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t f ASSEMBLY CLOSES i Legislature of Georgia Ends After Strenuous Session. ?* IMPORTANT WORK DONE V * * - *?? ?1 __ r*^I MI me Wina up Bins u;s?;jeinuiiiy v?v/iored Trcops and Making Drunkenness a Crime Were Rushed Through. The general assembly of Georgia was adjourned ai Atlanta sine die at exactly 9:40 o'clock Friday night. During the evening session, the last discord in the house on the general tax act gave way to harmony by the recession of the house from its -position on liquor taxes as regards social clubs and dining cars. Several (other bills were passed, but most of the evening was given over to felicities of one sort or another, including - the presentation of a handsome goldheaded cane to Mt. Hall of Bibb by the new county committee. After the fiual adjournment, the members began bidding each other i farewell, while a large group gathered in the center aisle and sang "God Be With You Till We Meet Again" and \ "The Old-Time Religion." The house on the last day of the session waded into senate bills in a businesslike maiftier and many measures of importance which originated in the upper house were enacted into laws. Between senate bills now and then, there was a report of a conference committee on some subject or other, the liquor tax, the reformatory bill or appropriations, but the house stuck to its work and senate bills were disposed of in prompt order. Only a few senate measures, to which there was some objection, or which were too long and complex for proper consid\ eration in the closing hours, were put on the tablo. The house passed bills to make drunkenness and disorder on public highways a misdemeanor; to increase the salary of the attorney general; to provide more superior court judges; to make it a felony to shoot or throw rocks into a passenger train; to require sheriffs to keep bloodhounds; to make city and county bonds acceptable as deposits by insurance companies; to revise the military laws of the state, and various other measures of wide general importance. It is also reached an agreement with the senate on the general appropriations bill, the state reformatory bill and the general tax act, the latter delaying the adjournment until the night session. After some discussion in the senate f ' Friday afternoon the bill by Representative Wright of Richmond, making it a misdemeanor to buy or attempt to buy a vote at a 'primary election, was passed by a vote of 26 to 1. A large number of important general hills were passed by the sena;i? at the morning session. Among these \ vas the $75,000 appropriation for a water works system at the state sanitarium at Milledgeville, the measure disbanding the negro troops of the state, the bill granting the right of eminent domain to telephone companies, the bill providing for local coun- | ty taxation for school purposes and a - bill providing for a special appropriation of $25,f00 for erecting a building at the Georgia Normal and Industrial college. DRAG RIVER FOR CORPSES. Thirteen Bodies of /Excursionists Re. ; covered and Five Missing. A Norfolk, Va., dispatch says: The removal of the two Atlantic Coast j Line cars which plunged into tihe Elizabeth fiver Thursday afternoon j revealed the fact that there were but two bodies in the cars, making the number of beodies recovered thirteen, and with live reported missing. A careful examination of the bottom of the river revealed no more bodies, j and the Coast Line officials are con- I vinced that the death list is now com- 1 plete. I STRIKE 18 RECOMMENCED. Union Pri-nters Prepared to Wage War ! for Ei-ght-Hour Day. The convention of the International Typographical Union of North America in session at Toronto decided i Thursday to meet in Colorado Springs i next year. ! The eight-hour committee presented I ? its report, which indorses the eight- i hour campaign now being waged, and i recommends a strike on January 1, | 1905, against employers who do not accept the new hours laid down bv the union. v OWES FORTUNE; OWNS NOTHING Enormous Liabilities and Pigmy Assets Scheduled by Clerk to Promoter. Liabilities of $292,677 and assets of $50 were scheduled in a petition in ? " * ^ L? C/vAwar^ bankruptcy filed at tjostou uy B. Appletoa of Cambridge. Appleton was a clerk in the office of Arthur E. Applevard; the street railway promoter, who is now contesting extradition to the state of New York, where he is wanted for grand larceny. /* ' -' [ ENVOYS ARE STALLED. Slumbling Blocks Are Reached and the Peace Negotiations Slow Up In Consequence. T'no , rvcic ir> t!ifl n rVir.fi nl!l?Pr&r>C3 at Portsmouth was reached Thursday, [ and pessimism is again the note, j But the darkest Hour is just