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VOL. V. NO. 2.016
FROM ’FRISCO
Comes Alleged Evidence of the
Armour Plate. Frauds.
MONTEREY’S BAD PLATES-
Examiners Sent from the East
to Mark the Defective
Work.
v sow, Jiaj H 5 Keporj
publishes a reiteration of a former as
sertion that three ex-employes of the
Carnegie works at Homestead, who
were sent to the Mare Island navy yard
from the east for the purpose, have been
investigating the armor plates on the
coast defense vessel Monterey, and have
about concluded their labors. That
newspaper says:
In order to facilitate the work of in
vestigation, it was decided not to wait
until the Monterey had been placed on
the dry dock before taking the photo
graphs. All the views except those of
the turrets were accordingly taken from
the model of the Monterey.
This gave the workmen from Pitts
burg just as good an opportunity for
marking the defective plates as if they
were photographs of tne plates them
selves, and they marked them with the
air of men thoroughly acquainted with
their work.
The turret photographs were taken
from the big turret itself. The model
was unnecessary in getting pictures
of it, as it, of course, was not “down be
low."
By the time the Monterey gets on the
dry dock the work of the investigating
committee sent out by Secretary Her
bert will be about over. There are still
a few plates to be looked up; but, so far
as the investigating committee is con
cerned, it knows that what the Carnegie
employes charged is true, and that the
proof of fraud as to the heavy plates on
the Montery is beyond question.
Further investigation into the frauds
may reveal an even more startling con
dition of things, as ex-Burgess McLuckie
speaks of “two rotten belt line plates,’’
and, so far as known, the committee
has as yet located but one in that part
of the vessel.
The Mare Island officials insist that
the Monterey is going into the dry dock
to have her bottom scraped. The three
employes of the Carnegie Steel company
know that the “scraping’’ that will be
done will leave a couple of holes in the
coast defender where now there are a
lot of plugs.
There are some officials here from
Washington to investigate the plate
frauds who know that the charges as to
the Monterey’s plates have been sus
tained, though they are not ready to
make the fact public.
BETTER NEXT TIME.
Witnesses Will Not ft are to Testify tn
Fort Frick.
Pittsburg, May 16.—The demand for
a fair investigation of the armor plate
frauds has had a reluctant response from
Captain Sampson. It has been an
nounced that no more of Attorney Wal
lace’s witnesses will be compelled to go
to the inermost recesses of “Fort Frick”
to give their testimony, unless their be
, special reason.
When the investigating board comes
again its sessions will be neld in Law
yer Wallace’s office on Fourth avenue.
HAPPY GEORGIANS.
Press Mon on the Way Home from a Visit
to President Dias.
Mexico City, May 16.—The Press
assdclation was received by President
piaz and wife at Chapaultepec palace.
Speeches were made by Mr. H. H. Cab
aniss, Colonel W. A. Hemphill and Mr.
Bennett. The president responded feel
ingly. The exposition was the main
topic. President Diaz promised that
Mexico would exhibit. After a de
lightful reception the association left on
three sleepers for Georgia. The party
hre all happy and delighted with the
trip.
Killed His Wife and Himself.
Keokuk, la., May 16.—Jacob Dygraff,
insurance agent, killed his wife and him
self. Several weeks ago his wife ob
tained a divorce. Dygraff met her on
the street and pleaded for a reconcilia
tion. She refused, whereupon he drew
a revolver. She started to run, and he
■ fired four shots into her back, killing her
instantly. He then placed the revolver
to his own head and blew out his brains.
Waded Through Fire a Mlle.
Williamsport, Pa.. May 16.—Details
of destructive forest fires at Cammal on
Sunday have reached this city. The
O’Brien timber camp was entirely wiped
out, the 20 lumbermen, many of them
with their wives and families, who lived
there being hemmed in by the flames,
and being able to make their escape only
pfter wading down the Rout run for a
distance of a mile.
A Politician’s Suicide.
Ashland, Pa., May 16.—Joseph M.
