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GEORGIAGliiESACT N * Savannah, Brunswick and : 7 j Columbus Quarantine. I I INSPECTORS APPOINTED i i . .. Passengers from Alj Infected Places Will be Turned Back?Dr. Brun ner Wires Report from New Orleans. r, . ; H . Following the recommendation of ! the sanitary commission, the resolution of council empowering him to ! do so, Mayor Myers of Savannah, Ga., Wednesday afternoon issued a proc- > lamation declaring a quarantine against persons and personal baggago i from New Orleans, the entire state of-j Louisiana and all points now infect- ; ed with yellow fever. Special sanitary inspectors have j been appointed to board all incoming trains and stop all persons unable to ! show they have not been in Louisiana | within six days. Though the proclamation declares a j quarantine against any place which has yellow fever, only Louisiana is specified in instructions to inspectors, and for the present the quarantine is against Louisiana alone. Health Officer Brunner of Savannah, who went to New Orieans to invest!- : gate conditions, wired the mayor as j follows: "Arrived this morning. Inspection of ' situation warrants close quarantine of | railroads. Alabama 'and Mississippi ; quarantine compels passengers to go I through these states. Refugees seem to be centralizing in Atlanta. Advise careful inspection of Atlanta trains." j Quarantine, however, had already j been declared before Dr. Brunner was heard from. City officials have given notice that the city ordinance against ! originating or disseminating false reports in regard to infectious or contagious diseases will be rigidly enforced. The city council-of Columbus, Ga., declared a quarantine against All cities where yellow fever exists or may exist. Officers will be placed on all incoming trains. The period of absence from fever infected localities required will be twenty days, otherwise admission to Columbus will be denied. An ordinance was adopted, broadening the powers of the sanitary department. The department is given the privilege of cleaning private lots when the property owners are tardy in doing so, assessing the cost against the property. A rigorous sanitation campaign is now on in Columbus. At a special meeting of the Brunswick, Ga., board of health and city council, Wednesday, it was decided to put on a rigid quarantine against all infected and suspected points. A quarantine was also declared against ; all southern ports, including Savannah. BISHOP HARGROVE DEAD. Aged Prelate of Methodist Church Goes to His Reward. iBishop R. K. Hargrove of the. M. E. church, south, died at his nome ;u , Nashville, Tenn., shortly after mid- j night Wednesday night. He. had been j -In feeble health for a year past. He -was born in Pickens county, Alaba- ' ma, September 17, 1829, and, after being graduated from the University j of Alabama, was for a time instructor , In mathematics there. In 1857 he en- I tered the Alabama conference and, j during the civil war was a chaplain j in the confederate army. Later he j was president of Centenary institute j at Summerfleld, Tenn"., going thence to the Kentucky conference, returning from there to accept the presidency of the Tennessee Female College at Franklin. In 1876 he represented the ! southern church on the Cape May ; commission, and in 1882 was elected a I bishop. The board of trustees of Van- ) derbilt university made Bishop Har- j grove its president in 1889, in which j position he served until last spring, when he resigned because of feeble j health. CHADWICK FEES TOO HIGH. % ? Referee Criticises and Holds Up the Claims of Receiver and Attorneys. At Cleveland, Ohio, Friday, Referee in Bankrul>tcy Remington took up the \Tee claims or Nathan Loeser for serv- i ices as receiver for Mrs. Chadwick, I and also the bills for compensation I rendered by Messrs. Dawley, Kerrus'n | and Thompson, the attorneys who de- j fended her. Remington declared all j the claims too high and said: "I find a very few items in this ' list about which there is even a! 'question," said the referee. "Most of ! 'them are wholly unallowable." i ___ i SEEKING HOMESTEAD LANDS. Thousands Are Registering for Property in Uintah Reservation. Advices from Grand Junction, Colo., and Vernal, Price and Provo, Utah, indicate that the work of registration ; of applicants for homesteads in the1 Uintah reservation is proceeding in an j orderly manner. The registration j opened Wednesday morning, and will j continue for twelve days. j i MANY YEARS OF HATE j 1st ~~ I Marked Progress of the Carter-Rawl. I i-ngs Feud Before Fatal Chapter cf Tragedy Was Reached. la the morbid interest which has J centeied in the turning of the scales of | jus ice in the finai chapter of one of J the now most famous feuds the south has ever festered, the public has lost sight of the origin of the passion which spread i:s contagious hatred of a fellow human being, and all that was iiis, irom lather, J. G. Rawlings, to his <rS sous, .