The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, April 25, 1907, Image 3
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BRYAN'S PLATFORM
^-Tariff Reform Will Be the
Slogan for 1908.
NO OWNERSHIP PLANK
National Committeeman Dahlman,
Who is in Close Touch With
Nebraskan, Makes Official
Announcement. ,
The democratic platform of 190S, if
W. J. Bryan controls the convention,
will not demand absolute government
ownership of railroads. This was au- |
thoritatively announced* at Omaha, Saturday,
by James C. Dahlman, national
committeeman from" Nebraska. The
statement is in the nature of an official
announcement for the reason that
Mr. Dahlman is in close touch with Mr.
Bryan.
From the same source it is stated
that tariff reform will again become
a dominant feature of the platform.
While Mr. Dahiman was not able to
go into minute details, he says the
prominent planks in Mr. Bryan's platform
will concern trusts, the tariff,
? state' regulation and money, the railroad
ownership plank, being conspicuous
by its absence.
Constitutional guarantees will have
a strong indorsement and the accept\
ancc of campaign contributions from
trusts and large corporations will receive
severe condemnation. The plat
form will define the necessity for and
proper use of money contributed for
running campaigns. .
Usurpation of power by the president
also will be asked to declare
that President Roosevelt in this respect
as well as in the matter of accepting
or approving campaign contributions,
has overstepped the true
democratic principles.
Government economics will receive
the usual attention, and a halt will
be demanded in naval circles. It will
be declared that the vast sums spent
on armanfeat may be much better-employed
in irigatiag the plains of the
west. Development of river navigation
is to be indorsed.
Election of United States senators
by direct vote of the people, reformation
of civil service rules and a strong
foreign policy will be strongly proclaimed
and pledged.
No overtures of any sort is to be~
made to the populists, beyond a general
invitation directed to all classes
to join forces with the democratic j
parry in an effort to enrorce me i
principles proclaimed and demanded ,j
in the democratic faith.
BETWEEN SIX AND SEVEN YEARS
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Panama Canal Will Be Completed,
Says Stevens.
Jt>hn F. Stevens, formerly chief engineer
and chairman of the isthmian
canal commission, was a caller at the
white house Saturday. His visit was
a personal one, he said, as he had 1
y. not seen the president since his return
to this country. He talked with
the president about the condition of
affairs on the isthmus.
, "How long will it take to complete
the canal?" was asked of Mr. SteVens.
"Between six and seven years," he
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SIX BOYS HELD FOR MURDER.
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Alleged That They Killed Negro Women
Without Provocation.
Tom Walker, John Talbert, Temple
Young, oJe Baugh, Derby Weatherford
and Oscar Geatherly, six white
boys, ranging in age from 11 to 20
years,
were arrested and placed in
jail at Danville, Va., Saturday, charged
with the murder of Ellen Elliott,
a negro woman who was stabbed and
stamped to death. It is said that the
attack upon the negro was absolutely
unprovoked, and the killing without
cause.
CANNOT SELL TO CONSUMER.
Coal Dealers Will Boycott Mines if
They Are "Caught."
At the closing session in Atlanta of
the Retail Coal Dealers' Convention,
the l'act was developed that a mine
owner will be immediately boycotted
by the members of the Southeastern
Retail Coal Dealers' Association, if he
. sells directly to consumers.
One of the chief objects and aims
of this association is to prevent consumers
buying their coal direct from
the mine owner.
GIGANTIC FRAUD ALLEGED.
Government Brings Suit Against Big
Lumber Company.
The government has filed a suit
in the United States court at Boise,
Idaho, against the Barber Lumber
company to set aside 215 patents,
involving 40,000 acres of timber land
in Boise county, worth over one million
dollars. Fraud in securing title
to the land is alleged.
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'western fruit killed.
Sweep of Wintry Blizzard in Many
Spates Will Entail Loss of Several
Millions of Dollars.
j A sharp drop in temperature followed
the snow storm Saturday night,
14 degrees above zero being recorded
| by the weather bureau In Denver and
i-'ueblo, and iruit of all kinds in eastern
Colorado, according to specials,
was nipped in the bud. At Grand
Junction, the center of the more imtwi-tanr
fmir rpsri-m west of the COH
tinental divide, the umperature fell j
CO degrees Sunday, and ilie weather {
observer there reported that the con- j
dition cf fruit was grave. While damage
to the fruit iu Colorado, according
to some estimates, may amount to
several million dollars, nearly all other
crops will be merely benetited by the
moisture.
