON SEED MILLS.
Cincinnati Capitalists to Operate Prop- <
erties In Southern States.
The Buckeye Cotton Oil Company, '
of Cincinnati, Ohio, has decided to op- ]
erate extensively in the manufacture J
of cotton seed products in the south, (
and has purchased the interests cf F.
G. Kinney & Co., at Birmingham, Ala., I
and at Greenwood, Miss.
The company has closed contracts <
for the erection of five other mills, 1 i
one to be located in Arkansas, two
in Georgia and one each In Alabama 1
and Mississippi .with headquarters ia <
Birmingham for the seven cities. "I
CARNIVAL AT PENSACOLA.
Street Fair Week Ushered In By a
Gorgeous Flower Parade.
Carnival week at Pensacola, Fla., be- ;
gan Wednesday with agorgeous flower 1
parade, the first ever held in the city,
in which there was a large number of !
beautifully decorated carriages.
The coronation of Miss Daisy Meyer
as floral queen took place at the opera .
house Tuesday night.
Numerous tented attractions will bo
in fuli swing during the fair.
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Krtt5IUtl>l I O DVJ T IL.U.
Little Theodore, Jr., Suffering From I
Pneumonia at Groton, Mass.
Owing to the illness of Theodore
Roosevelt, Jr.. who is suffering from r
pneumonia at Groton, Mass., Mrs. c
Roosevelt left*. Washington for Groton 1
Friday afternoon, where she probably c
will remain for some days. Young ?
Roosevelt is very ill, but his condition
was not considered alarming at last
reports, x I
PRINCE MAY NOT COME.
Unless Illness of Young Roosevelt
Takes Better Turn Visit Will
Be Postponed.
A special from Groton, Mass., says:
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., the oldest
son of President Roosevelt, has double
pneumonia. Otherwise, his condition
was unchanged Monday night.
The boy is seriously sick, but it is too
early to say what the chances are for
his recovery.
This was the statement issued by j
George B. Cortelyou, secretary to the j
president, and was made after a careful
examination by Dr. Alexander Lambert.
the family physician of President
Roosevelt, who arrived from New
York at 6 o'clock Monday evening.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt spent
a long, anxious day in the infirmary
awaiting the crisis of the disease,
which appeared to have taken such a
strong hold cf their
Changs For Worse.
The change tor me worse in the
boy's condition occurred during the
night, and showed itself when the regular
morning examination was made
by Dr. Shuttuck and Dr. Warren. Secretary
Cortelycu, who is the only
means of communication with the sick
room, made the announcement this
morning cf the patient's serious condition.
although he said then it was not
alarming.
"His temperature is higher," said
Mr. Corielyou, "and his respiration is
weaker than yesterday, but his pulse
is better."
He also said there was no immediate
change, only the natural progress
cf the disease. He announced
that the disease had spread and involved
both lungs.
This sudden and unfavorable turn
warned the president that the most
skillful medical treatment was necessary
and so he has called to the
aid of Drs. Shattuck and Warren, his
family physician. Dr. Alexander Lambert.
cf New York, an eminent practitioner,
and a man well acquainted
with the boy's physique.
Prince May Postpone Visit.
A Washington special says: Unless
there shall be a decided change
for the better in the condition of the
president's sen before the end cf the
week, it is probabu that Prince Henry,
cf Prussia, may be impelled to defer
his proposed visit to the United
States until later in the year.
BLOODY WEEK IN TRANSVAAL.
Kitchener Reports Lively Fighting
and Heavy Losses on Both Sides.
A report received in London Monday
from Lord Kitchener at Pretoria
shows last week to have been the liveliest
week, with the heaviest losses
cn both sides, for several months past.
Lord Kitchener gives the Boer casualties
a total of sixty-nine killed,
fifty-seven surrendered and 574 taken
prisoners. The British captured 450
rifles, one pompon and the usual grist
of munitions and live stock.
The most serious British loss during
the week was the capture of sixty
wagons, convoyed by 1G0 troops. At
a point thirty miles frcm Beaufort,
west Cape Colony, the c-neruy swooped
down on the wagons and cut up
the convoy before assistance arrived.
They were able to move only twelve
of the wagons and burned the rest. In
this engagement the British lost two
officers and eleven men killed and one
officer and forty-seven men wounded,
while the Boers lost twenty-four killed
and forty-seven wounded.
