The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-01
NEWS OF A DAY IN
GEORCIA'S CAPITAL
TUBERCULOSIS INVESTIGATION
WILL BE MADE BY BOARD NAMED
BY GOVERNOR.

Amendments of Medical Men in
Accordance with an Enactment of
the Recent LegisIature-Dr. e. r..
CorsOn Selected from savannah.
Conductors Protest Against Pro-
posed Two-Cents-a-Mile Rate.
Episcopal Cathedral Makes a Com
ditionaI withdrawal of Oppose
tion.
Atlanta, Aug. 31.-A state board to
investigate the extent of tuberculosis
in Georgia and to advise means of
stamping out the disease was appoint
ed to-day by Gov. Terrell from the
leading medical men and physicians in
the state. The appointments are ac-
cording to a provision of the recent
General Assembly and are as follows:
From the state at large, DR.. Charles
Hicks. chairman, Dublin; DR.. Lewis
H. Jones, Atlanta; DR.. E. P. Ham,
Gainesville: DR.. P. T. Hillman, AL
bany: Dr.. J. r. Burdette, Tennille;
DR.. P. w. Fits. Greenville; DR.. S.
A. Brown. Dalton: DR.. l.. G.. Hard
man. Commerce: DR.. T. ]. Belt. Mil
len; DR.. ]. L. Walker. Waycross.
From the eleven congressional dis
tricts: First. DR.. Z. r. Corson, Sa-
vannah; Second. DR.. o. B. Bush, Ca
milla: Third, Dr.. Alexander Hack,
Hawkinsville; Fourth. DR.. H. r.
Slack, La Grange: Fifth, DR.. Bernard
Wolf Atlanta: Sixth, DR.. G.. T. Alex
snder, Forsyth; Seventh, DR.. T. r.
Darlington, Rome: Eighth. DR.. H. e.
Thornton, Hartwell; Ninth, DR.. Jeffer-
son Davis, Toccoa; Tenth, DR.. T. D.
Coleman, Augusta; Eleventh, DR.. S.
2. Sanchez, Barwick.
Conductors Make Protest.
A committee from the Brotherhood
of Railway Conductors, following the
action of the engineers, called at the
office of the Railroad Commission to-
day and made formal protest against
the reduction of the passenger fare to
2 cents a mile. The commission has not
yet set a date for hearing the mat
ter.
Delegates to Farmers Congress.
Gov. Terrell to-day appointed about
$50 delegates from Georgia to the Ma
tional Farmers Congress, which meets
in st. Louis Sept. 20. Hon. Harris
Jordan of Monticello. Ca, is presi-
dent of the Congress and will preside
over its sessions. The delegates named
by Gov. Terrell We're from lists fur
nished by President Jordan, and it is
said over two-thirds of them will at
tend. Capt. D. G. Purse is the only
delegate named from Chatham county.
Headquarters at Atlanta.
Brig. Gen. Usher Thomson, who will
command the Georgia troops at Ma
nassas, has moved his headquarters to
Atlanta, and is making the final ar
rangements for the departure of the
troops on SATURDAY.
Appointed Andrews Judge.
Gov. Terrell to-day appointed NJ. D.
Andrews judge OF the county court of
Taliaferro county. Judge Andrews is
also ordinary of the county these two
Offices having been consolidated by an
act of the recent Legislature.
Killed on u Train.
A negro named VIII Brown was shot
and killed at midnight on an incom-
ing Southern train. Three negroes,
Jim McCant, Will Hill and Green Jack
son, are under arrest in the police
station charged with his murder.
Bishop Nelson May withdraw.
The Episcopal Cathedral, through
Bishop G. K. Nelson, has agreed to
withdraw opposition to the plans for
the Louisville and Nashville terminals,
provided the proposed Washington
street viaduct is built at once. This
is not at present contemplated by the
city. President Milton II. Smith has
not yet come to the city's terms and
there are some indications of another
serious hitch in the negotiations.