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ESTABLISHED 1884
FIGHT NEAR MffllU
SPANISH LOSE HEAVILY.
Engagement on Joly 31 io Which Eleven American Soldiers
Were Killed aod Twenty-Eight Wounded.
GENERAL ATTACK
On Manila Has Probably Been
Made by This Time
Though News is
Delayed.
IISURGENTS ARE NEUTRAL
I
And Did Not Assist the American
Troops Spaniards Lost, It is
Thought, Over Five
Hundred Men.
New York. August 9. -A copyrighted ca
blegram from Manila Bay. on August 4th,
via Hen Kong to the Evening World gives
the following particulars of the lighting
nt-ar Manila on July 31.
item ral (»re< ne s fores, numbering 3,000,
had been advancing and entrenching.
Tin arrival of the third expedition filled
the Spaniards with lago and they deter- |
mined to give battle before Camp Dewey I
could be reinforced.
The trenches extended from the beach I
300 yard to the left think of the insur
gents. Sunday was the insurgent feast
day and their left flank withdrew, leaving
\nierl an right Hank exposed.
('oinp .nies \ and E of the Tenth I’enn-
and the Utah battery were ordered
to reinforce the right flank
In the midst of a raging typhoon, with a
tremendous downpour of rain the entity's
f rec. estimated at 3,000 men, attempted to
surprise the camp, our pickets being
driven In and the trenches assaulted.
The bravo Pennsylvania men never
flinched but stood their ground under a
withering tire The alarm was spread and
the First California regiment with two
companies of the Third artillery, who
fight with rifles, w. re sent to reinforce
the Pennslyvania
Tli. enemy were on the top of the I
trenches when the reinforcements arrived,
and never was the discipline of regulars
'better demonstrated than by the work of
the Third artillery under Captain O’Hara.
Nothing could be seen but the flashes of
the Mauser rilles The nun ran right upto
the attacking Spaniards and mow. d them
down with regular volleys. The Utah bat
tery. under Captain Young, covered itself
with glory The men nulled their field
guns through the mud axle deep.
Two guns were sent around in the flank
and poured in a destructive enfilading fire.
The enemy was repulsed and r. trei'ed in
disot der.
Oi- itifcnlry lu d exhaust. 1 ih-’ir am
munition and did not follow them.
Not an inch of ground was lost.
During the flashes of lightning the dead
and wounded could In 1 seen lying in blood
red water, but neither the elements of
heaven nor tile destructive power of man
could wring a cry of protest from the
wounded They encouraged their com
rades to fight ami handed over their cart
ridge belts.
I hiring the night the Sixuiish scouts were
seen carrying off their dead and wounded
Tlie Vmeriean dead were buried next day
in the convent grounds.
On the night of August 1 the lighting
was renewed, but the enemy had been
taught a lesson and made the attack at
long range with heavy artillery.
The Utah battery replied and the artil
lery duel lasted an hour. One man was !
killed He was Fred Springer, of the First '
■Colorado, and two men were wounded.
On the night of August 2 the artillery .
duel was renewed. Two men were badly
wounded and are now reported dead, which I
brings the total dead to thirteen, with ten j
in the hospital mortally wounded.
NEWS FROM HONG KONG.
Another Account of the Batt’e at the
Philippines.
Hong Kong. August 9 The German
steamer I’etrarich which left Manila on
August 6 arrievd here today and brought i
the tire news of a severe engagement be
tween the Spaniards and the Americans i
near Manila.
The VnitTicans were victorious and only !
lost eleven men and thirty -even wound- i
ed.
The Spanish losses are not known, but ;
are reported heavy. The Insurgent forces I
remained neutral.
\n a: ack was made on the American j
camp b 'we.ti Cav. e and Manila duri I
the night of July 31st. The Spaniards, j
who numbered over 3.000 n'. n. made sev- j
eral desperau charges upon the American j
lints. but each time the fire of the Amer- I
lean ttiHips drove the Spaniards back and
finally broke .be Spanish centre and '.he ,
enemy retreated
Later the Spaniards trade a second at- I
tack ‘but were again repulsed and retreat- ;
ed Into the bush keeping up an incessant
fin ■” th- • is leading ;<■> Manila * >r
which'they apparently expected the Amer- ‘
lean troops to advance.
