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THE BRUNSWICK TIMES.
VOLUME 8, NO. 197.
If the Georgia Naval Militiamen Expect to Accomplish Anything They Must Stop This Unseemly Bickering.
FLANAGANS LEASE
OE LIFE EXTENDED.
Judge Candler Grants an Indefi
nite Stay of Ex
ecution.
RESERVED DECISION ON NEW TRIAL.
Sentsnoe is Probably Made,
WpPra* ...
jg the Court’s Decision in
the Case.
Atlanta, Aug. 21.—The execution
of Edward Flanagan, the alleged par
anoiac, with a mania for marrying
young girls, has been indefinitely
postponed.
Flanagan was convicted of the mur
der of Mrs. Allen and Miss Ruth.
Slack, in DeKalb county, and sen
tenced to bang on Wednesday, Au
gust 25.
A motion for anew trial was argued
before Judge (Jollier, at Decatur, to
day.
The judge reserved Ins decision and
indefinitely postponed Flanagan’s
execution.
JESTER NOT JESTING.
He Cowhided a Leading Liveryman of
Atlanta.
Atlanta, Aug. 21.—J. R. Ilerren, of
the livery firm of Harrison & Herren,
was cowhided at his place of business
on Ivy street this morning by W. R.
Jester. Jester’s wife recently stirred
up a sensation by charging Miss Pi
nion, a daughter of the pastor of St.
Paul’s Methodist church, with steal
ing her diamonds.
A local paper printed the story to
the effect that Jester had pawned his
wife’s jewels, and blackmailed Miss
Dimon to conceal the theft. Jester
claims to have traced the authorship
of the story to Herren, and this morn
ing’s cowhiding followed.
BIG HAUL OF OFFICERS.
535 Minors Arrested for Disobeying an
Injunction.
Pittsburg, Aug. 21.—At 4 o’clock
this morning 656 strikers were ar
rested while marching to Plum Creek
mine to induce the miners to come
out. They were brought to the Alle
ghany county jail where they were
held in contempt of court.
An injunction was recently issued
by the United States court, restrain
ing the strikers from marching or
otherwise interfering with the miners
at work.
ON DEPEW'S CAR.
Ths President Will Make the Next Trip of
His Tour.
Bluff Point, N. Y„ Aug. 21.-Secre
tary of War Alger came back with tbe
president today and will stay until
the party leaves. The president ar
rived at. 7 o’clock this morning.
The present program of the presi
dent is to leave here 1 hursday morn
ing at 2 o’clock and go through to
Buffalo on a special train, arriving
there at 2 o’clock Wednesday after
noon. Depew’s private car will be
used for tbe president and his imme
diate family. A combination car will
serve for the other guests.
TOOK LIFE AND MONEY.
Unknown Robbers Kill a Bank Cashier in
Michigan.
rihepherd, Mich., Aug. 21.—Elmer
E. Struble, cashier of the Farmers
bank, was shot this morning by un
known robbers and cannot live. One
ball entered near the heart, the other
lower down.
Struble was getting ready to go to
Mt. Pleasant about 4 o’clock and was
in the vault when the shots were tired
All the cash in the bank was taken,
but the amount is not known.
ASSASSIN’S WORK.
Telegraph Operator Gets Fifty Eight Gun
shot in His Body.
Savannah, Aug. 21.—H. B. Tant,
the telegraph operator at Mclntosh, a
station 20 miles below Savannah on
the Plant System, was brought to the
city on train No. 32 at 1 :30 o’clock this
afternoon and was carried direct to
tbe Savannah hospital for medical
treatment.
He was shot from ambush this morn
ing while driving to his office from
Flemington, Fifty-eight of the scat
tering shots entered the body.
The would be assassin is supposed
to be Wash Bradley, a negro who
drives a turpentine wagon for O. J.
Olncstead of Mclntosh. Tant had a
difficulty with the negro in the depot
yesterday and had occasion to knock
Bradley down with a scale weight.
The negro, when asked for whose
freight, he had called, cursed at Tant,
who would not accept the insult. Af
ter the negro gathered himself up and
was about to leave he warned the op
erator that he would get even with
him today and it seems he has kept
his word.
At 3 o’clock this afternoon inquiry
was made at the hospital as to Mr.
Tant’s condition. Dr. Dudley re
ported that upon examination it was
found that 58 shots had entered the
body of the wounded operator. His
condition is considered serious and
critical.
After the finding of Tant in the
woods bleeding and seriously in
jured from the gunshot wound the
citizens, who are indignant over the
ou!rage, promptly wired to Waycross
for bloodhounds. 'The dogs were
quickly forwarded to Mclntosh and
without delay were put on the tracko
of the negro, and the woods are now
being scoured for him by a posse. Il
is thought that if Bradley is caught
he will he summarily dealt with.
