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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-10
THE WEATHER.

Morning News barometer, Dec. 8,
ll.SU ID. m. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. ~. 8
Morning News thermometer, Dec.
Washington, Dec. 9.-Forecast for
Saturday and Sunday:
Georgia-Rain Saturday, colder in
northwest portion: Sunday, fair, cold
er in east portion: fresh south winds
becoming west.
South Carolina-Rain Saturday; Sum
day fair and COLDER fresh south winds,
increasing.
Eastern Florida-Rain Saturday;
Sunday fair; fresh southerly winds,
becoming westerly.
Western Florida-Clearing and cold
er Saturday; Sunday fair: fresh west
winds.
Yesterdays Weather at Savannah
Maximum temperature 800
D. m. ..................... "a degrees
Minimum temperature 700
d. m. Observation-Disclosures. AZ degrees
Mean temperature ..... Sc degrees
Normal temperature $50. "a degrees
Excess of temperature -. 2 degrees
Accumulated excess since
Dec. .......-............. 40 degrees
Accumulated deficiency
since Jan. .......... 219 degrees
Rainfall :. .............. 90 inch
Normal .. ............. 10 inch
Deficiency since Dec. 1 -. IA inch
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WANTED, DAIRY HAND. 5 DRIV-
ers, cooks, housegirls. l washwom-
an, boy for drug store, man cook,
buffers, housekeepers, white, man
and wife for place in country, saw
mill hands, white lady companion.
Wandelrs, 209 Jefferson street.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..


WANTED, HICKORY, lockwood,
ash, persimmon and holly logs. James
Cockshott, Charleston. s. G.
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HELP wANTED-FEMALE.
WANTED, TWENTY MILES or

WANTED, TWENTY MILES OUT
of this city, at elegant plantation
home, one good white cook; also a
white laundress; light work for fam
lily; good wages and transportation
paid Also wanted situations for ste
nographer and bookkeeper who can
take dictation good references. Want
ed good white dining-room girl; only
those bringing references as to char
acter need apply. Y. w. c. A., 1923
Abercorn street.
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WANTED, TWO YOUNG WHITE
men to canvass; good pay; call We'd
nesday evening from to $50. Mr..
Wing, S1S West Broad street. Central
Hotel
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FTVE-POUND BONES FINE AS
sorted candy, 75c. 81. and $3.50. at Het-
terich's ITO State street. west.
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wANTED-RoOMs.
WANTED--BOARD.

--~--~-~~~~~~~-~~---~~-~
YOUNG MAN WANTS HALL
room and board in private family; state
prices. H." Morning News office.
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WANTED. HOTEL CLERK IN
Florida, easy work, who has $500 to
invest in the business. Address Flori-
da, care News.
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KNAPPS EXPECTORANT is A
household word: cures coughs when
everything else fails; at drug stores %
and so cents. Manufactured by w. o.
Cubbedge, Ill Barnard street
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WANTED AT ONCE, FIRST
class saw filler and hammerer; must be
strictly sober: state wages. Address
p. Q. Box No. LAT, cambridge. Ga.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-11
TRIENNIAL CONVENTION
TO MEET IN RICHMOND IN 1907.
Archbishop of Canterbury Made His Last AID.
dress in America Yesterday in Boston.

Boston, Oct. 10.-The Archbishop of
Canterbury and bishops representing.
various parts of the world addressed a
great missionary mass meeting in Ire
mont Temple tonight. The attendance
was so large that it was necessary to
hold an overflow meeting in st. Paups
Church, at which most of the addresses
were repeated. The address of the
Archbishop was probably the last that
he will make in public during his stay
in America
The Archbishop had a busy day,
speaking at three gatherings. He was
presented with a loving cup at Bishop
William Lawrence's residence by ST.
Stephens Church of East Liverpool,
%, and in accepting it spoke briefly.
At noon he addressed the Evangelical
Alliance in Park Street Congregation
all Church.
The principal business transacted by
the convention to-day was the adop-
ton of a resolution naming Richmond
Va. as the place for the next trien-
NAL convention in 1907. The House OF
Deputies in executive session voted to
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-11

