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farm leans. Over 85,000.000 Successfully
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ESTABLISHED 1884
ARMY ’All W WILL
STRIKE SIMDLTANEOUSLY
Order Has Gone Out and Active Preparations aie Being Made
at All the Bureaus in Washington,
AT SANTIAGO
Province the First Landing
Will be Made-Cervera
Will be Routed,
LEE TO MOVE ON PORTO RICO
And Jacksonville Will be Used as the
Base of Operations for the At
tack on That Place.
■Washington, May 31 -The command to
advance, given yesterday, has infused in
tense activity into every branch of military
and naval circles.
'it was shown today in the hurried but
systematic preparations at the various
bureaus at the war and navy departments
and in the keen air of expectancy every
where prevailing.
The authoritative statements made yes
terday by General Mlles and others that
the orders for advance had been Issued
left no further doubt on that, point.
A report from Key West says that the
steamer Florida r< turned there this moYn
ing after successfully landing a most im
portant expedition in Cuba is supplemi til
ed by the information here J hat the expe
dition was in command of General Lae re I,
the widl known Cuban leader who lias with
him 400 picked Cubans thoroughly armed
and equipped by the United States.
Prior Io tlie cabinet meeting reports
were curt ent that the president had told
some of his callers that he expected that.
Commodore Schley would attack Admiral
Cervera today in Santiago harbor. In
quiry failed io substantiate this report.
On the contrary those in position t»
know tlie general plans of attack stated
that tlie navy and army would act together
and that one braueh of the service was not
likely to strike a decisive blow until the
other was ready to co-operate and Jllljs
make llii' blow doubly effective.
While there continues to lie entire off
eial reticence as to tlie exact points of in
vasion the concensus of opinion drawn
from tlie most intelligent sources is that
the eastern end of Cuba constituting tiio
province of Santiago with Santiago de
Cuba as its capital and Porto Rico will bo
among tlie objective points.
For this reason the situation in Santiago
province and Porto Rico is thoroughly
canvassed.
General Lee last night left Tampa for
Jacksonville on tin east coa t of Florida
to open headquarters there.
(But one inference can lie drawn from
this movement, namely, that Jacksonville
is to lie made the base of operational
against Porto Rico. The town is admir
ably situated for this put .pose, in fai t it
far surpass, s Key West as a base of oper
ations even against any eastern points of
Cuba.
The terminus of an excellent railway
system leading from the North and West
with a good steamboat connection with
New York with a navigable river afford
ing good harbor and at a distance of only
1200 miles from «San Juan in an air line
to Jacksonville h aves little to be desired
as a base of military operations.
There seems to be little doubt that the
plan of campaign contemplates the r< Auc
tion of Porto Rico and this is being strong
ly moved even before any serious alt nipt
is made upon Havana.
The president’s advisors point to what
they regard as the danger of retreat on the
part of the Spanish government it might
be probable, aeording to their view for
the Spanish to accept in the full the de
mands of this government's ultimatum
and prepare to withdraw their troops from
Cuba.
In such a ease the United States will be
placed in the disagreeable’ position before
the world of continuing to make war upon
a country which holds out the flag of
truce. The dilemma that, woud confront us
in such a ease would be how to secure
Porto Rico without offending against in
ternational law* for it can be stated as
truth that the administration is d. termin
ed that Spanish rule in the western hemis
phere must cease.
Now that General Miles has gone it can
be’ stated that for the last five days he has
held frequent conferences with prominent
Porto Ricans thoroughly conversant with
the situation iti that land and able to give
exact information as to the Spanish
strength of defenses there.
As to Santiago province the situation is
explained today by an official well ac
quainted with the’ conditions there. He
nointed out that it is the most eastern
point of Cuba and one completely isolated
from General Blanco so far as railroad
comie’ctious is concerned. For that reason
it wolud be impossible for Blanco to hurry
reinforcements to Santiago and the Span
ish forces already there constitute all that
it is possible to assemble for its defense.
Pando has a force of about 5,000 troops
with him and is strongly entrenched. A
short railway connects hin. with the small
seaport Gibraltar on the north coast where
there are about 1,000 Spanish troops.
General Garcia has headquarters at
Bayamo, seventy-five miles west of San
t!ago. The reports brought by General
Collario and Lieutenant Rowan indicate
that Garcia has about 4.000 men under bis
Immediate command and about 5,000 are
scattered in bands around Holguin, Vic
toria de Las Tunis. Jigual Meron and other
joints.