> King of Siam.
London, Aug. 21.--The Kingof Siam
concluded his visit to England today
and started for Brussels.
THE MARKETS.
Quotations By Telegraph for The Times’
Commercial Readers.
Paine, Murphy & Co.’s Stock Letter.
Savannah, Aug. 21.—The early
dealings in stock market were marked
by reactionary work on part of trad
ers. The grangers were subjected to
special attacks on reiteration of re
port of crop damage. Declines were
generally less than a point, however.
Paine, Murphy & Co.’s Cotton Letter.
Savannah, August 21. —In response
to more favorable Liverpool cables
than expected our market opened at a
slight advance. Offerings were light.
Receipts at New Orleans were heavy.
Liverpool bought and smaller bears
were disposed to cover. Total port
movement, however, continues to run
smaller than last season.
Paine, Murphy & Co.’s Grain Letter.
Savannah, Aug. 21.—1 t has been a
number of years since wheat sold at
$1 per bushel in this market and high
er in St. Louis, but such is the record
the past week. It has also been a long
time since cash wheat has found buy
ers at such fancy prices as are at
present existing, and farmers who for
a long time found difficulty in mar
keting their grain at figures that in
sured them little or no profit above
cost of production have every reason
to be happy and well satisfied at what
has taken place in the various mar
kets of the world the past month.
Chicago Quotations.
Paine Murphy A Co.’s Quotations.
Wheat-- Open. High. Close.
September ... ns 1 00 Oil 1-2
December ... 97 99 ith 1-8
Corn--
Septemlier . SI *2 31 3-8
December... 52 2-4 34 33 3-4
Oats--
September , 20 20 19 1-2
December.. 19 7-8 21 3-1 21 1-4
Pork--
September .. 885 8.85 8 1)7
December 3 95 8 95 8.82
Laril--
September 4.70 ... ....
October 4.85
Sides--
September 5.30 5 37 5.30
October 5.35 5.40 5 30
BRUNSWICK, GA.. SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 22, 1837.
BRUNSWICK IN THE
LYCEUM CIRCUIT.
The Southern Association Invites
This City to Join in
Its Work.
ORGANIZATION AN EASY MATTER.
The Local Daily Press Will Use Its Efforts
to Institute a Lyceum Here—Re
proaoh to the City.
The Southern Lyceum Association
has offered to give Brunswick a place
on its circuit. Secretary H. C. Mid
dleton, of the Ass_*ation, writes to
the editor of Thk Times :
“We should be very glad to have
Brunswick enter the Southern Ly
ceum circuit as far as she is able, if
her people wish to place her within it.
She could conduct a lyceum on a very
good scale.”
The Association proposes to make a
circuit of the thirty-six principal
cities of the south. The advantages of
Brunswick entering tbe circuit are
apparent.
The cities that have already entered
are Norfolk, Wilmington, Charleston,
Savannah, Columbus, Jacksonville,
Birmingham, Chattanooga, Nashville,
Vicksburg, Little Rock, Shreveport,
Augusta, and Atlanta.
The necessary admission that Bruns
wick has no such attroclion as a ly
ceum course to offer to her citizens is
a matter of reproach to the town.
The local daily press has decided to
enlist its efforts toward removing the
reproach, and securing the organiza
tion of a lyceum in this city. The
particulars of organization, necessary
preliminaries, etc., will he published
in a few days. Experience has shown
that the perfecting of a local organiz
ation is not a diffioult matter. At Au
gusta, one person secured the entire
membership requisite in three days.
The officers of the association are:
Henry Watterson, president; John B.
Gordon, vice president: Hugh C. Mid
dleton, secretary and treasurer.
Wait for further announcements on
the subject. Brunswick must get
into the lyceum circuit.
WEYLER DENIES.
He Says That Evangelina Cisneros Has Not
Been Sentenced.
New York, Aug, 21.—Captain-Gen
eral Weyler, in a cable dispatch from
Havana to the World, denies the re
port that Evangelina Cassio Cisneros,
a Cuban girl of 18, of sensational beau
ty, gentle breeding and pure life, has
been tried or sentenced to imprison
ment for twenty years in the Spanish
penal colony at Ceuta. Gen. Weyler’s
dispatch is as follows:
“For judicial reasons, there is on
trial in the preliminary stages a per
son named Evangelina Cassio Cisne
ros, who deceitfully lured to her house
the military commander of the Isle of
Pines, had men posted secretly, who
tied him and attempted to assassinate
him. This case is in the preliminary
stages and has not as yet been tried
by a competent tribunal and conse
quently no sentence has been passed
or approved by me. 1 answer the
World with the frankness and truth
that characterize all my acts.
“ VVkvi.hu."
Agrees with Weyler.