Some estimates place the Spanish losses '
at over 500 men killed and wounded.
BEGiMNiNG OF ATTACK.
Washington. August 9—Secretary Alger
regards th< Manila fight as the .beginning
of a general attack on the Philippine cap
ital.
DISPATCH FROM DEWEY.
Gives the Particu'ars of ths Fight With List
of Killed.
Washington. August 9 —The war depart
ment today rect ived the following from
Hong Kong
Adjutant General. Washington—iMaear
thur's troops arrived on the 31st There
is no epedimle of sickness. F'j Ve deaths
have occurred. Lieutenant Kerr, of the ’
engineers died of spinal m< ningetis.
The landing at the camp was delayed on
account of a high surf To gain an <ap- I
proaeh to the city Greene's outposts were
advanced to Kuline from Camino Real to ,
the beach on Sunday night.
The Spanish attacked sharply. The ar- ,
4
4
tillery outposts behaved well and held the
position. It was necessary to call out the
brigade. The Spanish loss la rumored,
heavy.
Our loss, killed is:
Tenth Pennsylvania, John Brady. Wal
ter E. Brown, William E. Brinton, Jacob
Hull, Jee.se Noss, William Stillw'agon.
First California, (Maurice Just.
Third artillery, Eli 'Dawson.
First Colorado, Fred Springstead, seri
ously wounded.
Tenth. Pennsylvania, Sergeant Alva
Walter, Privates Lee Snyder, Victor
Holmes. C. S. Carter, Arthur Johnson.
First ‘California, Captain It. Richter,
Private C. J. Edwards.
Third artillery. Privates Charles Wln
j- fl< Id anil J. A. MeElroth.
Thirty-eight were slightly wounded.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT
Says that Volunteers Made a Glorious De
fense Against Odds.
San Francisco, August !).—A special to
the Examiner from Manila, dated July 31,
via Hong Kong, says.
"A heavy engagement took place be
tween the American and Spanish forces at
Malate. The Spanish made an attack, at
tempting to turn our right. After an
hour’s fighting they were repulsed.
The troops engaged were the First bat
ballion of the California volunteers, the
Tenth Pennsllvania, the First battalion erf
the Third artillery of regulars and battery
A, Utah. Our loss was nine killed and
forty-four wounded. The Spanish loss was
: upward of 200 killeel ami 300 wounded.
Dur volunteers made a glorious defense
i against upwards of 3,000 of an attacking
force. Thi' battie rag'd for three hours.
NO MORE TROOPS
TO PORTO RICO.
General Miles Savs He Has
- Enough to Complete Con
quest of Island.
Washington, August 9—The secretary of
war has stopped the despatch of further
i reinforcements to Porto Rico.
Miles reported this morning that the
force at his command was ample for the
purpose of completing the conquest of the
island.
This leaves all of Wade’s provisional
corps of eighteen regiments still in the
United States. •
It Is believed that all of General Wil
son’s division except the Third Kentucky
and the Fifth Illinois has already sailed
ami will be allowed to proceed.
The two regiments above named are at
Newport News and will be detained there
for the present.
RESIGNATIONS
Os Officers Now on Duty at Porto Rico Are
Accepted.
Washington, August 9--The president
has accepted the resignations of Colonel
Charles F Woodward. Lieutenant Colonel
George 11. Chaffin. ‘Major George H. Tay
lor and Captain U. A. Goodall, tig
sixth ’Massachusetts now on duty al Porto
Rico.
They have been discharged from further
service. 'No explanation concerning the
matter is given at the war department,
but the press dispatches spoke of trouble
in the regiment.
HIS OLD TONGUE
Spoken by an English Planter at Porto Rico
for First Time in Many Years.
New Aork. August 9. —A special from
Ponce, August 4ch, says;
"In Porto Rico there is no desire ex
‘ pressed for anything except annexation to
the United States. Trade connections and
political sympathies are mostly American.
