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ESTABLISHED 1887-
FIGHTING
RIGHT AT US.
Marine War Off the
Cost of Florida.
VERY EXCITING.
Spanish Battleships Said to Be Firing
On Three Friends.
NEWARK SUDDENLY LEFT KEY WEST
Reports of Guns Distinctly,
Heard Thera.
t
FiLLABUSTER HAS A BIG CARGO
The Raleigh, the Three Friends and the
Newark Believed io Be In
the Engagment.
Atlanta, Dec. 15. —A special from
Key West via Tampa says that fisher
men coming in have reported the
sounds of heavy firing twenty miles
southeast of that city.
It is rumored that the Spanish war
ships are firing on the Three Friends
expedition and it is thought that the
Raleigh and Newark are in it too.
Nothing further can be had.
Much excitement txists at Key West
over the actious of the Raleigh and
Newark leaving so suddenly yester
day, supposed in search of the Three
Friends and Bermuda.
Several vessels are re
ported by to have been near
the Florida coast for the past week.
The Three Friends sailed from Jack
sonville Sunday night while the de
dectives were kept busy watching the
Commodore, her movements being
such as to arouse suspicion. She car
ried a heavy carload of ammunition,
including guns, dynamite, cartridges
and machetes.
At a late hour yesterday afternoon
the United States cruiser Newark,
lying in dock at Key West, was sud
denly seen to steam up and leave. She
hurriedly put to set without taking
on board her full supply of fuel. It
was at the time suspected that the
expeditions from Jacksonville had
something to do with the sudden de
parture of the cruiser. Todaj the re
ports of firing leads to an unquestion
able surmise that the Three Friends
is meeting with a rough experience.
JVIR. JACK KING’S CASE.
Ex Secretary Hoke Smith to Assist in the
Prosecution.
Atlanta, Dec 15.—Hon. Hoke Smith
has been appointed by Attorney Gen
eral Harmon of the United States as
special counsel for the government in
the cases against Jack King, of Rome.
The cases may be tried in January or
February, 1897.
Mr. Smith took the oath under his
appointment by the attorney general
of the United States as special coun
sel for the government in the cases
yesterday.
The attention of the|court was call
ed to the cases and Judge Newman
requested the district, attorney t ■
notify the counsel for Mr. King that
the cases might be tried at any time
in January or February, when the
oourt could find the time,
Messrs Dean & Dean and Feather
ston, of Rome, ascouusel for the bank,
will assist Mr. Hoke Smith in the trials.
Judge Branham, R. A. Denny and
Major R. T. Fouche represent Mr.
King and will fight every inch of the
ground.
The Indian* Want Statehood.
Washington, Dec. 15—A fund of
<25,000 has been raised by the Creeks,
Choctaws, and Cherokees for a lobby tc
prevent a territorial government for In
dian Territory. They are willing t«
have their lands alloted under a state
govern men t. and will make no opposi
tion if Indian Territory is included in
the state of Oklahoma.
Flrat Lieutenant Huck Dead.
Washington, Dec, 15.—A telegran
received at the war department an
nounces the death at San Bernardino
ranch, A. T., of First Lieutenant Ed
win E. Bock, Seventh cavalry, frog
pneumonia.
THE ROHE TRIBUNE.
A. L. FOSTER SEATED
ibe Populi t Member From the County
Os Clay Is to Stay In.
DECIDED BI COMMITTEE YESTERDAY
The Anti-Trust Bill Passed
By the House.
ALCOHOL EFFECT TO BE TAUGHT
The Leg! latnre is now Holding Three
Sessions Daily-Ti.ey Ore Doing More
Work and Having Less Talk Than Any
Form r On*-Interchange Car* to Be
Rtin Oi Railroads.
Atlanta, Dec. 15 —The house of
representatives settled the Clay county
contested election case this afternoon
Party lines were obliterated and A'
L Foster, the sitting member, who is
a p pulist, was declared to be entitled
to retain his seat. The case occupied
nearly all of today’s session of the
house and was not settled until 1:20
O’clock.
