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Special Committee Holds
Sessions at Washington,
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Brief Prepared for Presentation to the
House and Senate Committee on
\ , Agriculture?Invitation to
National Association.
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The special committee of the National
Good Roads. Association resumed
its session at Washington
Thursday. Mr. Jefferson Meyers, pres,
idsnt of the Lewis and Clarke exposition,
of Oregon, presented a resolution
endorsing that project, which was read
and adopted. The chairman appointed
Messrs. Stewart, or West Virginia;
TUIehrew, of Tennessee, and Cooley,
of Minnesota, a special committee to
prep^-e a brief for submission to the
house and senate committee on agriculture.
An invitation was extended
t9 the National Good Roads Associa *
Man to hold its annual meeting at
Portland, Oregon, in 1905, which was
laid orer to be presented at the national
meetfng in St Louis this year.
The special committee appointed
earlfer in the week to arrange a visit
to the white house, reported that they
had hailed upon the ^president, and he
had Informed thfyn that he would be
gtadvto receive the representatives of
the -Good Roads Association. It was
agreed that all present would call in
a b#dy on the president.
k . The meeting then adojurned and
proeeeded to the capitol, where they
- werf ?*Ten a hearing before the senate
committee on agriculture. Chair:
raaalHarper opened the discussion and
stated to the committee that he and
his colleagues appeared before them at
this ^ime by the direction of the National
Good Roads Association, to present
the resolutions unan'mously
adoflfed by the association at'tar last
meeting. He explained that neither
. the committee nor the association as
a whole, had any desire to promote or
tV>o Rmtcnlotr IAH
auvyvavv
* mer, fjallinge'r or any other particular
biil'now pending before congress, but
xhat their purpose was to Impress
upon the minds of the committee the
growing demand for national aid for
good Toads as a general propbsition.
Ho said they were ail in favor of any
"bill that congress mi^ht enact which
would--afford'to the toiling farmers of
this country some relief from the enormous
burdens of "mud tax" which they
are now daily paying.
CRUM DRAWING NO PAY.
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Status of Charleston's Colored Collector
Explained by Shaw.
Im response to Senator Tillman's
resolution adopted by the senate calling
for the record of William D.
Crum's appointment and his service as
collector at the port of Charleston, S.
, S. C., Secretary of the Treasury Shaw
Thursday seht to President Pro Tern.
Frye the following letter:
L_ T> Prnm wa? nnnnitlted
fT xiuaui m? viuui ? MM ?rt
1 collector at th eport of Charleston, S.
v C., March 20, 1903, and a temporary
comjBrtsr'onr isstrae. Crura qualified by
execution of bond for $50,000 and took
oath of office March 30, 1903. Crura
wasfc- again appointed DecSffiTflSF 7,'
1903^ and has given bond In the sum
4 of $50,000 and took the oath of office
oa January 9,1904. There* hah-been*
no Ihlrd appointment and no fourch
appointment. The same informationis
contained in a letter to Hon. B. R.
Tillman, under date of January 8,
1904; and which appears in the Congres^'onal
Record of January 27. 1904.
""the resolution also asks, 'Is Crum
nowSin office, and if so, under what
authority of law?' William D. Crum
is dO facto collector at the port of
| - Charleston, S. C. Whether he holds
hla position under the authority of
law Is determinable, not by the execuj
tire department of the government,
* but by the judiciary, and by that only.
He Is not receiving pay. because of the
provisions of section 1761."
WASHINGTON HEARS NOTHING.
No News of Mrs. Maybrick's Release
Comes to State Department.
Regarding the case of Mrs. Maybrick,
interest in which has been revived
by reports that she has been released
from pr.'son in England, state
I department officials at Washington say
there has been no recent communica
tion between them and the English
B government in the matter. The last
information the department had reH
gar ding the case, and this is now
WF some months old, was that Mrs. May
brick probably would be released late
I in tho summer.
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FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER.
Prominent Citizen of Florida Convicted
^ Without a Recommendation.
