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MILLER COVERS MOST MILES.
GOTHAM’S SIX-DAY BICYCLE RACE
CLOSED. .
IThe Winner Biden 2,003.4 Mile* in
the 142 Hours—Rice Second, With
2.O2<SJ» Mile*—Schinner Third,
With 2,000.7, and Hale Fourth,
With I,o2o.2—Waller in ’Fifth
Place—Hale’s Record of Lust Year
Beaten 188 Mlles—The Prlr.es and
Cate Receipts.
New York, Dec. 11.—One of the greatest
crowds that ever filled Madison Square
Garden were collected within Its walls to
night. It had surged into the vast rink to
eee C. W. Miller of Chicago cross the tape
winner of the great six-day bicycle race.
From start to finish the race has been
the most interesting ever witnessed.
Thousands upon thousands poured into
the place day after day and night after
night, until it is safe to say 100,000 people
have seen the remarkable contest.
The race has been a success from every
point of view, from the sportsman stand
point and from the business man’s stand
point. The gate receipts will easily reach
$60,000, leaving the management a good
profit.
The crowd that gathered early to-night
was disappointed in finding the first five
leaders off the track. They were saving
themselves for the final spurt, but the
»I>ectators saw something wonderful. Os
car Julius, the plucky little Swede, who
has made such a splendid showing dispite
his poor training, rode an unpaced mile
exhibiton just to see how he felt. He did
It In 2:25 4-5. Julius is the most talked of
man in the ring. With trainers that did
not know their business, without being in
any sort of condiloin, he accomplished
1,500 miles.
Kinze is another surprise. He was
tending bar in a Raines law hotel on Sun
day last and at midnight he was on the
track read to start in the race. Over 1,600
miles go to his credit.
The final score for the 142 hours follows:
Miller 2,093.4
Rice 2,(fe6.5
Schinner 2,000.7
Hale 1,920.7
Waller 1,383.1
Pierce 1,828.0
Golden 1,778.0
Gannon 1,760.0
Enterman 1,753.7
Eikes 1,660.7
Kinze 1,616.8
Julius 1,503.5
Beacom 1,350.8
• Johnson 1,279.1
Gray 1,220.0
Rivlerre 1,776.7
Moore 1,495.4
Best previous record, 1,910 miles, 8 laps,
by Hale, in 1896.
As a reward for their work of pain and
torture in covering hundreds of miles
awheel, Miller will get $1,500 aside from
presents from wheel and tire concerns; sl,-
300 of this Is the winner’s share of the
purse and S2OO more goes for breaking the
record.
Joe Rice's share of the purse will be SBOO,
and Schinner will get $500; Teddy Hale will
receive, $350, and Waller SSO less. Pierces
gets $200; Golden, $150; Gannon, $125; Enter
man and Rivlerre. $100; end Mikes, $75.
Al) the riders who covered more than 1,-
350 miles will receive a prize, probably SSO
apiece.
The great endurance of the men is in
dicated by the folowing table, showing
how long they have slept since the begin
ning of the race;
4 OJfTrack
Name. n Hours. HWur...
Milter 10 4
Rice 12 7
Schinner 12 7
Hal® 28 6
Waller 16 5
Golden 27 15
Peirce 17 12
Gannon 10
Knterinan 27 20
Hikes 48 33
Kinzo 22 20
Julius 25 15
Just fifteen men out of the thirty-six
that started lasted till the finish. No won
der! It was a heart-breaking, killing pace.
Not one to-day could change his place
on that black score board that has star
ed the poor fellows in the face for six
long weary days. A few rode fast to beat
out Rivlerre and Moore, who had places
on the board, though they were out of the
race. Some did it; others failed.
All day long the crowd (mured in. At
6 o’clock there wan not a seat left in the
big Madison Square Garden.
Hut with dusk things began to look se
rious in the neighborhood of the garden.
Suddenly Inspector Brooks put In an ap
pearance at the head of a cordon of 250
police. The garden was completely gir
dled by bluecoats and they stretched
across .Madison avenue in an unbroken
line.
They came, the crowd, fighting for a
place. The arena was packed with hu
manity. not a seat was to be had. Rlue
conte blossomed out everywhere. They
syrroumbxl (he truck; they acted as ush
ers In every aisle.
It was a splendid sight—for all but the
poor rl<h>rs who have struggled for a week
for fame and dollars. And round and
round they doggedly pedalled while the
crowd tried to ut‘ge the men.
Slowly the clock crawled around Wear- 1
tly poor Miller lead the van. Behind him
tolled Rice and Schinner, riding desperate- !
ly at ten miles an hour, when earlier In
the week twenty miles an hour had been
easier.
P** rftCP ’ Four «««». 1
Miller. Rice, Schinner and Hale had beat
en Hale's record of 1.910 miles Hale
equalled his own record at $:57. Ko .
a floral horseshoe in honor of It.
The melancholy spectacle which had
been going on throughout the entire day
was brightened up to a great degree to
of the multitude
amt by the fresh and gay colors with
which the weary riders had adorned them
selves. Toward the end the band struck
up lively sirs, and the leaders who had
retired for a last rubdown, returned to the
oval. and. mounting their wheel* for the
laat time, startl'd off with a renewed en
ergy. which brought forth a tumult or
•Pl4««ae.
