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BEST IMMIGRANTS
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Being Secured for Georgia
by Special Agent.
K MANY SCOTS AND SWEDES
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May Soon Reach the State Through
; -? Gcod Work of Association?Will
Be Godsend to Many Sections
Now Needing Them.
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The Georgia immigration Associa
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#uin Through thft chairman of its exe
cutive committee, Mr. John A. Betjeman,
of Albany, announces that he is
fi conferring with jtfce ^presentatives of
the principal steamship lines relative
^ to bringing in immediately a few bun~
dred Scots and Swedes to relieve the
very urgent call for help in some
quarters.
The result of this conference will
l>e given to Commissioner T. G. ud:
son with a request that the state do
what is needful at this juncture, it
* is hoped to have immigrants in transit
hor the port of Savannah within
the next three weeks. The greatest
care has been taken in giving information
about Georgia to only such
? ' ? -1 will mal.T (I
pci^jie iU CUIV^IC MO
, .siraMe citizens. There is ready in
Savannah at any time a cargo of
. freight for the returning vessel. Savannah,
it will be recalled, supplied
two-thirds of the cargo for the return'
trip of the "Wittekinu." With
?>'.'/ the heavy freights accessible to Sa:?y.
vannah, there is no port or. the AtJantic
coast which can provide a return
cargo as easily as she can. This,
^ in a large measure, reduces the coirg"
mercial side of a line of immigrant
~ steamers to Georgia in securing the
|| immigrants from Europe.
ilr. Betjeman. in discussing recent
;,v' statements by prominent "Georgians
&; and by the state press on this very
^ vital subject, said:
J" "I know of no better way to re
^ssure any mail who doubts tl.e wisdom
of the work outlined uy the Geor;
gia Immigration Association than to
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Sjliltt U^iUn viia.1. lUC HVHV la uuu-.i ^uv
'\:r direction of eighteen of the be?t far^
>' mers, lumber-men, fruif growers, man|&v
ufacmrers, mill , men and professional .
jnen in active business in the state
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x- of Georgia today. These men have
J%'' held repeated conferences since the
^ nineteenth of October, and hAve con?
/ sidered not only the,federal and/state
;?>:laws on the subject, but have given
more time and mors serious thought
than rerhaps any others to the effect
ion. the state of Georgia of the intro/:
<iuction of new blood from Europe.
| They ( have been investigating the
character of available people in Scot^///iaiid,
in the north of Germany and
/ / in Sweden/ No man in Georgia has
^ / his state'a welfare more at heart than
U the members of this directorate who
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:, are giving their time and thought
./*; to this subject from a purely pattiolic
/ ' motive. Over 30 per cent of' the
| /tillable land in the state of Georgia
. is lying idle for want of sufficient
;M^; iielp to cultivate it. A little calculation
reveals the fact that on an excecdingly
rough estimate the land
K\y &vrners are not only losing the in}'"r
iciest on the value cf 1,770,000 acres
V cf land which for the salse of this
ififfi* .
v.: ' caicumuon is esuuisi'.eu at unccu uui*
: > Jars per acre, but on a tax rate of 4
per cent are paying $265,000 in taxes,
. the burden of which is being carried
by other lands. The need for help
the homes tfcrough the cities and in
the industries is even more striScing,
being estimated that very nearly
: every fifth family in the state has
^room for one or more domestics, and
that nearly 25 per cent of the ma*
'V chinery in our industries is cither
* ... . lying idle or is turning out les3 than
one-half of its capacitv because there
"are not enough people to do the
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X "it is proposed to lay the details
r-; -V>X our plan before the convention to
4)q held in Macon on February 19th
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I; > PEONAGE STORY OF GREEKS
?y ^Reaches Commissioner Sargent from
the Inspector at Tampa.
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who;jfe?.lled on Immigrant Inspector
Sera&fcic at Tampa, Fla., Friday, was
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received by Commissioner Sargent, of
.the J^uhigration bureau at Washington
Satufcflfcy. An affidavit by the men act
com^aying- the report substantiated
. ?he xtory- they told to the inspector,
that they had been badly treated, and
that \an effort had been made to de%ain
ihem.
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SWETTENHAM RESIGNS?
A Such is Report from Kingston?Became
Ashamed of Himself.
