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Unveiled in Atlanta, Georgia, Saturday
With Appropriate Exercises
IMMENSE CROWDS THERE
Life-Long Friend and War Compan
ion of the Dead Chieftain Heard
With Greatest Interest in Impres
sive Ceremonies at Atlanta.
Atlanta. Ga., Special. Thousands
or Georgia 's citizens, with added hun
dreds from other sections of the
South, gathered Saturday at the un
veiling ceremonies of the splendid
equistiian statue of the momory of
Gen. John B. Gordon. Almost with
in the shadow of the State Capitol
great crowds gathered to hear the ora
tions and see the monument unveiled.
In the parade which preceded the
ceremonies a long line of- soldiery and
civic organization marched through
the principal downtown streets,
watched by thousands of spectators.
The oration of Gen. Clement A. Evans
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'he life-lonsr friend and war comnan
ion of the dead chieftain was heard
v.-ith greatest interest and as the two
daughters of General Gordon pulled
the cord and unveiled the statue, th';
strains of .Dixie rang out and the i
words of the song by the multitude
mmgled with the old ".Rebel Yell,"
iiom the throats of veterans "who
lought under General Gordan and Lee
The programme for the unveiling
ceremonies was as follows:
Invoation.
Music.
History of the Gordon Monument
Association, by Captain William X.
alhoun.
Oration, General Clement A. Evans
Ln veiling, by Mrs. Francis Gordon
nnth of Atlanta and Mrs. Caroline
J-ewis Gordan Brown of Vermont,
daughters of General Gordon.
Music, "Dixie," by band.
Dedication .poem, by Charles W.
-tlu oner.
Jliisic, "Sunny South," by chorus.
Delivery of Statue to State by Cap
tain Nathaniel Harris.
Acceptance for State, Governor J.
U. Terrell.
Introduction of Sculptor Borglum.
benediction.
MRS. GORDON PRESENT.
- feature of the day was the pres
;K'e of Mrs. Gordon, widow of the
l onioderate commander and his two
"anghters Mrs. Burton Smith, of At-J-ta,
and Mrs. Bishop Brown of
u-imont who unfeiled the monument
r Major Hugh A. Gordon, a son of
-"era! Gordon and several other rel-
xoman Dying From Beating.
-New York, Special Mrs. Mary
i-uitig is dying in Gouveneur Hospital
f a result of a terrible beating given
fr by two robbers who attacked her
i;i ner home. After pounding Mrs.
jt.sug into insensibility the thieves
tooK from her a bag containing $1,300
iich she carried in the bosom of her
jh-ess and escaped. They have not
IJJt'n captured. Another roll of bills
"taming $300 was found concealed
3" Mrs. Lusting's stocking. -
jatives. The ceremonies were presided
over oy liov. Jos. M. Terrell, who In
troduced the monument for the State
of Georgia.
After the invocation the history of
the Gordon Monument Association
was read. Then General Evans was
introduced.
Following the address of General
Evans, Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Smith
pulled the cords which freed the mon
ument of its covering and the cheers
of the crowd broke forth. When si
lence was restored in part the address
of presentation was delivered by
Capt. N. E. Harris, of the monument
committee and the address of accept
ance by Governor Terrell followed.
A poem by Major Charles TV. Hub
ner and the intrduction of Sculptor
Solon H. Borglum of Norwalk, Conn,
who designed the monument, preced
ed the benediction which closed the
exercises.
The parade preceding tire unveil
ing was one of the finest spini-miU.
' tary displays of recent years in At
lanta. The first division, cf which
uieie were six, was commanded by
Brig. Gen. W, S. Edserlv. TT S A
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STATUE OF GEN. JOHN B GORDOTJ r R A txttttcitt ottt-,
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eommanding the Department of the
Gulf. A battalion of the Seventeenth
Infantry stationed at Fort McPher
son, and two regiments of Georgia
State trocps the fifth and the second
made up this division. Other organ
izations of unattached military com
panies, various camps of Confederate
veterans, Daughters of the Confeder
acy, sons of Confederate Veteraus
and numerous civic organizations
completed the long line.
Gen. Gordon was regarded as the
typical Georgia soldier, and there was
no man whom Georgians, in fact
those of all the-South, more delight
ed to honor. Then, after the war" in
legislative halls, executive chair and
upon the orator's platform he car
ried the message of peace and fellow
ship to every section of the country
becoming ,in fact, a national charac
ter admired and loved wherever he
was known. Indeed, not a few sub
scriptions to the fund with which the
monument was erected came from
those who stood in opposing ranks iu
the sixties, and with each came a
message of admiration and esteem for
his nobility of character and gener
osity of heart.