Although it rouM hardly be termed a
race, yet there was much excitement fur
nished by the remarkable sprinting of the
lung distance men. Notwithstanding the
terrific strain, under which they h id been
iHhlnling for almost six days, they showed
wonderful s(wd. and even daring skill in
«'*•»« so swiftly round the corners. When
announcers pistol indicated that lh< last
lap of the rmv was at hand the vast au
dience rose to its feet and cheered like
mad. Around Hie track the men shot.
Miller Mil) In the lead, with Schinner.
Rice and Hale and Waller following and
th<- other In u bunch.
Anna Held, who haul been waiting In a
box opposite the official stand, stepped out
on the track and bestowed a gorgeous
wrath of violets and roses on the victor.
Miller tben remounted hi# wheel ami hold
ing the wreath aloft dashed around the
track twice.
W hen he dismounted he graaiied the
ban 1 extended bv Hale, whom be had
•horn of his glory, and made a little
speech. Hale escorted Miller around the
track, and as the new nisi old champions
■>ov*d along the crowd shrieked itae.’f
hOATMK
There were eries for Rke. ami the sturdy
miner, accompanied by his trainer, follow
ed the others.
To show his marvelous staving powers,
Hiller again got astride tua wheel and fob
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lowing a pace machine, rode two miles in
a little over 5 minutes, and then showed
few signs of the fatigue he must have
suffered.
Then the others filed around the track
and were finally gathered together and
bundled off to their various hotels to
sleep.
The Fourth avenue end of Madison
Square Garden was surrounded by an im
mense mob to-n|ght after the bicycle race,
curious to catch a glimpse of the riders.
As soon as the riders could be gotten
into the street, clothed and well bundled
up, they were hustled Into carriages and
driven to hotels.
So dense was the crowd that the aid of
the police had to be called in order to get
the half fainting riders from the entrance
to the curb.
Schinner, Golden, Elkes, Rice, Pierce,
Enterman and Kinze were hustled across
the street to the Putnam house. No time
was lost in getting the men up to the
rooms reserved for them and as soon as
possible they were tucked into bed. In
less time than it takes to tell it, most of
the men were in the land of dreams.
Teddy Hate and Miller were driven to the
Hotii Bairtholdi, where they will put in the
greater part of the next thirty-six hours
in sleep. Waller, Gannon, Julius, Bea
com and Johnson, were taken to their
homes to dream of the terrible strain
throiight> which they have passed during
the last week.
With the exception of Rice, Enterman,
Miller and Schinner, none of the men
seemed to have suffered any mental effect
from their long ride. All of the men
named had to be given narcotics to quiet
them. the riders were In as
good condition as could be expected.
When the last day of the race opened,
Miller appeared a sure winner. Try as they
might, Miller’s pursuers were unable to
cut down his lead. Now when the finish
was almost in sight they could only hope
that chance would accomplish for them
what energy and endurance had failed to
achieve.
A hard struggle was in progress all
night and in the early morning for the sec
ond place. Rice, the Wilkesbarre boy, des
pite the fact that he has been in great
pain and by no means himself the last
twenty-four hours, rode on, with Schin
ner pursuing him like a shadow. Between
4 and 5 o’clock this morning, Rice and
Schinner collided. Both fell from their
wheels, but neither was seriously hurt.
About an hour later, the two men stopped
once more and it locked as if neither of
them could continue. The trainers and the
crowd rushed toward the place
where the two* men lay. The train
ers had to fight their way through to get
to their men. They placed the riders on
, the and again them on
their Way. A lew minutes later Ric® slid
off his Wheel sind rolled down the incline,
crashing into Enterman's wheel. Enter
man was thrown headlong. Rice’s wheel ’
wftß bent and broken, but another whs
quickly procured and the Wilkesbarre boy,
with an idiotic stare in his drawn face,
wabbled around the track once more.
After Schinner and Rice had one more
fall they were drugged from the track
and given a short rest.
Hale, who has been gradually gaining
upon Schinner, was in good shape. The
winner of last year's contest showed few
signs of the strain which he had under
gone. It was confidently prophesied that
he would finish fourth or better.
Among the tail enders. Elkes looked as
if he had a good chance to improve his
position, while Pierce and Gannon were
badly used up.
About 3,000 persons stayed all through
last night at the Garden and watched the
fifteen men in their remarkable exhibition
of human endurance.
The police surgeons made another de
scent upon the Garden Just before 5
o’clock this afternoon, and two of the
riders were ordered from the track. AH
the competitors were made to submit to
examinations, but all except Golden and
Gannon were pronounced able to go on.
These two men were almost tied for sev
enth place, and neither would quit the
track uriless the other did. The surgeons
appealed to the trainers to take the two
men off, but they declined. The surgeons
then took matters in their own hands,
and the men were dragged from the track
to remain off the track for half an hour
each.
From 4 to 5 o’clock Schinner, In third
P’nce, made a desperate effort to catch
Rioe. He knew there was no chance in
the world to land first money, and he de
termined to cut down the twenty-five miles
between him and second place. Rice, how
ever. cheered by the Wilkesbarre contin
gent, as well as by some thousands of his
friends, was not to be so easily disposed
of. Round and round, faster and faster,
the two men tore at a terrific pace for
moat an hour, but neither gained the
advantage of an inch. The race was a
pretty one and worked the great crowd up
to enthusiasm.