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is understood in Kingston that
y' Governor Sv/etteniiam tendered his
resignation to Lord Elgin, secretary
for the colonies, a few days ago, in
consequence of the Admiral Davis incident
and his inability to solve the
V." problem created by the- earthquake.
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SHONTS HAS RESIGNED.
Head of Canal Commission Voluntarily
Quits Job to Engage in Other
Business.
The resignation of Theodore P.
Shonts as chairman of the isthmian
canal commission was announced at
the white house Wednesday, having
been tendeied to the president and
accepted by him, according to correspondence
made public. It will take effect
not later than March 4, Mr.
Shonts having just been elected as
Tipsiripm nf ihp Interbciousdi Metro
politan company, which controls the
Rapid Transit and many surface lines
in New York.
No announcement was made as to
who will succeed Mr. Shonts as chairman
of the commission, but it was
learned authoritatively that headquar-.
ters would be removed from,Washington
to Panama and a high-salaried
chairman to serve in that capacity
alone will not be named. This being
admitted, it follows tnat John F. Stevens,
the engineer in charge of the
construction of the canal, would not
be made subordinate to another official
on the isthmus. Without definite
announcement, therefore, it is regarded
as a certainty that Mr. Stevens
will be named as chairman of the
commission and will assume his duties
as such in connection with his
post of chief engineer.
Mr. Shonts' retirement does not
come wholly as a surprise, it has
i'">" nimnvofi Tuavcistpnrlv ns a?.
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action had been taken upon the proposition
to build the canal by contract
that -Mr. Shonts would sever his connection
and resume a calling more
congenial to his taste. Secretary Taft
of the war department confirmed the
rumcr by saying that Mr. gihonts' resignation
was voluntary, which fact is
lorae cut ?)y the letter of the president
accepting it.
HARRY THAW TRIAL BEGUN.
Rotten Murder Case in New York Now
Has the Boards.
The trial of Harry Keadall Thaw,
millionaire, for the murder of Stanford
White, architect, at the Madison
Square Roof Garden the evening of
June 23, 1906, began in New York on
Wednesday morning.
The examination of talesmen did
net fully develop the line of defense,
though there were allusions in the
questions of the prosecution both as
to the law us it relates to the sanity
of an accused person and to the "unwritten
law*' of which so much has
been said and written since the trag
edy was enacted.
During the examination of the first
talesman, Thaw's counsel objected to
the form of questions as propounded
by the district attorney as to insanity
or the unwritten law, but they told
the court they did not object to the
questions in principle.
Scenes approaching 'Absolute disorder
attended the opening of the
trial.
Most of the clashes were between
reporters and correspondents and the
police. Of the newspaper men there
were perhaps 200 and there was a
policeman for each. The great squad
of blue coats was commanded by a
police inspector. Only about fifty newspaper
writers finally were admitted,
the remainder of space in the courtroom
being reserved for the 200 talesmen
summoned on the special jury
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The trial began before Justice Fitzgerald
of the supreme court.
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AT VARDAMAN'S HOME TOWN.
Mcb Lynches Negro in Close Proximity
to Governor's Residence.
Information reported in Jackson,
Miss., Wednesday evening was that
a negro named Henry Bell was lynched
at Greenwood, the home of Governor
Vardaman, Tuesday night, bv unknown
parties. The negro assaulted
Mrs. Graves of that place some months
ago. and had been in the Greenville
jail for safekeeping.
Tuesday night lie arrived at Greenwood
in charge of a deputy sherilT,
and while that official was taking him
from the train to tire jail he was surrounded
by fifty men, who took him
away and strung him to a railroad
bridge. The coroner's jury returned a
verdict that the negro came to his
death at the hands of unknown parties.'
Agricultural Appropriation Bill.
Representative Wads worth of New
York from the committee on agriculture
reported the agricultural appropriation
bill to the hcuse Wednesday.
The bill carries $7,635,790 for the ordinary
and regular routine work of
tlie agricultural department.
FORAKER TO ACT LAWYER
For Negro Soldiers in Investigation
of the Brownsville Case.
Testimony concerning the affray at
Brownsville, Texas, will be taken by
the senate committee on military affairs
.beginning February 4. The full
committee will sit at that time in
Washington. Subpoenas will be issued
at once. Senator Foraker will conduct
the case for the discharged soldiers.