before the dawn, and there is still hope. Predictions cf a linal rupture certainly will not be justified unless Baron Ktmuri figuratively picks up his liai and announces that it is useless f j proceed further. j.Ir. Witte, at least, ! will not be precipitate. J The pessimism Thursday night was j based upon the fart that no progress ' was made during the day. The exchange of views ?at the morn| ing session upon Article IX (remunj eration for the "cost of the war") shewed at once that the plenipoteatiaries were as far apart as the poles, and it was passed over. Article X (the surrender of the interned Russian warships) was also passed, j Article XI (limitation of sea power) j is also adjustable after modification, j and Article XII will present no dlfflj culties. So that Thursday night the ! situation was practically what it was when Mt. Witte last Saturday -presented the Russian reply with its non j possimus to Articles IV and V (in! demnity and Sakhalin). The only chance is now compromise , ?Russia to yield Sakhalin and Japaif i indemnity. Neither will yield both, { and, perhaps, Japan, at the final show hands, will yield neither. Mr. Witte, under the imperial indications contained in the instructions given him before he left St. Petersburg, can agree neither to pay war tribute nor i cede a foot of Russian soil. St. Pe| :ersburg, therefore, on the last resort, i remains to be heard from. Baron Ko; mura probably will welcome an ad! journment of two days in order that | he also may lay the situation before ! his government for its final decision. No very great hope was vouchsafed ! in the Japanese camp. "We are not bluffers," said Mr. ! Sato, and from an authoritative source J the Associated Press correspondent | received a distinctly bad impression I regarding the outlook. It was coupled, however, with an expression of the | hope that if it developed that the conference was going to pieces, President : Roosevelt might again step in. DEATH CLAIMS CAPTAIN HALL. | President of Georgia School of Technology Succumbs to Breakdown. I Captain Lyman Hall, president of | the Georgia School of Technology, and ; one of the most prominent educators : in the country, died Wednesday evenj ing at 11:20 o'clock in the Jackson ; health resort at Danville, N. Y. I Captain Hall had been at the point : -' ' ~ fVian ? n'Oal- an/1 h Ic i UI UtriLU IWI luwjc uuuu a ?vv,u death was not unexpected. His health had been broken, by overwork, and he had sought a change of climate in the hope of regaining his strength. Captain Hall's death has caused un:j versal sorrow throughout the south, : and particularly in Georgia, where he j was so well known and greatly be, loved. He stood foremost among the j educators of the country and his work i at the Georgia School of Technology had attracted wide attention. It was his devotion to this work that resulted in his untimely death. Ambitious ! for the institution of which he was the | executive head he worked early and j late for its success. The rapid strides I it made during the past five years are attributed to his zeal and untiring energy and the great institution stands as a silent testimony to his memory. Numerous as Captain Hall's duties were, as president of the Tech, and hard as he labored at the presidents desk and in the class room, he found time to contribute to the schools and colleges of the country some excellent text books. It is doubtful if the country has lost a mere able educator within the past decade than Lyman Hail. His fame as both educator and scholar had spread throughout the United States; and he was known as well, and respected as much among the great college professors of the north as among those of the south. His opinion on educational questions was often sought for by leading northern educators. His address before many of the eastern colleges, especially those of Yale and Princeton, have been counted among the best essays on educational questions of the period. Besides his mother, wife and children, Captain Hall !s survived by two brothers, Stovall Hall of Atlanta, and R. B. Hall of Raleigh, N. C. Governor's Widow Now Postmistress. A dispatch from Oyster Bay says: Following Postmaster General Cortelyou's call on the president Thursday, it was announced that Mrs.' W. Y. Atkinson, widow of former Governor Atkinson of Georgia, has been appointed postmistress at Newnan, Ga. SEVEN BABES IN SIX DAYS. j Such is Remarkable Record Credited to a Woman in Hawaii. i * A dispatch to Honolulu by wireless j telegraph from Hilo says that Kana, I the Hawaiian wife of Kailua, a Chi| nese, gave birth to one child on last . Thursday, two on Sunday, one on Monday, two on Tuesday morning and one on Tuesday night. All