The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-11
GONE BY THE BOARDS
WILL BE NO SOUTHERN RACE
QUESTION CONVENTION.
SCHEME GOT A BLACK EYE.
1T MET WITH LITTLE OR NO FAV-
OR IN THE SOUTH.

| Governor Terrell Has Never Re-
ceived Any Communication from
| Wisconsin Touching Upon the
PrOpOsitiOn-NOt Relieved IL VIII
| be Pressed by the Wisconsin Pro-
| moters-News of the Day i'm At
Ianta-EGOrts stiII Being Made to
Get the Presbyterian University.
Atlanta, March 10.-Gov. Terrell has
received no word from Wisconsin with
reference to the appointment of dele
gates to the convention proposed by the
Wisconsin Legislature to meet in At
lanta for the discussion and settlement
of the negro problem.
The Governors views on the subject
are well known, being opposed to any
agitation of the subject and it is stated
he would refuse to appoint delegates.
The belief at the Capitol is that so
much cold water has been thrown on
the scheme by the Governors and the
people of the Southern states, that it
will not be pressed by the Governor of
| Wisconsin.
Day for Tax Returns.
The State Tax Commission, composed
of the Governor the controller general
and the treasurer. will meet next Mon
day for the purpose of fixing a day as
the basis for all returns of property for
! taxation for the current year. The
| day will probably be sometime the lat
| ter part of February or the first of
March.
| New Company for the Fifth.
The Marietta Rifles will be mustered
into the state service tomorrow night
by Inspector General w. G.. Obear, as
| company of the Fifth Regiment In
fantry. This company has sixty men,
and will take the place of the Barlow
Guards of Kingston, recently disband-
| ed by order of the Governor.
| Ciemency Refused.
The Prison Commission refused 10
| recommend executive clemency in the
case of John Hender Bryant of Col
quit country, who is sentenced to be
| hanged for the murder of another ne
gro, and the Governor has approved
this action. There were several petit
| tons from Colquitt county in the ne
gro's favor
Executive clemency was also refused
In the case of Monroe Bliseo of Greene
county, who is serving a life sentence
for murder. .-.4ae-- ssss~
Accident ON the Southern.
As the result OF a rear-end collision
on the Southern's tracks at the Me-
Daniel street crossing In this city
this afternoon. four freight cars were
badly wrecked and the tracks were
put out of business for the day, Al
switching train of freight cars having
| an engine at each end, ran into the
rear end of a dead passenger train,
| which was on its way to the Union De-
| pot, on account of the fact that the
passenger train stopped under the
bridge. The Southern had to use the
CentraPs tracks to Griffin this AFTER
noon on account of the wreck. The pas
senger train was not seriously dam
aged.
Find Against HoItzcIaw.
The Committee of Arbitration, COM
posed of prominent Baptist ministers
| and laymen selected to look into the
| trouble in the Jones Avenue Baptist
| Church, finished its laboi to-day, and
| reached the conclusion that the actions
of Pastor j. w. Holtzclaw were Illegal
1t was held that he had no right to ex-
| pei fifty-nine members, who were in
arrears in their church dues and that
his conduct Of the church conference
was improper This report will be
| made to the church conference to-nnor-
row night. Nothing was said with
reference to DIR. Holtzclaw rendering
his resignation, but it Is believed the
report of the arbitration board will
ultimately result In this.
Wants the University.
A meeting of the ministers of the
city and prominent citizens has been
called at the Young Mems Christian
Association tomorrow to discuss
plans for securing for Atlanta the
| great Presbyterian university which il
/ is proposed to establish by a comb,na-
| ton of the universities at Columbia,
! S. G., and Clarksville, Tenn. Already
about 100000 of the $4,000 required to
| bring the university here has been
| subscribed.
| Will be Dissected.
The body of J. B. Ewing, who was
| killed several weeks ago whle trying
| to quiet a drunken man on a South
| ern train, will be dissected by the
| medical college here. The time has
| expired for which claim could be put
| in for the remains, and no relative or
! friend has ever claimed them.
| j. II. Mcintosh Critically III.
| j. r. Mcintosh, general counsel of
the Southern division of the Postal Tel
! egraph Company, who has been ill for
| some time with pneumonia, was to-
night reported to be in very critical
| condition. Hope for his recovery has
! been practically abandoned, although
| his physicians state that he may live
| two or three days.
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