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WHAT FARMERS DID
Epitome of Work of National
Union at Atlanta..
GREAT MEETING CLOSES
Wind-Up Session Was One of Unbounded
Enthusiasm?Resolutions
and Suggestions of Paramount
Interest Were Adopted.
After what has been unanimously
described as the most enthusiastic
and important meeting in its history,
the Farmers' Union adjourned at Atlanta
Thusrady neon amid songs and
congratulatory speeches and general
good feeling.
Action taken by the convention can
be summed up in the following resume
of the three days' session. An
epitome of the more important resolutions
is as lollows:
That the state business agents be
required to meet annually and formulate
plans to that end.
The substance cf the report of the
committer on cotton crop is, that the
next national union fix the minimum
price by grades taking middling as
a basis after having given due consideration
to the acreage, the supply
of new material and manufactured
goods on hand and the demand for
said goods. That the establishment of
coJoii warehouses be encouraged by
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inu lililuu UUUUo"wia ?.ilb \.V!.b>-u u-...,
said warehouses to be incorporated
under the laws of the several states.
The report of the committee on cotton
schools advocates the establisnment
of cotton schools in every state
in the cotton states, each slate to have
a separate school, but all states to
have a uniform grade.
The committee on market recommends
that factories be established
and owned by farmers for the manufacture
of certain articles used by
the farmer. This applies particularly to
fertilizers.
The committee on education stressed
the importance of urging better educational
facilities in the rural schools
throughout the south.
The committee on fertilizer recommended
that no union man buy or.
use the fertilizers of any manufacturers
or dealers who refuses to recognize
union agents and sell to them
at same price and terms as other
agents.
By Campbell Russell; That it is the
sense of this convention that all politicians
and others not familiar with
the neeas or agriculture wuu uia^ uc
tendered appointments as trustees or
other official positions in connection
with any agricultural school or college
be asked to show their patriotism
by refusing to accept such positions
for which they are manifestly
unfitted.
The report of the committee on agricultural
schools criticizes the management
of a majority of these state
institutions, and recommends that
they shall be placed nnder the direction
of the beard of public institutions,
that the trustees and boards of
directors shall be farmers.
The committee on warehouses after
advocating the establishment cf bonded
warehouses recommends the adoption
"of seme feasible plan of selling
cotton direct to the spinners and thac
the organization as soon as possible
he established for the purpose of
financing and protecting of cotton in
the Farmers' Unijn warehouses.
The committee on diversified crops
calls upon all Farmers' Union members
to diversify their crops and there.by
refrain from living out cf "paP^
sacks."
That- a conference of the spinners
of the east and the Farmers' Union
be held in May in the city of Birming.
ham or other convenient city in the
south.
The committee on co-opration recommends
that the Farmers' Union cooperate
.with the wool growers and
other co-operators of the north and
west in the establishment of a co-operative
woolen mill at any suitable
point; that the .Farmers' Union will
aid in the capitalization of the same
and patronage of the same.
By the committee on legislation:
Resolved, That parcels post system
should be established and as a bill
will be presented to congress to thai
end, we hereby "Urge each local county
and state union to send petitions
to their respective senators and rej>
resentatives to urge the enactment ol
a- parcels pest lav,'..
Hon. Thomas E. Watson was selected
as general organizer for the
Union.
SIMS MUST STAY IN PEN.
Atlanta Man Who Stole $SO.OOO Front
Bank is Refused Pardon.
A Washington dispatch says: G
Hailman Sims, who was sentenced tc
six years ia the Atlanta federal pris
on for embezzling nin3ty thousand
dollars from the Capital City Naticna
Bank of Atlanta, while he was a clerl
in that institution, has been denied z
pardon.
STARVATION IN CHINAT"
Horirble State of Affairs in the Celestial
Kingdom Revealed in Reports
to State Department.
Mail report-- from American consular
cllicers in China, which reached
the state department M on dev. regarding
the famine and resulting conditions,
still lurther ccnrirm the stories
of suffering and hardship among the
poor in the districts affected. In fact.
Consul Havnes, at Nanking, says tny.i
the famine is ten times worse than
anything known in that part of the
empiie for forty years.
The government is trying to help
the starving people to keen their cattle,
and to this end is taking their
| cxen and buffaloes in pawn ror two
taels each.
