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ESTABLISHED 1887.
SPECIAL CHRISTMAS EDITION OF THE TRIBUNE HEXT SUNDAY.
DOLL DAY
AT CAPITOL
Little Business Trans
acted Bj Lawmakers
PRESIDENT'S MOTHER
Both Senate and House Chaplains In
voke Divine Blessing.
REFERENCE TO HIS BEREAVEMENT
Bill For Public Building at. Du
rham. N. C„ Passes
SHIP ISLAND QUARANTINE STATION
Resolution to Have it Removed to Some
Central Point in the-Gnlf-Is Where
Yellow Fever Started.
Washington, Dec. 13.—Chaplain Mil;
burn, in his invocation at the opening
of the senate, made touching reference
to the death of Mrs. McKinley, mothei
of the president. He expressed thanks
for the assurance of immortality and
hoped that this comforting truth might
some home to the president and his
household as they, stand beside the
coffin of the beloved mother who has
laid aside tiie garments of the flesh to'
stand before the Great Ruler of the
universe.
Mr. Davis, chairman of the commit
tee on foreign relations, called up the
bill prohibiting the killing of fur seals
in the North Pacific ocean, but upon ths
suggestion of Mr. Pettigrow, who said
he desired to offer some amendments to
it, the measure went over for a day.
A bill was passed for a pubiic build
ing at Durham, N. C.. to cost $125,000
Mr. Pettigrew called up the bill grant
ing to settlers the right to make second
homestead entries. He made a brief
explanation of the measure. It gave all
persons who were not at the time own
ers of laud acquired under the home
stead law the right to make second
homestead entries. Each person would
be entitled to acquire 160 acres of land.
The bill was passed.
Mr. Walthal of Mississippi intro
duced a resolution di ectiug the com
mittee on public health to investigate
the advisability of removing tl\e quar
antine station from Ship island to some
more remote point in the gulf of
Mexico.
The blind chaplain of the house, Mr.
Couden, in his invocation, referred elo
quently and feelingly to the death oi
the president’s mother.
Mr. Bingham (Rep., Pa.) from the
appropriations committee reported to
the house the legislative, executive and
judicial appropriation bill, which be
gave notice he would call up Tuesday.
By unanimous consent a resolution
was passed to print 2,000 copies of the
testimony of the civil service commis
sion before the appropriation committee
for the use of the house.
Mr. Cannon, chairman of the com
mittee on appropriations, secured unan
imous consent for the passage of an ur
gent deficiency bill, which he explained
carried-but three items, $5,000 for the
construction of a building at the naval
academy, $30,000 for the payment oi
the temporary employes of the house
and senate and $i 75,000 for the pay men!
of the mileage of senators and represen
tatives.
TO SELL NORTHEASTERN.
Charter Bill Adupte.i by the >*on«9—N«.
lioital Quarantine F-Voied.
Atlanta, Dec. 13.—The house passed
the Knowles’ resolution inemoralizing
congress to establish a national quaran
tine system under the United State*
marine hospital seavice.
Mr. Carter’s bill providing for the
sale of the Northeastern railway was
also passed, and by the provisions of
this measure the governor is given un
limited ti. e in which to lino a pur
chaser. .The minimum price is iix-U at
$287,000.
A busy session wus hold. The house
is worsting in earnest now.
President Burner’s bi.i limiting the
fees of receivers to a scale ranging
from 2 to 8 per cent, according to the
amount administered, passed the sen
ate by a vote of 28 to 5.
Senator Fiewellyn’s bill providing
drastic fiieasures to raise tax returns
was under discussion when Senator Kil
patrick asked leave of absence for the
penitentiary committee that they might
complete their work on the convict bill,
which he said they were ,u>vly ready
tonport.
THE ROHE TRIBUNE.
SENATE FIXED BILL
Make Hany Radical Changes in
in Convict Message.
Governor Will Let Three Commis
sioners Pull Straws for 2, 4
and 6 Year Tarins.
Atlanta, Dec. 13.—The senate lets
the convict bill become the law, but
demands concessions from the bouse that
will materially change the appearance of
the bill when it is placed on the statute
books.
The free labor cause is stricken out
altogether. The commission is author
ized to employ convicts where they will
not conflict with free labor.
There are many minor changes, which
will to a large extent make it almost a
ijew bill. The democrats in the house
will support the bill as amended by the
senate.
The governor is given the power to
appoint the commission of three, and will
let them pull straws for the two, four
and six year terms.
WORK IN THE HOUSE.
Damolißh Funding; Act of *Bl Submitted By
Blalock Committee.
