The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, December 22, 1904, Image 6
^toks, Why Not
^ By Agnes
H^^Hcr=ri HE booksellers of Lond
|HV^?^ like heresies anent fr
EB^^ J vcid of enthusiasm, ar
* l bors whether the free
a.-.1 -7~j ail unmitigated nuisam
B* ^ J hundred and flfty-nint
[I >f last year, they might I
wL Lbility of learning to re
/ The curious thing nboi
jBflM the emphasis lain by the dispi
our nobler land no weak consi
^^B^By's mind. It is startling to read
HBBT paragraph like the following:
|^^^Bca and coffee are good things in t
m . . . . t 1. . , . u . . ni ' * . ? . P t -'
UUt lilt iftA-^rir? a.ui/t j
HrooK. Yet it would be quite as just to
the expense of tax-payers as to establi
washed loungers an! novel-reading boys.
How comes it. we wonder, that we
coffee rooms long apo? Why has not so
this suggestion, and offered to provide
with his name and appropriate inscripth
should keep them always full? Some gi
weary novel-readers awake.
There are those who assert that th
-due. in some measure, to our intelligent
the public?games fur kindergarten babi
young men and women, concerts. fir<
ahNaese joys, bucolic life must seem ter
, one's own energies and resources may b
euing. No wonder that Rome was the b
her-shows free!?Life.
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f Avoid Mc
ii ii By Beatrice
tjnosE^==r O habits are more eas
Bjj ? * of manner and none
Bfl J\J friends and acquaints
HI a A girl who would i
fl-- spoil herself by a liat
II ing up her eyes,
jj | One woman whon
L_ distracted by her habi
when describing anytb;
Another friend, a man. uses one ge
you find yourself watching for it so ii
point of the story.
Many people, quite unconsciously,
telling a story. It comes from their e
Iflfcteregret table.
H^^Sxaggeration of expression is a h:
to break. I know this to my cost, for I
It comes from the idea that in or
large facts and numbers.
^ At first it takes very well, but afte
you say or at least place but small impc
jj. It is so easy to become a slave t
' break away from them.
Never, if you can help it. form an
.one that to be without it would be a gr
J* fi?e may become the slaves even of
g^^Riere is nothing that needs alwa;
I^Ks the right principle is adhered t
man who does the same thin
year out. becomes the slave of
and unhappy when he does not
^ ^JBjversity goes a long way toward co
^^^^Try ;o make each day a little dil
Hit your work in a different spirit. Of
certain prescribed manner in order to I
little ways in which \ariety may be atta
/" Make up your mind that you will n<
things in the same way.
| Conquer habit; don't let habit conq
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Ru
Jin Empire of Graft in
d ing of the Bubble of it
I By John Fo
^i REAT fear of Russia ^s:
Hr>\ quar ?r of a century, bu
mw Japau, its dreaded pow
I jj Russia has great size j
I jj the causes of its lethai
fc |j _ a backward civilization.
F ^ ^ The postofflce handles <
t H through our own. For
It* sia, we have five; and fi
I have fifty-three.
^ Russian industry tells the same stor
HLi industrial enterprise four dollars; the
Oyr_ factories out-number hers t
H ^L^plnnings is bi r two-thirds
Palf as much tobacco; and only in
^^^Vgnorsince leads misery' by the hand
^^^Bthe inside of a school-room. Of th<
"** ?;** oofnohfcir
loan lllt'J i ill piUIIIVl, iuc ^aivvu..u
H ?"-} proper, ninety-four people
I or spell out easy words. Techni
^^Mptor every 11,000 people, there is b
Hr The bureaiu racy and the merchants
FT organized system of graft. It is openly r
I thought of with respect. Not only do adi
Lcure receipts for much larger sums thai
l^pce and dividing it withjtbeir under-ol
HBThlch does not allow a liberal margin
Hnas paid for her railroads two and a hall
Bof Finance estimates as their value?and
BSO percent higher than the necessarj co
Bfbe large Red Cross Fund which was sul
f stolen. The magnificently equipped hos
Efthe East was looted between St. Petersb
I was left in it.