The debate on the case was partic
igated in principally by the demo
crats. From the first it was evident
that the members of the house be
lieved that Foster was fairly elected,
and many of the leading democrats
on the floor spoke in his favor. Some
few democrats sought to make a party
question out of the matter, but in that
tney failed. Wbeu the final vote was
taken it showed the following result:
For Foster, 105; for Killingsworth,
democrat, 27.
The matter csme up as a special
order fixed for today. An attempt
was made to postpone the case until
the next session of the general assem
bly, but it was a failure. Chairman
Burwell, of the committee on privi
leges and elections, explained the case
and the evidence. He said thirty
two ballots bad been cast for “Foster”
without initials. Five of those who
cast the ambiguous ballots were
negroes and they swore that they in
tended to vote for John Foster. The
change of those five votes would give
the election to Killingsworth and the
minority democrats proposed to throw
the sitting member out on that evi
dence. An effort was made to im
peach the testimony of the negroes
before the subcommittee which went
to Clay to recount the ballots, but. the,
majoritv declined to hear tlfie rebut
tal evideuW. And i t was .on that
ground that many democrats voted
Killingsworth, not believing
that both sides bad been heard.
The house took up tbe anti trust
bill again tod> y and it was passed un
animously. Mr. Reid, of Bibb, who
has opposed the measure, voted for
the bill in order that he might give
notice of reconsideration motion to be
made tomorrow. His purpose in do
ing so was to delay the bill in getting
to the senate. He was alone in his
fight against the bill with two or three
exceptions. The bill was introduced
by Mr. Calvin, of Richmond, and it is
a sweeping measure It is designed
to prevent trusts and combinations in
trade from throttling free competition
and combining to raise the prices -of
products.
Tn<: bill declares unlawful and void all
arrangements, contracts agreements,
trusts or combinations between persons
or combinations or corporations designed,
or which tend to advance, reduce or con
trol tbe price of such product or article
to produce or consumer of any s<ich pro
duct or article, as may be imported or
manufactured in this state. The bill
makes such violations unlawful and au
thorizes the' forfeiture of characters of
such corporations or persons by the courts.
The bill fixes the penalty at a fine from
j SIOO, to $5,000 and from one to five
years impiisonmcnt.
Ths senate and house assembled in
joint, session at 12 o’clock for the pur
p<»e of electing a judge of the southwest
ern circuit. ilon. W. H. Fish wa< re-
I cently elected to fill the place but he de
' dined when he was nominated for the
supreme court bench. I’he democratic
caucus had already nominated Hon. Z A.
Littlejohn, of Dooly county, to fill the
place and the election today was purely a
matter of form. Mr. Littlejohn received
the entire vote of the members of the
senate and house present, 1(55 in all. He
was duly declared elected judge of the
southwestern circuit by President Berner,
of the senate, who presided oyer the joint
session.
In the senate today the bill to require
children in the public schools be taught
the.evils and effects of the use of alcohol
was discussed and finally passed by a
good majority. The debate on the bill
took the form of a temperance question
discussion.
The bill to require railroad companies
to haul interchanged cars was also up in
the senate. The state railroad commis
sion wants the bill passed.
Both branches are bolding two and
three daily sessions now. The house and
senate calendars are crowded and many
bills will be left over until next session.
The assembly will adjourn Saturday night.
Killed Ilin Friend an'i Himself.
WILKESBARRE, Pa., Dec. 12.—During
a family quarrel, Gus Pope shot John
Kleine, fatally wounding him. When
Pope saw his friend falling to the flooi
with n mortal wound in his head, he
placed the revolver in his own mouth
and blew n portion of his head off,
dying a.most instantly.
ROME, GA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1896.
THE TIMES LOOK WAR-LIKE.
Senator Morgan Is In a Fight
ing Mood.
BE GROWS IMHTMT BT BELAT-
His Language Teems With
Abuse Fcr Spain
HE CALLS THEM CUTTHROATS
, Hve, y Sentence of the Eloquent Old Mau
Fas ng and Scinillatee With Fire and
Ferror When He Refers to Thein as As
sassins and Maraud- rs— He Or w Warm
Wlh Indlgna’ion.