Consul General Rcdgers, at Shanghai
says an inquiry which he has
made through entirely private soirees
gives the general conclusion that The
famine by March 1, will be regarded
as severe, and i>e rhaps more so than
that cf 187$, by which it is thougiit
30,000,000 lives were lost. #
The report of Mr. Robgt-rs is accompanied
by a statement by Dr.
Henry M. Woods of the Southern
Presbyterian Mission at Hwai-An-Fu,
who estimates that 10,000,000 people
are affected by the tannine, -1,030,000
cf wnom are starving. He says there
are at present more (han 500,000 refugees
at Tsing Kiang-Pu, huddled in
mat sheds, and that the pitiful sight
is daily witnessed of parents offerrig
their children for sale at from
$2 to $1 each. Brigandage and robbery,
he adds, are everywhere rife.
Money Wanted for Sufferers.
Consul General Rodgprs cabled the
state department under Monday's dace
relative- ct the Chinese famine 'as follows:
"Strongly advise that money
contributions be sent instead "of food
at present. Provision can be purchas- j
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cu at enauguai at ictvurauie prices.
Time saved is a great object."
TIRADE AGAINST THE SOUTH.
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Mads at Meeting of Congregational
Club in Boston.
The Congregational Club, at its annual
meeting in Boston Monday night,
listened, to a discussion of the
"Church and National Perils," by
Professor Bushnell Hart of Harvard
University; Professor Kelly Miller of
Howard .University, Washington, D.
C., and Rev. W. J. Cooper of New
York, secretary of the American Missionary
Association. All the speakers
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Ucau vviiu iu?; iico-u ijucsiiuii 111 :"tsouth
and the recent speech of Senator
Tillman was referred to frequently.
Professor Miller, speaking on
the topic '"Race Conditions in the
South,'' said in part:
"The adjustment of the advanced
and backward races of. mankind is
the greatest m-sblem of the twentieth
century. The: ?11 us that the negro
is a menace K white man's civilization.
In this new propaganda of race
enmity and hate, Benjamin Tillman is
the chief priest, with a trinity of
Thomases as his literary evangelists,
Thomas Nelson Page, Thomas Watsen
and Thomas Dixon, Jr.
Professor Miller denied that the
members of the negio race had banded
together to protect one another
in the commission of crime against
the white race, but, on the .other
hand, ho claimed that negroes by
thousands have been lynched and
i murdered by banded assassins, who
have steed together oatlibound to protect
one another in crime, and against
) a helpless race. .
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CONVICTS WORK ON LEVEE.
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Governor Vardaman Harris Squad to
Point of Danger.
1 Governor Vardaman was requested
1 Monday to send a squad of convicts
' below Greenville, Miss., where there
* is a threatened break in the levee.
He directed Superintendent Heeland
' to hurry fiify convicts to the scene
' at once and take a 4 many more as
I might be necessary.
NEGRO* SQUEEZED OUT.
Parted With Property for Leas Than
' at First Offered.
George W. Vanderbilt has just purchased
for two thousand dollars six
1 acres of land and a log cabin, from
^ Charles C. Collins, colored. When
: Biltniore was first established the ne"
gro declined to sell to Mr. Vanderbilt
1 for what the latter considered a reasonable
figure, though it is said Mr.
' Vanderbilt offered him $S,500, and the
negro contended for $10,000. The
property w?.s practically surrounded
1 by the Biltmore ^estate, cf which it
now becomes a part.
ALABAMA ANTI-PASS BILL
i Wins Out in State Senate arid Conforms
to Federal Statute.
The Alabama senate Monday pass)
eel the administration anti-pass meas.
me, which substantially confoims to
[ the federal anti-pass provision. An
1 effort was made to exclude newspa
pers exchanging advertising space for
t transportation, but this met with
prompt defeat.
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SOLONS VOTE RAISE*
National Legislators Give i
Themselves More Pay.
TWENTY-ONE VOTED NAY
Henceforth Senators and Representatives
Will Draw $7,500 Per Year
and Vice President, Speaker
and Cabinet Members $12,000.
A Washington special says: The
senate Wednesday passed the house
amendment to tne legislative appropriation
bill, increasing the salaries of
the vice president, speaker, members
of the cabinet and members and senators
by a vote of 53 to 21. The bill
increases the salaries of senators and
members to $7,500 and of the other officers
mentioned to $12,000.
