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Jap Armies Snatch
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A KlOPiy ill
fee Annihilation of the Czar's
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Liao-Yang Eclipsed.
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A dispatch to a Loudon news agency
from Mukden, timed 2 p. in. Friday
and received by way cf Paris, says the
Japanese have gained a great victory
and that the Russian lines are withdrawing
slowly northward, having suffered
heavy losses. The battle continues
and dispatches are strictly cenSrV
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On both sides there have been such
losses in kllied and wounded as mark
the contest one of the bloodiest battles
in history. Already the losses at
Uao-Yang have been approximated,
[. and the indications are that they will
be exceeded, that of the Russians up
to noon of October 14 being estimated
at 15,000.
The Russian advance has been con>?
verted into a stubbornly fought retreat.
The result, according to the
Russians, is still to be determined.
' Reports from the Russian left wing
are lacking, leaving room fbr question
v If that part of Kuropatkin's army is
not in worse extremity than the center
and right were at any stage of the
battle.
On both sides the soldiers have
shown the utmost tenacity and bravery
whole regiments have gone
down before the fire of the enemy. In
official circles of St. Petersburg there
is a disposition to argue that even
should General Kuropatkin be obliged |
to retire upon Mukden, his position I
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the order was given on October 6,
and that, on the other hand, the Japanese
powers or future resistance will
have been materially weakened.
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According to a Mukden dispatch the
fighting raged aK day Friday with the
same bitterness as on the previous
days of the engagement and the result
is still in the balance. The losses
* on both sides are enormous, that of
the Russians being 15,000.
Wounded soldiers are being brought
in from all directions. The roads are
crowded with long trains of wagons,
iistsg3.se end transport wagons, as
well as ambulances, being pressed
into service.
Even across the fields you meet
them taking the shortest and
quickest road for help and shelter,
j, , It is the most pitiajle feature of the
bloody drama being enacted at the
i. front, when stiffening with wounds,
painracked bodies sink into the roadside
affer the suprort of the danger
i and glory of the active fight have been
, withdrawn.
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The London Daily Chronicle's cor*
respondent at Yentai, telegraphing on
October 12, via Fusan, Octooer 14.
says:
T>??nr?'n m a Hoolr foila/? Atrovtr. I
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where and they are in full retreat all
along the wnole line, pursued by thb
Japanese.' Thirty Russian guns we/b
captured. The Japanese turning movement
is pressing the Russians hack to
Mukden. The Russians made sixteen
counter attacks with sp^ndid bravery,
sacrificing themselves" freely, but !
unavailingly."
Guns and Ammunition Captured.
Advices to the Japanese legation in
, London say that the report of MarSuis
Ovama giving details of the operations
below Mukden on Tuesday and
Wednesday, which were previously described
in the Associated Press dispatches
from Tokio, seems to make
the total of Russian guns captured
> thirty-eight and ammuniiTon wagons
cwenty-four.
POLICE ARREST EACH OTHER.
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After Bloody Scrap Both March to Station
Arm in Arm.
Officers Phillips and Doyal, two Atlanta
policemen, appeared at headquarters
Friday afternoon, each under
arrest of the other, and told a sail
story of how they had disputed and
# "fit." Officer Doyal showed the effects
of the encounter, his face being
bloody.
Shief Ball immediately suspended
both men for fighting while on duty
and ordered them to appear before the
recorder for trial for disorderly con
duct.
COTTON WAREHOUSE BURNED.
Four Hundred Bales of the Fleecy Go
Up tn Srr.cke at Perry.
R. L. Marchman's iron warehouse at
' Perry, Ga., was burned Sunday afternoon
about 3 o'clock. Origin of fire
is unknown. There was 400 bales of
* cotton burned, with about $13,000 insurance
cn cotton. The less on the
building is $1,800. Mr. Marchman was
doing business on the same lot when
his warehouse and 300 bales of cotton
were burned Janurary 15, 19C3.
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VOTERS "SCRATCHED" JUDGES. ]
Peculiar Variation in Figures Cast For
Georgia Judiciary.
Consolidation was completed Thursday
by the secretary of state of the
returns for superior court judges, voted
for in the recent Georgia state
election.
Judge J. H. Martin, of the Oconee
rirvniit the ticket with 61.041
votes, the lowest vote given was tor
Judge L. S. Roan, of the Stone Moun
tain circuit, GO,432.
