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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-05-05
GAINESVILLE ENJOYS
ERA OF PROSPERITY
REAL ESTATE AND BUILDING
BOOM HAS HIT THE TOWN.
BOND ISSUE WILL BE MADE
FOR IMPROVEMENTS.

GAINESVILLE, Ca, May 2.-There was
a rousing big meeting held at the court
house last night in the interest of the BOND
election which takes place on May 6th.
The bonds are to be issued to erect new
public school building. pave the streets
and begin a system of sewerage.
In view of these improvements, the &C
tive work the electric railway people are
up and doing and the two new cotton
mills beginning operations. real estate Is
looking up and many important deals nave
been made within the last few days.
DR. ~ NJ. Riley has purchased hand
some lot on Green street and will let the
contract for the erection of an elegant
residence on it at once.
b. d. Langford, who recently bought
Governor Gamblers residence. will remod-
Ell it at once at considerable cost.
Governor Gambler has let a contract TO
build him a new home on Race and Cand-
Ter streets.
r. d. Grigg. Ezra Pilgrim and Fred d.
Estes have purchased the Cover Springs
property at a cost of $500.
s. c. Humphreys, Jr., has purchased va
cant lots on Green street, for which ne
paid $1,000.
Mrs. T. c. Black has bought Col. H. II.
Deans residence on Race street; consid-
Grafton $500. Col. Dean will build him a
SIS 900 home on Green street using the CO.
lonial style of architecture
H. NJ. Penland, of Roswell. has pur-
chased a store and dwelling from B. ID.
Langford near the Gainesville Cotton mill
and will move to the city soon.
Many other minor real estate deals
have taken place within the past week
and it is safe to say that Gainesville is
now making rapid strides forward.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-05-05
BISHOPA. ". WILSON
ASKS FOR MORE
MISSIONARIES
A METHODIST DIVINE DECLARES
MORE MISSIONARIES ARE NEED
ED TO PREACH GOSPEL IN
AsIATIc COUNTRIES.


NASHVILLE, Tenn, May 3.-In an ad-
dress here before the board Of missions OF
the southern Methodist church, Of which
he is president, Senior Bishop A. w. Will
son last night made an impassioned ap-
peal for additional missionaries TO Asia
He linked Japans China and Corea, stat
ing that within the next few years there
would be perceptible changes one way or
the other, and that unless the Christian
peopIe predominate the world and church
would be threatened with. destruction.
1--WE have had as much to do with the
boxer movement 1 admit he said, "as
religion had in the troubles in the Roman
empire. 1 confess that so far as civiliza-
ton of the east is concerned our safety Is
not great. Unless we proceed early we
will have to conquer at a heavier cost;
the resistance will be greater than that or
the apostles.
THE work we fail to do today will be a
work done for the devil and against Christ
and the world il the days to come. The
work in other foreign fields is not to be
considered with China, with its teeming
thousands of people with as great brains
as can be found. They viii not take the
mere forms of civilization like the people
of Japan, but go TO the root and appropri-
ate that which they believe will assist
them. If we allow them in their present
condition to go ahead the people OF China,
Japan and COrea will eventually control
the east and make trouble for the west.
we of the west will suffer not only from
the reaction, but from the reflex action
in our own land"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-05-05
S|LVERSERV|CE
READY FOR
SCHLEY
SPLENDID GIFT is TO BE MADE
THE ADMIRAL BY HIS BALTI-
MORE FRIENDS-THE PIES
EMIT AND INSCRIPTION ON IT.

BALTIMORE, May 3-The magnificent
silver service made from silver coins taxi
en- from the Spanish cruiser Cristobal
Colon, TO be presented to Admiral Winfield
Scott Schley by his friends in this state
and in Washington, has been completed
and is on exhibition in the show windows
of the manufacturers in this city. The
service consists Of one center piece; one
soup toureen and ladle; four vegetable
dishes, with covers; one gravy bowl and
ladle, one roast platter, one
game platter, one fish platter, 19 des-
sert plates. Upon each piece is engraved
Admiral Schley's initials in monogram ana
each bears this inscription:
MADE of silver taken from the Spanish
cruiser CristobaI Colon destroyed in tbs
naval battle off Santiago de Cuba, July
3, 1884,
The fneness of the silver was not inter-
fered with and the metal therefore is OF
the hardness of steel. The weight OF
the coins used was about 1,500 ounces
and the present price of silver represents
a value of $780, but nearly six times that
amount was required to purchase the
coin from the government.
The presentation of the service viii be
made next Wednesday at the home of
Theodore Marburg in this city, who, with
former postmaster General James A. Gary
and Ives Cobb, of Washington. comprise
the commission in charge Of its manufac-
ture.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-05-05
AUGUSTA STRIKE NOW
TEST OF ENDURANCE
TODAY COMPLETES THE FOURTH
WEEK AND SITUATION RE-
MAINS EXACTLY THE
SAME.