•Aside from their offensive strength, the
Cuban forces are looked upon as valuable
in that they hold the interroads and passes
and keep the Spanish garrisons penned up
in six or seven seaport towns. For this
reason R is said to be impossible for Gen
eral Pando to move his forces from Hol
guin to Santiago, as Garcia’s bands as
well as his body troops are in the way.
These forces are in considerable number
within a few miles of Santiago.
General Garcia's two staff officers, who
have recently been in Washington arrang
ing plans for a co-operation with Miles.
|eft rwith him last night and there is a
thorough understanding as to the part the
Cubans are to take an the agressive move
ments about to occur.
6W Linen Hates 50c. Phillips.
SPIRIT OF CONQUEST
Has Taken Entire Possession of the United
States.
Washington, May 31—Senator Lindsay,
of Kentucky, discussing the prospect open
ed up to Hie United States by the present
war, said that he deprecated that spirit of
coih|ii< t and territorial aggrandizement,
which seems to have taken temporary pos
session of the nation.
"I have perceived and felt that spirit,”
said he, “from the day this Congress open
ed. It has grown in intensity and .power,
and that with each succeeding day, and
with each new event. There is no 'telling
to what length it may carry this nation.
‘‘l regret to see it. At the outset of this
war we de fined our purposes. It was
to be a philanthropic and generous war of
duty. We solemnly declared that it was not
for the territorieal aggrandisement, and
that so soon as Spain's troops should have
been driven Cuba we would retire from
that island and. so far as we could, end
the war.
“Os course, we will have to hold the
Philippines and possibly Puerto Rico du
ring the rest of the war, as hostages of a
satisfactory settlement, when terms of
peace shall .be discussed. ißut ■! am op
posed to permanent possession of these
islands by the United States. 1 do not see
how we can hold them and govern them.
I do mat find constitutional authority for
any such new departure in the territorial
policy and continental policy of the United
States.”
ST YI jISH PATTE RNS
In SI.OO negligee shirts. Harry L. Jones
Co.
TOO MUCH WHEAT.
Dry Goods House in Atlanta Fails for a Hun
dred Thousand.
Atlanta, 'May 31. —Moody Brewster,
wholesale dealers in dry 'goods, tiled mort
gages today aggregating $99,400. G. S.
Brewster, a nu tuber of the firm, has left
town. It is alleged t'hat his speculation in
wheat caused the collapse.
500 Linen Hates 50c. Phillips.
LANDED EXPEDITION.
The Steamer Florida Made a Successful
Trip to Cuba.
Key West .May 31 —The steamer Florida
returned this morning from Cuba, having
successfully landed a most important ex
pedition.
SELLERS RIGHT.
Phillips’ $1.50 Straw hats.
EIGHT REGIMENTS
Will Leave Chickamauga Within Forty-Eight
Hours.
Chattanooga, Tenn., May 31.—Prepara
tions for the departure of eight regiments
of infantry from Chickamauga for Tamipa
.ire being vigorously pushed today and the
indications arc that .alt of the eight will
get out during the next forty-eight hours.
The first to go will be the .First Illinois,
First Ohio. 15" Indiana and Third Penn
sylvania, under command of Brigadier
General Snyder.
The second detachment will probably
leave tomorrow, composed of the Second
New York. Sixty-ninth New York. First
District of Columbia and Fifth Maryland.
Brigadier General iL. .11. Carpenter will
omm.uid.
Each of tlie eight regiments will be
i quipped with Springfield rifles, calibre 45,
and :>OO rounds of ammunition. Each regi
ment will provide itself with two day’s
travel of rations in haversack and eight
day's full rations in wagon train. Fifty
days full rations will .be shipped by rail
to the chief commissary at Tampa. The
First Mississippi infantry, 1,02.8 mtn. Col.
(Itorge <M. Govan, arrived this morning.
LADIES’ UMiBRELLAS \ND PAR VSOLS
Special discount sale. Phillips.
OFFEREDBRYAN
A REGIMENT
The Governor of Louisiana
Asks Him to Take
a Command.
St. Louis. May 31.—.A special to the Post-
Dispatch from Jefferson City. .Mo., says:
Governor Stephens in a telegram today
offered wimniand Os a Missouri regiment
to William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska,
"in view of the fact that he (Bryan) can
not get a regiment "from his own state.”
LONGSTREET
Os Georgia and Rowan of the 19th. Ge
Army Places.
M ashington. May 31. —The (president to
day sent to the senate the name of Robert
Lee Longstreet, of Georgia to be commis
sary of subsistence with the rank of major
and Lieutenant Andrew Rowan of the 19th
Infantry, to be lieutenant colonel.