Returns from all of the 137 counties
had been received during the day, and
those gave the total vote for Secretary
of Sta' e Philip Cook, who led the ticket,
as 70,266.
Attorney General John C. Hart received
6S,024 votes; Comptroller General
William A. Wright, 6S,0S0; State
Treasurer R. E. Park, 67.9S3; Commissioner
of Agriculture O. B. Stevens,
67,926: State School Commissioner W.
B. Merritt, 67,93(5; Prison Commissioner
Joseph S. Turner, 67,9S7; Chief
Justice Thomas J. Simmons, 65,962;
Associate Justice William H. Fis% 65,939;
Associate Justice Joseph R. Eamar,
65,803; Associate Justice Beverly
D. Evans, 65,906.
Secretary Cook does not consolidate
the vote for governor, as that is done
by the state legislature. It is understood,
however, that the governor received
about 66.000 or 67.000 votes.
The total vote for the state ticket
will amount to about 70,000.
- It will be noticed that the vote for
the superior court judges is nearly
10,000 behind the ticket, which is rather
a remarkable defection in view of
the fact that none of them had any opposition.
It can be accounted for only
on the theory that many voters
thought they were expected to vote
only for the judge of their own circuit
and scratched all the others. This
becomes more evident when it is CQnsiderevi
that each superior court judge
led the ticket in his own circuit, but
fell behind in the others. In Irwin
county, for instance, Judge Martin received
679 votes, whfle none of the
other judge were voted for at all.
Another interesting fact is that in
Gilmer county, which went for Hon.
N. A. Iorris . in the primary, Judge
Gober led the ticket among the judges
by 444 votes,
The total vote on the constitutional
amendment regarding local taxation
for school purposes in the 137 counties
was 30,555 for ratification and
20,411 against ratification, a majority
of 10,144 in favor of the amendment.
An interesting fact in this connection
is that Whitfield is the only county in
the state in which there was not an
adverse vote to any of the four constitutional
amendments. They were given
in that county a total of 987 votes.
JOKE ENDS IN TRAGEDY.
Youth Attempts to Scare Brother and
is Instantly Killed.
Near Tifton, Ga., Thursday afternoon,
three sons of J. R. Owens were
returning: from a neighbor's, where
they had been picking, cotton, when
the two smaller ones, Barney, aged
about 15, and a younger brother, ran
on aliead of the older boy, Jack, aged
about 17.
It was near dark, and when, within
about two hundreds yards of the
house, Barney told his brother to go
on and he would hide and give Jack
a scare. He concealed himself behind
a fallen tree near the road, and
as Jack came along, he made a slight
noise. The older boy could just catch
a glimpse of a sleeve and part of nis
hat below the log, and thought in the
dusk it was a polecat. He supposed
both his brothers were at the house
long before, indeed, took no thought
of them at all. He always carried a
gun, and raising the weapon fired at
the object under the log.
Going to see what ne had shot, he
found his brother writhing in the agonies
of death, the entire charge of No.
5 shot having taken effect in the left
side of his head and his left snoulder.
To Fight Saloons in Alabama.
Representative Anti-Saloon League
men all over Alabama will assemble
in Birmingham, to launch an organized
movement against the saloon in
Alabama.
WANT COLLEGE IN ATLANTA.
Mississippi Presbyterian Synod Favors
Georgia Capital as Location.
The leaders of the Presbyterian
church in Mississippi are anxiously
awaiting the decision of the chancery
court of Montgomery county, Tennes
see, on the injunction proceedings instituted
to prevent the removal of the
Southwestern Presbyterian University
from Clarksville, Tenn., to Atlanta,
Ga. The injunction writ was given a
hearing several days ago, and is now
under advisement.
QUEER DISEASE ATTACK CATTLE
Affected Animals Show Symptoms
Similar to Hydrophobia.
A strange disease is afflicting cattle
and hogs around Alapaha, Ga., seven
teen miles east of Tifton, in Berrien
county.
They are attacked very much as if
with rabies, and will fight or run at
anything in sight. They -foam at the
mouth and exhibit every symptom,
apparently, of hydrophobia.
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OYAMA IS PLEASED
Progress of Fight Satisfactory
to Jap Field Marshal.
RUSSIANS DRIVEN BACK
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Advantages Gained by Kuropatkin's
Forces are Lost and Positions
Abandoned?Fierce Fighting
on All Sides.
Thursday's dispatches state that no
appreciable progress has been made
in the projected advance southward of
the Russian army under General Kuropatkin
since the initial success of the
movement in the capture of Bentsian- j
utze.