A remarkable feature of the snow
storm was that it was more severe
in the lowlands than ia the mountains.
While the precipitation covered a
large area, includiftg all Colorado, Wy- j
oming and part of South Dakota, Nebraska,
Texas and New Mexico, the
snow was mostly confined to the east?
era slope of the Rocky mountains,
and extended from Lander, Wyo., and
Rapid City, S. D., on the north to
Santa Fe, N. M., and Roswell, N. M.,
on the south.
Only a slight snow occurred west
of the continental divide. > The storm
originated in the north and worked
its way slowly to the south, passing
out of the state late Sunday atter
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noon.
Frederick H. Brandenburg, district
forecaster, who estimated the snowfail
in Denver at 17 1-2 incnes, said
that though the snow storm was remarkable
in that city for April, it was
by 110 means unprecedented. On April
21, 22 and 23, 1885, the records show
a snowfall of 32 inches, 27 inches
falling on the last day of the storm.
On the whole, it is asserted that
while the storm was heavier than any
of the entire winter, and some damage
is reported, the resulting good will
offset the loss many fold.
Advices from Omaha, Neb., state
that as a result of the unprecedentedly
warm weather which prevailed
during the greater part of the month
of March, and the freezing weather
and heavy snowfall of the last fewdays,
early fruits, such as peacnes,
plums and cherries, in that region
have been injured, but the general
opinion is that the damage is not as
great as has been reported. Indeed,
many are of the opinion that while
early fruits have been injured, and
in some instances killed, benefits resulting
to the grain crop from the
snow storm more than offset the damage.
Snew fell in El Paso,*Texas, Sunday
morning at a lively rate for more than
an hour. This is the latest snowfall
ever known there, and the temperature,
which was 36 degrees, did much
damage to the small fruit and truck
gardens in the valley variously esti- |
mated at from $30,000 to $100,COO.
* THREE TRAINS IN CRASH.
Peculiar Wreck on Southern Kills Two
and Injurfes Many.
As the result of a double wreck on
the Southern railway a short distance
east of Woodlawn, a suburb of Birmingham,
Ala., early Sunday morning,
two men arfe dead and a number injured.
The unusual character of the wjreck
makes it surprising that the casualties
were not more. A freight train with
a dead engine on the rear, was moving
towards Birmingham. The operator
allowed No. 37, the fast passenger
into the block, and it crashed into
the dead engine, smashing them both
and demolishing several cars.
Three cars of the freight train were
thrown across the eastbound track almost
at the instant that the Southern
wrecker, en route to Heflin, Ala., pass
j ed. The wrecker struck them aud
practically the whole train piled into
the ditch. Two men were caught unFIVE
TOWNS WHELMED
By Terrific Earthquake in Mexico, According
to Latest Reports.'
Later advices from the city of Mexico
state that heavy earthquake
shocks continued on the coast until
4 o'clock Tuesday morning, and that
the devastation wrought was greater
than at first supposed.
Wociiioa the Hpsfmrtion of the cit
ies of Chilpancingo, Chilapau and
Tixtla, messengers from the coast
who have reached Chilpancingo say
that the towns of Ayutla and Ometepec
have been wiped off the map.
DYNAMITE FOR CANAL.
New York Powder Company Registers
the Lowest Bid.
A Washington dispatch says: The
El Dupont de Nemours Powder company
of New York was the lowest bidder
for the supplying of 1,167,000
pounds of dynamite for the isthmian
canal work at $127,376, when bids
were opened at the isthmian canal
commission offices Saturday.
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PEACE CONGRESS'
Comes to Brilliant Close in
New York City.
AMITY OF ALL NATIONS
Was Concerted Prayer of the Host of
Delegates?Carnegie Given Cross
of Legion of Honor by
Republic of France.
