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VOLUME XV.
ALBANY, GA., MONDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 14, 1906,
1 INDSTINCT PRINT
NUMBER 1?3.
SnHIIR7 TH0UGHT IT WAS
AN EARTHQUAKE.
Distinguished Citizen of
New York Died at Early
Hour This Morning—Was
Born in 1829.
New YoVk, May 14. — Carl Schufz,
widely known as a publicist and a
former cabinet minister, died at his
home in this city at 4:35 o’clock this
morning. His death was due to a
complication of diseases following an
attack of stomach trouble, which be
came acute last Thursday. Mr. Schurz
was 76 years old and was born in
Cologne in March, 1829.
EXPLOSION OF POWDER MAGAZINES SHOOK
BRIDGEPORT EARLY THIS MORNING.
Bridgeport, Conn., May 14. — Four magazines in
the testing grounds of the Union Metallic Cartridge
Company exploded early today, the concussion shak
ing the entire city and causing great alarm, but no loss
of life. Fearing an earthquake, hundreds ran into the
streets clad in their night clothing only. Each maga
zine contained 25,000 pounds of powder. The cause of
the explosion is unknown. Most of the plate glass in the
city was shattered, and the isolation hospital, half a
mile distant, was wrecked. There .was a panic among
the inmates, hut no one was hurt.
THE RUSSIAN WORKMEN
CELEBRATING MAY DAY.
MORE THAN 200,000 MEN IN ST. PETERSBURG
JOIN IN DEMONSTRATION.
ST. PETERSBURG, May It.—The workmen today made an Imposing
showing In their May Day celebration here. Practically every factory,
mill and shop In the city Is Idle, more than 200,000 men Joining In the
demonstration.
Early reports from the interior cities show that work generally Is
suspended. Fear was entertained that the day would not pass without
bloodshed. Large' reserves of armed police are massed In the industrial
quarters and detachments of cavalry and Infantry are posted at strategic
points, although Just out of sight.
PRESBYTERIAN
S. S. PICNIC,
Train Leaves for Phllema Wednesday
Morning, May 16.
Albany, Ga., May 14, 1906.
Editor The Herald:
Please announce In today’s paper
that all those who expect to attend
the Presbyterian Sunday school picnic
will meet at the A. & N. freight depot,
on Flint street, before 8:30 Wednes
day morning, May 16. .The fare for
round trip will be as heretofore, 30
cents for adults and 16 cents for chil
dren. Don’t forget your baskets.
E. H. CRAIN, Superintendent
THE BAPTIST
CONVENTION.
The Morning Session Was Devoted to
Foreign Missions.
Chattanooga, Tenn., May 14.—The
morning session of the Southern Bap
tist Convention was devoted to foreign
missions, under the leadership of Rev.
R. J. Willingham, of Richmond, Va.,
secretary of the board.
Mill Supply
Department:
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Genuine Gandy
Belt, Atkin’s Cir
cular and' Cross
Gut Saws, Marsh
Steam Pumps.
Implement
Department:
Harvesting Ma-
' chinery, Thresh
ing Machines in
stock, all sizes.
[ ADMIRAL
St. Petersburg, May 14. — 1 Vice-Admiral Kuzmick,
commander of the port, who was unpopular with the
workmen, was assassinated here today by the workmen,
•whose May Day celebration he attempted to stop.
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Her Natatorium Training
Saved Miss Blanche Wes-
losky’s Life at Palmyra
Yesterday Afternoon.
SOLID CAR
Twine,
Twine,
Twine
Sufficient to bind all
the oats in this sec-
ti?n-
Albany
Machinery
Co.
At. Palmyra yesterday, Miss Blanche
Weslosky, the 15-year-old daughter of
Mr; and Mrs. Morris Weslosky, fell
into Klnchafoonee creek at a point
where the water Is fully twenty feet
deep.
But the young lady was not
drowned. Though burdened with her
clothing and chilled by the unexpected
plunge, she rose to the surface near
the middle of the stream and swam
to the hank. Her young companions,
on the hank above, were frightened
nearly out of their wits, hut she called
to them to keep quiet and help her up
the hank. This proved no easy un
dertaking, as the hank was steep and
slippery. Finally, however, several
hoys formed a chain, and the young
lady was safely drawn from her peril
ous position In the water.
Here is where the Albany natator-
lum scored again.
Miss Blanche Weslosky Is one of
many young girls, not to mention a
hundred or more boys, In Albany, who
have learned to swim at the natatori
um, which opened up several summers
ago. Many of the girls are as much
at home in the water as docks, and
Miss Blanche Weslosky Is one of
these.