ere dead ? FOR ARBITRATION Roosevelt Steps Into Breach to Prevent Peace Rupture. HIS TASK DELICATE ONE Portsmouth Negotiations Are Virtually Transferred to St. Petersburg and Tokio?Secret Conference at Oyster Bay. A special from Portsmouth says : | Suddenly the eyes of the nations have . been txraed by a mysterious midnight I dispatch from Portsmouth to Oyster I Bay from the -peace plenipotentiaries to the president of the United States. With the early departure Saturday moming of Baron Rosen for Oyster Bay, President Roosevelt once more became the central figure on the world's stage. The long message received after midnight by Mr. Pierce, ' the assistant secretary of state, was from the president It was an invito- , tion for Baron *osen to come there immediately for a conference. The : invitation was to Russia's ambassador ' at Washington, because as Russia's I accredited representative to this coun try, it is entirely proper for the pres- ; ident at any time to summon him to a conference. ! President Roosevelt is exerting ev- ' ery particle of his great influence to ' prevent a rupture of the peace confer- j ence at Portsmouth. In this effort he has the active and ; cordial support of Great Britain, 1 France, and Germany. Tremendous and world-wide pressure is being brought to bear on the governments at St. Petersburg and Tokio not to j permit the Washington conference to { fail of affirmative result. After his ! conference with the president, Baron Rosen left immediately for his summer home at Magnolia, Mass., where he and Mr. WStte, the plenipotentiary, spent Sunday. Neither .President Rooeevelt nor Baron Rosen would discuss, even in the most general'terms, the details or result of their conference. The Associated Press is able to announce that the feature of the proposition of President Roosevelt communicated through Baron Rosen to Mr. | Witte and transferred by the latter to Emperor Nicholas was based upon the principle of arbitration. Whether the proposal contemplates arbitration of all the articles upon | which the plenipotentiaries have failed | to agree, or only upon the question of ! indemnity, cannot be stated with post ttiveness, but it is more than probable that it relates only to indemnity Jn^amnitu QTlH thp C.eSSiOn Of j W LV> lUuguiwv; v? i the island of Sakhalin. I Neither is it possible to say whether I the president has yet made a similar j proposition to Japan. J To Emperor Nicholas, the author of The Hague peace conference, the suggestion of arbitration which will necessarily immediately command the sympathy of .public opinion of the world ,will be particularly hard to re; jeot. If he agrees, Japan, if she has j not already done so, will be all the j j more bound to submit her claim to the | decision of an impartial arbitrator. Acceptance by both sides would In| voire a great extension of the prini ciple of arbitration as nations have ! heretofore declined to arbitrate ques; tions involving their "honor and dig* I nlty.- I i According to current gossip, Baron ' Kaneko told the president that Japan | would yield upon Article X and Arti- j I cle XI. That Japan would yield on I these two points, if Russia would ac' cept V and VIII (Indemnity and Sakj halin), is^ considered certain, j A St. Petersburg special, under Monday's date, says: Russia's official atj titude regarding the final reply to be j j made to Japan is unchanbed. The | j impression prevails as heretofore that ! j only a very great concession on the j ; part of Japan on the question of in- ; j demnity and the cession of Sakhal'n j j will make peace possible. ' j double murder suspected. I Remains of Man and Woman Found In Ashes of Burned House. The charred remains of a man and a woman were fou^d Sunday morning | at the scene of a fire, which occurred j Saturday night in DeKalb county, Q*a., ! some three miles from Atlanta. The , bodies were later identified as those | of an old white man named Griffin, : and a white woman, known as Rosa I Thompson. j An investigation was held and evi- ! dence secured which caused the offi- j cers to suspect that a double murder ! had been committed. ! CAPITAL JAIL QUARANTINED, j Washington Prison Put Under Ban, ' Owing to Outbreak of Smallpox, j ? ; _ " ?