When it was plain that neither could
gain an advantage over the other, Rice
slowed up and Schinner quickly followed
his example.
Inspector Brooks informed both Rice and
Schinner that they must not make anv
more attempts at sprinting, "if they con
tinue to sprint mde after mile," said the
inspector, -one or both of them are likel •
to kill themselves. If they do more sprint
ing 1 shall muke arrests."
The score at 7:13 o'clock to-night-
™ ll ’ r "...2.091.4
Rtce ~4 2.09 K s
Schinner
?y n<r
Golden
Ontinoo 9 « a , # a I "*34
Enterman
Julius j fr>
llle*cotn I I le * cotn ..7uio
Gray • ...‘. "..’.’.a.w
The best previous record for 139 hours
was 1.879 miles, made by Hale last year.
Chicago. Dec. U.—Enthusiasm was at a
high pitch in the home of the Thistle
Cycling Club to-night. Hourly telegrams
were being received from New York -.n
nouncing the progress made by Miller,
who is a member of that organisation
There is a pretty romance in Miller's ride
He has plugged away like an automaton
all the week with but one object In view.
A matden is the cause of Miller's rare ex
hibition of pluck and speed. She lives In
tlie vicinty of Ogden avenue and Twelfth
street. She has promised her heart and
hand to the doughty Teuton. That heart
and hand he will claim when he returns
to thia city.
THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK) MONDAY, DECEMBER 13.1897.
GERMAN JINGOISM GROWING.
RUSSIA MAY CLIP THE KAISER’S
WINGS IN CHINA.
The Cznr Said to Be Making Secret
Preparations to Prevent Perma
nent Occupation of Kiao Chou Bay.
The Madcap Kaiser Represented
as Favoring « Joint Naval War
Against the United States—Baron
Won Bulow Responsible for Ger
many’s Vigorous Foreign Policy.
Special Berlin Cable, Copyrighted, 1897, by
the Associated Press.
Berlin, Dec. 11.—Throughout the week
a peculiar condition of affairs has pre
vailed, so far as the press is concerned.
“The Chinese adventure,” as the social
ist, Herr Schoenlank, termed the seizure
of the Kiao Chou bay, has engrossed pub
lic interest, yet the government has not
deigned the least explanation as to what
has been done, or as to what is intended
in the future. What sparse Information
the foreign office has furnished proved to
be misleading or stale.
This was especially the case with the
Haytian incident. The very day the Ger
man schoolships at Port au Prince secured
obedience to the ultimatum the govern
ment, through its various organs, pro
claimed that a naval demonstration was
not likely, and that in any case, a decision
could not be reached for several weeks.
In regard to China, although the English
press has been steadily furnishing details,
the government here claimed not to have
any advices from Pekin as to the real
condition of affairs.
As the German minister to China, Baron
von Heyking, had full power to deal with
the Chinese government as he thought
best, this was a strange condition of af
fairs. However, it is nearing its end, as
Baron von Bulow, the minister for foreign
affairs, will shortly make a statement in
the Reichstag.
The various attempts of the opposition
members of the Reichstag to draw nut the
government’s course during the week were
unheeded. The correspondent here of the
Associated Press, however, has ascertain
ed from reliable sources several import
ant facts. First, since Baron von Bulow*
has taken ttye foreign office the emperor
has not been permitted to meddle with the
direction of affairs. Hls-majesty was only
Informed of each important step after it
was taken. In other words, the emperor
has “approved,” not “directed.” That the
emperor was not to interfere in foreign
politics was made a sinqua non by Baron
von Bulow before accepting office. His
majesty, however, Is reaping the benefits
of Baron von Bulow’s vigorous policy, for
throughout the week, whenever
the emperor drove through the
street of Berlin, he was
enthusiastically cheered by the populace,
who are heart and soul in accord with
the plans of the minister for foreign af
fairs.
For instance, while driving through Un
ter-den-Linden on Wednesday the empe
ror was hailed by a crowd with “Bravo,
your majesty. Pitch into the Chinese.”
The emperor responded by smilingly bow
ing.
The second important news Is the cer
tainty that Russia will not tolerate a per
manent occupation of Kiao-Chou bay by
Germany. The military attache of a big
power assures the correspondent of the
Associated Press that secret information
has reached here from St. Petersburg set
that poiigL He says Russia is aiow.
making preparations to that effect.
Information has reached the United
embassy to the same effect. It is
understood, however, that Washington
will interpose no obstacle to Germany’s
opening China to civilization.
Baron von Bulow's first appearance in
the Reichstag, where five new cabinet min
isters maxle their debuts this week, met
with an' appreciative reception. Even the
opposition press greets him with sympa
thy.
The quick settlement of the Haytian
trouble was received with satisfaction by
the entire press and the nation. The jingo
and agrarian papers, however, again take
occasion to preach the necessity of a set
tlement with the United States.