San Sebastian, Aug. 21—General
Azzcarraga, premier and minister of
war, has decided to convoke the Cor
tes in November. He announces he is
in accord with Weyler, but reserves
the right to make further exactions
of Cuban questions. In conclusion
the premier announces himself as
being the head of the government, and
not a leader of any party.
The Weather.
Atlanta, Aug, 21.—Showers Sunday.
GALLS GOLDING’S
CHARACTER TO BAR.
Strong Language Indulged in By
Some Brunswick Naval
Reserve.
DID HE ALTER THE VOUCHERS?
The Charger, Are Severe—Colding Has Not
Replied—Conduct Unbecoming
Officer of the Dav. i
’
I
Brunswick in general and the Na
val Reserves in particular were much
wrought up yesterday over the publi
cation in tbe Atlanta Constitution of
an article over a column in extent,
treating ot the disagreements of the;
Brunswick and Savannah divisions of
the organization. The article was
sensationally written, and concluded
with severe charges against the char
acter of Lieutenant H. S. Colding, of
the Savannah Reserves. The charges
in question were made in the shape of
a diepatch from the Brunswiok cor
respondent of the Constitution, and
by him reported as an interview with
a member of the Brunswick Reserves,
“standing high in authority.”
The strictures on the Savannah of
ficer were very severe. The first al
legation by the informant of the cor
respondent was that Lieutenant Cold
ing bad made“alteiation of returns to
the government for the transportation
of men to and from St. Simons, for the
benefit of the transportation com
pany.” On this charge, the interview
says “if the Savannah Reserves want
the matter officially investigated, they
can get it.” Another charge made in
the same manner as the foregoing, is
that “Lieut. Colding was the only of
ficer from Savannah who received
criticism at the hands of the camp
commandant. He was reprimanded
for conduct unbecoming an officer of
the day. While acting in that capac
ity, he approached Col. Yarnedoe, of
the Fourth regiment, just arrived in
camp, and then senior officer, without
sword or gloves, and with coat unbut
toned. When reprimanded for being
in this condition he replied that it
was too hot for him to go buttoned up
and with sword. While on dre6B pa
rade he sheathed his sword and left
the field. For this he was reprimand
ed. His unsoldierly conduct was gen
erally noticed, It followed the turn
ing over of the battalion to Lieuten
ant Broughton, of Savannah, to drill,
and it was alleged that night that
Lieutenant Colding’s action was due
to jealousy. This charge was denied.
The only boisterous conduct reported
to Commandant Aiken was caused by
the Savannah hoys tearing down a
tent, it will he remembered that tbe
Wilmington’s officers’ report criti
cised the reserves severely for bois
terous conduct.”
The recital ot these charges, so ser
ious, and made in such public manner,
was the subject of much comment in
this city. The general expression
was that the effioer, whoever he is,
whomadethecharges in print had com
mitted a serious blunder. Even if the
things charged against Lieutenant
Colding are true, it is argued that
their newspaper publicity can cer
tainly do no good, and is capable of do
ing a vast amount of harm. It is cal
culated to widen the breach now ex
isting between the two cities and
their respective organizations, and to
make their getting together in the fu
ture a matter of approximate impos
sibility.
The name of the Naval Reserve
making the charges is not made pub
lic, and there was much speculation
last night as to who he is. The publi
cation intensifies the feeling here in
the Naval Militia muddle, and is lia
ble to intensify it even more in Savan
nah.
Yesterday’s Constitution also has
interviews with Atlanta officers who
know something about the naval mi
litia service, as follows:
“Captain Kenan, who was at St.
Simon during the entire encampment,
was asked about the report of the cap
tain of the Wilmington. At first he
refused to talk, stating that it was a
matter that would be settled in the
future,
‘“ln juetice to my state, I feel like
1 can and ought to say that the criti
cism of captain Todd was unjust, and
that his suggestions were uncalled
for” said Captain Kenan.
“Lieutenant Charles A. Selden, bat
talion adjutant Fifth regiment infan
try, Georgia volunteers, was sent to
Brunswick by his colonel to join the
camp of instruction of tbe Naval Re
serve, for observations. He was asked
his opinion of the Naval Reserve, and
stated that they would compare favor
ably as to physique, discipline and
training with any of the volunteer
forces of the state. He was in camp
Saturday and Sunday and spent Sat
urday night in the camp and found it
clean, the men neat and well set up,
and their bearing very soldierly, and
military courtesies were well observ
ed. All arrangements were admir
able.”
HE DID NOT BEPI.Y.
The Times, on learning of the
chargee against Lieutenant Colding,
wired him at Savannah, requesting
such statement as he saw fit to make
in answer to the allegations. No re
ply was received from Lieutenant
Colding.
PLUCKY WOMAN.
Negro. Intending Assault, Gsts a Pistol
Bullet.