Washington, Dec. 15.—1 n the senate
today crowds filled the galleries to hear
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, on the
Cuban situation in the course of his
phillipics he said:
“I have not beard that Spain contro
verts any statement of the president in
his message. The evidence that come*
from private sources relative to tbe con
dition of Cuba and the horrors of per
secution, repine and extortion visited
upon tbe people, and admits of no doubt |
as to its creditability. It presents a pic
ture so incredible, in human and so dis
g, aceful to the civilization of this age
that it stuns the mind into disbelief that
such things can be true.”
Mr. Morgan went on to speak about
tbe trying situation which required
prompt action to save thousands of ii •
nooent people from cruel and deliberate
butchery. The wholesale massacre cf
Spain was no surprise to the senator,
who had anticipated it.
“If war with the United States is
necessary to reconicle the Spanish
people to the loss of Cuba by foreign
conquest,*' said Mr. Morgan, “we
shall be compelled to meet that emer
gency. If the destruction of Cuba is
enough to satisfy tbe popular senti
ment of revenge, we can avoid a war
with Spain by remaining inactive,
while our own people are being ruin
ed Dr sL'tuehtere 1 along with tl:v
Cubans. If we mean to take action
towards stopping this war of annihil
ation and extermination we have no
time to lose.”
Mr. Morgan spoke of the resolution
of congress of the last session which
he said left to the president the choice
of concurring with the policy of con
gress or delaying. The president
chose delay. “The war has contin
ued,’’said Mr. Morgan, “until it has
reached the final and desperate stage
,of a war of devastation and extermin
ation, with the people of Cuba as a
prey to those wh-> have set aside the
usual honorable usages of warfare
and have become robbers,cut-throats,
assassins, ravisners and pirates.”
BIMETALLISTS IN SESSION.
Preparing Plan* For Continuing* Work Ir
Behalf of Froe Coinage of Silver.
Washington, Dec. 15.—A meeting of
the officers and executive committee ol
the American Bimetallic union begat
hero, its purpose being to devise wayi
and means to continue work in behalf
of free and .luliinited coinage of silvei
at the ratio of' 16 to 1 and incidentally
to arrange for the resumption of ths
publication, the National Bimetallist
the organ ot the U nion.
It is argued that the want of organi
zation and funds were the two causes
of defeat of silver in November last,
and that the defeat of organization car
at least be remedied by beginning or
ganization at once and continue untii
the structure is complete in all of itt
details.
It is stated, however, that the para
mount business of the meeting is to ar
range for toe details ot a convention of
silverites throughout the country, with
a view to the organization of a c >mpre
hensive organization in behalf of silver.
It is said to be the desire of at least
some of the officers of the union tn
gather together in this convention all oi
the officers of state cotnimtiees and
unions, including silver Populist unions
and the ablest, inunagerially, in the
white metal movement and there per
fect a plan of operations to be gone into
in the near future and to prepare foi
the campaign of 1900.
The officers of the union are A. J.
Warner of Ohio, president, and R. C
Chambers of Utah, and Henry G. Mil
ler of Illinois, vice presidents.
The executive committee consists of
those named above and J. B. Grant oi
Colorado; Joseph Batell of Nerinont;
Senator Stewart of Nevada; Senatoi
Marion Butler of North Carolina;
Thomas G. Merrill of Montana and H.
F. Bartine, formerly editor of The Bi
metallist.
Prominent Georgian Suing For Divorce.
Kansas City, Dec. 15.—Colonel D. B.
Dyer, president of the street railway
company of Augusta, Ga.. and who was
prominently identified with the Atlanta
exposition, has begun an action in tae
court here to secure a divorce from hia
wife, Ada M., who ia atill living in
Georgia. Statutory gronnda are urged.
Rebels Approach Capital of the
I’hiilippines.
