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s INT CLOSEiCYCRIP Wide Section of the South is Tightly Grasped. / GREAT DAMAGE IS DONE I f'cu 11U in llicill^r V>liC9 d>iu wmi? Come to a Standstill While Tele- j graph and Te!ephone Systems ' Are Blocked. i Telephone and telegraphic service over a wide area of the south was ; almost completely crippled by heavy sleet Sunday and Monday. Railroad service also suffered and in the lighting and street car facili- l ties were suspended. The tie-up was the mo3t complete in many years, , and although the telegraph companies , and railroads have large forces of men at work, it may be several days |! / before normal conditions prevail. j I The storm which covered Kentucky, j : Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, In- | 1 dian, Territory, Mississippi, Alabama, j i Louisiana and Georgia had prevailed j intermittently for three days, and the : wires broke under the accumulated (: ice. The fall of snow and sleet vary- ; ing from 1 to 3 inches extended as far north as Louisville. For several hours Atlanta and New j Orleans were cut off from the rest of j the country. All wires were down {1 from Memphis to Natchez and New J Orleans and the telegraph companies sent messages for those points to New York and down the coast, but even this service was interrupted for a time. Two hundred poles went down m Mississippi. i In Chattanooga the streets were filled witn broken wires and a lineman was killed by a live wire. The lighting and street car currents were -turned off to avoid further damage to pedestrians and linemen. At Atlanta City Electrician T. J. Harper at 7 o'clock Sunday night ordered the Georgia Railway and Electric Company to shut down its current on all overhead wires supply- j ing the street car system of the city and the street lights, except those in the Immediate vicinity of the center of the city, fed by underground wires, i The execution of the order caught a large number of trolley cars on the streets, where they were left over. . f night This had to be done because of V ' the telephone wires falling and sagging on the arc and incandescent and trolley wires, and there was constant danger of residences being set on fire. The fire alarm signals were practically all out of working order during the night. Chief Joyner stated that a number were repaired during the afterhoon, only to break again early in the-night and at S:30 o'clock all of the wires were out of order. * By order of the board of education there was no school Monday. The slippery condition of the j + V. ? aViffftlnfn lonlr nf tT"?ncrwir. I SU7CM, Wir aucvi iuv.k ut wMuvt>v. tatlon, and the danger attending walking on the streets because of falling ! trees, telephone and telegraph poles ! necessitated the order. * ' The storm impaired the telegraph service of both companies in the city, and the long distance service of the telephone company. All Western Union wires going j 9oath from Atlanta were in bad shape all during Sunday, the Birmingham wire of the Postal company was complained of by the trouble men and the ' ' 'long distance phone service was- practically out of commission. SANKRUPTCY LAW UNDER FIRE. Measure Introduced by Clayton of Alabama Favorably Reported. The house committee on judiciary . decided to report favorably the bill of Mr. Clayton of Alabama repealing the present bankruptcy law. Several : , republicans voted with the democrats j In support of a favorable report. , COLORED PROFESSOR SLAIN. | Irate Student Hurls Brick, Which | Fractures Teacher's Skull. T. L. Cotton, one of the professors j of the Georgia State College for col- i ored youths at Thunderbolt,was struck on the head with a brick Thursday af- 1 ternoon by Sammie Bowen, one of the i students. His skull was fractured and j he died later in a Savannah hospital. Bowen, who was placed under arrest, says the professor had cuffed him and put him out of the recitation room for talking, following him out and threatening him with a stick, whereupon he threw the brick. SABY LEFT AT BISHOP'S DOOR. ! Rev. Galloway Receives Present of Boy from Unknown Donors. At Jackson, Miss., Friday morning, a boy baby, a month old, was found i at the door of Bishop C. B. Galloway. The little one was wrapped in a blanket, and was very much emaciated. *Ihe police are now intestigating the : case, but ro clue to the parentage of ' the child has been discovered. i p r v WANTS WEEKLY REPORTS." Senator Bacon of Georgia Making a Fight in Upper House for More Reliable Cotton Statistics. A