In the course of the debate the yenemblc
Senator Pettus of Alabama paid
a irank and sincere tribute to his colleague,
Senator Morgan, as an illustration
of the fact thai, a man who
entered the public service, sacrificing
his personal business and personal interests
and his outside pursuits to devote
his time and talents and energy
to the government in legislative lialls
deserved some recognition.
He said Senator Morgan had served
thirty years; that he had not accumulated
a fortune in that time, but that
the people of Alabama were proud of
him just the same and loved him
oecause he had net grown rich in
the United States senate. He thought
the increase asked was small enough,
in view of the $15,000 or $20,000 yearly
income, which Senator Morgan load
sacrificed for so many years in or
der to remain in the senate. The in- |
cident was a unique ieature of the ;
day's session. j
Senator Money of Mississippi voted
for the measure and said if he had
$750,000,000 per year to disburse he
would not, as a business proposition,
give absolute power to disburse it
into the hands of men whose services
were only worth $5,000 a year.
A number of speeches for and
against the measure were made, the
principal ones beiug delivered by Senator
Berry of Arkansas, who opposed
it, and Senator Tillman, who favored
its passage.
.Senator Tillman, saying that he had
just been elected to six more years
of service, would vote for the increase,
not because he would get more
money, but because he believed it was
right. He would rather have voted for
it last year before liis re-election. If
fault was found he was willing to.
resign.
The vote in detail was as follows:
Yeas?Aldrich, Allee, Ankeny, Ben-'
son, Beveridge, Brandegee, Bulkeley,
Burnham, Burrows, Carter,. Clark of
Montana, Clark of Wyoming, Clarke
of Arkansas, Crar.e, Cullom, Daniel,
Dick, Dillingham, Dubois, Dupont,
Flint, Foraker, Foster, Fry, Fulton,
Gallinger, Hale, Hepburn, Hopkins,
Kiltredge, Knox, Latimer, Lodge,
McCumber, McEnery, Millard, Money,
Newlands, Nixon, Overman, Penrose,
Pettus, Piles, Scott, Simmons, Smoot,
Spooner, (Sutherland, Tillman, Teller*
Warner and Wan-en.?53. *
Nays ? Bacon, Berry, Blackburn,
Rurkett, Carmack, Clapp, Clay, Culberson,
Frazler, Hansborough, Hemenway,
LaFollette, MeCreary, Mallory,
Nelson, Patterson, Perkins, Rayner,
Stone, Taliaferro and Whyte?21.
SWETTENHAM INCIDENT ENDS.
Uncle Sam Washes His Hands of the
Whole Jamaican Matter.
The president has finally dismissed
the incident connected with the refusal
by Governor Swettenham of Jamaica
of aid from Admiral Davis in
a letter made public at the state denartnient
Wednesday, addressed; by
Acting Secretary Bacon to British
Charge Howard. '
WITNESS OFFERED A BRIBE.
Sensational Denoumcnt at Trial of
Nashville Doctor.
The first witness in the J rial of
Dr. Herman Feist at Nashville, Tenn..
Saturday, charged with tl;c murder cf
Mrs. Rosa Mangrum, whose body was
irnind in the Ohio river ar. Cairo, 111., I
vrbrS G. P. Stone, an 1 his testimony !
proved highly sensational. Stone declared
that Mrs. ,Trupsdaie. sister of j
the murdered woman, offered hini'
?500 to positively identify a horse and
buggy which he saw at the uniou
station on the night of the mysterious
disappearance of Mrs. Mnngruni.
TWO SCORE MINERS KILLED.
in Frightful Gas Explosion in Coai
Pit at Primero, Colorado.
Twenty miners, according to the
most authoritative information available
Wednesday evening, lost their
lives as a result of an explosion which
occurred early Wednesday in the Colorado*
Fuel and Iron company's coal
mine near Frimero, Colorado, twenty
miles west of Trinidad.
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TRAGEDY BY SCHOOLBOYS; |
Father 2nd Brothers of Student Who
Was Whipped by Other Boys Seek
Revenge and Are Shot Down.
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As the result of a schoolboy fight
which occurred at the Georgia Normal
College at Abbeville, Friday; .3
morning, two people are fatally
wounded and two seriously, if notfatally.