I Spanish volunteers say that they were im
pressed into the service against their in
■ eliuation. and wherever our army has its
headquarters they are glad to surrender
and take an oath of new allegiance. Eng
lish and French settlers are strongly pro-
American. General Roy Stone was enter
taimd by a delightful English planter, who
had not spoken his own tongue for twenty
years. Natives would probably organize
a revolt if Porto Rico did not become one
of the United States.
"Major General Wilson has moved his
headquarters from Ponce to Juan ’Diaz. 1 ’
Norwegian sis
WAR PRIZES.
Captured bv the Hawk and the
Viking Off Island of
Cuba,
Key West. August 9—Two Norweigian
steamers have been add.d to the United
States’ large collection of war prizes.
They are the Aladdin, captured by the
auxiliary gunboat Iktwk off Cadiz light on
t'ae Island of Pines on Saturday last and
tne Bergen, taken by the auxiliary gnr;-
boat Viking off Francis Keys sundjr
The Aladdin had cleared from Tampico,
Mexico, for Santiago LaGrande with a
, cargo of sugar.
, The Berger, was ostensibly hound from
Santiago for the same port for the pur
pose, it is said, of taking off the refugees
Both steam.rs were seized without diffi
culty and brought in today, by prize crews,
respectively under command of Ensign
I Schofield and Lieutenant Belles.
TRANSPORTS ARRIVE.
Delayed at Honolulu bet Reached Cavite on
Saturday.
San Francisco, August 9—A special to
the Cal! from Cavite dated August 6 says:
"Three transports which sailed from San
, Francisco with Merritt, but which were
‘ delayed at Honolulu arrived today. Tire
I Monitor Monterery has also arrived.
THE MACON 32KWS.
MILES MOVES
ON TO SAN JUAN
I
Porto Rican Volunteers Have
a Brush With the Enemy
Near Adjiuntas.
ALL TBMPS 01 THE MARCH
Towards the Capital of the Island-
Officers Think There Will Be
No More Fighting.
Ponce, Porto Rico, August B—Geperal
Henry with the Sixth Illinois and Sixth
Massachusetts, will move tomorrow by
way of .Adjiuntas on Arecibo, which Is
about twenty miles north of Adjiuntas.
The short stretch road that they have to
follow is in a very bad condition. 'Practi
cally all of our troops will then be in mo
tion towards San Juan.
General Schwan Is at Yarco, .General
Wilson is near Coamo, and General
Brooke It at Guayama.
The Porto Ricans enlisted by General
Stone engaged with a small Spanish out
post between Adjiuntas and Utuado on the
road to 'Arecibo. A skirmish took place
last night and during the exchange of
shots one Spanish officer was killed.
General 'Miles, with several troops of
cavalry, expects to follow (Henry in a day
or two. If peace is promptly declared,
Miles will be the first to enter San Juan,
going 'by railroad from Areibo to the 'Porto
Rican capital.
In view of the news received about
the progress of the peace negotiations all
American officers appear to believe r| at
there will be no more fighting. The fleet
is in the haFbor of vPonce.
SCARED LAD
Thought that He Would Be Buried Alive by
the Americans.
Philadelphia, August 9.—Rev. Dr. Henry
C. McCook, special commissioner of the
National Relief Association, who has just
returned from Cuba, relates this incident
■of the battle of El Caney:
"After the capture of the fort that
crowped the hill at El Caney, a burial
party under Captain Allen proceeded to
inter tlie Spanish dead, which was done by
laying them in their own trenches dug be
fore the breastworks, as was also done in
San Juan.
"Nearby lay a lad of seventeen, shoV
through the hips. As the bodies of his
comrades were borne behind him he would
turn his head and follow the sad work with
a horror-stricken countenance.
/The American officer observed his face,
and, rightly discerning his feelings, called
an interpreter and assured the youthful
soldier that no harm would be done him.
" ‘Shall I not be buried alive along with
my dead comrades?” was the anxious
querry.’
‘No. you shall be cared for presently
and your wounds dressed and tended as if
you were an American.’
