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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-27
CHICKEN CAUSED DEATH.
y. j. KEITH KILLED AT LOUISVILLE
BY j. A. NEWsOME.

Prominent Citizen of Louisville Dies
From wounds Indicted by Deputy
sheriff DepredntiOns of New
some's Chicken in Keith's Yard
Caused the Quarrel That Ended in
Death-NewsOme in Jail.
louisville, Ga, Aug. Pas the re-
guilt of a street encounter here yester-
DAY, between ]. j. Keith, one of our
most prominent citizens, and Deputy
Sheriff J. A. Newsome, Mr.. Keith is
dead and Newsome is in the hands of
the sheriff.
The parties were next door neigh
bors and the difficulty seems to have
arisen over a chicken of Newsome's S,
which was habitually coming into Mr..
Keith's garden.
The fight took place in front of the
court house and no one heard the
words passed between the two men.
The first seen of it was the two to-
gether on the ground. They were sep
arated and Mr. Keith went home with
a severe wound on one side of his
head.
No one thought of it terminating as
seriously as it has.
MIR. Keith was about so years of age
and was one of cur most prominent
merchants, he was a member of Da-
mon Lodge, No. 10, K. of P, and will
be buried with Pythian honors.
He leaves a wife and four sons to
mourn his untimely death, besides
hosts of friends all over the state.
An inquest will be held tomorrow
morning. Newsome is a young man
about 80 years of age and has lived in
Louisville for a number of years.
The occurrence has cast a gloom
over the entire community.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-27
ABLE TO CUT THE RATE.
state Taxes VIII BE $3.50 Per 81 900.
Lapsed Appropriations Made the
Difference.


Difference.
Atlanta, Aug. 26.-The state rate tax
was fixed to-day by Gov. Gambler and
Controller General w. A. Wright at
$50 on $1,000. or IA cents on $1,000
less than last year. This reduction was
not considered possible until the fig
ures were gone over to-day by these
state officials, who believed it would
have to be put at $5.44 again, which
was the highest rate allowed by law
to be charged.
1t was found to-day, however, that
certain appropriations which were
made for last year, did not apply to
this year, and also that the state will
have an increas ed income this year,
insurance taxes Yielding $4,000 addi-
tional alone. These facts, together with
the increased returns of $40, 100, 510,
made the reduction to the figure stat
ed possible
Under the official order issued by
the Governor, which puts the tax rate
at $50 mills on the dollar. 297 mills
is levied for general purposes FL
mills for schools, and % mills for
sinking funds.
In 1888 the people of the state en-
joyed the lowest tax rate since the
war, $3.50 on $1,000. From that time
it has gradually increased. until the
year before Gov. Gambler went into
Office it was 1921. Since then it has
been reduced, having been under his
adminlstratio ton 1886, $500, $5.44 and
this year So. 80.
Gov. Gambler will urge in his forth
coming message a still further looping
off of appropriations. in the hope that
future tax rates may be reduced still
more
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-27

BUSINESS NOTICES.
"BURG LINE"
MONTHLY SERVICE
GA,
TO AMSTERDAM.

The above line will make sailings
each month to Amsterdam.
Steamship ZEEBURG about Sept. 80.
Steamship VOORBURG about Oct. 30.
Steamship about Nov. so.
In connection with the Holland Rail-
way Co. and the Netherland and Ger
man Transport Companys Rhine
boats. Through Bills Lading given to
all points in Holland, Germany and
Switzerland and to all points on the
Rhine. Cargo booked to Rotterdam
with option of Tightening same at
ships expense, but shippers risk
For further Information apply to
J. F. MINIS & CO., Agents,
Savannah, Ga.
HUDlG & BLOKHUYZEN, Agents,
Amsterdam and Rotterdam.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-27
"ToO SLIPPERY FOR SAM"
Sam Jones Says Sam Small Needs
Gravel Under His Feet.

