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FIRST SOUTHERN TROOPSJ CAMP Third Tennessee Now at Ctiicka mauga Ready for Work, Regimental and Brigade Bfills Are Being Presented Day. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ARRIVES Sanitary Conditions of the Camp Are Not Up to and the Work. Will Be Brooke Assigns Provisional Commanders. vigorously i at District with Springfield rifles. the trip under a hot sun i It was assigned to and fll southern regiment, the me from this city and Kno; I points in east Tennessee Nashville at midnight and cars over night.

They win report to uen I eral Brooke in the morning. The regiment to commanded by Colonel Fyffe. who states that he does not know whether hete to re TThe remains of George M. Walker, company First Missouri, who was killed In the railroad accident Saturday, were shipped to his family at St. Louis.

other symptoms having appeared. General Wilson, First Bobleter, of Minnesota, tl Bates having been or and Colonel Van Dusee, being formed here. er. Major Gene Inspector Gener the tatter caren Major Dt i today by li i remarkable rapidity and re today to inspect 3,0 Foundry Company, i from Crawfish i First District I excellent drink 3 are now furnishing plenty urine the summer, and the this morning. The 1 command of 1,200 REGIMENTS ARE REASSIGNED.

Troops at Mobile Are in Shape for a Quick. Advance. Mobile. May 23. A new assignment bne.ule.

First and ond Texas and First Alabama volunteers. brigade. Second Fifth United impediments of GRAHAM REACHES CAMP ALGER Summerall, Fifth artillery; supply will be ample 1 nade a thorough lnspec lay, paying particularly the sanitary arrange toward Cuba with; Troops Camp at Jacksonville. acksonville, May The second un tee roo a rrived la te 8u nd: 6 tonight bound Submarine Divers for Sampson. Steamer Loading for Cuba.

Mobile Ala May The steamer Fanlta s'loading arms and ammunition here for a Vban expedition. Brigadier General Raefel lodriguez, who was a leading figure In order ton instead ol jt Arkansas regl Chlckamauga. New York Brady with More New York, May The war department has asked General Roe If he could have another regiment ready to start upon call. General Roe has replied in the affirmative, and from this It Is Inferred that the First or Third may be ordered to General Mer ritt's forces in the Philippines. 1 i naval reserve i said they will be given a Arkansas Troops to Cbiekamauga.

Little Rock, May 23 The First Wgiment has been ordered to Chlckamauga and will leave in die morning. CAN'T REPORT PASSING SHIPS. Spanish Authorities at Gibraltar Are Guarding All Information. vf disnatch from Gib raltar to The Herald says: The governor here will not allow war vessels passi the straits to be reported. The Spanla.

are preparing what they cau squadron, wnicn mancla and the Princess tons and with a speed knots', now at Cadis; THE CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA. TDESDAY, MAT 24, 1S8B. of 5.000 of twenty knots, and Nu" i Vitoria, wtucn andengined. There are also le Molina, the Marques ae the Don Alvaro de Besan each of 800 tons and twenty knots speed. Unless the American government nu cklv It will have the foregoing to contend with in addition to Admiral Cervera.

and Admiral Camara sQuaorons. The ter Unexpected to leave Cadis within a few days. His cVstlnatlon is unknown, but js Probably the antWee. that the newspapers aay Philippines. SOLDIER'S LIFE WAS CRUSHED OPT Fatality li a Rtilru.

Accident leu SiTuiiHisteriiy lintel TWO TRAINS IN COLLISION Northbound Vegetable Train and a Passenger with Troops Collide. ONE SOLDIER KILLED AND OTHERS INJURED Private Was in Act of Jumping "om a rain ana was Caught Between the Cars and Killed. Savannah, May At an early hour this morning section No. 4, of No. 37.

of the Florida. Central and Penlncular railway, collided with a getable train of the same system near irroughe Station, a few miles out from ivannah, with fatal results, rhe passenger train was southbound, and ade up of nine passenger and baggage aches. It had on board the Third bat Hon of the First regiment of North Carina volunteers. In command of Major George E. Butler, of Clinton, and it was pne of was kll verely It Is not believed he can recover.