The Boers also rushed a detachment
of 100 men of Colonel Doran's
column the night of February 6, wncn
the British lost three officers and seven
men killed and seventeen men
wounded.
Von Donop surprised Portgieter's
laager near Wolmaranstad. Transvaal
colony, February 7, killing three Boers
and capturing thirty-six, as well as
twenty-five wagons and live stock.
SAILED OVER THE BAY.
Aeronaut Dumont Makes His Third
Trip With Flying Machine.
According to advices from Monaco,
France, M. Santos Dumont made his
third trip over the bay Monday. The
aeronaut made evolutions with complete
success for thirty minutes and
returned to his starting place amid the
plaudits of the great crowd present.
Pensacola's Grand Carnival.
Priscius. king of the Pensacola Mardi
Gras carnival, arrived on the royal
yacht Rosepen at noon Monday and
was escorted to the royal palace by a
military guard composed of United
States artillerymen. United States
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2ity was thronged with visitors.
Senator Quay In Florida.
Senator Matt Quay, of Pennsylvania,
arrived at his winter cottage in St.
Lucie. Fla., Monday night direct from
Washington. He is much improved i
from the recent attack of illness at the
:apital. His stay will depend upon I
the condition of his health.
SCHOONER PREY OF FLAMES.
Three-Masted Vessel Caught In fee
Floes and Burned.
A dispatch from Cape May, N. J.,
says: A three-masted schooner, the
name of which has not been 'earned,
was burned at sea Monday night. The
Eire .which was plainly visible from
^ape May, started about 5 o'clock
Monday afternoon and burned until
ifter 9 o'clock. The schooner came
lo a point about six miles off shore
luring Saturday night, and was caught
in the ice field flowing out cf Delaware
bay.
A CONVERT OF INGERSOLL
.eaves $1,000 In Will For Purpose of
"Civilizing" Christians.
"To the Boston Investment Compaly,
of Boston, Mass., for the purpose
>f distributing Robert G. Jngersoil's i
ectures among Christians, in order to
rivilize them. I give and bequeath the
;um of $1,000."
The foregoing is section 13 of the
vill of Morris Reiman, which was fiied
a Chicago Friday.
TEN MILLIONS LOSS
Patterson, New Jersey, Visited
By Fearful Conflagration.
A DESOLATE WASTE OF RUINS
Twenty-Five City Blocks Are Reduced
to Smoking Embers and Ashes.
Thousands of Families Are
I Rendered Homeless.
A great fire swept through Paterson,
New Jersey, Sunday, and in its desolate
wake are the embers and ashes
of property valued in preliminary estimate
at $10,000,000.
It burned its way through the business
section of the city ana claimed
as its own a majority of the finer
structures devoted to commercial, civ
ie, educational and religious use, as
well as scores of houses. There was
but small tribute of life and injury
to the conflagration, but hundreds
were left homeless and thousands
without employment. A relief move*
mcnt for the care of those unsheltered
and unprovided for has already been
organized, and Mayor John Hench
Ciiffe says that Paterson will be able
to care for her own without appealing
to the charity of other communities
and states. The great manufacturing
plants of the place are safe and the
community, temporarily dazed by the
calamity, has already commenced the
work of reorganization and restoration.
The fire came Saturday at midnight
and was only checked after a desperate
fight that lastc-d until Sunday afternoon.
Every city and town within
reach of Paterson sent firemen and
apparatus to the relief of the threatened
city and it took the united efforts
of them all to win the battle.
A northerly gale gave the conflagration
an Impetus and carried its burning
brands to kindle the blaze afresh
at other points. The firemen made
sUnd after stand before the wall of
fire, but were repeatedly driven back,
and when victory finally came to them
they were grimed and exhausted.
Thousands Without Shelter.
An estimate made from a general insi
ecticn of the smoldering ruins placed
the number of dwellings and apartn
ent houses destroyed at five hundred
and the number of families left without
shelter at one thousand. The area
of destruction foots up, roughly,
twenty-five city blocks.
The fire began its work of far-reaching
destruction in the power house of
the Jersey City. Hobokea and Patereon
Traction Company, which fronted
on Broadway, extended a block to the
rear on Van Houten street. It commenced
in the car sheds and was burn
ing fiercely when one of the employes
detected k.
WIFE PROTECTS STEP-SON.