The Deutsche Zeitung, the main organ
of the German extension policy, says, af
ter a tirade of abuse of the United States
for intermeddling in Hayti, that It hopes
Baron von Bulow “will draw appropriate
conclusions for his future policy in regard
to America, whose interfering insolence
needs taking down.” In this connection the
remarks Emperor William is alleged to
have made in conversation some time ago
to the effect that “this American meddle
some policy must cease or we will be
obliged to teach them manners,” and in
which he pointedly referred to the neces
sity for a joint naval war against the
United States are freely circulating in di
plomatic and political circles in Berlin.
There has been quite a change in the
Reichstag's views on the nava) bill, and it
is now thought, if the government takes
pains to conciliate the center with a prom
ise of its influence to bring about the re
peal of the Jesuit expulsion act, or a prom
ise to favor the Catholic school preten
sions, the measure may pass, although it
is said the septennate provision will have
to be mollified which, it is believed, the
government is unwilling to do.
The German cruiser Geier, which sailed
from Kiel on Thursday last, will be per
manently stationed In the West Indies <o
protect German interests in that part of
the world.
The visit of Prince Henry of Prussia to
Prinee Bismarck on Wednesday last at
Friedrichsruhe was sympathetically re
ceived. His request to touch with his lips
the forehead his grandfather so often kiss
ed is finding widespread approval.
The Berlin butchers and meat dealers
have passed a resolution requesting the
government to reopen the frontiers to ’neat
imports and to severely restrict the traffic
in American meat. They say 28,000,000
marks’ worth was imported in 1896 at
prices which they cannot compete with.
The government has just completed a re
port on the trlchinous American meat
seised during the six months from January
to July. Excerpts of the report furnished
to the United States ambassador here, An
drew D. Whitt- show an enormous In-
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notably at Stetting, Cologne, Breslau, Es
sen, Aix-la-Chapelle, Dusseldorf, Boichum
and Bremen. However, while a certain
percentage of cases are reajly of Ameri
can origin, the fact Is paloable that the
whole report is bungled aria many of the
cases reported are not proved to be of
American origin. At Mr. White’s formal
request he was furnished with the regis
try number of the original packages and
other marks of identification, in order to
enable him to acquaint the officials at
Washington with the facts in the case,
and secure the punishment of neglligent
meat inspectors in the United States. A
fact which has been Very generally neg
lected is that trichonisis is prevalent in a
number of districts in Germany at pres
ent. \
CONFLICT IN THE CAIMAN.
The Insurgents Routed in Two En
gagements.
Havana, Dec. 11.—Gen. Parrado, accom
panied by ex-Minister Canalejas,after leav
ing Batabano in a gunboat, conducted the
combined operations of four columns of
Spanish troops over the Caiman or south
coast of the province of Havana. Gen.
Marrotos in command of a column of
troops, has been engaged with a band of
insurgents, and the official report says he
defeated them with a loss of several men,
and destroyed their camp.
Col. Perol, the report?;continues, in com
mand of another Spanish column, has cap
tured near Caiman an intrenched camp
which was defended by two hundred insur
gents. The Otumba battalion, it appears,
drove the insurgents from three lines of
trenches and dispersed them. The troops
engaged lost Lieut. Col. Martinez Moren
din and five soldiers killed, and one officer
and 17 soldiers wounded.
According to an official report, a body of
Spanish troops while in ambush at Loma
pan, killed the bandit, Regino Alfonso,
who at the time of his death, was serving
as a lieutenant-colonel in the insurgent
army. The body of the dead bandit was
identified and then taken to Matanzas
City, where it was exposed to public view.
RIGHT OF INTERVENTION DENIED.
Impartial of Madrid Out in a Strong
Editorial.
Madrid, Dec. 11.—The Imparcial pub
lishes a strong article to-day, in which
it declares Spain will not accept the right
of President McKinley to intervene in
Cuba in case the war is prolonged, an<s
demands that the government adopt the
same energetic attitude towards the Unit
ed States as Germany adopted toward
Hayti, because President McKinley’s mes
sage was equivalent to questioning the
right of Spain’s sovereignty in Cuba.
Continuing, the Imparcial insists that
Spain must prepare for all eventualties
and augment .her navy, “by organizing
a subscription, in which the whole nation,
from the queen to the most humble sub
ject, should participate.”
ERICKSON AND MISS CHEW TO WED
They Meet nt Macon and Are to Be
Mnrried in January,
Macon, Ga., Dec. 11.—C. E. Erickson and
Miss Chew met to-day for the first time
in several months in the presence of C. C.
Chew, brother of the young lady. After
explanations had been made it was agreed
that the marriage should take place in
January.
In an interview with the lady, she said
to the Morning News correspondent: “Yes,
everything is. settled, and we will be mar
ried. I never doubted him in the least,
xcU . jstire
right. Yes; Ido love filti ;tmli fitdieve
all this horrible affair is the outcome of
spite ” Miss Chew and her brother left
this afternoon for their northern home,
and Erickson went to Albany to-night.
ZANOLI STILL HELD.
He la Willing Hia Last Wife’s Body
Should Be Exhumed.
New York. Dec. 11.—Charles Zanoli, the
barber who has collected insurance upon
tho lives of four wives, a mother-in-law,
a daughter and an employe, and who has
pleaded guilty of defrauding an insurance
company, was again arraigned in the court
to-day and'remanded for further examina
tion. Zanoli’s counsel state that the po
lice should have every opportunity to as
sure themselves that the deaths were from
natural causes. He expressed himself per
fectly willing that the body of Jennie Suh
mer, his fourth and last wife, should be
exhumed and examined for traces of pois
on. The body is interred at Astor, L. I.