The dead man Is Private W. M. Barbee, of Durham. N. C.

a member of company North Carolina volunteers. The injured soldier is Private J. M. of the same town and command. He is so badly Injured Internally that It Is not believed The troops were en route to Tampa, The section which had last.

The first known accident was when a flagman met an outgoing train and stopped it The delayed train put back to Savannah, and informed the dispatcher's office of the wreck. Blame for the Wreck. The investigation made hurriedly this morning tends to show that the crew of the third section of train No. 37. which left 8a No.

4. neglected to place green lights on the rear of. their train to let" the freight train waiting on a siding Just beyond Burroughs for all the sections of the passenger train to pass, know that another sec Private Barbee was with his company in the passenger coach nearest the two freight cars used to transport their baggage. Ha became terror stricken, and tried to leap from the train. Just as he jumped the collision occurred and he was knocked between the two cars.

His head was terribly rfash ed and both his lower limbs broken. Private Colcolough also attempted to jump from the train and was badly Injured. At 1 o'clock the body of Private Barbee was sent north via the Florida Cen tral and Peninsulai his old and unmarried. Frivf was also sent north hi' the same train, the physicians having decided that he was strong enough to make the trip. The nniv scrnrt to the remains of Private Bar tn the injured man was Private J.

L. Eubanks. Sorrow Over Death. Raleigh, N. May a3.

KSpecial.) Colcolough, both ol this city and Is a eran of both the) Nelson, Durh; ZOLA'S SECOND TRIAL BEGINS. Accused's Attorney Questions Compe tency of the court io Act. M. Emlle Zola. charge of criminal intend to end the case.

Be assured country has had enough. Oo he brougnt lenced 1 general public were ad precincts of the court, trrival of the accused. Laborie. counsel for the accused, lm nedlately questioned the competency of the the c. procureur general.

He said Bertrand, of public prose M. Laborie: M. Laborie nounced that he appealed to the court of cessation upon that point The trial was then adjourned pending the hearing of the 8 Cleaving the court M. Zola was greeted with tries of "down with Zola!" intermingled with cheers for Zola and cheers for the army. breast.

She gave a desecriptlon ftarteTto for wblle'frlends the for 'bloodhounds and med teaA aid! It is thought that the victim win is caught he will be iU from a Mad Dog Bite. mad dOC several on last Thursday night oommei signs of rabidnes and died Saturday clock from the effects. Tbw Killed br Lightning. Senola. May a year old son of Oliver ton, a prosperous farmer who resides aooui nlngmand killed.

France's New Chamber of Deputies. csTs 74 radical socialists. S7 Bodies Recovered from Vina Dortmund, ered from the Zoliern broke out yesterday, least forty five miners ATLANTA NOW IAS A CITY LEAGUE OrailxitlOB fill Be Perfected lext Thursday, IMPORTANT MEET YESTERDAY THE 6AMES WILL BE GOOD EXHIBITIONS At the Meeting Thursday All the Details of the League Will Be Wholly Arranged. THE meettcg for the purpose of organising a city baseball league was held yesterday at 12 o'clock in the office of Chief W. R.

Joyner, of the fire department. Those present were Chief Joyner, P. Chamberlln, Harry L. Bchlesiager, Frank M. Zimmerman, J.

F. Dickinson and others, who were very enthusiastic over li ve prospects T. Moyers, who received by Chief Joyner during the lng stating that his baby was sick and it would be impossible for him to at Judge J. G. Bloodwoi to be present, but he heir support he affair a su The plan of eight clubs composed strength and good ball playing day, when 10 cen No admission ft for the expenditi Frank M.