"The youth’s face was instantly trans
formed. His horror was changed to hap
piness, his fear to friendship. He reached
out his band to Captain Allen with profuse
thanks, and until he was taken to the hos
pital showed his gratitude by shaking
hands with every American who came near
him.”
WILL PROBABLY
BUILD NEW BOAT.
Stockholders of Navigation
Company Meet this As-
•ternoon.
The stockholders of the ‘Macon Naviga
tion Company will hold a meeting this af
ternoon to discuss plans for building a new
boat to ply between Macon and Bruns
wick.
It is highly probable that a new boat
will be built as several of the stockholders
expressed themselves, this morning, be
ing in favor of a new boat.
The boat, the City of Macon, which now'
plies between iMacon and Brunswick, is
becoming a source of revenue to the stock
holders and a great reduction in rates to
the merchants of the city and all of them
seem to think that a new boat to run in
connection with the present one, would be
of more benefit, both to the company and
to the merchants.
President George A. Smith, of‘the Navi
gation Company, said this morning: “This
trip of the boat has been a very profitable
one and never before has the boat made 1
a trip under similar circumstances. The ’
river was full of water, fuller than it has
been for fifteen years and the boat made
the quickest trip since she has b ee n on the
river.
"If we decide to build a new boat, >\e I I
will have a regular schedule and a h«at
will leave the city once a week. Jhis will
make it more convenient for the mer
chants.
‘‘lt has been the impression for some
time that we have been fighting the rail
roads but the idea is wrong as we get
along very well with the railroads.”
“The new boat, If. we build one, will ’
greatly improve our line and in the course <
of a few more years we hope to haye a fiji?
line of boats plying between hepe and the ;
coast. •- ,
The City of Macon will leave tomorrow
morning at 6 o’clock for Brunswick in
charge of th* new captain. Mr. Hathaway.
Mr. Hathaway thoroughly understands |
boats and will make a splendid master. ■
The boat will carry a good cargo on the
return trip. Mr. Irvine, proprietor of the
Georgia Music House, ships three pianojj
on this trip.
If the weather is good Captain Hath
away expects t« make the trip to Bruns
wick and ceturu in about ten days.
AT CHICKAMAUGA.
General Snodgrass Reviewed the Troops on
Snodgrass Hill. 1
Chickamauga August 9.—General Breck- I
Inridge reviewed the greater part of the
men on Snodgrass Hill today. The pay- I
masters are now progressing rapidly with I
their work. All the matters which caused ’
the delay at first having been satisfactory |
ly arranged.
The Third Tennessee, the First Vermont
and the Eighth New York, composing Col- i
by’s brigade, are moving to a eamping site
near Dalton. The former position occupied
by the brigade for some time is considered
too shady, and the health of the men is
expected to be much better in the new lo- ■
cation.
Brigadier General Rosser is in Chatta
nooga m with fever.
MACON NEWS TUESDAY AUGUST 9 1898.
SEND SUPPLIES
TO OUR SOLDIERS
Bovs at Camp Thomas Should
Get the First Considera
tion from Macon.
NEED MANY COMFORTS
And Even Necessaries—Have Not a
Pillow or Medicines—Should
Go Through Commissary.
Macon people returning from the camp
of the Macon soldiers at Chickamauga say
that if the ladies of the Relief Association
of the city could see the condition of the
boys they would very promptly stop send
ing assb tance ito the regular troops at
Fort McPherson and would devote their
whole time and attention to the care of
our own troops.
While every one lauds the efforts that
have been made by the good women of
Macon in behalf of the soldiers generally
and every one appreciates the patriotism
that prompts the giving of assistance to
the wounded men at Fort Mc’Pherson. it
is Important that the attention of the la
dles should be drawn to the fact that the
Macon boys are now stationed at Camp
Thomas.
A letter received today from one of the
soldiers of the Macon contingent says that
the boys feel somewhat neglected and a
visitor to the camp returning to Macon
says that he was surprised to hear that
nothing was being done for the Macon sol
diers by the Macon people.