Washington special says: Southern senators will make a strong effort to secure greater frequency in department of agriculture estimates upon the cotton crop. Senator Bacon of Georgia Thursday afternoon presented in the senate, and gave notice that at the proper time lie would move their adoption, two imendments to the pending agricultural appropriation bill calling for weekly reports and semi-monthly summary reports instead of the monthly reports now furnished by the department. At the cotton planters' convention at New Or/sans one of the principal criticisms if not the chief one of the estimates furnished by the bureau of statistics of the agricultural department was that coming as these do at intervals of a month they operate to ^ disturb the market to the detriment of the cotton planters. When the agricultural appropriation bill was before tbe house, Representative Livingston of Georgia sought to secure the adoption of an amendment looking to reports every two weeks Instead of monthly, but this amendment was voted down. Senator Bacon has taken up the fight in the senate and has introduced two amendments. .The first of these provides that in the case of the cotton crop reports shall be issued on the 3d, 10th, 17th and 25th of each month, Instead of cn the 3d only, as is now done. The second amendment provides "that in the case of the cotton crop the secretary of agriculture shall issue at least semi-raonthiy a summary report of the information received My the department upon which the department shall make the estimate of the condition of the crop." This latter refers not only to conditions during the growing season, but the picking season as well, the word "conditions" being used in the amendment because it is used throughout that portion of the bill relating to the work of the statistical bureau. While it is claimed by the department officials that it would be difficult if not impossible to get reports from their volunteer agents and representatives throughout the cotton states more frequently than once a month. Senator Bacon says he sees no good reason why this cannot be done and he will strongly press for the adoption of the plan outlined by his amendments. CUBAN CABINET GOES OUT. All Five Members Call on Palma and Present Resignations. A special from Havana says: All five members of the cabinet visited j President Palma Thursday and presented their resignations. They stated that they desired, since President Palma had announced his allegiance to the moderate party, to open the way for him to make whatever selections for cabinet officers he chooses under the new conditions. President Palma courteously but emphatically declined to consider the resignations, and added that his joining the moderate party was purely a personal act and did not necessarily affect the cabinet. MACHEN DOOMED TO PEN. K0S13I UrailCrS ID ?ci ?C ? SI mg wv fore New Trial is Granted. The course of the government in the postal conspiracy cases as determined on Thursday is that August W. Machen, the former general superintendent of the free delivery system; Dr. Lorenz, of Toledo, and Samuel A. GrofT and Dlller B. Groff be taken to the Mounsdville, W. Va., penitentiary at once, and that other indictments against them shall not be pressed until after they have served the terms for which they are now under sentence. Conditional Gift by Rockefeller. John D. Rockefeller has promised to give $35,000 as an endowment for the Mississippi Baptist College, if the Baptists of the state will raise $100,000. TRAIN STRIKES STREET CAR. Of Forty-Five People Aboard Twenty Were Hurt, Two Seriously. Twenty persons were injured, two seriously, in a collision between a freight train on the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad and a street car at the stock yards crossing in the northern limits of Fort Worth, Texas, Wednesday morning. About forty-five persons were in the car. The air was thick with fog and three cars in front of a 'Frisco engine, according to the motorman, so obscured the headlight that he did not | see the' engine approaching. SPREAD OF FEUD IS FEARED. Fata! Row at Rhine, Ga? May Be Attended with Further Bloodshed. Information at Rhine, Ga., is to the effect that parties on both sides of the shooting affair are heavily armed and bloodshed is likely. All the vended in the difficulty are reported as doing fairly well except Tom Coffee. He is not expected to live. J ; SWAYNE'S ANSWER j Facts in the Impeachment; Charges are Admitted. nrMiro aii ru i i radii itv i ULmLd MLL UU Ll