Atlanta Policeman Gets Bullet In
Brain While Attacking His Boy.
James Munrce Duncan, an Atlanta
police officer, was shot down by his
wife Saturday night at 7:30 o'clock in
a boarding house at No. 51 North Forsyth
street. The wounded man was
removed at once to the Grady hospit- j
al unconscious and dying, while she
and her step-son, Claude, are held at
the police barracks-to wait an investigation
by the police and probably by
the coroner.
The shooting of Officer Duncan was
a tragic scene, with a most dramatic
story behind it.
Duncan had been on a protracted
spree and was said to have been drunk
at the time of the shooting. He threatened
to kill his wife because she remonstrated
with him about drinking.
His son by his first wife begged hm
to treat his wife with courtesy. Enraged
by the words from the son, Duncan
flew at him in a rage and struck
him a blow. The youth fell backwards
and his father began to choke him, at
the same time making an effort to
draw his pistol. Mrs. Duncan snatched
a pistol from the young man's
pocket and in another moment the officer
was lying on the floor in a pool of
blood and unconscious.
ILLINOIS MEN IN CHARLOTTE.
Cook County Democratic Club Receives
Sunday Welcome.
The Cook County, 111., Democratic
Club arrived in Charlotte, N. C., Sun
day night ana was met at tne aepoi
by a committee of citizens, who escorted
the visitors to the Elks' Club.
There was no official welcome or
speech making, but the visitors were
quietly entertained at the rooms of
the Elks' Club and the Southern Manufacturers'
Club. They left at 4
o'clock Monday morning for Charleston.
Mother and Children Burned.
Mrs. Ed Kushner and two children
were burned to death in their home
at Waterloo, Irid., Tuesday night in a
lire caused by the overturning of a
lamp. One oilier child was fatally
burned and three others seriously injured.
Illinois Day a Charleston.
At a joint meeting ia Chicago Wednesday
of committees representing the
state and various Chicago clubs. "Illinois
Day" at tho exposition at Charlesfen
exposition was set for March 11.
STOVES WILL COST MORE.
Manufacturers Meet In Chattanooga
and Advance Prices.
The price cf stoves was advanced at
a meeting of the Southern Stove Manufveturers'
Association held in Chattanooga
Wednesday.
While it was decided unanimously to
raise the present scale cf prices, no
definite decision as to the extent of
the raise was reached and this fee
ture was referred to a committee.
CHILDREN DIE IN FLAMES.
Robertson Home Destroyed By Fire
and Four Little Ones Cremated
While They Slept.
At 3 o'clock Friday morning the farm
house of William P. Robertson, about
29 miles east of Cumberland, on the
Maryland side of the Potomac river,
was entirely destroyed by fire and four
of the Robertson children, Pearl,
Owen Eflie and Joseph, the oldest aged
10 and the youngest 4 years, wero
cremated.
The fire, which is thought to have
started from sparks from an open
hearth, spread so rapidly that Mr. and
Mrs. Robertson found all means of escape
gene for the children, who were
asleep in another room, and were compelled
to jumfl from a second-stcry
window dressed only in their night
clothes in order to save their own
lives. The parents made several futile
attempts to save the children, but
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after the fire had subsided somewhat
they were almost frozen before
aid came fro mneighbors. Mr. Robertson
claims the hearth fire was well
covered and that the fire, which started
from a lower floor., must have been
of incendiary origin.
The tragedy recalls the murder of
an old man named Kessler and the
burning of his house; also the burning
cf the house of an old woman, in
which she and her grandchildren lost
their lives, both of which occurred several
years ago in the vicinity of the
Robertson home.
PAINTERS DASHED TO DEATH.
Scaffolding Gives Way and Workmen
Fall Fifty Feet.
A dispatch from Atlanta, Ga., says:
Two men are dead and another lies at
the Grady hospital with small hopes
of recovery as tne result of a horrible
accident in the Eiseman building, now
in course of erection on the viaduct,
Friday morning.
The three men were on a scaffold
painting the skylight in thi center of
the roof when, without a moment's
warning, the scaffold gave way and
they were aasnea rnrouga uie opeu
court to the floor three stories below, p.
distance of nearly fifty feet. The dead
men are:
Charles M. Cole, of 22 Windsor
street; Henry Reynolds, of 201. Carter
street.
G. W. White, of Senoia, the third
man, is probably fatally hurt.