AUGUSTA. Ca, May S.-Today COM
pletes the fourth week of the cotton mlll
strike. and the situation now Is exactly
as It was on the first day, except. that
each side Is more determined that II VIII
compel the other side to yield. AS fore
cast in these dispatches, the conferences
Of the past week have come to naught and
both sides have sat down to test OF en-
durance. .s-
The committee OF King mill employees
presented the evidence and data they had
collected 10 show that the wage scale OF
the King mill was not equal TO that OF
the other mills. but a compromise OF all
the mill superintendent decided tnat
there was no real difference, and the
slight apparent differences in some IN
stances were equalized by the grades OF
work and class OF machinery. AS the
King mill authorities had agreed TO recti-
~ any Irregularities. should such be
shown to exist. and the strikers had as
scented to return. to work in the King mhl
IL such inequalities were adjusted II was
natural for the superintendent Of the
other mills to find such Irregularities If
they existed. and that they did not find
them Is accepted by. the public as proof
that none exist The strikers have now
returned TO their original demand for
10 per cent increase, and the mill men re-
Iterate that they cannot grant II. SO
there II Is
How long the test OF endurance which is
now on win last, no mcn can say. Your
correspondent has IL from an authentic
source that the mills do not really care to
resume work. and under present condt-
tons would as soon stand idle as to run.
AT present prices Of cotton and cotton
goods they claim they can make larger
profit selling the cotton they have on
hand. than TO manufacture IL into cloth.
Hence, II is certain the mills will not
yield. on the other hand, the strikers are
being fed from the commissaries that
have been established by Secretary sHib-
bert with the money raised by assess
ment OF the textile unions. This yielded a
revenue OF $500 last week, and the idle
operatives are being supplied with gro
ceries at the rate OF % cents for adults
and 30 cents for children. The commits
sary has been open three days, and al
ready the crush around it is so great that
a policeman is required on the outside TO
preserve order. Secretary HILBERT gives
it out that sufficient assistance will be
rendered to prolong the strike indefinitely.
No one can know how far he will be able
TO make this promise good. And so no
one can have any idea OF the duration OF
the strike.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-05-05
CORLISS SAYS
HIS NEW BILL
. WILL PASS
RAILROADS ARE TO BE PUNISH
ED FOR DISCRIMINATING
RATES AND THE BENEFAC-
TOR WILL ALSO SUFFER.

WASHINGTON, d. c., May S.-Repre-
sentative Corliss, of Michigan, the author
Of the bill to amend the interstate COM
merce laws to prevent rate discrimina-
tions and rebate by railroads said today
the hearings before the commerce COM
mittee Of congress had developed already
the assurances that the prime feature of
his bill would pass this session of con-
gress.
The clause he considers the most inn
portant and which he says will pass pro-
vides that railroad corporations shall be
punished for giving rebates and allowing
the differentials and Determinations that
are now so detrimental to public welfare
and such menace to private shippers.
The present law provides that the pun
ishment for the violation shall fall on the
corporation employe who is guilty of dis
eliminating rates and the objection to the
law is that none of the cases made result
in a. conviction in the courts. The Cor
liss amendment also provides that the
shipper who gets the benefit of the dis
elimination in rates shall be punished;
along with the corporation.
1.-THE amendment which my bill offers -
Mr.. Corliss says. will accomplish a vast
reformation in the existing evils of rate
discrimination. In a word, it will give the
relief the shippers seek.
THE interstate commerce commission
taVors the clause refer TO, the great rail-
road corporations themselves favor it, and
so do the business interests generally. All
these have spoken in the hearing for the
bill"
The hearing viii be resumed next Tues
day. The Elkins bill to legalize railroad
pooling is also before the committee, and
will come in for a share of the discussion.
Only the representatives of the roads
favor it. but the grasp of the railroads
on congress is strong. There is said to be
a good chance for the bin to pass.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-05-05
PARDON FROM KING
SETS PRISONERS FREE