HOPES TO GET A VOTE.
Washington. May 31.—Senator John T.
Margan. of'Alabama, speaking of the Nica
ragua Canal bill, said:
”1 have hope of getting a vote on the
canal bill before the adjournment of con
gress. The question of building an inter
j oceanic canal is. to my mind, one of the
. most importnat matters of the time. There
Is every reason why the canal should be
I looked upon with favor.
The bill now before the Nicaragua Ca
; nal committee appropriates SIftO.OOO.OOd
i for the construction of the waterway be
| tween the two great oceans. It provides,
j also, for the purchase of the stock of the
Maritime Canal Company. This company
has valuable concession, which are neces
sary before the canal can be begun."
Keep cool in our 81.00 negligees. Harry
L. Jones Co.
THE MACON“NEWS.
PRESIDENT FOR
ANNEXATION
He Says That It is a Necessity
and Should be Speedily
Accomplished.
ULURS IT MT! HOUSE,
President Was Closeted With Rep
resentatives and Senators—
Cabinet Meeting Today,
Washington, May 31—President .McKin
ley had a number of personal conferences
with senators- mid representatives during
the early part of the day.
Four senators, Messrs. Platt, of New
York, Frye, of Maine, Gorman, of Mary
land, and Turpie, of Indiana, and Repre
sentatives Updegraff, of Ohio, Clarke, of
New (Hampshire, Weymouth, of (Massachu
setts. Evans, of Kentucky, were among
those who saw him.
It was regular cabinet day. a fact which'
tended to cut down the usual number of
visitors.
'Adjutant General Corbin had a confer
ence with him over some army appoint
ments and some other matters incident to
the volunteer services.
The president has received no informa
tion of any Important developments in
the war situation up to the conferring of
the cabinet.
Representative Cannon, of Illinois,
chairman of the house appropriations
committee, was at the White House for a
little while waiting to see the president.
He had been in conference with the war
department officials over the moneys
needed to be carried in the general defi
ciency bill. He said the additional esti
mates growing out of the second call for
volunteers would not be less than $40,000.-
000 nor more than $50,000,000. This brings
to about $200,000,000 the aggregate to be
carried by the general deficiency whicX
will be reported to the house when the
war revenue bill has .passed the senate.
Senators Lodge, Foraker, Lindsay and
Hanna wer closeted with the president
separately.
The president during the forenoon took
occasion in interviews with his callers to
reiterate the conviction that the annex
ation of Hawaii should be speedily accom
plished.
THE CORDAGE TRUST
Gets a New Lease on Life Because of Dew
ey's Victory.
New York, May 31. —(The war has reviv
ed tfie rope industry in this country, and
Rear 'Admiral Dewey's signal victory at
Manila has put the American manufacto
ries in the way of making fortunes. As a
result it is understood that the manufac
turers and other will revive the cordage
trust soon.
•Manila was, outside of Mexico, the main
supply for raw material, and since .Admi
ral (Dewey has closed that port prices have
suddenly boomed up from 3% cents a
pound to Sv. cents a pound for raw manila
hemp. There is no chance to purchase
■Manila hemp for future shipment, which
is usually done when .prices are normal.
SPAIN SBOATS
Are Out of Order arid Camaia
is Delayed.
Gibraltar, (May 31 —.Advices from Cadiz
say that all the guns of both the batteries
and forts are being replaced by heavier
guns. It is reported that the departure
of Admiral Camara’s fleet has been delay
ed by defects discovered in the torpedo
boats.
STEAMER WRECKED.
She Went Ashore Off the Coast of Jamaica
This Morning.
Boston, .Mass.,. May 31—The (Boston
Fi uit -Company received a cablegram this
morning announcing that their large
steamer Belvidere, which left Jamaica
Wednesday night, is ashore on Cape Maysi
in eastern end of Cuba and is .probably a
total wreck. 'The fate of the passengers
and crew is unknown, but it is thought
that they were possibly rescued. Among
rhe passengers was Senqr Capote, vice
president of the .Cuban republic.
TO RAISE CAVALRY.
Bili Introduced Today Providing for a Man
in Dakota.
Washington. May 31 —Senator Pettigrew
today introduced a bill temporarily to in
crease the army of the United States.
It provides for the appointment of Ed
mond E. English, of Yankton, S. D., as
colonel and that be be authorized under
the direction of the secretary of war to
enlist and equip twelve troops of ligh't
cavalry for service in the Philippines.
quickwork -
IN SPEER’S COURT
Grand Jury Met but Was in
Session Only a Few
Hours.