I To sum up: Russ a stands at a grtr
Nry is rotten and tyrannous; its peoj
I sense, dull and brutisi; its priestcraft i
l aual: its land of nat' ral resource was
fc aonnting human souls arte bodies as
fi grotesque weakling --World's Work.
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9 the Public |
Free Tea and Coffee ? ^
^epplier.
on have been uttering: some businessee
libraries. Sober Englishmen, dee
asking themselves and their neighlibrary
is an unqualified blessing, or
:e. In view of the fact that eighteen
; novels were published in England
be pardoned for doubting the advisaad.
it the dispute (to American ears at
atants upon the tax-payer's point of
deration for the tax-payer enters into
in au English newspaper a narrowheir
way?at least as good as the avrequired
to furnish free tea and coffee
estabiisn iree tea ami wn?- twin*
ish free libraries for the use of unhave
not established the free tea and
me philanthropic citizen awakened to
the teapots and coffee-urns (marked
ms). on condition that the tax-payers
entle stimulant is needed to keep the
e overcrowding of our great cities is
t efforts to provide entertainment for
es, clubs for girls and boys, libraries
?works and parades. By contrast with
ribly bald and bare. To depend upon
e wholesome, but it is far from enliviggest
of all big cities, when she gave
0
innerisms i
,? Fairfax.
ily acquired than little peculiarities
that are more irritating to one's
inces.
itherwise be very charming can quite
lit of drawing in her lips or screw*
? k/v fomilr
1 1 Know nearly unvts IICI laimij
t of hesitating for choice of a word
ing.
sture so often in telling a story that
atently that you frequently lose the
form the habit of grimacing when
arnestness in their subject, but it is
abit that is easily formed and hard
daily tight against it.
der to impress people you must enr
a while they cease to believe what
irtance on your utterances,
o little habits and so very hard to
y habit unless it is such a virtuous
ave error,
good habits.
rs to be done in the same way as
o.
g in the same way every day, year
routine. He is unhappy when he
ntentment.
fferent from the day before and go
' course all work must be done in a
>e well done, but there will be many
ined.
>t be conquered by the habit of doing
uer you.?New York Journa
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? Plight }
Mia-h 7>/nrt>s?Burst*
s Terrible Greatness. A>
ster Carr.
i hung over the world for more than a
t today, after a nine months' war with
r has become aJmost a laughing-stock,
loined with great weakness. Some of
rgy are incurable. Others are due to
The roads are mere military routes,
one piece of mail for fifteen that pass
every two miles of telegraph in Rusir
each utile of her telephone wires, we
y. For ach inhabitant. Russia invests
Unite; States, one hundred and twcnwenty-three
to one. The value of her
rs. She manufactures somewhat more
sugc: does she surpass us.
. Ti :ve-fourths of the children never
os'e v !io go to school, few are taught
i. and the elements of arithmetic. In
of e < ry hundred cannot write their
cal < '.ucation is even more neglected;
ut a ingle physician,
in llusion have built up a perfectly
ecog d/ied. treated with tolerance, even
nira;.s buying coal in foreign ports proi
thev havp naid nocketine the differ
Beers, but no contract is let at homo
for a "rake-off." In this way, Russia
f times the amount which the Minister
by American standards, his estimate is
st. It is said that fully 75 percent o 1
bs ribed at home and abroad has been
r i xl train which the Czarina sent tc
in and Moscow. Not a thing of value
i? risis in an evil plight. Its aristooj
codden in ignorance, without moral
often degraded, extortionate, and sented
and consumed: its imperial line,
bullion for its coming; and its (liar,
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TWELVE DAY FIGHT
A Vigorous Assault On The Russians
By Japanese
! GEN. STOESSEL DESCRIBES ATTACK
Dispatches From the Port Arthur
Commander Relate How the Fortress
Was Held Against the Supreme
Effort of the Japanese From Nov.