“The fact of the matter,” he said, “is
that the ladies of the Relief Association of
Macon do not understand the situation.
They are working for the general relief
of the soldiers of this country and the
soldiers at ’Fort McPherson are receiving
the greatest share of their attention while
our boys are 'in need of many things that
It is in our power to send them.
“There ought to be a more active work
done in behalf of the soldiers from .Macon
now at Camp Thomas. They are having
a hard time of it, and they are getting
nothing in the way of comforts from home.
The men of the city should not throw the
burden upon the women, but should con
tribute more liberally and the condition
should be that the fund is to be applied
exclusively to the assistance of the Macon
boys.
“I do not mean any reflection upon ithe
ladies who deserve all the credit 'imagin
able, but I do say that the men of Macon
should come forward spontaneously and
eon tribute largely to .his fund. I think,
too, that every cent and every comfort
that we can get together and that the
ladies receive from Macon people should
be sent to the Macon soldiers. They want
it and they need It badly. They are suf
fering for the small comforts and many
of them for the necess’itieo of life. I mean
that while they have enough to eat that
4s all that can be said for them. Many of
them are sick. They do not go to the hos
pitals, but they try to tough it through.
Some of them succeed in doing so at the
expense of their constitutions, but many
of them drag along in poor condition,
when a little help from home would set
them on their feet.
“It is all humbug to talk about the
physicians and the hospitals. It is worse,
humbug to talk of the fostering care of
Uncle Sam. They get little attention from
the physicians and none from the govern
ment. Our boys have not even a pillow
cn which to lay their heads. They have
not the proper medicines and they have
none of the little comforts that mean so
much to a soldier, but which in reality
costs so little.
“The ladles should not send the supplies
and contributions to the physicians, but
to the commissary of the companies and
let them be distributed by him among the
soldiers.
“The only thing that the Maccp Volun
teers have received from the Macon Relief
Associations have been the flannel bands
which, as a matter of fact, tho boys did
not know what to do with.
”1 do not want to be officious, but if the
ladies' Relief Association will go to the
privates and non-commissioned officers of
the Macon companies they will hear some
thing that will surprise them and will
cause them to stop sending relief to any
other place while their own soldiers stand
so badly in need of help.
”1 don’t believe there is a single member
pf the Macon companies who would allow
me to say what I am now saying if he
thought I was going to do lit, but I want to
say it for the good of the Ladies’ Relief
Association and for the good of the men at
Chickamauga.
‘■The merchants of Macon and the young
men who are at home, in fact, every one
of our people should gladly contribute to
the fund that will let these boys at least
be comfortable while they are within our
reach. It should not be a question of a
few' dollars, but of thousands of dollars, if
necessary, rather than that we should have
to blush for our selves w'hen we go there
and actually see the condition of things.
‘ As it is the boys contribute fifty cents
a month out of their pittance o make up
a sick fund. And the ocher day when a
member of the Volunteers hailing from
Mcßae died the boys clubbed together and
raised enough to send the body home and
give it a decent burial.”
S2,SOO”HASIFeN
SUBSCRIBED
For the Carnival-Committee
Will Begin Active Can
vass Next Week.
525.000 HA SBEEN SUBC ‘CRIBED
The finance committee of the C.%ro<val
Association bag not yet begun an active i
canvass subscriptions. They have been
very busy for the Past several weeks pre
paring letters to the merchants of the«<<ity
and they expect to mail them by Saturday.
The letters contain the general things !
which the Association proposes and show's
the benefit the Carnival will be to the city I
and asks for as large t-ontributione as pos
sible. r
Mr. Ell's Talbott, th§ chairman of the
finance committee, eatd thi° morning that
the eomtnUtee was getting on nicely and
'hat they had already 42,500 subscribed
and it was done 1 without canvassing.
He said that the committee would begin
an active canvass next w’eek. The rail
roads Lave not yet been heard from, but
it is expected that they will give more
money this year than they did last.
Mr. \V. R Pinkscon, the chief designer
of the Association, left this morninz for
St. Louis, where be goes to get new fea
tures for the floats.
