The Lee County Journal, 1904-12-09

THis seemed satisfactory to Attor Attorney - ney Attorney General Hart and the other attor attorneys - neys attorneys for the commission; conferencesl followed with the result that the liti litigation - gation litigation was terminated. { - MONEY FOR METHODISTS. Bequests in the Wil of Late Million.- aire Scruggs. The late millionaire, philanthropist and dry goods merchant of St. Louis, Richard M. Scruggs, in his will, just filed, makes specific bequests of $481,- 000, Large amounts are left to the Methodist church, south, for foreign missions. To W. R. Lambuth, secre secretary - tary secretary of the board of missions of Nash Nashville, - ville, Nashville, is left $5,000 for a girls' school in Hiroshima, Japan; Bishop N B Hendrix gets $5,000 and Bishop E. E. Hoss $6,000 for missions. Bishop Candler, of Atlanta, gets $5,000 for Cuba. Bishops Galloway and Wilson also gets $5,000 each for missions. SECOND JAP WAR DIET. Convened in Tokio to Provide Further Funds for the Conflict. The Emperor of Japan formally opened the second war diet at Tokio Wednesday. He rode the crowded streets in state dress, escort escorted - ed escorted by a score of kncers and accom accompanied - panied accompanied by the orown prince of his staff and some members of the imper imperial - ial imperial household, to the house of parlia parliament, - ment, parliament, where both houses were assem assembled - bled assembled in the chamber of representa representatives. - tives. representatives. TAFT'S REPORT RECEIVED. His Negotiations With Panama Fully Approved By Presldent. The report of Secretary Taft, spe special - cial special envoy of the United States to Panama, of his negotiations with that government, was received in Washing Washington - ton Washington Saturday. After careful consider consideration - ation consideration the president gave his entire ap approval - proval approval of the same and has advised Secretary Taft by cable to this effect. RAILROAD GRANTED CHARTER. Bavannah, Statesboro and Northern to Build a Line. The Savannah, Statesboro and Noth Nothern - ern Nothern Railroad Company has been grant granted - ed granted a charter by Secretary of State Phillip Cook, of Georgia. This company proposes to build a line from Statesboro, in Bulloch coun county, - ty, county, to Athens, in Clarke county, a dis distance - tance distance of 160 miles. The company's rapital stock will be $3,000,000. GREAT BICYCLE RACE ON. Elghteen Teams Start in Bix-Day Con Contest - test Contest at Madison Square Garcen. Amid a roar of applause from nearly 20,000 spectators in Madison Square Garden, New York, the contestants in the twelfth international six-day bicyele race responded to the crack of the starter's pistol, fired by Con Congressman - gressman Congressman Timothy D. Sullivan, at ex exactly - actly exactly five minutes after midnight Mon Monday - day Monday morning. ke

port estimating the present season's crop at 12,162,000 bales will prove a serious disappointment to the plant. ers all over the south. ; The recent decline has given an in. dication of the tremnd of things, but, despite all that, and despite the 11, 800,000-bale estimate the planters have been nursing the hope of some something - thing something better when the government es estimate - timate estimate came out. Everywhere cotton is being held for 10, and in some cases, for 12 cents; the government estimate smashes these hopes for some months to come, at least, and, perhaps permanently, so far as the present geason's crop in co cocerned. - cerned. cocerned. But far from making the planters rush into the market, the effect of the government report will undoubtedly, be to make them even hold on to their cotton tighter than ever, hoping against hope, it may be, but hoping, nevertheless, for something better in 'the future. : | - - - - - - - - L FIRE SWEEPS THE PIKE. Pleasure Palaces and Costly Contenta Prey of Incendiaries, : A St. Louis dispatch says: Further investigation by the police and Jeffer Jeffergon - gon Jeffergon Guards strengthens their bellef that the fire on the Pike which total totally - ly totally destroyed the "Streets of Rome" and "Quo Vadis" and partly destroy destroyed - ed destroyed "Fair Japan" on the '"Bowery" and "old St. Louis" was of incendlary ori origin. - gin. origin. One suspect hag been arrested, Ar Arthur - thur Arthur V. Dunn, 26 years old, who glves hig occupation as a waiter. e 1 i 4 FATHER SLAYS FAMILY. 3 Bloody Tragedy is Reported to Have Occurred in Kentucky County. The murder of a whole family by the drunken husband and father is reported from near Shelby, Pike coun county, - ty, county, Kentucky. Enoch Sloan, a farm farmer, - er, farmer, went home from Shelby in a drunk. en condition and shot and killed his wife and four small children and then gshot himself dead. HUNDRED ALGERIANS DROWN. French Steamer Goes Down After Hav Having - ing Having -Been in Coliision. Advices from Bona, Algeria, stata that a hundred persong were drowned Thursday night by the sinking of the Franch steamer Gironde, after having been in collision with the French steamer A. Schiaffino near Herbillon, %3 miles from Bona, The Gironde left Bona with 110 pos possengers, - sengers, possengers, of whom 100 were Algerian 2ativea. CRAZY MAN RUNS AMUCK, Armenian Creates Temporary Pande Pandemonium - monium Pandemonium in a Candy Shop. After driving his employer and oth others - ers others from a candy shop in Brooklyn, 'N. Y., Friday, Carabad Krikorian, an Armenian, barricaded himself in the place and resisted arrest until he had 'heen shot to death by a detail of po po}xicemen - }xicemen po}xicemen who had been summoned to jt,he scene, Krikorian fired several shots, but none of the policemen were 'wounded, . 4 i