Gravel Under His Feet.
Atlanta, Aug. 26.-Rev. Sam P.
Jones, who was in the city to-day. re-
ferring to the report of Sam Small's
trouble at Brattleboro. VT, is quoted
as follows:
This morning I received letter
from Vermont asking me something
about the record of my old friend,
Sam Small. saying that Sam was do
ing the temperance cause much harm
in that state, speaking in the interest
of the No License Local option,
candidate, which, by the way, is the
same old gang Sam was speaking for
in Georgia a few weeks ago under a
New England name. He wanted me
to write him something to counteract
the harm Sam was doing the temper
ance cause.
II did not answer the letter. but the
latest news from Vermont tells us
that Sam has done that himself. Poor
Sam! He is a good-hearted fellow,
strong in a thousand things and weak
in but few with thousand virtues to
a single fault but if Sam had come to
me for advice / would have told him
that the advocacy of anything that OPP
poses the prohibition of the liquor
traffic was too slippery ground for
him to stand on.
Sam needs gravel under his feet
and sand on his shoes, and whenever
any man with weaknesses in that di-
rection goes to monkeying. the mon
key will soon be laid up for repairs.
with all his faults l love him still,
and advise him to come back clean
over on the side of prohibition, the
side he stood on for sixteen years
a nd FnIl n ef,, rxI1
now stand there and fall no more for
ever"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-27
BIDS WANTED.

Headquarters Savannah Police De-
partment. Office Of Superintendent Of
Police Bids VIII be received at this
Office until IL M Thursday Sept 4,
1902, for furnishing this department
with winter uniforms and oyercoats,
according 10 specifications 10 be seen
upon application al this ONCE. The
Committee on Police reserve the right
20 reject any or all bids. All bids 10
be addressed 20 the superintendent OF
Police. OWEN y. REILLY.
superintendent o. Police.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-27
the South,
NOTICE.

City of Savannah. Office Fire De-
partment. Savannah, Ca, Aug. r.
19o2.-Proposals for furnishing the
Fire Department with winter uniforms
will be received at the Office of the
undersigned until II o'clock noon of
Thursday, Aug. 20, 1902. Specifications
will be furnished upon application at
the office of the Fire Department
corner of Indian and West Broad
streets, any day between the hours of
8 o'clock a. m. and p. m.
All proposals must be sealed and ad-
dressed to the Committee on Fire.
Uniforms to be delivered (. o. b. in
Savannah on or before Friday, Oct.
8, 1902. The committee reserves the
right to reject any and all proposals
or to award the contract in part or as
a whole. JOHN e. MAGUIRE,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-27
SOLDIERS HOME ACCEPTED.

Trustees Take 1t From Contractors.
12O old Soldiers VIII BE It's In
mates.
Atlanta, Aug. 26.-The building COM
mittee of the new Soldiers Home,
composed of Judge w. L. Calhoun,
chairman, Maj w. T. Gary OF Rich
mond, Col. c. NJ Wiley of Bibb, Judge
w. F. Jennings of Putnam, and Hon.
H. w. Bell of Jefferson, met here this
morning, inspected the home and ac-
cepted 1t from the contractors. A.
McGilvary & Co. The cost of the home
was $3.50
Contrary to the general expectation,
the sixty inmates were not taken there
from their temporary quarters to-day,
because of the fact that the water
supply is not ready. They will be NOV
ed probably the first of the week
There are about sixty, new applicants
for admission. and these will be pass
ed on at the next meeting Of the board
of trustees.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-27
Both Phones 500.
OPEN ALL NIGHT
PROPOSALS FOR SUPPLIES.

City of Savannah, Office of Director
of Public Works, Savannah, Ca, Aug
rs, 1902.-Bids will be received at this
office until Saturday, Aug. 30, 1902, at
IL o'clock noon, city time, to furnish
the city with supplies until Sept 30,
1902. All proposals must be made out
on official forms, which can be secured
at this office on and after this date.
Envelopes to be marked, Proposals
for Supplies" The city reserves the
right to reject any and all bids. Bids
to be opened in the presence of bid
ders. GEO. NJ. GADSDEN.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-27
SUWANEE SPRINGS WATER

is the only water in the world that will
cure, quickly and permanently, Bright's
Disease. 1t has never failed.
There is no better time to visit the
Springs than during the summer
months. Board $40 per week, includ-
ing hot and cold baths.
1t matters not what your trouble is
you can be cured in from three to six
weeks. l am well known in Savan-
nah, South Carolina. North Carolina
and Florida. / could not make this
statement if 1t was not true.
ANDREW HANLEY,
President Suwanee Springs Co.
All you can drink at Livingston's for
cents.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-27
KNIGHTS PRICES.