Lee Bailey, another painter, had a
very narrow escape. He was just stepping
on the scaffold when it broke.
By jumping he managed to catch hold
cf a nearby column and cling to it.
A DIABOLICAL DEED.
Negro Woman Throws White Baby
Out of a Car Window.
Sheriff Flanders has placed in jail
at Swainsboro, Ga., a negro woman,
Anna Rabb, for one of the darkest
deeds ever committed in Emanuel
county.
Last Wednesday the woman got on
the train at Garfield. Ga., with a white
baby three weeks or a month old. She
was asked what she was doing with
the child and she said it had been left
in her care and she was going to take
it to Stillmore. At Monte, on the Millen
and Southwestern railway, she was
left in tfte car alone, bne tncn raised
a window and threw the baby out. The
fall did not kill the baby, but if froze
to death before daylight. The little
one left its sign where it scratched
and kicked in the sand.
ACCEPTS UNDER PROTEST.
Central Railroad Agrees to State Depot
Proposition With Provisos.
The Central of Georgia Railway Company,
through Major J. F. Hanson,
chairman of the board of directors,
has agreed to accept the proposal of
the state of Georgia to build a new
passenger depot on the present site,
| in Atlanta, provided satisfactory ar
rangements can be made, but does sc
practically under protest.
Governor Candler, it is understood.
I has received a letter to this eftect
from Major Hanson, though as in the
| case of the letter from President Samuel
Spencer, of the Southern, he deI
Hires to erive it out at present.
JUSTICE COWART INDICTED.
Grand Jury at Chattanooga After
Wrcng-Doing Officials.
The grand jury at Chattanocga,
Tenn., Thursday returned an indictment
against Esquire Thomas Cowart,
a prominent democrat and member
of the county court and candidate for
county registrar, on a charge of illegal
collection of fees in cases tried be
fere him.
I. C. Morgan, formerly constable,
and Esquire J. E. Silver, were re-indicted
on the same charge, former indictments
being quashed on technicalI
ities.
ROBBED AND DROWNED,
Horrible Fate of Old Man at Hands
of Two Highwaymen.
A woman named Rhoda Taylor has
made a written confession to the police
of Argentine, Kans., across the
river from Kansas City, that Noah
Long, the aged stone mason who disappeared
mysteriously from his home
there a week ago. had been robbed
and his body thrown in the Kaw river
by two men, Henry Donohue and
James GoC.
THIRTEEN SEAMEN MISSING.
Crews of Three Fargcs Supposed Victims
of Coast Storms.
A New York dispatch say:;: There
is every reason to believe that three
barges, coa! laden from Newport News
for Boston, have been lost at sea as
a result of the storm cf Sunday night,
and that thirteen people comprising
the crews have perished. The barges
1 "were the Antelope, Belle of Oregon
ii-n.d Mastic Belle.
SCHARLESTON SORRY
President's Visit to Exposition
Abandoned at Last Moment.
SON'S ILLNESS THE CAUSE
Roosevelt Goes to Groton, Mass., to Be
With His Boy Who Is Suffering
From an Acute Attack
of Pneumonia.
President Roosevelt, accompanied
by Secretary Cortelyou, left Washington
Saturday night at 12:10 for
Groton, Mass., in a special car attached
to the regular train over the
Pennsylvania railroad Late in the
evening the president determined to
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I and \;sit his boy's bedside. It is
s;ated the president felt his presence
would be a comfort to Mrs. Roosevelt,
and that as the critical period of his
boy's illness was on, he should be
near his son. It is also stated that
the trip to Massachusetts is taken on
the president's own initiative and is
net due to any alarming news which
has reached him concerning his son's
condition.
The following statement was issued
at the white house Saturday.
"The condition of the president's
son is favorable. The doctors say that
the president should not go to Charleston.
as at any time within six days
the disease may take a sudden turn
for the worse."
Owing to the request of the physicians
the president has abandoned his
trip to Charleston.
Mrs. Roos?velt With Son.
Mrs. Roosevelt and maid reached
Grotcn early Saturday morning. At
the school Mrs. Roosevelt was received
by President Peabody. and a few
miute-s later was at her boy's bedside.
