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NEGRO AND A MULE Medium Through Which Mur- Mw<scof ventriloquist Superstitious Darkey Throws Light on Butchery of Christmas Family. Son and Son-in-Law of Mur dered Man Are Arrested. Following the arrest Wednesday at Dothan, Ala., of Will Christmas, a son, and Walter Holland, a son-in-law, in connection with the triple murder of the ■Christmas family, new and sensa tional developments were brought to light Thursday, through the medium of a detectivje: hisuwsAsUwit, a ventril oquist, a superstitious negro and the who has been at W ease, declares the whole WWMWwWwMI<Pd. He baa I■■ ■ n n<-:n K»Cottonwood, where tne Christmas mur ders were committed, for several weeks, hiding in the woods in the guise of an escaped murderer from Georgia, and hiring a negro to bring him his meals. He suspected the negro knew some thing of the crime, and with the aid of a concealed ventriloquist, talked to the negro through a mule. The ne gro’s superstition was aroused and he told the details of the murder to the mule. The arrest of Will Christmas Walter Holland followed. murder of the Christmas family wnXpn£Qf the most atrocious crimes ever commuted in the section, and IjrtSfiHfcnt <nN^ 0 I ,ineri^3 > has been a^a^r cr ®" ated so much nearlj 18,500 la| on deposit in the hanks as n reward for the arresLoT’ the murdf’i • FOR CHURCH IN JAPAN. Northern and Southern Methodist® Get Together and Make in LkiltimoreJjßH day of representatives of Church ■Miflr copal uh - Those taking part in thecourlrence <nctrt Earle Cranston of anefr Rev. Dr. C. W. Smith of bovti of the Methodist Episcopal tLhurclf; TV A. W. Wil son of Bishop W. Calloway of JacksbY',* Miss., Rev. Dr. James Atkins of NashvrHe, and Bev. Dr. W. R. Lambuth of Nashville, rep resenting the southern Methodists. Tho agreement under which the new church was formed provides that at the next annual c9nference of the two churches in Japan, there shall bo selected delegates to the first con vention which is to be held at Tokio, in May, 1907, when the actual life of the new church will begin. The Methodist Episcopal Church of Japan will start with three, annual conferences, more than one hundred missionaries, seventy-five Japanese ordained preachers, 7,000 members, 189 Sunday schools, with 12,205 schol ars, thirty-nine schools and colleges, with 3t936 students, a publishing house -'TTO'more than $200,000 worth of prop- • erty. MARSHAL KILLED BY NEGROES. Officer Shot From Ambush While At tempting to Make Arrests. Tom Robinson, marshal of Winokur, Ga., was shot and Instantly killed by negroes at that place Wednesday night, A crowd of negroes were shoot ing on the streets, and Robinson start ed toward them for the purpose of putting them under arrest. One of them hid himself and open ed fire with a rifle. He shot at Rob inson tour or five times before he was shot by tho marshal and instantly kill ed* At this juncture another negro opened fire on the marshal with a double-barreled shotgun, killing him in stantly. A SCRAMBLE FOR PROXIES. New York Life Officials Trying Hard to Retain Jobs. Samvel ITntermayer, counsel for the International policy holders’ com mittee of the New York Life Insur ance company, has sent a letter to Alexander E. Orr, president of the Work Life, protesting in tho of the policy holders against he terms the extraordinary es cer!! 0! the toxQpany to obtain prox ies for the annual election, which is to be held early in April. MANY “SUCKERS” ARE CAUGHT. Suit for Receiver Filed Against Chi cago Bond Company. Charges of fraud and insolvency were made in a suit filed at Louis ville. Ky., Thursday against the Amer ican Reserve Bond company of Chica go, asking tor the appointment of a xecolver tor the concern. Millions of dollars of investors all over the Unit ed States are involved In the suit THE new south. A WOMAN AFTER PIERP. Mrs. Williams Seeks Revenge Against Millionaire Morgan Because She Lost Out in Bad Investment. At a hearing in the private chambers of Magistrate Wahle, in the tombs police court at New York Wednesday, Mrs. G. B. wftliams, an Englishwoman, who resides at the Hoffman House, was committed to Bellevue hospital to be examined as to her sanity. Mrs. Williams is said to be a widow of good connections. She was arrested in front of the offices of J. Pierpont Morgan & Co. on a warrant sworn out by former Assistant District At torney Lord. The charge was disor derly conduct. Mrs. Williams protested when or dered to the hospital, and said she was the victim of a plot planned by J. P. Morgan. When removed from the magistrate’s chambers she struggled desperately and gave the five police men who had her in charge all they could do to get her into a carriage. It is said that the name Williams is probably a fictitious one. She is about forty or forty-five years of age, and is Reputed to have been at one time a very wealthy woman, but is said to have lost considerably by bad investments. Since March 9 she has been daily to the offices of Morgan & Co. demanding to*see Mr. Morgan, who is in Europe, or his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. On the occasion of each of her visits, it is alleged, she has threatened to shoot and kill tho financier and his son. At the office of J. P. Morgan & Co., it was stated by a prominent official that Mrs. Williams had been worry ing Mr. Morgan off and on for about five y ears. 