Glick, a leading Schuylkill county poli
tician and Repbluican candidate for
sheriff, committed suicide by shooting
himself through the head with a 42-cah
ber revolver. The deed was prompted
by financial troubles, and was commit
ted in the carriage shed adjoining his res
idence.
Breckinridge Wanted in Illinois.
i Fulton, May 16.—An effort is being
made to secure Colonel W. C. P. Breck
inridge to deliver the oration at the
Fourth of July celebration. The sum
of SSOO has been appropriated for this
purpose, and the committee on arrange
ments is now in correspondence with the
tTontncVv cnnffrAfisman.
THE ROME TRIBUNE.
SHOT HIS AFFIANCED.
A Young Woman Lured Away by Her
Lover and Brutally Assaulted.
Jersey City, May 16.—Employes of
the Snake Hill almshouse, while on
their way to work at 7 o’clock, found in
the bushes along the road the insensible
body of a young woman. She was
taken to the almshouse and attended by
Dr. King. The doctor found two bullet
wounds, one in the breast, the other
back of the right ear.
The girl was revived by stimulants,
and at 8 o’clock was able to give ad id
count of how she was shot. She says
she came to Jersey City from her home
in Rome, N. Y., to be married. Her
lover, Bernard Holenberg, 22 years old,
also of Rome, N. Y., induced her to
draw her savings from the bank and
leave Rome with him. They spent the
day here and at night went out for a
walk.
After dark Holenberg induced her to
sit down alongside the road bank of
Snake Hill, and about three miles from
this city. He then attempted to assault
her, and a struggle ensued. Suddenly
he drew a revolver and shot her in the
breast. She became unconscious and
knew no more until revived at the hos
pital Afterwards Holenberg seems to
have shot the girl in the bead to make
sure of his work, and then decamped-
He robbed the body of $235 in cash, a
gold watch and chain, and his picture,
which the girl had earned in her breast.
The victim is in a critical condition,
and is not expected to live out the day.
Chief Murphy has telegraphed a de
scription of the man furnished by his
victim to all neighboring cities, and ex
pects hourly to hear of his capture.
A NEW NAVAL STATION.
Admiral Walker’s I’rogram for a Location
on Hawaiian Islands.
Washington, May 16. —ls things
come to pass as he hopes, Admiral
Walker probably will locate the United
States naval station in Hawaii on an
island. Pearl harbor is an almost land
locked sheet of water, connected with
the Pacific by a narrow pass. The
water within is deep enough for any of
our men-of-war, and the pass can be
dredged easily and cheaply to give suffi
cient depth for their entrance.
About four miles from the entrance is
an island of considerable size, large
enough for all the purposes of a naval
station, for docks and shops, with deep
water up to the shore line. Behind this
island vessels may lie, completely pro
tected from any gun fire that could be
brought to bear from a fleet lying at
sea, and the pass itself could be made
impregnable.
The location of the station on the is
land would have certain important ad
vantages in the way of isolation when
desired, yet it would be of easy access
to Honolulu by means of a railroad now
in existence.
It is known Admiral Walk
er has this islanqHl mind as the site of
tlje station, provided it can be aecQred
on reasonable terms fronj the owners,
who are understood to be 6f American
birth.
A KANSAS LYNCHING.
The Printer Who Killed the Postmaster
Paid the Penalty of Lynch Law.
Strong City, May 16.—George Rose,
the Printer who killed Assistant Post- 1
master Carl Kuhl, at Cottonwood Falls,
near Emporia last Friday, has been
lynched by a mob. Shortly before mid
night Sheriff Murdock was called to the
door of the jail by a knock, and on
opening the door was suddenly seized
and pulled out into the courtyard. Sev
eral pistols were presented at his head
in a jiffy by members of the masked
mob, and, notwithstanding his objec
tions, he was conducted back into the
jail and to of Rose’s cell, which
he was ordered to unlock.
This, after a solemn protest, ho
did. the lync^H^telling him plainly
that they to have their man 11
they had to the jail in the at
tempt.
