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SAVED BY A CLOSE SHAVE.
The Tariff Bill Sent Back to Confer
ence by the Senate.
The Vote on the Retention of the Dif
ferential Duty on Sugar a Tie—The
Republicans Had Staked Their AU
On the Fight Over Sugar, and Threw
Up the Hponge After Their Defeat.
The Three Populist Senators Vote
With the Republicans—Hill Paired
With Irby.
Washington, July 27.—The struggle
ended in the Senate to-day and the tariff
bill went back to conference. It was a
close shave, however. The sword of
Damocles was above, hanging by a thread.
Upon the retention of the one-eighth dif
ferential on sugar, which the sugar sena
tors and Senator Smith of New Jersey
insisted upon as the price of their sup
port, and the loss of which, meant the in
evitable defeat of the measure, the vote
was a tie. The absence of Vice Presi
dent Stevenson was almost fatal. By
dint of hard work, the republicans
succeeded in mustering the votes of the
populists. Senator Hill of New York and
his FilesiAchates. Senator Irby of South
Carolina, who ran away from the fight,
leaving Senator Hill to pair him. They
had thirty-two votes in favor of striking
out the differential. The democrats, with
the excepations named, stood manfully to
the caucus agreement and cast thirty
two votes against their opponents. A tie
was the best the opponents of the bill
could ao, and a tie, parliamentarily
speaking, loses, so the differential and
the bill were saved. The republi-
cans who staked t their all
pn the cast of the sugar
die, then threw up the sponge, and
allowed the bill to go to conference with
out further ado. The conferees will get
together, and before the end of next week
the Chances are the bill will be a law.
On the three points at issue the Senate
will win two and the House one. The
sugar duty will be “flat” and the duty on
coal and iron will remain as it is,
with a reciprocity proviso—virtually as
good as free coal and iron.
An absurd rumor is afloat to-night that
President Cleveland will veto the bill.
He will sign anything that comes to him.
If any man wants to win money and can
get a bet on a veto it will be like finding
greenbacks on the street.
DETAILS or THE DAY IN THE SENATE.
By the Southern Associated Press.
Washington, July 27.—There were very
few people in the Senate galleries to-day
and the attendance on the floor was also
slim. Mr. Harris occupied the chair.
The reading of yesterday’s journal was
dispensed with, and the usual routine
business proceeded. Then the confer
ence report on the army appropriation
bill was taken up.
In explaining the appropriations Mr.
Bluckburn, dem., of Kentucky, said the
bill, as it passed the House, appropriated
$23,586,024; and as it passed the Senate
$23,011,1184; and that as agreed to by the
conferees the bill appropriated $23,592,-
384.
The paragraph referring to the Indians
at Mount Vernon barracks, Ala., pro
voked some discussion, but the report as a
whole was finally agreed to.
THE TAIIIFF BILL TAKEN UP.
Then, at 1:15 o’clock, the House mes
sage, asking further conference on the
tariff bill, was laid before the Senate,
the pending question being the point of
order made yesterday against the motion
of Mr. Washburn, rep., of Minnesota, to
instruct the Senate conferees to recede
from the differential duty of one-eighth of
a cent a pound on sugar, the point of
order being that it is not in order to give
instructions in a “full and free confer
ence.”
Messrs. Manderson and Platt argued
against the point of order.
The decision of the presiding officer,
Mr. Harris, was in favor of sustaining
the point of order and excluding the
amendment.
The decision was appealed from by Mr.
Washburn, and the motion to lay the ap
peal on the table was made by Mr. Faulk
ner, dem., of West Virginia.
A TIE VOTE.
The vote was taken amid great excite
ment ana it resulted in a tie—yeas 32,
nays 32. The three populist senators,
Messrs. Allen, Kyle and Peffer, voted
with the republicans: so did Mr. Hill,
the vote of Mr. Irby was paired with
■frfriit of another democrat, Mr. Smith of
New Jersey. The only senator who, not
being paired, did not vote was Mr. Stew
art of Nevada. He was present in the
chamber, but refrained from voting. The
net result was that the motion to lay on
the table, not having a majority, failed-
THE VOTE.
Following is the detailed tie vote:
Yeas—Messrs. Bate, Berry, Blackburn
Blanchard, Brice, Call, Cockrell, Coke
Daniel, Faulkner, George, Gibson, Gorman’
Gray, Hunton, Jones or Arkansas, Lindsay’
McLaurin, Martin, Mills, Mitchell of Wis
consin, Murphy, J'aimer, Pasco, Pugh, Ran
som, Roach, Turpie, Vest, Vilas, Walsh and
White—32.
Nays—Messrs. Aldrich, Allen, Allison, Ca
rey. Chandler, Cullom, Davis, Dixon, Dolph,
Dubois. Frye, Galllnger, Hale, Hansbrough
Hawlev, Higgins, Hill Jones, of Nevada,
Kyle, Lodge, McMillan, Manderson, Mitchell
of Oregon. Patten, Peffer. Perkins, Platt’
Proctor, Shoup. Squire, Teller and Wash
bum— 32.
Pairs were announced between Messrs.
Butler and Cameron. Callery and Power,
Camden and Pettigrew. Gordon and
Wilsou, Harris and Sherman, Jarvis and
Hoar, McPherson and Morrill, Morgan
and Quay. Smith and Irby- both demo
crats ; and Voorhees and Wolcott,
Mr. Stewart was present, but did not
Vote; nor was he paired. This accounts
'for the whole number of senators.
Then came the question whether the
decision of the chair should stand as the
judgment of the Senate; and it was also
decided in the negative, in the same wav
—the vote being identically the same as
in the first instance.
WASHBURN’S MOTION NOT AGREED TO.
The next vote was on agreeing to Mr.
■Washburn's motion; and ft also failed
from the same cause--the lack of a
majority—the vote being for the third
time 32 to 32, but this time the republi
can senators and their allies voted aye
and the democratic senators voted no.
Then Senator Gray's original motion,
to insist and agree to a further confer
ence, was agreed to without division;
and the same seven conferees were ap
jxnnted.
The bill passed was the Senate bill to
oi>en certain parts of the Fort Jupiter
military reservation, in Florida, to entry
under the homestead law—the two
Florida senators stating that they had
reconciled their differences and made
amendments in the bill.
■ Some dozen bills on the calendar were
Ksed, after which, at 3:50 o’clock, the
ate adjourned till Monday.
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De rachauel Wounded in the Cheek.
Paris, July 27.—A duel between Depu
ties Clemenceau and Dersehanei was
fought with swords this morningat 10:30
o’clock in a secluded 3[>ot at Boulogne-
Sur-Seine. Two rounds were fought, in
the second of which M. Clemenceau
Pierced the right cheek of his antagonist.
The wound, though painful, is not con
sidered serious.
DEBS PUTS IN A DENIAL.
A St. Louis Man Asserts That He
Never Expected to Win the Strike.
St. Louis, July 27.—A morning paper
quotes Albert Smith, one of the local
leaders of the late railroad strike, and a
friend of Eugene V. Debs, president of
the National American Railway Union,
as saving: “At the beginning of the re
cent strike President Debs told me that
he did not expect to win the strike. He
had a purpose in having the strike or
dered. He believed that a strike at the
time that the American Railway Union
was called out was the only way by
which the laboring classes could be
brought together. They could do nothing
for themselves as long as they were not
politically organized. The strike, he
thinks, will bring about this organization,
causing the men to break away from the
old political parties.”
Mr. Smith says that President Debs
will be a candidate for some office, prob
ably congress, and that the work of or-,
ganizing political bodies will be begun
soon.
DEBS DENIES THE STORY.
Terre Haute, Ind., July 27, —President
Debs denies the dispatch sent out from
St. Louis in which he is quoted as stating
to Albert Smith, a strike leader, that he
(Debs) from the beginning had no hope of
winning the strike, but that he had a
purpose in having the strike ordered.
“I do not know this man Smith,” he
said, “and never made such a statement
in my life. The whole dispatch is false.
I am seeking no office and will accept
none.”
President Debs will address a meeting
of citizens at the opera house Sunday
nigh t.
OUT A DASH AND FLED.
Clarence Wilmot Formerly of Savan
nah on a Lark in Canada.
Montreal, July 27.—Some weeks ago a
dashing young fellow who gave his name
as Clarence Wilmot, and his natal place
as Savannah, Ga., arrived in Montreal.
He received entree in Montreal society
and soon cut a dashing figure. He spent
money lavishly and gave out that his
mother w’as a millionaire, half a dozen
times ever. '
A few days ago Wilmot announced to
his friends that he intended to marry
Miss Marler of Three Rivers, and he pro
posed to do it in grand style. He char
tered a big steamer and issued over 300
invitations for the trip down the river,
which was to have taken place Saturday
evening. Great preparations were made
forthetrip. Champagne galore was or
dered, and many prominent people were
invited. , .
To-day there was wailing and gnashing
of teeth when it was found that Wilmot
had disappeared, and that the grand
festivities were declared off.
Miss Marler is unknown in Three
Rivers, and now the people who acquired
the acquaintance of the swell southerner
are wondering who and what he is.
FELL FROM A CAR WHILE ASLEEP
The Train Running 40 Miles an Hour
and the Man Unhurt.
Jackson, Miss., July 27.—Last night
three miles below here while dozing in
his chair. Express Messenger Edward
Stevens of Water Valley fell from the car
door. He was not missed until Canton,
25 miles above here, was reached. A
message was sent here that he was mis
sing and must have fallen from his ear.
A handcar was rigged up and several,
gentleman started down the track hunt
ing for him. Three miles below they
found him. lying within two feet
of the track soundly sleeping. He awoke
as soon as they touched him and asked
what was wanted. He says lie has no
recollection of falling and imagined him
self asleep In his bed at New Orleans,
when the rescuing party found him. The
train was running forty miles an hour
when he fell off, and that he was not
killed is a tairacle. Aside from a few
minor bruises he is not'hurt.
A PLOT TO KILL HEUREAUX.
The Ring Leader Killed and the Other
Conspirators Set Free.
New York, July 27.—The steamer
Saganaw, from San .Domingo, bring news
of a plot to assassinate President Heu
reaux of San Domingo by a party of
young men. The conspirators 1 were not
sufficiently cautious about their plans
and the president was fully informed,
of the dangers menacing him before the
arrangements were completed, and he
put the machinery of the law in opera
tion against them, and eleven conspira
tors were arrested and brought before
the courts. The ring leader, a young
man named Broadhill, was condemned to
death and shot, and as President Heu
reaux considered the example sufficient
the other ten were set at liberty. It is
said the plot was betrayed by indiscreet
friends, and that the president had been
posted in regard to it since January.
A SPLIT IN THE A. R. U.
The West Oakland Lodge Declares the
Strike Off.
West Oakland, Cal., July 27.—The
local branch of the American Railway
Union voted last night to declare the
strike off.
A resolution to that effect was passed
after a heated debate, the vote standing
187 for and 146 against. The meeting
lasted until midnight, and was very
stormy in character.
Both sides battled with energy and de
termination. As a result some ill feeling
was aroused.
After the division an exciting scene en
sued. Cheer after cheer broke from the
opposing elements. Chairs and benches
were upset and general confusion pre
vailed.
DIDN’T OWE ENO $450,000.
New York Brokers Exonerated From
a Charge of Fraud.
New York, July 27.—A report of Daniel
G. Rollins, referee, filed to-day in the
supreme court dismisses the action
brought by Broker Arthur Dyett on an
assigned claim of John C. Eno against the
latter’s former brokers, J. M. Seymour,
J. A. Baker and L. A. Seymour for $450,-
tMX). Eno, who had been president of the
Second National Bank of this city, when
he had to fly to Canada because of misap
propriating the bank’s funds, claimed
that his brokers had fradulently with
held $450,000 of his money. Referee
Rollins finds that the brokers were not
guilty of fraud.
McKane Refused a New Trial.
New York, July 27.—Tlie general term
of the supreme court iu Brooklyn this
morning handed down a decision refusing
a new trial to John Y. McKane, who is
undergoing six years sentence in Sing
Sing prison for his share in the Gravesend
j election frauds last November. McKane's
i counsel says he will at once take the case
I to the state court of appeals.
Uncle Sam Loses More Gold.
Washington, July 27.—The treasury
again to-dnv lost a large quantity of gold
• —53,000,0u0, $2,84Mi,000 for European ex
port. anti S2OO,UUO sent from Canada. This
reduces the gold reserve to $55,173.000,
nearly $10,000,090 lower than when the
I bond issue of $50,000,000 was made in
j February last.
THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWQ-TIMES-A-WEEK
BUSINESS A BIT BETTER.
Gold Exports, Strikes and the Tariff
the Only Drawbacks.
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The Outflow of Gold Attributed to
Hostile Legislation Which Has
Caused a Lack of Confidence Among
Foreign Lenders—A Decided Im
provement Reported in the Textile
Industries—The Iron Mills Still
Short of Orders.
New York, July 27. —R. G. Dun & Co.’s
weekly review of trade to-morrow will
say: “The heavy outgo of gold, the fall
of the treasury reserve and the price of
wheat to the lowest point on record, and
the increasing uncertainty about the
tariff have entirely overshadowed other
influences. Business delayed for months
by two great strikes now crowds the rail
roads add swells the returns and gives
the impression of a revival in business,
but it is not yet clear how far there is an
increase of new traffic, distinguished
from that which has been merely block
aded or deferred. In some branches
there has been more activity, but in
others less, because events early this
week led many to infer that no change of
the tariff would be made. The internal
revenue receipts on whisky have sud
denly dropped more than half, and sales
of wool have greatly increased. But the
uncertainty is not removed, and much of
the business done seems to be in the
nature of insurance against possibilities.
THE EXPORTS OF GOLD.
“All the year it has been argued that
gold exports have practically ended, but
the outgo this wCek has been $5,300,000,
making the net outgo for the month
about $10,000,000. Os all explanations
given only one is based on facts. With 1
wheat at the lowest point ever known,
and moving from the farms very freely,
while imports are still restricted by
doubts about future gold duties, could
not go out if there were the ordi
nary confidence in the - future of
enterprises here. But much was doue to
prevent that confidence by legislation hos
tile to lenders in western and southern
states, and many millions have doubtless
been called in by foreigri loan companies
and taken away. Still more has been
done by the strikes, the depression of
manufactures, the loss of railroad earn
ings and Lhe rapid decrease of treasury
balances.
THE TEXTILE INDUSTRIES.
“The textile industries have been per
ceptibly stimulated, according to dealers,
by disagreements which many suppose
may prevent a change of the tariff, and
there has been more buying of cotton
goods, with slightly higher prices for a
few, notwithstanding the closing of some
important mills. The stock of such goods
is, on the whole, quite large.
“In woolens, the goods famine which
clothiers prepared for themselves bv de
ferring orders is such that imperative
necessities now keep most of the mills at
work, and the purchases of wool for im
mediate use are large. But there is no
change for the better as respects orders
running into the future, and indeed some
concerns have withdrawn spring samples
on which low prices had been fixed, and
will make no effort for trade at present.
The sales of wool have been greatly
swelled by speculation, in the belief that
Wool is not likely to decline in any event,
but may advance sharply if tariff changes
fail.
AMONG THE IRON MILLS.
“Vlihile a scarcity of coke delays resump
tion of work in many central and western
iron mills, the light inquiry for finished
products at Chicago and the disappoint
ing demand at Pittsburg raises doubt
whether a material increase can be ex
pected until the tariff question is out of
the way. The demand for sheets is bet
ter at Chicago, and there are numerous
small orders for structural work at Pitts
burg, with a rather better demand for
bars, but nothing like the expected rush.
At Philadelphia the tone improves and
prices are steady, but foundry business is
much depressed and sharp competition
prevents an advance in finished products.
“The failures for the three weeks of
July compare well, of course, with the
panic period last year, commercial liabili
ties being $6,417,696,. of which $3,588,938
were of manufacturing and $2,388,011 of
trading concerns. Commercial loans are
expanding but little, and great caution
still maintains soundness.
“For the week the failures have been
249 in the United States against 386 last
year, and 39 in Canada against 23 last
year.”
NO NET GAIN.
Bradstreet’s to-morrow will say:
“Leading influences affecting the course
of general trade throughout the United
States within the week have not resulted
in a net gain. Prolonged drought and hot
winds have damaged corn and other crops
in Nebraska, and fears are entertained of
like losses in Kansas. Without early
rains the reduction in the yield of Indian
com is expected to be considerable. The
outlook for the yield in the spring wheat
states is regarded as unfavorable, which
re-acts on country merchants and checks
demands.
Several thousand striking miners in
Ohio, Indiana and Alabama refuse to re
turn to work at the rates agreed upon in
conference, and this continues to depress
business throughout the tributary re
gions.
“Iron, steel and other industries are
hampered throughout the Pittsburg dis
trict for lack of coke, which restricts
production in the face of a mildly improv
ing demand, and keeps the price of spot
bessemer pig and billets about $1 higher:
than quotations for future delivery.
“Continued exports of gold from New
York are regarded as an unfavorable in
fluence, and there are more unfavorDle
reports as to mercantile collections. More
serious in its disorganizaing effects on
general business is the continued delay in
tariff legislation, few merchants caring
to try [to provide for prospective wants
in view of the uncertainty.
WHAT THE REPORTS SHOW:
“The other side reveals rejxarts of mod
erate improvement in general trade at a
larger number of southern cities than,
last week; improvement in the outlook
for the Columbus river salmon canning
pack: increased activity in leading lines
in San Francisco, full and regular fruit
shipments east from the Pacific coast,
anti au improved demand for iron
and steel at St. Louis, Pittsburg,
and other centers; practically complete
restoration of the railway freight service
throughout the country; a tendency to
buv very sparingly for fall deliverv at
Philadelphia. Baltimore, New York and
Boston; excellent crop prospects in most
southern states, and increasing orders
among Providence manufacturers of dry
goods, specialties and novelties in jew
elry.
“The spurt in the demand for wool at
Boston and at Philadelphia is attributed
on the one hand to the expectation of the
failure of tariff legislation, and on the
other to demand by speculators, who be
lieved lhe wool prices 'had touched the
lowest possible point.
“Heavier shipments of merchandise
from Baltimore to southern points were
caused by the announcement that freight
rates would advance on Aug. 1.”
• IN THE SOUTH.
‘ From the south Memphis, Nashville,
Charleston, Augusta, Atlanta. Chatta
nooga, Savannah and Galveston report a
slight’ improvement within a week, the
South Carolina and Texas ports adding
more favorable reports as to crops and
the fall outlook. Atlanta manufacturers
are fairly busy, while at Savannah naval
stores are quiet and stocks accumulating.
There is no change at Jacksonville, but
fall prospects are regarded as favorable,
while at Birmingham prolonged labor
disturbances depress trade.' At New Or
leans jobbing is dull, but building trades
are active, furnishing employment to
many who should otherwise be out of
work.”
NEGROES ON THE WARPATH.
» 1.,
Payday Marked by Drunkenness and
Bloodshed in the Coke Region.
Connellsville, Pa., July 27.—Yesterday
was payday at the surrounding coke
works and the imported negro workmen
fairly made things howl. They came to
town in squads of fifty, and after making
a few purchases spent the balance of
their money at the saloons. In New
Haven the colored men practically took
possession of the town.
At Troffer the men fought throughout
the whole night, and the deputies were
kept busy making arrests. This morn
ing six of the negroes are confined there,
handcuffed together.
At the Davidson works a fight occurred
about 4 o'clock this morning. One o*f the
men was badly cut with a razor.
It is reported that a negro woman was
killed, at Vanderbilt in a general fight
late last night, and that the murderers
threw her body into a coke oven to con
ceal their crime. The story is not cred
ited.
Another attempt at dynamiting was
made Dy the strikers early this morning,
near the Trbller works. A bomb was
thrown at the home of John Bailey, a
non-union coke worker, the missile strik
ing a tree in front of the house. It ex
ploded with a deafening, report, shatter
ing the windows and splintering the tree.
Had.the bomb struck the house a number
of liVes would have been lost, as all the
Bailey family w;ere at home and asleep.
There is no clew to the perpetrators.
MUTINY AMONG CONVICTS.
A Deputy Warden and. a Prisoner
Killed at Tracy City.
Nashville, Tenn., July 27.—The convicts
at Tracy City are in a state of mutiny,
and as a result two men are dead and two
others are suffering from slight wounds.
This afternoon the convicts loaded a
pipe with explosives, placed it in a coal
car and attached a slow fuse to it.
Deputy Warden Nelson and his assist
ants were passing along another entry to
bring the ebnvicts out for the night; when
they arrived opposite it the bomb
exploded. Mr. Nelson was in
stantly killed and Guards Tep
rell and Thurman were slightly
wounded. A negro convict named Pete
Hamilton was killed by a volley from the
other guards. There were 115 convicts
in the mines at the time, and all but sev
enty surrendered. These remained in
side, and swear they will not come out.
Mr. Nelson was a member of the last gen
eral assembly from-Maury county.
The state officials . here were .at once
notified and they in turn. telegraphed
Superintendent of Prison Kork to go at
once to Tracy city. Telegrams to-night
saj’ it is hardly necessary to send troops,
as the convicts will probably surrender
before morning. Escape was the object
of the mutineers.
BOWDEN HORSEWHIPPED.
A Conductor Accuses Him of Insult
ing Hig Wife.
Jacksonville, Flag July 27.—J. E. T.
Boldenwho ved the
manager of the Duval Athletic- Club, *
which organization bulled off the Corbett-
Mitchell fight here last January, was
horsewhipped in an inch of his life to-day.
Bowden’s assailant was one Brunson, a
Pullman car conductor, and the cause
was an alleged insult to Mrs. Brunson.
Brunson met Bowden in a saloon;
covered him with a pistol and
then proceeded to wear out
a buggy whip on him. Bowden begged
for mercy, but Brunson was implacable,
find when he finished Bowden was in a
pitiable condition. His face was a mass
of bruised and quivering flesh and his
clothing was cut to shreds. Brunson is a
six-footer and weighs over 200 pounds.
Bowden is about five feet high and weighs
about 95 pounds. It is feared that further
trouble will follow. Bowden denies that
he insulted Mrs. Brunson.
STRIKERS SENTENCED.
Two Santa Fe Men Given Forty Days
in Jail for Contempt.
Chicago, July 27.—Richard Lawrence
and Edward Rhodes, the first of the
strikers to be punished here for lawless
ness growing out of the Pullman boycott,
were sentenced to forty days in jail by
.Judge Grosscup of the United States court
. to-day. The men were Santa Fe strikers at
Chillicothe, 111., and were charged with
contempt of court in interfering with traf
fic of a road in the hands of government
receivers.
CELINA SWEPT BY FIRE.
It Started In Two Barns and Then
Reached the Business Section.
Celina, 0., July 27. —Fire started last
night in two barns and quickly communi
cated to others, and then to the bnsiness
portion of the city. It destroyed Metzner
& Pufer’s machine store, the National
hotel, the postofiice. the Citizens and
Commercial banks, Wyckoff's drug store
and a dozen other business houses, caus
ing a loss estimated atslso,ooo, with about
$30,000 Insurance..
HOPE FOB WELLMAN.
A Norwegian Sealer Reports Having
Spoken the Explorers.
London, July 27. —Carl Sciewers, the
Norwegian Arctic enthusiasts, to night
received a telegram from the Captain of
the Erling, a Norwegian sealer, which
arrived to-day at the Island of Tromsoe,
Finmark. Norway, reporting that he had
spoken the Ragnvald Jarlin latitude 84°
north, with all well on board. The Ragn
vald Jarlin was then free ofjtbe pack ice
and should now be well on its way to the
north pole. No date is given, but this is
definite news of the safety of the Well
man expedition. The party wished to be
reported all well and full of hope.
A Negro Murderer Hanged.
St. Louis, Mo., July 27.—William Henry
i Harrison Duncan, colored, was hanged in
1 the hallway connecting the jail and court
house in Clayton, St. Louis county, this
morning for the murder of Police Officer
James Brady on Oct 6,1890.
Maj. S. L. James Dead.
i Baton Rouge. La.. July 27.—Maj. S. L.
James, lessee of the state penitentiary
and one of the best known men in the
state, died suddenly at bis Angola plan
tation, in West Feliciana parish, to-day,
aged 60 years.
11l health gives
way to
Brown’s Iron
Bitters 1
: MONDAY, JULY 30, 1804.
CHINA’S LOST TROOP SHIPS.
The Japanese Opened Fire tfii the Ves
sels From the Shore.
The Cruisers I hen Steamed Up and
Joined in the Bombardment on the
Transports—The Japanese Residents
of Shanghai in Peril—The Chinese
War Officials Mobilizing Their Army
With Great Rapidity—Corea's King
to Be Held as a Hostage.
Shanghai, July 27.—The statement that
war has been declared between Japan and
China is generally accepted here as cor
rect. The Japanese victory, wherein a
number of Chinese transports were sunk,
was gained Wednesday. The Chinese
loss of life was very great.
The transports were. sunk off ,the
Corean coast and belonged to the fleet of
eleven steamers which sailed from Taku
on Friday, July 20,. with 12,000 troops.
The fleet left Taku under escort qf eight
gunboats. The majority of the transports
proceeded slowly with the gunboats,
while the faster ones steamed at full
speed, so as to land thdir troops as soon as
possible. On the transports which
arrived first at the Corean coast were a
few hundred soldiers from the army of
the north. Most of the ; force, however,
consisted of coolies with inferior firearms
or merely bows and arrows.
THE ATTACK.
The attack upon the steamers from the
Japanese guns is described briefly in a
dispatch received this evening. The
firing was begun by a Japanese battery
on the shore, while the Chinese officers
were trying to debark their men
from the first steamer. The cruisers
then steamed up. and opened.fire on all
the'firansports which were lying to, wait
ing to discharge the men. The Chinese
were unable to-make any effective re
sistance. They were thrown into great
confusion and many jumped overboard,, to
escape the hot fire, under which "the
transports suffered severely.
The Chinese officials here do not con
firm these dispatches. They are exceed
ingly reticent as to every report concern
ing hostilities in Corea. .Thebeginning
of hostilities had caused keen excite
ment among all classes here. Business
is virtually suspended, although many,
smaller firms have made desultory efforts
to sustain their trade.
JAPANESE IN SHANGHAI IN PERIL.
The position of the Japanese: residents
is precarious. For weeks the*more pros
perous Japanese have been leaving the
city, but many of the poorer and middle
class still remain. The Europeans best
acquainted with the city think that the
• Sikh police will be strong enough to pro
tect them from the Chinese fanatics.
The viceroy is confident that the north
ern army is sufficiently strong to cope
with the Japanese force and he does not
intend to employ the southern army ex
cept in ease of extreme necessity. The
mobilization proceeds rapidly and the
preparations to embark large bodies of
troops are making with unexpected
energy. The Chinese government bought
two large steamers yesterday, and nego
tiations for others are in progress.
The Japanese announce, that they will
hold the King of Corea as a hostage until
the internal reforms demanded by them
shall have been satisfactorily guaranteed,
in Seoul excitement is at white heat.
There has been considerable disorder, and
an uprising o| the people may come at
any moment.
WARSHIPS IN BATTLE.
Yokohama, July 27. —Cable communica
tion between Japan and Corea is inter
rupted, but it is rumored here in semi
official circles that a Japanese warship
has fired upon a Chinese, warship at Ha
san upon receiving hostile provocation.
THE NEWS CONFIRMED.
London, July 27.—A special to Lloyds
from Shanghai confirms the Central
News’ dispatches that war has been de
clared between ChinS and Japan.
Telegraphic communication with Corea
is interrupted and the wildest rumors are
in circulation.
Hugh Mathieson & Co., the Chinese
government agents in England, to-day re
ceived a cable, message which also con
firms the announcement that war has
been declared between China and Japan.
Neither the British government nor the
Chinese nor Japanese legation has any
official advices of the declaration of war.
WAR NOT OFFICIALLY DECLARED.
London, July 28, 4 a. m.—Several morn
ing dailies print this morning the follow
ing dispatches from Tien-Tsin: “War has
not been declared officially either in Tokio
or Pekin. It is believed in gov
ernment circles that it will uot
be declared for several , days. If
the exchanges of notes now proceeding
result amicably, the collisions that have
already taken place will be mutually dis
avowed ; otherwise they will be regarded
as casus bello. The transport which was
sunk by the Japanese was the Kow-
Shung, owned by Mathieson & Co. It is
reported that all were lost. The
Mathiesons ha*ve taken over a number of
Chinese coasting vessels. Hereafter
they will sail their, steamers under the
British flag.
“Telegraphic communication between
Japan and Corea has been stopped, there
fore no direct information can beobtained
in Yokohama, where nothing is known of
a declaration of war. The Japanese au
thorities stopped on Sunday the Nagasaki
mail steamer bound for Shanghai.”
AMERICAN MARINES LANDED.
Washington, July 27. —The Corean king
has been taken prisoner by the Japanese,
and marines have been landed from the
Baltimore to protect the American lega
tion at Seoul. This information was con
veyed in an official cablegram dated yes
terday to the Secretary of the Navy from
Capt. Benjamin F. Day, commanding the
flagship Baltimore at Chamulpo.
Up to the close of office hours the state
department was without any formal no
tice of a declaration of war between
China and Japan, and so far as could be
learned the only telegrams bearing on the
situation in Asia was the cable from Capt.
Day, of the Baltimore. Seoul is distant
about twenty-five miles from Chemulpo,
where the Baltimore lies, and as there is
only a narrow footpath and no railroad,
the marines must have marched the
distance.
FRANCE AND THE REDS.
Floquet Becomes 11l In the Midst of a
Speecli In the Senate.
Paris, July 27. —In the senate to-day a
report was read, favoring the adoption of
the anti-anarchist bill, which passed the
chamber of deputies yesterday 'without
alteration.
M. Floquet protested against such ac
tion. saying the action was worse than
needless. There was no danger that
could exceed the results of the introduc
tion of arbitrary action in a free state.
The bill demanded penalties that
would * strike at any citizen. It
was similar, he declared, to
the detested measure, surete generate,
which followed Oram’s attempt to assas
sinate Emperor Napoleon HL A jury, he
said, was the only rightful judge of the
so-called incitement mentioned in the bill.
Here M. Floquet stopped and began turn
ing his notes, apparently having lost the
thread of his discourse. Senators began
crying, “Speak,” “speak.” And then
there was an embarrassing silence.
M. Floquet, who was obviously ill,
turned appealingly to President Chal
lemel, who, seeing that M. Floquet was
to proceed, suspended the sit
ting. After an interval the sitting was
resumed, but, as M. Floquet was still un
able to continue, M. Beaumanoir spoke in
opposition to the bill and M. Dupuy re
plied.
M. Dupuy said the bill was in no sense
anti-republican, but had been defined to
establish a line of demarkation between
republicanism and disorder.
M. Arago argued that the bill would be
powerless to suppress anarchy. All ex
perience should show it, as such a system
of repression was a failure, and that it
violated the principles laid down in 1848.
Tne best remedy for anarchism, he'said,
was a free democratic government.
The whole bill was passed by a vote of
205 to 35.
Tne Senate approved all of the articles
of the bill. Before taking a final vote on
the passage of the bill, M. Verninac
moved to limit the duration of the act.
The motion was rejected by a vote of 198
to 62.
The chamber will be prorogued to-mor
row.
The radical and monarchical newspa
pers, in their comments on the passage of
the anti-anarchist bill by the Chamber of
Deputies, concurred in the opinion that
the biH was designed more with a view of
crushing anarchism than with the pur
pose of abridging the freedom of the
press.
WEENN’S NEW BERTH.
He Will Become General Manager of
the Memphis and Charleston.
Atlanta, Ga., July 27.—1 tis announced
to-day thatß. W. Wrenn, general pass-'
enger agent of the East Tennessee, who
retires from that position on Aug. 1 to
malje way for the management of the
Southern railway, which takes the East
Tennessee on that date, will become gen
eral manager of the Memphis and
Charleston. As general passenger agent
of the East Tennessee, Col. Wrenn was
also officially connected with the Mem
phis and Charleston, but the active man
agement was in other hands. The Mem
phis and Charleston is still in the hands
of Receiver Eink, but will finally
be brought into the Southern sys
tem. Until that time it wil
be under Col. B. W. Wrenn’s manage
ment, The carrying out of the plan of
the Southern will very likely cause a
lively shaking up in both the mechanical
and traffic departments here. Several
important offices will be consolidated and
it is understood that that there will be a
consolidation of shops, each of the three
systems, the Richmond and Danville the
Georgia Pacific and the East Tennessee
Virginia and Georgia having big shops
hepe. The three systems also have
separate ticket offices, which are likely to
be combined on the plea of convenience as
well as economy.
No One Mourns the Loss
Os the treacherous, long-abiding, deceptive
symptoms of kidney Complaint. But the re
turn of regularity is hailed when, with the
aid of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, the wise
disciple«of common sense who uses it per
ceives a return of regularity. Use the Bitters
in malarial, kidney or dyspepsia trouble, dis
order of the bowels, nervousness or debility.
ad.
GEORGIA’S CONSTITUTION.
Three Amendments to Be Voted on in
October.
Atlanta, Ga., July 27.—Gov. Northen
to-day issued his proclamation providing
for the submission of three constitutional
amendments passed by the last legislature
to the people at the October election. .The
first amendment provides for the addi
tion of two more judges to the supremo
court bench. It went before the people
two years ago and was lost, but it is be
lieved that it will be ratified this time.
The second proposition provides for an
amendment of the powers of the state to
appropriate money by giving it the right
to include all confederate veterans on the
pension list those disabled from age or
disease, as well as those suffering from
wounds or other disability incurred in the
service.
The third amendment provides for the
holding of summer sessions of the legis
lature, beginning on the fourth Wednes
day in July instead of the fourth Wednes
day in October, as at present.
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria. .
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria.
JAILED FOR CRIMINAL LIBEL.
I ■■II. • ■ 1 »■
One of the Publish ere of the Financial
News Azrested.