Atlanta. Dee. 18.—The house to
night killed that part of the Blalock
committee report which referred to
funding act of ’Bl, by which the uni
versity is enabled to create a perma
nent and every increasing fund from
the state treasury at 7 per cent. .
There was a hot fight over it, but it
lacked seven votes of passing. This
is about the last of the Blalock report
all the other measures having been
killed.
NO COUNCIL MEETING.
Only Five Memb rs Present—Will Meet
Again Next Monday Night
Last night was the regular time for
council meeting, but as there was not
a sufficient number present to constitute
a quorum, no business was transacted.
Mayor King was absent and all of the
councilmen except Hanks, Turner, Mor
ris, Kane and Jones. ’ A goodfleal of in
terest centered in this meeting because a
sexton was to be elected.
Those present decided to meet again
next Monday night, and if a quorum is
present a sexton will be elected.
SCHOOL OUT FRIDAY
Public Schools to Huve Vacation Fr:m
D cember 17th to January 2d.
The public schools will be dismissed
for the holidays on next Friday, Dec.
17th. The seven hundred pupils will
have holiday uutil Monday, January 2nd
—just two weeks.
The youngsters are counting the hours
until Friday afternoon comes. The at
t tndance has kept up remarkably well
this fall, and there has been no friction
in the smooth manner in which every
thing has worked.
A bad rainy day affects the attendance
at .least one hundred. Yesterday the at
s ndance was at least that number below
t le average.
CITY COURT BEGINS.
December Term Opened at the Court
House Yesterday Morning.
The quiet that has rested about the
court house for several weeks was
broken yesterday by the opening of
the December term of city court.
The docket is not crowded, and no
oases of very great importance will be
tried. One of the most interesting
will be Mr. Wyatt’e suit against the
city for $2,000 damages for injuries
caused by Vaccination.
The jury list for the present term is
as follows:
G. R. Ennis, Jas. 8. Berryhill, [Ed
Kanipe, Alex W. Busby, T. R. Ever
ett, Robert 8. McGhee, C. E. Gaine",
Wm. J. Elrod, J. E. Mullen, W. H.
Broach, Lewis Reynolds,® P. Rhine
bardt, A. 8. Agan, 8 I). Everett.
Henry Powers, Lawrence Cooper,
Coleman McKenzie,' W. D. McCul
lough, W. J. Camp, W. R. Reeves, B
F. Reynolds, John Rackett.
The C<»tu>trj*4 " heat Crop.
Washington, Dec. 13. The agri
cultural department has listed the fol
lowing: The special whept investiga
tion instituted by the department of ag
riculture indicates a crop of 530,000.000
bushels. These figures a e subject to
■light modification in the final report.
SOME, GA., TUESDAY. DECEMBER 14, 1897.
THE BEBELS
USE ROPES
Hang Men Sent With
Peace Proposals.
AGAINST AUTONOMY
The Insurg-nts It Seems Will Be Satis,
fiel Only With hHepence
GEN. PANDO IS AFTER GOMFZ
Old Insurgent Chief Made to
Flee to Mountains.
MANUEL ANGULO FOR CABINET
A New York Member of the Cuban Junta
Said to Have Been Offered Fort
Folio in Autonomy Cabinet.
Havana, Dec. 13. —It is officially an
anounced that the Spanish forces under
the command of General Paudo, in the
province of Puerto Principe, have been
pushing insurgent leader General Max
imo Gomez so closely that he was
obliged, with about 209 men of his es
cort, to seek refuge in the woods and
mountains of Las Delicias.
The commissioners sent by General
Pando to different parts of the island,
■ with instructions to negotiate with the
insurgents for their acceptance of the
autonomous form of government pro
posed by Spain, have not returned in a
single case, which seems to confirm the
reports that some of them have been
hanged by the insurgents and others
have elected to remain with the enemy.
It is reported that Juan Delgado, the
insurgent leader, has hanged the two
commissioners who were sent to him
with peace propositions.
A dispatch recently received here
from Madrid says that the autonomy
cabinet for Cuba will not be formed un
til the Reformists and Autonomists
unite in one party, and it is added that
Reformist deputy, Amblard, who is now
at Madrid, will on his arrival in New
York offer to Manuel Rafael Angulo, a
member of the Cuban revolutionary
junta, a portfolio in the new autonomy
cabient, in order to induce him to re
turn to Cuba.
The plans of the insurgents to strike
a blow near the city have been checked,
according to the official account, but
the concentration of their forces is such
as to make it unlikely that the insur
gent band will surrender, as the Span
ish authorities have been hoping.
