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COLUMBUS CHRONICLE. VOL. TV. Wiffl 0151 QUAY Senate Committee Renders Adverse Report to the Pennsylvanian. ® 10TE STOOD FIVE TO FOUR. power of Appointment Not to be Kx crcimt Unless Vacancy Occurred in th<* Recess of the Legisla ture—Minority Report. The reports of the committee on privileges and elections in the case ofM. S. Quay, who claims a seat in the United States senate on the strength of an appointment from the governor of Pennsylvania, were pre sented in the senate Tuesday. The majority report opposing the seating of Mr. Quay was signed by Senators Caffery, Pettus, Turley, Harris and Burrows, the last named the only re publican signing it. The minority re port bears the signatures of Senators Hoar, Chandler, Prichard and Mc- Comas. all republicans, and advocate giving the seat to Mr. Quay. After discussing the circumstances at length under which the case was framed, the majority announces its conclusions as follows: “We think that the framers of the constitution never contemplated 'or intended to provide for a case where a state, by its own deliberate act, should deprive its legislature of the power to fill an entire term at its be ginning. In our opinion, they never intended to give the executive of a state the power to fill an entire term by original appointment, unless, pos sibly, in case where the legislature had chosen and the person elected had refused to accept or died before qualification. In other words, ,we conclude that the power of appoint ment was not to be exercised unless the vacancy occurred in the recess of the legislature and was occasioned by some casualty like death or resig nation.” The minority report takes the op posite view. Quoting section 3, arti cle!, of the constitution, the minor ity says: ‘‘The failure of the gov ernor to call the legislature together to elect a senator does not deprive the governor of the power of appoint ment.” SEW RAILROAD IN ALABAMA. (ommiMion Granted by Secretary of State to Open Book* of Subscription. A commission was issued Tuesday by the secretary of state at Montgom frytoJ. M. Falkner, of Montgomery, •nd J. H. Ringgold and D. W. Hines, ol Louisville, to open books of sub scription to the North Alabama Rail road company. This road is proposed built from a point on the Louis ville A- Nashville, near Phelans, in county, extending in a southerly direction so as to pass near Bremen, then through Walker conn ed into Jefferson, to some point cr connection with the Birmingham cral railroad, between Boyles and cssemer, a distance of about seven ty-tive miles. Also three miles of Iracs from Brookwood in a northerly action. The capital stock of the Wrnpany is jjt^JO, ooo. ■•'ates Withdraws From Crenshaw. Jecer *l Oates has withdrawn from senat orial race in Crenshaw coun- COncen trate his efforts in er counties. He reached this de ic,° n tw ° or three days ago, and so the party managers there. e eaves the contest in that Ggy Senator Morgan and J°^ ns b° n ’ an d each will t- s w\ V? ° rOU3 cam P ai 8 n during j n^ nK, ' nta WiU Not Withdraw tfiQeoH 1 in gham, internal rev thit},. * eCtor for A^a bama, states * nOt wit hdraw fr°m the M’r/ * ° c^airrna nship of the re- U-j a 1 u XeCative coi nmittee of Ala- Wir,. an i *i bUyS is in ie race t° tilth e Btay in un ' Th e r , <h T awfor Morgan. li t l ISts of Choctaw county mar y ' n which a vote le ° w °r, »nj o^k Can^’^a^eB f° r state • can didate who re- i b ! ° r Senate? w Cf ie votes cast Ot be orBar 8 an ’ 8 re-election lted states senate, THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Wiuhlnston Iteinn. A delegation of Puerto Ricans appeared before Secretary Root to urge measures for the relief of the people of the island. The Senate bill increasing the powers of the Director of the Census was passed, with a proviso that the printing miist be done by the Public Printer. Renresehtative James 8. Sherman, of New York, has declined to accept the sec cretaryship of the United States Senate. Postmasters have been notified that the postage on letters to the Philippines has been reduced to two cents. In the Senate Mr. Pettigrev’s Philippine resolution was tabled and '.n amendment to the resolution of Senator Hoar, calling on the President to furnish copies of the instructions to the Peace Commissioners, was defeated. The vote oil the latter was 41 to 20. The War Department reports that ex