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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-28
FOR STATE REFORMATORY
Floyd County Grand Jury Adopted
Resolutions.

Rome, Ca, April 27.-The Floyd
county grand jury, which has been in
session for several days, adjourned to-
day. The communication from the
grand jury of the January term of
Muscogee county, asking the co-opera-
ton of this grand jury in getting bill
through the Legislature for the es-
tablishment of state reformatory was
acted upon. A committee was ap-
pointed to confer with the state SEN
ator of this district and members of
the Legislature of Floyd county.
The grand jury also endorsed the
movement to have the felony convicts
worked in the; chaingangs of the state
instead of the penitentiary.
Rev. Howard Crumley, agent of the
Decatur Orphans Home, preached at
the First Methodist Church yester-
day. While here Mr. Crumley raised
$500 for the home.
DR.. r. b. Headden, pastor of the
First Baptist Church, baptized thirty
two candidates in the pool of the
church last night. This was the larg-
est number ever baptized at this church
at one time.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-28
EXERCISES AT QUITMAN.
Pleasant A. stovau Was the Orator
of the Occasion.

OF the Occus1On.
Quitman, Ca, April 27.-Memorial
Day was observed to-day here The
exercises were held in the opera house,
which was beautifully decorated with
bunting and plants. All places of bus
mess were closed, and crowded house
greeted Hon. Pleasant, A, stovall, the
speaker of the occasion. Hon. S. S.
Gaulden introduced the speaker, who
held the close attention of his audience
with a finished and eloquent speech of
about thirty minutes duration, in a
vihdication and er}fogy of Lee.
At its conclusion. Dr. ,Gaulden, in be-
half of the Daughters of the Confed-
eracy presented the speaker a splendid
ly executed portrait of the great gen.
eral of the Confederacy. done by a
member of the chapter in typography.
Mr.. Stoval seemed touched and
pleased. and his iInpromptu remarks
of thanks and of praise for the part
, taken by the women of the South in
perpetuating the observance of the day
were particularly happy.
Adjournment wasothen had to the
cemetery, where the exercises were
completed. Mr.. StovalL was the guest
of Hon. H. G.. Turner to-day
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-28
no ENTER THE LIGHT.

G.. w. Bean, who is mayor of. Port
Tampa City and who is in favor of
abolishing the city government so that
he can get rid of his office, and Judge
M. c. Rerdell. who is president of the
council of Port Tampa City and wants
the municipality maintained for vari-
Gus reasons, have gone to Tallahassee.
These officials of the disputed NUM-
cipality will enter the fight for and
against the abolition of the city gov
eminent.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-28
SAVED THE COMPRESS.

The Athens cotton compress came
near being destroyed by fire Thursday
morning. AS a result of the fire
twenty-nine bales of compressed cot
ton were badly damaged, representing
a loss of between $1,000 and $4,000, COW
cred by insurance. The damaged cotton
was owned by Sanders, Swami G. Co.
of Atlanta. The fire originated in a
pile, of about 700 pounds of loose cot
ton in one corner of the shed and just
behind a pile of 100 compressed bales
of cotton. 1t is supposed that a match
was swept up with the loose cotton
Wednesday and that this was ignited
by a rat about midnight. The
fire was discovered abougt
O'Clock by Robert Miner, the negro
night Waterman. Miner is about so
years old and feeble. His daughter
had brought him some food about mid
night and they were talking, when the
fire was discovered. Miner and his
daughter fought the fire from l O'Clock
until o'clock. uwhen the hands began
to arrive and the fire was extinguish-
ed. Miner says both he and his
daughter shouted fire" at the top of
their voices for about five hours and
not a single response came.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-28
REARED INTO A HACK.
Horses HoOf Struck "a Child Who
Occupied the Vehicle.

Waycross, Ga, April 27.-An accident
of a peculiar nature, which came near
inflicting fatal injuries upon a small
negro girl, occurred here late this aft
ernoon. T. j. Mcclellan was driving
down Plant avenue. when his horse,
becoming frightened at the water
works pump, turned and reared, strik-
ing a public hack which was passing.
A negro woman and a 5-year-old child
were in the vehicle, and the hoof of
the horse struck the child on the head,
infiicting serious injury. The child
was taken at once to DR.. Lattimer's
office where the wound was dressed.
The child will recover. FL.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-28
GOLD IN ALABAMA.