Fighting of the most stubborn description
continues along the entire
front. Field Marshal Oyama reports
the capture, of 30 guns from the Russian's
and claims distinct successes in
forcing the Russians to retire from
some of their advanced positions.
General Kuropatkin's report to Emperor
Nicholas is couched in guarded
terms and claims nothing in the way
cf accomplished results.
Reports from the Russian military
commander at Port Arthur show that
the Japanese have brought a shell
fire to bear on the inner fortress. The
garrison, however, is represented to
be hopeful of the outcome of the siege.
News from Japanese headquarters
is to the effect that the victory of the
| Japanese ien army weuuusuaj waa
a decisive one. The Russians fought
bravely and several times attempted
counter attacks. The Japanese repulsed
them every time and continued
their steady advance. The left wing
of the left army threatened to envelop
the Ru^ian right, compelling the Russians
to retreat. The Japanese artillery,
including the batteries captured
from the Russians, did their usual
splendid work in shelling the trenches
and the retreating Russians.
A Tokio special of Thursday says:
It is reported that the Russians are
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the Russian force at Benzihu is probably
enveloped.
General Oku has captured twentyfive
Russian guns, making a total of
about thirty Russian guns which
have fallen into the hands of the Japaneso
since the battle began.
A Mukden special says: The battle
south of this place continued throughout
Wednesday with ever increasing
fury. In respect of desperateness,
bravery and bloodshed, it far exceeds
even the battle of Liao-yang.
Towards evening the Japanese repeatedly
assumed the offensive. The
fight continues today with unabated
fury and determination. It is now the
fourth day of the battle.
A Tokio dispatch under Thursday's
date is as follows: The latest telegrams
from the front-indicate the continuation
of Japanese success.
General Oku's left army alone bagged
25 guns. The Russians made two
desperate counter-attacks against the
Japanese left, but were repulsed with
heavy slaughter.
The Japanese commanders in their
reports give expression to their ad
miration of the valor of the Russians.
It is yet too early to measure the
results of the tremendous struggle
which has been waged for the past
three days south of Mukden, but all
reports reaching Tokio Indicate that
General Kuropatkin has been decisively
whipped and severely punished.
The Russian commander was evidently
caught while making his dispositions
with'his forces scattered and he
was beaten before he could, recover.
Much depends on the ability and
resolution of the Japanese In applying
and following up their advantages.
Kuropatkin may turn up in favorable
ground and succeed iD beating back
the Japanese onslaught, but the tide
seems against him.'
The Japanese have begun a desperate
effort to turn the Russian right,
and if -this effort should be successful,
it will, carry disaster to the Russian
arms.
elopers die together.
With Hands Clasped Robert Gill and
Bessie Stone a ft Found Dead.
Miss Bessie Stone and Robert Gill,
who eloped f/ >m Ashland, Va., Tues-'
day, were found dead with their hands
clasped, near a pond in that vicinity
Thursday by a searching party.
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A Dunet noie in me neau 01 eacu
told the story of supposed double suicide,
or murder and suicide.
Miss Stone was shot behind the ear
and Gill in the forehead. Gill had
taken off his coat and vest. The indications'are
that he killed the girl and
then shot himself.
MAMMOTH DEAL 1N TIMBER.
Chicago Parties Buy 600,OX) Acres of
Mississippi Pine Lands.
The Edward Hines Lumber Company,
of Chicago, * has closed a deal
in Jackson, Miss., for the purchase of
600,000 acres of pine timber lands m
Harrison and Pearl River counties."
the price paid 'being about two and
-one-half million dollars. This is the
largest timber deal made in the state
for many years.
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INSULTER SHOT DEAD,
Irate Husband Goes Gunning for Citizen
Who Called at His Home
During His Absence.
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Hotirv A. Videtto, a well Known ana
popular citizen of Augusta," Ga., is
dead in the city hospital from a wound
in the spine, and H.- D. Chapman, assistant
ticket agent at the union depot,
is in jail, charged with tne shooting,
all of whicn is the result of an
insult offered by Videtto to Mrs. Chapman
Friday morning.
Videtto went to the Chapman home
while the head of the family was ai
work and made improper advances to
the pretty young matron of not more
than twenty-one years of age.
She told her husband of the episode
anti in an altercation that followed in
the store ot the dead man Friday
night the shooting took pjace.