'She was introduced to Mr. Morgan by very good people. She told Mr. Morgan that she believed she has an interest in some Boston estate, asked the financier to look up the ratatter for her. MY. AMorgan investigated it and found xhat at one time she had been interested in It, but that she had sold stated that v <>ni;in HURST. Allegedjlpct ta' Par- An Rev. Dr. Charles jy”Willagߣ&«l|rewing the recent municipal electioiOn New York city, Inspired, It Is asserted, by a police official, and in revenge for raids made on certain places by agents of the Society for the Prevention of Crime, known also as the Parkhurst Society, was revealed Wednesday when District Attorney Jerome sum moned Acting Captain John H. Shells of the West One Hundredth street po lice station; John Phelan, a plain clothos policeman, and two civilians, Richard Wilson and L. Rogers, to tell what they know of the alleged plot. COTTON COMPRESS BURNED. About One Thousand Bales of Fleecy Staple a Total Loss. The cotton compress at Toccoa, Ga., together with about 1,000 bales of cot ton and ten freight cars loaded with cotton seed meal and guano, was burned at an early hour Wednesday morning. The compress, compress warehouses, cotton, cars and contents, are a total loss. Consldera *ble damage was done to other cars be fore they could be moved, while other property of minor Importance suffer ed. The total damage will approxi mate SIOO,OOO, and it is understood that the entire loss Is covered by in surance. TELEGRAPHERS ARE SATISFIED. Wage Proposition of Southern Railway Is Accepted. The committee of five representing the telegraphers and station agents of the Southern railway has agreed to accept the wage scale of that road. The scale, as agreed upon, does not contemplate a minimum or maximum wage, but has been adjusted with a view of fitting each individual case. PRESIDENT DOUBLY HONORED. Roosevelt is Made Honorary Member of United Veterans. President noosevelt is now an hon orary member of the United Veterans, having been elected by the camp Poplar Bluff, Missouri. The lesolo tiona of the camp creating the presi dent a member of the organisation were presented to him by Senator Warner of Missouri. The organisa tion is composed of Union and Con federate soldiers. The president’s election to member ship was due to his attitude on his trip through the south last fall. ALLEGED CROOK NABBED. Ten Men Now in Atlanta Jail Suspect ed of Being Yeggmen. A short and stout young man giv ing his name ns Fob' Kimball, but who explained his real name was Na poleon, Poly being his nickname, was arrested by city detectives in Atlanta Wednesday morning on suspicion of being on intimate terms with the crowd held as suspected crooks ia tbe tower. DOUGLASVILLE. GA, THURSDAY. MARCH 22, 1906. GEORGIA BRIEFS • » y y'f rrv t w b 5 Will Send Strong Delegation. Georgia will send two strong dete ntions to the biennial general con trence of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, which convenes iu Birmingham, Ala., May 3, and remains In session for three or four weeks. One of these- delegations will repre sent the North Georgia conference, and the other the South Georgia con ference. • • * These Vets Averse to MlxingA At a called meeting of the Augusta Confederate Veterans a motion to send delegates to the memorial to late General Wheeler, ’which will soon be held in Atlanta, was laid on the table, it being the expressed sense of the meeting that they did not be lieve in “mixing the blue and th® gray.” • * * Dyer Also Acquitted. George H. Dyer was found not guil ty of the murder of Policeman Patrick Kearney at Savannah. The trial had lasted four days. The trial was the seccond for mur der growing out of the general politi cal battle in which partisans of the two local factions engaged in front of the city hall on February 9. ♦ * * To War on Mosquitoes. The extermination of now the object of the Atlanta board of health. The finance committee of the city council has recommended an appropriation of $2,000 for the purpose of starting the work, and promised to give another $2,000 to the board of health for the mosquito campaign when the June apportionment sheet is written. * /• * • Three Postmaster® Indicted. Three postmasters have been In dicted by the grand jury of the United Hates court at