Peterman's Roach Food &c, Violet
Ammonia 10c. Witch Hazel Soap &c,
Pain Killer Ice, Qunine OF. soc,
Empty Capsules sc for 100, Castoria
zoe, Grove Chill Tonic Csc, Bryan's
Chill Tonic soc, Wintersmith's Chill
Tonic CSC, Childs, Jackson Square,
Henry George and the other adver-
tised sc Cigars for CSC, Warburg's
Tablets loo dozen, Dentacura Tooth
Paste Ice, Alligator Liniment 15c, Jap
anese Oil S3c, Vinol 81, BIomalgia, the
only guaranteed neuralgia and head
ache cure. Csc. Cob's Corn Cure cures.
KNIGHTS PHARMACY,
Both Phones $50.
OPEN ALI. NIGHT
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-27
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FALLING PISTOL Exploded.

White Man Near Quitman Lost Life
in Strange Fashion.
Quitman, Ga, Aug. 26.-Tobe o'Neal,
white man employed at brick kiln
near Boston, lost his life in a peculiar
manner to-day. In a pair of trousers
he had a plug of tobacco and a pistol.
He took the trousers up to get the
tobacco and dropped them; the pistol
struck the floor. and was discharged,
killing him instantly.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-27
FILMING.

=. T.. MASTERS. The Old Reliable
Plumber is now located ~ 200 Whit
aker street, and IL ready 10 give you
estimates on new work as Well as
sewer Connections. All work done BY
this house viii BE- guaranteed
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-27
PROPOSALS FOR FURNISHING COAL

Savannah Water Works. Savannah,
Ga. Aug. 25th. 1e02.-Proposals will be
received at this office until August
30th. at IL o'clock noon Getty time),
for furnishing the water department
with coal for one year. beginning Sept.
LIST. 1902.
Specifications can be had upon ap-
plication to this office.
l. u. KINSEY,
Superintendent
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-27
FRATERNAL UNIONS CONVENTION.
With 100 Delegates i'm Attendance,
1t Meets in Atlanta.

1t Meets i'm Atlanta.
Atlanta, Aug. 26-The district con-
vention of the Fraternal Union of
America was held here at the Kimball
House this morning. There were about
$50 delegates present from the five
states in the district The following
delegates were elected to the National
Convention:
Sheppard Bryan. Of Atlanta, Oscar
Floyd, of Birmingham, and w. o. Nc
Donald of Charleston.
The states represented here were
South Carolina. Georgia, Alabama,
Tennessee and Kentucky The society
was Incorporated in Denver in 1896.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-27
vULCANIzING.

Bicycle, Buggy and Auto Tires re-
paired and Vulcanized. by Factory ex-
pert. All work promptly attended TO
and guaranteed.
J. II. GREEN,
ia jefferson Street,
over Thomas Bicycle Store. Entrance
on Broughton Lane.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-27
NO CLUE no THE wREcKEIts.
Detectives Can't Locate MiscreaBts
Who DeraiIed Train.

Atlanta, Aug. Pho clue has yet
been found 70 the parties who turned
the switch and drew the rails that
wrecked the Southerns yestibuled
train Yesterday morning near the Car
oliDa line.
Detectives are Etill on the track Of
The supposed guilty parties, but 80
Tar without result.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-27
IT Is A coon SIGN

That gives the merchant an air OF bus
mess. I am not "A bill poster, but a
thorough up-to-date pictorial sign
writer. decorator and paper hanger.
Beware Of humbugs, Jscklegs and
would-be contractors. and patFonlze
the old reliable.
WM. TAYLOR,
iss-l40 Barnard
Ca. Phone s77. Established 1881
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-27
TYUS STILL AT LARGE.
$500 Reward offered for Capture of
the Murderer.

Cairo, Ga. Aug. 26.-Goley Tyrus is
still at large, though many men are
trying to effect his arrest. Three hum
dred dollars reward is offered for his
capture. The description of the negro
is as follows
Color, ginger cake; hight, five feet:
weight, 160 pounds; age, 10; has a
downward look
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-27
The Chatham Bank