In an ante-mortem statement made
at the hospital, Videtto admitted having
gone to the home of Mrs. Chapman
and made the proposals alleged.
He said, however, that he did it on
account of loving messages brought
him by Mrs. Chapman's servant and
which the servant said were sent oy
Mrs. Chapman.
He said the appointment for him to
call was made by this servant. He
admits that when he called Mrs. Chapman
repelled him indignantly and denied
that she had ever sent any messages.
He then apologized ancr"T?egged
her to say nothing to her nusband.
Chapman says that he was summoned
to his father in law's house
from his work Friday morning and
found his wife there very hysterical.
She to?;' him what had occurred and
her statement coincides with that of
Videtto, except that Mrs. Chapman
claims that she faced Videtto and the
servant and that the servant denied
absolutely ever having given Videtto
any message.
Chapman says he consulted with his
relatives and went to Videtto's store'
to horsewhip him. Videtto admitted
what he had done and offered full and
complete apolc\y, but Chapman insisted
on the horsewhip.
Videtto says he started to telephone
the police and was shot in the back.
Chapman says he thought that Videtto
was going to his desk for a gun. Videtto
requested in his ante-mortem
statement that Chapman not be prosecuted
a:a'd Chapman regrets the trouoie.
Videtto leaves a family with children
almost as old as Mrs. Chapman.
Both parties to the shooting are well
known and popular.
TREASURY DEFICIT SHOWN.
Expenditures Grow as.Revenues Decrease?Ninety-Five
Millions Off.
Ellis H. -Roberts, treasurer of the
United States, has submitted to Secretary
Shaw the annual report on the
transactions of the treasury during the
fiscal year ended June 30, 1904.
The net ordinary revenues are show^
to have been $540,631,724, a decrease
of $19,764,925, as compared with 1903
and the net ordinary expenditures
$582,402,321, an increase of $76,303,314.
In the receipts the principal fall
ing off was $23,205,017 in customs,
while in the disbursements the important
increases were $11,423,446 in
commerce and labor, $60,788,580 in
treasury proper, and $20,338,067 for the
navy.'
Unusual expenditures were $00,000,000
on the' account of the Panama
canal and $4,600, loaned to the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition Company,
which latter has now been nearly
all paid. But for these the recorded
deficiency of $41,770,571 would
have been changed to a surplus of $12,829,428.
In consequence of the deficiency in
the revenues the cash in the offices
of the treasury and mint declined
during the year from $170,020,562 to
$137,520,264, and by October 1 to $125,964,888.
The available balance including
deposits in national banks and
other credit, was $238,688,144 on June
30, 1903, and $151,419,162 on October
1, 1904.
Many Rural Routes in Carolina.
The number of rural free delivery
mail routes in North Carolina has
reached 726, this showing a growth
of nearly 50 per cent in twelve njonths.
MULES COLLIDE WITH MOODY.
Attorney General Comes in Contact
With a Runaway Team.
At Washington Friday, Attorney
General William H. Moody, who re
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turned eariy in tne aay irorn a campaign
trip, met with what might have
been a serious accident not long after
his arrival. While he was taking an
early morning horseback ride, a team
of runaway mules collided with his
h'orse near the department.
The collision was of such force
that the attorney general was thrown
to the pavement. Fortunately, he
alighted in such a manner as to sustain
no injury beyond a shaking up.
COTTON OIL MILL BURNED.
Tons of Seed and Cords of Wood Also
Destroyed.
The Jersey cotton oil mill at Jersey,
Walton county, Ga., ten miles north of
Covington, together with 100 tons of
cotton seed and 1,500 cords of woon,
was destroyed by fire at 4 o'clock
Thursday morning. By hard work tne
ginnery and oil tanks were saved.
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Brief Summary of Most
Important Events /
of Each Bay.
| . ?Ten million one hundred and
j seventy one thousand is the figure
! at which the agricultural officials of
| the cotton-growing states, in session,
at Baton Rouge, La., estimate the
' cotton crop this year.
?The will of the late Postmaster
General Henry Payne has been filed
for probate in Milwaukee. The estate
is estimated in value at $700.000,
on which it is said $600,000 is
personal and $100,000 real estate.
?The Southern Railway announces
| that the new doubl-e track between
Washington city aiid Orange, Va.,
| which has been constructed by this
company is open. The distance between
Washington and Orange is 85
miles.