Savannah. William I. Peeples of Kingsland, in Camden ounty, is charged with the misap rdolatlng of money orders to the 'mount of $290. Charles R. Jackson was the colored postmaster at Darien. It is charged that he abstracted amounts aggregating $497, of which $4Ol was in general postage funds. The third postmastef was Wil®am B. Maxwell, colored, of Thebes, Lib erty county. He is charged with em bezzling $450 in postoffice funds. s * * * Smith Heads Atlanta Fair. The directors of the Atlanta Fair Association held their annual meet ing the a past week and elected offi cers for the year. Alex W. Smith, first vice president, was elected president; J. Lee Barnes, first vice president; Charles I. Ryan, treasurer, and Frank Weldon, secre tary. Mr. Ryan and Mr. Weldon were both re-elected. Chief Joyner of the city fire de partment, declined to accept the presidency of the fair association for a second term, though the fair last year was probably the most success ful state show ever held. • * • Dago “Citizen®” Lose Rights. Thirteen {more Greek citizens at Savannah have forfeited their right to eall themselves “American citi zens." The act to annul the proceed ngs of January 24, when they were laturalized was taken in the city ourt. The erstwhile citizens appear ed, and admitted that they had ch ained their papers by false testimony and fraud, and asked to be allowed to withdraw the statements on which they gained them. Judge Norwood or dered the papers canceled. The prosecutions in progress in the United States court have struck ter ror to a number of the "citizens” who were, it is said, made for political purposes. *• * / To Be Sold at Public Outcry. *—‘ The litigation involving the New Century Cotton Mills at Douglasville, has at last been settled, and the mills will be sold at public outcry by order of the United States court next April in Atlanta. AH the legal matters have been straightened out and the debts of the mill paid in full. The holding company, which is financing the venture, advanced the necessary amount to settle the litigation, and will pay the present Indebtedness of the concern in full. They also pro vided for the payment of $14,500 of bonds due the town of Douslasville. The property of the New Century Cotton Mills cost about SIOO,OOO. The building is of new construction, and it is put up of the very best material. There are about fifty acres of land in the mill site. Gift to Tech from Carnegie. The Georgia Technological school has been tendered the sum of $20,000 by Andrew Carnegie forth epurpose of erecting a handsome library build ing. It is provided, however, that the school is to agree to furnish $2,000 per year to sustain the library and employ trained help. This proviso is not likely to be a stumbling block, ts the Technological school already em ploys a trained librarian, and has at lease 4,006$ volumes that must be catalogued and cared for. With six hundred students, the ma jority of them using the library,, there has been fejt the need for larger or additional quarters, and Mr. Carne gie’s offer delighted the boys nearly as tnuch as it did Professor Mathewson, who has been working for several tnonths to secure the potential influ ence of the famous philanthropist. •^* i * * * Want Tax The counties Os Greene Oglethorpe, Walton, MteDuffie and Co lumbla, together wHh t Union Point, Gr tordsville, have he eeedlngs 4 .n the at Atlanta, Judge pwnaletoD presiding, against Hon. William A. WrigTftFeomp troller general of the state of'Geor gia, the object of the litigation be ing the issuance of an order directiug ♦he comptroller to prorate among the petitioners such tax moneys as a re cent decree against the Georgia rail road maj r bring into the hands of Gen eral Wright. Some two years ago Attorney Boy kin Wright, brought suiL fRY tho city of Augusta and the coaHHMftlicb ■ mond against the G company for taxes on 1€ of stock in the Western Ala- bama, owned by the and won in the state courMSMKmt hav ing been brought in tnat city is the heme |j|!Mßßßendant company. Not re sult in the court, the railroad the case to the court, where the decision of the lower court was sustained. That brought the question up io' Comptroller General Wright, whose duty in the premises is the collection of taxes on the 15, 000 shares of the Western of Alabama road. At that stage of the game the plaintiffs stepped in with a mandamus directed to the comptroller*general in which the counties and towns enumer ated demand the payment to eacn of them a portion of the taxes to be col lected. The plaintiffs in the mandamus lay claim to a part of the money because the Georgia railroad, which owns the stock declared, through th tinned. ■ - SOUTH Manufacturers’ Bou q u e n:ore; in it= 6 ‘‘Considered of the south are in and the future is as fulFof fine prom ise as the present is fpll of substan tial