nDI LI I I I I Sets Forth That Alleged Wrongful | Acts Were No Violation of Law , or Ethics and Claims Justification in Every Article. A Washington dispatch says: Through his counsel Judge Swayne Friday made formal responses in the j senate to the articles of impeachment j made by the hohse of representatives, j The answer was a formidable docu- j ment in point of size. Each of the j twelve articles of impeachment was j answered at length. In every case j the fact charged was admitted, but explained from Judge Swayne's point of view, and in addition it was contended that even if the conditions were true as charged, they were not of a character to justify proceedings for impeachment for "high crimes and misdemeanors." The answer is a typewritten document of fifty or sixtv pages, and was read by ex-Senator Thurston. Mr. Thurston took up specifications j of the charges in detail contend- I ing that they were not such as Should j be taken cognizance of by the senate. Taking up first the charge of receiving $10 per day for expenses j while holding court in Texas while { the judge's expense^ were not so great, he admitted the receipt of the ! money as clferged, but denied that j his, conduct in this respect was con- I trary to law, as the allowance of $10 j per day was intended to be a fixed and definite allowance for judges when holding court outside their districts. The charge that, in 1903, Judge Swayne had for his own use a railway car of the Jacksonville, Tampa. and Key West Railway Company, was denied. Judge Swayne admitted the use of the car, but claimed that ^t was occupied by himself and friends in going from Delaware to Florida on invitation of the receiver of the road. He declared that no expense j wa3 incurred by the railroad compa- | ny on account of his use of the car. j Judge Swayne also denied that he ; failed to establish & residence in his district in Florida, and said that he ha3 resided in that state since ibso, and in Pensacola since 1S94. The charge of committing E. T. j Lewis for contempt, he admitted, but justified it as a duty, but with reference to the charge that h? had pre- | sided in a suit relating to real estate in Florida in which he was interested. Judge Swayne denied the holding of such interest. He attributed this charge to a conspiracy on the part of% three lawyers in the case for the purpose of- securing delay and thwarting justice. He also admitted fining and ordering to prison Attorney Samuel Belden and Attorney E. T. Davis, on the charge of contempt for their conduct toward him in the real estate case, and said his conduct in that mater was justifiable, as was shown by the fact that the sentence was affirmed by Judge Pardee of the United States circuit court. Judge Swayne also justified his course in punishing W. C. O'Neal, saying that his course in this case had been due to the fact that O'Neal had made a murderous assault upon a trustee in bankruptcy appointed by him (Swayne) in a bankruptcy proceeding. On motion of Mr. Fairbanks, an order was adopted giving the managers of the house until 2 p. m., February 6. to present a replication or other pleading which the house may desire to make. The order further directed that all subsequent pleadings should be filed with the secretary of the senate and that all pleadings must be closed before the 9th, so that the trial may proceed at 1 p. m., on the 10th. . HUMMEL FOUND HIS BALLOT. I "Experts" Qet Badly Rattled While Investigating Alleged Frauds. There was a dramatic scene Wednesday afternoon in the committee room in Denver, Col., where the gubernatorial contest is being heard, when Frederick Hummel, a democratic precinct committeeman, identified I his ballot from a bunch of seventy or eighty which an expert had-reported as fraudulent. Mr. Hummel gave the number of his ballot and wrote the word "democratic" as he had written it in the ; election booth. He then looked over the bunch and produced it. NIEDRINGHAUS HOLDS ON. Another Fruitless Ballot Taken |n Missouri Legislature. j The thirteenth ballot taken in the Mieoniiri ;*<riKiature Wlednesday for a ilAiddVUl i v United States senator to succeed Senator Cockrell was without result and the session dissolved for the day. The ballot: Cockrell 78, Niedringhaus 72, Kerens 12, Pettijoh? 2, Solon T. Gilmore of Kansas City 1, G. A. Finklenburg of St. Louis 1. 