20 to Dec. 2.
St. Petersburg. By Cable?Gen. Stoesiel's
dispatches to the Emperor, which
were received Friday night, were given
out Sunday. The first is dated
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i\ UVCUiUt'I" auu id ao luuvtiD.
"I am happy to inform your majesty
that on November 20, after an increased
bombardment, the Japanese
attacked one of the forts on the northeastern
front and leaped with a portion
of their forces on the parapet.
They were annihilated by rifle fire and
the bayonet and thrown back into the
trenches. Their reserves were scattered
by shrapnel.
"From November 21 to November 23
the enemy violently bombarded the fort
and, in spite of great losses, effected
by their perseverance a passage between
the two forts on the northeastern
front.
"At 5:30 o'clock in the evening of
November 23, after heavy firing, the
Japanese suddenly hurled themselves
J against several works on this front and
; seized a portion of the trenches, but
: they were thrown back by the reserves
after a fierce bayonet struggle. They
returned to the assault at midnight and
again occupied a part of the trenches,
but were annihilated by our bayonets.
At 2 o'clock in the morning all was
ever and vour majesty's heroic troops
I were able to rest and start to repair;
ing the damage. The Japanese lost
more than 2,000 men. All of onr troops
behaved as heroes. The following especially
distinguished themselves: Generals
Kondrake (commandei of the artillery)
and Gorbotowsky and Lieutenant
Colonel Naoumko. (A dozen other
officers in lower grades are also mentioned
in the dispatch.) The bombardj
ment of the town and harbor continues
I daily. A number of buildings have
| been destroyed and the harbor has
! sustained some damage. The garrij
sons are in excellent spirits."
In other dispatch dated November
| 27. Gen. Stoessel says:
"The 26th and 27th were the bloodI
iest days in the assaults on Port Arthur.
The attacks began on the night
of the 23th, against our left flank, near
Pigeon Bay. The first was repulsed
with great loss to the Japanese. The
same night the enemy attacked a detachment
on Panlung Mountain, but
were repulsed, as also was their attack
on Visokei (203-metre Hill.)
"On the 26th the Japanese began to
bombard and attack fiercely the forts
of the northeastern front and the advanced
trenches. The trenches repeatI
edly chauged hands. Nevertheless, on
i the night of the 26th we threw back
the Japanese at the point of the bayonet.
The enemy succeeded in blowing
up the parapet of one of the forts and
began building parallels there. At an""""
nn sarno nifftit ihflv laift
i sacks along the rampart, hut our artillery
dispersed them. Towards 10
' o'clock in the evening the Japanese
attacked a battery on our left flank in
considerable strength, and at first obtained
possession of a portion of the
works, but our heroes brought bayonets
into use and the Japanese retired,
leaving a heap of their men. Along
1 the whole front the Japanese re-opened
a violent fire against the interior of the
i fortress, keeping it up until o'clock
on the morning of November 27. The
help which God sent us on the birthday
of our mother the Czarine gave us further
victory."
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Snow Two Feet Deep.
Newport. R. I., Special.?As a result
! of the worst blizzard that has visited
I this city in many years, all local traf
J fic is practically at a standstill. The
j storm began at midnight last night
! and abated at noon today. On a lev
el'the snow is more than two feet in
I depth, while a strong wind lias piled
: up drifts that block the streets.
Many Marine Disasters.
[ ' New York. Special.?The snow
! storm and gale which struck the eoasl
I Saturday afternoon and continued ttn
til the early hours Sunday morninj
was the most violent that has occur
red for several years. Reports froir
the New Jersey and New Englarn:
' coasts and from incoming steamers
tell of furious gales and many disas
ters. At Vineyard Haven, over 1'
schooners anchored in the harbor were
blown ashore and several others were
damaged in collisions. Off the Bay
head. N. J., life-saving stations, the
schooner Lizie H. Brayton. bound foi
Providence. R. I., front Baltimore, wem
ashore, the crew being rescued bv the
lite-savers.