realization. “One of the most significant fea tures of southern progress is the ra pidity with which the masses of the people are being supplied with bank ing facilities and are, moreover, be coming accustomed to use them. “This growth of banking and its placing in touch with the world of progress thousands of farmers and other persons w’hose connection there with was formerly remote and infre quent is part of the substantial foun dation which has enabled southern financial centers to display them selves year by year more and more Independent of New York city when the crop-moving seasons come around “It also betokens the growth of a 'new spirit in the very heart of the south promising to bring about wider native development of natural re sources, instead of a development only bv outside men and capital.” AFTER PLATT AND DEPEW. Resolution Call® for Their Resignation But Was Tabled. A resolution offered in the republi can county committee of New York county Thursday night, calling upon Senator Platt and Senator Depew to resign their seats in the United States senate, was quickly defeated by the adoption of a motion to lay it on the table. The demand for the resignations was based upon the recent insurance Investigation. QUICK SALE OF BONDS. Alabama Disposes of Big Batch Which Fall® Due in July. The $7,437,600 of bonds du® by the state of Alabama and maturing the first day of July have gone, save a small amount, to a syndicate com posed of Ntew York. Birmingham and Montgomery bankers. The basis is 3.82 and 4 per cent fifty-year securi ties. The entire amount was sub bribed three times ever. TO FIGHT FOR TWO STATES. House Republicans Agree to Stand Pat on Their Measure. A Washington dispatch says: As the result of a caucus, which lasted for two and a half hours Thursday, the republicans of the house voted? 126 to 35, to stand by the statehoag bill as it passed the house, and sfe the senate for a conference on measure. This vote followed immOKr ately after a resolution offered Mondell of Wyoming, represent®Jfe9i, insurgents had been defeated. 43. ) PASSENGERS ROAST In Burning Wrecks of Two Trains in Colorado, A FRIGHTFUL SMASHUP and Rio Grand® Trains Crash .Twibfiether in Blinding Snow Storm Scores Lose Life—Caused by Sleeping Operator. A wreck accompanied with horrors exceeded only by the Eden disaster, which occurred August 7, 1904, on the line of the same railroad, resulted from a head-on collision of two pas senger trains on the Denver and Rio Grande railroad, four miles east of Florence, Col., at an early hour Fri day morning. According to the latest dispatches from Pueblo, conservative estimates on the total loss of life place the num ber of dead at thirty-five. Rio Grande officials insist that the exact number of persons on the two trains cannot be ascertain; that it is impossible. ’9. F. Lively, night operator at Swallows, whose alleged failure to deliver orders to train No. 3 Is sup posed to have been the cause of the wreck, has been in the employ of the road for many years. He was relieved from duty Friday night, and will be suspended until after the mat ter is thoroughly investigated by the officials. • The trains were the Utah-California express N 0.3, westbound, from Den ver, and the Colorado-New Mexico express, No. 16, eastbound from Lead ville and Grand Junction. They met on a sharp curve, and were less than two hundred yards apart when the engineers discovered that a collision was imminent. It is known that the engineer of the west bound train put forth every possible to bring his train to a stop, ■Kb his efforts were fruitless, and, al- Tsfcfigh he succeeded in checking the of his train, the crash that fol- TWed was beyond his power to pre vent, and he went to his death with hts hand on the throttle, faithful to ■MBkcharge. This mucn is vouched for fireman, who, seeing the use ■Umess of remaining i'n the face of. HBiN death, jumped and/saved liimselfg Fof the conduct of the engine crew o£ the eastbound train, it can only bd| said that they died at their post, for no one lives to tell the story of their heroism. , The disaster was made more horri ble by the manner of the death of many of the passengers. Fire swept over the wreck, engulfing the victims in a caldron of flame and leaving only charred and blackened bones to tell the tale of slaughter. In a blinding storm which made it almost impossible for the trainmen to see ahead, the two trains collided head-on at a point midway between Portland and Adobe, 25 miles west of Pueblo, at 2 o’clock in the morning. The Utah and California express No. 3, westbound, left Pueblo over an hour and a half late, and was given orders to meet the Colorado and New Mexico express, No. 16, eastbound, at Florence. This order was changed, and the westbound train w r as directed to pass the eastbound train at Beaver, about 12 miles east