. 3 Season's Yield is Placed at GOVRNMENT'S ESTIHMATE Figures Cause Tremendous Surprise Even Among Veteran Dealers. Growers Wiill be Greatly Disappointed. A Washington special says: Pre Preliminary - liminary Preliminary returns to the chief of the bu bureau - reau bureau of statistics of the department of agriculture show a total production of cottdn in the Unied States in the years 1904-05 of 12,161,000 Dbales. Round bales are included in this esti estimate - mate estimate and reduced to their equivalent in square bales. The estimate does not include lin linters. - ters. linters. : In the preparation and issuance of the cotton report, Secretary Wilson gave-demonstration of the precautions taken to avoid advance information leaking out. Representatives Byrgess, of Texas, and Ransdal, of Louisiana, 'were invited by the secretary to wit witness - ness witness the preparation of the estimate. The party was locked in the private office of the statistician, and reports from all the cotton districts were taken into the room. The doors were locked from the outside, and the secretary then gave orders for the opening of the report. The estimate of the crop for the year 1904-1905 was then prepared and sent out before any person in the room was permit ted to leave or communicate with any person from the outside. "In this manner the cotton estimates are invariably made," said Secretary Wilson, "and all human ingenuity is used to prevent leaking of informa information." - tion." information." A Tremendous Surprise. A New York special says: The government estimate for the cotton crop placing the yield at 12,162,000 balesg, issued Saturday, was & surprise to more people than any govern government - ment government report of recent years. While a few of the more extreme bears had 'been talking 12,000,000 bales or over, the average opinlon even in bearish circleg locally was that the govern government - ment government estimate would be under that fig figure. - ure. figure. The announcement was followed by another sensational break in prices. The decline that has been in progress now for over a month and carried the market down from 11 cents to 8 1-2 cents proved insufficient in the esti estimation - mation estimation of the trade to fully reflect the new condition of affairs, and a crop of the size reported. There was un undoubtedly - doubtedly undoubtedly a big short interest in the market, but in spite of covering, prices declined nearly half a cent In less than half an hour of trading. January, which sold around 8.56 dur during - ing during the forenoon, was depressed (o about 8.10 and other months suffering in like measure. The market was very excited with trading exceedingly active. Disappointment to Planters. .. There is no doubt about the fact that the government coton crop re-

Freight Rate Fight at Atlanta Suddenly Halted. AGREEMENT IS REACHED State Railroad Commission With Withdraws - draws Withdraws Circulars 301 and 302, and Whole Matter is Left to a New Tribunal. Litigation over freight rates which has been in progress for some weeks in the United States court, at Atlan Atlanta, - ta, Atlanta, ended abruptly last Wednesday, "nd the question has been removed a very different sort of tribunal he executive officers themselves of the southern railroads, who have full power to act. By an agreement between counsel for the railroad commission and the Atlanta Freight Bureau, fm the one harnd, and the attorneys for the rail railroads - roads railroads on the other, circulars 301 and 302, in which the railroad commis commission - sion commission promulgated the objectionable reduced rates, were revoked by the commission; thereupon the suits brought by the rallroads for injunc injunction - tion injunction were dismissed and the whole litigation was thus terminated. As a basis for this agreement, this dropping of the whole legal phase of the question there was only the prom promise - ise promise of Colonel Ed Baxter, of Nashville, that he would advise his clients, the executive officers of the southern roads, to use every effort to so re revise - vise revise the rate situation as to satisfy the Georgia railroad commission. Col Colonel - onel Colonel Baxter did not promise he would accomplish anything, but only that he would advise. However, such is the confidence in Colonel Baxter's ability to handle the situation, that the at. torneys for the state are pleased and gratified that the matter has taken this direction. It was Colonel Baxter's own sugges suggestion - tion suggestion which opened the way for this agreement. The executive officers of the raillroads of the south will hold an important meeting in New York on Monday next, December 5, for the purpose of considering the whole of the prevailing rate a.djus;ment from the Potomac river to the Mississip Mississippi. - pi. Mississippi. It is at this same meeting that the railroad officials will consider the complaint made by Atlanta through the committee of seven appointed by Mayor Howell. Atlanta's complaint and the atti attitude - tude attitude of the railroad commission have a very intimate connection. Here there was opportunity to consider at least, perhaps to definitely settle, the whole vexed question. "1f you will withdraw circulars 301 and 802," said Colonel Baxter to coun counsel - sel counsel for the railroad commission, "I will advise my clients to make every effort to revise the present rate ad adjustment. - justment. adjustment. 'Then lif such revision ghould not be satisfactory to you, your commission is left free to take such sctlon as it deems proper." =