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The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-16
WHITES AND BLACKS
ARE BUSY IN WAR.

Laurel, Miss, May 15.-It is reported
that in the northern part of Smith
county, near Burns. the whites are up
in arms and are whipping and killing
negroes wherever they find them. In
formation is to the effect that one
white man has already been mortally
wounded and several negroes killed.
The trouble started by a negro Jump
ing a crop which he had planted, and
the owners, named Bruce, having adj
vanced the negro a considerable sum
on his labor, went after him to get
him to pay or resume his work. The
negro was found among friends, who,
with him, threatened the Bruces.
The latter went home, and, gathering
some of their neighbors about them,
went back after the negro. On their
way to where the negroes were left,
the party was ambushed and the ne
groes firing into them, MORALLY wound
ing Mr.. Craft, a farmer. The white
men returned the fire and made chase
for the negroes.
The riot began Tuesday, and it is
said that the enraged white men of the
community are still in the saddle,
searching for the negro who instigated
the trouble.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-16
1T WAS NOT A JOKE.
Police Inspector Insists the Box Was
Seriously Intended.

New York, May 15.-Police Inspector
McCluskey returned to-day from Chi
cago, where he had been investigating
the mystery of the internal machine
left on the Cunard pier.
The inspector said his trip had es-
tablished the fact that only one man
was concerned in the whole affair, and
that he was not i'll the inspector s
opinion, the member of any secret So
ciety or band. He had not expected to
find Rosseau, the suspect, in Chicago.
Clues were leading to other Western
cities.
The inspector said that he was long
way from solving the mystery, but
hoped that something tangible would
soon be discovered.
The dynamite, the inspector asserted,
was procured in this city-where, he
declined to say. The inspector is also
satisfied that there was no motive of
revenge, and that Rosseau was never
connected in any way with the Cunard
Line.
The inspector repeated, in response
to questions, that there was no proba-
bility of the matter turning out to be
a joke. He said there was a serious
scheme behind it. AS to the nature
of this he was silent.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-16

journal and wheel, from the car wheel
to the rail, from the rail to the idler
wheel, and thence through the coil.
wound arm.
A number of tests were conducted al
Seattle, Wash, under the supervision
of an official of the Northern Pacific
Railroad. A Doubt track car was
equipped with two 80 H. p. electric
motors for driving purposes also fol
supplying what might be called the
traction current. The 'idler'' wheels
were held at a distance of five-eighths
of an inch above the rail when tha
magnet was not energized. The cur
rent was controlled by a switch oper.
ated by lever at the motormans ell
bow so that it could be turned on and
off as readily as the motor current
1t was found that with an expenditure
of 21z horse power the magnetism de-
veloped increased the tractive effort
over 800 per cent. In one instance the
rails and wheels were creased and the
car started. When the wheels began
to slip the draw bar pull was found
to he l,500 pounds. When the magnets
were energized this was increased 10
$3.50 pounds. In another test the
model of a trolley car was moved ur
track constructed at an incline Of
40 degrees by use of the device. When
the current was turned off the mag
net, however, the ascent was found IA
be impossible.
The claim made for the apparatus
is that its application to steam loco
motive would not necessitate the use
of such heavy locomotives as are al
present built for use on heavy grades
since the electro-magnet would act as
substitute for much OF the weight
now required to insure tn Unnecessary
traction while, as already stated, the
invention is intended TO do away with
the use OF sand entirely. The inven-
tor OF the device is A. A. Honey, ar
electrician, who began his expert
ments when connected with the North.
ern Pacific Company as superintendent
Of telegraph.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-16
WHITE BREAD.