of Florence. The order should have been deliv ered to the train crew at Swallows but for some reason still unexplained the operator there neglected to do so. In the meantime, the eastbound had received its order, and expected to meet the westbound train at Beaver. In the forward coach of the west bound train every seat was occupied by passengers, most of whom were homeseekers on their way to the northwest. A number of foreigners were among them, and in their terror they gave life without making any attempt to reach safety outside the burnlug car. Paralyzed with fear and with pray ers upon their lips, they sank to the floor of the car and were roasted alive. ABOLISH FOUR-YEAR TERM Is Purport of Resolution Passed by Holston Methodist Conference. The ministers’ council of the Ab- ■ ingdon district, Holston conference, I Methodist Episcopal church, south, in session at Knoxville, Tenn., passed a j resolution to be forwarded to the gen ! eral conference of the church at Bir • mingham, Ala., in May, praying that the four years’ maximum limit for continuous service for a minister at a single charge be abolished, and that the districts and jurisdictions of pre- : siding eld«rs be made smalldr. " STANDIFER OUT ON BOND. I Father Puts Up SI,OOO in Cash and n Son is Released. ■I ‘Mfis father having put up a cash j Edward Marion Standifer, the of the woman who killed s Mt;&happell Whisenant, the tower in At- )< 'hr ’ ' i” YELLOW FEVER SCARE. Doctor® of Several State® Called to New Orleans for Consultation. Case Was Not Yellow Jack. Health officers of Mississippi and Alabama were called to New Orleans Saturday to investigate a supposed case of yellow fever on which local physicians had come to no agreement. Dr. Iron, president of the board pf health, furnished the press with statement: “The ease of Jules KkKvnz was re ported tq.-4)€~'ursmich susirfcion on Monda'y afternoon, March 12.' x Drs. Denegre Martine and J. Mu Bat'Chel* lor diagnosed the as catarrhlLL jaundice. Dr. Hamilton Jones, after three days’ observation of the case, reports it as yellow fever; The health officers of Mississippi, Ala bama and Texas have been notified as per copy inclosed. The case was treated as a suspicious case from the beginning and every precaution was taken.” Following is a copy of the telegram mention in Dr. Iron’s letter as sent to the state health officers of the three adjoining states: “New Orleans, M'arch 16, 1906. — Committee appointed to investigate suspicious fever case. Charity hospi tal differs as to diagnosis. Invite you to come. C. H. IRON, M. D., ‘‘President State Board of Health.” Dr. Batchellor, house physician of the Charity hospital, when asked re garding the case, said that the pa tient was Jules Ebernz, an oyster shucker, aged 30- years. He was taken to the hospital from a lodging house on March 8, and it understood that he had been ill about seven months. Dr. Batchellor said he had diagnos ed the case as catarrhal jaundice, and had seen no reason to alter his diag nosis. He had treated and observed hundreds of cases of yellow fever, and was positive that the patient was not suffering from that disease. Ebernz had been at the hospital for about seven days, but his physicclan has had ample time to examine his ill ness and satisfy himself as to its nature Unanimous agreement of the phy sicians from the states named, of the local physicians and of the represen tatives of 'the United States that the patient did not have yellow fever was the result of tte-a-Utonsy held Sun- Majority of Victims of |4orrnW Wreck Cannot 3e Identified. Twenty-two dead and twenty-two injured is the latest estimate of the casualties in the wreck of the two Denver and Rio Grande passenger trains which collided 25 miles wfcfL of Pueblo, Col., early Friday morn ing. Only seven of the dead bodies can be identified and only one of these retains sufficient outline of features to be . readily recognized. Two telegraph operators are held in the public mind to be responsible for the disaster, although nd formal indictment has gone out against them. Both have been ordered discharged from the service of the road. A coroner’s jury has been empanel ed, and will investigate the accident. FOR POISONING HUSBAND. Louisiana Woman is Convicted and Given Fifteen-Year Sentence. Charged with poisoning her hus band with strychnine in order to be free of marital ties and to marry a younger man, Mrs. Bettie E. White, 38 years old, of comely appearance, has been convicted of manslaughter in the district court at Rayville, La., before Judge W. J. Gray, who sen tenced the woman to a term of fif teen years in the penitentiary. UNCLE SAM MAY TAKE HAND. Attorney General Wants to Know About Lumber Trust In Mississippi. The United States government Is about to take a hand in the investi gation of the alleged lumber trust in. Mississippi. SCORE