At a special term of the cTCuit court
at BraJdentown, Edward Lamb, a
prominent white man, was indicted,
tried and convicted of the murder of
Christopher Kennedy, on the 4th of
January.
* The jury brought in a verdict of
murder in the first degree, without
recommendation to mercy.
j~MRS# MAYBRICK FREE?
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Report Comes from London that Pardon
Has Been Granted Unfortunate
American Woman.
Lloyd's Yvoekly N-wspapor (London)
says that Mrs. Florence Maybrick,
the American woman who was
serving a life sentence on the charge
of having poisoned her husband, was j
released irom me Ayisoury it-maie cca- |
viet prison at 6:45 o'clock on the
morning of January 25, on special license.
The Daily Mail says that Mrs. Maybrick
is now in Liverpool and that the
following conditions attach to her release
from prison: That she will not
appear on the public stage or write a
book of her experience and shall in
no way endeavor to attract attention
to herself.
An Associated Press dispatch says:
In spite of the mystery with which
officials shroud the action in connection
with the reported release of Mrs.
Florence Maybrick, it can be definitely
3aid that she has been removed from
Aylesbury prison. At the United
States embassy it was most emphatically
declared that she had not been
pardoned, and that sho was still a
prisoner.
Mrs. Maybrick, the paper concludes,
during the last few months in prison,
was employed in the lightest work as
a reward for good conduct.
Mrs. Florence Elizabeth Chandler
Maybrick is a native of Mobile, Ala.,
where she still enjoy3 a reputation for
beauty and refinement of .character.
In 18S1 she met Jamek'Maybrick, a
fashionable-Englishman at Liverpool,
and after a bbtef .courtship they were
married. The first years Qf their wedded
life sdenijed happy. Two Children,
a boy and a girl, werer;.borh> to them.
Shadows began to fall over the family
in 1889. There-.were hints of heavy
drinking and abuse on the part of the
husband. One spring day in that year
be attended the Wirral races in a
? heavy rain and contracted a severe
i cold. Returning heme, after eating
and drinking, he took to his bed. Growing
worse, he insisted that his wife
-give him ascertain white powder,
which she did, following his instrucj'tions
as where to find It.' Thirteen
I days later Maybrick died and his widj
ow suffered a severe collapse.
| Coming out of this, sne was con- .
1 fronted with a charge of murder. After
a sensational trial, during which j
evidence in favor of the woman sufficient
to have set her free by any
American jury, was brought to light,
she was convicted and sentenced to
death. It was shown that her husband
had been a confirmed arsenic!
eater for years.
Immediately following her convic-!
tion, petitions began to pour in from |
the United States and other civilized !
countries, protesting against the ver- j
| diet and praying the release of the
t prisoner. For years diplomatic correspondence
has passed between Washington
and London concerning the.
case. Every administration of recent
date has taken up the ilayl-rick case
I with resolution. '
1 The fi,cst favorable step was the
[ commutation of the death sentence to
I life imprisonment, by Queen Victoria.
Then came the reduction to" twentyfive
years, which was aj;ain shortened
by allowances for gocd behavior. The >
south is tremendously* interested in !
the case, not alene- from the fact that |
Mrs. Maybrick is of the south, and a j
woman, .bnt because her testimony is j
necessary in the settlement of a case j
involving thousands of dollars.
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! COLOMBIANS ARE MISINFORMED.
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' Cannot Land Troops in Panama .Even '
: % Outside the Canal,Zone.
; It;is.- stated? at the state department!
i at Washington that General Reyes |
| must have misunderstood the position ;
j of the authorities here if ne. as rep re- !
| sentative from Bogota, informed tho j
; Colombian government that the United ]
States has limited its objection to :
the landing of Colombian troops in
Panama to the canal zone itself. The
department has not in any sense ^
: changed its position when it was ex- j
I pressly stated that no troops with hos- ;
i tile intent could he landed In any par:
of Panama.
GREEN CONTINUES AS AGENT.