A difficulty occurred at the campus
of the college the day before oe- 1
tween two young boys, which resulted t ,
in >oung Lamar Carswell being considerably
used up by seme other boys
at the school.
It seems that E. L. Carswell, the
lather of Lamar, took exception to ft
this, and he and W. B. Carswell, with ,
their boys, went to meet those youth* f
who were engaged in the previous difficulty,
and, it is stated, that they met ^
several of them as they were return- j.M
ing late from school and began W* -J
make efforts to chastise them.
The- boys opened fire on the Cars- /Cl
wells! shooting W. B. Carswell ia.
the bowels, fatally wounding him.
F. L. Carswell received a shot ia %
the lower bowels and he is seriously ? ; 3
if not fatally wounded.
Young Lamar Carawell received
several cuts with a knife, and he j||
is severely wounded.
Young Fletcher McLeod received a .'-J
shot in the bowels, and his physicians
say that he is fatally wounded. <3$
All parties are prominently connected.
Young McLeod is* a son of Hon. Jg
George F. McLeod, a farmer, and :Jj|
county commissioner, and the Cars- .'fM
wells all reside in Abbeville, and are ^
prominently connected. *
It seems that no one knows who
did the shooting. It is claimed that:
it was done by a young man atteud- J|?
ing the school by the name of lack
Bropby, whe lives in Telfair county. ;-J3
Oncers are at work on the case.
DIFFICULT TO GET JURORS.
Salacious Thaw Trial Being Delayed
at the Initial Stage.
At New York Friday, fifiy>one talesmen
were examined in rapid fire or- /0m
der in the effort to complete thejury -18
which is to try Harry K. Thaw for j"||
the Idling of Stanford White, and at V|
the end of the day's session two
names had been added to the jury '"iiS
roll, making seven in all.
That there is an increasing difficnlty
in finding men who are willing or '<
competent to serve was evidenced by ,
the fact that on the first day of the |
trial three jurors were sworn from '?S.
ajnong nineteen talesmen, one of
them' being excused subsequently by
the court. '
CRACK RACER BADLY HURT. dl
Automobllist Marriott Mangled in..
Smash of His Machine. ||jSj
In a third attempt to break the one- *J|1
mile record at Ormond, Fla., Friday,
Marriott's steam car struck a bump '|li
ID 111C UCUUIi, U.I1U lI v?a^> vuxtw iuvfv '-"the
air and shattered to fragments .:;-j||
when it fell and hurdled along the :
track. *':J|
Marriott was seriously, but proba- -'M
bly not fatally injured. That he '
escaped with his life is regarded but - J
little sho:?; of miraculous. He was 3b- :
solutelv helpless after the car struck \i|
the obstruction and sprang Into the ;i
COSTLY BLAZE8 IN RICHMOND.
Three Fires in Virginia Capital Ental1
Loss of $332,000.
Fire In the Williams building at
Richmond, Va.. early Wednesday.
which destroyed the Richmond Light SS
Infantry Blues armory and equipment,. Jj
the Southern and Adams express of- / ^
flees and a branch of the 'Subrug TohacOD
company, was followed by two " ^
other fires? one. ii\ a lumber plant '
and the other in the building occupied ||
by the B. F. Johnson Publishing companv
and Southern Paper company.
The loss on the three fires Is $332?- 3
000; insurance,
A LOAN TO JAMESTOWN. .
Million Dollars to Be Appropriated^ 'v|
Secured by Lien on Receipts.
The senate committee on appropriations,
Wednesday, adopted as a rider
on the house bill making appropri? ' 43?
tions to supply additional urgent deficiencies,
the senate biil appropriating
one million as a loan to the
Jamestown Exposition company, this
loan to become a first lien upon the
gross receipts. In addition, the committee
included $G.",000 for the pur- ,-J|
pose of constructing two piers from
the exposition grounds to the water*
of Hampton Roads.
BLIZZARD RAGES IN TE)^\S.
Losees cf Stockmen and Fruit Growers
Will Be Encrmous. < ;j
According to a disjJatcn from Rous- .
ton. Texas is in the midst of a se- -j
vero blizzard, and reports coming
from different sections of ibe state
indicate that the losses suffered by
stockmen and fruitgrowers will be