The Brunswick Daily News, 1903-08-01

Pursuant to a cal) a number of mer merchants - chants merchants field a meeting in tiie board of trade rooms at tlie city ball yesterday afternoon for the purpose of arrang arranging - ing arranging a program of amusement, for tlie visitors who will be here tlie middle of this month on the B. Jfc B. excur excursion, - sion, excursion, which is to come from Oeilla, Trwinville, Douglas and all other points on tlie road, u* welt as from points on tiie A. & B. It was decided to have a merchants' carnival on August 12, 13 and 14. That is those dates will be selected if ev everyting - eryting everyting can be arranged to bring the excursion here at that time, if not it will occur on August 19, 20 and 21. It is proposed to have a program for each day of the carnival and among the attractions scheduled so far is bi bicycle - cycle bicycle races, batteau and naptha launch races around Marsh island, military prize drill and dress parade and baseball games. B. J. Ford, of the B. & 8., was present at the meeting, and stated that if the merchants of tlie city would arrange the amusements his line would attend to t lie rest, and as assured - sured assured the merchants that hundreds of people would be brought to the city. Mr. Ford said that the Oeilla baseball club was anxious to come to Brunswick and agreed to bring them here free of charge on the above oc occasion. - casion. occasion. Baseball fever is at its height in Oeilla and Mr. Ford says nearly the entire town will come down to witness the games. The rate to be offered by tile B. & B. will be an unusually low one, and Mr. Ford thinks that it will be taken advantage of generally by the people along the line. From Irwinville alone the ageut stated that at least a hundred people would come, and equally that many from Douglas, while Oeilla will furn furnish - ish furnish the largest crowd of any of the points ou the line, A committee composed of Capt. T. Newman Messrs. L. H. Heyin, and Constance Miller was appointed to take charge of the affair, and the com committee - mittee committee will at once arrange the at attractions - tractions attractions for the visitors. Tiie B & B. will well advertise the excursion all over their territory and send special canvassers out, and It is expected that we will entertain the largest number of people that, have been in the city in some time, A subscription list will liecireulaled among tlie merchants for the purpose of raising funds to defray tlie ex, peases of entertainment, but as the cost will be very light tiie amount will lie easily raised,

Capt. Otto Johannesen, the popular official port statistician, yesterday completed the shipping record of the port of Brunswick for the month of July, and the record shows that two previous records were smashed into smitherings during the mouth - that of the shipment of crossties and of the shipment of wood. By wood is meant all the shipping of lumber, timiber, crossties, cedar, etc. Thiee great record for the ship shipment - ment shipment of crossties made in May of this year was broken and anew and greater one established. During May there was shipped 328,091 pieces, measuring 13,644,121 superficial feet. For July shipped 340,870 pieces measuring 14,606,713 -super -superficial - ficial -superficial feet and establishing the record lot the shipment of crossties. For the shipment of eeverythlng ms. ssplifcp The record established divided amon& the different products, is as follows: Foreign Exports. Feet of lumber - -- 1,457.000 Feet of timiber 1,871,000 Domestic Shipment. Feet of lumber - 15,126,000 Feet of timber 6,000 ShlntSes, 1, 042.250; equafl in feet to 200,000 Crossties, 340,870; equal in feet to 14,606,713 Total feet 33,265,713 This record is indeed a good one. The casual observer would hardly suppose that there is shipped from the port nearly one and a quarter mil million - lion million feet of wood on every working day. The shipping record for the month, in every ling, was a very good one, but had other products been as good as usual the record of general ship shipping - ping shipping would have been broken. The record in full is as follows: Foreign Exports.