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Girl's Body Found.
Colorado Springs, Col., Special?The
! dead body of a white woman, appar
ently about 18 years old. has beet
/ found on Mount Cutler by two survey
j ors. An attempt to destroy the fea
tures, supposedly to prevent identi
flcation, had been made. Detectives
I have been unable to establish the
girl's Identity, but advance the theorj
that she was a tourist from the East
' The girl had been dead a week oi
' ten days when the body was found.
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! SECRETARY WILSON'S REPORT
Figures Showing the Astonishing Values
of This Year's Crop.
The Secretary of Agriculture has j
' transmitted his eighth annual report j
] to the President
; In opening his report the Secretary
! enumerates some of the more im!
portant features of the year's work.
I Among them are extensive cooperation
j with agricultural stations; tne taking
; of preliminary steps to conduct feed;
ing and breeding experiments, the
! war waged against the cotton boll wee- j
j vil and against cattlo tnangc, p'an3
; for education of engineers in road
building; the production of a hardy
orange, a hybrid of the Florida orange
and the Japanese irifoliata; valuable
iescarch in successful shipping of
fruit abroad; the value of nitrogenfixing
bactoria; successful introduction
of plants suited to light rainfall
i are:*; establishment of pure food
I standards; the extension of agricul|
Jural education in primary and secondI
ary schools; the extension of instrucj
iiou to uur island possessions to onable
them to supply the country with
j |2U0,000,000 worth of domestic proi
ducts, now imported from abroad.
He then proceeds to discuss the
I place of agriculture in the country's
industrial iife.
The ccrn crop of 1904 yields a
farm value greater than ever before, j
The farmers could from the pro- j
j <eeds of this crop pay the national
debt, the interest thereon for one year,
and still have enough left to pay a
considerable portion of the govern
rnent's yearly expenses. The cotton
crop, valued for lint and seed at $600,000.000,
comes second, while hay and
wheat contend for i'no third place.
Combined, these two crops will about
equal the corn crop. Notwithstanding
the wheat crop shows a lower production
than any year since 1900, the
farm value is the highest since 1881.
Potatoes and barley reached their
highest production in 1904; save in
1902 the oat crop was never so large
by 60,000,000 bushels. The present
crop of rice promises a yield of 900.000,000
pounds?300,000,000 more than
ever before.
Horses and mules reach the highest
point this year, with an aggiegate
i value exceeding 1,354 million dollars.
I On the other hand cattle, sheep and
| hogs all show a decline.
The steady advance in poultry leads
, to some astonishing figures. The far1
mere" hens now produce one and twothirds
billions of dozens of eggs and
at the high average price of the year
the hens during their busy season
lay enough eggs in a single month to
pay the year's interest cn the national
debt.
After a careful estimate of the value
of the products of the farm during
1 oa j uruhln t*. n cm c coatui 1
ii7V7, uiauc niuuii vvuouo
: it is safe to place the amount at 4,900
million dollars, after excluding the
value of farm crop3 fed to live stock
in order to avoid duplication of values.
This is 9.65 per cent, above the product
of 1903, and 31.28 per cent above
that of the census of 1899.
Some comparisons are necessary to
the realization of such unthinkable
j value, aggregating nearly five billions
of dollars. The farmers of this coun,
try have in two years produced wealth
exceeding the output of all the gold
| mines of the entire world since Columbus
discovered America. This
i year's product is over six times the
, amount of the capital stock of all na1
tional banks; it lacks but threej
fourths of a billion dollars of the value
I of the manufactures of 1900, less the
; cost of materials used; it is three
. times the gross earnings from the
operations of the railways and four
| times the value of all minerals pro:
duced in this country. The year of
1904 keeps well up to the average of
exports of farm products during the
nvo years 1839-1903, amounting to
1 c'Vi.i o33 millions, while the avtiAge
for the five years was nearly 865 mil.