No Change Made by Trustees of Pea- j
body Educational Fund.
A notable body of representative men ;
attended a special meeting in Washing- i
ton of the trustees of the PeaboGy j
educational fund. It was announced i
after the session closed that full con- j
sideration had been g'ven to the que3- j
a*? --o ^ J rvw
lion oi a geuerai ageui tu suttccu ui.
Samuel A. Green and to the proposed
enlargement and maintenance of the 1
Peabody normal college, at Nashville, !
but that it was concluded to postpone
action in both matters until the meet- j
ing of the trustees, to bo held in New ;
York next October. |
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COURT FORESTALLS BAXTER. !
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Company is Restrained from Changing
Status of Business In Georgia.
A. B. Baxter & Co. has been restrained
from changing the statusk-t>f
its business in Georgia, the Lowry National
bank and the Fourth National
bank at Atlanta, have been restrained
from paying out any money belonging
to Baxter & Co., in application for a
receiver that has been made. .
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GIGANTIC COLLAPSE |1
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Baxter C?, Brokers, Forced
to Mrjie Assignment.
GO BROKE ON COTTON I
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"King" Sully Cleared $600,000 in Ph> | 11
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nomenal Rise of Staple, and to
His Operations, Failure of
Big Firm is Accredited.
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A. B. Baxter & Co., brokers, of New C
York, with 138 offices in the United s
States, 38 of which are in the; south, I
failed Saturday. It is said that the t
failure will amount approximately 1o j
$3,000,000, thought the exact figures
will not be known for several days. <J
A New York special says; Daniel a
J. Sully, the cotton king, cleared $60CI
000 Saturday morning in the spectacu- r
lar rise of July cotton, which "ouched j
16.88. He bought 200,000 bales Friday j:
morning at 16 and sold out Saturday at j
an advance of from 60 to 80 points. r
Directly charged to the operation of c
Sully in the market was the assign- v
ment of A. B. Baxter & Co., dealers r
in stocks, bonds and cotton, at No. 61 j
Broadway, with offices in all the prin- e
cipal cities of the United States, most- a
ly in the south and southwest. The c
failure involved $200,000. The Brm assigned
for the benefits of creditors to T
George J. Vestner. c
The officers are A. B. Baxter, presi- a
dent; W. W. Vensel, treasurer, and g
Felix P. Lipp, secretary. The com- v
pany was incorporated in 1S02, with a p
capital of-$300,000. The concern is p
the largest of its kind on this contl- j
nent and its operations have been t
on a mammoth scale. p
The assignment was not filed in p
New York 1:30 o'clock Saturday after- c
noon and there was no hint of it be- q
fore the close of trading on the cot- g
ton market at noon. At the office of t
Baxter & Co. it was said that it would y
take several days to estimate th.e 11a- s
bilitles and assets which could not,
It was said, be estimated now. a
George J. Vestner, the Baxter firm's
assignee, is a lawyer in the office of c
Mclntyre, Cantor & Adams.. John F. \
Mclhtyre said for tne assignee of the
company: t
"The company has a large number t
of branch olfices, one in nearly every t
principal city of the south and west. a
It has 30,000 miles of leased wires, g
and pays $30,000 a month tolls to the s
telegraph companies. As soon as wo
assigned we wired ad our branch, of- ^
fices not to accept another cent from t
customers. * s
?*What caused the suspension was t
the continued rise in cotton. Most of 0
oar customers in the south and west, j
who had been long on cotton, went e
ehort recently, thinking the high wafer ^
mark had passed, but when Sully con- j
tlnued to send cotton up we called on c
our customers for more margins.
We thought we saw hope when col- c
ton fell off 50 points Friday, but when
it rose 75 points - Saturday and the
majority of customers failed to respond
to requests for more margins,
we had to assign."