The grand jury in the United States
I court met this morning and after having
I been charged by the court at onee pro
ceeded to the ir.vastigation of the cases
now in jail awaiting action by the grand
jury.
It was a short session and the jury ad
journed shortly after 1 o’clock after having
returned true bills against the following
prisoners in the jail.
Sidney M. Johnson, colored, from the
Macon postoffice for larceny from the
mails.
Ben Davis, colored, burglary from the
mails at Plains. Ga.
John Fadden, burglary from the post
office at Kite.
Virgil Williams, burglary from the post
office at Tarver. Ga.
Following were the members of the
grand jury:
Hamilton A Reid. James L. Dupriest,
N. L. Shelverton, M. L. Byington. F. A
Maidox. Clayton Sasser, Daniel D. Adams,
T. J. Holliman, Robert Young. Charles C.
Holt. John C. Mix. J. C. Wood, S. Napier,
C. B. Ellis, J. S. Spence. William C. Faulk,
J. W. Palmer, F. D. Ong. W. I. Griffin,
E R. Off, W. F. Elder, I S Reid, foreman.
m Von news Tuesday may 3 i 1898.
'i
PRESIDtfiT IS
IMPATIENT
Has Determined to Pursue a
More Vigorous Policy
at Once.
INVASION OE CUBA
And Porto Rico Must Take Place
Without Further Delay—Army
Not Yet Equipped,
New York, May 31. —The World pub
lishes the following from its Washington
correspondent:
President (McKinley has expressed con
siderable dissatisfaction with the slow pro
gress made in preparing the troops for act
ual service. He is surprised to find that
scarcely more than one-half of the men
are fit for service in the field, and he has
made a’searching inquiry as to the cause.
He was told that the reason the men
had not been provided with uniforms and
guns was that the contractors were slow in
filling the orders placed with them. He
thereupon directed that more speed be
made in getting the men ready. More than
twenty transports are waiting at Key West
to take the troops to •Cuba.
The .president inquired particularly of
Secretary Alger and General (Miles as to
the condition of the entire 121,000 volun
teers who have been mustered into the
service of the United States since his call
on April 23d. He was informed that the
troops in all the camps at the South were
in no better condition. He ..han asked for
estimates as to the length of time it will
take to get the men ready. The estimates
he received ranged from ten to twenty
days. The latter estimate represented the
opinion of the quartermaster general.
\\ ithin that time, he was told, at least
125,000 troops, including the regulars, who
are now ready, can be put into the field,
thoroughly equipped for action.
The president made particular inquiry
concerning the number of troops available
for duty in Cuba, and intimated that the
first order to engage the troops now ready
wo-uld be in Porto Rico. Secretary .Alger
told him that 25,000 men could be sent
away from Key (West and Tampa in six
hours, ready for service.
The- president’s inquiry and Secretary
Alger’s response are interpreted to mean
that the occupation of Porto .Rico will be
inaugurated during the present week. Such
is the expectation of the military men.
The departure of General 'Miles, who has
been ready for more than two weeks to
proceed to Tampa to lead the Cuban inva
sion, is again delayed Until the Porto .Rico
expedition is further advanced.
It is believed that General Brooko will
head the expedition to Porto Rico. The
(Porto .Rican campaign is looked’upon with
favor both by the president and General
(Miles, both from a military and hygenic
standpoint . It is contended that the island
will remove a point of refuge to any Span
ish fleet which might be sent over, by tak
ing away the coaling-station.
Although the president has been urged to
postpone the invasion of .Cuba until the
rainy season is over, and for a time favor
ed the .proposition, it is not believed that
he will consent to any further delay.
The plan of action, as his advisers un
derstand it, contemplates the greatest ex
pedition in getting the arniy ready for
service in Porto Rico and Cuba as soon
the Spanish war fleet has been disposed of
and rendered absolutely powerless to in
terfere with the thansport and landing of
troops. The military officials expect that
the Porto Rico expedition will go first, and
that the invasion of Cuba by the land
(forces will be simultaneous with the bom
bardment of Havana by the United States
W’arshlps.
The president is beginning to realize the
fact that the conduct of the war upon the
lines of bloodless and peaceful campaigning
is being severely criticised. The war has
already lasted thirty-nine days and prac
tically no progress has been made toward
accomplishing the purpose of the United
States in declaring war on Spain—that of
driving the (Spanish from the island of
Cuba. The war has cost the government
in round numbers $100,000,000, the Spanish
are still in control of the island and the
work of driving them out is apparently
much more difficult now that it was when
the war started.