Catholie Sooietiee ta Meet. Atlantic City, IV, J., July 31. - Dis 31. - Distinguished - tinguished 31. - Distinguished Catholic churchmen and laymenarejfilling the hotels here in anticipation of the opening tomorrow of the annual meet ing of the Ameri* can Federation of Catholic societies, Tlie federation movement, which was inaugurated but a few years ago by Bishop McFaul, of Trenton, lias made rapid strides recently and the result will be an extraordinarily large at,- tendance at the coming meeting. Nearly every Catholic society of prom prominence - inence prominence in the entire country lias been taken into the fold and all will be well represented In addition to the reg regular - ular regular delegates t hose present will in include - clude include a number of eminent prelates who have accepted invitations to ad address - dress address the meeting In Memory of Rriooson, NetvYork, July 31. - One hundred years ago today, in a little town in far-otl Sweden, there Was bom one who was destined to revolutionise the mentliods of naval construction and naval warfare aud incidentally to aid in no small measure in the preserva' tion of the United States of America - the land of hia adoption- John Ericsson was his uame aud the - itor' - his monument. The anniver anniversary - sary anniversary of Ericsson's birth tias for a num number - ber number of years been a festiie day among the Swedish citizens of the United States, but this year, which is the centenary, is to be marked by celebra celebrations - tions celebrations on a scale more than usually elaborate aud widespread,

BTEAMGR SUNK IN COOSA RIVER. Willis C. Wagnon Strikes a Log and Goes Down Romo, (Ik,, July 31. - The steamer Willie O Wagnon, of the Georgia aud Alabama Steu|nbbat Company, wa* sunk near, Centre, Ala , this morn morning, - ing, morning, The boat was under a full head of steam when It ran into a big log. breaking in the bow of the boat. A large- hole was knocked in the bottom of the craft, causing the hull to fill quickly with water The U,t dunk within ten minutes after it struck (ho log, No one was drowned, but tho loss of the cargo will be heavy, The steamer was 1 n en route to Rome from Gadsden and Im the finest owned by tho Georgia and Alabama Steamship Company, it wl!i take a week to sai.u the olearner and put It into coma Msfeo iignin, ADRIFT IN DORY MANY HOURS Rasims of Mrs, Cjrter When She Wan Almost Dead, Rockland, Me., July 31.- -After be being - ing being adrift in a dory for forty-eight hours, amt blown 75 miles out io sea during n gale last Monday, Mr.-: ear earter, - ter, earter, of Mon rue island, was resc ed yesterday afternoon by a Uniting schooner. Sin? war almost dead from exposure anil llio cfiei.u of largo quantities of salt water Ui.on to quench her tiiirsi. Cheap to New York. Attention is directed to the au *or- Use limn l of \v. M. Tapper A sju., agents of the Mallory Line in this city an unusually good opportunity to see the great boat race between tho Reliance and Shamrock. This offers the people of till# issue. The rate for the single trip. Including meals aud berth, will be 116.00, aud tr u* round trip 13u.00

Portland. Ore., July 31. - in U e of the worst accidents ever known In this section of the country, fifty peo people - ple people were drowned here today in the Williamantic river. The accident was caused by the collapse of the large bridge across the river, which occurred this after afternoon - noon afternoon when over a thousand people were standing on It. Just what caused the collapse is not known, but It is thought that a certain portion of it was weak, and the large crowd that liappeued to be on the bridge was more than the weak place could etantl, and with a terrfllc crash it went down and the people could be seen fighting for their lives in tlie water. Probably u dozen were injured In the fall and were therefore unable to swiinl out, that u those of them who could swim. Most of those drowned were ladles and children and a large force of men havo been at work since the accident in searching for the dead bodies. As soon a<s the bridge collapsed, people from all over the city rushed at the scene and rendered assistance as best they could. Men, women and children were clinging to the bridge screaming for help, and the scene was Indeed a heartrending one. The large crowd on the bridge was there to watch the free exhibition or an armless man in the water, who was doing all kinds of stunts, His entertainment, was marvelous, and caused hundreds of people to stand on the bridge to watch the exhibi exhibition, - tion, exhibition, The exact number of drowned is not yet known, but a careful estimate IfcdW.hnt fifty lost their lives