VENICE. May 2.-The pardon granted
by King Victor Emanuel 10 the officers OF
the United States cruiser Chicago, who
have been imprisoned here, arrived this
morning. and the prisoners will be re-
leased without delay.
In an interview with representative
OF the Associated Press the imprisoned
officers warmly repudiated the reports
from Rome that they were under the in
auence of wine at the time Of the trouble
and said that. on the contrary, they were
absolutely sober. A
Lieutenant John s. Doddridge remarked:
After the accidental upsetting OF a ta-
bic in a cafe by myself and a companion
at II o'clock at night, we were followed
and attacked by a mob and two municipal
policemen appeared on the scene. ], with
my open hand, motioned 10 the crowd TO
keep OF. The police then seized us, but
the mob continued so threatening that our
brother officers and a marine who hap
pened TO be on the piazza, ran to our
rescue.
I'VE acted only in self-defense and
against a large. hostile crowd. We did not
strike the police. Doubtless misunder-
standing Of the two languages had some
thing to do with the trouble. We have
been allowed TO remain together In prison,
but the room in which we have been con-
fined swarmed with insects.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-05-05
FAMOUS NEW YORK LOT
is SOLD TO SYNDICATE

NEW YORK, May 2.-Contracts short
ly will be signed, according to The Herald
for the sale of the famous Boreel building
at Broadway. Thames and Cedar streets,
to a new corporation, backed by the for
tunes of several steel millionaires, to be
followed by the replacing of the structure
with modern 25-story Office building.
The entire deal involves about $5500,O00
and may be reckoned one of the most no.
table transactions in the history of New
York real estate.
The BOreel building site was once own
ed by the first John Jacob Astor.s 1t form
ed a part of his daughters Wedding dow
ry. Mr.. Aston acquired it in 1928 for $2l,-
OOO.
The title to the land is remarka blyain-
teresting one. 1t runs we'll back into the
seventeenth century when William Dyre
and his wife conveyed the land to Thorn
as Lloyd for 81 $50. IL was then described
as a lot on the Great Highway-the
Broadway of the present day" outside
the gate which means north Of the old
land gate at Broadway and Wall streets
one of the entrances to the city of New
Amsterdam, when under Dutch rule. The
land was used for pasture.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-05-05
FIGHT BETWEEN
OFFICERS AND THIEVES

DAVENPORT. Wash. May 1.-Particu-
lars OF a desperate battle between officers
Of the law and desperadOes. which occur
red on Sunday last at Almira, west Of
here have just been received.
As a result OF the fight BILLY Gibbons, -
one Of the desperadoes. lies dead and his
partner. named Wild, is at large, though
handcuffed.
About two weeks ago Gibbons and Wild
rounded up a band OF horses to ship 10
Wyoming.
Deputy Sheriff NichoI. Of Okanoganio.
pursued them and Wild was captured III
a hotel at Almira and turned over 10 a
group Of men in the hotel Gibbons was
located in a saloon and in fight that
fo4owed SichOll shot him in the side, arm
ana hip. but he managed 10 reach his
horse. For eleven miles Nicholl pursued
him. the mem exchanging shots continu-
ally.
When Gibbons ammunition was gone.
he threw up his gun and surrcpdered. He
was brought back 10 Almira and died at
midnight in the presence OF his father and
mother.
Meanwhile wild fought his way out of
the hotel Office and disappeared.
Gibbons was a fugitive and had served
time fer cattle stealing.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-05-05
CARINSPECTOR
| GIL BE R 7
GUILTY
NORTH $4,000, He ROBBED
RoALROAD C..RS AND MUST
GO TO THE PENITENTIARY
FOR FOUR YEARS.

