The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-03
NEWS OF A DAY IN
GEORGIA'S CAPITAL
NO SESSION OF LEGISLATURE
RoTH HOUSES DECIDED To TAKE
A VACATION.

Monday viii Also Be Skipped by
the General Assembly, Which win
Resume business on Tuesday.
some of the Members Have Light
cd Ont for st. LOuis-JacIz Bone,
wanted for Murder, Arrested in
Atlanta.
Atlanta, July 2.-There was nc ses-
sion of the Legislature to-day, adj
iournment until next Tuesday having
been taken by both houses. The Sen
ate usually adjourns over Saturday,
and this time the House concluded it's
usual Saturday business on Friday,
and both of them decided to skip the
Fourth of July, which is Monday.
Though the General Assembly failed
to pass a resolution providing for an
adjournment to attend the national
convention at st. Louis, several MEM
bers of both the Senate and House will
make the trip. Leaves of absence
which were understood to be for this
purpose, were granted on Friday. Not
enough members will leave, however,
to endanger the presence of a quorum
and business will go on as usual
though it is not thought much will be
done next week.
Thirteen days of the session will have
gone by the time the Legislature meets
again, and as there are five more Sun
days only thirty-two more legislative
Another Boil WeeviI Scare.
days remain.
it7tes oh &c tn
fields which are feared to be the Mex
lean boil weevil continue to reach At
lanta, the latest coming to the Agri-
cultural Department to-day from ]. j.
Smith of Mathews, Jefferson county.
Mr.. Smith says there is d bug which
looks very much like the boil weevil
devastating the cotton fields there, and
he asks the department to send an eX-
pert at once.
The matter was turned over to State
Entomologist Wilmon Newell, who
will investigate it. Mr.. Newell does
not believe this is the boil weevil,
though he cannot tell what the nature
of the bug is until he sees it. So far,
however, the boil weevil has not been
found in this state. and it is not be-
lieved it has yet arrived here. There
is a bill now pending before the Leg
islature, providing for an increase in
the appropriation to the Department
of Entomology for the very purpose of
fighting the coming of the boil weevil
in this direction.
Gun They Tax Town Hall:
Mayor E. L. Jelks of Quitman has
written the controller general to know
whether the tax collector there has the
right to tax that citys town hall. The
tax collector has several times endeav-
ored to collect taxes on the city hall
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other purposes than public business.
Controller General Wright does not
think the property is taxable and
bases his opinion on a decision of the
Supreme Court in a similar case.
Miss Camp Out on Rail.
Miss Minnie Camp of Sewanee, Ga,
was to-day released from Jail on $500
bail. She has been held on the charge
of cheating and swindling. Her arrest
was caused by an Atlanta merchant
who claimed that the young woman
had given him a worthless check.
She has been quite i'll in Jail and eff
forts have been made for some days
to procure her release. She is said to
belong to a prominent family.
Jack Bone Captured.
Jack T. Bone, the young white man
who shot and killed z. T. Hall in
Floyd county on June and who was
said to be in hiding in the mountains
near the scene of his crime, armed and
defying the authorities, was arrested
at the home of his parents in Atlanta
at noon to-day by Sergt. ]. L. Beav-
ers and officers Rowan and Rosser.
Bone was taken to the station house
and locked up. He admitted freely
that he killed Hail. saying:
He wrecked my life and sent me to
prison by getting witnesses. to swear
falsely against me. That was why l
killed him. 1 did not boast that 1
would never be taken alive for the
killing, but I intended to give up. I
wanted to see my family before 1 was
taken, and that is why 1 did not give
up before. 1 was reasonably certain
that I would be taken sooner or later,
and did not expect to get away"
Three Adjudged Insane.
DR.. Oscar H. Snyder "a we'll known
physician; Edmond Bridge, son of the
late James Bridge. and B. F. Curtis,
aged 70, were to-day adjudged insane
by jury in the Ordinary's Court. The
men are now locked in the Tower,
where they will be held pending their
removal to the State Sanitarium for
the Insane at Milledgeville. They are
all members of prominent families.