4 iJORDAN ISSUES A CALL I i President of Cotton Growers' Association Asks Farmers to Assemble in Force on Dates Specified. President. Harvie Jordan of the; Southern Cotton Association, has is sued a cali to the cotton planters ol the south, urging them to organize tc j carry out the will ot the great New Orieans cotton convention. "The people of the cotton-growing 1 states are aroused to the imperative j necessity to do something," says he, j and he urges that in accordance with the plan or organization adopted at i New Orleans the people assemble In! their respective voting precincts, beat or militia districts on February the j 11th at l o'clock, elect a precinct < chairman and appoint a committee of three on cotton acreage; this com-1 mittee to immediately request the sig-1 nature of every cotton grower in that! precinct to a pledge to reduce his j acreage 25 per cent. The farmers will; further at this gathering on'the lltli . elect three representatives to a county j convention to be he'id at each county j scat on Thursday, February 16th, j which county convention shall elect its j own officers and elect one representa-1 tive to a state convention to be heid February 21st in every state cjpitol After reviewing the situation and I telling of the work accomplished at New Orleans and calling for the gath-1 erings as announced, President Jordan explains the entire plan of organiza- j tion adopted and urges that the farm- j ers stand together as one man. From ! his call it is evident that the Southern j Cotton Association proposes to get down to work at once and that before i the end of the present month there will be a complete working association in every state in the south and j sub-associations in every county and, precinct. : - I , j CONVENTION IS TELLING. I As Result of New Orleans Meeting Cotton Has Sharply Advanced. i A Brownwood, Texas, dispatch says: ' The following signed statement ha9, been issued by C. H. Jenkins of the ,> executive committee of the Southern Growers' Association: "Since the first call was issued for ' the farmers to organize for the pur- [ pose of securing a 25 per cent rbduc- j tion of acreage and fertilizers, cotton [ has advanced $2.50 per bale. Upon the basis of 4,000,000 bales being still in the hands of the producers, this means a gain of $10,000,000 to the cotton growers of the south. If the farmers and business men of the south will j stand by the program agreed upon at the New Orleans convention, this gain j will amount to $40,000,0u0 on the crop ! ! in hand by June 1, and the gain on : i the next crop will be at least $125,- j 1000,000. Can we not afford to pay I something both in labor and money for such combination as this? "The essentials are reduction in the next crop and holding the present, crop. The present crop cannot be held economially without warehouses; j [ therefore, my advice is to build ware- j I houses and do it now. Let the farm-1 ers and business men of every county get together at once and raise the nec- 1 essary fund to build a warehouse." j TAUNTS CAUSED BOY'S DEATH. ! , ! Scholar, Gibed by Classmates, Sue- j cumbs to Heart Failure. Heart failure, said to have been brought on by the taunts of classmates in a public school in New York,: has caused the death of Joseph j Krauer, seven years old. The lad, ; with one or two others, failed to re- j i nmmntinn tn the succeeding | V C Jl/i ; grade, and was greatly annoyed by J his fortunate classmates. He fell! ! from his seat dead after undergoing } j their jests for a time. TROOPS AMD MOB IN BATTLE. J i Six Strikers Killed and Forty-Eight ! Wounded in Lodz, Poland. In a conflict between troops and strikers at the Kounitzer factory in j Lodz, Poland, Friday, the soldiers j fired, killing six persons and wound-1 ing forty-eight. Shooting also occur- ! red at the Kellar lace factory. PARDON CAUSES AN UPROAR. ! i I President Pal ma of Cuba Criticised by Political Opponents. A Santiago dispatch says: The presidential pardon of Mirano Corona, editor of The Cuban Libre, who killed Mr. Insua, editor of The Republica, on new year's day, 1903, has caused intense partisan demonstrations. The opposition party denounces President Palma's action in pardon! ing the slayer after he had served less than two years, most of which | was spent in comparative luxury in i the hospital, to which he was admitted on the plea of illness. ginners to hold meeting. Will Determine as to Furnishing the Crop Statistics. i The cotton ginners of Mississippi j will hold a convention in Jackson for the purpose of discussing the important subject of compiling crop statistics and to determine whether or not they will continue to furnish the government with periodical reports