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Democratic' Senators Favof Paying b
Her Ten Millions in Cash. ^ V a
For-three hours Saturday the democrats
of the senate discussed plans for; p
un'ted party action in support of the', e
Bacon resolution for paying Colombia; a
$10,000,000 in cash for the loss of Paa>- a
ama. During the discussion, it developed
that if the senate wnl take actfon e
on the lines of this resolution demo- h
cratic opposition to the ratification oil s
the Panama treaty will be withdrawn/ tl
rsio final action was taken, however, asi o
there is to be another caucus on th ? s<
subject fc
The republican attitude on the.question
of paying Colombia the sum stated c
for a quit claim deed to her interest, ' t<
in the canal zone was made known to t<
the senators in the caucus. The re- p
publicans, it is understood, have al- h
ready agreed to satisfy Colombia in tl
this matter, but they propose to have u
the canal treaty ratified before they ti
make the deal public. ' tl
KENTUCKY CAPITAL SAFELegislature
Votes that Seat of Gov- p
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CnilllClli nvniaiii a* riuiimvi m
The passage through the Kentucky
senate Thursday by unanimous vote
of the house bill appropriating a mib v
Hon dollars for a new capitol at Frank-"* y
fort, marked' the end of a fight which r<
had been waged for the removal of the
seat of government since the days *
when Henrv Clay, as a representative P
from Lexington, started a fight which h
has been the cherished ambition of B
that pity since, till the present ses- B
s on, when Lexington. Louisville and ti
other towns joined in and aided Frank- tl
fort for the present bill. d
SOLONS OPPOSED TO BRYAN. N
Nebraskan's Platform Not Favored by g
Mississippi Legislators.
A poll made of the leading members I
of the Mississippi legislature Thurs- b1
day to ascertain their views regarding ,
the democratic platform shows that a
large majority of them are in favar of ^
repudiating Hon. W. J. Bry*m and mak- j
ing a thorough revision of the platform.
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MRS. LORENZ SHED TEARS
^ "Briny" Incident During Trial of
Alleged Fostoffice Grafters in
Washington Court.
The defense in the postal trial at
Vashiugton opened Thursday. Mr
daddox, on behalf of the Groffs, said
ic would prove that George E. Lorenz
a 1S95 had purchased for $500 a onetalf
interest in the Groff fastener.
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lie was ionowea uy Mr. j\.umitrr ivi
he Lorenzs, who asserted that as far
lack as 1888 Machen, George E. Loenz
and his brother engaged in the
?il business in Ohio, and that as a reult
of their various transactions Goo.
2. Lorenz owed Machen $25,000, and
hat whatever money Lorenz paid to
lachen was in settlement of an honest
lebt.
Conrad Syme, on behalf of Machen,
greed with what Mr. Maddox and Mr.
fumler said, and added that he would
irove there was no conspiracy when
Ir. Kuniler, in the course of his openng
remarks, said that Mrs. Lorenz
tad been scandalized by the govern;
aent, which had treated her with
ruelty, Mrs. Lorenz broke down and
srept bitterly. She was led from the
oom by Mrs. Machen and Mrs. Philips,
Mr. Machen's sister. She recov
red her composure during the recess
nd occupied her accustomed place in
ourt.
The first witness for the defense
ras Miss Ina 3. Liebhart, chief clerk
'1 tne net; uemei j Uiu?.uu,
nd Machen'3 former stenographer.
She described Machen's various duties,
rhicb she said made it physically imlossible
for him to personally attend
o everything. She said that from
uly, 1901, she personally Initialed all
he mail with Machen's initials and
irior to that date she placed his iniials
probably on one-half of the mail.
She said she herself determined the
[uestion of what papers she should or
hould not initial. She declared that
he Groff fastener was never the subect
of any conversation between herelf
and Machen. In writing Machen's
aitials she said there was no secrecy
bout it, that First Assistant Postmaser
General Wynne knew as well as his
hief clerk, Mr. Hawley. A recess was
akea at this point.