\iiiton, Jesse and Leonard. The leud between Rawlings and j Caiter dates back over live years. Loth were, at one time, ministers of the gospel. Carter was for three years a member of tne South Georgia Conference, while Rawlings was a staunch upholder of the Baptist church. Both lived in Coffee county at that time, and in the same settlement. Here, as ra many sections, it is considered a breach of good citizenship to decline to assist in a log rolling or a house moving. It was the failure of Carter to accept Rawlings' invitation to come over and assist at a house moving that caused the first breach between the two. At the time that Rawlings issued the invitition to Carter the latter was in almost destitute circumstances. He had just been burned out, and had made no crop, and on the day he was to go to Rawlings he had to go to a relative s twenty miles distant to get a side of meat. Several days later he met Rawlings in the road and was cursed and abused. This was the starting of the feud. For three years Carter's life was a hunlp.i to him. He was arrest ed on a dozen different charges, all preferred by Rawlings. He was charged with ca.tle stealing, with carrying concealed weapons, with false swearing at the polls, for uttering false land titles and other harassing charges. He was constantly a defendant in court with Rawlings as the prosecutor, until finally he moved out of the county into Lowndes. Rawlings also moved his abode, finally settling in the same district m which Carter lived. Carter complained many times that his cattle were killed by some unknown person, whom he had good reason to suspect was Rawlings. His crops were trampled down and he suffered other ills. Last summer Willie Carter, the young toy who was murdered on the night of June 13, was bathing in a creek dividing his father's land "from that of Rawlings. The three Rawlings boys caught him and nearly drowned him, accusing him of stealing some of their watermelons. In the trial of a case in a magistrate's court some months ago Carters throat was cut by a man named McDonald, and Carter alleges that this assanlt was instigated by Rawlings. Last April Carter went out to look for a cow which had been missing for several days. While searching for The lost animal he met tue elder Rawlings. Carter claims that, without speaking a word Rawlings unslung his rifle and commenced shooting, the first bullet striking him in the hand and the next one going through the bone in his right 1 VaI/ntw fVo lmno . ItJg JUSl UCIW" tut nuw. Carter fell forward and pretended that he was dead. Rawllngs walked up to within 30 paces and fired three more shots, the bullets going through Carter's hat. Believing Carter dead, Rawlings went to the pastor of his church, and told him that he had met Carter and that when Carter attempted to shoot him, he had killed him. Warrants were sworn out for Rawlings, and he was to have been tried at the last term of the superior court, but he secured a continuance through the leave, of absence given his attor- J ney.^The neighbors of both families then predicted that Rawlings would kill some member of the Carter family. He ma&e open threats, which reached the ears of Solicitor Thomas. The resultSwas that Rawlings was required to give a peace bond. He was forced to give a firm in Valdosta a mortgage on his place for $1,200 in order to get them to go on his bond. He is quoted as saying when he gave the bond: "There's no use in making this bond, for I am going to kill old Carter yet." The question of bond was not a mere matter of form, but was personally looked after by Solicitor Thomas, who informed Rawlings that he must give it or go to jail. Rawlings' life has been a particularly stormy one. As a result of a fight, in which he sought to cut an engineer's head off with an axe, he was shot in the jaw, and a large portion of the bone had to be taken out. AT ways carrying a rifle, he had one ol his eyes shot out while changing the position of his weapon, on the pommel of his saddle one day. DO NOT FEAR YELLOW JACK. Montgomery Citizens Take Fever Sit uation Philosophically. The announcement of a case of yellow fever in Montgomery, Ala., is taken in a very philosophical way by the people, and there is