The mob prcßeeded with their pris
oner to i! railroiM bridge about a quar
ter of a mile away, where they placed a
rope around the condemned man’s neck.
His hands and feet were quickly pin
ioned, and the man thrown from the
east side of the bridge. He fell about
10 feet, his neck being broken by the
descent. '
Draft Raisers in Western Cities.
Milwaukee, May 16. —lt is now
known that on the same day a week
ago on which the National Exchange
bank of this city was swindled out of
$1,782 on a raised draft, the Wisconsin
National bank also cashed a raised draft
for what amount the bank authorities
refuse to say. The police authorities
who have been keeping track of the
draft raising scheme estimate that the
gang who are working the lay must
have cleaned up nearly $25,000 in the
western cities during the past month.
A Building for Free Thinkers.
Chicago, May 16.—The Rev. Jenkin
Lloyd Jones, pastor of the aristocratic
All Soul’s Unitarian church, in Oak
wood boulevard, has announced that he
will leave his denomination and organ
ize a church of free thought, without
creed or doctrine. The members of his
church have signified their intention to
go with the pastor, and stock will be
issued for a new church building. The
church will cost $200,000, will be eight
stories high, and contain bathrooms,
gymnasium and reading room.
Want Germany to Take Samoa.
Berlin, May 16.—Chancellor von
Caprivi has received a petition from the
German Colonial society asking that
Germany annex Samoa. The German
South Sea Islands Trade and Plantation
company has declared against this ac
tion of the society, although the support
of the society was sought by the com
pany in the first instance. The society
claims that the company will be the
greatest gainer by the annexation of the
and r> ora iat-
ROME. GA.. THURSDAY MORNING,! MAY 17, 1894
BRIBERY CHARGED
Hunton and Kyle offered
Money for Their Votes
TO KILL THE TARIFF BILL.
A New York Paper Which Has
Unearthed a Rotten Rot
ten State of Affairs.
w ashington, May 16.—1 n the senate
Mr. Lodge offered a resolution reciting
a statement in the New York Sun that
bribes have been offered to certain sena
tors, to induce them to vote against the
pending tariff bill and signed articles in
Philadelphia papers stating that the su
gar schedule had been made up as it
now stands in consideration of a large
sum of money paid for campaign pur
poses of the Democratic party and pro
viding for the appointment of a com
mittee of five senators to investigate
those charges.
The vice president asked Mr. Lodge
what action he desired. Mr. Lodge re
plied that he asked for present consider
ation of the resolution.
Mr. Cockrell said:
“Let it be printed and lie on the
table.”
Under the rule the resolution went
over for a day.
Senator Hunton, of Virginia, and
Senator Kyle, of South Dakota (the lat
ter through his clerk), have admitted
the truth of the published statement
that they had been approached and of
fered money for their votes against the
tariff bill, although both gentlemen de
clined to name the man who made the
offer. The story was published in full
in a New York paper, and with the ex
ception of the matter of detail is sub
stantially correct.
“Yes,” said Mr. Hunton, “the story is
correct, although I am sorry that it has
been made public. It was not a matter
of recent occurrence, however, for it
happened more than a month ago. I
imihediately notified the managers of
the bill on the floor of the senate, and it
is in their hands for such action as they
may see fit to take. Ido not care any
thing for congressional investigation,
but if the managers of the bill
think it is the best thing to
do I will assist them all in my power.
The offer was not made to me person
ally out through my son; the sum to be
paid being fixed at $25,000 by the man
who attempted the bribe. No, I cannot
give the name of the man who sought to
get my vote.”
Mr. Kyle is out of the city, but Mr.
Hunton said be knew the same man had
approached him, and this was corrobo
rated by Mr. MacFarlane, Kyle’s clerk.
slr. Hunton went so far as to say that
the man who had attempted to conduct
the negotiations for these votes was
formerly connected with the carpetbag
government of South Carolina, and that
he &ad subsequently gone to North Da
kota, where nc
years. I.c
A prominent Democratic senator,
however, told the reporter that he knew
the man well and named C. W. Buttz,
ex member of congress from South Car
olina, during the period of reconstruc
tion.