ports from the port of floilO during the months of March and Armli 1899, ttggrated $549,88V-.j The House Committee on the Judiciary fixed February 13 as t je date for a general hearing upon the proposed constitutional amendment granting woman suffrage. Representative Loud, of California, has reintroduced, in modified form, his bill in reference to second-class matter. Under a now ruling by the Secretary of War, officers and enlisted men may wear the badges of their military societies and their medals of honor on occasions of cere mony. Insignia buttons are still hatred-. Negotiations with other Countries for reciprocity treaties have been suspended by the administration because of the pros pect that thoso already negotiated will not bo ratified by Congress. Our Adopted Islf*uds. General MacArthur’s troops are pursuing many small bands, killing numbers of the Filipinos and securing guns. General Otis at Manila reassured n dele i gation of Filipinos who feared the Vnited States woujd force the friars on the people. Nine Americans are believed to be pris oners of Pijlllpplne insurgents in Tayubas province.» The tofAl customs receipts at the port of Havana xCuba, for the vear ended Decem ber 31, f '9, was $14,072,114.79. Rara<<| Salsado, the Cuban patriot and the first Mayor of Santiago de Cuba under American rule, is dead. The American forces occupied Magal lanes, Arovince of Cavite, P. 1., capturing twenvlinsurgents, including a colonel. General Ludlow is making an attempt to stow the practice of begging, which is assuring large proportions in Havana, Cuba* A Mttalion of the Nineteenth Infantry routdi the Sudlon rebels in the Cebu P. I. Considerable ammuni tion was captured. Four Americans were wounded. Governor-General Wood at Havana has issued an order appointing a commission of three to study and report upon the prob lem of taxation throughout Cuba. Domestic. The Evening Post, of Louisville, Ky., has a sensational article declaring that trea son and revolution are in progress. It says that 100,000 men would go to Frankfort If the situation was understood, John H. Cook, a well-known, undertaker of Baltimore, Md., was married to Miss Ruby Becker, In pursuance of the dying wish of Cook’s first wife, who died several days ago. Miss Becker had nursed her during an illness lasting several years. Albert Learned, formerly acting City Auditor of Pittsfield, Mass., was sentenced to serve one year in jail, having been found guilty on a charge of forgery. Edward Moore, an employe of the Hills boro Coal Company, mistook his wife,Rose C. Moore, for a burglar, at their home in Hillsboro, 111., and killed her. The Supreme Court of Delaware has ruled that woman lawyers cannot practice before It on account of a Constitutional prohibition. Attorney-General Knowlton, of Massa chusetts, formally suggests that confine ment for life supplant the death penalty for murder in the State in the cases of women and minors under the age of eight een. The training ship Dixie left Norfolk, Ya., for San Juan, Puerto Rico, whence she will go to the Mediterranean for a cruise. She has nearly four hundred landsmen 1 on board, and the object of the cruise is to train them for service on men-of-war. All these men are American citizens. The hamlet of Zeeland, Mich., with a population of 700, has raised $6OO by popu lar subscription for Red Cross work among the Boers. Joseph New, an artilleryman at Fort Monroe, was murdered in Phoebus, Ya., as a result of a row. After an early evening row had been quelled New and his com panions had a quarrel at the Indiana House. When they left the place some one •red from the house and New fell dead. The lowa Legislature met iu joint ses sion and re-elected James H. Gear to tue United States Senate. Jacob Crumbling, whose home is not far from York, Penn., was fatally Injured by an explosion of dynamite. He put the fuse in the stove to thaw. It exploded, blew off one of his arms, wrecked his home and set Are to ;it. Crumbling Lad been blasting rocks. Mrs, George Sabal was beheaded at Vir den, 111., by a passenger train. She had just arrived from Germany, and was met by her busband and a number of friends at the train. Husband and wife had not seen each other for ten years. Felix Morris, the well-known actor, died In New York City from pneumonia, after a week’s illness. N. K. Goss, a merchant of Edenburg, Ohio, was murdered by robbers. Goss owned a