WAYCROss. Ca. May. 2-GeOrge f.
#-Ilbert was Yesterday sentenced to four
PEARS In the penitentiary for roooing
cars.
Gilbert has been chief car inspector for
#the Plant system at this place Tor
humber OF years and Il Is said that these
s rohberies have been going on for ten or
Twelve years and that the railroad has
iost from forty 10 sixty thousand dollars
wortk e goods.
! Giiberc started az a salary Of $40 month
and worked up 10 the position he held
when he was arrested and was gettins 80
n month.
Re had lived frugaIly and saved his
money and invested il and is now esti-
mated 70 be worth thirty-five or forty
thousand dollars. He testified on the
stand that he had an income Of $40 a
month.
The plant system had been working TO
detect these robberies for number OF
wears. but could never catch the parties,
because the cars from which stolen goods
had been taken always had the seals IN
broken at their destination.
Two months ago a detective, named
Shannon. caught Gilbert with a bag OF
new overails and breakfast strips on his
Shoulders coming away from a car. He
was arrested and put under heavy bond
IN the trial II developed that these over
ais had. been made by Nunnally.- Of At
ANITA That they had been shipped by
Marcus. Loeb & Co. TO a Jacksonville
house. The manufacturers mark. the
shippers mark and the cOnsignee's mark
we're all on them and representatives
from these houses positively identified
them.
The car IN which the goods were ship
ped was a through car and CHANGED to lay
over in Waycr0ss two. days. When IL ar
rived IN Jacksonville. the seal was IN
broken but the box OF overalls inside was
broken open and the exact number Of
pairs missing which were found In the
hag taken from Gilbert.
IL seems that the latches on these cars
had been unbolted and the doors opened
without breaking the seals.
Gilbert claimed on the stand that he had
bought these overalls through his brother
from a Jacksonville house. 1t was also
testified BY other parties that he had told
other stories OF how he got them.
Gilbert has q family OF wife and two
bright children. a son and daughter OF
sixteen and seventeen years. The family
have always stood high here and every
body was shocked when he was arrested.
An appeal for a new trial has been made
and Judge Bennett has fixed the hearing
f0r June 9. Gilbert has been released on a
5000 bond.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-05-05
DISPENSARY SALES
$4,000 IN % DAYS

ROME, Ca, May 2-The Floyd county
commissioners will meet on Monday and
will receive the report of Manager Wat
son, of the dispensary. For twenty-eight
days in April the dispensary sales amount
ed to $4,000 The commissioners of the dis
pensary met on April 18th and added up
the sales to that date The showing
is considered a most excellent one. and
surprised many who had predicted the in
stitution would not make expenses the
first month.
The retail business of Rome has shown
a decided Improvement and the number Of
arrests for drunkenness is much smaller
than for the corresponding period last
year.
Dr. r. B. Headden, pastor of the First
Baptist church in this city, viii leave next
week for AsheYille to take part in the
Southern Baptist convention. DR.. Adams.
of Newman. has been conducting a series
of meetings at the First Baptist for the
past two weeks. A number will be added
to this church. The revival will come to
a close Sunday.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-05-05
BIC WATER: !. flank
FELT. WITH: I. !.
CRASH 4.
CITY OF bailey HAD A. STRANGE
AND DANGEROUS ACCIDENT.
CITIZENS NARROWLY Es-
CAPPED INJURY.

RAxLEY. Ca. May 3.-Baxley had a
remarkable wreck yesterday afternoon by
a falling water tank and tower. some
citizens narrowly escaped Rev. A. M.
McCool had just driven his horse ana pug
gy along the street where the debris now
lies.
Five years ago the city of Baxley, with
a population Of 500 people. built a system
of water works ard has operated the same
with remarkable success, issuing $1,000 in
6 per cent bonds The city seon realized
a big mistake, however, i'm putting up
wooden tank and tower. The tank hold
ing 10000 gallons and resting upon wood
en- tower 60 feet high. About twelve
months ago it was realized that the old
tank and tower was getting dangerous.
Hence the city issued more bonds to the
amount of $4,000. The new tank and tow
er was completed a few days ago and was
to assume the duties of the old one to-
morrow While no one was realizing any
immediate danger, hundreds of persons
having walked under and by the tank to-
day, labor had been engaged to tear down
and remove the old thing next Monday
and the engineer was pumping her full
for the last time, when without mo-
ments warning down she came with 3d.
600 gallons of water, literally obstructing
the main thoroughfare Of the little city as
well as another prominent street scat
tering timbers from the courthouse to the
Weaver building.
The wreckage covers a half acre of
ground and will compare with that of a
railroad train, but the remarkable thing is
that no life was lost or damage sustained.
While the timber is lying against the
courthouse and Weaver building and on
both sides Of the pumping station, there is
no damage done except the breaking of
two window panes and one blind. AL
though Mr.. Frank Harley and Mr.. John
Schlitter, the engineer, were in the midst
of falling timbers and miraculqusly escap-
ed death, they did not have immunity
from the flood, which made them appear
as one who had come down in. the wreck.
Even the little sycamore which had shaded
the public hydrant for all these years and
which stands within ten feet of the tower $
base was spared every one of its
branches
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-05-05
WYNN WINS MEDAL
IN ORATORS CONTEST