The tariff bill was taken up at noon,
the’pending question being item 27 of
the chemical schedule, flaxseed or lin
seed, and poppy seed oil, raw. boiled or
oxydized, 15 cents per gallon. Mr.
Jones' amendment was to make the duty
20 cents.
Mr. Gallinger spoke on the general
subject of protection.
In the house, unanimous consent was
refused for the consideration of Mr. Mc-
Gann’s resolution for an investigation
by a joint committee of congress of the
causes of the present industrial depres
sion, and after the call of committees
for reports, the house, in committee of
the whole, continued the consideration
of the agricultural appropriation bill.
The senate committee of territories
has ordered a favorable report, as
amended, on the bill already passed by
the house, providing for the admission
of Utah into the Union as a state.
TELEGRAPH BREVITIES.
The big Baptist convention in Dallas,
Tex., has adjourned.
Wood & Bond, furniture dealers of
Macon, have assigned.
At Statesboro, Ga., the young eon of
Ben Clifton was killed in a saw mill a
few days ago.
It is said that Madaline Pollard has
written a book, the title or which is “A
Marriage Above Zero."
Governor Tillman has decided to have
a court of inquiry to investigate the re
cent troubles the South Carolina militia
gave him.
Henry W. Grady, son of the late
Henry W. Grady, managing editor of
The Constitution, has just passed a
creditable examination and been admit
ted to practice law in Fulton county,
Georgia, superior court.
Adopted Bland’s Volley.
Kansas City, May 16.—The Demo
cratic state convention adopted the ma
jority report by a vote of 423 to 109.
This report embraces Bland’s 16 to 1
ratio plank. The convention gave three
rousing cheers, and Mr. Bland was
overwhelmed with congratulations.
Mr. Cleveland to Visit Mr. Endicott.
Danvers, Mass., May 16.—Honorable
William C. Endicott, ex-secretary of
war, expects to entertain President
Cleveland and family for two months
this summer at Peabody farm, at Dan
vers Centre.
IN ALABAMA.
Outlook IPromising for Oates’
Nomination.
CLEVELAND IS ENDORSED.
Oates Has Received 252 and
Johnson 216—The Ad
ministration,
Montgomery, Ala., May 16. (Special.)
—Conventions held in sixty-three of the
sixty-six 'counties of j Alabama today,'to
name delegates to the state convention
to be held here on 22nd inst. The actual
returns from the various conventions so
far, show that Oates has received out of
37 counties heard from 200 instructed
delegates and Johnston 93.
There are yet to be heard from twenty
nine counties, from which Oates friends
claim enough,to more than nominate
him on the first (ballot. On the other
hand, Johnstons friends are sanguine he
will receive enough votes to nominate
him. It looks very much like Oates
now. There will be 504 delegates in
the convention, necessary to choice 253.
There will be two contesting delegations
from Hale and Lee counties respectively.
In the first county the contestants are
for Oates, headed by ex-Gov. Seay.
Lee will send Johnson contestants.
Hale has nine and Lee ten votes. The
regular delegations will be unable to
vote on the floor, therefore the total vote
in theconventionwil. be cut down to 485
votes at first or 243 necessary to a
choice.
The action of Dallas and Jefferson
counties will swell Johnston’s figures
to 139 votes. These two counties are
conceded to him, but'not yet heard
from. Most of the county conventions
passed resolutions strongly, endorsing
Grover Cleveland and his administra
tion. A few failed to act at all, others
endorsed and instructed for Morgan for
senator. Barber county, home of sena
tor Pugh, endorsed Cleveland and ad
ministration. This is significant inas
much as it slaps Pugh in the face. This
is undoubtedly the warmest campaign
that has been known in Alabama for
years. At 11 p. m., Oates has 255.
Four more counties to hear from. Oates
expects twelve more votes. He is indis
putably nominated. The Johnston men
conceed it now.