Subsequently an attempt was made to
obtain from Mrs. Roosevelt a statement
for publication regarding the illness
of young Theodore, but through
President Peabody she declined to depart
from the course approved by
President Roosevelt. According to this
plan all necessary information conpprninp
thp lad's condition will be
transmitted to President Roosevelt,
who will determine what news shall
be made public.
Charleston Is Disappointed.
The greatest disappointment is felt
in all circles in Charleston at the
abandonment of the president's proposed
trip to the city. Arrangements
had been made for a splendid reception
and everybody was looking to the
occasion as the great day of the exposition.
Everything w 11 have to be
called off, as the president was the
central figure of the program.
The president arrived at Groton at
2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon, after
an uneventful trip of fourteen hours
from Washington. There were no
crowds at any of the stations, except
at Ayer, where there was a gathering
of about five hundred. The president
came out of his seclusion and bowed
to the crowd from the back platform,
his appearance being greeted with
cheers.
Upon his arrived at Groton he did
not find his son, Theodore. Jr., alarmingly
ill with pneumonia, but the boy's
condition was not sufficiently reassur-.
ing to warrant the president's immediate
return to the national capital.
POWDER AIDED FLAMES.
North Carolina Town Suffers $70,ouu
Damage?One Life Lost.
One man killed, a loss of $50,000 in
buildings and $20,000 on goods ,is the
result of a disastrous fire at Washington.
N. C., Saturday afternoon.
The fire began in the ceiling of the
Atlantic Coast Line depot and the firemen
could not cope with it. The freight
depot and seven cars were destroyed.
Kegs of powder were blown up, but
no one was injured.
A falling wall of one cf the stores
killed Ed Peed, a colored fireman, who
was terribly crushed. Five stores, two
offices and two saloons were destroyed.
TOO BAO, IF TRUE.
Washington Paper Says President Will
Decide Against Schley.
The Washington Post of Thursday's
issue contained the following:
"It was stated last night that the
president's response to the appeal of
Admiral Schley would be made public
next Saturday. It is understood that
the response will be adverse to Schley.
A visitor at the white house yesterday,
with whom the president talked upon
| the subject, quoted the president as
saying that he thought the verdict of
the majority of the court ought to be
sustained."
QUORUM WAS LACKING.
Second Republican Caucus on Southern
Suffrage Held In Vain.
A Washington dispatch says: The
second caucus of the house republi!
cans to consider the question of action
I looking to reducing the congressional
I representation of the southern states
which abridge the suffrage was held
In the hall of representatives Monday
night, but a quorum was not present
and after two and a half hours of discussion
the caucus adjourned until ,
nest Men da" without action.
DAUGHTER FOLLOWS MOTHER.
Two Women Die Suddenly In S?me
House at Chattanooaa.
I Elizabeth Eastwick. aged 55, was
j found dead in bed at her home in Chattanooga
Tuesdaj morning. Heart disease
was the cause.
In the afternoon at 5 o'clock her
daughter, Mary Hilton, aged 23, dropped
dead of heart disease Jr. the same
house. Both were widows and both
lived in the same house.
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ELEVEN DIE IN FLAMES. 1
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Hotel In St. Louis Burns Causing
Heavy Loss of Life and Great
Property Damage.
A fire at St. Louis, Mo., early Sunday
morning, which destroyed the Empire
hotel, a large three-story lodging
house occupied by men exclusively,
j caused the death of eleven persons,
ten men and one woman, and dangerously
injured eight others. Ten or
more who had narrow escapes from
death in the fire were more or less injured
by being frost-bitten. It is estimated
that there were between thirtyfive
and forty persons in the building
Saturday night, and it is believed all
have been accounted for. Twenty
thousand dollars it is thought will cover
damage to buildings and contents,
which were totally destroyed.
The fire started at 3:30 a. m. when
few persons were abroad and gained
I considerable headway before the
alarm was given. When the engines
reached the scene the whole front of
the building was in flames and the
building was a seething furnace. By
that time all who escaped death had
got out of the building by jumping
from the windows or climbing down
ropes made' of bedclothes.
CONSOLIDATION EFFECTED.
One Big Corporation Will Now Control
Atlanta Street Railways, Etc.
The Atlanta Railway and Power
Company, the Atlanta Rapid Transit
Company, the Georgia Electric Light
Company and the Atlanta Steam Company
have at last been merged into
one giant corporation controlling the
entire street railways, electric lights
and steam heating plants of the city.