New York, July 27 z—D. C. DeMerritt,
one of the publishers of the Daily Finan
cial News, was arrested this afternoon on
a charge of malicious lE£.>el for printing a
story of an alleged expected receivership
for the Distilling and Cattle Feeding
Company. He was taken to the tombs
police court.
Police J ustice Ryan issued the order of
arrest. Alex Lassen, the other partner,
is said to be in Nova Scotia.
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WAR CLOUDS AT BLUEFIKLDS.
The Nicaragua Force Forced t» Rew
turn American Launches.
Colon, J ply 27. —The following advices
have been received here from Bluefields,
Mosquito Territory, Nicaragua: “The
Nicaraguans under Gov. Cabazas have
been defeated and have retired to Ra
mam, where they collected 400 men and
seized some American launches, intend-'
ing to make a descent on Bluefields. The
launches later' were restored to their
owners upon the demand of the American
consul.
Capt. O’Neil of the United States gun
boat Marblehead has landed 150 United-
States sailors and marines in order to
protect the United States consulate and
American interests generally.
The Mosquito chief is expecting a re
newal of the attack.
The British consul has telegraphed for.
a British' warship.
The inhabitants of Bluefields are leav
ing that place injargc numbers. The wo»
men and children have already left.
The rebellious subjects of Corn Island
were disarmed, but at Port Limon they
have since purchased arms, and at Bocas
they chartered 'a schooner, which took
them to Bluefields. They have been re
enforced there, and intend invading Cora
Island.
A SLICK THIEF.
He Stole a Pistol and Attempted te
Fasten the Crime Upon Tramps.
. Flemington. Ga., July 27.—Flemington
had until yesterday afternoon within its
limits one of the shrewdest thieves that}
has long been its displeasure to hold.
His name is Med Hayward, late of Savan
nah, now of Liberty county jail. Hay
ward, who is in the employ of J. A.
Stewart, was left at the house yesterday
morning to cut wood, while Mrs. Stewart
closed the house and’ went to pay a
neighbor a visit. In ,a short time Hay
ward came running lo the house
of the neighbor, apparently exalted,
exclaiming at the same time that two
white men, fagged and barefooted, had
broken into the nouse and had stolen a
pistol, and on seeing him had run off, but
not until he had shot twice at them with,
a Winchester ritie w hich he hgd secured
in the house after the abrupt departure
of the white men. Mrs. Stewart im
mediately notified Sheriff Smith,
who was soon on the ground,
A little discrepancy in one story
of young Hayward caused that
astute officer to fasten the crime on him.
The sheriff charged Hayward with the
theft, who in a short time confessed it
and got the pistol from where he nad bur
ied it at the foot of a grapevine, some
two hundred feet from the house. Hay
ward was lodged in jail last evening.
Scrofula— a more common evil than
people are aware—is cured by Ayer’s
Sarsaparilla.—ad.
TAXPAYERS ALARMED.
A Meeting of Those in Four Counties
of the Levee District to Be Held.
Greenville, Miss., July 27.—The short
age of Gen. W. S. Ferguson, ex-secretary
and treasurer of the Mississippi levee
board, the insolvency of his bondsmen,
his absence with no apparent effort to
secure his return, the heavy taxes im
posed for levee purposes and the large
indebtedness of the board, has prompted
the taxpayers to call a convention to bo
held in Greenville Aug. 15. Delegates
from every precinct in the four counties
comprising the Mississippi levee district
are invited to attend.
Whiskers that are prematurely gray or
faded should be colored to prevent the
look of age, and Buckingham's Dye ex
cels all others in coloring brown or black,
—ad.
ARTHUR AVERTS A STRIKE.
The Atlantic and Danville Engineer®
to Stick to Their Posts.
Norfolk, Va., July 27.-Chief Arthur
of the Brotherhpod of Locomotive En
gineers arrived here to day to adjust the
differences between the Atlantic and
Danville railroad and its employes,
brought about by the issuance of a circu
lar a few days ago announcing a general
reauction in wages on Aug. 1. Chief
Arthur held a conference w ith the man
ager of the road and to-night announced
that no strike would take place.
Not what we say, but
what Hood’s Sarsaparilla Does, that
tells the story of its merit and success
Remember HOOD’S CURES.
A BAD MAN.
He Bit Off the Upper Lip of Hia Better
Half.
Dorchester, Ga., July 27.—Justice Dele
ral committed John Washington Mclver,
colored, to jail yesterday on a charge of
asiiaulton Mclver’s wife. Mclver and
his wife had a falling out and got into a
roU?hand tumble fight, in which the
wcut-an had almost her entire upper lip
bitten off and a large piece from her
shoulder by the irate husband,
who then run off for a
gun a distance of three
miles and <m returning was
prevon'.ted from killing the woman by the
timely ’ interference of some neighbors
who happened on the scene. It 13 stated
that Mclver killed a man in one of the
near-by counties, and that a reward .is
offered foi" him by the governor. He has
the reputation of being a desperate man
and bad c&Jzen all over the county.
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