This monument was erected at an
approximate cost of $25,000, of which
$10,000 was raised by private sub
scription among comrades and friends
largely in Georgia, but also in other
Southern States and in some instan
ces, as noted from admiring friends
in the, North. The project was first
undertaken a little more than three
yean ago, just after Gen. Gordon's
Thres Killed by Lightning.
Fort Worth, gpecial. A . severe
rain and electrical storm swept over
Northern . Texas last night causing
much damage to croperty and some
loss of life.
The dead are :
W. P. LYON, Ellis county farmer
struck by ' lightning.
HARRY SNEED, Rosebud, struck
by lih tiling.
"A.'r; SANDERSON, Park Springs
struck by lightning.
death, and when $10,000 had been
luiS y ue John B; Gordon Monu
ment association, the Georgia legisla
ture appropriated the needed $15,000
to complete the work, taking over the
association's fund -and naming a con
mission to act as the State's agent.
In a competition entered by half a
dozen well known artists, Sculptor b.
H. Borglum of Norwalk, Conn., won
the award, his Avork being highly
commended by those who best knew
and were intimately associated with
Gen. Gordon, among them his wiftf
and daughters. The sculptor's task
under the criticism of such judges,
was no easy one, and its completion
has been the almost constant work of
a twelvemonth. The statue was cast
in copper bronze in Brooklyn, N. Y.,
and forwarded to Atlanta April 29,
arriving here May 9..
t The statue represents Gordon as he
is best remembered in the years short
ly before his death when, almost upon
the same spot where it will stand for
generations, he sat mounted and re
viewed year after year on Memorial
Day the ever thinning hosts of those
who followed him in battle. And
there it will stand for years to come
on the northwest corner of the State
capitol grounds, in reviewing attitude
while past it will march on each
Memorial Day to come 'those who
join in tribute to the recollections of
the past.
Upon the front of the npdpstnl will
appear the one word, in bronze let
ter: -Lrordon." On either side of
the pedestal will be set a bronze has
relief, three by five feet in dimension,
representative of the most conspicu
ous features in his career TVm a
represents Gordon at Spottsylvania
MAY 25, IS 07.
en the 12th of May, when, before his
entire division, he forced Gen. Piobcrt
E. Lee to the rear, and probably savad
the intrepid Confederate leader's life,
an act which has figured in poetry,
song and story. The other is repres
entative of three imnortant phases
m bonlon's iiie, soldier, statesman
and patriot. He became governor or
Georgia and United States senator,
and no Georgian has ever been better
known on the lecture platform than
'as ht up to the day of his death.
The unveiling ceremonies took
place at noon, Saturday, May 25, and
were preceded by a military pageant
in which there joined troops from oil
parts of the State, while federal of
ficers and troops, from the depart
ment of the gulf and Fort McPhe'rson
W. S. Edgerly, commander of the de
partment, and his staff having ac
cepted the invitation of Grand Mar
shall Robert E. Park to take part in
this function. The military broke
ranks at "the capitol grounds and join
ed the vast throng of officials, civic
bodies and citizens who were there to
participate.
The invocation by Rev. Wm. F.
Glenn and music were followed by a
reading of the history of the' John -B.
Gordon Monument association by its
firs't president, Judge W. L. Calhoun
of Atlanta. The principal address
was delivered by Gen. Clement A. Ev
ans, the ranking Confederate chief of
the United- Confederate Veterans.
Gen. Evans participated with Gordon
in the Spottsylvania incident and was
his comrade and lifelong1 friend.
JTews in-Brief.
A cable message to the Associated
Press from Rome says: There were
serious disturbances at Tersi in the
department of Umbria. ..The wives of
the strikers invaded the iron works
which their husbands had left and at
tempted to drive out the workmen who
had taken the strikers places. Troops
were called out and charged the mob
of infurated men, who had broken the
windows in the shops.
The statue standing 20 feet from
base of pedestal to top of heady wSS
appropriately unveiled by Geh. Gor
don two daughters, Mrs. Caroline
Lewis Gordon Brown of Vermont, and
Mrs. Frances Gordon Smith of At
lanta; and as the cords released the
veiling folds, "Dixie" from the band
was the -signal for another "rebel
yell." (.