This state of affairs is the culmination,
on last Saturday, of a series of
long drawn out negotiations between
H. M. Atkinson and the city of Atlanta
looking to the merging of the several
properties named.
The city receives $30,000 in cash as
soon as the consolidation agreement
goes into effect. For the first year
the city will received 1 per cent of
$1,100,000, cr $11,000. During the
second year, allowing for an increase
of $100,000, the city will receive 1 per
cent of $1,200,000, or $12,000, a total
for the first two years of $73,000, .including
the $50,000 in cash.
During the next twenty years the
city will receive 2 per cent of the yearly
gross receipts. Basing the increase
on the proportionate increase of population,
the average for the next ten
years will be $1,500,000, the city's
share of which will be S's0,009 per
year, or $300,000 for tiu yeass. The
| total for twelve years will be $373,000.
During the ten years following a
[ reasonable estimate of the increase
will cause the average to reach $2,000,000,
of which the city will get 2 per
cent, or $40,000 per year, making a total
of $400,000 for the ten years. At |
this ratio of increase the city will receive
a total of $773,000 for the first
twenty-two years.
For the period of ten years from
1924 to 1934, it is estimated, on the
basis already outlined, that the aver
age gross receipts per year will be
$3,000,000, of which the city will receive
3 per cent per year, or $90,000
per year for ten years, a total of $900,000
for ten years. At this rate the
city will get a total of $1,673,000 during
the first thirty-two years of the
agreement, including the $50,000 in
cash.
ELBERTON SURFERS HEAVILY.
Two Business Blocks In Thriving
Georgia Tov/n are in Ashes.
Fire broke out in the heart of the
business section of Elberton, Ga., at
an early hour Sunday morning, and
before the flames were checked over
$100,000 had gone up in smoke.
Two of the main business blocks of
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timated at $104,500. Of this less than
half was covered by insurance, the total
amount of insurance on the burned
buildings and stocks amounting to
only $41,750.
The fire is by all odds the most disastrous
in the history of the Granite
City. The buildings burned were on
Mcintosh street, the principal business
street of Elberton.
AN UNUSUAL APPOINTMENT.
South Carolina Governor Makes Georgian
Member of His Staff.
Colonel J. H. Estill, of Savannah,
Ga., has received a letter from Governor
McSwecncy, of South Carolina,
notifying him of his appointment as an
honorary aide cf the governor's staff,
with rank of lieutenant colonel.
The appointment was a surprise to
Colonel Estill, it being unusual for a
governor to make such an appointment
outside his own state. Colonel
iistill is aircauy a coionei oy vircue 01
having formerly filled such a position
on the staff of the governor of Georgia.
Schley Back In Washington.
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Schley arrived
in Washington Saturday morning
from their western and southern
trip and went at once to their apartments
in the Richmond.
Pier Destroyed at New York.
Fire destroyed pier G of the Lehigh
Valley Railroad Company at New
York Sunday morning, and the loss,
including damage to shipping, Is $250,000.
NEW KIND OF GIN.
Belinting Company witn Large capital
Is Incorporated.
The National Cotton Seed Delintlng
Company, of Baltimore, capital }>*,000,000,
to manufacture machines for
delinting cotton seed and to manufacture
cotton seed oil. has filed a certificate
of incorporation at Dover, Del.
The incorporators are Charles Eagan,
William A. Ragsclale, Baltimore, and
J. G. Gray, Wilmington, Del.
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I STATE NEWS ITEMS. \
CSItVlCsHMCMCMCNKVIf
Solons Visit the Expo.
Governor McSweeney and the general
assembly of South Carolina were
ihe guests of the South Carolina and
interstate exposition one day the past
week. Many of the members participated
in the good roads convention.
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Anderson Votes to Issue Bonds.
The election on a $50,000 sewerage
bond issue at Anderson ended in victory
for sewerage by 105 majority out
of 269 registered voters. Plans are
now being prepared by Engineer Ludlow.
The system will be installed at
once.
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Smith Bradley Dead.
Smith Bradley died a day or two
ago at his home three miles from'
Greenville. I?e was a prominent farm-*
cr and his death is a great loss to than
section of the state. Besides a widow-;'
he leaves nine children and a large
number of relatives. The funeral took
place at White Oak church.
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Indiana D?y at Exposition.