Another Proof in the Controversy.
Under certain conditions white bread,
potatoes and all starchy food fails to
digest and bowel troubles and Appendix
citis are likely to follow unless the food
is changed.
After consulting five physicians the
last three of whom declared that an
operation for appendicitis was the only
way to save her life, a young lady of
Bloomington, Ind. recovered her health
entirely with no other aid than Grape
Nuts, the scientific predigested cereal
food.
She says: Three years ago had an
attack of what my family physician
pronounced congestion of the bowels
and stomach.
HE treated me for some time but I
continued to grow weaker, constantly
subject to the same attacks. I was COM
PEELED to give up my studies at COL
iege. In the meantime l consulted
another physician. Finally 1 went to
a specialist who pronounced it catarrh
Of the stomach and acute appendi-
citis. l was under his care for about
three weeks when l had another attack
and my parents called other physic-
ians who claimed that nothing but the
removal of the appendix would save
my life.
my parents refused to permit this
and was left total wreck, weak, ner-
vous. unable to eat. 1t was then that
they tried Grape Nuts, feeding me a
teaspoonful three times a day Upon
this food alone 1 improved from the
start to the great wonder of my family.
For two months l ate nothing but
Crane Nuts and drank beef tea. Since
that time (Which was more than a
wear ago) 1 have not had the slightest
illness and I am now strong and able
to study again. / know that I owe
nv restored health to Grape Nuts
and / now eat it constantly" Name
furnished by Postum Co, Battle Creek,
Mich
In this case as in most cases of ap-
pendicitis the trouble started with
Inflammation of the bowels resulting
from the use of pasty. starchy foods
that were undigested in the stomach
and went into the intestines in an un-
digested condition, fermenting there
and starting disease. Too much,
white bread viii do this. Re-
uef and final cure came when
the improper food was left on
and Grape Nuts. 0n which the starches
have been transformed into grape
sugar by a predigesting process), was
used Although all ~ the rebuilding
elements are there In Grape-kuts The
food Is so pure that the most delicate
stomach relisbes and djgests H.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-16
DOwNPOUR At BLAoKsHEAR.
Heavy Rainfall Does Considerable
Damage.

Blackshear, Ca. May 15.-During
the past nine days there has been an
excessive rainfall throughout this sec
ton, but the climax was reached yes
terday afternoon and last night when
the qownpour was terrific. The drains
were unequal to the emergency and
general overflow was the result. The
water stood from l to feet deep in
the low places on the streets, while at
the home of Mr.. w. L. Sweat the
water almost reached the floor. The
rain last night was accompanied by
heavy wind which did considerable
damage. Among other things the meat
market of Mr.. L. Altman was lifted
off it's pillars and deposited on the
ground. The damage to trees was COM
paratiVely slight.
Cotton is materially damaged, and
replanting will doubtless be necessary
where the land in cultivation is low.
The citizens of Blackshear are max
ing extensive preparations for an edu-
cational rally on June 8. Among the
speakers for that occasion are Rev.
r. c. Reed, D. D., of Columbia, S. c.,
Congressman w. G. Brantley, and
probably the Hon. Hoke Smith of At
lanta. Excursion trains will be run
from all points within a radius of
seventy-fve miles, for which special
low rates have been secured, while an
old fashioned barbecue, a brass band
and a cavalry tilt will add to the at
Effectiveness of the occasion. 1t is fully
expected there will be several thou
sand visitors on that day.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-16
WAYCROSS NEWS NOTES..

Waycross, Ca, May ia damage
suit for $3.50 was filed in the City
Court of Waycross to-day against the
Southern Telephone Company and the
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph
Company. The suit was brought by
Mr.. Screven c. Morton, thorugh his at
torneys, Messrs. w. F. Crawley and J.
Hill Spence.
Mr.. Morton alleges that on March II
he was injured by being thrown from
his horse after coming in contact with
dead telephone wire which had been
carelessly stretched within a few feet
of the ground, across Pendleton street,
in Waycross.
The annual picnic of the Waycross
Rifles will in all probability be held on
June at Green Cove Springs, Fla.
Capt. Bird and Sergt. Walker returned
this morning from Savannah, after con-
sulting Mr.. w. II. Leahy regarding a
special train for the company and their
guests on June 3. Sergt. Walker and
CorpI. Mcclellan will leave tomorrow
for Green Cove Springs to make ar
engagements for the entertainment Of
the company.
DIR. j. C. Rippard and Mr.. T. H. Finn
have returned from Macon, where they
have been attending the session of the
Grand Council of Red Men. DIR. Rip
pard was for the second time elected
a member of the Grand Council, his
office this year being great sanap.
Next Monday the Waycross Iron and
Metal Company will begin business in
this city, with Mr. Herman Wolf, a
member of the firm of Joseph Wolf e.
Son of Savannah, as manager.
The Clinch County Sunday-school AS
ISOLATION will convene at Stockton to-
morrow and will continue until Sun
day night. Several Ware county Sun
day-school workers will attend the con-
vention, among them Mr.. w. S. Booth,
president of the district association.
The annual picnic of the First Meth
odist and Trinity Methodist Sunday
schools of this city will be held at At
kinson on May 29. The Blackshear
Sunday-schools will join with Way
cross on that day, and a special train
from this city may be run. The Pic
mic Committee is composed of Messrs.
B. H. Thomas and V. L. Stanton.
Mr.. Turner Brewer. formerly of this
city, was married yesterday morning at
Gainesville, Fla, to Miss Willie Meyer.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-16
SAND DISPENSED WITH.
Magnetic Device to Increase Adhe-
sion TO Rail.