?The first snow of the season fell
at Albany, Schenectady and a number
of other places up the state In New
York on the 12th. It melted, however,
as fast as it fell.
?Plans have been adopted for the
memorial to Andrew H. Greene,
known as the father of Greater New
York, who was murdered at the door
on his home by a negro last year.
?King George, of Saxony, after
a long illness, is dead in Dresden.
Prince John George, who succeeds
him, and the Princess Mathilda were
at the bedside.
?Admiral Dewey has again offered
to assume command of the combined
fleet of the Carribbean and direct the
winter maneuvers. If his services can
be spared from the presidency of the^
general board at that time, Secretary
Morton will accept the admiral's offer.
?A movement has begun in Ralieg'a
N. C., which has the ardent support
of the state officers, for the erection
of a statue of the late United States
Senator Matt W. Ransom.
?Three United States soldiers were
killed and eight injured, one fatally,
by the premature explosion of powder
as a ten-inch mortar was being
loaded at Fort Bank, Winthrop, off
Boston harbor.
?J. M. Culp, fourth vice president
of the Southern Railway, has been
elected to the office of third vice president.
ms headquarters will be in
Washington.
?The president is preparing to redeem
his promise to the delegates to
the inter-parliamentary peace conference
to secure another meeting of
plnipotentiaries of the powers signa- j
tory to The Hague convention. ' '
?D. O. Poolman, with several aliases,
is under arrest at Mansfield, O.,
charged with numerous embezzlements
and forgeries, by which railway companies
were the chief sufferers. -'
?Miss Bessie Stone and Robert Gili,
eloped from Ashland, Va., were
found dead with their hands clasped
near a pond in that vicinity by a
searching party. A bullet hole in the
head of each told the story of supposed
suicide.
?Commemorative of the four hundred
and twelth. anniversary of the
landing of Columbus on the Island
of Salvador, exercises were held at
the world's fair October 12 in honor
of "Italian day."
?Baron Egmont August Karl Thasf>ilo
von Tresckow, aged 64 years, a
Prussian nobleman, died at his home
on Hobkirk, hill, Camden, S. C.. a
few* days ago.
, ?General Kuropatkin'3 southern advance
has been beaten back and his
army is in retreat. He is, however,
fighting doggedly, so as to spare the
Russian army from utter rout.
?Representatives of the Mormon
| Chur^i of Utah are negotiating for
! the purchase of a tract of 300,000
acres ofl and in the state of Tabasco,
Mexico.
I '?The bag factory of William Scull
& Co., at Camden, N. J., wholesale
dealers in coffee, tea and spices, was
gutted by fire. Loss $100,000.
?The house of deputies of the
Episcopal general convention, in session
at Boston, as a committee of
the whole, voted 214 to 191 in favor
of reporting to the house the canon
amendment ??Tc^lding the re-marriage
Qf any divorced person.
?Two more alleged wMtccappers
are in the toils of the law down in
Lincoln county, Miss., David and Sam
Posey having been arrested and
lodged in jail at Brookhaven cn the
charge of shooting into the house of
Professor Z. B. Greaves, a prominent
citizen.
?The Edward Kines Lumber Company,
of Chicago, has closed a deal in
Jackson, Miss., for the purchase of
600,000 acres of pine timber lands in
Harrison and Pearl River counties, the
price paid being aoout two and onehalf
million dollars.
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?The North Carolina state pension
board finds there are 15,316 Confederate
pensioners this year, who will
receive a total of $200,000. Widow
and fourth class pensioners get $14
a year. . * '
ANCIENT TARIFFS KNIFED -||
Georgia Railroad Commission Reveals >
Some Interesting Racts Regard- -
ing Old Standard of Rates. ^ 'fjS
Some interesting flgures have been
prepared by Hon. Joseph M. Brown, .iaM
of the Georgia railroad ocmmission,
going to show that the standard tariff ||
which was fixed by the commission TBK
some twenty-five years ago, is really
not now effective because the railroads
themselves have cut and slash- ;-3 |
ed it to suit the occasion and their
Commissioner Brown takes, for oxample,.
a series of important rates.
those which haye figured largely in
the rate contest now going on before \?j^m
the commission in behalf of Atlanta
and other points in the state.