' lions. During the last 15 years the
' balance of trade in favor of this coun'
try. all articles considered, exceeded
-1 4.384 million dollars, but taking farm
products alone, these showed a balance
in our favor of more than 3,300
j millions.
Reviewing the increase in farm cap!|
; tal, the secretary estimates it con'
! servatively at 2,000 million dollars
within four years?this without rccog:
nizing tho marked increase in the
value of land during the past two
; years. The most startling figures
show as illustrating the farmers' prosl
j pcrity are those presented by deposits
. j in banks in typical agricultural States.
, I The Secretary selects for this illus;'
tration Iowa, Kansas and Mississippi.
' | Taking all kinds of banks, national.
I State, private and savings, the depos|
its increased from June 30. 189r.. to
j October 31, 1904, in Iowa, 131 per
: ceut; in Kansas, 219 per cent; and in
1 j Mississippi 301 per cent?in the Unl,j
ted Stales 91 per cent. A similar fav|
orable comparison may be made as
j' to the number of depositors.
The secretary conciuaC3 that the
[ | farmers' rate or nnanciai progress i
; need fear no comparison with that of \
i any other class of producers.
News of the Day.
A special dispatch from Stamford to
a New* York paper says "The Rev.
, Dr. William J. Long, prominent as a
writer and lecturer on animal life and
kindred subjects has been stricken totally
blind and the chances of his re
covering his sight ere poor. For
years one of his eyes was v.eak, and
? cniefly on that account he retired from
r the ministry in 1&03. Last week he
lost the sight of both eyes. He Is conr
fined in a dark room and bears his
affliction with cheerfulness."
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THREE 1% KILLED
A Serious Accident Occurs On The
Battleship Philadelphia
THREE BOILER MAKERS ARE KILLED
The Giving Away of a Casket, or Rubber
Wa6her, Converts the Fire-room
of the Massachusetts Into a Seething
Pit of Steam and Hot Water?
Four Survivor# Terribly Scalded?
Lieutenant Cole Injured in Gallantly
Rescuing the Endangered MenBoiler
Said to Have Been Thorough
iy Iesiea.
Philadelphia, Special.?Caught in a
trap and helpless to save themselves,
three men lost their lives and four
others, including Lieutenant Wm. C.
C. Cole, were terribly scalded Thursday
by a rush of steam and boiling
water in the flre-room of the battleship
Massachusetts, lying at tho
League Island navy yard. The dead
are: Edward Bub, boiler maker and j
civilian; Andrew Hamilton, married, j
boiler-maker; Charles RItzcl, boilermaker.
Injured: Lieutenant William
Cole, U. S. N., assistant chief engineer
of the Massachusetts, scalded about
the head and body, taken to the Naval
Hospital; William Anderson, !
ship's boiler maker, badly scalded,
taken to the naval hospital; James
Wilson, boiler maker's helper and civilian
employe, scalded, taken to the
Vf.iL.ai.A TT ?U-t . A n....
xueiouuibt nuapuai, jusepu n, l/uiand,
boiler maker's helper and civilian,
scalded, taken to St. Agnes Hospital.
With the exception of Lieutenant
Cole, all the killed and injured
icsided in Philadelphia.
Lieutenant Cole received his injuries
in a heroic effort to rescue the
others.
The accident was caused by the giw- i
ing way of a gasket, or rubber washer,
on a boiler on the stnrboaid side
of the ship.
The Massachusetts has been at the
navy yard for some time, undergoing
extensive repairs, particular to the
boilers and machinery. Although
Captain Edward D. Taussig and his
complement of officers and men are j
aboard the ship, the Massachusetts is j
vigin doing business in the state and
urtutlly in charge of the authorities
of the navy yard. The boiler on which
the accident occurred had recently
been cleaned and thoroughly tested
and the boiler makers were today ht
work on another boiler. Without
warning, the gasket between the boiler
plate between the boiler gave way
and a terrific rush of steam and hot
water occurred. The doors of the fire
room w-.-re closed at the time of the
accident, and the only avenue of escape
was a safety ladder. Only one
man, Bramlett, a ship's fireman.