The first convention of the Na
tional Arbitration and Peace Congress
came to an end at New York
Wednesday night, after a three days'
session, with two large banquets, one
at the Hotel Astor and the other
at the Waldorf-Astoria. The event
of greatest interest was the decoration
of Andrew Carnegie with the
cross of the Legion of Honor by the
French government, represented oy
Baron D'Estournelles De Constant, in
appreciation of his work for peace,
and his gift of the palace at The
Hague. The baron announced in his
address at the Waldorf-Astoria banquet
that the cross of commodore of
the Legion of Honor had been conferred
by the French government on
Andrew Carnegie, and then proceeded
to the banquet at Hotel Astor,
where the decoration was formally
presented to Mr. Carnegie.
Peace among all peoples, a peace
that would be lasting, if not, indeed
eternal?that was the ideal raised
aloft, to be followed by all nations,
by the speakers at the dinner at
the Waldorf-Astoria, arranged to
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congress.
The American flag hung from the
wall at the head of the dining apartment,
and around it were suspended
the flags of the other nations with
here and there banners bearing the
coats of arms of the countries that
will take part in The Hague confer- ,
ence, and that have taken an active
part through their citizenship in the
present congress. The floral decorations
on the tables Were roses and
carnations.
After a reception in the Astor hotel
gallery, the six hundred guests,
who included both men and women,
passed into the banquet room. As
the company entered the hall, Kremser's
"old Netherlands hymn of
thanks" was sung by the choral members
of the Ruhenstein Club.' The
singers, all young women, stood in
the upper balcony and while singing
they waved the flags of a* nations.
Then while the guests were seating,
the choirs rendered "the peace festival
hymn/' Spectators occupied the
boxes in the balconies, \and by the
time the speaking began, every convenience
for listening to the addresses
had been taken.
Former Mayor S'eth Low of New
York, the presiding officer at the dinner,
was attended by those who had
been requested to speak.
A feature of the dinner was the
demarcation of the various tables by
countries and states to represent the
aspiration of all nations sitting in
harmony; \
The national costumes of some of
the foreign /delegates were strongly
contrasted with the usual coloring
found in the American dress, suggesting
the international meaning of the
occasion. The brilliant gold brocaded
coats of two educational delegates
from India, as well as their goldstriped
trousers, contrasted with the
dress of the delegates from China, and
seepied to emphasize the rich coloring
of the banquet room.
ALABAMA DOCTORS MEET.
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Triumph of Medicine.
The Alabama Medical Association
convened in Mobile Wednesday with
over 200 members present from all
parts of the state. The feature of
the session was the lecture by Dr.
Nicholas Senn of Chicago, on the
final triumph of medicine.
DEPUTY SHERIFFS ARRESTED.
Held for Carelessness in Letting a
Mob Lynch Negro.
Charged with manslaughter for
their alleged carelessness in allowing
the negro Charles Strauss to be
lynched, Deputy Sheriffs J. E. Keegun
and J. J. Salmon were arrested
Wednesday at Marksville, La., aud
placed under $700 bond each.
Strauss was hanged in the woods
: near Eola, La., where a crowd of
masked men met the deputies as the
latter were escorting the negro to
jail.
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A LCO H U i_ run ..
Injection Proves Successful When All
Other Remedies Fail.
At the meeting of the medical congress
in Benin, Germany, Thursday,
Dr. Schlcsser said that after five
years experimenting fie had found
that the best cure for neuralgia was
the injection of alcohol. It had proved
successful iu 202 casse when all oth|
er remedies had failed. j
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PARSON BIFFS ROCKY.
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New Pastor of Oil Magnate's Church
in Gotham, Just from Liverpool,
Eng., to Show No Partiality.
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Tlie Rev. C. F. Aked, who comes
from Liverpool, England, to accept
a call from the Fifth Avenue Baptist
church in New York city, arrived
Wednesday on the steamer Carmania.
Mr. Aked said the only comment he
cared to make on his mission to this
county was that he felt he had delayed
his coming to America ten
years too long. The Fifth Avenue is
Rockefeller's church.
When a newspaper clipping in
which he was alluded to as "Rocke
feller's new pastor" was shown to Mr.
Aked, by a reporter, he said:
"I know nothing of Mr. Rockefeller.
It is not fair. I can't talk about
him. I think it is very hard to keep
calling that church 'Rockefeller's
church.' Why, he is not a member.
It is a powerful and influential
church without Mr. Rockefeller. He is
a seat holder and belongs to a
Church in Cleveland."
Mr. Aked was informed that Mr.
Rockefeller, Jr., was connected with
the Fifth Avenue church. He replied:
"Yes, I know young Mr. Rockefeller
is a member of the church, a trustee
and a leader of the Bible class."
Mr. Aked said that his Liverpool
congregation was probably the most
cosmopolitan in the world, but he
added no distinction would be made
at the Fifth Avenue church. "The"
poor stranger will be welcome just as
heartily as the richest man or woman
in the congregation."
"My message is 'A Ministry of Reconciliation.'
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He was asked whether he intended
doing active work in the suppression
of gambling houses in New Y??rk
as he had in Liverpool. He said:
"It will take me a little time to
learn the existing condition in this
city. I shall feel my way at first. I
think my fighting days are over. The
things I have been fighting against
in Liverpool are not here."
THOUSAND DOLLARS REWARD
Will Be Paid for Missing Boy and
No Questions Asked.
Letters are being sent out by William
Spencer, of 2148 Germantown
avenue, Philadelphia, Pa., enclosing a
postal card containing a photograph
of Horace N. Marvin, Jr., the fouryear-old
boy who disappeared from his
father's home near Dover, Del., on
March 4th last. The card gives a description
of the boy and states that
a reward of $1,000 will be paid by
Mr. Spencer for the delivery of the
little one to him.
It is stated in the card: "I sacredly
promise any one delivering this
boy to me that my lips shall be
sealed and silent forever and I will
never give the slightest clue that
might lead to their arrest. I will pay
the cash without asking any ques*
tions whatever."
The card gives with the photograph
of the boy a careful description
of him, and states that Mr. Spencer
will send any number of the postals
to any one who is desirous of assisting
in finding the child.
FOR MURDER OF SISTER J
Boy ana I wo Uiris must nn?wcr.
Mother Also Implicated.
Affidavits were filed in court at
Dayton, Ohio, .Wednesday, charging
Mrs. Leah C. Gilman, mother; uollins,
brother, .and Fayne and Bessie, sisters,
with murdering. Dona Gilman,
whose body was found on a commons
near her home November 20 last
The grand jury recently ignored th?
case against the Gilmans. z
CRAZY FATHER KILLS BABE.
Dodson Also Made Desperate Effort
to Kill His Wife.
At Gadsden, Ala.. Wednesday afternoon.
0. P. Dodson, a telegraph
operator, shot and mortally wounded
his three-year-old son, while in a de'mented
condition, and at the same
time tried to kill his wife, shooting
at her twice, but missing her.
CADETS WILL MAKE TRIP.
Military Students to Go Over Route
of Sherman's March.
Several instructors and members I
of staff class at the military training
school in Fort Leavenworth,
Kans., will shortly begin a horseback
ride'from Chattanooga to Atlanta over
the route of General Sherman.
Two years ago Kev. Sherman, a
son of General Sherman, started to
ride over the route taken by his father
in his march to the sea, but the j
entire south rose up in protest, ana
the trip was abandoned.
PRAYER PRECEDED LYNCHING.
Two Negroes Victims of Mob in Louisiana
Within a Week.
Preceded by a prayer spoken by
one of the leaders of the mob, the
second lynching in Louisiana within
a week occurred Thursday night near
Clinton. Both lynchings were for similar
causes, alleged attempted a*ssaults
upon white women.
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For Leader of Democrats, I
Says Editor Watterson.
NO OTHER ALTERNATIVE
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Organized Democracy Must Rely on
Nebraskan for Any Hope of Success,
is Opinion of Kentucky
Statesman.
Col. Henry Watterson, the editor,
and Mrs. Watterson, arrived at .New
York Monday from Europe. Another
passenger was Frigate Captain
Sembiar Poschwitz, flag adjutant or
the German navy, who is going to ttle
Jamestown exposition.
Colonel Watterson said, in an interview,
that William J. Bryan seemed
to be the only man in the running
for the Democratic nomination
for the presidency.
"Mr. Bryan is an individual man
with a certain following," he said.
"He is not a iaw-giver, he may be a
law unto himself. It remains to be
seen if the fragments of the Democratic
party, lying around loose, can
be united on a new program.
"I think that organized Democracy
at the present time can see no other
alternative except Bryan. Nobody is
being seriously considered running. I
sometimes doubt whether he himself
cares a fig for the presidency. For I
should think if he believed Democracy
had a reasonable chance of
.carrying the country and that he
might be nominated he would be more
circumspect and would show a greater
sense of responsibility than he
seems to be showing."
Asked what he considered the most
vi$al issue to be raised by the Democratic
pariy, Colonel Watterson said:
"The one thing to constitute a militant
Democracy is that we must
think together. So long as we don't,
there is no use proposing any issue.
The relations of franchise corporations
to the public and of capital
and labor are the great economic
problems to be worked out in the
coming year. We are on the tHreshhold
of their rapid development;
"I do not believe President Roose*
velt wants a third term for himself.
I know he recently stated that if the
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convention nominated him and adjourned,
it would have to reconvene
as he would never accept another
nomination. I am willing to take him
at his woYd."
Colonel Watterson declared that i
Governor Hughes was a force to be
reckoned with in Republican politics.
"I predicted last June," he said, j
"that Hughes would succeed Roosevelt
in the white house."
"BLACK HAND" IN COURT.
More Than a Score of Cut-Throat
Foreigners Placed cn Trial.
More than a score of foreigners
charged with being members of the
"Black Hand," responsible for a large
number of cy'imes, were placed on
trial at Wilkesbarre, fa., Monaay.
Thirteen cases of shooting with attempt
to kill, thirteen of conspiracy,
six of dynamiting and two of robbery
by threats and menaces are
charged against the men, who are
alleged to, be the leaders of the
! "Hlack Hand."
MADE COLONEL WRATHY.
Received a "Skiddoo" Postal and Appeals
to the Authorities.
The ''Skiddoo" postal cards, especially
those bearing the membership
formula of the "Down and Out Club,"
are in trouble with Uncle Sam's mail
service. A southern colonel, now in
[ Washington, received one, and he immediately
sent it to Postmaster General
Meyer, with the request for an
opinion as to whether or not the card
was insulting, and if so, was it eligible
for passage through the mail. The
matter was taken under advisement.
BELIEVED IN UNWRITTEN LAW.
On That Score 53 Men Were Excused
from Jury Duty.
Fifty-three men, out of a venire of
100, summoned for the trial of the policeman,
Michael AlcNamara, charged
with killing his wife and John J.
Broppy. her paramour,- on August
22, 1900, were excused in court at St.
Louis Monday, after they had sworn
they believed in the ''unwritten law."
Each of the ">3 said he would refuse
to vote for conviction if the "unwritten
law" was pleaded in McXamara's
defense.
CRAZY MERCHANT SUICIDES.
Gimbel Cut Throat and Wrists With
Fragments of Glass.
uenedict Uimuei, tne weaitny Philadelphia
merchant who cut his throat
and wrist with broken glass in a hotel
in iioboken, X. J., soon after he
had been arrested on serious charges
in New York, died at St. Mary's hospital,
Hoboken, early Monday morning.
STRIKERS ARE ENJOINED. |j
Van Winkle Machine Company at At- ;*Js|
Innta Appeals to Court for Protection
and Prayer Granted.
A large number cf the machinists J||
employed at the E. Van Winkle Gin
and Machinery Wcrlt3, at- Atlanta, are
now out on a strike inaugurated near- "dH
ly three weeks ago, by order of At
Janta lodge, .\o. j, ci uie nueruiiuuutu y$%gn
Association or* .Machinists. ^
This strike was the cceasici^ cf thp .j&mm
filing of an equitable pet A ion Monday
in the superior court by the Van Win- wjSH
kle company, praying that the saM ''JagB
lodge, lis members and the striking ;t||
machinists named as defendants in -1||?
the petition be enjoined and restrain- ^ o
ed from interfering in any manner t
with the labor now employed at the -..jpl
machinery works, and from posting
pickets about the works, the
of the car lines and the depot for the :*jB?
purpose of inducing workmen to quit
their positions or to refrain from
working for the company. ^
Judge Pendleton granted a tempor-.l^j^
ary restraining order as prayed for |f|
in the petition, and set the hearing
the petition for Saturday, April 2Z *'
The petition shows by the exhibita^^H
attached thereto that the grievance*^! ^
complained of by the lodge and th
machinists are that the company dis^ -T^ ^
criminated against the members of organized
labor; did not observe the .)|h|
rules laid down by organized labor.in?JsjBI
regard to the employment of handy^Jaaj
men on machinists' work, and dediia-m*:f|
ed to adopt and 'post rules goveniing^g|^
tnese conditions. .<$2
The petition recites that the
manufactures steam and hydraulic jg?^gE||
gines, cotton machinery and other jpK;
like machinery, $500,000 being inveat^H^
ed in the plant, which employs 300..'^1
men, many of whom are machinists,v||| 'M
the weekly pay-roll amounting
$3,500; that Edward Van Winkle, the|ML||
president of the works, is, and has
ways been, kind and considerate ^
the welfare and comfort of his em-;^ ^Jjjj
ployes, to whom good wages were
paid, and they seemed happy and^?!!
contented up to a recent period.
Petitioner complains that in
| 1?07, F. W'. McCabe, business ageritj|
of the lodge, called at the shops and
had an interview with President Yaxf '^ -'*?
Winkle, complaining that no
were posted in the shop, to whicft;^,'-^
the president replied that the me^;^;^
had neglected to keep them up, and;|?^||
they had become lost *or destroyed;"^ ^
that thereupon McCabe furnished a-^Jli
set of rules which netitinner did nnfc-JxSHi
; think suitable or proper for the
I duct of its business, and rules
ed by the president. were posted to|l -JBj
lieu of those submitted by the ledge. % ,rj|
This caused a kick and McCabe wrote
a letter notifying the president of the I'M
works that if the matter was not ad-.--3]
justed satisfactorily by March 31,
! there would be trouble. ' ~||
Thereafter the defendants ordered-jaB;^
the strike, and a large number of
machinists walked out, after which^jl *3
petitioner charges, the lodge and its % ^
members posted pickets at the
gates of their premises, at the ends' -;Jj|
of the car lines, and at the passed
r-er depots to dissuade other machin- ^ "j
ists and those who remained at work
from working for the Van Winkle:
Company. The company charges that:^^ '-f<
this was an unlawful combination
tween the lodge and the machinists,."ffijfl
its veal purpose being to unionize the -^fi
shops, to prevent the employment of
machinists not members of the order*
to fix wages irrespective of the rights, *
of employers, and to force non-union ")J|
men out of the shops, and that the 'Jl
subsequent posting of pickets was the
result of a conspiracy between the ;J1
I 1UU&C auu me LucujinuibLs against me ""SSI
company for the purpose of closing
I down their business, and forcing them '23
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TO HONOR JUDGE BLECKLEY. ,J3
| Citizens of Clayton, Ga., Will Breet^.JS;
Monument to Great Jurist ' ;^?'
j Citizens of Clayton, Ga., have be- |j|l
j gun a movement to erect a monu!
ment to Judge Logan E. Bleckley, a
j native of the town and one o?*Geor->' >
i gia's most illustrious dead. It Is
( posed that the new school building ;j||
j which is to be erected in the town
near the judge's birthplace be named ^
the Logan E. Bleckley Memorial Institute.
The town has already raised a con*- ^
siderable sum by subscription for this fvJS
building. Rabun county and the dig
f whole state will be asked to contrib- ".Jjj
I ute. The main building is. to cost
I something like $10,000. \'d|
On the school grounds or in the "jj
j school building a statue of the exi
chief justice is to be placed.
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GOMEZ ENTERS PROTEST * /M
j Against Cuban Government Buying ;J
Church Properties.
j Jose Miguel Gomez, Cuban liberal
kader, in a statement published at
Havana Sunday, protests against the vg
purchase oi church properties by the
government for $2,000,000. He gives
as his reason that the church titles
are questionable and the price far .v"c||
in excess of the value of the proj>- '