By nine vessels, 8,700 registered tons, crew of 318: 3,800 tons of phos phosphate, - phate, phosphate, 14,800 barrels of rosin, 18,075 barrels of turpentine, 1,457,000 feet of lumber,l,B7l,000 feet of timber. Value of shipment, $181,341. Domestic Shipment. By forty-eight vessels, 51,413 regis registered - tered registered tons, crew of 823: 72 bales of cotton, 25,026 bales of sheeting, 46-. bales of wool, 150 cases oysters, 15,- Sl9 barrels of rosin, 5,375 barrels of turpentine, 260 cases of cedar, 15,- 126,000 superficial feet of lumber, 5,000,000 feet of timber, 1,042,250 pieces shingles 340,870 pieces of cross crosslies - lies crosslies equal to 14,606,713 superficial teet, 60 tons merchandise. Value of shipment, $859,869. Imiports from foreign and domestic, 100,0U2 tons, valued at $1,046,406. Arrivals for Month. Steamers 18 Barks . . . 6 Brigs. . 1 Schooners 38 Total 62 Hundred Cases of Smallpox. Jackson, Miss., July 31. - One hun hundred - dred hundred cases of smallpox aie reported from u community in the southern part of Hinds county, just three miles from the Oakley prison hospital, where a majority of the state's siclt convicts are kept. The disease, however, is of a mild type, aud thus far thee Infection has not been pro productive - ductive productive of any fatalities. Dr. J. P. Berry, the prison physician, has vaccinated all of the convicts at the hospital as a precautionary measure, and no persons from the infected area are allowed to approach (he prison übildicgs.

Brunswick will, in all probability, have a street fair this fall, at and it will be one that will attract people from all sections of tiro state. The mer merchants - chants merchants are already interested and they will not, wait until it is too late to be begin - gin begin work. At, the meeting of a number of merchants held yesterday afternoon for tlie purpose of making arrange arrangements - ments arrangements to entertain tiie visitors that are,coming here this month on tlie B. & B. excursion, tlie matter of a st reet fair came up in an informal way, and those present expressed t hemselves as being in favor of giving a st reet fair, probably some time in October. That we can arrange a street fair that will be a success there is no doubt, and it is truly hoped that tiie merchants will not let tlie matter drop, but will begin work on the fair as soon as possible. Brunswick now has anew territory from which tlie visitors will come. The B. & B- railroad lias opened it and tlie people along this line as well as those on the A. & B. are always anx anxious - ious anxious to come to Brunswick when there is some attraction. - A street fair lias never been given by our merchants, and it is generally believed that sucli an entertainment would pro v e a success. Let's begin the preliminary arrange* ments at once.

BODY OF A SAILOR FOUND NEAR THE NEW DOCK Not Known. However, How the Man Lost His Life, The body of a sailor was found near the new docks Thursday night by James Christie, who brought it to the city early yesterday morning. Coroner Jennings was notified and an inquest was held and the body turned over to Undertaker Moore for burial, It is nor. known bow the man lost his life, as no vessel along the bay has reported the drowning of any member of their crew, It. is thought that the unfortunate sailor fell from some outgoing vessel and was drown drowned - ed drowned i clove any of the crew missed him, CONFERRED WITH BRISTOW. Special Counsel to Assist Government in Prosecution, Washington, July 31, - Holmes Con Conrad - rad Conrad mid Charles J Bonaparte, speoial counsel to assist, the governmeent in the prosecutions growing out of the postoifice investigation, were in con conference - ference conference here today with Fourth Assis Assistant - tant Assistant Postmaster General Bristow and Assistant Attorney G<Jieral Robb, familiarizing themselve®' with the sit situation. - uation. situation. 4 The federal grand jKry, it is con confidently - fidently confidently expected, will report tomor tomorrow - row tomorrow on the postal cases, Five indict indictments - ments indictments are expected