KOBE TROUBLE FOR SPANIARDS
Weyier Is Notto Be Succeeded,
So Report Says.
IMPARCIAL OFFICIAL GAZETTE
KwtiVA.ja of Mindiino T*laii<i Revolt—’A. Gpm
oral at Cavite—Captain General
Weyler’a of Criticized ir
Ma« '*’<l—>pai»a t<> u Hiitint
TraiiAirort.
Madrid, Dec. 15.—A dispatch received
here from Singapore says that the na
tives of Mindano island, one of tin
Philippine group, have revolted aiic
that many of the native troops are de
serting to the insurgents. It is furthei
stated ’hat the situation at Manilla ill
full of anxiety. Bands of insurgent!
frequently approach the town at night
and fire volleys into the place.
A dispatch to The Impartial from
Singapore admits that there has been a
general massacree at Cavite, the forti
fied seaport town of the island of Luzon.
It adds that 150 prisoners revolted,
killed six soldiers, seized arms and tried
to raise the native inhabitants against
the garrison. Continuing, these advices
say that the revolt failed, the revolters
were shot dpwn in the streets and a
genera) massacre followed during the
night. Scores of corpses were picked up
and many of the prisoners who were re
captured were shot the following morn
ing.
Tim report that Captain General Wey
ier hat ordered proceedings to be taken
against Major Oirujeda because the
major, after the death of Antonio Ma
ceo, went to Havana without the per
mission of his superior officers, is caus
ing discontent here, owing to the popu
larity of Cirujeda. Although the min
isters maintain reserve on the subject,
it is stated that the cabinet may con
sider this question, and it is further
stated that the ministers may also dis
cuss the execution of General Jo’eyler’s
plan of campaign, which is criticized in
Ce it a feWdetidea at
council to puichase the British trans
port. Prince of Wales.
The Impartial says that the ministers
have no knowledge of Captain General
Weyier having taken any action against
Major Cirujeda and regard it as being
improbable.
The Impartial also says the report
that a successor to General Weyier is
shortly to be placed is not. confirmed.
The report that Don Carlos, the pre
tender to the Spanish throne, intends to
abdicate his claims in favor of Don
Jaitnie, his son, which this time origr
naftd in a dispatch to The Impartial
fr >tn Rome, is without foundation in
fact.
Loudon Taper* on the Situation.
London, Dec. 15. —The Times, com
menting on the Cuban situation, ex
presses the hope that the Spaniards will
“continue to disregard the vituperation
of the jingo senators and abstain from
imitating them,” adding:
“The American government main
tains a correct and neutral attitude, and
as long as it does so Spain can afford tc
smile at Senator Chandler’s offhand re
cognition of the Cuban republic.”
The Globe says:
“When these wild men rave at Eng
land, British feeling regards them as
amusing lunatics whose grotesque an
tics do not carry danger to either coun
try. But the Spanish are more easily
inflamed to anger and there is some
danger of Spain falling into the trap
when the piratical Laurada reaches
Valencia.. Spain has endured much
contumely from the great, but
there are many indications that this
passive submission to insult will not last
much longer. It would be well, there
fore. for the Washington government
to place restraint upon Senator Chan
dler and his colleagues. If Spain de
cided to uphold her honor by arms n
naval war might have results not. at. all
agreeable to the American Chauvin
ists.”
Another Company ot Caban Volunteers.
Denver. Deo. 13. —Aside from the
regiment of Cuban volunteers that if
being organized here under the leader
ship of Attorney McAndrew, a company
of 300 men has been quietly raised by
Dr. Homer L. Darnell, a surgeon of the
Darnell Sanitarium, and is now ready
to start for Cuba us soon as arrange
ments can be made for their transporta
tion from the Atlantic coast to the
island. The members of the company
are all said to be men of means and
have armed and > quipped themselves at
their own expense mid only ask that the
Cuban junta at New York arrange foi
their safe landing on Cuban soil. A
brother of Darnell is now in New York
to perfect arrangements tor the trans
portation of the company.
More Hear nit* for the <*ubmt*.
Butte, Mon., Dec. 15.—One hundred
and six ablebodied men of Butte have
signed the roll which calls on them tc
aid the insurgents. The resolution!
adopted condemn the methods of Spuii
in the war and pledge the co-operatif
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NEW PEACE TREATY
Plan of Arbitration Between England
and America.
TERMS PRACTICALLY AGREED ON
Olney and Pauncefo’-e to Con
clude Treaty
ALL DIFFERENCES 10 BE SETTLED
A Court of Six Members, Three to Be
Drawn 1* r«»m the Ju licisry of I£acb
Country, Provided For—Agreement to
»tand Five Years—Negotiations May Be
<Of Ciu<lu<i In Three Weeks.
Washington, Dec. 15. —The negotia
tions between the United States and
Great Britain for a treaty of general ar.
bitration covering all subjects of differ
ence between the two English speaking
nations, present and orespective, has
advanced to a stage of completeness fai
beyond what the public has had reason
to believe. The purpose of Secretary
? Olney and Sir Julian Pauncefote is to
conclude the negotiations within the (
next three weeks. All of the substan
tial features of the treaty have been
agreed on. From the present status ol
the negotiations, it is believed the fol
lowing will be the important terms of
the treaty:
First—A term of years from the date
of exchange of ratification within which
the treaty shall be operative.
Second—A court of arbitration of six
members, three to be drawn from the
judiciary of the United States and three
from the judiciary ot Great Britain.
Third—-Tire submission to this tribu
nal of all differences between the two
nations now pending or to arise within
the period of five years, this not to in
clude the Behring sea question or the '
Venezuela question, now before inde
pendent commissions, but to include the
question of the boundary between :
Alaska and British North America.
In tbe judgment of those who have
been prominently identified with the
treaty, it will be the most important
document of a peaceful character in the .
history of the mutual dealings of Great
Britain and the United States. The
president, made passing illusion to the
subject in his recent message. It had
been understood, however, that the
main purpose of Mr. Olney was to reach
an agieemept as to, Venezuela wid. hav
-htrgiw *
tion of arbitrating all differences
would require considerable time fcr
its complete development. Bdt the
negotiations have proceeded with sur
prising unanimity, so that those engaged
in the work believe that the signatures
of the contracting parties will be placed
to the documents within three weeks.
This will give fully two months for their
consideration at the present session of
the United States senate, and unless
some unexpected obstacle should arise in
that quarter, there is every reason to
anticipate that the treaty will be made
effective before the close of the present
administration.
.-»side from the points previously re
ferred to. it can be stated that the terms
of the treaty are such as to practically
“clear the board” of all the vexatious
questions which have arisen between
the United States and Great Britain in
the past, and to guard against all possi
bility of international conflict for tho
future.
DR. KEANE’S NEW HONORS.
New, Received From Koine That He Will
Be ‘ anon of Sts John JL ale ran.
Washington, Dec. 15. News has
been received here that Bishop Keane’s
official position in Rome will be that of
canon of St. John Lateran. He will
also be assistant bishop at the pontifical
throne. These positions are of great
honor and are always steppingstones to
the highest, ecclesiastical dignity. They
are also among the most lucrative places
outside the college of cardinals.
The former rector will also hold the
office originally offered him by the pope
—that, of consultor in the congregation
of the propaganda fide. In this position
lie will exercise especial influence over
American affairs.
Dr. Conaty, the new rector of the
Catholic university, will arrive in
Washington Jan. 10 to assume charge.
He is reported to have said at the uni
versity that he would conduct the insti
tution on the same lines as those laid
down by its founder, Bishop Keane.
The Rev. Thomas Boquillou. profes
sor and author, of the university, is
very ill from overstwly and from the
effect of the recent troubles in the insti
tution.
Urugimyan Bebel* Imprisoned.