News of remarkable gold discoveries
in Alabama has been brouhgt to At
lanlta by two of the most prominent
citizens of Admission. The new field
is on the Coosa river, in Talladega
county and if there is in this district
one-tenth the quantity of gold shown
by the preliminary investigations, the
mining world may be given a new SEN
sation on the Klondike order. Hon.
j. ] Willett, one of the most promi-
nent attorneys of Alabama, and Dr.
H. D. Barr of Admission told the story
of this new gold field during the two
days they spent in Atlanta, where they
had some assays made by the N. p
Pratt laboratory. These assays run
as follows: $12S.15 to the ton; $2997
per ton; 1884 per ton; $3.50 per ton;
$1,000 per ton; $66.40 per ton; $46.60 per
ton; $3.50 per ton, and $4,000 per
ton. This is the quantity of gold per
ton as shown by the different sam
Piles submitted. Some silver is shown,
but not much. The dirt forming these
samples was taken at depths running
from two feet below the surface of the
earth to nine feet below the surface.
The holes were dug at varying dis
tances apart over an area approximate
ing four acres. The owners of the
property have been keeping their
movements TO themselves. They have
now secured a tract of $50 acres about
the particular piece upon which the
investigations have been made and
nave formed themselves into a corpor-
alton TO be called the De Soto Mining
Company.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-28
CHARGES KIDNAPPING.

Two warrants have been issued
against Frank Taylor, a carpenter of
Columbus. both charging him with
kidnapping, and his wife being the pros
ecutor in each case. Mrs. Taylor
claims that her husband took their
four little girls, the oldest being Is and
the youngest years of age, and
skipped out. She thought that it was
his idea to go to Montgomery, board
ing the train perhaps in Phenix City
and Girard, and so she had warrants
issued on both sides of the river,
charging him with kidnapping. Three
weeks ago Mrs. Taylor's son, Joe Hen
ny Britt (being an issue of her first
nlarTiage) mysteriously disappeared.
He is a boy of II. Mrs. Taylor
declares that her son was murdered.
She says that Britt's coat has been
found under a bridge in the cemetery
branch, cut up. and this fact, and the
further fact that nothing has been
heard from him since the night when
several pistol shots were fired near
where he was known to be standing
on Fifteenth street, shows that MUIR
der has been committed.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-28
BRIDE 80, GROOM 16.

Augusta Herald: That Truth is
stranger than fiction" is most emphati-
callv proven in the recent marriage of
Mrs. Victoria Pyles of 14O1 Broad
street, and Mr. Willie Savage. The
bride has for several years been in the
.'sere and yellow leaf" stage of life,
and quite looks the sixty-five years
that are accredited to her, While me
Youthful groom has just passed his
sixteenth mile stone. The bride makes
no pretenses at being young and me
groom has as yet made no EFFORT 10
develop the very necessary adjunct 10
most youthful grooms who marry ell
DERBY ladies-a beard. In fact, his
smooth, childish face shows no sign
of needing a razor for several years
to come. Although this is Mrs. saw
ages second trip through the very in
teresting stage of honeymoon, sne
M4s shyly coy when asked about The
rather remarkable marriage and brlehy
summed up her rather unusual ro-
nance by stating that she loved the
boy and for that reason married MIN
"a reason which was unquestionable.
That it was nobody's business, and
if he and she were satisfied what else
was to be wished?" The elderly bride
has for some time operated a BOARD
ing house In the house with her lived
Mrs Lucia Magby. a half-sister of the
groom A few days since, while Mrs
Magby was in Atlanta, the marriage
occurred. The groom was reared in
the Augusta Orphan Asylum, but left
upon reaching the age when the boys
are put out to shift for themselves,
and for some time has lived at the
home of Mrs. Pyles, as she was then
named, she caring for him in the most
grandmotherly way. Just who sug-
gested marriage has not been given out
for publication, but the fact remains
that a trip was made to Judge Get
zen's and the twain were made one
which one future developments will de-
fpruninA
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-28
CASE WAS Thrown OUT.

The case against Ham Hampton, son
of DR.. H. j. Hampton of Tampa, who
refused to leave school after being
expelled. came up for trial Friday, but
owing to the fact that no ordinance
covered the offense charged to the boy
the case was thrown out of court. The
boy. accompanied by his father and
attorneys, was present, as were j. T.
Gum, chairman of the Board of Pub
lie instruction, and Profs. McClung
and Williams.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-28
CRUSHED BY AN ENGINE.