on the amount of cotton they gin. * > 4 MANACLES OF DAVIS] The Subject of an Explanation by General Miles. I i HE DID NOT SURRENDER! ! | ! After Lapse of Forty Years, Northern i Commander Throws Ljght on Capture and Imprisonment of President of the Confederacy. i A Boston special says: For the first i i time in forty years Lieutenant Gene- | ral Nelson A. Miles, now acting in- j spector general on the staff of Gover- ! nor Douglas, has broken silence on [ ! the circumstances surrounding the imprisonment in irons of President Jefferson Davis of the Confederate states. "Jefferson Davis did not surrender j when Richmond was captured," said j General Miles. "He did not surren- I der with Lee and Johnson, but it was J his intention, and he admits it in his own book, 'The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy,' to try and escape across the Miississippi so that he could join the Confederate army in that section, and continue the war. "He was sent to Fortress Monroe j to await trial for complicity in^ the I assassination of Mr. Lincoln. On j May 22. 18G5, C. A. Dana, assistant ! secretary of war, authorized and di- ! rected me in a special order to place | manacles and fetters upon the hands ; and feet of Jefferson Davis and Clem- i ent C. Clay whenever it might be \ thought advisable in order to render j their imprisonment more secure. Light : anklets were placed on Davis. He ; knocked over a strong man who wa3 helping to do it. The anklets were i kept on Ave days only, while a wooden door was being removed and an iron i grated one substituted. "The anklets gave Davis no pain and did not prevent him from walking. Mr. Davis at the time was 56 years old, strong and agile. Letters to me from^Irs. Davis and Mxs. Clay prove that I treated Mr. Davi3 with all the kindness that could be 3hown him under the circumstances. Statements that he was maltreated or his health impaired as a result of imprisoiynent are utterly untrue." nPfBA/?TlrtW U/AC MOT M A np nc I nnw I IV/ll I?nv v . Jacksonville Man Sees Judge Twiggs, ^But is Turned Down. W. B. Myers, the Jacksonville naval stores man, made good his threat Wednesday by visiting Savannah to see what Judge H. D. D. Twiggs meant by stating that Myers had told him that he had witnessed the shooting of Caesar Young in New York, j Myers appeared at Judge Twiggs* office with an attorney and demanded i a retraction. This he failed to get. It will be recalled that Judge Twiggs I said that Myers had told him he had ! witnessed the shooting, and that Cao- j sar Young had killed himself, and Nan 1 Patterson was innocent of the charge j of murder. Judge Twiggs informed j tiiatrict Attorney Jerome's office, but ! he had to take it back immediately, j as Mr. Myers asserted he had never made such a statement. - . Myers and his attorney now threaten legal proceedings against Judge Twiggs, as Myers' veracity is decid- j ediy \ in question. Jack Shivers I and Alderman Frank Oliver of I Savannah have made affidavits bearing out Judge Twiggs* statement. FAST MAIL ITEM CINCHED. Stays in Pcstoffice Appropriation Bill By a Large Majority. After the usual 'number of opposition speeches and attacks, the appropriation of $142,72S.75 for the special mail facilities from Washington to Atlanta and New Orleans was retained in the postofflce appropriation bill. 1 " ~A-' !- - ~4-V* a nlOHOO The motion to str* tvo uui iuc ^mucu i from the bill received 77 votes to 115 against it. dynamiters at work. Determined Warfare Agajhst Blind Tigers in Mississippi Town. I A gang of dynamiters are at work j | in Hattiesburg, ifiss., their efforts! j seeming to be directed against places j I suspected of harboring blind tigers, j I The third place was dynamited Sat| urday night, when an attempt was ' i made to blow up the home of Ed Lew- < j is, a negro. Previous attempts were made on ; grocery stores owned by 0. E. Tutt, | both stores being partially wrecked. | BIG BLAZE IN BIRMINGHAM. Alabama Metropolis Suffers Loss of ?200.000 in a Sunday Fire. At an early hour Sunday morning fire starting in Franklin, "Stiles & Franklin, produce commission merchants, ate its way into Robert Gary & Co.'s wholesale notions four-story building cn West avenue and Twentyfirst street, and before it was gotten under control had destroyed property aggregating $200,000. .v..' . /". . >'? PLAN OF THE GROWERS., | " '*1 \ (i As Set Forth in Official Call Issued 'cy President Jordan of Southern Cotton Association. - Following is the official call promulgated by President Jordan, of the Southern Cotton Association, setting . forth the plan whica is to be adopted by the growers of the south: The cotton producers, merchants, bankers, manufacturers and members of the different profession of each voting precinct or political subdivision * (or by whatever name called) of each county or parish in each cotton growing state or territory is hereby called to meet on the 11th day of Febru-.