nothing like the exodus that was to be seen several years ago. While it is true that se'veral people haze left, those who have business in the city are staying by it. AID OF UNCLE SAM Asked by New Orleans People in Fighting Fever. ROOSEVELT IS AGREEABLE Appeal is Promptly Considered and Orders Given?Status of Scourge Situation to Six O'Clock Friday Night. . With tin intention of admitting the i fever situation to be beyond control, but, in the hope of reviving confi- j I dence in the city and the south, the official and business interests of New Orleans, Friday, decided to send a request to President Roosevelt to have the United States government assume charge of the struggle now progressing to wipe out yellow fever from New Orleans and Louisiana. Public sentiment approves the action taken. President Takes Action. A Washington special says: President Roosevelt Friday night forwarded to Surgeon General Wyman of the> public health and marine service a telegram from Governor Blanchard of Louisiana, requesting that the United States government take control of the yellow fever situation in New Orleans. The president directed the surgeon general to take every step in his power to meet the situation in New Orleans and to notify him what further action is advisable and possible for the federal authorities to take. The telegrams in full, is as follows: "Have, following telegram from Governor Blanchard of .Louisiana: 'At a joint meeting of representatives of all comercial bodies of the city of New Orleans and other prominent perof TT-n5/->Vi wpr<3 nresent. the mavor owuo, au n utvM n w? v v _ w of the city, the state health authorities and the president of the New Orleans Parish Medical associatisn, the following iesolution was adopted: " 'That this meeting endorse the proposition to ask the United States government to take control of the yellow fever situation in New Orleans, and that the governor of the state and the mayor of the city be requested to take immediate steps to carry this proposition into effect; further, that the hearty co-operation of the state and city health boards and the parish medical societies and of the merchants and people generally be pledged in such action as may be taken by the government. "T am requested by the mayor of the city, the presidents of the state and city boards of health and by a committee of prominent citizens to transmit the above resolution and request you to take over on behalf of the federal government, through the proper channels, the yellow fever situation at New Orleans. This I now do, and urge speedy action on your part. N. C. BLANCHARD, "Governor of Louisiana.' "Dioaoo pverv steo in your power to meet the situation at NewOrleans and comply with the request of the governor and the other authorities and notify me what further action is advisable and possible for the federal authorities to take. Would like full report from you as to what should he done. Please confer with the surgeon generals of the army and navy if, in your judgment, this is wise. "THEODORE ROOSEVELT." Dr. Wyman acknowledged the president's telegram and will make a report to him. JEWS CONFER WITH WITTE. Question of Better Treatment of Hebrews in Russia Discussed. Improving the opportunity offered by the presence in New York of Sergius WBtte, the Russian peace envoy, a delegation of the most prominent Jews In the country met Friday to bring before Mr. Witte the question of the better treatment of Jews. The delegation was headed by Adolph Kraus of Chicago, president of the committee of the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith. JAP BEATS AMERICAN. Prof. Ono Relied Solely on Jiu-Jitsu Against Brute Strength. In the presence of 2,000 people, Professor Ono, Japanese instructor of jiujitsu at the Annapolis naval academy, defeated "Big Tom" Frisbie of Madison county, N. C., in a mixed wrestling match at the auditorium in Asheville. - r _v _ . rin- _ J 1 He jap weigiie(] sv i puuuus auu is 5 feet 6 1-2 inches high, while Frisbie tipped the scales at 305 pounds and is 6 feet 5 1-2 inches high. The American used catch as catch can tactics, while the Japanese expert relied solely on jiu-jitsu. BIG BOOST IN REVENUE. Over a Million Gain Shown in Receipts from All Sources. The preliminary report of Commissioner Yerkes of the internal revenue bureau, shows that the receipts from all internal revenue sources during the year ending July 30, 1905, amounted to $234,187,975, an increase, as compared with the fiscal year of 1904 oi $1,284,195. IV!, WITTE \fi BOSTON. \ v^icf r.ucoian Peace Commissioner ' Takes in the "Hub" on His Way to Portsmouth Conference. 