EXECUTION BY SHOOTING.
Mexican Policemen Kill Two Con
victed Mnrderem.
Matamoras. Mex., Dec. 11.—At 11 a. m.
to-day Pataleon and Victoriano Guillen
were shot in the jail yard for the murder
of Dr. Manuel Carpio. Five policemen,
commanded by Sergt. Hernandez, were
the firing party.
Pataleon was shot first, then Victoriano.
Neither were killed by the first discharge,
the grapeshot in the temple causing death.
BANK PRESIDENT CONVICTED.
Must Pay a Fine and Go to Prison for
a Year.
Rockville, Tenn., Dec. 11.—The jury in
the case of Charles T. Pritchard this
morning returned a verdict of guilty.
Pritchard operated a private bank at Mon
tezuma, and accepted a deposit of $75
after the bank was known to be insolvent.
The penalty imposed calls for $l5O fine,
double the amount of the deposit, and im
prisonment for one year.
»,♦:»■
GAINESVILLE’S POSTMASTERSHIP.
Gen. Longntreet Backing Col. Far
row for the Appointment.
Washington, Dec. 11.—Col. Farrow is
here seeking appointment as postmaster at
the Gainesville office. He is backed by
Gen. Longstreet, who celled %t the post
office department to-day with Col. Far
row. and urged his appointment. The
term of the incumbent expires on Dec.
21. and it is believed that an appointment
wiU be made soon after the President re
turns to Washington.
KIAO CHOI TO BE RETAINED.
The Story That Germany In to Evac
uate Denied.
Berlin. Dec. 11. —It was semi-officially
announced to-day that the report that Ger
many would evacuate Kiao Chou bay for
a coaling station in the Sam-Sah inlet
was unfounded.
Pekin, Dec. 11.—The German-Chinese
difficulty is practically settled. The Ger
mans refuse to discuss the occupation of
Kiao-Chou bay; the governor of Shan-
Tung province has "be*n removed from of
fice, but will not be any further degraded;
no monopoly of mines and railroads is con
ceded to Germany, but that country is giv
en preference. Finally the area imme
diately surrounding Kiao-Chou bay is set
apart exclusively for Germany. China
yields on all other points.
ENGLAND AND HER ENEMIES.
• »
FOUR CABINET COUNCILS IN A
WEEK CAUSE COMMENT.
French Aggressiveness In Africa and
Germnnyln Land Grab in China
Giving the Ministry Something to
Think About—The Campaign in In
dia Adding No New Lustre 1 to Eng
lish Glory—Many Honors Paid
Peary by Londoners.
Special London Cable Letter, Copyrighted,
1897, by the Associated Press.
London, Dec. 11.—Four cabinet councils
in a week are calculated to arouse com
ment; but it must be admitted that the
Marquis of Salisbury and his colleagues
have a multiplicity of matters more or less
urgently calling for settlement. With
France trying to filch slices of African ter
ritory which Great Britain is in the habit
of calling her own, and Germany loosen
ing the “cinch” Albion has always claim
ed to have in China, while Great Britain
herself is trying to grab a little more coun
try at various other points, and with the
preparation of the legislative programme,
the ministry has no lack of worries.
The announcement which the St. James
Gazette made on Wednesday last “author
itatively” that the British government
does not expect any further trouble with
France regarding the upper Nile regions,
France agreeing to accept the situation, is
unconfirmed and probably unfounded, as
there is no lack of evidence that France is
deliberately pursuing the task of securing
the upper waters of the Nile, above Khar
toum, thus cutting the British line of
communication between Cape Town and
Suez, and the powerful colonial party in
France threatened to upset the Meline cab
inet should it recede from this enterprise.
All the forces of Gen. Sir William Lock
hart, the British commander on the In
dian frontier, have been withdrawn to the
Para valley for the winter. Thus the larg
est and best equipped force ever assem
bled in India has failed, and the whole
work will have to be repeated in the
spring. About 1,460 officers and men killed
and wounded, 35,000,000 Os rupees spent
in loss and British prestige weakened on
the frontier, are the debits against which
a few mud huts and Sangars blown up
and, probably, several thousand natives
killed, are the only apparent credits.
Rumors, too precise to be guess work,
are current to the effect that the Earl
of Elgin early next year will retire from
the viceroyalty of India and be succeeded
by Lord George Hamilton, whose Indian
secretaryship will be filled by Lord
Lansdowne, the present secretary of state
for war. This would be a good party
move, as it would enable the Marquis of
Salisbury to place at the head of the war
a skilled man of business, who
would satisfy the tax-payer, as
well as the army, and ma
terially smooth the path for the intended
proposals for military reform. It is inti
mated that Joseph Chamberlain may be
transferred from the colonial to the war
office, his place being given as a sop to
the Marquis of Londonderry, whose “kick
ing” qualities are not appreciated by the
ministry.
Lieut. R. E. Peary, the American ex
plorer, has taken the town by storm,
though he arrived here unheralded. The
newspapers, geographers, and scientists
are at his disposal. As a leading geogra
pher said to a representative of the Asso
ciated Press: “Lieut. Peary has won all
our hearts by his modesty, courtesy and
learning. We put him on the same plane
as Dr. Nansen and have the utmost con
fidence in his plans.”