~ i-V>a farlora 1 13 ?1 I THe l&t) yii&uucis iu j?.. , | in Washington, D. C., have been quar- j antined for sixteen days because of a j case of smallpox, the origin of which J cannot be traced. The patient has been : ; immured without contract from the I outside for a month preceding his ill- j i ness. WASHINGTON EXPLAINS Colored Educator Denies Feature of Wanamaker Episode?Practices Social Equality Only in the North. ! A New York dispatch says: Booker T. Washington, the Tuskegee negro educator, jias made a statement in reference to dining with the family of John Wanamaker, formerly postmaster general, at a Saratoga hotel. Washington admits that he dined with Wana maker's family, buto denies that he escorted, Mrs Barclay Warbuton, Wfinamaker's daughter, to the dining room. Washington statement follows: "I have just seen for the first. time the misleading and false reports in southern newspapers referring to my escorting female members of Mr. Wanamaker's family, but denies that he of a Saratoga hotel. I have not referred to these reports because they have just come to my notice. "I did not escort any female member of Mr. Wianamaker's family to or out of the dining room. I did dine with M^r. Wanamaker and members of bis family at a hotel at his request, for the purpose of talking on a matter of business, but at the time was a guest myself at a colored hotel in Saratoga. "During the last fifteen years I have been at the hotel, where Mr. Wanamaker was, on three different occasions when I was to speak at public meetings, as I was this time, and no comment was made of it. "Wlhen in the south, I conform, like all colored -people, to the customs of the south, but when in the north I have found it necessary during the last twenty years- as stated fully in my book, 'Up From Slavery,' to come in contact with white people in the furtherance of my work in ways I do not in the south. "BOOKER T. WASHINGTON/' On Friday and Saturday The Mobile (Ala.) Herald asked by wire for the opinions of The New York Sun, "^Hmes, World, Herald and Journal, cb&cerning the Eooker Washington incident at Saratoga. No reply was sent to Either of the messages, whereupon The Herald then sent the following to each of the five papers: "Friday 'and Saturday we wired for your.opinion on the Booker Washington affair. Let your silence give the impression that you axe subsidized by Wanamaker's advertising we are especially anxious to hear from you, and we stand ready to pay cost. "HERALD." The following was also sent personally to William R. Hearst: "As one who has appealed for southern votes for president, the silence of your papers on the Booker Washington affair is significant and creates comment, especially in view of the fact that you have frequently proclaimed the. pride of Virginia blood. Answer our telegrams of Friday and Saturday." QUITS BOARD OF TRUSTEES. Former Mayor of Birmingham Washes His Hands of Booker's Institute. Former Mayor W. M. Drennen of Birmingham, Ala, has tendered his resignation as a member of the board of trustees of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, because of the recent Saratoga affair. Drennen addressed the following letter to Booker T. Washington: "I regret exceedingly that I cannot consistently serve longer as one of: the trustees of Tuskegee normal and industrial school, and I now tender my resignation. Yours truly, "WALTER MELVILLE DRENNEN." MOTHER CONFESSES TO MURDER. On Death Bed Woman Admits Poisoning Little Daughter. Mrs. John T. Lynch of Blcomington, Ind., whom the attending physician has pronunced to be in a dying condition rnnfessed to her sister and two neighbors Saturday that in 18S5 she killed her three-year-old daughter by giving the child morphine. She said at the same time she told the doctor the baby had eaten green acorns and there never was any suspicion of a crime. She said remorse had been gnawing at her heart ever since. JUDGE'S PLEA SAVED NEGRO. Mob Agreed to Wait for Twenty-Four, Hours for Full Proof. Andrew Dimvidder, a negro, was arrested at Paris, Texas, Thursday, for attempting to assault Miss Daisy Collins, aged 17. A mob took him from the sheriff and was about to lynch him when County Judge Love pleaded with them to await full proof. The mob agreed to wait twentyfour hours, and returned the negro to the sheriff. CONGER MAY TRY HAND. Proposition to Send Him to China to Fight the Boycott. Edward H. Conger of Iowa, formerly United States minister to China, and since last April the American amtn "VTAvim will return in the | LMOaauwi WW .. near future to China if present plana are carried into effect. His mission to China will be to allay, if possible, the agitation aroused in parts of the Chinese empire against the use by Chinese of American products. TURN TO ARSENIC TREATMENT.] I I Affrighted Citizens of New Orleans Are Crazy t0 Take New Remedy. A New Orleans dispatch. says: i Spurned by the health authorities, Dr. j Reginald B. Leach, the St Paul phy- j sician, who has come protesting that arsenic is an invariable preventive of , yellow fever, has become the lion of _ the city. His office is besieged daily j i by thousands anxious to place mem-, selves under