Continuing her testimony when the
rial was resumed, Miss Liebhardt said
hat a great deal of Machen's time was
aken up in interviewing congressmen
nd postmasters regarding the extenion
of the rural free delivery. Asked
peciflcally about GrofT fasteners, Miss
iiebhardt said that special orders
rere not brought to Machen's attenion
.because the fastener was "a fixed
upply." In cases involving a new aricle,
however, she said 6he would
peak to the superintendent about it.
t was brought out that the order givn
the Groffs for fasteners at the reuced
price of $1.25 each, was dated
uly 15, 1899, and was signed by MaViwisolf
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The witness had not concluded when
ourt adjourned until Friday.
NOVEL RECEIVERSHIP CASE.
Voman Puts Affairs of Husband In
Hands of Court.
Thomas M. Henson, a prominent
lerchant of Union county, Ga., has
een placed in the hands of a receiver
t the instance of his wife. Hanson's
roperty includes, a large mercantile
stablishment, valuable merchant mills
nd other property, and aggregating
bout $6,000. .
Henson's wife some time ago enterd
suit against him for alimony. In
er petition she made some very senational
charges, one o? which was
tiat her husband would not allow her
r her children to attend any religious
ervices, and when they disobeyed
im they were whipped severely.
At the last term of Union superior
ourt Judge Kimsey ordered Henson
> pay Mrs. Henson $50 per month
smporary alimony. This Henson has
aid promptly, but Mrs. Henson, in
er application for a receiver, states
hat her husband is rapidly winding
p his business, and that where pares
can't pay him instanter ho marks
leir indebtedness settled.
THIRD BLAZE AT ELBERTON.
lucky Georgia Town Suffers Heavily
from Conflagration.
The third disastrous fire which has
Isited Elberton, Ga., within a few
ears and in the same place, occur2d
Thursday rncrning.
About 4 o'clock Mathew's drug store
as discovered on fire, and before the
eople could be aroused the flames
ad spread to Gaines Bros., Thornton
ros., and then enveloped Duncan
iros., all of whom suffered losses esmated
at $30,000. Across the street
le buildings of T. M. Swift were
amaged about $2 GC0.
INETV.FIVE BODIES RECOVERED.
ruesome Work of Clearing Harwick
Mine Goes Bravely On.
Thursday at noon the number of
Ddies reported from the Allegheny
>al mines at Harwick, Pa., totaled
Inety-five. About thirty more are at
le bottom of the shaft ready to be
rought up and probably fifty are still
i the mine. All night long the work
I cleaning up the mine itself was
irned on.
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Higher and Higher Fleecy
Staple Continues to Soar.
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'ADVANCE PHENOMENAL
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lit Has Been Twenty-Nine Years Sinco
Such a High Water Mark Has
Been Reached on New York
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Exchange.
The speculation in the cotton market
; carried May and July cotton options
i above 17 cents a pound on the- New
i York market Monday for the first time
tin twenty-nine years.
Cotton has not passed 17 cents per
pound in New York since 1875, when it
went to 17 1-8 cents. It touched 18
j 7-8 in 1874, 21 3-8 in 1873 and 27 3-8
I in the year of wild speculation, 1872,
j when the crop, as aganst 4,347,000
| bales in the previous season, turned
oui onjy a.y/i.uuu. me nign pnce 01
war times, when the south was blockaded,
was $1.90 per pound, in 1864.
The rise on Monday's market was
scored in spite of heavier receipts and
j the failure of southern stopt markets
(save New Orleans) to advance.
There was the same wild and over
burdened market as on Saturday.
Brokers despaired of executing their
, orders according to book. There was
; Intense confusion and enormous vol;
ume of trading.
I The market opened excited and
. higher. Notwithstanding the sensational
advances of Saturday Liverpool
again cabled higher prices than expect|
ed and the opening was strong at an
advance of 6 to 20 points, carrying'
July through the 17 cent mark and
[making new high records at this sea{
son. . Following the call the market
| advanced still further, though in a
somewhat irregular fashion.