LEOPOLD ADLER, President.
c. S. ELLIS, Vice President.
FRED. w. CLARKE, Cashier.
soifcits the account. of individu-
ais, Arms, banks, associations and
corporations.
Liberal favors extended to corre-
spending banks, as our unsurpassed
facilities for collecting insure
prompt returns.
BUYS AND SELLS FOREIGN Eek
CHANGE, WRITES LETTERS OF
CREDIT AND ISSUES BANK MONEY
ORDERS PAYABLE IN ALL PARTS
OF EUROPE.
Interest compounded quarterly ON
deposits I'm the SAVINGS DEPART
DIENT.
Safety Deposit Boxes and Vaults
for rent.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-27
FINE ROMAN HYACINTHs

Now ready at SOC per dozen. Large
freesias bulbs CSC per dozen.
Special attention paved to floral de-
signs and cut flowers. Fresh cut flow
ers every day at store
GEO. WAGNER'S SONS.
Bull and Perry streets
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-27
Drink a Bottle Of
CarbOnated Coca Cola
= cents.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
BIDS WANTED.

City of Savannah, Office Director of
Public Works, Savannah, Ca, Aug. 20.
1902.-Bids will be received at this
Office until Saturday, Aug 80, 1902, at
II o'clock, noon, city time, for furnish
ing feed as follows: No. l Timothy
hay per 100 pounds; No. Timothy
hay per 100 pounds; best quality
mixed oats; to be weighed at city lot.
Envelopes to be marked, Bids for
Feed" The city reserves the right to
reject any or all bids. Preference
given to party who can deliver feed
from one location. Bids to be opened
in the presence of bidders.
GEO. NJ. GADSDEN, Director.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-27
SPECIAL NOTICES.

SPECIAL NOTICES.
---~-~~~~-~~----~-~-~---
FRED q SOMMERS'
UNION STATION RESTAURANT.
The Colorado Catalogues are the
finest things that ever came to sa-
vannah. Going like hot cakes.
Those Baltimore Soft Shell Crabs are
not to be overlooked
Rice Birds.
Pompano.
Bluefsh.
Spanish Mackerel.
In fact everything in season, at the
SWEETEST dining room in
the South.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-27
STORM INSURANCE.

above in addition to Fire. Accident and
Life Insurance. Do not delay placing
Storm Insurance until the Storm
comes. Delays are dangerous.
w. T. HOPKINS, Agent.
Telephone No. 219. IS Bryan st. East.
CHAS. INGLESBY. Manager
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-27

NWF ENNsF
PROPERTY OWNERS - DO NOT
wait until ordinance requiring you 20
connect 10 new house drainage IL en-
forced. ~ Will pay you 10 have II done
at once BY the former inspector OF
plumbing, W. ~. cOkGROVE,
a1a DTaytOa street
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-27
SPECIAL NOTICES.
SPECIAL NOTICE.

SPECIAL NOTICE.
Neither the master nor the agents
of the British steamships Robinia,
Lash. master, and Obi, Pinkham,
master, will be responsible for any
debts contracted by the crews of said
vessels. ]. f. MINIS & CO,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-27
REPAIRING.
ATTENTION.

In addition to having a thorough
equipment for handling Furniture.
household goods and Pianos, we have
an elegant line of Hanson Cabs and
Surrevs. We have just received an
up-to-date Trap, suitable for parties
and moonlight drives. Seats eight.
UNION TRANSFER co.
Phones 4l3.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-06-20
Those Dull DucISs.

recall Mr.. Lowell telling, loosely.
in an after dinner speech in Cambridge
how he met an acquaintance (of dubi.
Gus standlng) whose cheerful face and
happy demeanor led him to ask the
cause Of such exuberant felicity.
why" said the genial smiler, 1--WE
discovered n way TO make my fortune.
We all know that the reason for the
fine flavor of the wild duck is the wild
celery on which it feeds. Now, pro.
pose to feed it to the domestic duck and
supply the market"
Some weeks later, on meeting his ac-
quaintance again, Mr.. Lowell found
him quite depressed and inconsolable.
"Why are you looking so unhappy? |
thought the last time ! saw you that
you We're on the point of making your
fortune with ducks, Wouldn't il
work.
NO" was the reply; "the things
won't eat it."-Atlantic.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-06-20
she PrIcked Her Finger.