This young lady accompanied a
number of her friends to Palmyra yes
terday. In attempting to gather some
ferns on the steep bank of the Klncha
foonee, she lost her foothold, plunged
downward and disappeared beneath
the deep waters. But her natatorium
training served her In good stead, and
in spite of the fact that she was bur
dened . with all her clothing, she had
little difficulty Jn swimming to the
bank and keeping herself afloat until
her companions could draw her up to
safety.
Let rthe boys and girls learn to
swim. There’s no means of knowing
when the knowledge will stand them
In good stead.
THE L
E.
Many Important Questions
To Be Considered at Ses
sion of Sixty Days Which
Began Today.
Baton Rouge, La., May 14.—The sec
ond andj&st session of the. Louisiana
General Assembly, convened today.
The session will .continue Bixty days.
Many Important matters, particularly
those relating to state and parochial
taxation, are to come before the ses
sion. The passage of a compulsory
primary election law and the question
of a constitutional amendment to per
mit a bond issue for municipal Im
provements in New Orleans will bo
considered during the session.
ATLANTA POLICE
RAID NEGRO CLUB.
BOYS’ HIGH SCHOOL
OF ATLANTA.
Large Class to Graduate at Closing Ex
ercises May 31.
8pecia! to The Herald.
Atlanta, Ga., May 14.—Graduating
exercises of the Boys’ High School will
be held at the Grand Opera House oh
the evening of May 31, and i?
young men will get diplomas. This is
the largest graduating class In the his
tory of the high school.
Floors Were Bloody When the Fracas
Had Ended.
Special to The Herald.
Atlanta, Ga., May 14.—In a raid on
a negro club house at 155 ^ Peters
street early yesterday, hy a large posse
of officers, a score of negro prisoners
were arrested and the jail wub filled
to overflowing. When the officers en
tered the room a lively fight was going
on. The policemen arrested right and
left, but many of the negroes escaped
through windows. A negro woman
who afterwards mysteriously disap
peared, began shooting, wounding sev
eral of the negroes. By the time quiet
was restored the floors of the room
were covered with blood and there waa
every evidence that there had been a
spirited and bloody fight in progress.
Special to The Herald. '
ATLANTA, Ga., May 14—According to statements made by Alderman
Key, of the reform element in council, he.will take the question of mu
nicipal ownership of the gas lighting plant before the citizens of Atlanta
at the October primary if the city fathers decline to act in the matter.
About the middle ^ the week the special council investigating commit
tee, of which Mr. I^y is chairman, will iheet to make some sort of report
on the condition of the franchise owned by the Atlanta Gas Light. Com
pany. Mr. Key contends that the company has. forfeited its rights In At
lanta, while other .members' of his committee are of the opinion that the
company’s franchise is all right, and they will probably so report.' Mr.
Key, in that event, is likely to submit a minority report; and then set
about preparing to have the matter submitted to the voters of the ciy at
the regular fall primary.
People’s Democratic League
May Not Accept Primary
Rules Laid Down by Chat
ham County Committee.
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HELD TODAY
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decrease In the same raUo that the use
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They save you from danger and bring
quick and painless release from consti
pation and the Ills growing out of It.
Strength and vlgoi always follow their
uaa. Guaranteed by Albany Drug Co.,
druggists. 26c. Try them.
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Between Roosevelt and Friends With
Reference to That Senate Affair.
Washlnton, May 14.—Attorney-Gen
eral Moody and Senator Allison con
ferred with the President this morn
ing on the situation which has arisen
concerning the railroad rate bill In the
Senate. Mr. Moody refused to make a
statement regarding that made by
Senator Tillman in the Senate Satur
day. but said if any statement was
made It would come from the Presi
dent. He refused to say, however,
■Whether such statement would be
made!
City Court In Session Today.
The regular monthly session of the
<ity court of Albany convened this
morning, his honor, Judge D. F, Cros-
land, presiding and Solicitor John D.
Pope looking after the interests of the
state ia criminal cases, on which the
court nas been engaged all morning.
It is not an easy matter to forecast
the length of time which a court will
consume. The present session may
not laBt‘ longer than tomorrow morn
ing, though it is quite possible that it
will continue for several days.
Special to The Herald.
Savannah, Ga., May 14.—It will not
he known until tonight whether the
Peoples Democratic League will con
sent to accept the rules laid down by
the Democratic Executive Committee
for the county primary, June 12th.
The committee of one hundred of the
league will meet them to consider the
question.
• The Democratic Executive. Commit,
tee Is composed entirely of adherents
to the Citizens’ Club, and they ar
ranged rules that were perfectly
agreeable to the opposition, except in
one particular. This was In connec
tion with keeping order at the polls.
The leaguers wanted the police to
keep quiet, and suggested that the
sheriff and 100 especially sworn In
deputies he employed to keep order.
The police are known to be a partisan
force, and the spokesmen for the
league make no secret of the fact that
they want the force removed from act
ive work on the day of the election.