On Tuesday, Lieut, and Mrs. Peary dined
with the and on Wednesday,-
the United States ambassador, Col. and
Mrs. Hay, gave a dinner in their honor.
The lieutena'nt lectured at New Castle
on Thursday and on Friday he lectured
at Edinburgh. There he met art enthusias
tic reception from the Royal Scottish Geo
graphical society and was presented with
its medal.
Sir Clement Markham, president of the
Royal Geographical society, will give a
banquet in Lieut. Peary's honor on Dec.
14.
On Friday afternoon, Col. Hay had a
long conference with the Marquis of Sal
isbury at the foreign office on the subject
of the Bering Sea. The conference was
amicable on both sides? but nothing defi
nite was arrived at.
Later in the afternoon, Col. and Mrs.
Hay proceeded to Windsor, where they re
ceived special marks of attention. The
United States ambassador and his wife
dined at the queen’s table, Col. Hay sitting
next to her majesty. She was kind and
cordial, the conversation lasting an hour.
At the Christmas dinner of the New
Vagabonds Club on Friday Rear Admiral
Lord Charles Beresford was the guest of
the evening and he created a serisation by
his plain speaking on social questions.
“Money,” he declared, “is now everything
among us. Any vulgarian, of whatever
nationality, whether he has gained money
honorably or disgracefully, could buy his
way among those who are described as
‘the best and proudest In the land,’ but
worship the golden calf.”
Continuing, Lord Beresford said: "Our
old empire will soon be going down grade
when a man in the so-called best society
commits a dishonorable act and society
bands together to screen him, Instead of
hanging him to the first tree.”
The popular rear admiral also urged a
return to the old “love of chivalry and
patriotism, the abhorrence of everything
sordid and selfish.”
The Vagabons were at first aghast st
this plain speaking, but. the subsequent
cheers showed that outspoken truths are
not altogetehr unpalatable.
DUELLING IN GERMANY.
The Practice Reported Dimlnishiag
Among Army Officers.
Berlin. Dec. 11.—During the discussion
of the budget in the Reichstag to-day, re
plying to a question as to whether the
recent cabinet order had caused a diminu
tion of duelling, Gen. von Gossler, the
minister of war, said: “It is the will of
the emperor that (he practice of duelling
should be diminished. Duelling is pun
ishable, and there have been only two
duels since the order was issued. Cases
will always arise where soldiers wilt
honor more his imperial majesty than
life. Everywhere, and among officers, the
habit should be cultivated of prizing the
honor of others as highly as one’s own.
Then complaints of duelling would disapl
pear of themselves.”
Fatal Duel nt Bucharest.
Bucharest, Dec. 11.—A duel with swords
has been fought between M. Lahovary,
director of the Independent Roumaine, and
M. Filipesco. director of the Epoca. M.
Lahovary was killed.
PRINCE HENRY’S VISIT TO CHINA.
Emperor of the Celestials to Receive
Him as an Equal.
Berlin, Dec. 11.—The representative here
of the Associated Press is informed that
Prince Henry of Prussia, who has been
appointed to the command of the second
German squadron on the coast of China,
will visit Pekin, where the Chinese emper.
or will receive him as an equal, an unus
ual honor. Prince Henry, it is announced.
Is the bearer of a message from Emperor
William to the Chinese emperor, in which
is included a programme of Chinese re-
Xorms.
COLORED METHODISTS.
Interesting Addresses at the Confer
• ence at Waycross,
Waycross, Ga., Dec.- 11. —The Colored
Methodist conference held interesting ses
sions to-day and yesterday. Since the
last report of the conference the proceed
ings, briefly stated, have been as follows,
excepting minor matters, which are not
included: Rbv. Dr. R. E. Jones, associate
editor of the Southewestern Christian Ad
vocate, addressed the body in the interest
of his paper, which is the organ of the
conference. Under graduates, who are pre
paring for the ministry, reported for ex
amination in their respective classes. Dr.
C. H. Melden, president of Clark Univer
sity, made an address, which was well
received.
Miss Alice Fairchild, principal of Cook
man Institute at Jacksonville, Fla., ad
dressed the conference on the progress of
her school.
Rev. Dr. M. C. Mason, colored, corre
sponding secretary of the Freedmen’s Aid
and Southern Education Society of Cincin
nati, address the conference last night and
again this morning. Dr. Mason said his
society had made wonderful progress in
fitting young colored men for trades
and sending the gospel to Africa. The so
ciety wants $100,000,a part of which has
already been raised, for perfecting its
work in this country and in Africa. The
doctor said he was working for the high
er education of the youth of his race, and
at the same time his society offered op
portunities to young colored men to learn
useful trades and professions. There are
now 431 licensed colored physicians, phar
macists and dentists in the United States,
he said, and the number is growing.
He expressed the hope that this genera
tion would see the reclamation of Africa
by Christianity, and that the mother coun
try of the colored race would soon take
her place among the civilized countries
of the world. Africa in ancient times, he
said, was not a whit behind other progres
sive countries in education and civiliza
tion, and the day was coming when she
would be restored to her former standing.