The work cn ihe floats is progre.-sing
rapidly and many will be turned out within
the next few weeks.
Mr. Talbott says he thinks that the
committee will have no trouble in raising
the necessary amoun-t for the Carnival and ,
thinks that it can be done in a few days, i
WHEELMEN
Os America Are in Session at Indianapolis
Today.
Indianapolis, August 9.—The national
meet of the League of American Wheel
men began today
Today was given to preliminaries. To
night will be devoted to social informal re
ceptions. The first of the races will take
place tomorrow.
ACCEPTAKCE DF REPLY
STILL MATTER OF DOUBT
Up lo a Laie Hour It Had Not Seen Handed by M, Gam
bon to tbe President, but Contents Are Well Known,
SPANISH FEARS.
Returned Soldiers May Menace Home Insti
tutions?
Madrid, August 9 —The government is
perturbed over the prospect, in case of
peace, of the necessity to procure passage
here for 190,000 soldiers and 20,000 officeX
from Cuba and Puerto Rico, as well as to
see that they do not menace existing con
ditions after arrival.
If peace should be made at the expense
of Spain’s colonies the Carlists will rise.
They have, it is said, been provided with
ample funds by the Frailes, the rich
priests of the Philippines.
An order has been booked in England,
according to the agent, for 20,000 rifles and
2,000.000 cartridges, to be delivered in
Switzerland.
There are now confined in Afontjineh
Fortress, at Barcelona, Eugene Consolla,
Delfino Moron, Carlos Salinass and Antonio
Lopez. They are charged as 'being at the
heafl of the Carlist propaganda. They were
followed through Switzerland, France, En
gland and Belguim by English detectives,
and were arrested at the time of the Car
list outbreak at Navarro.
DECREASED
TAX RETURNS.
The State Will Show a De
crease of Four Million.
Enough counties have been heard from
to indicate approximately the amount of
the decrease in tax returns. It will be
aibout $3,000,000, and would be $4,000,000
but for the increase of one million in Ful
ton county, estimated by Receiver Armls
tead.
The returns of tax values to the comp
troller general continue to show a de
crease. Up to this morning 95 counties
had sent In their returns and of this num
ber 66 show decreases and 29 show In
creases in the amounts of property re
turned.
The decrease in the 66 counties is $3,641,-
306, and the increase In the 29 counties Is
$900,357, making a net decrease of $2,740,-
949 in the 95 counties. There are 42 coun
ties which have not reported, and Mr. W.
H. Harrison, the chief of the tax depart
ment, thinks about the same proportion
will be maintained.
Several of the large counties are yet to
be Beard from, but little increase is ex
pected from the large municipal counties,
excepting .'Fulton, which Is expected to
show an increase of a million dollars. This
is the information which comes to the tax
department from Tax Receiver Armistead.
But for Fulton the decrease in the state
would probably be about $4,000,000. This
county will offset about a fourth of that,
so that the net decrease for the state will
be about $3,000,000.
The decrease of one million in the state
last year left the total ot $412,321,000, and
this year’s further decrease will bring It
down to about $409,300,000.
VENGEANCE,
One Man Who Would Like to
Be First to Enter
Havana.
Lexington, Ky„ August 9.—No Kentucky
volunteer is more deeply disappointed at
not getting into the fight against the Span
iards than Lieutenant Colonel David R.
Murray, of the Fourth Regiment, which
ha., ja-t been sworn '? o the United States
service here. He is a half brother to the
famous William Crittenden, who was
butchered by the Spaniards In 1851. The
story of the heroic death of Crittenden has
been often told, and his heroic words, “A
Kentuckian never turns his back to a foe
and never kneels save to his God, ’ have
become a part of the country’s literature.
“I was a. little boy,” said Colonel Mur
ray, ‘‘when my brother was killed Uy the
Spaniards, but I remember him as a large
handsome man, with a kindly eye and a
gentle voice. The last time he was home
before his death he cut his name on a
beach tree near our house, and it remained
there until a few years ago.