STRAIW .HATS,
Special values $1,25. Harry L. Jones Co.
WILL REPORT -
BACK TOMORROW.
Board of Education Held a
Special Called Meeting
Last Night.
The Board of 'Education held an imipor
tamt meeting last night on a special call
for the purpose of deciding on the amount
of the appropriation to be asked for from
the board of county commissioners.
After the reports of the committees were
received the board referred the matter to
a sub-committee which will report at a
meeting to be held tomorrow morning.
It was “decided by the board to purchase
filters for the schools in order that the
danger from the unfiltered water might
be oone away with.
The report of the superintendent on the
school census as given in The News yes
terday was received with the greatest sat
isfaction by the board. •
According to the consolidated returns
which was just made up there are 14,008
children of school age in Bibb county. This
is an increase of 1.414 over 1893. when the
la.-; census was taken. By school age is
meant children .between the ages of 6 and
IS.
The percentage of increase in the county
is a little over 11 per cent. The illiteracy
in the county among children of school
age is only S’a per cent., including both
white and black, the actual figures being
< < white persons of school age who cannot
read and write and 41S colored, making a
total of 495 children of school age in the
county who can neither read or write.
The 14.008 children of school age in the
county are divided a? follows: Whites,
6,036; colored. 7,982, placing the colored in
the majority, but the percentage of in
crease since 1893 shows that the whites
have doubled the colored as follows:
1893—'Whites, 5,171.
1893 —Colored, 7,423.
Increased parcentage among'whites 16’5.
Increased percentage among colored 7%.
NO NEWS AT PORT AU PRINCE.
Port an Prince. May 30—There is no
news from Mole St. Nicholas or any point
likely to hear of war movement g
500 Linea Hates 50c. Phillips.
FRUIT GROWERS
ARE IN SESSION
Determined to Sell the Crop
on the Trees or bv Auc
tion at the Centres.
COMMISSION MH,
The Future of Georgia as a Fruit
Growing State Now Hangs in
the Balance.
About one hundred fruit growers of
Georgia are in the city today.
1 hey represent the most magnificent
crop of ipeaUhes this state lias ever known.
T hey are here to attend the meeting of
the association off fruit growers called (for
the purpose of discussing the question of
handling the 'crop of the state.
The meeting was called to order by Mr.
Dudley M. Hughes, of 'Danville. He said
in opening the meeting that he Was proud
to call so large a gathering of the growers
of the state together and announced the
meeting ready for 'business,
Mr. Cunningham, of Marietta, moved
that all present who were not bona fide
fruit growers, except the members of the
■press, 'be requested to leave. This was
amended by Judge Gclber, of Marietta, ask
ing that a call of the bona fide fruit grow
ers ‘be taken and that they only be al
lowed to vote.
. A. substitute for the whole was Offered
by Col. John IM. Stubbs, of Dublin, to the
effect hat every one be entitled to a seat
on the floor, but only bona fide (fruit grow
ers be entitled to vote.
Mr. Cunningham, 'president of the Amer
ican Fruit Growers Union, was called on.
He said that he would briefly discuss the
peaeii situation.
He said that the result of slipshod meth
ods this myear meant ruin. He proposed
to point out the defects and suggest a
remedy.
He said that the 'present crop was the
most magnificent the state has ever known
in nine years. The state will ship 2,000 cars
of peaches and perhaps 2,500. The price
of those peaches have got to be 'governed
by conditions and the control -©f the con
ditions are with the growers.
Heretofore there has 'been no attempt
at distribution. Un 1895 only the five prin
cipal markets were supplied. They were
glutted. The growers got nothing for their
fruit, and this year, unless there is or
ganization the conditions will be worse.
!Mr. Cunningham said that there were
two principal subjects to be discussed. The
first was distribution; the second cash
sales.
The question df'freight was, he said, an
other one for the 'consideration of the
glowers. They were (paying too much
freight, but to remedy this the growers
were (powerless. The state railroad com
mission had no 'control and the interstate
commission was an ornament.
Refrigeration, was another matter to be
discussed, but,’ after all, distribution was
the principal thing to be discussed, and
he would 'convince any sensible person
that the system ‘could ibe made perfect,
but this could not Ibe done without the
control of the bulk of the crop. The Amer
ican Fruit Growers Union has a perfect
sys'lem and with the assistance of the
growers they 'can control the crop to per
fection.