New York, Dec. 51.—The Herald’s
correspondent in Montevideo, Uruguay,
telegraphs that several rebels have been
imprisoned in the capital. The Argen
tine government lias ordered the gov
ernor of Entre Rios to disperse the Uru
guayan revolutionists assembled at Con
cordia. It was the intention of these
bauds to again invade Uruguay. Two
gunboats have been sent to guard the
coast. Uruguay proposes to double the
number of her war vessels, and has ac
cordingly ordered the construction of a
torpedo catcher of 1,200 tons and a small
cruiser of 1.8(H) tons register.
Rouen, Dec. 15 —The French steamer
Marie Fanny, from Bayonne for this
port, has been'totally lost off the island ,
of Alderiey. The captain was saved, I
but 14 members of the crew Wert
drowned.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
PRODUCES
THE NAMES.
Senator Carter Fills
His Promise,
A BIG SENSATION.
Says Woman Is In Case of Judge Sweat
Os Brunswick Circuit
WERE SEEN IN A ROOM TOGETHER
Charges indecent Language to
Judge Reese
OF THE NORTHERN CIRCUIT-
The Populist Senator Says When the Case
Comes Up He Will Finnish
the Details.
Atlanta, Dec 15. —Senator Yancey
Carter, of the 31st district, has given tbe
names of Judge J. L. Sweat of the Brun
swick circuit and Judge Seaborn Reese,of
the Northern circuit, as the judges whom
he referred to in his sensauoual speech on
the bill by Senator Hopkins to make
judg< s elective by the people. The pop
ulist senator presented his report to tbe
senate at 9 o’clock tonight formally charg
ing the two judges mentioned with con
duct unbecoming members of the Judici
ary. Senator Carter charges that Judge
4»wiw&UsltSd a summer resort in, com.-
pany with a young woman claiming to be
his stenographer and that the pair weie
found together in the judges room at the
hotel.
He charges Judge Reese with hav
ing used profane and indecent langu
age while on the bench and in the
presence of ladies. The senator states
that if an investigation is set on foot
he will produce in detail and with
exact specifications charges against
the two judges and against dthers not
yet named. The senator’s charges
were laid over until tomorrow with
out debate. Senator Battle offered
resolution transmitting the charges to
the house, the law requiring that in*
vestigations of inquiry shall be in
vestigated by that body. The nam
ing of the judges created little sur
prise and excitement in the senate.
STARTLING DISCOVERIES.
The Steel For Uncle Gain’s New Battleships
Found to Be Defective.
New Yobk, Dec. 15. —A special toTh«
Herald from Newport News, Va., says:
The net result of the experiments of the
board which has been investigating bat
tleship steel may be summed up briefly
as equivalent to the condemnation of
neariy the whole amount now slacked
up in the Newport News Shipbuilding
company’s yard.
Six out of 12 tost pieces which should
have folded back on themselves with
out breaking either broke or shot off as
readily as cast iron or tore apart with
less brittleness, but none the less cer
tain evidence of failing to meet the con
tract requirements. Such wholesale
failure has caused the board to go ex
tensively into the testing of other plates
and 84 test pieces have been marked out
of piates ranging between tbos • weigh
ing 10 pounds and those weighing 25
pounds to the >-quiire foot.
So startling have been the discoveries
that they go beyond the Kearsarge and
the Kentucky steel. It is said that al
though the contract requirements for
the Illinois, the warship latest awarded
to the Newport News company, were
not in some respects quite as rigid ua
those in the contracts for the Kearsarge
mid the Kentucky, and there is no cer
tainty that the steel already sent there
for the Illinois will come up to the
specifications.
The present board, being on the spot,
might also be ordered to investigate the
Illinois steel, in which case no further
work will be done on that vessel until
there was n certainty that she would be
constructed of satisfactory material.
Decision in Furor of a Hookmaker.
J effehson'City, Mo., Dec. 15.—The
supreme court has handed down a de
cision reversing the decision of the lower
court in the case of Texas Tom Walsh,
the bookmaker, who was fined SI,OOO
( and sentenced to six months in the SL
I Louis workhouse for accepting SSOO oom-
I mission to be bet on a horse named
I Nicol ini, at New Orleans, one day last
I winter.