- , J dry, 1905, for the purpose of organize rM ing and electing officers, and after bo organizing, snail elect three rep- /; resentatives of that precinct to the county or parish association to be \f$ held on the 16th day of February at ;-J the parish or county seat. Each parish or county shall convene, organize by the election of its /|.J| own officers, and elect one represen- ?f|| tative to the state or territory association to be held at the capital of each cotton growing state or territory, -j|| on he 21st day of February, 1905; provided, that the Tennessee state con- VA:j vention shall be held at Memphis, and -||g the Indian Territory convention to be held at South McAllister. The state cr territory organization shall elect, in additiop to its own officers, the ' ^ members of the national executive ^ committee as follows: Alabama 3 members, Arkansas 2; M Florida 1, Georgia 3, Louisiana 2, Mis- ^ sissippi 3, North Carolina 2, South Carolina 2, Tennessee 1, Texas 5, Okla- ^ V||j homa 1, Missouri 1 and Indirto Terri- ifjj tory 1. The membership fee for all persons s ;<^j| joining tms association snail oe zd ..a* cents, and fees thu3 collected to be turned over to the treasurer of the* county or parish association, who shall retain one-half of the amount so collected for the use of the county or . parish association, forwarding one-half ill to the treasurer of the state or territorial association. The treasurer of "3% the state or territorial association to toward one-half of the amount receiv- . V-Jig ed by him to John A. Latham of Dub- J j line, Texas, the treasurer of the Southern Cotton Association, and report - J| the amount thus sent to Richard Cheatham, secretary, M]6nticello, G&' ; The parish or county association shall pay its own treasurer. The county or parish association j shall fix a reasonable compensation Mi j to be paid the township or political ;VJ| | subdivision canvassers for collecting [ the above named pledges and' statisj tics to be paid out of the county ; | funds. >5j|l Every township or political subdi| vision not heretofore organized is urg- ''r^M I ently requested to perfect its organization at once. Such precincts and counties as here*" , tofore organized for the purposes here- >fj3 j in stated, under whatever name, are i requested to hold their meetings in . i accordance with the above call and '''Uvmt become members of this association. The people must act now and shake ''r?fe8 j off obstacles In the way 01 prosperity ;wg of this section, or it may be another I decade before we get the desired re- ''M lief. In unity there is strength. Let all our people stand together in a Jj|j common cause. HARVIB JORDAN, * -fl President Southern Cotton Associa| RICHARD CHEATHAM, Secretary. WERE NOT REPRESENTATIVES. *J| Deputation Calling Upon Czar Repudi- ^ I ated by St. Petersburg Workmen. The workmen to the number of 4,000 in the car shops at St. Petersburg /jp have drawn up a manifesto disclaimI ing the delegates who were put forward as representing them In the deputation which visited Emperor Nicho- 'r% 61as at Tsarskoe-Selo on Wednesday, '% February 1. They assert that these men were selected by the employers and were 'M not representatives of the work- V; men. I BETTER MARKET IS SOUGHT. A Memorial from Recent Cotton Con- . : vention is Presented in Senate. A WJashin?ton dispatch says: Sen- . y ator Clay read in the senate Friday a ,:.;.' memorial from the Cotton Growers,' convention forwarded to congress by | W. L. Peek of Georgia. - - ' The object of the petition 13 to s? cure for the south better markets for |jj| ! cotton in foreign countries. It a3ks > for an appropriation to employ agents j to be sent to foreign marketa with a ; view to investigate and enlarge such I markets and securing better prices for, | cotton. | CAPTAIN AND CREW DROWN, ' Bark El Victoria, with Crew 0f &b? teen, Goes Ashore. The Spanish bark Ei Victoria, with & crew of sixteen men from Tamptoot Miexico, to Fernandina, went ashor* near Palm Beach, Fla., Tuesday a ternoon. The captain and ten men oC the crew / were drowned while afr v _r->' tempting to reach the shore. '.v: