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LINDSAY HONORED | By Re-Election as President of Rural Carriers, ^CONVENTION ADJOURNS w**Mmiai M?Minn of the National A&so elation In Atlanta a Brilliant SucfeT cess?Omaha Gets the Next Assembly. * ." The ejection of officers, the selection C&i a place of meeting, for 1908, and a ? trolley ride around the city were the : features of the closing day of the sixth abaq&I ^session of the National Rural Delivery Carriers' Association in g; Before the election of officers came gap a committee named at the Peoria ?ae?sion to. revise the constitution and presented its report. There was practically no change in the organic laws of the body suggested, except as to the per capita tax. Since |rtfce formation of the organization the ( per capita assessment has been 10 cents y a year. The committee suggested in its review of the laws that the annual gfeaft upon the member be made $1 : each year?twice the amount paid in ^p6>i past The proposed increase . broughrabout a lively discussion. Some * members were emphatically opposed to the increase. Others favored it. And * jet others declared it a good movement, bat expressed themselves L against so radical a change at once. The discussion resulted in an endorsee-rmeet of the increase, that increased |pnibe*&ment to become effective July ' .The salaries of the national officers not changed, except that of the : treasurer. The treasurer has been vdrawing $25 a year since the Rural Free Delivery Carriers' Association v waa organized. That sum, the reviewcommittee thought, was wholly in adequate and suggested that the salmade $100. The suggestion Iade effective by the adoption solation covering the change of ; The salary of the president at of the secretary $500 each ^ and of the members of the ye committee, three in number & annually, 'were not disi the election of officers came ddent Paul L. Lindsay of Georated the chair, Mr. McManus ?= t#Hn? nn the aavel. asked P|Sp;^Doaliiatioiis, indicating the officers SC. SC. Stoddard of Virginia was recognized by the chair, and in a pleas ja&t. manner presented the name of y-fSk1. Lindsay, for president. From ail |#ec?ioos of the assembi* hall delegates ^-etsiiaed attention of the presiding offi:' eer to second the nomination. U No opposition was indicated, and the & secretary was directed by the chairto cast the ballot of the asscciaMr. Lindsay. Announcement of tke result was received with applause pMtwas an ovation to President LindH. 5. Crum of Michigan was nomiaafced for vice president. Mr. Crums paction was without opposition, and Call of Massachusetts, who has r I>eea. secretary of the association since formation and whose work has been ppaadst thoroughly satisfactory to those pSf? whom he has been keeping minpBtes these half dozen years, was nomfloated for another term by Delegate KBrflfT ot Connecticut, who, in pre* ? meeting Mr. Cull's name, evoked freeqaeat applause as he recounted the * -work Mr. Call had done as secretary}-. *I%ere was no opposition to Mr. Cull, secretary cast a ballot for the J. D. Williams of Pennsylvania was ' .re-elected national treasurer, his name 4>eiag placed in nomination by C. M. J." Adams of Iowa. ^;;jLit$le Rock; Dayton, Ohio; Albany, gfe;' Y4 DesMoines, Iowa; Omaha, Neb., and Milwaukee, Wis., were placed in [v sicsAlaation for the next meeting. I';':The rivalr> was strong, and a numL b&r of ballots were necessary. The bieaitfest finally narrowed down to Lit|iHd; Rock and Omaha, and on the last | ;v?te Omaha won out by a good mar! I|| Tfee selection of Omaha ended the ^.Wjsdk of the convention, and adjourntneut to meet in the Nebraska metropolis iiext year was taken. BOILERMAKERS' BANQUET. !:jAnnuaJ Convention Adjourns at Atlanta ^ In a Blaze of Glory. jbv With a brilliant banquet the nine{ teenih annual session of the American Boiler Manufacturers' Association came - ao a dose at Atlanta Thursday night. The delegates and their wives who had feeen in attendance upon the business ' sessions gave way to revelry and dis. persed amid a shower of good wishes and happy felicitations. 5?e/ tp* | TROOPS MUST HUSTLE. Many Military Organizations Fall Short of the Requirements of New Dick Law, Soon Effective. > The statement contained in a dispatch from Washington Friday, to the effect that in this year's inspections not a single Georgia military coinpany was found to conform to the United States army organization, naturally caused some comment among thnsA interested in the national suard of Georgia, .and numerous questions j were asked as to the meaning of it i Inquiry at the oce of Adjutant General A. J. Scott at the capitol developed the fact that the statement j was correct. There are none of the Georgia commands, which, at that time, conformed to the regular army requirements. But in this Georgia was not alone. The military organizations of only ten states had at the time the adjutant general's report was drawn, conformed to the regular army organization, and in only two states was ^his conformation complete. Colorado and Florida had conformed, in part; Missouri, with the exception of headquarters ana tne hospital corps, and like exceptions were noted in Ohio, Tennessee, Texas,Washington and Wisconsin, Oklahoma and Oregon were the only two in which conformation was complete. Georgia troops * would have been much nearer in conformity with United States army requirements had it not been for tho fact that after they fought they had all the necessary law., other requirements were put upon thpm hv the war deoartment. "In 1905," said Adjutant General Scott, "a commission drew a code for Georgia and submitted it the secretary of war,who referred it to the war college. It was approved with one slight exception, returned and enacted into law by the general assembly of 1905. "In June, 1907, we were notified by the war department that-our organization did not conform to that of the regular army. The previous approval of our code by the department was ignored, and when we requested it, the necessary additional legislation was suggested to us. That was drawn up in the shape of a bill, which was passed at the recent session of the general assembly and went into effect on October 1. We now have all the t law necessary, and the only thing yeti to be accomplished is to bring about! the proper organizations under it j "The Georgia troops will be in full [ conformity with the requirements of j the national government by January 1, 19u8." Georgia's regimental organization is i now in conformity with the govern-1 ment requirements, with -Uie exception of the hospital corps, which some of the regiments are lacking. It is required that each regiment shall have twelve companies, a requirement which is lacking in all the Georgia regiments. Each regiment must have a hospital corps; some are now without it. Each infantry 1 company must have 58 enlisted men as a minimum, each light artillery battery 133 and each heavy artillery company 63. Few companies have yet conformed to these requirements as to minimum numbers. The question naturally arises as to where the other companies necessary to fill out the regiments are to comei from. HANSON BIFFS DEMAGOGUES. Action of State and National Governments Against Railroads Denounced. President J. F. Hanson of the Central of Georgia railway and the Ocean Steamship company, spoke in Savannah Friday night at a smoker given representatives of the northern press I who were present as guests of the Ocean Steamship company, bavins come to Savannah from New York on the maiden voyage of the steamship City of Savannah. President Hanson caused a sensation by a denunciation of the governments, state and national, that have become arrayed against the railroad interests of the country. He said : "The war waged on corporations for the last five months, led by President Roosevelt, with all the demagogugei in the country at his heels, has diminished the value of railroad property all over the country one-fifth of its previous value." The administration in Georgia is so severe against railroads, he said, that even Governor Hoke Smith, who was strongest in his antagonism, does not approve of the length to which the railroad commission wants to go. MAY SETTLE LEVEE STRIKE. Mayor Behrman Has a Scheme He Hopes Will Bring Peace. The settlement of the levee strike at New Orleans of 10,000 cotton ajid , freight handlers by a public investigation into port conditions was proposed Friday by Mayor Behrman. He ; laid this mhtter formally before all . the business exchaoges of the city, which have combined to liglrt the strikers. ( cotton'gambling Given Body Blow at Convention Held in Atlanta. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED Egyptian Form of Bale Approved; Careful Seed Selection, Cioser Trade Relations, Drying of Seed Cotton Recommended. The elimination of the purely speculative side of the cotton exchange busi aess is advocated by the International Cotton Congress, which adjourned at Atlanta Wednesday night. By the vote of four to one, the task of evolving some plan of regulation that would prevent gambling, was referred to the committee on permanent organization. One vote was cast by each of the five organizations repre sented at the congress. The convention moved to take this step because it was urged very earnestly by the delegates from various organizations that nothing short of unanimous approval of all measures ; by ail the associations of cotton grow- 1 ers and cotton manufacturers would produce effective results. Condemnation of gambling methods was heard on all sides, but the spin- < ners made it clear that exchanges or ! some kind were necessary to their business and that, despite the evils in existing exchanges, these institutions must be resorted to until some better methods of protection against loss from future fluctuations could be |de vised. It was pointed out that the men selected from each of the five organl- < zations, by taking counsel among themselves and considering the interests of all sides, might,be able to reach some conclusion that would be approved next year by the whole congress. The congress unanimously approved the square bale of the same style of packing and covering as the Egyptian bale. They recommended that southern farmers hold their cotton for thirty days before having it ginned, that the staple might fully mature. They favored compression at the gin, the foreign spinner appealing for a bale of greater density. They urged more careful seed selection. They endorsed the buying of spot cotton for future delivery. The congress killed the resolution providing for more frequent statistical crop reports from the government i They earnestly advocated closer trade < relations, looking forward to the time ; when farmers' organizations, through ; their agents, will be able to deal di- ' rectly with the spinners. The1 following report on closer trade ' relations between the grower and spinner was adopted: i "Be it resolved, That the international convention of cotton growers and ! manufacturers is of the opinion that by closer relations between grower and spinner a great deal of the pres- 1 ent expense in handling cotton can ] be saved and the evils attendant on i violent fluctuations of the market be mitigated. "We are further of the opinion that , the extension of the warehouse system in the southern states' and the creation of selling offices will tend to bring about closer trade relations, and are, therefore, worthy of encourage- < raent by both producer and spinner." ; Herr Kuffler, on behalf of the visit- i ing delegates, thanked the state of : Georgia and Governor Smith, the city : of Atlanta and Mayor Joyner, the chamber of commerce and President : J. Wilie Pope and the ladies' commit- , tee of Atlanta for the courtesy and hospitality shown the visitors. ; C. S. Barrett proposed a resolution i thanking Herr Kuffler and the European delegates for having honored Atlanta with their presence. Harvie Jordan seconded the motion, which was I enthusiastically carried. E. D. Smith of South Carolina insisted that the press should not be for- i gotten and proposed a rote of thanks, i which was passed. i Chairman McColI was congratulated i on his impartial rulings. Secretary Woodbury and Assistant Secretary < Bryan weer also thanked for their i serrices. The delegates left on a special train at midnight tor Birmingham and New i Orleans. JOHN MITCHELL TO RETIRE As Head of United Mine Workers Because of 111 Health. John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers, announces in the current issue of tho United Mine Workers' Journal that he will not be a candidate for re-electiwn as president. He says in his announcement that he does not regard himself .as physically well enough to attend properly the alfloa. IN CLASH OF RACES Three White Men Hurt and Two Negroes Badly Beaten ? Blind Tiger Booze Cause of Outbreak. Two badly injured negroes lodged in jail at Toccoa, Ga., und.r felony charges, three white men slightly wounded, one pitched battle with guns, among the negroes, and numerous fights, have been the results of blind tiger corn liquor sold at the negro Lula Baptist Association, which has been in session at Two-Mile Church, near Toe coa, for several days. The association is composed of the negro churches throughout northeast Georgia and part of eastern South j Carolina, and thousands are in attendance. i Sunday afternoon the shooting and fighting around the church grew so general and dangdrous that white people living near complained to Sheriff Stow. The latter, with Chief of Po- ; lice Mlze, went to the church just at night, quelled the riotous conduct : with some difficulty and arrested Rich Harber of Walhalla, S. C., who started '< the shooting. > . < The sheriff started to the city with the negro, but before reaching the cor- : porate limit* the prisoner showed i fight, and sprang from the buggy with the intention of running, but Sheriff Stow caught him and a terrible fight ensued. . After several minutes Har' 1 i-i.- J uer -was utsttteu intu suumisaiuu <uiu landed in jail. Jolin Cape, a white man, lives abont one mile from the church. During Saturday night, a drunken negro, Thos. , Browner, who lives near Lavonia,went to the hoihe of Cope, and demanded possession of the house. After some words, Cope secured his shotgun and , fired at the negro, but failed to hit him. Having no more shells, Cope took his wife and children to the home ; of a neighbor. Returning to his.house immediately with several while friends, they found Browner in bed asleep. The negro refused to surrender and a general fight ( ensued. After several shots were fired, entrance to the house was obtained, and the negro was beaten into submission. In the fight C. C. Walters and two other white men received . painful injuries. The excitement near the church wa? of tx Moli nlfY?h And qomA nf the white people armed themselves in anticipation of further trouble. THIRD TERM FOR TEDDY Favored by General Helm of Mississippi, in Open Letter. Brigadier General George M. Helm, commanding the Second brigade, Mis- , sissippi division, United Confederate Veterans, one of the wealthiest planters of the delta and a lifelong democrat, has created much surprise in ; political circle^ and among confeder- ; ate veterans, by an open letter in , which he strongly advocates the election of President Roosevelt for a third term. \ < General Helm waives the question ; of republicanism aside as to trivial for discussion, and urges that party lines be dropped in order that the business interests of the south may be benefited by the retention of Mr. ; Roosevelt in office, the chief reason, he urges, being the construction of i the deep water channel from the lakes to the* gulf. ALLEGED EMBEZZLER ARRAIGNED ? ] Percy Fonville on Trial for Aiding in Looting of Bank. The sensational case against Per- i cy Fonville of Alabama, formerly engaged in the bucket shop business in Charlotte and in South Carolina, who Is charged with complicity in embezzling the funds of the Charlotte National bank, to the extent of about $70,000 in which bank Cashier Frank Jones, now serving sentence in the i Atlanta prison, got the money and ran away, came up Friday morning in Greensboro, N. C. CENTRAL CASE UP TO JUDGE. Fight Against Railroad Commission ?vl A I'JOW uriUCI nuvioimtm. < The argument having been completed in the Central of Georgia Railroad application for an injunction against the Georgia railroad commission, the entire matter is now in the hands of Judge Newman of the United States I district court at Atlanta before whom ] the attorneys appeared. 1 It required the entire week for the < legal .^representatives of the road and i of the commission to make a full pre- 1 + A# tVin PQCO 1 H^UCUUVJLi ?& vuv vv^r^, PRESIDENT W'NGS A BUCK. Result of First Day's Hunting in Lou* isiana Canebrakes. A courier who arriTed in Stamboul, La., from the president's camp on the Tensas late Thursday evening reported that the president had killed a fine buck, but otherwise the day's hunt was barren of result The animal was brought down from a long distance and fell after the first shot v" r.. - -"..J" 'v^t-.- ,c?^*5 . - + '".t '. - ' \ . * IN HER PRISON CElL Mrs. Cassie Chadv/ick, Bank Wrecker, Passes hvvay. WAS QUEEN OF FORGERS Borrowed Millions Right and Left on Fictitious Representations and ' Brought Ruin to Bankers and Depositors Alike. Mrs. Cassle Chadwick, .-whose amazing financial transactions ^culminated In the wrecking of an Oberlin bank, died in the woman's ward at the Ohio penitentiary in Columbus Thursday night. No friends or relatives waited at her bedside; only the prison physician and his attendants. Mrs. Cassia L. Chadwick, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Bigley, was a native of Woodstock, Canada. She first came into public notice in Toledo, Ohio, about twenty years ago, where she told fortunes under the name of Madame Daviere. While in Columbus, she forged the name of Richard Brown, Youngstown, Ohio, and for this crime was sent to the penitentiary at Columbus for nine years. She served but a portion of this sentence and then located in Cleveland, where she married a man named Hoover. Her second husband was Dr. Leroy S. Chadwick of Cleveland, a man of good family and excellent standing In his profession. Iii the latter part of 1902 or early in 1903, Mrs. Chadwick, in the presence of her husband, gave to Ira Reynolds, the cashier of the Wade Park t^ank of Cleveland, a box containing notes signed with the name of Andrew Carnegie. These forged notes are alleged to have amounted *o $7,- j 500,000. Reynolds gave to Mrs. Chad- . wick a receipt.for the papers) which J described the notes and the signatures upon them. Mrs. Chadwick left with j Reynolds as an explanation of the ! existence of the notes, the statement 1 that she was a natural daughter of j Andrew Carnegie. * With the receipt of Reynolds in her possession, Mrs. Chad wick went to j different hanks, and, making loans, j and paying not only high interest to the hanks, but heavy bonuses to the bank officials who loaned her the mon-' ey. The extent of these transactions j will never be fully known, "but they ran iip into the piillions. They in-' volved men of nigh standing in the financial world and caused heavy loss- j es to many banks. In November, 1904, she was sued by a man named Newton of Brookline, Mass., from whom she had borrowed a large amount, which she was unable to pay. Other creditors came down on her, and within a short time she was placed under arrest by the federal authorities on the charge of conspiring with Charles Beckwith, the president, ana a. ts. opear, ui a national bank, at Oberlin, Ohio, which had been substantially looted. j Mrs. Chadwick had obtained from this institution such large sums of money that it was compelled to close its doors, causing heavy losses to the depositors and ruining many of them. Mrs. Chadwick, Beckwith and Spear were indicted for a variety of offenses against the national banking laws. Beckwith died before coming to trial. Spear pleaded guilty, was sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary, and is now serving time at Columbus, Ohio. Mrs. Chadwick was brought to j trial on March 6, 1905, and after a hearing, which lasted for two weeks, was found guilty cf conspiracy to defraud a national bank, and was sentenced to 10 years in the penitentiary. Her health, which, was not good at the time of the trial, failed steadily after its conclusion. 1 Mrs. Chadwick left one son, Emile Hoover, bbrn of her first marriage. , He is now about 20 years old. The decline in Mrs. Chadwick's health began almost from the time she entered the penitentiary in January, 1906. She fretted incessantlyover her confinement until it became almost impossible for her to sleep. At times she was so peevish that the patience of the prison officials was sorely tried. Mrs. Chadwick was a robust woman wheh she came to the penitentiary, but finally wasted away, and had lost fully thirty pounds at the time of her death. Her last illness dated back about three weeks, when she suddenly collapsed. She was confined to the hospital from that time until her dt^ath. ROOSEVELT CHANGES CAMP. Removes to Another Location With the Expectation of Better Luck. Owing to the scarcity of bear, Roose velt camp at Bayou Tensas has passed into history. The president left the place at 6 o'clock Friday morning and headed towards Bear Lake,whenc? he will remove to another camp, whicl will be pitched near Newell ton in Teii sas Pass on a branch of the Iroi Mountain railroad, ' V. ' ----- v f ' ' J'- ' K i _ PLAN A CONSOLIDATION Of Revenue Bureaus in Sotuhern States .Where Tax income from Booze . *y.' Will Be Eliminated. A Washington special says: Commissioner Capers of tie internal rev' enue bur?au has under consideration the rearrangement and consolidation J for revenue collection purposes of a number of southern and southeastern states. The constitution of Oklahoma, which was recently adopted, absolutely prohibits the sale of intoxicating liquore as a beverage, within the state's bor- : ders, and on January 1, 1908, complete prohibition goes into effect in Georgia. South Carolina, by recent action of the state, Is partly prohibition and partly under the dispensary sys tern. , i ' To carry into effect these changes :.K;a would necessitate an executive order by the presidsnt, hot the action ofsome of the states as to the sale of intoxicating liquors seems to the internal revenue officials to make some- * action of this character an admiais4 " t* <~ iilaut LTttLiVO 11VCSBS11J. >L (9 UUb uacijr, however, that definite action, will be taken for some week*. ' SPINNERS FAVOR EXCHANGES. Representative Heflin Tells Why His Resolution Failed of Adoption. J. Thomas Heflin, representative in congress from the fifth Alabama district and the authcx of the resolution denouncing gambling - in cotton exchanges, which was vigorously debated in the recent cotton congress in Atlanta, in discussing the defeat of his resolution, said: "I have always Behaved that the cotton spinner was a friend of the speculating exchange; 1 am now absolutely convinced of that fact. The New England spinners, without a single exception, opposed my resolution to compel the cotton exchanges to actually deliver the cotton eohL The Southern Cotton Association and the Farmers' Union favored the adoption of my resolution and in separate meetings both endorsed it C. WMacara Of England; 'president of the , International Cotton Spinners' As&o. elation, told me during tike debate oa > fejgg my resolution that he was in farcr of it, hut could not support it attfcr.; time, and he intimated that something might be done at the next conference. 1 told him that L was very much afraid that the impression would be made that the spinner was backing the speculator. "T think that the conference has done good in a gr:at many ways; it has shown the cotton producer his situation in the cotton world; it has shown Mm that the speculator and the spinner are not enemies, but that there is a very cordial friendship between thsm. It has put the producer on notice that he mast rely upon him- ? self in his organizations to enforce the demand for a fair and reasonable price lor cotton. The curse of the gambling exchange, ' hacked bjr foreign and New England spinners, is upon us. Let us support our local far <t mers' organizations loyally, and if we do the Southern Cotton Association and the Farmers' Union will one day exercise a power, whose influence wHl be felt wherever civilization unfurl:; her flag and human beings wear clothes." / ____________ NEGRO BURGLARS LYNCHED. 1 1 & '--V ' Two Swung to Telegraph Pole and Another Riddled With Bullets. Three negro men were lynched at Tunica, Miss., for a s:rles of burglar ies. Two were nangea 10 a leiegrapa pole and the other was shot to death. The negroes were Will Jackson, Jim Shonts and George Robinson. They had been placed In the Tunica irfH, where they confessed to a sfcries of burglaries covering about ten years. Some time during the night the negroes wer? spirited away from the jail and the sheriff and hi3 deputies claim they do not know even the hour when the prisoners were taken. The * sheriff testiflid at a corner's inquest over the bodies that the negroes' coptors must have sneaked in while he and his assistants were out ana teat they used the jail keys, for he found the cells locked and apparently undisturbed when the regular rounds were made later. It was the mob's intention to tau^ all three negroes, but after Jackson and Shonts had been hanged, Rofefcison broke out of a barn, where he was being held and was shot as h< fled. ROAD GUILTY OF REBATING. Santa Fe Company Faces Fine of Over 9 M 211 mM At Los Angeles Saturday after brief deliberation the jury in, the case of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad company, charged, with rebating rendered a verdict of guilty an all counts enumerated in the indlatments. The maximum fine for the offense is $1,100,000.