A maid employed by n prominent
New York family came 70 her mistress
with tears in her eyes not many days
after she had been In the household
and said that she had pricked her fin.
ger with table fork.
81 am terribly worried, ma'am," she
said "for fear the fork may have had
some brass in II and have poisoned my
hand"
"Oh, nonsense, Mary" replied the
lady Of the house. How could the
fork poison you when It is made OF
pure silver? | never allow anything
else on my table"
The next day Mary and the fork
which had pricked her and all the 9th
er forks and, In fact, the whole table
service, guaranteed by the mistress TO
be solid silver, had disappeared for
parts unknown.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-06-20
CLASS DISTINCTIONS.
They Go Almost Down to the Very
bottom of Socfety.

Some sort Of class feeling Is. we be-
lieve, inherent In human nature. Peo-
pie often speak as though these de.
marcatlons existed only among the
middle and upper classes, but such II
not the fact. Indeed 1t is very fa-
from the fact. No more misleading
labels than "the classes" and "the
masses were ever invented. There
are no masses. rightly speaking. Class
distinctions go almost down TO the bot
tom-not quite, of course, because
there Is always n residuum who
through their fault or their ne
have neither the pride II. ,ue ina =
ination to sort themselves
Money is not an absolute u.t,..nn Of
social position. Character, in 50 .a,
as II Is reflected in propriety Of be
havior, counts for a great deal. A
rowdy family sink directly, though
they may have money TO waste, and a
respectable widow may retain her su-
periorty In the face Of grinding power.
ty. The acme of good manners, the
very badge OF gentllty, Is to be
quiet" never TO let the sound Of
mirth, quarreling or lamentation pro-
ceed out Of your dwelling.
This sign OF social distinction Is ap.
precisted down TO the very bottom.
on the upper rungs of the social lad.
der we should say that those social
distinctions which can be defined at
all rest upon birth, money and brains.
Among the poor they rest upon money
and manners, and the latter, alas, arr,
below n certain wage, woefully de-
pendent upon the former.-Spectator.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-06-20
. Canny In second EngnRement.

For years a young man and young
woman had been engaged. and each
had economical with vi w of hav.
ing the more to spend when they
should marry. Six months ago. how
ever the engagement was broken, and
shortly afterward the young woman
became the fiancee of another man.
This man she encourages TO spend his
money lavishly-on her. He has bought
her beautiful silver for her toilet table
the latest design and engraved with
her initials; handsome leather trav-
cling bag completely fitted out, rugs.
books and other articles make home
comfortable.
mo more economizing for me-" says
the girl. IF he invests so much i'm
me, we won't be so likely to quarrel
and certainly he viii not have the mon
ey to spend on another girl" which is
the wisdom that rules sentiment in
these modern day s.-New York Press
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-06-20

Were 1t not, as Huxley says, that
"the ignorance OF the so called educat-
ed classes is colossal" there might be
need for apology in restatement of the
fact that man is not descended from
the ape. The relationship between
them is lateral, not lineal, both being
offshoots of the same stock, but each
remaining. Of course in very different
degrees of development, isolated groups
OF mammals.-Edward Clodd's "Thom-
as Henry Huxley"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-06-20

The principal Of a certain high school
tells a Joke on himself with much en-
joyment one day during an eXami-
nation when he was visiting the varl-
Gus rooms, he stopped TO ask a very
bright boy n sum in algebra, and, al
though the problem was comparatively
easy, he could not answer 1t. The prin-
cipal remarked with some show of Sc
verify:
"My boy, you ought to be able TO do
that. At your age George Washington
was n surveyor"
The boy looked him straight in the
eye and answered:
"Yes, sir, and at your age he was
president Of the United States"
The conversation dropped at that
point.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-06-20
Jonnh md the Whale.

There is nothing in the original texts
of the Bible 20 show that the creature
which we are told swallowed Jonah
was really the same animal we call a
whale" in this day and age of the
world. The word translated into both
the Septuagint and the New Testament
was the Greek word "Katos," which
means simply sea monster, and this
word was the one used by our Lord in
his reference TO the account of Jonah's
exploit. So far, therefore, as the He
brew or Greek words are concerned,
the monster may have been n shark, a
sea serpent or some other uncanny den
tzen of the deep.
Hence there is nothing incredible I'm
the statement that Jonah, upon being
thrown into the sea, was quickly over
taken by some water monster and
swallowed without suffering mutila.
ton. To Biblical students 1t is n well
known fact that vessel sailing from
Joppa to any Spanish port must pass
through section swarming with n spe-
cies OF shark called "sea dog" The
sea dog has n throat large enough TO
swallow fair sized men.-St. Louis Re
public.