the tops of his boots He was much
Of man physically. and had just
enough of the mountain dew in him
to Danish all such thing as fear. He
ran spang against the big pachyderm,
and fell sprawling. When he got up
about twenty feet away and staggered
to his feet, he saw the elephant He
knew that it had had something to do
with the fall and resented it. The fact
is, the report quickly got circulated
that it had knocked him down with its
trunk. Anyhow, he looked at the ele-
plant for a moment in disgust, and
then, shaking his clenched fist at il, he
said: 'Looky here, you two-tailed
scoundrel, if 1 jist knowed which end
your head wuz on I'd kick your derned
brains out'n it,"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-11
Autopsy Held.

From the Nlneteenth century


BY the choice Of his ministers the
Car is strengthening the hands of the
revolutionary party
Much has been written lately con-
corning Nicholas Alexandrovitch. He
is represented as amiable and well in
tentioned in one quarter; as weak and
tickle in another; as obstinate and hys-
terical in a third. There is a certain
these descriptions. A good deal de-
ponds on his humor and the time of
day. In the morning he will arise.
full of good intentions and amiability
An interview with his chief adviser
the procurator, viii entirely alter his
outlook, and his good intentions will
be consigned to the usual destination.
An audience given to another minis
ter will bring out a fresh trait In his
versatile nature. And so on through
out the day.
l have been blamed for denouncing
the Car in Russia as II Really Is"
without regard for historical circum-
stances It has been pointed out to
me that the evils which exist I'm Rus
STA are the creation of centuries In
that case, I reply surely the time has
arrived for steps 10 be taken 10 eradi-
cate some of the more giarlnR evils.
The state OF nation may be the IN
heritance OF centuries: but the same
cannot be said OF the state OF mind
OF any one individual In the nation.
especially n that individual has hnd
all the advantages that education,
travel ana a worldwide field OF vision
can give. For Russia we can only
feel extreme plty But for the man
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-11

painter, serve to keep the superintend-
ent from lapsing into innocious disue-
tude, or from spending his time in
riotous living at some fashionable re-
sort.
"All these matters. however, l have
met cheerfully, and to the best of my
ability executed.
Increase in the schools.
LAS our school accommodation is
practically nearly the same as that Of
last year, the increase in the attend
ance over last year is about rs for the
city. There are on the waiting list
about twenty pupils for the First
grade for the Anderson Street School,
and about fifteen for the First grade
at the Cathedral School, and a few for
the First and Second grades in the
vicinity of Massie and Barnard.
"All of the children on the waiting
list of the Cathedral School have been
offered seats in either the st. Pat
rick's School or in Chatham Academy,
and those in the Barnard district have
been offered seats in Massie. Seats
are available at reasonably convenient
distances for all pupils now on the
waiting list, except for those in the
Anderson district for the First grade.
1 see no early prospect for accommo-
dating these with our present facili-
ties.
Full reports from the county schools
have not yet been received, but from
those received the attendance seems
to be good. ] regret that l have vet
been unable to secure a teacher for the
school to be established on Wilmington
Island. It's isolated situation and it's
difficulty of access render it almost
necessary to appoint a male teacher
for the position, and no suitable teach
pr has hapY1 found I hnnn how
ever soon to secure some one for the
place.
High school Increase.
The effect upon the High School at
tendance, due to the removal of the
tuition fees has been almost exactly
as predicted. Seventy-two pupils more
are now in attendance than there were
at the corresponding time last year
Providing for a new teacher, therefore,
was a necessity, and the establish
ment of this new class meets all the
present demands. 1t would be well
for the board at this meeting to fix
the salary of this new teacher. as the
payrolls must be made out before the
next meeting.
1.-THE change from the old text book
to the rev has been made without
friction or inconvenience, and a con-
siderable saving to parents has been
made in the cost of books.
I'm conclusion, / am glad to state
that the outlook for a successful years
work is bright, and that the teachers
have entered upon their work with
unusual enthusiasm. Every essential
part of the school machinery is in ex-
cellent adjustment, and it shall be my
constant effort to keep the schools of
our city and county in as high a state
of efficiency as possible"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-11
GOV. Bob" TAYLOR
ON THE CIRCUS,