Tuesday, February 25, wlll .be Indiana
day at the Charleston exposl-?
tion. Governor Durbin and staff, in
uniform, will leave Indianapolis Thursj
day, February 13. They will leavel
Miami, Fla., for Cuba the following
Sunday, and wi.* spend four days at
Havana, sightseeing, leaving there
! Friday noon. Tuesday will be spent
at the exposition. They will reach Indianapolis
Thursday, February 27.
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Large Still Destroyed*
The past week Revenue Collector
Aiken, assistel by several deputy marshals.
near Sunny Side, Pickens county.
destroyed a large illicit distillery
outfit, consisting of a 200-gallon copper
still, thirteen fermenters and 2,000
gallons of beer.
The still was in operation when discovered.
and the operators. Stanley
and ConJey, were arrested. Officers
say it was one of the largest outfits
ever destroyed in that section of the
state.
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The Cook County Democracy.
President Powers, with 275 of the 1,
600 members of tbe Cook county Democracy,
reached Charleston last Monday
morning. Its celebrated brass
band of fifty-three members arrived
from Columbia in the afternoon. They
were greeted at the station by Mayor
Smith and a large committee of prominent
democrats. The committee entertained
the visitors Monday night.
Tuesday the Chicagoans were seen
in the carnival king's parade. They
presented a fine appearance in the
line of march with their silk hats,
frock coats and silk umbrellas.
Wednesday they were taken for a
sail around the harbor, winding up
with a fish dinner at the Isle of Palms.
The party resumed their tour of the
south Wednesday night.
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Charleston's Mardi Gras Carnival.
The Mardi* Gras carnival at Charleston
attracted many thousands. The
floral fiesta opened with a parade
around the exposition and a more brilliant
spectacle of its kind has never
been witnessed in the city.
Miss Frost, the*young queen, acI
comnanied by the aueen regent, Mrs.
| Andrew Simonds, and attended by laI
dies in waiting and a brilliant court,
led a splendid troop of flower-decked
vehicles.
The floral parade was in four divis!
ions, the last of which was made up
of the Georgia party composed of
Governor Candler and his uniformed
staff of twenty-three Georgia colonels,
including Adjutant General James W.
Robertson and State Treasurer R. E.
Park and fourteen distinguished civilians.
It was led by the Gate City
Guard with Vittur's drum corps. Governor
Candler came next, riding in a
carriage. The members of his staff
were mounted. Then came several
carriages with the Georgia maids of
honor.
Rex. R. G. Rhett, arrived at night,
crowned the queen of flowers as queen
of the carnival, and was given the
keys of the city by Mayor Smyth. The
festivities closed with a grand court
ball.
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Turner to Operate Track.
Beginning last Monday morning a
iti? raniner ncsarintinn nSKlimed COn
trol at the exposition track in Charleston.
When the Charleston Racing Association
defaulted its contract with the
exposition company, Arthur Wall,
who had been manager for the association,
though not personally interested
in the enterprise, offered to
keep the meeting going until the exposition
company could make other
arrangements. Mr. Wall requested at
the same time that he should be relieved
of his responsibilities as quickly
as possible. Saturday afternoon he
received an official announcement
from the exposition authorities that
other arrangements had been made
and that this statement was confirmed
after a meeting of the board of directors
of the exposition Saturday night.
It was announced that a contract
had been made for a continuance of
the race meeting by Robert Turner in
his own person and as the representative
of the syndicate of turfmen. A
large number of the officials of the
former racing association have already
resigned. Mr. Turner announc[
ed Saturday night that the racing under
his auspices would be conducted
as far as possible on the lines heretofore
observed.
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After Ticket Scalper.
Warrants have been issued at
Charleston fcr the arrest of Max Sol
omon. nereioiore empioyea as a ciem. %
in McFarran's cut-rate ticket office,
who is accused of swindling S. Wainwright,
a jockey, out of $25.
Wainwright was under ;ontract to
ride in Nashville, and several days
ago he left $25 with Solomon for two
tickets to Nashville. When he called
for the transportation he was told to
return two hours later, and when he J
called again the clerk was ,not there.
McFarran claimed that he was not
responsible for the loss, notwithstand-.y^J;
ing the fact that Wainwright held Solomon's
receipt. S .5*
A telegram was received saying that
Solomon was in Atlanta, and was going
from there to New Orleans. Ap- -y
plication will be made for requisition
papers in case Solomon is caught, and
the railroad authorities will assist in
the prosecution.