general store. The robbers, three In number, escaped. Foreign. The Russian ironclad Poltava, of 10,960 tons, ran ashore near Libau, on the Baltic. The Poltava was built at St. Petersburg in 1894 at a cost of 85,490,000. A vote of confidence in the French Gov ernment was passed by the Chamber of Deputies by a vote of 329 to 74 The vote was ennn Interpellation of attitude toward the strikers ot St. Etienne. The Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, in a speech at Birmingham, said tha ‘ had a great deal to learn from America and unless she learned it quickly she was bourn, to fall behind in commerce. Tidal waves higher than have been known for a long time have swept along the Chilean coast, doing considerable dam general Hector MacDonald, who wil l succeed General Wauchope co “^ and the Highland Brigade in South Africa, ar rived at Cape Tow® India. COLUMBUS, GA., SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1900. ERIE CANAL WREGKEBB. Thirteen Men Accused of Destroying State Propertyi MURDERS LAIDTO CONSPIRATORS The Canal Feeder at Forestport, N. Y., Blown Dp to Give Men Employment —Detectives Investigate and Unearth a ItcMiarkable Conspiracy Evidence Collected is of a Most Positive Nature. Albany, N. Y. (Special).—Practically all the civil power of the State has been used to detect; pursue and indict a remarkable band Of Conspirators and lawbreakers Who hive just been brought to book in Oneida County. The conspiracy consisted in blowing up the bank of the Forestport feeder of the Erib Canal Ln order that the community should prosper In consequence eg the work of repairs. The community was aware of what was going on, but the character of the men engaged in the enterprise was sdeh that they were afraid te tell the au thorities; In the codrse of the investigation several mysterious disappearances have developed into murders, and the trails of some of the offenders have led detectives ail over the Urited States. As a result of a systematic effort by the Public Works Department, Attorney- General Davies, District Attorney Timothy Curtim Jr., of Oneida County, and Emer son Willis, his assistant, thirteen persons have been Implicated in the series of out rages, and eight have been arrested and are under indictment. The persons arrested are William Clark, Walter Bsfynor, Richard Monohan, John Conley, John Fordett, John Root, Frank SCENE OF GENERAL BULLER S OPERATIONS FOR THE RELIEF OF LADYSMITH- Murray and Blank Rudolph. Murray and Rudolph have been released on bail. All the others are in jail in Utica. The first break on the Forestport feeder occurred on July 21, 1897, the second on September 18, 1898, and the third in the summer of 1899. The breaks all occurred in practically the same place, where the feeder runs along a hillside, a heavy bank of earth supported by piles forming the canal. Word reached Colonel Partridge last summer that a man in Buffalo had told a strange story about the canal having been blown up in 1897 and 1898 for the purpose of bringing money into the town of Forest port. The cost of repairs was practically all profit for the town. Every man who owned a horse and wagon found employ ment. The lumbermen sold piling. The saloon and boarding house keepers reaped a golden harvest from the money left there by the laborers, who cashed their pay checks every day and spent all their money at night. Mr. Partridge consulted with Attorney- General Davies, who advised him to follow the matter up, and the story was being In vestigated when the Forestport feeder went up for the third time. Incidentally, it may be remarked that the total cost of repairing these three breaks amounted to $129,545. Colonel Partridge employed detectives who wont to Forestport to live. In time the detectives wove a net of incriminating evidence about practically ail the persbns who were engaged in the conspiracy. They located and identified the men who used dynamite on the canal banks. They got evidence of the first meeting at which this novel method of enriching a com munity originated. They discovered the men who carried the subscription paper about the town, raising the fund for the dynamiters. Presently they got one of the conspirators in their clutcchs, and he promptly turned State’s evidence. Every time they caught a new prisoner he promptly offered to turn State’s evi dence. In a short time the District Attqj ney was in possession of