For instance, the standard tariff
fixed by the commission between Savannah
and Atlanta is as follows: ' ^lapl
Class 1, $1; class 2, 91 cents; class 3,
73 cents; class 4, GO cents; class 5, |||||
48 cents; class 6, 41 cents. But these
are not by any means the rates in -'?fB
existence from Savannah to Atlanta, v^gSJI
the railroads having made a schedule' %? via
of their own, which is as follows: Class
1, 09 cents; class 2, 66 cents; class
3, 51 cents; class 4, 43 cents; class 5,
35 cents; class 6, 33 cents. It will .-iffiBja
be seen that these rates are from 20
ot 40 per cent below those fixed by
the commission.
In the reverse direction from Atlan- -'^8
ta to Savannah the discrepancy is :j|g
even greater. In other words, Atlanta J
can ship to Savannah cheaper, than
she can get goods shipped from that
city. The standard tariff made by
the commission is the same in both v?W
directions, but the difference is made ;
by the railroads. The standard tariff 'Jj -<J?|
on the first six classes from Atlanta I j|H
to Savannah is the same as that giv- |9|9
en above from Savin Rah to Atlanta. ^ -^8
But here are the rates charged by the
railroads ^ from Atlanta to Savannah: ,,j|' flaH
Class 1, CI cents; class 2, 51 cents; -mIIm
class 3, 50 cents; class 4, 46 cents; yjpjM
class 5, 39 cents; class G, 30 cents.
Many pther examples might be glven.
The commtesion's tariff between:jfljM
Savannah and Rome is on class
$1.10; the rate charged by the rail- ;|aH
roads is 74 cents. . The commission's;^ 9j
rate between Savannah and Athena^ 9
is >1; the' railroads charge G9 cerii^JB B
The commission's tariff from Savaa^K||n
nah to Columbus is 9C cents on class ^ v#H
1; the railroads charge 69 cents. From
Savannah to Macon the commission's
tariff is 88 cents on first-class; the j| "-M8
railroads charge 64 cents. *
Discrepancies of this kind might
be multiplied ad infinitum, but they\^'IM|
are sufficient to show that the railroads
have manipulated the standard 'ja
tariff as fixed by the commission
suit their own conveniences. And yet B
every time the question of rates comes >ms|M
to the front the cry is "Let the standaad
tariff alone." % Jy|H
And'so it was whan the Savannah .^Scommittee
urged that the standard 'JIM
tariff should be let, alone, Commte^M jfcj
sioner Brown presented these and oth-*B^9
er figures to show that the railroads |sBilM
themselves had not let the standard -J rJBj
tariff alone.
The railroads, Commissioner Browq ;'qf
said, were created by the state of./JM|?0
Georgia. Shall it be held that the cre-vS'.'-'^S
ator cannot do what is permitted to
the created? If the railroads can reduce
the standard tariff at will and s j
matp if suit their own purposes, can- ;
not the railroad commission order reductions
In that same tariff where, to |9
its mind, the occasion for them arises?
The railroads do not seem to think Jg :3a
so; hence the contest that is now in
progress between tnem and the state
in the United States court.
MUST GO TO THE PEN.
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Three Men Guilty of Issuing Fraudulent
Naturalization Papers. '
The United States court of appeals
at St. Paul has handed down an ?piniop
affirming the verdict of the United '| VSM
Scates district court in St. Louis, in
finding John P. Dolan, Frank Garrett,
and Thomas E. Barrett guilty of aiding
and abetting, in ^902, in securing Ijffl
fraudulent naturalization papers for a ^
number of Italians.
The sentence of a fine of $1,000 each -.si
and five years' imprisonment at hard
labor was also affirmed.
CHILDREN DIE IN FLAMES. . "JrJS
Holocaust in Tenement District of
Brooklyn Caused by Incendiaries.
Six lives weer lost, nearly a score bf
persons were injured and -the loss of
more than a hundred tnousand dollars
were endangered in an early morning
tenement house fire in the Williamsburg
section in Brooklyn, N. Y.,? MbnWith
one exception all the dead
are children, and of eight who "were
so badly hurt that they were removed
to a hospital, the oldest is a fourteen- '~0
year-old- girl. Incendiaries are thought
been responsible for the fatal fire.
STEAMBOAT INSPECTORS FIRED. Vajlf
President Removes Official Because of X-^l
the Slocum Horror. >^g
President Roosevelt, Monday, removed
from office Robert S. Rodie, supervising
inspector of the steamboat In- M "M
spection service, second district, lo- .&? . 'J
cated at New York. This action was
taken on the account of the disclosure
in the report of the national com mis- 'laali
sion, appointed to investigate the General
Slocum disaster. ;