his treatment. The turning of the public to Leach has shown the widespread terror that' prevails. Manifestly citizens in all the ' walks of life are moved by the same spirit of affright against the lurking fever, and, like a drowning man, ard willing to catch at whatever may hap-! pen along. Belief is growing in the doc-! tor's preventive, and Leach holds t? his statement that more than one hun-' dred thousand persons throughout the city are now taking his treatment. ; Beyond the statement that the daily ! figures present solid evidence tthat the modern scientific campaign in | progress is controlling the fever, the ' authorities in charge of the work, had little comment to make Saturday. ! They find justification for their opti- J mism in the fact that the number of ! deaths remains low, far below what I they had reason' to expect. Following is the official record for Saturday up to 6 p. m.: New cases, 58; total cases, 1,340; deaths, Saturday, 4; total deaths to date, 192; cases under treatment, 401. Sunday's report was as follows: New cases, 45; total cases to date, 1,385; deaths Sunday, 4; total deaths, 196; remaining under treatment, 381. SANFORD IS DENIED BOND. Wright's Slayer Must Stay in Jail Until January Term of Court. At Rome, Ga., late Saturday afternoon Judge Wright announced that he would not admit Vincent T. Sanford to bail and the prisoner was remanded to jail to await the January term of court. Sanford was tried recently for killing George Wright'for alleged undue intimacy with Mrs. Sanford. The jury was unable to agree on a verdict, although it considered the case for about six days. It was reported that the jury stood eight for conviction and four for acquittal. Soon after the mistrial Sanford's attorneys gave notice of a motion for bail and Saturday, the 19th, was fixed for the hearing. The attorneys for the defense filed a motion for a bond, before Judge Wright, at 11 o'clock, Saturday mornJ lnnnr and PYhanstive mg, tiuu ?met mug arguments on both sides, the motion was overruled and the defendant remanded to jail to await trial. i PLACES GIVEN COLORED WOMEN I White Employes of Savannah Cotton | Mills Discharged. The mule spinners of the Savannah, Ga., cotton mills have walked out because they claim the carding in tho mills is an inferior quality of work. Several weeks ago the one hundred white women and girls employed in the carding department were discharg. ed and their places were filled by colored women. It is to the work done by the new hands that the mule spinners object. They complained, but without result, .so they determined to stop work. The superintendent of the mills says he does not know why the white, labor was supplanted. He says it was done by N. H. Tifton of Vermont, the owner of the mill. | ITALIAN CRUISER ARRIVES. Consul at Charleston Visits the Vessel and Entertains Officers. The Italian cruiser Dogali, bound for South America on a special mission, arrived at Charleston Sunday morning to remain until Thursday. Italian Consul Sottile paid a formal call on Captain Capomazza and after return of the call took the officers for carriage' drives through the city and then to the Isle of Palms. The *- " -* ?""no onrj hor <v>m- I iJOgrau nab ivteui,; &<.mo u.uu ~ ~. plement is 250 men. She left Italy in May, 1904. CAR LOAD OF HYMN BOOKS Adopted by Northern and Southern Methodists Shipped to Chicago. The largest single shipment of a religious -publication ever known, according to the book publishers, was made when the Methodist Book Concerns at Cincinnati sent a freight car containing 21,184 copies, the first consignment of the new Methodist hymnal to the branch house in Chicago. The new hymnal is the only one on which the two Methodist churches, north and south, have united since 1846. The book contains 717 hymns and 600 pages. REFUSED TO OBEY POSSE. ? * - - eaiiiips fo Halt TWO Men oiiui ivr i v When Ordered to Do So. Two men have been shot as the result of the assaulting of Mrs. Chas. Outze at Thomasville, Ga., by Manuel Harder, one of them, James Robinson, seriously. Both men were shot by posses because they refused to obey the order to halt and ran, evidently trying to escape and thereby casting suspicion on themselves. Harder himself is still at large. v ' . : >\;v" * TRANSPORTATION A COMMODITY, NOT A TAX. Ia an extract from an address by Mr. Ralph Peters, published in this issue under the title of "The Railroads and the People," the fundamental point is well made that "transportation is a commodity, not a tax." Wihen * you consider the generic difference between the business methods by which prices for tne commoumes ui commerce are fixed from day to day, * almost hourly, and the political methods