Notwithstanding the heavier receipts
indicated for Tuesday, the market after
reacting to within a few points of
the opening figures, was rallied again
chiefly as a result of aggressive buying
by New Orleans and was soon
selling at a level still higher than that
of thd early morning. March in the
late trading sold at 17.04; May at
17.46 and July at 17.55, a net gain of
65 to 70 points and an advance since
ttt-MottV nincincr of nMrlv a cent and
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a half a pound. Trading was active on
the second advance including continued
buying for public accounts. The
close was firm at nearly the best, with
the more active months 47 and S2
points higher.
Pandemonium in New Orleans.
A New Orleans special says: Mon-.
day was a day of unusual excitement,
even in this season of extraordinary
occurrences in the cotton tuture market.
When the opening of the session
of the cotton exchange was announced
pandemonium apparently broke loose.
Advances in Liverpool and New York
had already been posted on the boards,
and the first call of the local market
showed an advance of 18 to 41 points.
The fluctuations during the session
were frequent and at times very wide,
but prices were always well above the
closing figures of Saturday, with an
! upward trend predominating, the day's
I trading resulting in net gains of 80 to
84 points. The market closed very
firm. Although the range of prices appeared
to create an ideal condition for
the scalper, it was said about the ring
that this class of traders for the day
from some cause almost invariably
"caught on the wrong way."
I The bull leaders in New Orleans adl
vise buying, notwithstanding the presJ
ent high levels.
i Leading houses have reports from
j their traveling men in Texas, who now
J express the opinion that the Texas.
; crop will not exceed 2.500.000
| bales, and that there is now but little
1 cotton In the interior of the state. I
I A cable from Bremen reports that
j spinners in Uermany and Auustria!
j were carrying very light stocks and ex'
pressing the opinion that this crop oi
i its equivalent has already been sold.
! LOOKS BRIGHT FOR TREATY.
; Plan Formulated Whereby Democrats
I and Republicans Can Get Together.
I ..A Washington special says: If the
i republicans of the senate will join in
I the adoption of a resolution to be pre|
sented for their consideration on bei
half of the minority, and which is tc
j be drawr. by Senator Gorman, the PanI
ama treaty will not only be speedily
I ratified, but it will receive the votes of
i almost all of the democratic senators,
I including Senator Gorman himself,
j This resolution looks to the amicable
: settlement of the differences between
| Colombia ^nd Panama.
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j MISSISSIPPI TOWN BURNED.
j Every Building Except Two in Village
of Holiandale Is Destroyed.
Fire at Holandale, Miss., destroyed
every building in the town except two
j dwellings and caused a loss estimated
at from $150,000 to $200,000.
The fire started in a negro restau-?
rant situated in a row of frame build-;
?J TTT,'nrl fonnpj thp wfnds
j lugs auu a 111511 muu ?
to such proportions that the volunteer
j fire fighters could not stay its progress.
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|Cream of News.-; ?|
Brief Summary of Mos
Important Events .
of Each "Day.
?Bishop Thomas F. Gailor, of Ton*
nessee, will preach the baccalaureate ->=%?
sermon at the University of Georgia
at the next commencement ':Jjs
?In Euncombe county, North Caro- *
lina, a suit for divorce has been filed 1
by Mrs, Elizabeth Gudger against Dr.
D. M. Gudger, in which sensational "Jj
charges arc niade.
?One hundred .and- fifty thousand .
Texas voters have lost their franchise
under the new law, having failed pay jp
?Every building except two in Hot- -IfSK
1 landale, Miss., was burnea oy a nre.
Saturday, which inflicted a loss of >;
?Former cashier of the Franklin
bank, Cincinnati, has given \ power
of attorney to sell his securities, ^
amouunting to $2,000,000, In order to ')$,
pay his shortage of $241,000. There
will be no prosecution. j
?Six more arrests of ex-aldermen. at
Milwaukee, Wis., on indictmenta
turned by the grand ujry. . ^
?The threat of Grand Army men to yfatlf
nominate General Black for the presidency
unless a service pension is paae-y-^U 'p
ed is not relished by President Roose*
velt and his friends.