The dedication poem was read by
its author, Charles W. Hubner of
Atlanta, followed by music in which
participated a Chorus of several hund
red voices.
After the formal delivery of the
statue to the State by Capt. Nathan
iel E. Harris of Madn in behalf ot
the commission, and its acceptance in
a response by Gov. Joseph M. Terrell,
the ceremonies concluded with the
introduction to the audience of Sculp
tor Borglum and the benediction.
Gordon's is the only monument up
on the capitol grounds. A marble
statue of United States Senator B.
H. Hill, which formerly stood at the
junction of Peachtree and West
Peachtree streets in Atlanta, was re
moved into the rotunda of the capi
tol building away from the elements
and youthful vandals.
MRS. McKlNLEY DEAD,
Wife of the L.ate President Passes
Away Peacefully.
Canton, Ohio, Special. Mrs. Wil
liam McKinley, widow of President
McKinley, died at her home here at
1 o'clock Monday morning. The end
came peacefully. At the McKinley
home Avheii death came there were
preent Secretary Cortelyoii, Mr. and
Mrs. M. C. Barber, Mrs. Sarah Dun
can, Mrs. Luther Day, Justice and
Mrs. William R. Day, Drs. Port
mann and Rixy and the nurses. The
f unreal will be held Wednesday, and
will be in charge of her pastor, Dr.
Buxton of the Methodist church.
Millenaries Indicted.
San Francisco, Special The grand
jury indicted six millionaries on
charges of bribery and attempted
bribery and returned additional ii
dietmeilts against Abraham Reuf and
Mayor E. E. Schmitz. Frank G. Drum,
Eugene Di Sabla, John Martin, Abra
ham Ruef and .Maydr Schmitz were
indicted on 14 counts each, charging
that they jointly bribed 14 of the 18
supervisors in the sum of $750 each
to fix the gas rate for 1906 at So cents
instead of 75 cents. G. Mumbsen, B.
Greeii, W; I. Brobeck and Ruef were
indicted oil 14 counts, each charging
that they jointly attempted to bribe
14 supervisors in the sum of $1,000 to
vote a trolley franchise to the Park
side Transit Company. Judge Coffey
fixed bail at $10,000 on each of the
120 counts contained in the indict
ments. Contest on New York Cotton Ex
change for Control.
New York, Special. - For the first
time iii 11 years there is to be a con
test on the New York cotton exchange
for control of the management. News
to this effect was made known on the
floor of the exchange when two tickets
were posted for the annual election,
which will take place on June 3.
James H. Parker will head both tick
ets, but for other offices there will be
a contest. It .is understood that the
question of reform in contracts will
be an issue.
Terminated Without an Agreement.
Atlantaj Ga., Special. The Con
stitution will announce authoritative
ly that the negotations which have
been pending for some time for the
acquiring by the Seaboard Air Line
of trackage rights over the Southern
Railway between Macon and Atlanta
have been terminated without un
agreement. The tems offered by the
Southern were not aceptable to the
Seaboard, according to the report and
further negotiations have been sus
pended for the time at least. .
For Contempt of Court.
Charleston, Special. Sam Bricks,
formerly a merchant of Dillon, was
brought to Charleston having been ar
rested at Ardmore, Oklahoma, on a
bench warrant, charging him with
contempt of court, in having failed
to carry out an order of Judge Braw
ley in bankruptcy proceedings. In
February, 1906, Brick's affairs were
in court and he was directed to turn
over the sum of $1,500 to the trustee.
Instead of doing so Brick boarded the
train and went West and lived under
the name of H. Simons. He was
brought here by two deputies of the
marshall of the Southern district of
Oklahoma and delivered to Marshall
Adams, who placed him in jail. Brick
will remain a guest of Capt. Grad
dick until he purges himself of con
tempt and there is no telling how
long he will remain in jaiL
All Business to Stop During Unveiling
of Davis Statue.
New Olean's, La., Special. An ap
peal to all Southerners briefly to stop
business and all moving wheels at 2
p. m., June 3, the moment of the un
veiling of the Jefferson Davis statue
at the Richmond reunion of Confeder
ate Veterans, was issued here by Gs'n.
Lee, commanding the veterans.
By Wire and Cable,
By a vote of74o 9, the. Senate of
New York passed the bill flsing at 2
cents a mile-the rate of passenger faro
on all railroads systems over 150 'miles
in length in this State. It has already
passed the Assembly and now goes to
the Governor.