At 11:30 tonight the actual official re
turns show that Oates has received 252
votes and Johnston 216 votes. Five
counties are yet to be heard from and
Oates will get more votes out of them.
These figures include Lee county for
Oates and Hale county for Jonston. It
will be an exceedingly close race.
tfVANtt UK ATKINSON.
Dr. Carlton Will Not Become a Candt
date for Governor.
May 16. Dr. H. 11. Carl
fi|Hof Athens, has written a private
to his Atlanta friends who met 10
bB ago and invited him to write an
HHi letter to the public giving his
on the political issues of the day.
purpose of Dr. Carlton’s friends
Was to get him squarely in the guberna
torial race through the medium of the
letter which he was invited to write. In
the letter which has been received from
him Dr. Carlton says he does not think
it would be proper for him to write such
a letter as his friends suggest.
To do so, he says, would be regarded
as the announcement of his entrance
into the contest for the gubernatorial
nomination, which ho does not think
would be proper or advisable at this late
day, though he expresses gratitude for
the efforts of his friends and confesses
that he would like very much to be
governor. Dr. Carlton thanks his
friends for the work they have done and
may yet do for him, saying frankly that
he would not hesitate should they want
him to become a candidate.
This leaves the Democratic field open
to General C. A. Evans and W. Y. At
kinson.
Indicted nn Insurance President,
Wytheville. Va.. Maj- 16.—A spe
cial grand jury found an indictment
against H. G. Wadley, charging him
with having fraudulently appropriated
about $200,000 of the funds of the
Wytheville Insurance company, of
which Wadley was president, and
which recently went into the hands of a
receiver.
Deep Water.
Charleston, May 16.—Ships drawing
23 feet can enter Charleston harbor
through the new jetty channel and the
work of deepening the entrance to this
port is making steady progress. It is
expected by the opening of the next cot
ton season that Charleston will have at
least 25 feet of water on its bar.
Married by Proxy and Then Died.
El Paso, Tex., May 16.—F. F. Gear
ity, connected with Tefit, Weller & Co.,
New York, has just died here of con
sumption. Saturday he married Miss
Julia M. Morris, of 96 Lexington ave
nue, New York, by proxy, and made
his will bequeathing all his property to
her.
A Ballroad Seizes Coal.
Sandusky, 0., May 16,—Forty-six
cars of coal, consigned by the Wheeler
Coal company, of this city, to various
points on the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road, have been seized by the railroad
company for use on the road.
North Carolina’s Camping Ground.
Raleigh, May 16.—Governor Carr
chose Morehead City as the place of
encampment of the state guard this
year. The exact date is not yet desig
nated, but it will be very early in July.
The railways make a rata of 1 cent a
mile each wav.
LET CONFEDERATES TELL.
The Gettysburg Battlefield Association
Asks Information of Southern Soldiers.
Gettysburg, Pa., May 16.—Majoi
William M. Robbins, of the Gettysburg
battlefield Commission, said: “The
commission would be glad to have the
present address of all Confederate offi
cers and men still living who were in
the battle of Gettysburg, together with
a statement of the commands they were
in and the rank they held at that time;
also letters from each of them specify
ing with care and accuracy what precise
points on this field they occupied and
fought over, and any other important
matters concerning the subject which
they can state definitely. I would also
be gratified to have as many old Con
federates as can afford it to visit this
field and look it over with me.
“The United States government is
seeking, through us as its agency, to
locate and mark with permanent tab
lets the lines, positions and evolutions
of every command on both sides in the
battle on each of the three days—in fact
to photograph on the ground all of the
phases of the historic conflict.
“The commission has requested me,
as its Confederate member, to give
special attention to verifying point? and
details of the Confederate side. We al
ready have much information, but de
sire absolute accuracy,
“Those who will be kind enough to
comply with this request should address
me, either here or at Gettysburg, or at
Statesville, N. C.”
REMORSE KILLING O’GRADY.