OF INDICTMENTS FOUND. Many Savannah Citizens Must Answer to False Swearing. The grand jury of the United States court at Savannah, Ga., Wednesday af ternoon returned twenty indictments, sixteen of which were in joint form, against persons charged with viola tions of the naturalization laws. The indictments were “for swearing false ly to affidavits and applications for citizenship.” The offenses are alleged to have been committed variously in 1904 ani 1906. One man pleaded guilty as soon as Indictments were returned. BHONTZ MAY QUIT JOB. Chairman of Canal Commission is Bad ly Broken in Health. Reports have been current for some time past to the effect that Mr. Shonts was about to resign from his position as chairman of the isthmian canal commission. He has broken badly in health as the result of over work, it Is said, and his nervous sys tem has suffered particularly. MINERSJJIESCENT Unwilling to Accept Respon sibility for Coal Strike, ANXIOUSF.ORCONFERENCE Mitchell Sends Letter to Ba®r With Request for Further Parley—Set® Forth Grievances of the President .J I’niW Mine of the mittee, his the committee’s communication rejecting the de mands of the miner®’ organisation. The letter, in part, is as follows: . “Indianapolis, Ind., March 17, 1906. —Mr. George. F. Baer, Chairman, Philadelphia.—Dear Sir: Referring again to your communication dated March 10, with accompanying docu ments, and to our reply thereto, I write to say that I have submitted to our the answer made by your committee to the propositions presented by us. "It is unnecessary to state that we were keenly disappointed to learn that our demands were rejected in toto, and that our arguments in favor of them had received so little con sideration at your hands that they wore practically ignored in your re ply to us. “We have again reviewed the scale presented for your consideration; have compared it with the scale of wages paid for similar classes of labor In other coal producing states and dis tricts, and we are satisfied beyond the peradventure of doubt that the wages proposed are not in excess of —indeed that they are not as high as wages z paid in the bituminous mining dl a ‘*’'t ' of our country. “Judging from the language Mem ployed In your answer to us, it is perfectly evident that we failed to make clear or that you failed to un_ derstand Uie real Import of the prop ositions submitted by us. “We wish to assure you that w« are not unmindful of the great pub lic interests involved in this contro versy as to our future relations, nei ther are we unappreciative of the jJ splendid efforts made by the to Wonit! v ’ ’ 1 ' coinniission w aS" ■ as to the findings and expressed the hope at the expiiatlon of the award the lations of employer- and ouiployw’’’ 1 " wonld 'have. so far improved as to make impossible such a condition as existed throughout the country in consequence of the strike in the an thracite region. “We had entertained the hope that our adherence tor the letter and the , spirit of the award and the absence of local or general strikes in the past three years would have appealed more strongly to your confidence, and that we might reasonably expect serious consideration of our claims at this time. "While it may be true that, on the part of the operators, there has been no serious cause for complaint during the past three years, we wish to as sure you that, in expressing this ion, you do not reflect our X only has there been criticism the miners, but what is more ant, there exists much cauWWr criticism and complaints. "How’ever, we repeat that the in terests involved are so vast that we are not willing to break off negotia tions without iflrst making further effort to reconcile our differences. We, therefore, propose that further conference or conferences be held between now and April 1. "If this suggestion meets with your approval, w r e shall be pleased to arrange with you a date upon which our joint committee may reconvene. I am yours truly,, “JOHN MITCHELL, Chairman.” A8 SOP TO THE CHINESE. Southern Cotton Mill Men Urge Pa®»- age of Foster Bill. Prominent cotton mill men from Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina appeared with representatives of the American Asiatic Association and the National Association of Man ufacturers, before a subcommittee of the house committee on foreign af fairs, at Washington, Wednesday, to urge the passage of the Foster bill, to amend the Chinese exclusion act so that high class Chinamen may be ad mitted into this country without o&-“ struction. BLIZZARD IN NEW YORK. Tail End of Winter Gave City a Decid edly Rough Day. It remained for the last of winter to give to New York the first real touch of blizzard conditions experienc ed this season Wednesday. A fine, powdery snow, driven before a north east gale, which reached a maximum velocity of 40 miles an hour.