This having been denied them, it be
comes a matter of very grave doubt
whether both sides will go into the
primary or whether the campaign will
continue until October and the fight
be made at the general election, with
the negro holding the balance of
power.
Committee on Publications
; Shies at Request of Typo
graphical Union to Union
ize Publishing House.
r Birmingham,, Ala,,! May 14.—Bishop
A. W: Wilson presided over the delib
erations of the General Conference of
the MethodlBt Episcopal Church,
Soulh, today, and devotional exercises
were conducted by Rev. Forest Pretty-
man, of Baltimore.
Reports of committees was the order
of the day, and such reports were re
ceived on various subjects from the
Commltiees on Itineracy, Revlsuls,
and others.
A memorial from the International
Typographical Union peeking to union
ize the publishing house at Nashville,
Team, was ruled upon by the Commit
tee on Publication that the matter
does not come wltliln the jurisdiction
of the committee.
MRS. DAVIS STILL
BETTER TODAY.
Broke Through Hearth of.
Iron Works at Birming
ham, Killing One Man and
Fatally Burning Others.
Birmingham, Ala., May 14,— Molten
iron broke through the hearth of No;
4 furnace, of the Sloss-Sheffield Steel
and Iron Company’s mill this morning.
Charles Johnson waB killed outright,
and Archie Drake, Weyman Stein and
James Brown were fatally burned.
The damage to the furnace amounts
to several thousand dollars.
J. F;
BYLC.LT
Special to The Herald, . ,
Savannah, Ga., May 14.-—
John F. Sapp, of Waycross,
a section foreman for the At
lantic Coast Line, was killed:
by a Coast Line train;-list
night'at the Fortieth'street
crossing. He was walking
on the track.
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Their Twentieth Anniversary.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Pinson cele
brated -.the twentieth annlversary--of
. their,, marriage on Saturday, ap^'ip
the' eveiting-a large- number of friends ;
were their guests at their home Just
south of the city. An elegant 6 o’clock
barbecue dinner was served, and this
ocottsion proved one long to be re
membered by those who were so for
tunate as to be present. Mr. and Mrs.
Pinson sincerely hope they win live
to celebrate as happily many another
anniversary.
Some
Brushes
New York, May 14.—Mrs. Jefferson
Davis, who has been 111 several days,
is reported today as showing contin
ued Improvement.
THE WEATHER.
NEGRO HOU8E BURNED
WITH CHILDREN IN IT.
Parents Went to Church, Leaving the
Children In the House.
Covington, Tenn.,- May 14. — The
house of Henry Hunt, a negro living
near here, was destroyed by fire last
night and four children were burned
to death. Hunt and his wife were at
church, and found the house burned
when they returned. Incendiarism 1b
suspected.
Business
League Meeting Tomorrow
Night.
Members of the Albany Business
League are reminded of the regular
monthly meeting of that body, which
will be held at the city hall, over fire
department headquarters, tomorrow
evening at 8 o’clock.
Several important matters are to be
presented for the consideration of the
members. One of them relates to the
trade day plans. All are Important as
bearing upon the future of Albany,
and it is hoped that business men
generally will manifest their interest
by attending the meeting, which is
scheduled for 8 o’clock.
Weather Forecast.
The following is the weather fore
cast for the state of Georgia for the
next twenty-four hours:
Fair tonight and Tuesday.
Local Weather Observations.
The following record of mcteorologl.
cal observations taken by the local
co-operative observer of the Weather
Bureau of the United Stated Depart
ment of Agriculture for the twenty-
four hours ending at 7 o'clock this
morning Is published for the Informa
tion of the public:
Maximum temperature 85.00
Minimum temperature 00.00
Mean temperature 72.50
Precipitation 00
River 3.80
■Fall In 24 hours 80
Weather Clear
Wind East
D. W. BROSNAN,
Volunteer Observer.
Postmaster Robbed.
G. W. Fouts, Postmaster at River
ton, la., nearly lost his life and was
robbed of all comfort, according to his
letter, which says: “For 20 years T
had chronic liver complaint, which led
to such a severe case of jaundice that
even my finger nails turned yellow;
when my doctor prescribed Electric
Bitters, which cured me and have kept
me well for eleven years.’ Sure cure
for Biliousness, Neuralgia, Weakness
and all Stomach, Liver, Kidney and
Bladder derangements. A wonderful
Tonic. At Albany Drug Oo.'e drug
store. 50 cents.
showing
line of
We are
a beautiful
bristle, goods* includ
ing
Hair Brushes,
75c to $4.
Tooth Brushes,
10c to $1.
Nail Brushes,
25c to $1.
Shaving Brushes,
25c to $1.50.
Clothes Brushes, .
25c to $1.
Bath Brushes,
75c.
Hilsman-jSale
Drug Co.