HIS Opinion of John Robinson's Big
shows.
The first circus that Gov. Bob Tay-
Tor OF Tennessee, ever attended was
the John Robinson circus, the TWEEN
tieth century edition of which reaches
Savannah Thursday.
The recent appearance of the circus
in Nashville revived Gov. Taylor's
memory and he told Punch Wheeler
all about it. Here is what the former
Governor said:
II can't, somehow or other, feel old
as long as this show comes around to
fill my bosom with the memories of
other days. 1t is the best picnic you
old fellows can take. always be-
gin TO get ready TO attend the funeral
of the old man who has grown tired
of the occasional visits of the circus.
Il remember when / was a lad this
same show came to our town. We
lived in the Watauga valley then, and
the great posters of that day an
nounced its exhibition at Elizabethton.
The heart of every mountain boy and
girl beat high with anticipation, and
the date was more firmly fixed in the
mind than that of the Declaration of
Independence. The wise old farmer
proceeded to get double work out of
the whole family, with a promise to
go to the show. How my heart tin
giles for that sensation again. and
get faint symptoms of it now and then
when the hand bursts out and the
painted clown pops up in sight.
u remember one time we had Rob
inson's show with us at Elizabethton.
IL was the first one had been to, and
] was one of the happiest lads there.
for had no idea of what was coming.
The show that day was not so large
as il is now. 1t was all under one
tent and all the acts occurred one at
a time and in one ring. l am not
sure that we ought not to have them
that way now. One tent not only COW
cred the circus. but the menagerie as
well. The people were seated on one
side, and the animal cages were ar
ranged around the other
THE entire country came in that
day They had monster elephant that
got unruly sometimes. I think they
got him that way in order to give
the hungry crowd on the outside a
sensation. ! do not know how IL start
ed, but the first thing / knew the word
went around through the crowd that
some one had given the elephant a
'chaw Of terbacker.' To the mountain
eer this meant the destruction of the
entire population OF the place for
there was somehow or other legend
that the elephant would resent a
'chaw Of terbacker' to the defamation
OF the entire country. Some OF the old
fellows thought the elephant would
never stop as long as there was a hui
man living IN the mountains.
Finally the elephant was pacifed.
and to save the legend intact. the re-
port went around that Il was not "A
'chaw Of terbacker,' but chinquapin
burr. The crowd came back to the
tent obviously, and after while per-
feet confidence was restored.
4 got Up courage and money enough
70 GET inside the tent A. I went IN
so shock u took me al day TO get
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-11
WATSON HEADQUARTERS
OPENED IN NEW YORK.

POpuIist Party Campaign VIII BE
Directed from Hoffman House.
New York, Oct 10.-Headquarters for
Thomas E. Watson, presidential can
didate of the Peoples party, were
opened to-day in the Hoffman House
The rooms are four in number on the
first floor. Melville G. Palliser will be
in charge of the headquarters. A
meeting of the Executive Committee of
the Peoples party will be held at the
headquarters tomorrow night to pre-
pare plans for the campaign in this
city. Mr. Watson is now on his way
West. but will return here in about ten
days.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-11

confirm the election of Rev. Edward
w. Osborne of Boston, superior of the
American branch of the Society of Mis-
sion Priests of ST. John, the Evange-
list, as Bishop coadjutor of Springfield,
Ill. The subject of divorce went over
until tomorrow.
]. Pierpont Morgan offered a resolu-
ton, to the effect that the addresses
made at the joint session of last
Thursday, when the Archbishop of
Canterbury was received, be printed
in the Journal as part of the minutes.
The resolution was adopted
A slight commotion was caused by
Rev., DR.. S. S. Moore of Parkersburg,
w. Va, who, rising to a question of
privilege, criticised the action of the
House of Bishops in transmitting a
message referring to business which
was before. the House of Deputies, but
which had not been finally acted upon
He thought such a message might in
fluence legislation. Rev. DIR. John Full
ton of Philadelphia, while admitting
the force of Dr. Moore's argument, re-
quested him to withdraw his motion.
The incident was ended by the with
drawal of the message from the pro-
ceedings of the House of Deputies.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-11
INCREASE IN SCHOOLS
is ABOUT SEVENTY FIVE
Complete Report of Superintendent Ashmore on
the Opening Of Schools Of Chatham County.