1 ' I ' There was givut disappointment in 1 Porismo-irh Monday over the delay in | :!ie arrival of uie Russian and Japan- J i c.-e po.ce envoy's.-The news of the . postponement of the functions had not reached many of the citizens of ; Fo:tsmouth, -and its environs, (jonse- , qnently, that section of New Hampshire wes astir early, and by 8 o'clock ! every elec'ric line from the country ' f was bringing many sightseers. When : the fact of.the postponement became | gene: ally known; there were many ex- I pressions of disappointment, but, upon | the circulation of rumors of the possi- I ble arrival of the ships, most of the | crowd decided to have a holiday any- j way. The operators in the wireless sta- | tion had a very busy day trying to j pick up the Dolphin, which has the j Japanese envoys on board. An answer j to the numerous calls was finally re- j ceived, stating that at dark the Dol- | phin was off Cape Cod, 75 miles away. ! She was steaming slowly, and those on board thought the cruiser would i reach the harbor about 9 o'clock Tuesday morning. Mr. Witte arrived in Portsmouth ! from Boston at 11:15 o'clock p. m., ; / nmiria in a snofial car attached to i v - the regular Bar Harbor Express. He ' was enabled to avoid a crowd of sev- j eral hundred people assembled at the j railroad station, through the train I s'opping at ai crossing about a quar- I ter of a mile from the depot. Mr. J Witte was taken to the Wentworth in J an automobile. , On his arrival at Boston, Mr. Witte took an automobile' ride about the city and visited Harvard university | and Magnolia, the summer home of I the Russian embassy. Mr. Witte left i for Portsmouth at 9:45 a.' m. Before j the train left about a hundred former ; residents of Russia, many of them i Hebrews, assembled near Mr. Witte's j car and cheered him. The envoy appeared on the platform and spoke in Russian in a conversational way for several minutes. He asked his hearers bow they-liked America and whether they preferred this country to Russia. Several of the audience replied, in effect, that they liked America better, as there were more opportunities for advancement. At the conclusion of Mr. Witte's informal remarks, the crowd cheered him, which he acknowledged by removing his hat. As the train pulled out one of the Hebrews shouted: "Give freedom to the Jews." SANFORD JURY TfED UP. Judge is Asked to Charge on "Unwrit- j ten Law," But Refuses. Monday night, the jury in the Sanford case at Rome, Ga., was still tied 1 up, having been in deliberation, at that time, for seventy-two hours, without reaching an agreement. Judge Wright retired at 10 o'clock, and stat ed that he would not receive any mes- ; sage that might come from the jurors i until Tuesday morning. Monday morning, Foreman Milam, ! after the jury had filed into the court | room, stated to the judge that there j was a desire to have him charge on ; the point of the "unwritten law of man," which permitted a man to de- I fend his home, and on the law of man- ; slaughter. The court replied that he could not , recjharee on ag# "unwritten law," but 1 would repeat that portion of his ' charge delivered Friday morning, which was the law relative to man- ' slaughter. After discussing closely , this phase of the law the court ex- j pressed the hope that a verdict would 1 be reached. Monday night members of the jury, ; locked up in their room in the court j house, were heard singing an old-! fashioned Methodist hymn, and the j notes and words of the song floated I out clear and strong on the night air, hushing to silence the groups conversing about the corridors and at-; tract.ing attention from passersby on the streets. I MANY REFUGEES IN ATLANTA. ! - - People from Fever Stricken Sections: Flock to Georgia Capital. Refugees from New Orleans, Mobile and all coast and Interior cities I in the yellow fever stricken section are flying to Atlanta, and it is esu mated that the hotels, lodging houses and boarding houses of the city, to I say nothing of private homes, could show a total influx of not far from | 2,000 people. These refugees are loud 1 in their praises of the spirit of the : city which at once opened its arms to them. ' GEORGIA BOOZE TAX RAISED, j - * { Hcuse Votes to Change Amount from j $200 to Sum. of $1,000. Advocates of state prohibition for Georgia won a signal victory in the ! house of representatives Monday morning, when, after a lengthy de- j hate, the general tax act was so.: amended as .to fix the state tax upon-; saloons and dispensaries at $1,000 flat.