From the Philadelphia Record.
A device intended to increase the
tractive power of the electric or steam
motor has been invented and tested
under various conditions with what
has appeared to be considerable sue
cess. 1t is intended to do away with
the use of sand in preventing not only
street railway cars, but steam locomo-
tives, from slipping when taxed with
an unusually heavy load, or by reason
of wet rails. AS is well known, the
sand-box is an indispensable adjunct
in transportation service at present,
and is one of the causes of the wear
ing out of rails, especially on grades
as the friction of the particles pressed
against the rails by the wheels of the
motor rapidly cut away the surfaces
of both.
Electricity is employed in the device
referred 10 as a substitute, being ap-
piled through an electromagnetic It's
operation is as follows: When ap-
piled to an ordinary trolley car, on
each side Of the motor. between the
motor casing and the wheel. is bear
Ing which supports an arm, upon
which the magnetizing coil of wire Is
wound. The other end of the arm car
ries a small wheel. without any fange,
which rolls along the rail when the
device Is in operation, and il held
above the rail by springs when the
coil Is not energlzed. The object OF
this arrangement Of an ''idler" wheel
upon the rail IL 10 give a short mag
netic circuit The lines OF force In
this case flow from the arm 70 the cag
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-16
STEEL PLANT STOCK
Will, Is Is Said, BE Taken by n Syn
dictate.

Brunswick, Ga, May 15.-Auditor F.
B. Chandler and General Counsel F. E.
Twitty of the Brunswick and Birming-
ham Railroad, returned to-day from
New York where they have been for
several days on business connected with
the road. They both attended the re-
organization meeting of the directors.
Mr.. Chandler says that he learned
while in New York that a syndicate
had been formed to take over and I'M
derwrite enough of the stock of the
Mohawk Valley Steel and Wire Com
pany to build and equip the plant now
in course of construction in this city,
and also to furnish working capital,
and that the plant will be built and
operated regardless of the sale of Sc
curities.
Both Messrs. Chandler and Twitty
are of the opinion that the recent
changes on the Brunswick and Bir-
mingham will serve to help the road,
and they said that the new owners
will push rapidly on to Birmingham.
II is also announced that President
Umsted, of the Mohawk Valley Com
pany, now controls Is per cent. of the
stock of the Brunswick and Birming
ham. Both of the gentlemen are very
much pleased with the general situa-
ton both of the steel plant and of the
road.
When asked why Senator McLaurin
was in such hurry to sever his con-
nection with the two enterprises, both
of the gentlemen stated that they did
not know why he had resigned his Of
fees and sold out his stock.
Brunswick has been visited by a
gang of burglars during the past week,
and number of houses and stores have
been entered. The officers of the city
succeeded in landing two in Jail last
night, and it is thought that this will
break up the robberies for awhile.
Brunswick will send quite a delega-
ton to New Orleans next week. The
delegates of the veterans and Sons of
Veterans will leave the city Monday
morning. Altogether about twenty-five
people will go from this city.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-16
UNDERGROUND STRATUM
Will Be Made Use of to Drain n Pond
at Quitmun.

Quitman, Ga, May 15.-Quitman is
to lose one of her landmarks. The
city fathers have decided upon it, the
contract has been let and work was
begun to-day to drain Russell pond, Il
small natural lake in the southern por-
ton.
The movement has been an eventful
one since its inception about a year
ago. Citizens in that portion of the
town made complaint of it as danger
Gus to health, and their petition, sup
ported by all the physicians of the
town, was taken before Council. 1t
was declared nuisance and the owner
ordered to fill it. His reply showed
that the land had been sold to a party
IN another state. This put Council in
a quandary as to the proper course to
take, as the cost of filling was consid-
ered too great for the town to take on
ITSELF, and the matter has been allowed
TO run on until recently.
IL was then suggested that both ar
teslan wells sunk here have a depth of
Us feet, where was found a stratum
or about six feet, very porous, and ap-
parently filled with running water, and
the idea was suggested that a we'll
A-'ASA NC SOllh W lIIS stratum, the
pond thus be permanently drained. At
us meeting last night Council adopted
the plan and closed a contract with the
parties who have just completed the
new artesian well, and to-day the ma
chlnery was put in place and work be-
gun on the hole.
It's possible success may have
strong bearing on the question, whetn-
er or not Quitman will have a sewer
system. A survey was made about two
years ago and was abandoned, owing
to the large expense of an outlet, the
lay of the land being such that 1t
would have to extend about a mile
from the city limits. 1t is now sug-
gested that if the new plan prove fea-
sible wells should be sunk to this stra-
tum in several parts of the town and
sewers laid to them, emptying the sew
age into the subterranean stream, and
thus avoid all deep cuttings and a
long and expensive outlet sewer. The
idea is not entirely original, as it is
said similar system is in use on a
small scale in Madison, Fla. Several
adjacent property owners digging a
we'll and piping their premises to it.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-16
PRINT CLOTH MORE ACTIVE.
sale Mt an Advanced Price Aroused
Interest.