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UlOUgm. or iue muuer, ?uu uc <rov.upv.i_i |
without a scar. Few on the upper |
decks knew what had happened until
1 the steam came rushing up from the
seething pit below. The work of rescue
was prompt, and to Ibis promptness
those who escaped death owe
their thanks.
The first to enter the fire hole was |
Lieutenant Cole. Without hesitating,
and being scalded by the water and
steam, he entered quickly and quickly
dragged the men to a place where
they were taken in charge by others.
Bub and Hamilton were dead when
found, and Ritzel died a few minutes
after being taken on deck.
Whether the gasket was defective [
or was carelessly put in place, re- j
mains for an official court of inquiry !
to determine. It is said the boiler !
had been thoroughly overhauled and I
tested under a tremendous pressure j
of steam. At the time of the acci- |
dent the steam pressure was only
sufficient to run the snip's heating j
plant.
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ine acciaeni. win iducc im.r v. ,
delay In preparing the battleship for J
6ea.
Farmer Killed by Trolley Car.
Spartanburg. S. C.. Special.?Robert
Peihoff, an aged resident of the county
died at an early hour Thursday
morning as the result of injuries sustained
by being Btruck by a trolley car i
on Magnolia street. He suffered con- |
cussion of the brain and died without
having regained consciousness. The ;
coroner held an inquest and the jury re- j
turned a verdict in accordance with
the facts
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Bridae Falls. Killing Three.
Charleston, W. Va., Special.?Three !
persons were killed and four others
seriously Injured by the collapse of the j
suspension bridge across the Elk river, i
which connec ts East and West Charles- j
ton. On the bridge when it went down
were six children on their way to
school and a number ol other pedes- j
trians together with six teams. The i
dead: Mamie Hugginbotham. aged 11 j
years; Annie Humphreys, aged 17; 01- |
lie Gibbs, aged 15. The Injured: Stella
Smith, aged 17, compound fracture of j
elbow; William Holmes, colored, dri- j
ver, cut and bruised: Henry Fielder, j
driver, serious internal injuries; Elma j
Tucker, aged 13, both arms and leg ;
broken.
Lumber Men Meet.
Norfolk, Special.?Representatives of
twenty mills, controlling practically
the entire output of Virginia and North
Carolina pine lumber met here and decided
not to make any change in the
scale of prices which became effective
November 16. An invitation to the
North Carolina Pine Association from
the Secretary of Agriculture to attend
the American Forest Congress in
Washington. January 2 to 6, 1905. was
accepted, and a delegation named to
represent the association.
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AMID MANY JEERS
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Famous Female Swindler Is Taken ti
The Scene of Her Operations ^
MRS. CHADWICK REACHES HOME
She Arrives at Cleveland at the Exact
Minute When Five More Indictments
Are Found Against Her?Taken to
Cuyahoga County Jail and Faints
on the Way to Her Cell?Sarcastic
ana outer opiciiivni nre nunea
at Her Carriage, and Cameras Click
All Along the Line of Its Progress.
Cleveland, Special.?Five times indieted
by the United States government
to the exact minute that her
train rolled into the station, Mrs. Cassic
L. Chadwick came home to Cleveland
this afternoon. She was greeted
with jeers, boota and hisses by the
crowds that gathered In the depot when
her train arrived, howled at by hundreds
gathered in front of the Federal
building. The last sound that reached
from the outside world as she passed
into the stuffy. Ill-smelling office of
Sheriff Barry in the county jail was the hoot
of derision from the people massed
In front of the door way. She made
nc attempt to give bail and after a
brief stop in the office of the clerk of
the United States court, was taken to
jalL She is held in cell 14 In the woman's
department of the jail and her
palatial residence on Euclid avenue of t
which the furnishings atone are valued
at 9200,000, is occupied by her
TT v
u.&iu. ner courage ueiu 10 me iasi,
had but her body failed her when she
mounted the three flights of stairs
leading to the tier of cells where she
Is to remain, she collapsed utterly and
fell in a dead faint.
But for the aid of Deputy United
States Marshals Kump and Kelker,
who held her up and almost carried
her along, as she mounted the stairs
she would never have been able to
reach her celL Breathless, pale and
staggering, she was barely able to
reach a chair as the steel door of the
woman's corridor swung open to receive
her. She sank feebly into a
chair, her head fell backward, and but
for the marshals she would have rolled
to the floor. Water was quickly
brought to her and in a few momenta
she revived, atrd was again a woman
of business. Her first request was thai
her lawyer Sheldon Q. Kerruish be
sent for and she was soon engaged in
a conference with him concerning her
defense. There is small chance that
she will be able to leave the jail before
her trial. There are now seven indictments
against her, five additional
charges having been laid against her
In the Federal Court this afternoon. It
would require surety to the amount
of at least 5100.000 to give her freedom
and there is nobody in Cleveland
who will furnish that amount for her.
She has herself no idea of giving bail
and will remain in jail. She has the
best cell In the place, but it is not a
nice cell, nor is the county jail of
Cuyahoga county a nice jail even as
jails go, but It is the best there is and
she must remain.
Jackson Christian WiH be Cadet at
West Point
The many friends of young Stonewall
Jackson Christian are congratulating
him on his appointment to the
United States Military Academy by
President Roosevelt He is one of
tbe most popular boys in Atlanta, and
his friends aro counting on him making
a fine record when he goes to . Jji
West Point
At present he i3 a student- in the
Georgia Military Academy at Colllege
Park, being second lieutenant In the
cadet battallion. During the past season
he was captain of the football team
at the Academy that won the city
championship. He Is an all round athlete
and will no doubt represent West
Point on the gridiron and diamond
some oi these days.
Young Christian is a son of W. E.
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v-urisuua, uie popular assistant general
passenger agent cf the Seaboard
Air Line, and is the grandson of the
Confederacy's great chiet'tan. General
Stonewail Jackson.
$60,000 Fire in Atlanta.
Atlanta, Special.?Fire here Wednesday
night destroyed T. E. Sawtell's
large stock yards. Stephens' planing
mills and three negro residences. Total
io?s estimated at $60,000. The firemen
were hindered ia their efforts to
fight the flames by drizzling rain and
sleet and coldest weather of the
winter.
Atlanta Woman?Gets Award.
Fort Edward, N. Y.. Special.?Surrogate
Frazier handed down a decision
yesterday in favor of Kate L. Ferris,
of Atlanta. Ga., awarding her the residue
of the estate of Charles Ferris,
late of Sandy Hill, N. Y.. amounting
to $10,000.
Goes to Jacksonville.
Jackson, Fla., Special.?President W.
H. Moore, of the National Good Roads
Association, accepted the invitation to
the Jacksonville board of trade to hold
the midwinter convention of the National
Good Roads Association in Jacksonville
January 19th. 20th. anil 21st,
;wo days prior to the international
auiulliuuiit; lacc ujcci a t ui ujuuut- ls**j tona.
More Smoot Testimony.
Washington, Special.?Testimony er-^^
iating to the alleged polygamous mar- f ^
riage of the late ADostle Abram Can
non and Lillian Hamlin, and additional
testimony concerning the obligations
taken by persons who pass the Mormon
Endowment House was offered in
the investigation of the protests against
Senator Reed Smoot before the Senate
committee of privileges and elections.
The Senate confirmed the following
nominations: Postmasters: South Carolina?J.
R. McClue, Bisbopville.
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