Dr. Mason secured over S4OO in subscrip
tions from the conference last night, mak
ing the total subscriptions for the con
ference during 1396 and 1897 amount to
$1,005.
A general collection was ordered to be
taken up in all the churches on the first
Sqnday in January for the Freedmen’s
Aid Society.
RING WINS AT BRUNSWICK.
Good Government Ticket Defeated
by the Administration Faction.
Brunswick, Ga-, Dec. 11.—The adminis
tration ticket won to-day’s aldermanic con
test by an average majority of 138. It was
the hardest fought contest in years. The
administration forces had not counted on
such organization and work as confronted
them, and the Good Government men sur
prised the public by their strength.
Judge John Lehman, manager of the ad
ministration campaign, is the happiest
man in Brunswick to-night. His fol
lowers are holding levees around him and
extending congratulations on his success
ful generalship. Brunswick is being
painted red by the administration follow
ers. Os the result Judge Lehman says:
“It Indicates the people are satisfied with
the administration and want no reform
ers. We never anticipated anything but
victory, and, are thoroughly satisfied. The
organization, management and hard work
of the other side was better than we count
ed on, but our majority is all right, any
how. They will neved touch us again. ’
F. E. Twitty, prominent amongst the
Good Government leaders, says: “The
vote against the administration under the
circumstances amounts to a notice that
their days are numbered. One year ago
the vote was more than four so one ta
favor of the ring. Heretofore they have
been considered impregnable. Those who
opposed them dared not speak their con
victions, and any kind of opposition to
them meant oppression. To-day only the
office holders and those directly benefit
ted by special favoritism dare to uphold
them. There were upon the registration
list more than 300 names of persons who
paid no taxes last year. These largely
supported the ring. There is no question
in my mind but that the majority of
qualified voters voted our ticket. The
county election in 1898 will witness the
final overthrow of the powers that have
so long ruled with blighting hand in this
city and county. Not until this is ac
complished will Brunswick experience
commercial prosperity or gain the com
mercial world’s confidence.”
FIRE NEAR WAYNESBORO.
Fnriner Loses Gins, Mills and Cotton
Worth Some 8)15,000.
Waynesboro, Ga., Dec. 11.—Fire destroy
ed the large ginnery of W. McCathern
yesterday afternoon at his Douse place,
some five or six miles from this city. His
loss will foot up fully $5,000. The gin
house, three gins, press, grist mill, feed
mill, eight bales of cotton packed and
ready for market, eighteen bales of cot
ton in the seed, and the seed from the
whole number of packed bales were con
sumed. The loss falls very heavily upon
Mr. McCathern, as he had not a dollar’s
.worth of insurance. The origin of the
fire is unknown, and some suspicion In
cendiarism.
W. M. Davis, a farmer living ten miles
from Waynesboro, died from hemorrhagic
fever yesterday, and his remains were
carried to Augusta for interment.
Bicycle thieves are becoming numerous
here. Four bicycles have recently been
stolen and spirited away.
Christmas holidays bid fair to look like
A midsummer holiday. Flve-cent cotton
leaves all hands short this time.
ROCKUILL'S SMALL-POX SCARE.
Physicians Working Night and Day
Vaccinating the People.
Columbia. S. C., Dec. 11.—The ten phy
sicians in Bockhill are working night and
day vaccinating the inhabitants. A thou
sand have been treated since yesterday.
Neighboring towns are considering estab
lishing quarantine against Rockhill. There
is great anxiety among the pupils at the
Winthrop Woman’s College, and there is
talk of having the college closed till the
possibility of an epidemic passes. Com
pulsory vaccination has been ordered in
Clinton, S. C.
SAVANNAH’S FEDERAL SNAPS.
Latest Story Says Deveanx May Be
Collector and Johnson Postmaster.
Washington, Dec. 11.—According to a
story afloat here, John M. Deveaux and
Tom F. Johnson will not fight each other
for the office of collector of the port of Sa
vannah. It is claimed that Mr. Johnson has
the support of Senator Mark Hanna for
the office of postmaster and Col. Dev
eaux has It for that of collector. By this
arrangement it is hoped the color question
will Tie avoided, as a colored man would be
much less objectionable in the custom
house than in the postoffice.
Ice Crnnpnnim at Waycross.
Waycross, Ga.. Dec. 11.—J. W. Johnson
& Co.’s new ice plant will be put in opera
tion in a few weeks. The building has been
erected. There will probably be a consid
erable cut in the price of ice next year on
account of competition. The other ice
plant is operated by the Satilla Manufac
turing Company.
LAST DAYS OF LEGISLATION.
HOUSE VOTES TO EXTEND THE SES
SION A DAY.
The Action Taken in Order to Grant
the Senate More Time and Ensure
the Passage of the Convict Bill—At
tendance in the House Slim and
Slight Opposition Sufficient to Pre
vent the Securing of the Constitu
tional Majority.
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 11.—When the House
met this morning Mr. Berry of Whitfield
asked for a reconsideration of the action
of yesterday by which was defeated the
Senate resolution providing that Saturday
and Sunday be not counted as legislative
days, and thus extend the session two
days. The Senate wanted this resolution
passed so that more time would be given
to consider the convict bill and the failure
of the House to grant the request yester
day was regarded as endangering the pas
sage of the bill in the upper house. This
fact put the members to thinking, and
when Mr. Berry put his motion this morn
ing it was adopted by a vote of 73 to 55.