The business concerns of the city are
much discouraged by the actual situa
tion. They do not now look forward to
a speedy enu of the revolution. All say
they have abandoned the hope that the
insurgents will surrender or accept the
conditions of autonomy.
FEVER EPIDEMIC FEARED.
Spain Quarantines Against All Vessels
From the Creole State.-
Washington, Dec. 13. Secretary
Gage is notified that the Spanish gov
ernment has ordered a quarantine
against ail vessels sailing from .Lou
isiana points.
Reports are daily being received by
Surgeon General Wyman indicating
that the United States may be visited
with an unprecedented epidemic of yel
low fever next year. Experts in the
marine hospital service have been sent
to Hav.-na to investigate the conditions
there and make suggestions as to the
best preventative measures.
A report just received from Consul
Jenkins, at Sun Salvador, says:
••Yellow fever has again decimated
the foreign population at this place.
So virulent is its character that there
are cases where those stricken have
succumbed to the malady in three days.”
Consul De Cuua, at Mazatin, Mex ,
announces the presence of yellow fever
there.
Consul Smythe, at Cartagena, reports
many cases of yellow fever, one Ameri
can having died from it.
There is a strong probability that leg
islation will be enacted this session pro
viding for a national quarantine system.
A biil has already been introduced by
Senator Cafiery of Louisiana which in
dicates that the doctrine of state’s rights
will not prevent southern members
from supporting such a proposition.
New Orleans, Dec. 13. A small
cyclone visited Pointe a la Hache, 45
miles below New Orleans. Seven houses
were capsized, A lugger was wrecked
and one man lost his life.
WARNED FROM GRAVE
Girl Rejects Her' Sweetheart
and He Killed Himself.
In Her Dreams Her Dead Mother’s
Spirit Warned Her Not to
Marry Neely.
Asheville, Ala., Dec. 13.—James
Neely, a prominent young man living
here, committed suicide at his home
near here yesterday. Despondency
caused hie rash act. His sweetheart
had rejected him from the warniig
of her dead mother.
In a dream the young lady was
having her wedding gowns made,
one night recently. She saw the
spirit of her mother in her dreams
and acting on the warning from the
grave she rejected her lover and he
killed himself.
CHINESE BABY.
First Oriental Born In Georgia Arrives In
Atlanta.
Atlanta, Dec. 13.—Mr. and Mrs.
Lum Ling are the parents of a bonne
Ing baby boy.
Thia is the first Chinese baby ever
born in Georgia, so far as known.
Lum went to" China more than a year
ago and brought back a wife with
him.
Labor Federation In Session.
Nashville, Dec. 13.—The American'
Federation of Labor began its seven
teenth annual session in this city with
an attendance of more than 100 dele
gates from different states, and an
equal number of visitors. The Federa
tion met in the hall of the house of rep
resentatives, at the state capitol. Presi
dent Gompers presiding.. After the
meeting had been called to order, Wil
liam Aimison of the local typographical
union delivered an address of welcome
in behalf of the labor organizations of
the city. President Gompers responded
to the address. The report of .the com
mittee on credentials was presented,
after which President Gompers read his
annual address.
Bram Marder Case Decided.
Washington, Deo. 13.—An opinion
has been rendered by Justice White, in
the United States supreme court, in the
case of Thomas Bram, under sentence
of death in Massachusetts for murder
committed at sea. He was accused of
murdering the captain, mate and cap
tain’s wife <>f a vessel bound for South
America. The opinion reversed the de
cision of the court below on the ground
that Bram’s testimony should not have
been admitted as testimony.
Say. LuSrNHit’Wou't Swing.
St. Louis, Deo. 13.—A special to The
Globe-Democrat from San Francisco
■ays: In ‘an interview published here,
Eugene Deuprey, the attorney who is
making such a fight for Theodore Dur
rant, gives warning of sensational de
velopments. He s*ys that Durrant will
not haug in January as is generally ex
pected and declares that he will event
ually go free. The attorney says that
revelations are soon to be made iu the
case that will cause a profound sensa
tion. Deuprey says that they are on
the track of the real murderer and says
that arrests will soon be made.
Greek Murderer Pardoned.
Montgomery, Ala , Dec. 13.—Gover
nor Johnston has pardoned Ohris Coleas,
the Birmingham Greek who killed his
wife last year. On the application the
governor wrote: "The evidence in this
case is that the man on reaching home
found his wife violating her marital
vows; her oompanion escaped, and Oo
leas shot his wife and then attempted
to kill himself. His act was not justi
fiable, but the facts persuade me that
the outrage perpetrated against him
upset his mind. ”
HJff Pay For Riding; a Goat.