-1' The vote was 09 to 67. j i NEAR SHREVEPORT Three Fever Cases are Re- j ported by Authorities. ALL PATIENTS REFUGEES j Governor of Mississippi is Suspicious Mamnhle -I ri .-4 Wir?e Iflfnr. mation as to Exact Conditions in the Tennessee City. i Based upon a report that yellow fe- f ver was in Memphis, and as a matter of expediency and to safeguard the interests of the state of Mississippi ! against the possible outbreak of yel- ; low fever in the Tennessee city, Gov- j ernor James K. Vardaman, Monday called up Dr. J. A. Crisler over the ' telephone to ascertain if possible the ( exact conditions existing ia. Memphis. ; Dr. Crisler assured Governor Var- j daman that he would investigate the j matter, and later, after a full inv??- j tigation, the following telegram, | signed by Dr. Heber Jones, president j of the board of health, and twentyeight leading physicians of Memphis, I was sent to the governor: "Dear Sir: We, the undersigned physicians, practicing in the city of Memphis, and having been informed by Drs. Holder and Crisler that you had communicated with them today over the long distance telephone to i the effect that a physician had in- I formed you that yellow fever was j already in Memphis, and the knowl- ! edge of its presence was being with- j held by the board of health and phy- j sicians generally, beg to emphatically j state to your excellency that no such j conditions obtain here to the best ! of our knowledge and belief/ and, 1 moreover, solemnly pledge ourselves j 'to report the first suspicious case that j comes within our practice or knowl- j edge.'* A similar telegram of assurance was sent by the business exchanges. The following message in reply was received from Governor Vardaman: "Jackson, Miss., August 7.?J. T. Willingham, President Business Men's League, and Others, Memphis: I have your message of today and accept your assurances that there is no yellow fever in Memphis implicitly. Should your city be so unfortunate as to be visited by this dread disease, we shall rely upon you to notify us at once. God grant that you may escape the pestilence. "JAMES K. VARDAMAN." A unique feature of the situation was presented when George R. James, a well known Memphis citizen, applied for an injunction restraining the board of health from interfering with the return to the city of his wife and daughters who are visiting in the state of Illinois. Chancellor Heiskell granted a temporary injunction, but explained that he reserved the right to deny the petitioner's prayer should members of the board of health come before him and present their side of the case, ^'hree Cases in Shreveport At Shreveport, La., Monday night, Dr. Goldsberger of the United States \ marine hospital service, gave out the following statement on conditions as he finds them at the detention camp y.itside of the city: "(1) Barney Tracey, convalescing from yeljow fever; (2) Ed Haslitt, post mortem examination shows yellow fever. The case was not seen by me in life; (3) Ed Jones, malarial fever; (4) Albert Miller. This case was seen by me at a stage where diagnosis was impossible, m the opinion of the local authorities this was a case of yellow fever. All the cases we/e of men who tried to enter the ; city from other points, but were stopped on the outskirts by the quarantine inspectors and conveyed under proper precautions to a detention camp and there carefully screened. There ap- i pears to be no danger of spread and : no esses are known to be present in | the city." MEMPHIS TIGHTLY CLOSED. j Tennessee City Takes Drastic Precau- I i tions Against Yellow Jack. A rigid quarantine was decided on j by the Memphis city council and put j in operation at neon Monday. Armed guards were placed about j the city and inspectors board every train. No one can enter the city with- ! out a permit from the Memphis board } of health. In a conference with railroad repre- ! sentatives the board of health agreed J that passengers holding coupon tickets through Memphis would be allowed to transfer from one train to another. \ j death overtakes a refugee. Aged Woman, Fleeing from New Or- ! lean, Dies in Chicago. Mrs. H. Miles, SO years of age, j who left her home in Rosedale, Miss., j to escape danger of yellow fever, died in Chicago Monday of exhaustion, due to the. journey. Mrs. Miles was one of j s party who hastened to the norrh at j the first outbreak of the fever in New j Orleans. Mi . % 1 CHILD LABOR BILL PASSED! i In Georgia House of Representatl* fcs by an Overwhelming Vote. 