A negro named Hartley was crush
ed to death Saturday night a short dis
lance north of Pensacola of by a
switch engine. The negro deliberately
walked into an approaching engine and
1t said to have been demented.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-28
THIRTY FEET ON BAR.

The success of the jetty work on
Cumberland sound bar, the entrance
to Fernandina harbor, is now fully
demonstrated the government engi-
neers reporting a depth of thirty feet
over the bar
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-28
VISITED CANAL WORK.

The joint legislative committee, con-
sisting of Senator MacWilliams and
Representatives Roberts and Floyd, APP
pointed to investigate the work of the
Florida East Coast Canal Company,
has been upon the scene of opera
tons.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-28
TuRoUGH MRS. ATKINSON.

The two new buildings at the State
Sanitarium having been completed
and turned over to the trustees, Gov,
Terrell has taken out insurance on
them. These two buildings are Caba-
Miss Hall and the Whittle building,
each of which cost about $4,000, maxi
ing a total of $4,000 The two build
ings are insured, however, for only
$4,000, as the state law restricts the
insurance of state property to one-half
of its value. Half of the insurance
was placed through Mrs. w. Y. Atkin-
son, wife of the late Gov. Atkinson. 1t
was through Mrs. Atkinson, also that
considerable of the. insurance on the
states buildings was placed by
Gov. Gambler last year. Prac-
tice Hall. at Athens, one of the
State Normal School buildings, has
also just been turned over to the trus-
tees of that institution. 1t has been
insured for $500, or half its value.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-28
RoBBER WAS CAPTURED.
Negro Who Committed the Crime
Was n Desperate.

Americus, Ca, April 27.-Charles Har-
ris, the negro who burglarized the Dod-
son residence yesterday and practically
threatened to kill Mrs. Dodson and
brother c. J. Lewis, with uplifted axe.
If they interfered. was captured to-
day, and confesses this burglary and
another. Valuables stolen by Harris
were also recovered.
Harris is a desperate and recently
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-28

-He-"You must admit there's moth
ing delights a girl so much as the de-
voted attention of the man of her
choice" She-"Unless it's the devoted
attention of the man of some other
girls choice. philadelphia Press.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-28
PROPOSALS WANTED.

-@~-~~-@~0~0~0-- -0~~~0~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~-~~-~~~~
GOVERNORS ISLAND, N. Y. II
April q, 19OS.-Sealed proposals. in
triplicate, for furnishing Fuel required
in the Dept of the East, during wear
ending June 80, 1904, will be received
here and at posts and stations indi-
Gated in instructions issued hereundsr
until II m, May p, 1903. u 8 re,
serves right to reject or accent any ar
all proposals or any part thereof. ~
formation furnished on application.
Envelopes containing proposals viii he
Endorsed Proposals for Fuel at--.',
JOHN SIMPSON. A. Q. NJ. G.T ,,,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-28
FLORIDA,
KENNEDY AS MANAGER

Robert Kennedy has been engaged
as manager and captain of the Jack
sonville baseball team for the season
of 1903, and has started to work Sc
lecting prayers.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-28
FROsT AT GAINESVILLE.

There was a very white frost at
Gainesville Friday morning. The
leaves on the trees were frozen and a
great deal of vegetation killed. Wheat
is supposed to be badly injured, if not
entirely ruined
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-28
GEORGIAAND FLORIDA
RIILnING FoR LAGRANGE.

The Board of Education of LAGRANGE
has just let the contract for the main
building of the Lagrange public school
system. The new building is to cost
Sl3, 900. and will be a large ten-room
brick structure Work will be begun
right away, and it is hoped to have the
building completed by Sept. Is.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-28
DEAL AP BAGDAD.

simpson & Co. Have Sold Out Their
.-t. business.
Bagdad, Fla, April 27.-Simpson &
Co., have closed out their entire
plant consisting of mills, steamers,
barges. and 100000 acres of timbered
land to Stearns. Culver & Co., of Lud-
ington, Mich. The mills will be start
ed up Immediately. They have been
idle eleven months. @.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-28
KENIl WORTH INN

