The Gainesville star. [volume] (Gainesville, Fla.) 1903-19??, 1904-05-17
Observation-Disclosures
Cream of News.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Brief Summary Of Most
important Events
OF Each Day.

NbeSh parry at birmingham is al
ready bearing fruit and meetings are
being held In Alabama to arrange for
new and better methods OF local school
taxation.
The inter-church conference on
marriage and divorce, a boay repre-
sentlng Ofnclally fourteen leading de.
nominations, has issued through It's
secretary, the Rev. DR.. william II.
Roberts, an appeal to the public, call
Ing attention to the several aspects
OF the divorce question.
Clay of Columbus, the splendid
new ship OF the ocean Steamship
Company, arrived at the Savannah
wharfs Saturday decked in nags and
was saluted by all the craft In the
river.
The queer actions Of a woman
In Columbus mystlfy the people, and
no clew has been found as to her
name or Identity.
General Crezler will report favor.
ably on Senator Bacons desipe for
repair station to be established at
Augusta.
--Severest bailstorm ever known In
the southwest occurred Saturday at
Welsh, La, shatterlng glass aud lat.
tee work Of Southern Pacific train.
The use OF a revised Bible was
favorably reported at the dioc 1ssn
convention In session In South Caro-.
ollne.
"A negro In South Carolina by whip
ping his wife at a church managed TO
srsate diversion that ended the ser.
vice.
The Connecticut democratic state
convention instructed for Judge Par.
her. Exciting scene stFansplred pn
the convention floor
Dan Sully on the stand in New
York, told Of the dealings he had with
Hawley and Ray In his final cotton
plunge.
The old Acre disguise having
broken out again war Ia probable be
tween Brazil and Peru.
The French government has re.
jected the protest Of Pope Plus at the
visit Of President Loubet to the OUR.
inal.
Port Arthur has been invested by
tha In Thn Ian IL
barked on both sides OF the Lao runs
peninsula above Port Arthur have .oe'
cupled the railroad and cut the tele-
graph, cutting the beleaguered port
OF from all communication with the
outside world.
General Kuroki reports that four.
teen hundred Russians have been
buried by pho japanese. and esua-
mates the loss OF the Russians In
the battles along the Yalu at over
$500.
A line from Wetmore to Dalton.
Ga, will be built by the Atlanta,
Knoxville and Northern railroad OPP
lions on Dalton city property have
already been secured by representa-
tlves OF the road.
j. II. Atkinson, OF Macon, Ca,
left there several weeks ago to visit
Atlanta, and no trace Of him has ever
been found. His accounts were
straight and foul play Is feared by his
friends.
A second cavein in the tunnel OF
the Southern railway at Pine Mountain,
near Warm Springs, Ga, causes a
further delay OF traffc on that line,
which may take several days to rem
edy.
Conner, successful candidate for
president OF the Alabama railroad
commission, states that his campaign
expenditures amounted to s10,522S0,
and other candidates admit heavy out
lays In same contest
Raleigh, N. c., adopts an ordinance
requiring physicians to report all |
cases OF tuberculosis and to dislnfect |
all premises where such have boon.
Said to be nrst city in south to take
such action.
The first shipment or 1894 peaches
were made Wednesday by c, ]. Aus
tin, OF Ti.ton, Ca, to an Atlanta firm.
A divorced wife at Athens, Ca,
shooto twice at former husband,
The conference for education In
the south adjourned at Birmingham,
Ala, after electlng Robert c, Ogden,
president for another term.
The squadrons of the United
States navy are leaving Penaacola,
Fla, for their future destinations.
Elk. Governor Il. l.. Taylor's wife
has secured a divorce from her hus'
band at Knoxville, Tenn,
Governor Cunningham, Of Ala.
bsma, means TO deal with the lynehers
n Strenuous fashion.
by vote Of 20 to ~ the Georgia
state democratic committee declares
Judge George F, Gober the nominee
for judge Of the Blue Ridge circuit
the Morris contest being thrown out
IT. NJ. Angle. b. +. Sprinkle and
William Yosng, convicted at Char
lotte, N. c., OF defraudng the govern
msnt, are sentenced for various terms.
-Au explosion in a powder mill
uear Newport, Ind, Wednesday, killed
four men and wounded thre. others.
As the result Of an old feud. Free
land Johnson killed Hillary Key at
wilkesboro, N. C., johnson himself