'Measure Up to the Senate. Is By the unexpectedly large vote ot 103 to 62, the Georgia house of representatives Thursday passed the child , labor bill by Mr. Bell of Fulton and-' after the announcement of the result the measure was, on motion of the' . V j author, ordered immediately transmitted to the senate. The galleries, crowded to the doors with ladies and others who had manifested a deep interest in the debate^ gave vent to tneir .approval w. mo house's action in loud and prolonged applause. Frequently during the debate similar outbursts of applause ? greeted eloquent expressions in, behalf of the bill, and once or twice Speaker Slaton threatened to clear the galleries unless order was mainr talned. But the ladies were bound to have their way, though they had the assistance of others in giving vent to these expressions of approval of the earnest sentiments spoken in behalf of the measure. Practically all the amendments of- JS fered were defeated with the excep- | tion of one offered by the committee permitting children under 12 years to J be employed only when their fathers >?j are "totally" dependent upon them, the word totally being Inserted. Fol- . lowing Is the text of the bill as passed J by*the house: "Section 1. Be It enacted by the 3j general assembly of the state of Georgla, and It is hereby enacted by au- H thority of the same, That no child under the age of 12 years shall be employed at labor In Or about any J| factory or manufacturing establish- 3 ment within this state, unless a widnw^d mother or aged or disabled fa ther is totally dependent upon the I* bor of such child, or in case a child Is :|| an orphan and has no other means of :|| support. . "No- child under the age of 10 years SI shall be so employed under any cir- v|j cumstances. "Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by ths ^ authority aforesaid, That it shall bs S? unlawful for any owner, superintend- ^ ent or other person acting in behalf ': | of a factory or manufacturing estab* :-| lishment to hire or to employ any. ^ such child unless there is first provid- ^ ed and placed on file in the office of :M such an employer, an affidavit signed j| by the parent or guardian or person standing in parental relation thereto^ J certifying to the age and date of birth of said child. Any person knowingly furnishing a false certificate of the age of such child shall be deemed ;|jg guilty of a misdemeanor. "Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the. ^| authority aforesaid, That no child u?? :'S|| der 14 years of age shall be employed J| or labor in any factory or manufacturing establishment within this state^S between the hours of 7 p. m. and 6.*|| a. m. "Sec. 4. Be it further enacted by thi*?| authority aforesaid, That from and a % ter the 1st of September, 1907, nocv! child under 14 years of age shall be employed at labor In any factory or manufacturing establishment in thit state unless he or she can write hit' or her name and simple sentences ltt:^ tne jungnsa jauguago, "Sec. 5. Be it further enacted by th?s|j authority aforesaid, That any persoV'^S corporation or representative of such <J| corporation who violates any of the jig provisions of this act shall be deemed Jl guilty of a misdemeanor. "Sec. 6. Be it further enacted by the-jS authority aforesaid, That all acts and 7^ parts of acts in conflict with this act* v|j are hereby repaled." ; t , it ACCUSED OF STEALING LUMBER.^ Officials of a Paducah Concern En. f gage in a Fatal Duel. At Paducah, Ky., Thursday, H. H. J; living, president of the KentutHjsJa Mill and Lumber company, shot and'^Sj killed H. A. Rose, who, until Wednes- 7| day night, had been president of the JS concern. It is said that ?ose had been J selling lumber by the car load in Ch'cago and keeping the money, and thll..^ resulted in the tragedy. EXPLOSION MANGLES FOUR MEW |? Boiler of Threshing Machine Engine "7 Did Deadly Work. Four men were killed outright and -V seven others so seriously wounded that at least a portion of them will die, by the explosion of a threshing \jj|| machine engine on the plantation erf J Bush Eanes near Axton, Henry ^ county, Virginia. The accident occurred far in tlie ^ eountrv. awnv from telegraDhic and 1 telephonic communication. : |j FLAMES ANNIHILATE DOCKS. ' -Ji i?8 Water Front in Hoboken, N. J., the j Scene of Great Conflagration. Inside of three-quarters of an hour, * Monday, fire swept away the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Ral!--^ road company's terminal in Hoboken, - J X. J., seized two ferry boats and practically ruined them, and for half an hour threatened the rest of the water ^ front in the vicinity. The loss to prop. erty is estimated at between $400,000- W anj $500,000. So far as known no lives were lest. ^||