"Our mother never taught us that we
should avenge our brother’s death. It'was
a subject never mentioned at home, yet it
seems chat we have always lived in the be
lief that a day of reckoning would come.
"Yes I would like to be the first to en
ter Havana, but not for the plaudits and
praise of the country, but for the sake of
my dead brother. Hts remains are still
buried there. We eould never get permis
sion It. remove them; but now at last I
hope we will find the place where he was
rudely thrown into his treacherous grave.” I
It will be remembered that the massocre
ot Crittenden and his brave men came near
preciptating a war with Spain at the time, |
and Colonel Murray la not the only Ken
tuckian who is anxteus to see the Spaniard '
humbled, for they not only remember the ■
M.iiae, but they remember that other hor- |
ror of nerrly a half century ago—the mur
der of tho g'fted Kentuckian, Witllam f’r’t- '
terden .1’ Lis fifty fearless follow- j
WILL CAUSE HOME RUSH.
Terrible Condition of Gold Hunters Causes
Alarm.
Vancouver, B. C., August 9.—Captain
Charles Cates-claims to bring the latest
news from Dawson, to the effect that a
famine is threatened and a stampede will
shortly take place to get out of the land
of gold and cold, exceeding in proportion
the rush for the Klondike in its most ac
tive stage.
Prices are climbing skyward and provis- I
ions are so scarce that single meals are
again up to $4 Rents are so high that for
one shack of offices the proprietors are
getting a rate of 42.500 a month from taw- ,
yers, doctors and commfssion agents.
Indignation meetings are held twice or
three times a week to protest against the
high-handed conduct of the Canadian offi
cials. They are all getting rich and se
curing the choice claims. One of the most
prominent lawyer in Dawson stated that
every government official would leave
Dawson a rich man. The bank is giving
sl4 an ounce for dust ovhen it should give
|l6. _
MW BHIEFUSED
[if Spain Asks for Anything
But What is Purely For
mal and of Minor
Importance.
t«!8i HIS HCfflEO IT,
, He Will Probably Present It to the
President Sometime this After
noon-Cabinet Meeting
Unimportant.
Washington, August 9.—Spain’s reply to
the peace conditions are in the hands of
the French ambassador, but were not deliv
ered to the president up to a late hour to
day.
Even the best Informed officials have no
intimation as to the contents, but there
are several points aparently established
beyond question.
The first of these was that the reply was
so framed as to be considered by those
who drafted it as an acceptance of all the
conditions laid own.
Second it is established that the accep
tance Sapin had presented elaborate views
on each point involved as to questions
which would naturally arise and which the
American conditions would carry into exe
cution.
This raises a question as to whether the
reply will be accepted as completely re
sponsive to the American terms or as indi
rect negotiations on subordinate points.
A determination on this matter cannot
be reached until the administration has
the full text of the reply. If the points
are purely incidental and formal a strong
hope is entertained that peace will be re
alized, but if Spain seeks to impose im
portant conditions there is a prospect of
delay and possibly a refusal to accept the
reply as responsive.
CABINET ADJOURNS
Without Having Received Any Official Notice
ifrom Gambon, I
Washington, August 9.—The cabinet ad
journed at 12:30 without having received
official word of the Spanish acceptance.
No hour has been fixed by Mr. Gambon
for it to arrive, but when the cabinet broke
up it was stated that the ambassador might
deliver the answer to the president withtn
an hour.
The president made no statement about
the reassembling of the cabinet after re
ceiving the answer.
It is understood, however, that the tenor
of the reply might necessitate She calling
of the cabinet together again.
A dispatch was read from Dewey, an
nouncing the arrival of the Monterey and
Brutus at Manila with coal and provisions
to three months.
FOR BENEFIT
OF SOLDIERS.
Information About Refresh
ments and Dancing is
Given.
It is requested of the ladies who have
agreed to donate refreshments for the sol
diers’ benefit Monday night at Ocmulgee
park, that they send their contributions to
the home of Mrs. Gibtan on College street,
er to that of Miss Siesel on First street, in
order that it may be be sent to the park by
4 o’cuock.
All articles of tableware, ice cream freez
ers, etc., will be returned to the ladies
who send them out.
The refreshments will be aerved upstairs
in the pavilion at the par*, and four tables
will be set down stairs. All other refresh
ment places will be closed on the night of
the 15th, sq that the people may contribute
as-much as possible for the benefit of the
soldiers.
Dancing will be the special feature of
the occasion hnd dancin tickets, which are
now on sale at Hoge’s , Lamar’s and Phil
lips. will be fifty cents. Tickers will also j
be on sale at the park Monday night.
The pavillqn will be beautifully decora- '
ted with the national colors and a number I
Os flags have been secured for this purpose. J
it is asked by the committee that every
person who comes out wear r«4, white and
blue.
The affair is expected to be a social as
well as flnactal one.
Tbe cars will run every fifteen minutes
until 12 o’clock.
FARMERS COMPLAIN
They Say that There is Considerable Dan- i
ger to Crops.
Leesburg, Ga., August 9.—The cotton '
crop is being ruined on account of con- ;
tinuous rains. The stalk has grown so •
large and dense that the fruit is rotting ‘
very generally. The boll worms have afso
appeared in some portions of the county
Tbe wet weather rust is fast going all over
the county, and farmer? say that they will
not make half a crop, which makes them
very blue. Other crops are doing very
well, except the fodder crop which will be
short on account of the wet weather
COL. BOGAN DEAD *
Boston, August 9.—Coion! Fred G. Bo
gan, commander of the Ninth Massachu
setts volunteers, died today. Colonel Bo
gan arrived from Cuba a few days ago.
COTTON FUTURES.
New York, August 9.—Futures opened
weak. August and September 590, Octo
ber 95, November and December 601, Jan
uary 605, February 8, March 11, April 14,
May 17. #
YJ/ANTED AT ONCE,
1 *' SOO ITIEN AND BOYS
~ , To inspect the excellent bargains
irou^a our Midsummer Clothing Sale of Stylish
Sio.oo Suits now for $ 6.67
12.00 Suits now for 8.50
15-00 Suits now for 10.00
r
18.00 Suits now for 12.00
That s the rate our prices are cut. Pick of suit from our
entire stock. All garments of this season’s latest make.
oys Knee Pants Suits at one-half of former prices.
*Ktss- 2S ana soc
Your Watch
Needs Cleaning!
*1 hat s what s tiic matter with it. It can’t keep good
time while full of dust. Bring it here and we’ll fix
it so it will run right, for only $2.00, with, one year
guarantee.
BEELHND, Th %*r we,er ’ w .
Triangular Block.
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|At the Wigwam J
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Everything you need for a pleasant vacation
4-1 —health, rest, pleasure, perfect table and
4” service, large, airy rooms, low rates, bathing, Zp
bowling, bicycling, riding, tenuis, billiards, «$»
2* music. All under perfect management. 4*
Write today for reservation of room, as we
are about filled up.
A
T T. C. PARKER, Proprietor. t
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C. E. Hooper, Manager. J
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Crump’s Park Bulletin
Tonight==“Mon te Cristo.”
THE "MISSION"
OF THIS STORE.
Disgusting as the word sometimes becomes,
by the cant that uses it, the “mission” of this
- store is a profound, economic idea that is
woithy of reflection and earnest sympathy.
It is no idle phrase. We adopt it in our
logic—a weighed and measured thing, that
stands for so much sense and principle and
push.
Just at This Time
Our “mission” is to reduce the tremendous
bulk of summer stock resulting from the con
solidation of Eadb’ and Neel’s stores. This is
the weather for the goods. By every law and
precedent of retailing we should be selling
them at fair profits. However, conditions do
arise that reverse the natural order of affairs.
That’s why we offer elegant Clothing and
Furnishings at reductions never before ap
proached in .this section. Everything new,
stylish and absolutely flawless.
A Jr *
ffloneu on Hand.
Loans on reel estate. Easy monthly pay
ments.
GEO. A. SMITH, Gen. Man.
Equitable Building and Loan Association,
Morua. Ga.. 461 Third Street.
PRICE THREE CENTS