Biltmore, Asheville, N. c.. on Southern Rail
road, in the Land OF the Sky. Open throughout
the year. Best appointed and most luxuriously
overlooks Mr.. Vanderbilts estate, Biltmore
Magnificent mountain scenery dry and invig-
Grating climate. Private park of 100 acres
grounds. Famous SW AMANDA Golf Club near
by. Electric cars to Asheville every fifteen
minutes All water used from fifteen ceIebrat-
ed springs in Park. Special summer rates.
Write for booklet.
EDGAR B. MOORE, Proprietor.
Also Gladstone Hotel, Narragansett Pier. r. l.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-28
HOTELS.
DE sOTO HOrEI.. Savannah. On

DE SOTO HOTEL, Savannah. Ga.
Accomm odations for 500 guests 100 rooms with
bath. Savannah is an ideal winter resort .
Beautiful drives and roads for automobiling
and bicycling Golf and outside sports Don
fail to include Savannah in your trip North or
South, Illustrated booklet
WATSON g. POWERS, Proprietors.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-08-26
President and His Friends.

Oyster Bay, N. Y, Aug. 21.-F-
nancial legislation and national and
New York State politics we're the
principal topics of discussion today
between the president and his guests.
Early in the day Representative E.
j. bill, of Connecticut, talked with
the president of the prospect OF
enacting remedial financial legisla-
tion at the approaching session Of
congress. Mr.. Hill favored an early
extra session.
Mr.. Babcock talked with the presi-
dent about the work of the extraor-
dinary session of congress, especially
with reference to financial legislation.
No determination has yet been reach
ed whether decision the president
will talk or correspond with many
members of both the senate and the
house of representatives.
Gov. Benjamin B. O'Dell, of New
York, today had a three-hours con.
ference with President Roosevelt at
Sycamore Hill. They reached per-
feet understanding on all points
which they discussed and are in
entire accord regarding all matters
of either personal or party concern.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-08-26
Early steel pens were so costly thai

Early steel pens were so costly that
makers advertised they would make
such repairs as were necessary for q
stated time, geneally six months.
When man damaged his pen he car
ried it back to the factory and had it
mended by a first class mechanic.
It is reported from Red Lodge,
Montana, that the grasshoppers are
80 thick in that section that they are
plastered each day on locomotives
and when wheels becomes so slippery
that when the locomotives stop it is
difficult to start them again.
The Oliver Refining Company, Of
Norfolk, Va, owning a large plant
for the refining of cotton seed oil,hps
failed aud has gone into the hands Of
a receiver. The slump in Virginia.
Carolina Chemical stock is said to be
the cause of the failure.
If you know of a poor old strifed
horse-a horse with a sore back, a
bsrbed wire wound, unnatural
growths, stiff joints or swollen limbs,
send him around. We can cure him
with a few applications of Ramon's
Nerve & Bone Oil. Is cents at G. E.
Corley, &. M. Harman, Julian E.
Kaufman and W. P. Roof.
It is reported from Berlin that the
German government, under the i'm
pulse of the emperor, will ask the
reichstag for an increase in the per-
manent military establishment, by
about $4,000 men, to be organized
into two army corps, raising the
standing army to about 647,O0O men.
The increase in money necessary is
estimated at about $9,000,000, ex-
elusive of equipment.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-08-26
End Of Bitter Fight.

"Two physicians had long and
stubborn fight with an abcess on my
right lung" writes J. F. Hughes OF
Du Point, Ga. ''and gave me up,
everybody thought my time had come.
As a last resort I tried DR.. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption.
The benefit I received was striking
and was on my feet in few days.
Now I've entirely regained my health" "
1t conquers all Coughs, Colds, Throat
and Lung troubles. Guaranteed by
The Kaufman Drug Co. Price SOC
and Sl.0O. Trial bottles free.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-08-26
Some Old Folks.

The oldest man on Long Island
celebrated his l04th birth day recent
ly and remarked that he wouldn't
mind it if he lived to ITO. A year
ago he married his third wife. He
began chewing and smoking when
he was between 3 and 4 and has kept
the habits up. he attributes his
long life to minding his own business.
The testimony of "Uncle Frank"
Binion is quite the other way. He
has never INDUCED in tobacco or
liquor, and has been Methodist and
Democrat from boyhood. At the age
of 103 he runs a small hotel, milks
the COWS and raises by his own labor
all the vegetables used on his table.
Ex. Governor Lubbock of Texas,
aged so, commits mstrimony the
third time, today. His second wife
died year ago. He is quite wealthy.
Mrs. No. 3 is young girl who lives
in Abilene, the great cattle market.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-08-26
Women Rioters.