Railway Company, Brlsblne park to is also expected of the city. In the league, Moyers, and toward making A number of applications for admission Into the membership of the league alreadv been received and the comn appointed to do fhat work will have great difficulty in determining Just what teai to accept. No professional ball players college players will be allowed to play IX changes made the names ol new players must be submitted to the mittee and an affidavit made. In this it Is thought the teams will be equ; expected those played on will be charged a will be charged to Chief Joyner wa all games will be league and agrees i io one Is expected to subscribe The meeting will he fane of the city are Invited to FOUR JOCKEYS BADLY INJURED. Race Horse Falls on the St Louis Track and Two Riders May Die.

St. Louis, May Four jockeys were ijured In the third race at the race track ills afternoon, two of them, It is thought. being fatally hurt accident occurred just as the horses named may die. night I bringing down seve st seriously Injured i while Hathersoll a badly hurt The fl MOB HANGS NEGRO BRAKE MAN. Train Hand Shoved a Boy Off a Train Causing His Death.

Paducah, May Joe Mitchell, colored, Illinois Central brakeman who lives here, was hanged by a mob at Rives, night. shove a moving train at Rives and the boy fell on the track, having his legs cut off at the knees. He lived long enough to tell that Mitchell was his assail The murderer was arrested and while be ing held at the depot Union City, a crowd gathered and aecurlng him, hang him ten minutes. HE STRUGGLED FOB HIS LIFE. of a Dentist Near Hoke's Bluff, Ala.

Bluff. May 23. (Speclal ornlng the dead body of Parker dentist from Piedmont 'lng In the road with his throi to ear. The surroundings showed ence of a terrible struggle betweei murderers took the impression I i knife. killing NEGROES ATTACK A BICYCLIST.

Dr. Ckfnthar Mortally Wounded and a Negro Shot to Death. Mav Dr. J. Gun her.

passing a crowd of negroes on his bicycle to get out of the way. They seised hlnr and cut him In tne need ana neca. tunic wnnnd eleven Inches long. He wi die. An armed posse pursued the negroes, three of whom were captured and put into negro who did the cutting was found railroad, and as he refused to surrender, was shot down and killed.

He is said to be of a desperate family. Alabama Dentist Murdered. Montgomery, May This morning the dead body of Parser of Piedmont dentist found in the road Hoke's Bluff with his throat to ear. Surroundings showed i a. terrible struggle.

The murderer put tfe In the dead man's hand to Indicate MRS. 1ABEL CONLEY CAN NOT BE FOUND Principal In tni Sensttltnil Eibtdi My steriensly Disappears. SHE MAY HAVE LEFT THE CITY After Bar Arrest She Was Taken in Charge by Moore. THE STORY OF HER LIFE IN TEXAS Bembrant Still in a Prison He la Anxious To See His Erstwhile Paramour. MABEL.

CONLEY, the woman Ms RS. Rembrant, the artist and vocalist. and who later figured In the rather sensa i boy, has completely disappeared i proposition, 1 Joined Rembrant search has been made for her. but her friends are quietly on the lookout for her, as they do not like to turn her adrift in the city. It is practically certain, say the police officials, that she is living under am assumed name, but where she Is or what she is doing in order to make her living is not known.

9 entire day and night raft He makes no co and takes his punishmt He has seen Mrs. only once sinci moments. The second time she called see him she was refused admittance to thi jail, it is said, and the morning after thli refusal she disappeared. Her friends an certain that she has not left the city. Immediately after the story of the appear to this city to claim his boy and denounc his wife, was pubilshed Mrs.

Conley wa placed In the care of Miss Sue Holloway police matron, at the police barracks. Rembraint was soon transferred to th jail and Mrs. Conley was released. Sh then sought Miss Lovey Moore, who 1 well known in this city for her mission her. She also asked to be advised as to wnat sne oad better do.