Fall River, Mass, May 15.-The print
cloth market has been reused from its
state of stagnation by a report Of a
sale Of regulars at 3-l6 cents. Ms reg
uiars could easily have been secured at
3ih cents. the report naturally attract
ed attention. The report proved 10 De
true. The sale was OF $4,000 pieces for
delivery In July. The goods were not
sold TO a printer and the transaction
shows that the purchase was made for
speculative effect, probably Ia the cot
ton market. The previous sale Of reg
ulaTs reported IN the local market was
made az cents.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-16
NEW WEATHER STATION.
One to Report Vessels Established
at Sand Key.

Washington, May 16.-Beginning to-
morrow all vessels entering or leaving
the Gulf of Mexico can be reported
by a weather bureau station at Sand
Key, Fla. The station will be opened
tomorrow, for meteorological observa-
lions and for reporting passing craft.
1t is in cable connection with Key West,
nine miles distant.
The new station is in the direct track
of vessels and it's esta blishment was
sought in a petition sent to the gov
eminent by marine interests. The sta
ton will be open night and day and
two observers have been detailed there
by Acting Secretary of Agriculture
Moore
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-16
OBITUARY.
$. d. BradyveII. AtIantn.

Atlanta, May 15.-capt. S. D. Brad
well, for four yearS state school COM
missioner under Gov. Northen and aft
erwards for hve years president OF the
State Normal School at Athens, lied
this morning az $40 o'clock al Shapes,
Fla, about iG5 miles south Of Jackson
vile, on the East Coast. at his farm.
where he had been 81 for several weeks.
Cant. Bradwell was born in Liberty
county Ia 1890 He Is survived By one
son, J. y. Bradwell, "a lawyer, Of At
lanta, and two daughters, Miss Pauline
SaradWell, and Mrs. Il. J. Quinn.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-16
Nominated for Reelection.

Sandersville, Ga, May 15.-Dr. d. L.
Cheatham was nominated for re-elec-
ton as Mayor to-day by a majority Of
80. His opponent was DR.. M. d. Jamer-
son. 1t was one of the warmest cam
paigns ever held in Sandersville, and
there was considerable apprehension as
to the result on the part of the friends
of both candidates. All of the coun-
cilmen on Cheathams ticket were nom
mated by big majorities. w. A Baird
was nominated for city treasurer.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-16
ny THE RAILROADS.
Cotton Congresses Mt Memphis Will
BE Operated.

Memphis, Tenn, May 15.-The Com
mercial Appeal tomorrow will say:
ut may be stated on reliable infor-
nation that the railroads entering
Memphis have closed a deal whereby
they secure a fve-year lease on the
cotton congresses of this city, two in
number, and that thereafter the rail-
road companies will operate these COM
presses themselves.
1.-THE two congresses have handled
over 500, 600 bales of cotton thus far
this season. "
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-16

After the close of the Boer war in
South Africa nearly two-score thous-
ands of army horses which had been
used by British troopers were sold for
not much more than e12 apiece. New
ertheless, Cape Town experts declare
that sound, strong animals in the
enormous region through which the
hostilities ragged for years bring even
better prices now than at the time of
the Kruger outbreak. The breeding
of horses with discretion and Judgment
is still a profitable enterprise in al
most every part of the globe.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-16
Dormitories at Sparks,

Sparks. Ga, May 15.-At a meeting
of the board of trustees of the Sparks
Collegiate Institute it was definitely
decided to build two new dormitories
during the summer vacation. The two
buildings will cost $1,000. They will
contain about twenty rooms each. The
boys dormitory wilf be on one side of
the institute building and the girls on
the other At present there are over 100
boarding pupils here.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-16
In an article on Historical