A bitter fight is now being waged
against the scalpers and Solomon will ||j
not be allowed to escape.
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Shriners to Tackle the Midway.
The Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of
the two Carolinas, represented In *
Charlotte as an organized body by
Oasis temple, are preparing to make
a pilgrimage to Charleston on April 1 fcext,
and the event is looked forward / to
with extraordinary interest.
Wednesday, April 2, will be given
over to visiting Charleston's numerous |jg|
attractions, the local Nobles being the
hosts for that day, and that night will
be fitly celebrated as "Shriners" night 3?
on the midway. The managers of the
exposition have officially designated
Thursday, April 3, as Shriners' day, .
and if the present arrangements are
carried out the occasion will be a red- & -*
letter day, not only for the Shriners,J|||
but for the exposition itself.
The Carolina Nobles are counting on
a goodly attendance of their Georgia -'
fellow Shriners at the Charleston \
meeting. CHARLESTON
DISAPPOINTED. ~T"
Cancellation of President'# Trip at
Last Moment Causes Much Sorrow. \
The greatest disappointment ?1 felt r
i? all Jn Charleston at thft
abandonment of the president's trip to " i
the Exposition City.
Arrangements had been made for a ij?|
splendid reception and everybody was
looking to the occasion as the great
day of the exposition. Everything has '
been called off, as the president was \ ^
the feature of the program and the ;
only feature practically of the occaBONE
BOYS GIVEN FREEDOM.
Governor Candler Pardons Two Men
Convicted of Highway Robbery.' 'M
Julius and Lem Bone, two Atlanta, f
Ga., boys, who were convicted of highway
robbery five years ago, and who '
were sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary,
were pardoned by Governor
Candler Friday. Julius Bone is at the
Coal City camp, and Lem is at Chicka- r ^
mauga.
The majority of the prison commission
declined to recommend a pardon, Zjgji
Vmt Tnrfco .T s Turner, the chairmanJ&k^Ai
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dissented and gave strong reasons why;
the two boys should be released. ,'^^m
INVITATION TO CUBANewlands,
of Nevada, Introduces An nexation
Resolution.
Representative Newlands, of Nevada,
from the ways and means committer
who was author of the resolution annexing
Hawaii, introduced a joint res*
olution in the house Wednesday invlfc*
ing the general public of Cuba to become
a part of the United States as a
territory, and then as a state of the
union, to be called the state of Cuba? / M
also authorizing the 25 per cent reduc- i:
tion of duty on the present crop of Cu
ban sugar in consideration or ine uu- ^
bans granting preferential rates to the
United Spates. %%
TALKS ON GOOD} ROAD8. 1
Convention at Charleston Well Attend'
ed Exposition Patrons.
The National Good Roads Convention
began its sessions in Charleston
Thursday.
The exposition patrons listened to
addresses on highway building and ' -&|
relative subjects by Martin Dodge, ot
the department of agriculture at
Washington; M. A. Hayes, ftf the
Southern railway; E. L. Tessier, of the
Charleston exposition, and W. W.
Cro?>y, of Baltimore.
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COSTLY CEMENT PLANT.
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Million Dollar Concern Slated Fof
Town of Rockmart, Ga. a
miiiinn dollar Portland cement
plant is shortly to be erected and put
into operation at Rockmart, Ga., by
the Southern States Portland/Cement
Company, to be organized In Atlanta
within the next week, backed by the
powerful Michigan organization knows
as the Peninsular Portland Cement Company.
The principal offices of the new conjf
pany are to be located in Atlanta.
CONSIGNED TO MOTHER EARTH#
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Bodies of Biddie Brothers Are Buried
In a Single Grave. At
Pittsburg Wednesday morning the" <?
remains of Edward and John Biddie
were quietly interred in a single gra^e *
at Calvary cemetery. ^
There were not more than twentyfive
people, Including the brother,
Harry Biddle, that accompanied the
bodies to the grave.
OFF FOR THE SOUTH.
Delegation of Cook County, Illinois,
Democrats Begin Tour.
A special train bearing 245 local
members of the Cook county demo?
racy left Chicago Thursday oyer the
Big Four road, bound for Charleston,
S. C., where they will be t?e guests
of the exposition officials. Several
other southern cities are included in
the itinerary.
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