Conley'a Story. Mrs. Conley confided In Miss Moore and told her the whole story of her meeting with Rembrant She said she loved him before she went to his studio tn Austin, to be his assistant in bis work, and had applied to him with the intention of was she who i Conley and live i Sh oposed that ocked when she made finally consented, and taking her boy, and another city, after Mr. Conley told Miss Moore that having plaed Rembrant In his embarrassing position, she would not leave him and would endeavor to secure bond for him. She said that she did not love her husband, and would not return to him.

Miss Moore told her that it would only be adding to her sin to continue to live with Rembrant, and that to save herself she must leave him, Mrs. Conley said she would never go with Rembrant under conditions as they had existed in the past, and promised that if she Mrs. Conley Mrs. Conley denied having obliged to place him made to Miss Moore, ex ploded this theory. Moore took Mrs.

Conley into her corner Ivy and Houston street, and ised that she would make ntll Mies Moore, who was 111 at the time, as well enough to be present Her Broken Promise. Last Tuesday Mrs. Conley rant. She talked with him and returned MIsb Moore's home, saying nothing naners concerning the visit Rembrant, and torn miss ed to believe that Mrs. lonley had visited the jail.

Conley again called the meantime she had grown very reticent morning she" that she had a position In a private family as a music teacher. During tne time are. www home of Moore she was known as Mrs. Carter, which was the name or ner moioer Mrs. Cc to tell nsent of Miss Moore, who Thursday morning Miss Moore iv one desired to communicate with her they could do so through Mr.

George Mau, who was a personal friend of Rembrant's. Mr. Mau denies that he knows anything of the whereabouts of Mrs. Conley and he Is himself anxious to learn where she Is. Rembrant says be has not seen her since the afternoon she called at the jail to see htm and that he fears some evil has come to her.

It is said that the grand jury will ses of Mrs. Conley and of the law will soon be searching for her. The cause of Mrs. Conley' reticence during the test two days of her stay at the home of Miss Moore is peculiar and was caused by parties who either desired to scare her, thereby furnishing amusement for themselves, or to make her leave her Thought She Was a Detective. It baa been discovered that Mrs.

Conley ras told that Miss Moore was a detective aid was In the employ of the city detective lepartment She was told that her benefac ress had only taken her off the streets in irom ner tne story of her This Is undoubtedly the eau Conley leaving Miss Moore, am ady feels somewhat hurt, not he report should be started, Why dart mum of Mrs. the latter i take cause Mrs. Conley would believi face of the kindnesses she had la probable that a search will be 1 From what she told Miss Moore in confidence It Is believed that she has neither returned to her father's house, nor gone to FARMER TTBlT.Ti Tjp BY ROBBERS. Only Get a Small Amount of Money for Their Trouble. Chattanooga, May (Special.

R. C. Scott, a farmer residing near Chlckamauga, was held up by two Highwaymen near the camp of the volunteer army this morning and robbed of a small amount of money. He had JH5 on his person, but it was In an envelope among a lot of letters and papers. The robbers were in such haste that they did not examine the papers, throwing the envelope containing the money aside as worthless.

They claimed to be soldiers, but Scott says RAIN AND THUNDER The Residence of Mr. John White Morton Struck by Lightning. Athens, May Athens was visited this afternoon by a terrific rain and thunder storm. Lightning struck the house of Mr. John White Morton, in the southern portion of the city, and the top story was soon a sheet of flames.

Mrs. Morton and her little babe were standing near the door at the time, but were not injured. The fire department made the run of nearly two miles through the heaviest rain seen In Athens in many years. The entire top story was burned and the lower story badly damaged by water. The drug store of Palmer Sons, on Clayton street, was badly flooded, and some of the treets were six inches deep In water at one time during the cloudburst THE CLOSING EXERCISES Of the Cedartown City Public Schools Last Friday Evening.

Cedartown, May The tenth annual close of the Cedartown pub. Ho schools occurred last Friday evening packed The graduating class wai omposea or rourteen young laaies ana Horn John W. Akin, of Cartersvllle. de ivered the annual address and his effort ras up to his usual standard of eloquence, udge Akin Is a and his ad diction. cessful fn the history of the Bchools, and Professo H.