“This year,” said Mr. Cunningham,
emphatically, “settles the question of
Georgia’s supremacy as a fruit growing
state. Unless the crop is intelligently
handled half Os the peach orchards of the
state iwill 'be cut down before Christmas,
but if sensibly handled Georgia 'will be
the 'best fruit growing slate in the Union
and even this crop will not half suply the
demand.
“The Union was organized for the pur
pose of 'Controilin'g the shipment.”
Incidentaly IMr. (Cunningham said that
any 'cheap fruit lessened the cost of the
peach aes.
The Union went to pieces in 1895 because
they were unable to control the shipment
and prevent a glut.
A perfect system of distribution under,
present conditions is impossible, unless a
union controls 90 percent, of the fruit, (but
under this it is impossible to distribute
properly.
Mr. Cunningham outlined the plan
adopted by the American Fruit Growers’
Union. It now managed to dodge the other
fellows’ shipments. It can promise this to
the growers, 'but not to 'perfectly control
the price until it controls the crop.
Speaking of cash business, IMr. Cun
ningham said that no busines was as
loosely handled as the fruit (business in
the south. The plan in the souila is for the
growers to work hard to raise the crop,
to make up a car of peaches and allow it
to go to the first slick talking drummer
who gives the grower a good cigar.
In the west no drummer can get a car
of peaches on eommisison. All the fruit
is sold for •’cash. By the auction a man
gets every cent that 'his fruit 'brings. In
the west everyth! htgnista stgifwysh-a.m
the west everything that is not sold for
cash at home is sold a't auction in the
outside market.
Mr. Cunnigham advised the growers of
the state to put down their feet and swear
that they would not sell a box of peaches
exteept for cash at the orchard or at auc
tion abroad.
'Mr. Cunninham was followed by Mr. W.
L. Glessner and 'by Col. IStubbs, of Dublin.
Col. Stufdbs spoke eloquently and em
phatically. urging the growers to stand
together. He manner in which
the grower, as by himself, is
robbed by the eommWon men. He spoke
for nearly an hour to a most attentive
audience and the 'point of his whole ar
gument was that the growers must agree
to se'l'l their fruit at home for cash or at
auction.
He offered the following resolution:
Resolved, That we the fruit 'growers of
Georgia, well represented, hereby pledge
ourselves to either
Ist, Sell our present crop of peaches on
the trees or at the ipoint of shipment, or
2d. Ts not so sold to ship through the
American 'Fruit Growers’ Union, reserv
ing to each grower the right to direct the
sale of his fruit 'by auction or ottherwise to
be exercised at h’t edate of shipment.
After some discussion of the subject the
meeting adjourned at 1 o’clock to meet
at 2.
GOOD VALUES,
Our SI.OO negligees. Harry L. Jones Co.
BREAK IN WHEAT
CAPS THE CLIMAX
It Went Down With a Rush
and It is Now Calculated
to Stay Down.
Chicago, May 31 —Today saw the climax
of the Leiter wheat deal and May was
down 50 cents to $1.25. There was a big
break in the deferred futures on the fa
vorable crop reports; large receipts every
where and enormous wofj<|’s shipments.
COTTON FUTURES.
New York, May 31 —'Futures steady.
June €4l, July 645, August 652, September
637, October 636, November 636 and 637.
December 638, January 639.
CAN’T TOUCH US
Woven Madras Negligee Shirts, $1 00.
Phillips.
DEMONSTRATIONS
FORJANDLER
The Mass Meeting at the
Court House Tonight to
Nominate Delegates.
WITHOUT OPPOSITION
The One-eyed Plough Boy From
Pigeon Roost Will Go Into the
Gubernational Race.
A mass meeting will be held at the Bibb
county court house tonight. It will be a
mass meeting practically though it is sup
posed to be a meeting of the Candler
Club.
The purpose of the meeting is to select
the delegates who will represent the Cand
ler interests at the convention and who
will be voted for at the primaries on next
Monday night.
Jud c W. D. Nottingham, as the presi
dent of the Candler Club, will call the
meeting to order and the selection of the
delegates will then take place.
Os course it is impossible to predict who
these delegates will be but they will toe
from the strong Candler merr in the coun
ty. It is true, of course, that the county
is now solidly for Candler and it is well
nigh impossible to find a man in the coun
ty who does not claim to be an original,
but there are a few of the originals left
and they will (be given the honor of being
on the delegation.
It is not all probable that the other two
candidates, Atkinson and Berner, will have
any delegates out in this county and the
election will go all one way so far as
Bibb is concerned and as Bibb goes so does
the state.