?Five men are intantly killed by aa'^M.
' explosion of powder in Mapls Hill col- ^^a ^
liery, of the Philadelphia and Reading
Coal Company, at Mahony City, Pa.
?Personal Injury suits amounting t''Js
$38,666,592 are pending against the
city of Chicago, on account of injurfe^^MH
caused by bad sidewalks. \
?Mrs. Maybrick has been released;
but there Is a mystery surrounding the.l!i^8
affair, as the government seems to bef '
hiding her out. Conditions of her re*^?
lease said to be that she must not '^Sfl
pear on the stage or write a hook
about her trial and imprisonment
?Despite the "optimistic'' talk. em^-vVM^
nating from all sources except the
mast authentic,, Japan is getting into
fighting trim. The mikado will "'ndtjjB ^
be caught napping by the czar. '
Rev. H. M. Morrison, pastor of the ^ ^
Methodist church at Quftman, haa'|||.
been appointed presiding elder of
Valdosta district of the South Geotgttr'^] V3i|
conference, succeeding Dr. J. rOr.||M:J|
Branch.
?The plant of the Towalaga
trie Power Company at High Shoals,
Ga., is nearly complete, and by nextf^| ;3j
fall the company will furnish power ta
the mills of Griffin. / M
?A negro normal school modeled %
after Booker Washington's institute.at v^SH Tuskegee
is to founded at Albany,
Ga., by a graduate of Washington's 11
?Hereafter all washerwomen doing-l|gB %
business in Macon, Ga., must provide^
themselves with tags which can be
procured only from the board of ^ ^
?D. B. Leonard, of Vienna, Ga., has just
sold three bales of cotton" ,'gintfed ^^f^
In 1881 which he has held since then |
?Representatives.of the Tennessee ' 'ffiflyj
Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, the ;
Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron' Com-"" ^
pany, and the Republic Iron and
Company, met in Birmingham Monday
to discuss the advisability of a merger. <
?At Wilmington, N. C., Friday,' In
the case of S. Hill Terry, charged ' Vs
with , themuijder Ais .^op-ln:l^y,
George T. Bland, only seven Jurors Hfgtai
were accepted though a special Vienlre :
of 250 men were exhausted.
?Governor Vardaman, of -M.'ssisslp-. ;-8?
pi, asks the legislature to appro- T ^
priate $200,000 to complete thefnr'
riishings and beautify tie grounds of '
the new million-Hollar cdpItaL
?A fight has been launched In the'" ^lH
Mississippi legislature against the
George bill, which seeks to ratify the ^
merger of the Mobile and Ohio with .|j
the Southern.
Senator Bacon, of Georgia, address- \";-|hR
aA aonota "KVMnv In ftdVftCflOT of
I W IUU O^uww A * *V.?^ AM ?-?. .
his resolution looking to a satisfactory '
| adjustment of all claims Colombia
have against the United Statee on ac- -^S
count of the secession of Panama. /
?Nearly ev4ry member of the house v f:
wore a carnation Friday in commemoration
of the birthday of the late
President McKinley.
?Captain Pan, of Louisville, Ky.,
has left his estate, valued at about a
million, to found a home for aged and
infirm women. .
?Dispatches from Southwest Africa
indicate that the German garrfsons
are hard pressed by the rebellious
natives. *
?United States Consul General Mason,
at Berlin, has written the state
department, stating that there is a
general revolt in Europe against Amer- ^$3
ican cotton.
?Sanford Jacob!, serving a twenty- %v^|
years sentence in the Alabama peni-'
tentiary for assaulting a young white
woman, has been pardoned by the governor.
Jacobi has served three years : --fia
of his sentence. 4 t
?John B. Lipscomb, who was re- /|||
cently ordered to leave Hall county,
Ga., by the Law and Order League,
for running a "blind tiger," was arrested
at Greenville, S. C., on request of
his bondsmen, carried back to Gaines- " ;3jj|
vllle, tried and fined $1,000. ' 1