L. Sewell, the able and efficient superintendent, was last week unanimously re elected by the school board to that position. Berner Makes Two Speeches. LaG range, May Colonel Berner spoke here this afternoon In the courthouse to a large crowd of Troup's dt He was over three hours delivering his speech, but if he changed any vo West Point May Be rspoke tonight at the opera He had a small audience, about TOO. an of Candler and Atkinson.

The greater Includes the SarsapaxiHa cures scrofula, i pended upon to cure bolls I Land Grants Are Decided. Washington. May Two private land grants were decided fax the United States supreme court today, one involving the claim of M. B. Hayes to the Chaves grant of 130.000 acres of land In New Mexico and the other the claim of Earl B.

Coe to a grant In Arlsona. In both cases the de reversed in the Convictions Are In van a. Washington, May The United Statei supreme court decided today convictions under the oleomargarine laws of Pennsylvania and New Hampshire to be invalid thus holding the laws unconstitutional. Merry's Accomplices in Court. Chicago, May The final scene In 1 today.

Thorn Smith and Thomas HlckeyJ enced to eighteen months convicted and executed some weeks MALT EXTRACT7 'I SHREWD NEGRO LANDS IN JAIL HE TT ATI SWINDLED SEVERAL i He Worked on the Sympathy of the Ladies and Stole Their Belongings. it is said, would rii his trousers with. He would then go to the of some lady and tell her that while is walking down the street only a few mts before his trousers ripped, leav ilm in an embarrassing position. He I 1 end this story by asking for a 4 negro the desired to togmake him desire a neat appearance. After securing the needle and thread EiS would ask for a room where be could sje while he sewed his trousers.

After closing the door he would. It is said, make a examination and select what articles he desired. These he stuffed in his pockets and then, taking a few hasty stitches in his trousers, would return the needle and thread with profuse thanks and beat a hasty retreat corner, again rip his trousers and do the whole trick over again on another un suspecting lady. A number of complaints of this nature have reached the barracks and the officers have been looking for i rick. lusflly the case.

He went to the house of Susan Echols, on Grady street, and she fell an easy victim to bis story, She happened, however, to be passing the door of the room where he was supposed to oe mending his torn' trousers and heard bim opening a cupboard door a officer and then boldly opened the door. Ell, seeing that he was discovered, drew a bottle of whisky from his pocket and threatened to brain the lady. The officers arrived In a further trouble. The officers congratulate i the catch a Phillips pleaded yesterday aft JACOBS' PHARMACY Turn Ctni na and 8 Marietta St. I ITU OIUI DO i 23 Whitehall St.

Tiger insect. Powder The trade in this article in recent years has been tending towards I lowering of prices, regardless of the actual prices of Insect flowers; no sooner has a price, no matter how low, been named for an honest powder, when competitors have come along discounting the price, always, of course, at the expense of quality, which, it is well known, can be reduced to any extent desired, borne of the powders now offered in the market are Insect Powders merely im'i name; it is, therefore, little wonder that consumers have become disgusted and many have abandoned the use, taking all sorts patent articles in this line instead. It is certainly a short sighted policy to buy the cheapest article offering, killing the trade thereby instead of the insects. The prices of Insect flowers, as can be seen on European pricey lists, range from fifteen cents to fifty cents per pound, to quality: the lowest grade, the open flowers, are mostly ii here, btit even the powder from these is being much reduced quality by many dealers by the addition of mineral and cheao substances, which are often deleterious to health by Hon. etc.

Such powder is generally represented to be pure. We offer to the trade our standard Tiger brand, knowing this be better than an other powder on the market, and have put 1 price at a figure to defy competition in the same grade of Our nrices will be found to be the lowest consistent with although they may not meet those quoted for inferior goods. Jj One Eighth pound Cans One Quarter pound Cans One Half pound Cans One nound Cans tlSECT POWDER PUNS AtVEM FREE WITH EACH POUHB..

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