The Murderer of Miss Gilmartin Slowly
Dying In Prison.
Cincinnati, May 16.—The chances
that Rev. Dominick O'Grady, the Cath
olic priest who shot Miss Mary Gilmar
tin on the street April 25, will ever suffer
the legal penalty of his crime are re
mote. The man seems to be dying from
remorse. He has lost all interest in life
and is living in a semi-starving state,
and when brought into court, when the
lawyers argued his plea of abatement,
he had to be supported in walking, and
when seated his head hung in a listless
manner. It is now claimed that the
offense for which Tanner, the grand
juror was imprisoned in Indiana was
petit larceny, and that it does not dis
qualify him in this state.
MADDOX WINS.
The Georgia Congressman Stands Fp for
Eight apd Gets It.
Washington, May 16,—Judge Mad
dox won his fight for a naval cadet from
his district. He had an amendment in
serted in the naval appropriation biU al
lowing a cadet for every congressional
district not represented tn the academy
at present. It did pot provide for turn
ing those out who Were, illegally ap
pointed, but provides that in the futuf§
when a congressman faljs to piake an
dbpointmSiff that the secrecy of tfeg
pavy shall fill the vacancy from his con
gressional district.
Judge Maddo? made a slondtd fight
and wn a Victory which many mem
bers of the house have been fighting far
years.
An Alabama Assassination.
Greenville, Ala., May 10.—-Masked
men went to the house of Mil ton Nash,
a prominent planter, during the night,
and shot him through the right lung in
the presence of his wife and children.
Nash is a prosperous farmer, and re
sides five miles from Greenville. He
was peaceable and quiet, and no cause
is assigned for the deed. The murder
ers then went to a near by negro house
and robbed the occupants of what
money they had. The assassins are at
large. Nash will probably die.
Evans Must Stay It Out.
Washington, May 16. Nelson F.
Evans, who was convicted and sentenced
to five years’ imprisonment for misap
propriation of the funds of the Spring
Garden National bank, of Philadelphia,
will have to serve out that sentence, the
judgment of the district court of the
United States for the eastern district of
Pennsylvania having been affirmed by
the supreme court of the United States.
Newspaper Men Organize.
Richmond, May 16.—The newspaper
men of this city, at a meeting here, or
ganized the Old Dominion Press club,
with 35 charter members. Colonel W.
D. Chesterman, managing editor of The
Dispatch, was elected president. All
newspaper men in Virgin ia are eligible
to election as non-resident members.
The daily and weekly papers will be
pmbrarwd
Atlanta Liquor Dealers Protest.
Atlanta, May 16.—The whisky deal
ers, wholesalers and barkeepers, are
kicking against holding the guberna
torial primary on Saturday, because it
would make a hole in their receipts.
They have all signed a petition to the
county executive committee asking that
the date for the primary be changed
from Saturday, June 2, to Friday,
June 1.
Women Will Be Excluded.
Charlottesville, Va., May 16.—The
faculty of the University of Virginia
has defeated, by a large majority, the
proposition embodied in the report of a
committee submitted Saturday to ad
mit women to the academic schools on
the same terms as men.
Cause of the Tabernacle Fire.
Brooklyn, May 16.—Fire commis
sioner Wurster, of Brooklyn, says that
the fact seemed to be settled that the
fire which destroyed the tabernacle, the
Hotel Regent, and two blocks of dwell
ings, was started by the contact between
an organ stop pulled by Organist Brown
and a badly insulated electric power
wire inside the organ.
i
PRICE FIVE CENT
MORE TROUBLE
The Coxeyites Who Stole a;
Train Come to Grief.
LEADERS GETS SIX MONTHS.
His Lieutenants Got Shorter
Terms While the Privates
Were Allowed to Go.