McKeesport, Pa August 2l.-Wo-
men mixed with men engaged in a
street riot here today. The trouble
took place on Thirteenth street be-
tween a number of scab work
men employed at the Port Vue Tin
Plate mill, where the strike declared
three months ago still remains unset
tied, and crowd of strikers. The
workmen had a keg of beer end the
strikers attempted to capture it.
Shots were exchanged but no one
was injured. The women, armed
with brooms and other nondescript
weapons took part in the affair. Se7-
eral of the workmen were badly beat
en- by the attack of the women who for
the first time have taken hand in the
strike riots here. Two women who
conducted a boarding house where a
large number of non unionists
are quartered we're chased several
squares by the infuriated women
strike sympathizers and fell from ex-
baustion. The police were unable to
cope with the mob which numbered
over 100.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-08-26
Union Attacks Marine Band.

Union Attacks Marine Sald.
Washington, Aug. 20.-Organized
labor has renewed its fight on the
United States marine band. Director
Santlemen has received word from
Baltimore that in order to avoid a
controversy with the American Fed
GRAFTON of Musicians it has been de-
cided not to have the marine band in
line at the parade of the Odd Eel
lows in Baltimore on September %.
The Federal of musicians put in
a protest too late to prevent the
band from marching with the recent
parade of the Elks in Baltimore, but
the officials of the federation have
now decided to make fight to pre-
vent the appearance of the band in
all parades of a civic nature.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-08-26
All Trains to Garry Mails.

Post Master General Payne has
decided to have the mails carried on
all trains, whether freight or passen-
ger, when patrons along the line
shall so desire. This will be effected
by commissioning conductors, bag.
gage master or other trainsmen, pay
ing them for this extra service.
It means further that in case C
strikes any freight train carrying
mails will be a fully under protection
of the government as the through
and local mail trains.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-08-26
First and Second Bale.

Bamberg, August 21.-Hon. S. G.
Folk, a prominent merchant and
farmer here, shipped the second cot
ton bale of the season by tonight's
express to WAGNER & Co., of Charles
ton. Some time ago he shipped the
first bale raised in the State to Pope
& Fleming, Augusta, Ga, receiving
20 cents per pound for same.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-08-26
The Lexington Dispatch.
Wednesday, August 26, 1903.

Housewives are very foolish not to
form labor union against their cooks
The world will not be convinced OF
the sweetness of your faith by the
sourness cf your face.
'Know thyself," says the old sdage.
A man can find out quite a good
deal himself by running for Office.
The Union Iron Works of San
Francisco, one of the great industries
of the West, has gone to the wall.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-08-26
The Death Penalty.

Little thing sometimes results in
death. Thus mere scratch, insight
fcsnt cuts or puny boils have paid
the death penalty. It is wise to have
Bucklen's AFRICA Salve ever handy.
It's the best Salve on earth and will
prevent fatality, when Burns, Sores,
Ulcers and Piles threaten. Only Csc
at The Kaufman Drug Go.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-08-26

Mrs. Mollie Allen, OF South Fork,
Ky, says she has prevented attacks
of cholera morbus by taking Chamber
lain's Stomach and Liver Tablets
when she felt an attack coming on.
such attacks are usually caused by
indigestion and these Tablets are
just what is needed to cleanse the
stomach and ward of the approach.
ing attack. Attacks of bilious collie
may be prevented in the same way.
For sale by The Kaufman Drug
Go.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-08-26
Long-$elt Want.

The man who had made a million
rather suddenly was not altogether
happy.
1T seems to me- be mused, uneas-
lily, when a man gets rich quick
there should be some kind of SANTA
rum where be could go until he &C.
quired the taste of olives and learned
how 20 pronounce chaffeur correctly"
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-08-26
Gould Not Stand It.

Officer "You were trying to steal
this dummy"
Boston Youth-"Oh, no, sin"
OGcer-'But you were putting
your hands on it.
Boston Youth-"Y7s, l was trying
to change the word pants to 'trouser.