At the October meeting of the Board
of Education last night Supt. Otis
Ashmore made detailed report on the
opening of the schools in Savannah
and Chatham county. The following
is the complete report:
THE schools under your charge en-
tered upon the fortieth year of their
work one week ago. In the various
vicissitudes of the passing years the
progress of public education has kept
step with the progress of the city, and
] am glad to report that the outlook
is bright; indeed we may reasonably
expect many better things which the
advancement of civilization is con-
stantly placing within our reach.
For the opening of the schools on
Oct. 3, every detail was carefully
planned, and the fulfllment of the
forecast made several weeks ago,
shows that no serious mistake was
made. When the hour for opening the
schools arrived every teacher in the
entire system was at her post and in
her hands was placed complete infor-
nation of every problem to be con-
fronted and the means of dealing with
it.
Work of FOrecasting.
1.-The foreoasting of the school con-
ditions Of a large city several weeks
in advance of the opening day and
the planning necessary to meet these
conditions in the wisest and most eco
nomical manner. is very complex
problem which requires a thorough
knowledge of many perplexing and
variable elements. The number of pu-
pills promoted in each grade, the num-
Der not promoted. the number attend
ing school out of their district during
the year, the number who have moved
from one district to another during the
vacation period, the probable number
of nav pupils to be admitted to each
grade, and the general trend of pop
ulation, must all be taken into the ac-
count.
I'm the High School the probable eff
feet Of the abolition of the tuition fees
had to be estimated and provided for.
The establishment of just the right
number of classes in each grade in
the several schools to meet the demand
in the most economical manner, and
to provide for accommodating the max
imum number of pupils in the whole
system, the provision for overfiows
from crowded grades to nearby schools,
and the prevention of overcrovding
in any class, are matters for the SUI
perintendent to ponder over in the
good old summer time while his
teachers are enjoying their well mer-
tied and much needed rest at the sea
shore or in the mountains. and boards
and committees have other things to
think about.
These matters together with the
delightful occupation Of trying to keep
up with the plumber, the carpenter.
the brick mason. the plasterer, the
Whitewater. the glazier, and the
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-11
WIFE POISONED;
HUSBAND ARRESTED
BRIDE OF FOUR WEEKS
TOOK WHAT SHE THOUGHT WAS
CALOMEL AND DIED.

Bert Gregory of Union, S. c., Claimed
He Gave His Wife Strychnine
by Mistnke-Was Arrested but Re-
leased Under $500 BOnd-A COrO-
ner's Jury Investigating the Case.
The Woman Said She Took the
Medicine from Her Husband and
1t Tasted Bitter.
Union, S. c.. Oct. 1o.-Mrs. Bert
Gregory, bride of but four weeks to
a day who was poisoned last Tues
day night by taking strychnine with
calomel, died yesterday at noon. At the
inquest, which has been continued un-
til next Tuesday, evidence was intro
duced against the husband, though he
still maintains his innocence.
The young woman thought she was
taking a dose of calomel and after
wards was seized with commissions.
She never regained consciousness. and
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-11

With Arrival of Cooler weather
Disease Expected to Disappear.
Mexico City. Oct. 10.-Merida reports
cases of fever. There are two sus-
poets in the hospital at Tehuantepec
and five cases at Coatzacolcos.
Salina Cruz, on the Pacific side, re-
ports four suspects.
With the arrival Of cooler weather
the fever, it is thought, will disappear
and the Superior Board of Health con-
fidently, expects to stamp out the dis
ease.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-11

over. 1t was the custom of circuses in
those days to tie the elephant to a
stake just inside the entrance. 1
walked right in on him before l knew
it and thought l was gone sure.
had scarcely got out of reach when
one of my native countrymen came in
under the influence of strong drink. He
was great big, strapping young fell
low with his jeans pants stuffed into
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-11

