Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-10-08
Condensed Neqs items Gathered From o4 parts of the State

AIRANY. Ga, oct. 5.-When Judge Frank
Park convened Dougherty county superior court
Yesterday and gave his charge TO the grand
Jury, he gave vigorous attention to blind tigers
and gambling, urging the grand jury TO leave
no stone unturned in its efforts 10 locate anG
bring to Justice certain alleged violations al
these state laws i'm Albany.
The court will dispose of civil cases this week
and take up the criminal docket next Monday
morning.
SAVANNAH. Ca, Oct SIT is possible the
Savannah cotton mill may have 10 close in
short time for want Of raw material. 1t is
reported there that there is no money in buying
cotton 1t IS cents pound and over and selling
vsrn at 10 cents which is the market price.
II is thought the spnncrs Will get together
after a while and put up the price of cotton
yarn This will hardly be done, however. until
all the mills with large stocks ON n9rd reduce
their surplus of cotton which was bought at
low prices The situation is said to be very
serious in This mill and in many others through
out the south.
SAVANNAH. Ga, Oct. 81. A. Price.
view sanitarium from tetanus or lockjaw. Price
was employed running the machinery that sup.
piled the current for private electric light plant
Of the Seaboard on Hutchinson's island, opposite
the city.
ago. He had it treated but the injured member
continued to pain him great deal. Finally
lockjaw set in and his condition at this time
is most critical. Every moyern remedy for
tetanus has been tried, but has proven of no
avail in stopping the inroads Of the disease.
ALBANY. Ca. Oct. 5.-That the wave of
prosperity is sweeping over southwest Georgia is
strkngly evidenced by increase of 40 per
cent in the freight business Of Albany for the
month Of September as compared with September
Of last year.
This inceraso is shown in business belonging
strictly to Albany and does not include tn
Ianrferred here or handled through the Albany
freight yards
per cent better throughout southwest Georgia
this year than last year.
ALBANY. Ca. Oct 5.-November 16 has been
set as the date for the Corn Carnival when the
prizes in the Albany Herald's Corn Growing
contest will be awarded. The day will be made
memorable one in Albany.
Farmers throughout this section Of the state
have raised to enter this contest for the
$500 in prizes which have been offered.
1t is expected that the prize yield from sin
gle acre will exceed 100 bushels. The contest
has been a great stimulus to diversified agricul.
ture in southwest Georgia.
ROME. Ga. oct. 5.-Charged with larceny. viii
Robinson. a negro is in Jail here in default of a
$500 bond Sunday night he broke into the
yard office Of the Central of Georgia rail
way and stole the car seals belonging to the
road. His confession duplicates others, whom
he said had planned to secure the seals, pillage
freight cars, and then seal up their doors again.
Had the seals not been recovered from the
negro's possession, loss OF thousands of dol
lars to the road would doubtless have resulted.
ALBANY. Ga, Oct 5-A fire which threaten
ed 10 destroy the plant of the Planters Oil
company, one mile east of the city sunday, iii
damage to the amount Of from $4,000 to $4,000.
The Officials of the company have refused to es
innate their loss, and these figures merely
the estimates of outsiders.
The flames were confined to the Inter roolus
and the seed warehouse, and the plant Is In
operation today.
ALBANY. Ga. Oct. with record of z4.OOO
hall ondI od dyYpin fhn TnOu of 2apFa nnrr
Albsny's compress leads the state. Albany
has received over 10000 bales of cotton this
With the high prices which the staple is now
bringing there is plenty OF money in he
country.
tial apprecia ion in farming lands in Sumter
was reflected this morning in administra-
tors sales of two farms u miles from Ameri-
Gus, at $50 and S36 an acre, respectively.
These lands are accessible by the good roads
OF Sumter county, hence The price. Before the
era of good roads $40 an acre would have been
considered an extravagant price.
MILLEN, Ca, Oct. GA farmer named
Gay is dead and Homer Whaley is suffer-
ing from q severe wound in his arm as the
result of an alleged feud between the Gay
and Whaley families. 1t is alleged when
Gay hired one of the Whaleys' negro
servants, the WhaIeys had the negro ar
rested and Gay went on his bond.
The negro, it is learned, went to the
Whaley place to move his things ard
was not allowed to have them. 1t is
stated that Gay came UP at this time,
when a quarrel ensued and the shoot
ing began. Between 80 and 40 shots were
fired. Gay receiving six wounds, Ho-
mer Whaley wound in the wrist. Jack
Whaley escaping without being hit
Gay was carried to Augusta and died
there.
Warrants have been taken out against
the Whaley brothers.
MANSFIELD. Ga, Oct. 6.-The FIVE cot
ton buyers here have bought 225 bales on
an average of 13 cents, which amounted
to S14,625.
The two gins and six seed. buyers on
the streets bought SO tons OF seed from
wagons. 1t is estimated that 200 wagons
were on the streets handling cotton and
seed. This vast amount Of business from
cotton and seed aggregated $1,000.
CLEVELAND, Ga, Oct. 5.-This morn
ing while Miss Bulgin, Of Cullasaja, n. c.,
and Miss Grace McAfee, of this place,
were out driving near the home of DR..
Bulgn about one mile from here the
horse which they were driving ran away
with them, throwing both from the bug
gy and running a short distance into a
fence where 1t became entangled in the
wire and fell upon a stump which pierced
its side. causing death Immediately.
The young ladies were severely bruised
by the fall but neither are seriously hurt.
ROME, Ca, Oct. 5.-His body a mass
of bruises, F. L. Moore, a bicycle dealer.
lies at his home here, in a serious con-
dition from injuries received yesterday
afternoon, when his motor cycle crashed
into a fence hurting him head long.
Moore was taking a practice spin around
the track, in preparation for races to be