Petersburg, Va , Aug. 21.--A negro
tramp called at tbe home of John Lit
tle, in Sussex county, during the lat
ter’s absence last night, and demand
ed of Mrs. Little all the money in the
house. She said “All right”, and then
went to the bureau as it to get the
money, but instead took a revolver
and shot the negro in the abdomen.
As the fellow ran from the house
she emptied the revolver at him. The
negro was not captured, but it is
thought he is fatally wounded.
Was It Andree’s?
Christiana, Norway, Aug, 21. —A
dispatch from San de Christiana,
Sand, Southern Norway, says a bal
loon was seen on August 15 moving at
a great height in a northwesterly di
rection. From the balloon descended
tackle, which appeared to be lumi
nous.
Anarchists to Meet,
London, Aug. 21.—A public meet
ing, mostly anarchists, will be held at
Trafalgar Square tomorrow to “de
nounce the revival of torture in Span
ish prisons.” The police will attend
the gathering, as a serious outbreak is
anticipated.
To Prosecute Their Claim.
Atlanta, Aug. 21.—Two claimants
to the Davis estate, now in litigation
in San Francisco, have appeared here.
They are Harry E. Davie, a young
business man on Whitehall street,
and his sister, now Mrs. W. lli 1 Iyer
Ragsdale.
Sii£ar Eeet Men.
Rome, N. Y., Aug. 21.—The farmers
who are interested in the sugar beet
industry are gathering here in large
numbers to take part in the conven
tion which is scheduled to he held
here this week, commencing today.
Flattery—Maekie.
London, Aug. 21,—The Times an
nounces the marriage at Hernbay,
Kent, of M. D. Flattery, counselor at
law, of Danville, Ky., to Miss Georgia
Mackio, of London.
Many Visitors.
Numbers of people from the inter
ior towns spent yesterday in the city.
They came in on special excursion
rates, took a pleasant run down to the
seashore, and left for home last night.
PRICE, FIVE CENTS.
THE OLD COMPANY
IN A NEW DRESS.
The Brunswick Dock and City
Improvement Com
pany Now.
FLANS OF REORGANIZATION.
Shareholders to Pay Three Dollars Per
Share Assessment —First Publica
tion of the New3.
“The Brunswick Dock and City Im
provement oompany” is the latest.
This i* to be the name of the reor
ganized Brunswick company, which’
owns more Brunswick real estate than
any other ten men or corporations.
The particulars of the reorganiza
tions have just been made public, and
are here published by The Times for
the first time.
The news is of importance to all
property owners, and, in faot, every
citizen, as it is said to be the purpose
of the new company to make its local
property holdings valuable by induc
ing capital to the city.
The information about the reorgan
ization is sent out by the News Bu
reau of New York, and the plans
stated are as follows :
The bondholders of the Brunswick
company are now engaged in its re
orgrnization. The committee, con
sisting of A. G. Kraetzer, jr., William
O, Allison and E. Urquhart, has pre
pared a plan which proposes to reduce
the bonded indebtedness from $300,000
to $180,750,
Tbe capital stock is to remain as at
present, at $5,000,000. An assessment
of $3 a share is provided for, and the
stockholders are to receive SO per cent
of their holdings in stock of the reor
ganized company. The rest of the
stook (7,300 shares, or 20 per cent.) is
to he retained as a treasury stock.
The bondholders are to accept stock
at the valuation of $lO per share in
payment for interest during the first
three years.
The name ot the new corporation is
to be the Brunswick Dock and City
Improvement Cos. The company holds
all its original real estate intact, in
cluding over five miies of deep water
front.
In addition to the water front, the
company owns about 1,200 city lots.
CALL FOR MEETING.
Goveramsnt Engineer Wants Consent of
People to Plant System Work.
The following notice is self-explana
tory :
Savannah, Aug. 10., 1897.
To Whom It May Concern :
The Brunswick and Western rail
road company desires to drive piles
and dll in the north side of Academy
creek, in the city of Brunswick, Ga.,
opposite I. and M streets. Notice is
hereby given that a public meeting
will he held at the Oglethorpe hotel,
in Brunswick, Ga., on August 23, at
10a. m. All persons interested are
requested to be present,
CassiVs E. Gillette,
Captain of Engineers.
At the Resort.
Hotel St. Simon will probably re
main open and in full blast until Sep
tember 1. Manager Clancey has not
decided where he will spend the win
ter. Chief Clerk Hines, Night Clerk
Morris, Cashier Isaac and Bathhouse
Keeper McCaskill are still on duty,
and will be until the hotel closes.
Cheap Ratos Today.
The last Sunday trips of the season
on the Cumberland route will be run
today. The extremely low rate of 50
cents round trip to Cumberland and
25 oents to St. Simon has been made
for tbe occasion The surf will just
suit for an enjoyable bath.