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Money to Lend. If you want to borow money on farm I business or residence property on the most i favorable terms see the Georgia Loan and j Trust Company. O A. COLKMAN. Gen Man.. 366 Second Street, Macon. Ga. 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 $2.00, with, one year guarantee. BEELHND, Th %*r we,er ’ w . Triangular Block. ? ' I’ j//sA// j |At the Wigwam J x . ? Everything you need for a pleasant vacation 4-1 —health, rest, pleasure, perfect table and 4” service, large, airy rooms, low rates, bathing, Zp bowling, bicycling, riding, tenuis, billiards, «$» 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 Ju C. E. Hooper, Manager. J 4* 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