The talk of Atkinson has been steadily
on the wane for the last thirty days until
now it is hard to find an Atkinson man in
the county.
Berner has a few friends, but they will
hardly muster up enough courage and
enough money to put out a delegation to
represent him on Monday next.
The meeting tonight will be all one way
and will be a purely formal matter
though it may be looked upon as a (big
day for those who formed the club a short
few months ago. (At the time the enthu
siasm was very cool and only about four
or five people were gathered together on
the call for the forming of a Candler Club.
The club was formed, however, in the firm
belief that Candler would win out and that
the sentiment of 'Bibb county was in his
favor. The result has shown how correct
was that opinion.
The club has now several hundred mem
bers and is the strongest organization of
the kind that this county has ever had.
The* effort that has been made by tho
morning paper and a few of the Atkinson
gang to belittle and besmear Candler have
only seemed to strengthen him in Bibb
county. The people have made up their
minds to administer a stinging rebuke to
the little clique that thinks it can influ
ence public opinion in this county.
The nomination of Candler delegates to
night. The election of those delegates on
Monday next and the nomination of Cand
ler next month will Ibe a bitter pill for thS
Atkinson railroad combination to swal
low.
It will be also a rebuke to those who
have joined with the Republicans in their
desire to defeat Candler at any cost.
It has been the desire of tho lilly whiles
to defeat Candler because they knew that
Atkinson could ibe influenced better than
Candler to the hurt of the Democratic
party.
UNKNOWN~DEAD
AT ANDERSONVILLE
One and Perhaps Two More
Numbered Among the
Slain There.
'As usual the Andersonville celebration
and observance of Decoration Day was des
ecrated yesterday at the buryin ground of
the soldiers of the North by the most dis
graceful brawls among the semi-savages
who thronged over the grounds.
It was simply a repetition of the .annual
free fight at Andersonville. The fight and
the murder, the heathenish riot and tho
barbarous enjoymen't of the rowdies who
go to celebrate and not to commemorate
make the chief feature of the day so far as
the outside public is concerned.
•All the other parts of the program sink
into insignificance. But few respectable
people go there except those who have rel
atives buried there and to them the scenes
enacted at these revelries are as terrible
and even more than to any one else.
The public simply understands that a
program for the observance of the day is
fixed up and that this is gone through by
the minority, while the great majority be
ing made up of negroes of 'the worst kind,
having simply gone there for the purpose
of picnicing and drinking proceed to get
drunk, and the day never ends up without
the shedding of blood.
Yesterday as soon as the train from An
dersonville arrived in the city a negro
named Ed Washington, was taken from
the train and locked up in the barracks,
charged with 'being drunk and disorderly
and the carrying of concealed weapons.
He was identified by another negro as the
one who beat him over the head with a
brick ,and it is said that he is the negro
•who cut a negro named Wiley Jaques, who
lives in Unionville and who is “thought to
be fatally stabbed.
This, however, is denied by the negro
and his friends.
That some one was stabbed and that he
lost enough blood to make up two murders,
was evident from the condition of the car
when it came to Macon. It was also evi
dent that there had been a hot time on the
way from Andersonville. The car looked
as if a cyclone had struck it. The floor was
bloody and all over it were scattered bits
of clothing, and it is to be supposed that a
close examination would have shown that
there was plenty of hair mixed in "<jth
'the muss.
Tne windows were broken, ahd in a gen
eral way the car looked like a free fi?ht
and a good one a.i ihat, had taken place in
The negroes themselves would not talk
much about the affair. It was reported
that two negroes had been killed. Again
.t was said th art three men and a woman
had been killed, and a negro standing toy
the one who was convying this misinfor
mation to the reporter, said:
Go way, niggah, yo doan know how
many dey is daid.”
It seems certain, however, that a't least
one man was killed, but who he is and
what he is, or where they left him, no one
seems to know. It is more than probable
that he will be counted among the un
known dead at AndersouYille.
LIGHT PLANT
CHANGES HANDS
It Was Sold This Morning by
the Receiver to the High
est Bidder at Outcry.
MACON ANO INDIAN SPRINGS
The Purchasers-Will linproue the
Plant at Once —Terms of
the Sale.
The electric light plant of the Macon Gas
Light and (Water Company was sold this
morning at public outcry on the steps of
the United States court house.
it was bought in by the (Macon and In
dian Spring Street Car Company for the
sum of $40,000, which was the upset price
fixed by the court.