Professor Todd, in charo-o f t),P
Lowell expedietion to South America
has reached Panama,
ASSEMBLY IS OVER
Southern Presbyterians Finish
Their Deliberations
FINALS OF BIRMINGHAM SESSION
Question aa to Wlether Foreigners
With Plural Wives Shall be Taken
Into Church Left Largely With
Missionaries, Although Church
Stands as" Unalterably Opposed to
' Polygamy.
Birmingham, Ala., Special Moder
ator J. R. Howerton dissolved the forty-seventh
General Assembly of the
Southern Presbytaxiran Church at
half past 5 o'clock Friday afternoon
an3 wifl-i 4-Vta a i n ri i rv n-P "Rloccol "R
the Tie That Binds," and the'xpro-.J
nouncing of the benediction, a mem
orable session of the body sent down
into history.
The commissioners are leaving for
their homes on every train . A fe
of them will remain in the district
over Sunday and will occupy losal
pulpits.
The day was taken up for the most
part with overtures on various sub
jects. One of the most interesting
subjects brought up was that Avhich
had to do with polygamy in the for
eign fields. The assembly reasserted
its position taken, in 1906 which
leaves the question as to whethrr
men with plural wives shall be taken
into the Church largely at the discre
tion of the missionary, although the
Church places itself on record as un
alterably opposed to polygamy. The
missionaries are instructed to do
everything in their power to break up
the practice in the; fields in which
they are at work.
The committee appointed' as a re
sult of the adoption of the articles
of agreement, madia a report which
was unanimously adopted as follows :
"Your committee to nominate dele
gates to the council astablished by
the adoption of the' 'Charlotte articles
of agreement would recommend the
following delegates with their alter
nates in order named:
Class 1 To serve one year Rev.
W. McF. Alexander, D. D., New Or
leans, La.; Rev. W. T. Hall, D. D.,
Columbia, S. C; Mr. C. N. Robert
Sheman, Tex.; Mr.. H. O. Fulton, Co
lumbia, Tenfl., Alternates:
Rev, J. E. Jones;, D. D., Nashville,
Miss.; Rev. J. H. McNeill, D, D.,
Nashville, Tenn.j Rev. W. F. Steven
son, Charaw, S. C; Mr. C. Matthew
son, Gainsville, Fla.
Class 2 To serve two years: Rev.
J. F. Cannon, D. D., St. Louis, Mo.;
Rev. J. S. Lyons, D. D.,. Louisville,
Ky.; Hon. Hoke Smoth, Atlanta, Ga.;
Hon. T. McRae, Prescott, Ark, Altei-
nates : Rev. N. McKay, "D. D., Fort
Smith, Ark.; Rev. Neal L. Anderson,,
D. D., Montgomery, Ala.; Col. T. W.
Bullitt, Louisville, Ky.; J. M. Chaney,
Jr., Independence, Mo.
Class 3 To serve three years: Rev.
J. R. Howerton, D. D., Montreat, N.
C; Rev. Russell Cecil, D. D., Rich
mond, Va.; T. H. Somerville, LI.. D.,
Oxford, Miss.; R. T. Simpson, Flor
ence, Ala.
Alternates : Rev.. J. Y. Fay, D. D..
Savannah, Ga.; Rev. Robert Hill, D.
D., Dallas, Tex.; Hon. F. T. Glasgow,
Lexington, Va.; Hon. A. M. Scales,
Greensboro, N. C.
The report of the committee on for
eign correspondence was adopted. It
provides for the appointment of IS
representatives to the inter-Church
Conference on federation to be held
in 1909. The suggestions of the Pan
Presbyterian Alliance were adopted
and the moderator was instructed to
appoint 19 representatives.
Charlotte Articles Adopted.
Birmingham, Special. By a vote
of 94 to 96, the General Assembly of
the Southern Presbyterian Church
voted in favor of adopting the Char
lotte articles of agreement. This re
sult reached only after one of the
most heated discussions in the history
of the Church and a historical scene
was enacted as the Assembly placed
the Church on record as favoring clos
er unity with other Churches holding
the Presbyterian form or worship.
Greensboro, N. C, was chosen as the
next place of meeting, after which the
Assembly, on Friday night, adjounru
ed. Pocahontas Consolidated Colleries
Company Chartered.
Richmond, Va., Special. With a
maximum capital stock of $7,800,000,
and a minimum, of $7,713,700, the
Pochontas Consolidated Collieries
Company, of Boissevain, Va., was
chartered by the corporation commis
sion Isaac T. Mann, of Brasswell, W.
Va., is named as president,, and all
of the officers are from Virginia and
West. Virginia, with the exception of
Charles S. Thome;" first vice presi
dent, whose home is-in New York
City.
Price Bes'd'G en as Appeal.
. Xew York, Special, Instead of fil
ing an amended complaint in the
suit to 6top an alleged overgrading of
cotton by the cotton exchange, as he
had planned, Theodore HrTrice de
cided to appeal from the adverse de
cision of Referee Charles E. Rush
more. The new plan was announced
when the referee reopened the hear
ing so no arguments were made be
fore him..
items of Interest Gleaned From
Various Sections
FROM MOUNTAIN TO SEASHORE
Minor Occurrences of the Week of
'Interest to Tar Heels Told in Para
graphs. -
A Monument for Federal Soldiers.
Salisbury, Special. There 'is a
movement on foot by the State of
Maine which will cause to be erected
a handsome shaft to. the soldiers .if
the Federal armies who died and were
bnried in Salisbury. The State bad
two visitors here this week making
arrangements and they returned i
make the necessary plans with the
War Department.' The soldiers who
died here had many Maine men in
the companies and they are to be
given a handsome shaft, which will
be unveiled in the fall. All of
the Governor's staff will attend .on
that ocasion and it will be a big one.
Meets Death Suddenly.
Greensboro, Special. H. Turner
Wright, amiller, who has a mill in
southeastern Guilford, was suddenly
killed early Friday morning while en
deavoring to start a water wheel at
the mill. His. body Avas horribly
mangled. Details of the, accident
were not available, but it seems that
he must have been carried over by
his clothing having caught in the
wheel. He is survived by a wife and
three children.
Tar Heel Brevities.
It is learned that while Fred Woo d
ard, of Wilson, has not personally an
nounced his candidacy for nomina
tion for Governor, this announcement
will be made in a day or two by his
friend, ex-Governor Aycock.
The State Superintendent of Pub
lic Instruction is notified by the su
perintendent of Sampson county that
thee school districts there have voted
for a special tax.
The Supreme Court decides that ex
press companies are liable for delay
in making deliveries within. a reason
able time. The Southern Express
Company contested this case on the
ground that it was only one of several
common carriers. In other words was
involved with the railways iu hand
ling freight.
The installation of the agricultur
al exhibits from North Carolina at the
Jamestown Exposition has begun.
William II. Robbins of Raleigh, will
assist in : the work. Much of the col
lection was made by him least year
at the State fair and was shown at the
Boston fair and then preserved for
display at the Jamestown Expositio.i.
The exhibit was one of the finest ever
made in a county.
It is now understood that the name
of the new life insurance company
with headquarters at Raleigh will be
the Jefferson Standard. The charter
is now being drafted, a meeting beiir.
held early next week by the stock
holders, when there will be an organ
ization and temporary directors, io
retire as soon as their successors are
elected by a general meeting of the
stockholders which will then be called
The Bankers Convention was in ses
sion at Winston last week.
Sanford suffered heavy losses from
fire on Thursday.
A sepecial from Spencer says : A
report became current on the streets
here to the effect that Harry Shelton
a well known young brakeman on the
Southern Railway between Spencer
and Monroe, Va., was instantly. killed
near. Greensboro by falling between
two cars belonging to a train on which
he was working. All efforts to ascer
tain facts in the matter proved futile.
The Charlotte assay office is now
handling from $15,000 to $30,000 in
gold bullion every month.
A charter is granted the Kent Cof
fey Manufacturing Company, of Le
noir, to make furniture and wood no
velties, capital stock $50,000, F. II.
Coffey and A. A. Kent being the prin
cipal stockholders. -
The 29th annual meeting of the
American Library Association was
held last week in Asheville.
Commissioner, of Agriculture Pat
terson says there is a fair croy of ap
ples in his section at the foothills of
the Blue Ridge, but there is no other
fruit.
Bond Election.
Gastonia, Special. It is quite
likely , that the citizens' of Gastonia
will be called Upon in the near future
to vote on the issuances of bonds
amounting to $75,000 -to go to stroet
improvement, the water and light sys
tem and an enlargement of the graded
school facilities.
Convict Camp Consumed.