In an article on Historical
Houses in the May issue of The
House writer calls attention to Gu
rious relic of the days when the North
umbrian pastor was compelled to live
in fortified house If he wished to pre-
serve his worldly goods from the plum
dering bands of moss-troopers who
were continually crossing the Scottish
border and raiding the homesteads of
defenseless villagers. One of the best
examples of these fortified rectories,
originally built in the fourteenth CEN
fury, still exists in Rothbury. It is de-
scribed in a list of fortlets in 1912 as a
"toure and a little barmekin, being
the man'con of the p'sonage of Roth
bury" 1t has walls eleven feet thick
at the base and six feet at the top
1t has turrets at the corners and a
chamber with a stone floor into which
the rectors drove their cattle at night
or on the approach of the raiders.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-16
MANCHESTER LINE
Has n Meeting of Cotton Men Held
In Its Behalf.

Manchester. May ia large meet
ing OF representatives Of the cotton
trade was held here to-day. ResOlu-
tions were passed, urging the trade 10
do it's utmost 20 support the lines OF
steamers bringing cotton from Amerl-
can ports direct 10 Manchester. there
by frustrating the attempts 10 drive
Manchester steamers out Of the trade,
and requesting the spinpers 20 insist
on their contracts on the delivery OF
caifon ~ the Manchester docks.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-16
RYDER HAS RESIGNED.

Gibson Reelected superintendent
of Columbus schools.
Columbus, Ga, May 15.-The school
trustees tonight received the resigna-
ton of Prof r. A. Ryder, principal OF
the Sixteenth Street School, to go into
effect at the end of the present school
term. Prof. Ryder is an officer of the
newly formed Georgia Investment and
Abstract Company. He has been
principal in the Columbus schools for
twelve years.
The trustees unanimously reelected
Prof. c. b. Gibson superintendent of
the schools for another year.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-16
Cotton Statistics.

Liverpool, May 15.-Following are
the weekly cotton statistics:
Total sales of all kinds, $4,000; total
sales American, $4,000; English spin
ners' takings, $4,000; total export, TO-.
600; import of all kinds, $4,000; import
American, $4,000. Stock of all kinds
GAS, 900; stock, American, 100000 bales;
quantity afioat, all kinds, 131 900 bales;
quantity afoat, American, $1,000. Total
sales on speculation, II, 100; total sales
To expOrters 1880.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-16
TRACK AND FIELD MEET.
University of Virginia Won From
North CacOIinR.

University of Virginia Won From
North Carolina.
Charlottesville. Va, May 15.-In the
first annual dual track and field meet
between the University of North Caro-
lima and the University of Virginia,
held here this afternoon, Virginia won
on the total number of events fifty-sIx
points to forty-five.
The track at Lambeth field, new and
of varia BILE hardness, was regarded as
perhaps two seconds slow to the quar-
ter, and hence only one Virginia record
was smashed, Capt. Shelton clipping off
a full second in the quarter-mile run.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-16
Buster Farrell Killed.

Kissimmee, Fla, May 15.-News has
been received here of the killing of
Buster Farrell at Fort Bassinger in
this county by a man named Whidden.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-05-07
A MAN Amuck.

Kelly Whitaker. while on u camp.
Ing trip In the mountains beyond Sill.
vel City with A. y. Smith and. as the
Silver City Independent naively dc.
scribes him. "a party named Ike" be-
came violently insane. He was bound
with many thongs and the outfit start.
ed to return to Silver City. Crossing
the ella, Whitaker freed himself
from his bonds and dropped into the
stream. He made good time in the
direction OF the distant mountains and
smith and the party named Ike were
unable to overtake him. Searching
parties have been sent out.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-05-07
Pierce IL Present: The members .

Pierce 10 Present: The members Of
the board Of penitentiary commission.
ers. appointed and confirmed during
the session Of the Thirty-ffth legisla-
tive assembly. met Monday last at the
penitentiary for organization and 10
transact official business. There we're
present: r. II. Pierce. Las Vegas;
Juan Navarro. Mora; w. H.. Ncwcomb.
Silver City. r. II. Pierce was elected
president Of the board. and Juan Ma
varro secretary. Accounts for the past
two months were examined. audited
and approved. The board then adj
journed, 70 meet aagin on the first
Monday In July.