There were no other 'bidders. 'Mr. J. H.
Hertz, representing the Macon and Indian
'Spring Street Car Company was the bid
der, and the crying took but a short time,
as it was known that there would be no
other offers for the property, which was
sold by 'Mr. T. D. Tinsley, the receiver of
the 'Macon Gas Light and Water Company.
The purchase consists of the poles and
wires of the present company, together
with all ©fits machinery. The purchasers
have the privilege to remain in the pres
ent 'building until the purchase money has
all been paid. Under the sale the purchas
ers are given one year in which, to make
the payments. The purchase money is
paid in four quarterly installments of
SIO,OOO each.
The new purchasers of the property will,
•as soon as is practicable put in new ma
chinery, and will improve the capacity of
the plant so as to make it adequate to the
demands of the town.
'lt is proposed to give 'Macon an electric
light plant that is second to none in the
state. Within as short a time as it will
take to make the arrangements the plant
will be renewed and Macon will then be
one of the best lighted towns in the state.
Special this week, $1.25 straws. Harry
L. Jones Co.
MAY LEAVE BRYAN OUT.
Washington, May 31.—The aspirations of
'William Jennings Bryan to lead a regi
ment to the front may toe thwarted, as
will be the case with a large number of
civilians who have been organizing regi
ments in anticipation of the second call
for troops. This Is brought about by the
policy to be .pursued in organizing troops
under the second call. It is proposed to
fill up the regiments now organized so as
to bring them up to their maximum
strength before attempting to organize
new regiments. Mr. Bryan is not the only
one doomed to disappointment. (In many
of the states it will take nearly ell the en
tire quota under the second call to fill the
organizations already sent to the field.
NW ARBiIViA'I.S
In SI.OO negligees. Harry 1.. Jones Co.
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leather. See our handsome line of Buckles.
TRUNKS REPAIRED.
No dray age charged..
G. BERND cSc CO.,
450 Cherry Street - Macon, Ga.
Said a
Discriminating Woman--
“John C. Eads & Co’s are not of the same class as
the catch-penny goods of other stores.” That is a
fair statement of the case—as the public sees it. We
object to calling such a vast sale of Clothing a “Bar
gain Sale,” but the public don’t seem to spare our
scruples. Buying bright, new, stylish Clothing at a
liberal discount off its real value is a “Bargain Sale”
in the extreme. Well, so be it. A bargain sale here
means getting what one wants and paying unexpect
edly little for it.
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money on Hann.
Loans on real estate. Easy monthly
payments.
GEO. A. SMITH, Gen. Man.
Equitable Building and Loan Association,
Macon, (la.. 461 Third Street.
PRICE THREE CENTS
FLORIDA LANDS
PARTY OF COBANS
About Twenty-five Miles From
Havana and Not a Shot
Was Fired.
SHE IS QUARANTINED
And Not a Word Can be Obtained
From the Vessel by Junta’s
Representative.
Key M cst, May 31—The steamer Florida
which left on the 21st to land a party of
Cubans on the island has returned.
She is quarantined, but will probably be
released today.
Not a line of any authentic news has
been received from her. It is reported that
she landed her party about twenty-five
miles east of Hava and that not a shot
was fired.
Senor Polo, the local delegate of th<
Cuban Junta, has official information that
the Florida expedition has been landed.
JURY’S VERDICT
MAKES IT USURY.
Will be a Startling Decision
in Financial Circles in
the City.
J'URY'S VERDICT MAKE'S IT USURY
The verdict of the jury in the case of
Dottenheimer against Ashworth in the
United States court this morning is calcu
lated to create no little stir in the com
munity and in finanonal circles all over
the state.
The plaintiff borrowed money on prop
erty from the Union Savings Bank. The
money was not paid, the mortgage was
foreclosed and the property sold to Ash
worth by the bank.
The plaintiff claimed that the sale was
improperly made.
The loan foreclosure and the sale were
conducted on the usual plan.
Supposing a loan of a thousand dollars
is wanted, for five years at eight per cent,
which would be SIOO. This is added to the
principal and the borrower gives sixty
norese payable monthly for $23.33 cents,
each making an aggregate of $1,400.
(The claim was made that this was a
species of usury, as the 'bank got some
thing like 12 per cent on its money.
Mr. Washington Dessau, acting as pro
hoc judge, iji his charge said that if usury
existed the deed to Ashworth and the sale
of the property under the foreclosure is
void.
The jury evidently found that there was
•tTsury, as they brought in a verdict for
the plaintiff.