Kansas City, Dec. 13.—Lenna Wins
low, who sued the Kuights of Macca
bees for $25,000 for dislocating one of
his kidneys while initiating him into
the local order four years-ugo, has been
awarded SIO,OOO by a jury in Judge
Gate’s division of the circuit court.
German »bip« Lem Hayci.
Berlin, Dec. 13.—The German school
■hips Charlotte and' Stein, which were
engaged in the recent demonstration
against Hayti, have left Port an Prince,
the former going to San Domingo and
the latter sai.ing for Havana
Gary Is Not a Candidate.
Washington, Dec. 18.—Post mas ter
General Gary is out iu an interview an
nouncing his intention to remain iu the
cabinet and not to make a try for the
senate as the successor of Gorman of
Maryland.
To Teach Deaf Children.
Washington, Dec. 13—The housj
committee on education has
favorably the bill to aid iu the estab
lishment of homes in states and territo
ries for teaching articulate speech and
vocal language to deaf children before
they are of school age.
FOUL PLAY
IS FEARED
Old Italian Dies While
in Alabama.
> -
WAS FROM CHICAGO
Cai ri d 150 n to B ar, Ala,
to Work on Railroad.
REMAINS SHIPPED TO HIS HOME
Marks Found Indicating He
Had Been Foully Dealt With
CORONER WILL INVESTIGATE CASE
Palldini Was An Aged and Highly Re
spected Member of the Italian Colony
in Chicago -Details of Story.
Chicago, Dec. 13.—The Italian colony
was thrown into a state of great ex
citement when it was reported that-
Charles Paladini, one of the oldest and
most highly respected residents in that
part of the city, was murdered while on
a business trip in Alabama.
The remains of Paladini arrived in
Chicago over the Burlington road and
when examined later by an undertake!
they were found to be in such a condi
tion that the police were notified and
the coroner will be asked to hold a post
mortem examination. The body had
been shipped from Bear, Ala., where
Paladini went with 150 of his fellow
countrymen for whom he had secured
positions as section hands on a new
railroad.
The body, according to the under
taker, was bloated and terribly discol
ored and bore all evidences that death
was due to drowning. Several marks
on the neck made the undertaker con
clude that Paladini’s death was not due
to natural causes. He thinks the man
was first strangled and then drowned.
The police officials are of the opinion
that a murder has been committed and
the authorities at Bear, Ala., were com
municated with in an effort to learn
more about the case.
SWEETHEARTS SENTENCED,
lowa Girl and Boy Gotothn I’en For Kill.
Ing the Latter’. Father.
Waverly, la., Deo. 13.—Judge Clyde
nas sentenced Delilah Failes, aged 30
years, and Will Kern, aged 17, to 20
and 12 years in the penitentiary.
Young Kern and the Failes girl were
lovers, to which the father of the boy
objected.
The Failes girl planned to murder the
father and persuaded the sou to assist
her. On Aug 23. she wrote a note to
the elder Kern, asking him to meyt her
in the woods about 5 miles from Cedar
Falls. When he arrived at the ap
pointed place, she shot him three times,
and with help of old Kern’s son covered
the body with brush, burning it up.
Young Kern war arrested for the
murder, and a short time ago confessed
his part, declaring the Failes girl com
mitted the deed. She was immediately
arrested, and shortly afterward con
fessed her guilt.
SENSATION IN A CHURCH.
Woman Dramatically Ileolaroa That Dur.
rant’* Life Should Be Sparwd.
San Francisco, Dec. 13 —Mrs. Alice
Hartley, who killed Senator Foley at
Reno several years ago, created a great
deal of excitement in Emanuel Baptist
church. At the conclusion of Rev. J.
George Gibson’s sermon she dramat
ically declared that she had a message
from God to the effect that Durrant’s
life should be saved and it was the duty
of the congregation to save him.
Rev. Gibson, who was Durrant’s pas
tor, refused to see the condemned man’s
mother when she called with a message
from her son asking the preacher to tell
all he knew about the murders in Eman
uel church. ,
A final appeal for a commutation of
the sentence of death will be made to
Governor Budd this week.
Pingree ililuU h I'ard’on.
Jackson, Mich., Dec. 13. Edgar
Rogers, who was sent to the state prison
from Saginaw iu August. 1891, for life,
has been pardoned by Governor Pin
gree. Rogers’ sister will take him to
her home iu Ca.iforuia. He had a fam
ily iu New-York city, but left home
during a drinking spe 1. At Saginaw
he became infatuated with a woman
whom he killed because she refused to
marry him. .. .
I TELLS ALL THE NEWS.
The best evidence that The
Tribune is appreciated by the
' people is the way its subscrip.,
r tion list increases dully.