moreevldencethan he needed. If he had adopted the policy the conspirators mapped out for him ho would Rave been long on evidence and short on conviction. Attorney-General Davies said that the evidence against the band was of the mort positive character. He did not think one of them could escape. Under the law the maximum penalty for each offence is seven years’ imprisonment and <3lOOO fine. The enormity of the crime is increased by the fact that the Forestport feeder pro vides the larger portiop of the water supply for the city of Rome. In consequence of the break in the canal last summer, Rome, during the period of drought, was practically without water, and the engines of the Fire Department had to be used to pump each day’s supply from the Erie Canal into the reservoir. If a big fire had occurred in certain sections of the city/ Rome would probably have been utterly destroyed. RELIEF FOR PUERTO RICOi Th« Time For the Foreclosure of Mort gages Extended For Six Month*. Washington, D. C. (Special).—Secretary Root has issued an order extending the time for the foreclosure of mortgages on property in Puerto Rico six months, on the condition, however, that such extension shall not apply it contrary to legislation enacted by Congress in the interval. The time for the payment of mortgages under the previous orders of the War Department expired Friday. THREE BANK ROBBERIES. About $lO,OOO in Cash Stolen in Raids in Indiana. Sharp Fight Between CltitertS and Rob bers; But the Latter Escaped ou a Hand Car; Ixdianabolts, Ind. (Special).—Bank rota-’ bers have made an unusual record in this State. Three country banks were forced, the safes blown open and booty secured to the aggregate amount of about $lO,OOO Jn one night. The scene of one of the robber ies was enlivened by a fight between citizens find th® fobbers, in which one policeman was wounded and one of the robbers shdt, bow dangerously is not known, as lie was taken away by his companions. Ths Commercial Bank at Silver Lake, Kosciusko County, was broken Into at 1.30 o'clock. It required two charges of dyna mite to force the sate. The first explosion was heard by Night Watchman Burt, who wakened William Price and they went to ward the bank. The second explosion oc curred before they reached the building and a moment later they were mot by five men, whom they commanded to halt. The robbers opened fire upon them and some thirty shots were exchanged, Price having bls han'd and arm Wounded and the hopes id each crushed and splintered. One of the robbers was seen to stagger and heard to exclaim that he was shot, but a companion supported him and he was carried to the Big Four tracks, where the party boarded a band car. By this time several citizens had appeared on the scene and fifty shots were fired at the es caping thieves. The robbers went to North Manchester on the handcar and there boarded a Wabash freight train, but left it at Columbia City and took to the woods, When last seen at daybreak two of them were supporting the wounded man, who seemed to be very weak. The bank contained something over $6OOO, and the robbers secured all the money except about $3O In smati Snansre. About the same hour the bank at Elletts ville, Monroe County, was forced open and the vault door blown open with a charge of dynamite. The explosion aroused the citizens, but before they could reach the scene the robbers had left the bank and boarded a handcar on the Monon Railroad and made their escape. The loss of the baxjk is between $l5OO and $2OOO. The bank belongs to Edmond Palmer, of Chi cago. The bank at Akron was also robbed about the same time apd the same methods weye employed as at tho other banks, the robbers using dynamite and escaping on a bandcar before effective pursuit could be organized. The reports differ as to amount secured, but it is known that the loss will reach $lOOO. KILLS HIS ENTIRE FAMILY. Martin Bergen, Boston’s Catcher, a Mur derer and Suicide. Nobth Brookfield, Mass. (Special).