BRISTOL. Tenn. May 3-The state in
fer-collegiate oratorical contest was held
Nc Emory. We. last night. The medal was
awarded bv The Judges TO I A. Wynn. OF
Emory and Henry college. In the contest
we're representatives from all the leading
Institutions OF learning throughout the
state. and from the beginning II was a
heated battle for championship .honors.
The Representatives. from the various col
Ieges were as follows.
Emory and Henry college. l. A. Wynn,
The Negro"
Washington and Lee university. Walter
Hayg0od Atkins. The Patriotism OF the
south"
william and Mary college. Floyd T.
Holland. Our Heroes"
Richmond college. Lane Lacy. Great in
Failure
Roanoke college. Hugh N. Marshall,
eQuestion for the South
Hampton Sidney, H S. Stokes. 'sPracti-
cal Ethics"
Randolph Macon. Charles Tinsley Thrift.
SRA OF Past"
University OF Virginia. William L. King
solving Trinity OF Southern Virtues"
The contest for championship honors
was clear cut throughout and all OF the
speeches were gems OF oratory without
exception
The next oratOrical contest viii be held
~ Randolph Macon in 1906.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-05-05
CHATTANOOGA SUFFERS
FROM SEVERAL STRIKES

CHATTANOOGA. May 2.-The strikes in
this city continues to grow and few
more viii practically paraiize all bust
ness The carpenters struck yesterday,
200 strong. They are demanding a nine
hour a day scale every day in the week
except Saturdays and eight hours on that
day. a scale of % cents an hour and
contract from the contractors for one
year. This comprises about One-half of
the carpenters in the city.
The stone masOns have also gone out.
They demand that they shall be raised
from $3.50 to $500 day and that the con-
tractors shall sign a contract for one year.
This involves about 100 men.
The bod carriers went out at the same
time. They are demanding an increase Of
S100 to $3.50 for the days work and a
yearly contract at this scale About 80
men are involved in this contract.
No particular grievance is assigned for
these strikes, except that in view of the
great advances in the price of food they
are unable to live al the same wages they
have been receiving.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-05-05
THREE MORE GIRLS
MAY DIE FROM HURT

PHILADELPHIA, May IA majority
of twenty-eight girls and young men, in
jured yesterday in the panic at the cigar
factory of Hamburger, Homan & Com
pany. resulting in the death of eight en-
ployes suffered principally from nervous
ness and shock and went to their homes
after treatment at the various hospitals.
There are ten victims still in the hos
pitfalls and of these three are in a critical
condition. They are:
Mary Horanken, aged Il, fractured skull.
Mary Alloz, aged II, conclusion of the
brain.
Mary Messio, aged 49, fractured skun.
The physicians state that while these
three are in serious danger their condi-
ton has improved slightly since yester-
day. The chances of Miss Horanken, they
say, is slight.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-05-05
FUND FOR FREE ICE is
GROWING VERY RAPIDLY

The Atlanta ice mission which is to fur
nish ice to the poor during the summer
months has been opened at the Central
Rescue Mission at Go South Pryor street
within. n. Ransom, superintendent or the
mission, in charge.
All persons wro are unable to buy ice
will report at the mission between the
hours of 6 p. m. and s p. m. Each case
will be investigated and If. found to be
worthy tickets will be furnished which
entities each family TO ten pounds OF ice
a day.
The movement to buy ice for the poor
of the city was started by DR.. Holderoy
in a sermon preached at his church last
week His suggestion that each or the
churches make monthly subscriptions Tor
the purpose has struck a popular chord
and with these contributions and many
others which will be received it is thought
sufficient funds can be realized.
1t is estimated that there are between
3.OOO and 5,CO0 poor families in the city
who will be relieved from sickness and
suffering by reason of the ice that viii
be furnished them but are not able to buy
it.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-05-05
MURDERER duplicates
THE VICTIMS WIFE

CHARLOTTE. N. c., May "A special
from Kinston, n. c.. says: 1T is given
out here on good authority that the man
Carter in Jail at Kenansville. n. c.,
charged with the murder of Pete Lawson.
a Duplin county farmer, some time ago.
has made a confession duplicating the
wife of the dead man and claiming that
she. hired Carter to commit the crime
Lawson was shot while sitting in his
room while his wife with some company
was in an adjoining room having music.
1t is said a place had been torn in the
window shade to give a view of the room
I'm which Jones was sitting. Mrs. Law
son, it is expected, will soon be arrested.