Helena, Mont., May 16. Judge
Knowles, in the United States district
court, has disposed of of the cases of the
350 Coxeyites who stole a Northern
Pacific train in Butte early on the morn
ing of April 24, and fled eastward with
it until they were captured by United
States troops at Forsythe. Hogan, the
leader, was sentenced to elx months in
the county jail. The engineer and the
fireman who rau the train and the 40
captains and lieutenants were given 60
days each in the same jaiL
The balance of the party was brought
into court in equads of 30, and, upon
pledging their words not to engage in
any more such proceedings, the judge
turned them loose.
This is the gang that brought on the
skirmish at Billings when the first blood
of the Coxey war was shed. They have
been guarded here by three companies
of regulars since their capture.
Their defense was that they took the
train with the tacit consent of the
Northern Pacific managers, but the
judge did not take this view of it. Ho
had previously issued an injunction re
straining them from interfering with
the road, which is in the hands of re
ceivers.
In passing sentence, Judge Knowles
said:
“There seems to be a peculiar craze
that people may take possession of rail
roads and otherwise tramp to Washing
ton, feeding upon the communities
through which they pass, who give them
supplies because they want them to
move on, and thus help to dump them
on other communities. This craze seems
to have got hpld of men who ought to
be good, sensible citizens; but they must
not be allowed to seize a railroad and
use it as they see fit, whether it is in the
hands of a court or of private Indi
viduals,”
United State. Troops Wanted.
Washington, May 16.—General Scho
field has received a telegram from the
United States marshal at Moptpelier,
Idaho, stating that a gang or Coxeyites
have seized the property of the Union
Pacific at that point, with the intention
of holding it until tfansportation is fur
nished them. The tnarshal says that he
and his men are guarding the railroad
property and asks to be relieved by
United States troops.
Tbe Kellyitea Giving Trouble, "'
pLDONiA, la., May 10.—The Kelly
army is encamped two miles below
here, and people are nervous and anx
ious. Kellyites in one place attempted
to land outside of the prescribed limits
during the night, and the guards ordered
them off. A fight enstied in which sev
eral men on both sides were injured.
Coxey Nominated for Congress.
Columbus, 0., May 16.—The Popu
lists of the Eighteenth congressional dis
trict have nominated Jacob S. Coxey
far conaress.
IN CONVENTION.
The People's Party Opens the State Cam
paign tn Atlanta—Watson Chairman.
Atlanta, May 16.—The People's par
ty convention met in the house chamber
of the capitol. The gathering is a large
and enthusiastic one—almost every coun
ty in the state being represented. Hop.
Thomas E. Watson was ujade tempora
ry chairman, and Oscar Irving secre
tary.
Mr. Watson opened the meeting with
a ringing speech, in which he outlined
the object of the convention and reaf
firmed his allegiance to the principles of
the party. His speech was received with
cheers, after which he was elected per
manent chairman.
The first test vote showed conclusively
that Mr. Watson is master of the situa
tion, the question being whether the
chairman should appoint the committee
on resolutions and platform or whether
they should be elected by congressional
district delegations. It was decided by
an overwhelming vote that the chair
man should appoint the committee,
which Mr. Watson proceeded to do,
with C. H. Ellington as chairman.
Upon motion, a committee was ap
pointed by the chairman to investigate
the alleged outrage committed by city
officials in arresting J. B. Osborne, the
labor agitator, who, a few months ago,
attempted to deliver an address at the
artesian well in Atlanta.
A committee was also appointed tc
draft a set of resolutions to be present ed
at this convention upon the result of the
Watson-Black contest in congress.
The Kansas City Convention.
Kansas City, May 16.—The Demo
cratic state convention nominated Fran
cis M. Black for supreme court judge
and W. T. Carrington for superinten
dent of public instructions. There was
a 4-hours’ contest for the place of rail
way commissioner without a result.
Another Behring Sea Bill.
Washington, May 16.—Senator Mor
gan has introduced a bill supplementing
the act recently passed to carry out the
award of the Paris arbitration in regard
to the protection of fur seals.
The Turkish Minister 111.
Washington, May 16. Mavroyenl
Bey, the Turkish minister, has been se
riously ill with pneumonia, but is re
ported to be out of danger.