— Martin Bergen, one of tho best-known ball players in the country and one of the Bos ton’s Club’s catchers last season, killed bis wife and two children with an axe and then cut his own throat with u razor, at his kome, in the eastern portion of North Brookfield. He caught for the Boston Club last year, playing with the nine up to the closo of the season. At times during tho summer his action in disappearing from the team without notifying Manager Selee or the other players resulted in considerable fric tion. Once he went to his home in North Brook field and refused to play, alleging that he had not been treated well by somo of bls fellow-players and bls manager. After much persuasion Bergen was in duced to return and join his club. Ho was five feet ten inches in height and weighed 170 pounds. Bergen at times had been subject to fits of melancholy and bad been the sub ject of comment among hIG friends. This was noticeably the case last October, when he showed signs oi insanity. ENTOMBED MINER KEPT DIARY. Chalk Marks Showed That He Lived Three Days on OU From Lamp. Pottsville, Penn. (Special).—The body of William Galloway, Are boss o< the Kaska William Mine of the Dodson Coal Com pany, who was entombed on December 18, was recovered a few days ago. While he lived Galloway kept a diary on sheet iron with a piece ot chalk, and sub sisted on the oil in his lamp until it was exhausted. Galloway wrote on a plank on the side of the chute on which the fall occurred the following words: "Lam in the chute No. 11X- William Galloway. Before the body was found those words were discovered written on sheet iron o> a brattice door. They wore addressed to his wife: "I think lam gone. Goodby, Janie. Be good boys, Guy and Willie. I don’t think you will see your father any more. I think this is Wednesday.” It is believed he lived but three days. His body lay prostrate in the chute. Severe Defeat For Filipinos, First Lieutenant Mcßae with a company of the Third Infantry has severely defeated General Hlzon and the remnant ot Ufi com mand near Jljbalaoat. P. L (In Afro-American Newspapers 1898-1901, no.&L —) the Roberts report. Majority Declares the Utah Man Should Not Be Seated. The reports of the special com mittee of investigation in the case of Brigham H. Roberts, of Utah, was presented to the house Saturday. The minority report, signed by Chairman Taylor and six of his assistants, is a voluminous document, and is accom panied by a summary of the law and facta. It gives the details of the hearing, the ample opportunities af forded to Mr. Roberts to present hit case, his refusal to testify, and the unanimous finding of the facts here tofore published. It proceeds: “The committee is unanimous in its belief that Mr. Boberts ought not to remain a member of the house of representatives. A majority are of the opinion that he ought not to re main a member; that the house has the right to exclude him. A minority are of the opinion that the proper course of procedure is to permit him to be sworn in and then expel him by a two-thirds vote under the constitu tional provision providing for expul sion.” TO SEAT ALDRICH. Decision of House Committee on the Fourth Alabama District Contest. The house committee on election No. 1 divided on party lines Satur day and by a vote of 6 to 2 decided to recommend the seating of Wm, F. Aldrich, republican, who contests the seat now held by Gaston A. Rob bins, democrat, for the Fourth con gressional district of Alabama. It is the first decision in a contested case at the present session of congress. The contest was based on alleged in timidation and racial prejudices, growing out of appeals for whits su premacy. A minority report will be made in behalf of Mr. Robbins. CUBAN RECEIPTS From AU Sources for the Past Year Ex ceeded $15,000,000. The war department gave out the statement Saturday that the total receipts for the entire island of Cuba for the month of December were $l,- 733,211. The total receipts for the entire island for the calendar year ending December 31, 1899, by items were: Customs, $14,072,114; internal rev enue, $757,283; postal receipts from July 1, 1899, to December 81, 1899, 94,514; miscellaneous receipts from July 1, 1899, to December 31, 1899, $293,581; total receipts, $15,217,- 497.42. SULLIVAN ISLAND To be Ceded to the United Slates for a , Government Pest. The lower house of the South Caro lina legislature has deeided to cede to the government Sullivan’s Island, near Charleston for a United States government post. The building of the state capitol, which was stopped by the civil war, will probably be completed at a cost of $250,000 A monument to cost $lO,OOO will be erected on Chickamauga battlefield. To Prevent Lynching;. Representative White, of North Carolina, the colored representative in the house, Saturday reported a bill for "the