Upon taking up the resolution Mr. Cal
vin of Richmond moved to amend by de-'
daring Sunday and Monday non-leglsla
tive days, thus extending the session
through Thursday and Friday next.
Mr. Felder of Fulton offered to amend
this by making only Sunday a non-legisla
tive day, which would extend the session
one day.
Mr. Calvin’s amendment was lost, but
that of Mr. Felder was passed, and the
resolution, as amended, was adopted.
This gives the House one more working
day.
A bill by Mr. Hawes of Warren to re
quire that county schools commissioners
shall not charge for recording orders, was
voted down, as was also a bill providing
that registrars in serving summons to tax
defaulters should state the year for which
the tax was not paid. Both measures
were favorably reported and should have
passed. On account of the small atten
dance, however, slight opposition was able
to prevent the passage of both of them.
Another bill by Mr. Hawes to provide
healthy apparatus for all county jails fail
ed of a constitutional majority.
The House took up a bill by Senator Tur
ner to allow the use of registration lists in
regular elections to be used in intermediate
elections, and this was passed by a vote of
115 to 5.
A bill by Mr. Bennett of Jackson county*
to authorize suits against the state for
acts of the Northeastern railway was pass
ed. This places the Northeastern in the
catagory with the Western and Alabama
railway.
Mr. Bush secured the reconsideration this
morning of the refusal of the House yes
terday to disagree with the adverse report
on Senator Walker’s bill to require militia
districts adopting the stock law to erect
fences.
The Senate spent the morning in reading
and passing local bills, and sat up to-night
doing the same thing.
One general bill, which caused discus
sion, w’as Mr. Berner’s limiting the fees
of receivers to a scale ranging from 2 to 8
per cent., according to the amount of
money brought into court. It was sup
ported by Mr. Berner and Mr. Gray, and
opposed by Mr. Golightly. The favorable
committee report was adopted, but the bill <
was tabled temporarily because of the
slim attendance.
convict bill will probably come um
for passage in the Senate Monday. A day
or two will be required to hear the
speeches of the senators. It is quite sure
that there will be a determined effort to
change the bill in several particulars, and
Senator Dunwody will try to have stricken
from the twelfth section the words "Pro
vided said convicts are not worked in iron
foundries, cotton factories and machine
shops, where the products of their labor
are offered in competition with that of freo
labor.” Mr. Dunwody’s position is that
if convicts are to be worked at turpentine
stills, saw mills and on farms they should
be worked elsewhere, and that any excep
tion is class legislation and an unjust dis
crimination.
Senator Cook has an amendment to the
sixteenth section, putting aside the net hire
of convicts, after paying all salaries and
expenses, for a prison fund, to be used
for the erection of a permanent peniten
tiary when a sufficient amount shall have
accumulated.
BROWN TO RON FOR GOVERNOR.
President of tire Agricultural Society
to Announce This Week.
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 11.—Hon. J. Pope
Brown will in all probability make formal
announcement of his 1 candidacy for gover.
nor some time next week. He
has already written the communi
cation and has it snugly en
sconded in his grip sack at the Kimball,
but will not allow any one to see it just
yet. The document is in the form of a let
ter replying to the committee of Pulaski
county citizens who were appointed at a
meeting several weeks ago to request him
to become a candidate. Mr. Brown’s home
people took their action without advising
him, but from the most reliable informa
tion that can be had their resolutions
will have the effect of bringing him to the
pole first among the possible field of can
didates for next year.
Mr. Brown is president of the Stato
Agricultural Society, and will be the
farmer candidate, although he is also a
successful business man.
When asked to-night for an expression
he said it was true that he hsrti written
the Hawkinsville committee, and his letter
was an unequivocal declaration of his in
tentions with regard to the governorship,
but he firmly declined to say what he has
written. Whether he goes in or stays out,
he says, will be made public when his let
ter is sent to the committee, which will be
next week. He wishes to submit it to
some of his friends here before posting
it as it is in the nature of his platform.
When pressed closely Mr. Brown said he
would not say that he would not run for
governor. He had put his decision in
writing and would not say anything until
this letter is given out. It is generally un
derstood that Judge A. L. Miller of Ma
con, Mr. Brown’s brother-in-law, who
managed Senator Bacon’s campaign, will
be at the helm of Mr. Brown's guberna
torial ship.
CAUSED BY THE HENS.
Col. Shoekly and Mr. garner Have a,
Disagreement About Poultry.
Statesboro, Ga., Dec. 11.—A serious dif
ficulty occurred here last night, wherein
two prominent citizens of the town were
the participants. Col. C. H. Shockley, a.
lawyer of acknowledged abiliy, shot and
painfully wounded in the arm Mr. D. B.
Turner, lately editor of the Bulloch Times.
The families of the two men lived in close
proximity to each other, and the women
folks had had some trouble about their
poultry. Mr. Shockley approached Mr.
Turner about the matter, when the diffi
culty occurred. A warrant has been is
sued for Col. Shockley, but he is not in
town to-day, and no arrest has been made.
The affair is very much regretted by their
friends.