Spartanburg S. C,' Special. The
county convict camp, located on the
Greenville road, across FairForest
creek, was destroyed by fire late Tues
day afternoon. All the tents, blank
ets, bedding and extra suits for the
convicts were destroyed.. The orkrin
of the fire is not positively known,
though it is believed to have started
bv a spark from a pipe or stump
of a. cigarette or cigar.
COTTON OIL PEOPLE
Important Meeting of the Seed
Crushers at Norfolk, Va.
MANY SECTIONS REPRESENTED
Chief Carson, of Bureau of Manufac
turers Delivers Important Address
Before Inter-State Cotton Seed
Crushers' Association in Conven
tion at Norfolk.
Norfolk, Va., Special. The princi
pal feature of Thursday's session .l, ,
the Inter-State Cotton Seed Crushers'
Association in eleventh annual con
vention at the Jamestown Exposition
was an address by John M. Carson,
chief of the Bureau of Manufacturers
Df the Department of Commerce and
Labor. His subject was "Foreign
Trade." -
"The cotton seed industry presents .
greater attractions," said Major Car
son, "and offers greater possibilities
in the immediate future for enlarge
ment in foreign markets than many
others of our principal industries?
If it were more generally known in
the United States that the best cotton
seed oil is equal in purity and healtli
fulness to olive oil, the demand for
cotton oil at home would expand to
a point that would seriously intrefere
with the profits of the manufactur
ers of olive oil in France, Italy and
Spain, who find cotton oil so profit- .
able in the conduct of their business.
Our manufacturers of cotton oil
might profitably direct their efforts -to
bridging their product to the at
tention of the American people. If
our own people were made familia
with the real qualities of cotton seed,
oil, very much of the olive oil now
imported would be ' permanently dis
placed, and" very much pf the animal
fats now so extensively used in the
preparation of food would be expell
ed from American kitchens. I suggest
that the producers of cotton seed pro
ducts, through the agency of the inter-State
Cotton ihed Crushers' As
sociation, perfect plans for exploiting
their manufactures not only in for
eign, but in domestic markets,' and
for maintaining their integrity and
pro tecting them against questionable
practices .which, it is alleged, have
attended a few recent shipments to
Europe."
Major Carson's address was con
sidered by the Association to be 'so
valuable that it was detrmined by
resolution to have it printed for gen
eral, circulation.
O. P. Goodwin, president of the
Farmers' Union, of South Carolina,
followed in an address in which lie
dwelt upon the advisability of doing
away with the middlewav between the
producers of and the crushers of cot
ton seed.
The question of where the next
annual meeting shall be held was '
debated, but was not settled. An
invitation from Dallas, Tex., Avas
read.
Following the speech of Major Car
son the convention adopted new trade
rules giving cotton seed meal and
cake a food classification and chang
ing the grades of meal from choice
to extra prime and prime to choice
prime and goodwith the . same am
monia percentages as before.
Hitting Them Hard.
Memphis, Special. Eleven saloon
keepers charged with violation of the
Sunday closing ordinance were
broughht- before Corporation Judge
Alban and dealt with more sevcrty
than were those tried on the previous
Monday. In every case a fine of $50
was imposed or a forfeiture of like
amount taken, and a State warrant
was issued for the defendant. All
were required to make $250 bond to
await the action of the grand jury.
Two eases were continued.
Acquitted of Charge of Peonage.
Rome, Ga., Special. The jury in
the trial of J. W. Tierce, George F.
Hurt and K. Land, officers of the
Goergia Iron and Coal Company, at
Sugar Hill, charged ' with peonage,
returned a verdict of not guilty.'
The jury was out only 20 minutes
after a trial lasting two days.
Women Delegates in Session.
Norfolk, Va., Special. Eight hun
dred women delegates to the Baptist
Convention of North America met be
hind closed doors in the auditorium
at the Jamestown Exposition, the
session being the first and only one
heard by the women in connection
with the natinoal assembly. The body
was called to cider by Miss Fannie
Heck of Atlanta, president of th
Woman's Missionary Union of the
Southern Baptist Convention, who
presidd throughout the day.
Lad Killcjl by Lightning.
Gainesville, Ga., Special. John
"White, a 12-year-oid boy, was struck
and killed by lightning near Flowery
Branch Friday nigut and his two sif
ters were rendered unconscious and
may not recover. The children were
taking cl u. : Len a
bolt of ILL ' ..le u'.ting
in the d -th : ser
ious iiij-iy t. .i. . .