protection of all citizens of the United States against mob vio lence,” etc. It provides that all per sons shall be protected from being murdered, tortured or burned to death by mobs known as "lynching bees,” whether spontaneous or premeditated and all parties participating, aiding or abetting in such affairs are made guilty of treason against the United States government and subject to prosecution in the United State* courts. Pension Appropriation Bill Passed. The pension appropriation bill, carrying $145,245,250, was passed by the house Friday. A rider was put in the bill, by unanimous consent, empowering the commissioner in hit discretion to withhold the fees of at torneys of record in pension caset where he was satisfied that the at torneys nad not prepared their caset under their personal supervision. John Ruskin Dead. John Ruskin, the great author, died in London Saturday of influenza, aged 81 years. DEFEATS 3JO INSURGENTS. Two Americans Wounded and Ten Rebels Slain. A cable dispatch from Manila says: Two companies of the of the Forty sixth infantry, under Major Johnson, and three companies of the Thirty eighth infantry, commanded by Maj. Muit, defeated 800 insurgents at Taal, province of Batangas, Saturday, taking the town. The United States gunboat Marietta also shelled the place. The insurgents had four cannon, two of which were captured. Two Americans were wounded, and ten dead insurgents were found on the field. The plague statistics now show a total of fourteen cases and eleven deaths. GEORGIA BLOOD FLOWS. Two Negroes Killed and Two While Men Mortally Wounded. Two negroes shot to death and two white men desperately wounded was the result of an attempt to arrest a negro murderer in Macon, Ga., Mon day. J. H. Butler, colored, is the man who did the most of the shooting and who was himself shot to death. His victims were Armstead Bryant, col ored, shot through the heart and in stantly killed; B. Stelman, white, shot through the stomach and will probably die, and John Reed, white, shot in the neck and is in a preca rious condition. Butler threatened to kill a negro woman, and when Policeman Pearce attempted to arrest him, began to shoot. The negro ran up the street, pistol in hand, shooting at everything in sight. When Butler fall five po licemen and fifteen citizens were shooting at him. It is said that two years ago he killed two negroes at Pine Cure, Ga. ANOTHER KENTUCKY TRAGEDY, One Man Killed and Another Mortally Wounded. A fight occurred near Franklin, Ky., Monday, in which a peace maker, who attempted to part the belligerents, was killed, and one of the participants was wounded. James Ellegood, while intoxicated, passed a residence where a lady was sick, whistling and making a great noise. Orris Smith, who was sitting up with the patient, came out and asked him to keep quiet. Ellegood is said to have started after Smith with a knife. Richard Heaton, a neighbor, in en deavoring to part the men was stabbed in the groin by Eliegood and died. Ellegood was struck on the head with a stone by Smith and, it is said, he can live but a few hours. Smith escaped uninjured. Shipping Business Increasing. As showing the movement of com modities through the New Orleans port for Europe, it may be stated that eight steamers cleared Monday, the combined cargoes consisting in part of 824,000 bushels of grain, 82,- 825 bales of cotton, 87,000 sacks of oil cake and cotton seed meal, 5,000 barrels of cotton seed oil, 225,000 oak staves, 140,000 pieces of lumber and 198 logs. The export of grain was the largest on record for any one day. Will Move Mississippi Penitentiary. The Mississippi senate has passed the bill removing the penitentiary from Jackson and locating the prison buildings on the state farms. It is the general belief that the legislature will locate the new million dollar state house on the penitentiary site, which is in the heart of the' residence district. Steamer Stranded. A private cablegram from Captain Newberry, at Nassau, received at Mobile, announces that the schooner B. W. Morse, 440. tons, which left Jacksonville, Fla., about January 6 for San Juan, P. R., was abandoned at sea, waterlogged. Two men were lost. Alabamian Commissioned In British Army W. H. Bingham, of Montgomery, hes received notice of his appoint ment as lieutenant in the Canadian volunteer service, with orders to re port at Ottawa ready to leave for SoutU AWca. NO. 26.