the only only statement she made was
to her physician that she had taken
medicine only from her husband, say
ing the water of the last dose had
tasted very bitter.
Husband Arrested.
Gregory was arrested Thursday aft
ernoon on a warrant sworn out by the
brides brother, was released Friday
on a $500 bond. 1t was thought Sat-
urday that the woman would recover,
but she gradually grew worse.
At the inquest some sensational
testimony was brought out. Boyd
Harris, with whom the couple had
been living since their marriage, testi-
fed that Tuesday night the young
husband insisted that the wife should
take the medicine he had brought out
from their room, and after some per-
suasion, protesting against not need
ing it, she took it.
H. H. Xix, who works in the roller
room of Monarch Mills, testified that
Gregory had spoken to him before the
poisoning occurred. mentioning that
he was using some strychnine on his
sore foot, it having been suggested by
a negro in Georgia, who was reported
to have killed his wife with strychnine.
Xix said that Gregory asked him if
his wife should accidentally take any
of the strychnine would he likely be
prosecuted.
Didn't Think she'd Live Long.
w. T. Levister said that ten days
before the poisoning Gregory had
To, h n milf
and intimated that he didn't think she
could live long.
Henry M. Holmes, well-known
pharmacist, testified to having sold
Gregory one grain of strychnine, which
he said was for his sore foot, though
Holmes said he had never heard Of
such remedy being used.
Gregory, in signed statement, says
that the poisoning was purely acct
dental; that the strychnine which he
used on his foot was next TO the calo-
mel and it might have been accidentally
knocked over and gotten mixed; that
his married life had been happy, and
he would not have killed his wife for
anything.
The autopsy was performed by local
physicians, who carefully examined the
woman's brains. lungs, and stomach
IN accordance WIFE INSTRUCTIONS TecelV-
ed from Solicitor Sease, the stomach
being sent off to be examined by ex-
perts.
The funeral services were conducted
this morning by Rev. John G. Farr
who married the couple but four weeks
ago.
The woman poisoned was born in
Darlington, S. c., twenty-three years
ago, and was Miss Bee White. She
had been living here sixteen months,
and was an orphan. Gregory is not 25
years old. He was born and raised at
Adamsburg in this county, and in
size is a physical giant.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-11
INVITATIONS TO OPENING
OF STATE FAIR
To Governor and His stan, Senators
end

To Governor and His STAFF, Senators
and Congressman.
Macon, Oct. 10.-At a meeting of the
directors of the Macon Fair Associa-
ton tonight it was decided to extend
an invitation to the Governors staff
as well as the Governor, senators and
congressman of Georgia to attend the
State Fair on Georgia Day, Oct. rs,
when a big barbecue will be given.
The boys band of the Georgia Indus
trial Home will be given free tickets
to the circus which shows on the Fair
Grounds the opening daY.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-11

When a brigade OF mutnous troops
took the city OF Liuohufu, South China,
the other day, they pillaged and slew
for forty-eight hours. So great was
their booty that they compelled AbW
Of the inhabitants 10 help them carry
Il 70 the hills, where they Joined the
rebels.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-11

who Is in the possession Of absolute
power, and who, by a stroke OF the
pen. could, but does not, make a be-
ginning. at least, OF new and hap
pier era for his country we must feet
still more.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-11

Some OF the leading French states
men, including Rouvier, Combes and
Ir0Uillot, have given their sanction 10
the socialistic scheme Of GRANTING
every person aged over so a pension of
Si2 a year. This scheme II carried out
would cost the country seo,O00Oo0 a
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-11

A sarcophagus dating from The year
1000 and containing human remains w w
been discovered by some wOrSmen wnno
digging a well IN the Ruedes Gopel0''
Paris.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-11

DE SOTO HOTEL, Savannah, Ga.
Open all year. Large airy rooms;
1000 feet piazzas; 100 rooms with pri-
vate bath. Telephone service IN every
room. Liberal Inducements to fami-
lies desiring permanent board.
WATSON g. POWERS. Proprietors
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-11

the only only statement she made was
to her physician that she had taken
medicine only from her husband, say
ing the water of the last dose had
tasted very hitter
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-11

j. n. MERRIIIL,
Gen. Sou. Agt., Atlanta, Ga.