by which taxes are assessed and collected, you will realize the fact that rate-fixing by law will destroy absolutely every advantage that is born of free opportunity in a competitive market. Railroad traffic managers will be shorn of all power to co-operate with i producers in meeting /Contingencies that are always occurring in relation to some product or locality, which require prompt action if a benefit is te be secured. *^5 In our opinion, shippers who are urging the enactment of a measure conferring rate-making power upo* the Interstate Commerce Commission, ,{* or any other governmental agency, view the subject from an unsound -Wif economic standpoint, and for that reason are asking for a remedy for the abuses of rebates and discriminations which will cause greater evils than the abuses of which they complain. The important fact is, transportation ' rates have been reduced to a lower point in the United States than in any other country as a result of a -JjiN free hand in fixing rates that has com- 2-4 pelled every traffic manager to be , V'y.'J] keen to prevent his road from losing ^ traffic because of lower charges by some other road. Destroy this condi- ?? tion, interpose the barrier of a gov- ' 'jjl ernmental agency between the pro- . ducer and buyer of railroad transpor- .'ill tation, so that they can no longer meet in a free market, and make # the prompt adjustments required by ever-changing commercial conditions, vand you will place a handicap on the shippers of this country that will para- : T.^| lyze them in their efforts to handle j a very large number of transactions. Careful reasoning from, a correct viewpoint will convince shippers that this is true. It is easy to make tfce mistake of transferring the rate-making :Js 1 power to a governmental agency, but < | it will be exceedingly difficult to correct the mistake after experience haa compelled the people to realize Its . disadvantages. This rate-making problem is similar in many respects to the proposition for the free and unlimited V coinage of silver and gold at the ratio , of 16 to 1. It would have been easy to have ena-cted such a law. unce eu? acted, it would have promptly put the ?||| commercial and financial operations of the people of this country upon a j/|| silver basis. The jresulUng disaster would have been terrific, and It would have taken a hundred years to secure the repeal of the unwise legislation,' ' the substitution therefor of correct laws and a recovery from the damage *Jg done. Eelieving this, as we do, we feel "fH the need of stating this case clearly and frequently. We feel it to be a duty to do our share in the work of aiding : | to prevent the making of the fundaI mental mistake that will be I made if rate-making is transferred ! from the sphere of business operations r;.vj-w I to the domain of political intrigue and . ^jjj ' u1!-J ?P-ihifo Poliev. Chicago. I Oliuu av;uuu?* ? * - ? ' i** VAGRANCY- LAW CHANGED. , ^ ^ Georgia Solons Strengthen Measure Now on Statute Books. The Georgia house passed at the ' Thursday night's session a substitute by Mr. Calvin of Richmond for the bill by Senators Miller and Adams, making important changes in what is' known as the Calvin vagrancy law'of The substitute strikes out the feature of the present law which pro- _ vides that any person convicted of'vagrancy may procure his release by ' :1$M } giving bond for good behavior and in- -~J1 dustry for a period of one year, and ! provides for the punishment of va- ' rffgl i grancy as in (the case of any other r misdemeanor. WAS ERROR IN: THE REPORT. Cotton Crop of 1904 Shows an Excess of 95,497 Bales. - vfrjja The census bureau Monday issued vi :vi,< a supplemental report on the quanti- jM ty of cotton ginned from the crop of 4 J|l 1904, showing a total growth for that :||j year as fixed by the ginners to be 13,693,279 bales. $|Hj A canvass made between July 2 1| and August 5, for the purpose of verifying these reports showed that 95,- - inn u?t?? ivMinri as half +?> / ujuuuug IVK?V> ? bales were ginned in excess of esti- ^ M mate published in April. . MISTOOK WIFE FOR BURGLAR. > | Mother Went After Water for 8iott Child and Wae Shot Dead. Harvey Mize, a citizen of Bennett . J Tenn., shot and instantly killed ml ' wife at an early hour Friday moral ing, mistaking her for a burglar. Mri. \'.J| Mize had gone to the rear of the houM. || to secure a drink of water for her lltuV --4 girl, who was ill. While letting dom^ a window the noise awoke her hija? band, who was sleeping on a couch?i3t ^ the room. Seeing the shadow at a person before him, he seized a 45-cajJ iber Colt's pistol and fired. His wifp fell to the floor and died without bS. ing able to speak a word. .