PBICE FIVE CENTS
PRESIDENT’S MOTHER
Mrs. McKinley Will Be Laid to
Rest Today io Canton.
All the Members of the Cabinet Ex
cept Gage Will Be Present
at the Funeral.
CANTON, 0., Dec. 13—Funeral set*
Ytces over the remains of Mrs. Nancy
Allison McKinley will be held iu the
First Methodist Episcopal church oi
this city at 1 o’clock-Tuesday afternoon.
Interment will follow in West Lawn
lemetery. just west of the city, and
Tuesday evening President McKinley
and wife and officials from Washington
who attend the funeral will leave for
the capital, reaching there about
Wednesday noon.
It was first thought by the family
that the services should be of a private
nature, held at the old homestead. It
was soon learned, however, through the
pastor of Mrs. McKinley’s church, ai»d>
members of the congregation, as well at
from other friends, that the number of
friends who desired to pay their last
tribute of respect to the beloved woman
by atteuding the obsequies could not be
accommodated with such arrangements
and church services were decided upon.
Information is definite here that all
the members of the cabinet, with the
exception of Secretary Gage, will be
present. Vice President Hobart has
just announced that he canuot come.
The officials from Washington will
reach Canton on Tuesday morning.
Telegrams of condolence are pouring in
by the hundreds.
The indications now are that the fu
neral will be the largest ever held in
Canton. Business will be practically
suspended in the city. All the churches
will be represented and the service and
distinguished men will be present,fro.n
ail parts of the country.
Rev. Dr. Manchester, pastor of Mrs.
McKinley’s church, will make a very
brief address in order to permit the pas
tors of other churches time to express
sentiment.
WILL GO TO WASHINGTON.
Officials Want Tlekets Sold <>,iy by Regu
larly Appointed Brokers.
New York, Dao. 13.—About a dozen
merchants, a number of railroad offi
cials and committee* representing the
various associations of ticket brokers in
the city, are to appear before the rail
road commission at Washington Deo. ’
17 at the hearing on the bill to prevent
the sale of tickets by the brokers not
regularly appointed agents of a railroad.
The merchants who are to appear be
fore the commission are members of the
Merchants’, association who were in
strumental in securing the New York
state law. The railroad men, backed
by the Merchants’ association and the
prominent business men of the city, are
determined to have the bill passed if
possible. They have t&ken it to con
gress because the state law has proved
a failure owing to its limited scope and
because there is a question as to its con
stitutionality with the point that it in
terferes with interstate commerce is
caused.
The lawyers for the ticket brokers
have brought up this question already.
The law,applies to New Nork state rail
roads only and not to railroads that
transact business under the laws of
other states. A broker who buys or
sells a ticket issued by any state rail
road can be sent to prison for a term of
not less than one year, though the value
of the ticket might not be more than 10
cents. .. .
For that reason the brokers no longer
handle New York Central nor Lake
Shore tickets. The law, however, can
not touch thein-for buying and selling
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Western
railroad.tickets.
Steamer <V. K. Phillips Burns.
Clarksville, Tenn., Dec. 13.—Ths
steamer W. K. Phillips, formerly of the
Louisville and Memphis trade, but last
week transferred to the Cumberland
river trade, burned to the water’s edge
at Island Bear Dover, 3d miles below
here. The fire was first discove* 3d in
the hold. The loss will probably not
be less than $40,000. The passengers
and crew escaped without injury, but
the passengers lost their belongings.
“•••*> —C
x Terr.b.e J rng.-dy In ‘i'exa*.
San Antonio, Tex., Dec. 13 —A ter
rible tragedy occurred at Fiddletown,
40 miles north of here. Fred Barth,
Sr., a prosperous German farmer, with
out warning, took his shotgun and
placing it at the back of his wife, fired
a full load of shot into her. Then he
attempted to cut his daughter’s throat
with a razor. When help arrived they
found that the old man had eut the
throat of bis wife and had also cut both
of his arms at the wrist. He was bleed
ing to death when neighbors arrived.
Barth was arrested. He is apparently
sane, but will assign no cause for the
deed.
Fine Hotel For St. "— '
St. Louis, Dec. 13. It is announced
that St. Louis will soon have a new ho
tel that will cost $2,000,01)0 and it is said
several Chicagoans and a well known
hotel man of Indianapolis will furnish
the necessary capital. The location se
lected for the new hotelry is at the cor
ner of Olive and Twelfth streets, Where
■an option has been secured on the prop
erty and a company formed. The hotel
is to be the most modern structure of
the kind west Os the Mississippi river.
Construction will probaMy be com
menced next sgaspo.