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WHEELER FOR ACTION. VOL. XYI. PLEASE TRY DALLAS, GAT, FRIDAY. MARCH 25. Ifm, PRESIDENINOTWEAKENINS Formation of New Squadron Purely a Strategic Move by GovdMment, CANDY CATHARTIC Mine ittpn seciih n fid tin •k.‘ { Vour UittMilpi of ttie Heat Typos to be V T • Placed at Ilninptou JUmmI*—Court of Inquii^r j*Ull at Work—Spanish Fl6tlflh Will Not Proceed. ^ G “LATE THEUVlS ALL DRUGGISTS. NEW INDUSTRIES IX TIIE south. 'Future comfort for present; setming economy, but buy the; sewing machine with an estab-; ;iished reputation, that guar* ; aatces you long and satisfac* ■tory service. j* j» j» j»' issolatlons for An Address to Sptls Ds daring Caban Atrocities Must Coaae. Representative Wheeler, of Alabama, introduced the following joint resolu tion Thursday: "Resolved, That a joint oommittee, consisting of five members of the sen ate, to be appointed by the vice-presi dent, and live members of the house, rhoee for the Manufacture of Wood anil Iron Lead. A Started diversity of now southern 1 induAfiua roported to the Chattanooga | Tradesman during tho past week, gives I its record even moro than usual inter est. Mannfaotures of wood anil iron to be appointed by the speaker, be p r( t\cd equally attractive, oaeh bring- created to report without delay to tho , ; U g ttU investment of $875,000. In twb houses an address to the govern- timbor, only two now plants, a churn rnent of Spain, declaring in firm and | factory and a novelty works, go l>e- diplomatic language that Americans yond tho raw material. Iron, how- and American interests in Cuba must be protected and that tho atrocities uow being perpetrated in that island must cease. "Resolved, That the executive be requested to immediately transmit this address to the government of Spain by such methods as he may deem most advisable, together with a letter of indorsement and approval of this action on the part of congress." : ITS PINCH TENSION • . AND . . TENSION INDICATOR,; (devices lot regulating and; ; showing the exatt tension) are; > a few of the features that < | emphasise the high grade | • character of the White. Send for our elegant H.T.; ! catalog. : White Sewing Machine Co., CUVELAM), o. For Governor of Georgia by tho Popo- | list Convention—Complete Ticket. | The populist state convention of Georgia, which met the past week iD I Atlanta, nominated Hon. Thomas E. i Watson for governor, i The ticket was completed as fallows: ! For comptroller general, Benjamin Milliken; for commissioner of agricul ture, W. L. Peek; for secretary of state, Z. O. Jackson, of the second ever, shows a welcome progress past the pig, the list comprising two foun dries and a rolling mill, while Texas reports a boiior works and a cotton machinery plant, and Now Orleans people will invest 8100,000 in making oultivators, etc. In other lines, Virginia is credited with a trunk anil bag factory; Georgia with a brick works; South Carolina an ice factory and a large electric light plant; North Carolina, two ice fac tories amt a iiouriug mill; Tennessee, > 8100,000 fertilizer works; Missis sippi an oloctrio light plant; Texas, an electric light plant, a 800,000 Iiouriug mill and a 8-40,000 candy fuotory. The Pee Dee mills at Rookingham, N. C.i will build another 6,000-spindle mill for cotton yarn and twino. The re organized Tuscaloosa mills, with capi tal from Mobile, Ala., and Clovolaud, O., will add a line of line goods. Mem phis, Teun., will build a $50,000 mill at once. The new granite mill of tho Tallasseo Falla Company will raise ... A special fniM Washington says: The implications made in a number r papers that tho prosident ia weak ening ill his policy, is deeply, evon Itetterly resented by the 'members of pe administration. F Some of theso papers point to the Withdrawal of tho Texas and tho Mns- 'Mohnsotts from the vicinity of Cuba as indicative of weakness oii'the part of the chief oxonutive; fact of tho mCtter is that this ■evo to form another squadron im- 3 [es just tho oontrary, and even ijidi- it the administration fears a j of defense is inevitable, of all the reports of sottle- urohase and autonomy, the lief among public men herd Cuban policy of the presi dent is about t,o.- v culminate, .Senator l’roofcr's speiten is taken as a fore runner of executive notion. Tbp Maine incident is to ho mado secondary to tho independence of Cuba, and tho massing of squadrons along the Atlantic coast indicates a defensive campaign. Senators and othor woll-informed puhlio men fur ther bolievn that the president will recognize tho independence of Cuba and then wait with the expectation of an attaok from Spain. It is not known wliou tho report of the court of iuqniry will come to Washington, lmt it is oxpeutod hero in the course of two or three days. A cabinet officer expressed tile be lief that tho report will require care ful consideration on the part of tho president and his cabinet before being given to the public, which would seem to postpone publication to tomp time about tlie middle of next woek. distret; for treasurer, J. H. Traylor; for prison commissioner, J. B. Davitt; their yearly demand to 26,000 bales. for school commissioner, B. M. Zet- ■ —■ ■ • tier, of Macon; for chief justice, Wal ter B. Hill, of Macon; for tho long term, W. R. Leakin, of Savannah; for the short term, Hal Lewis, of Greene; for attorney general, Carey Thornton. Mothers Read This. For Flatolont Colic, Diarrhoea, Dysentery Kauaea, Coughs, CHolsra Infaatum.Tostli- ’ tag Children, cholera Morbus, Unnatural Drains from the Bowels, Pains, Griping. Lois of Appetite, Indigestion, and all Dlsiasao of tho Stomach and BowsIb. Pitt’s Carminative m the Htaninpl. It <*nrr|es children over the erilicrtl period of o’oihitiff, mi«l is roe- ommoi.ded ;*h;\sil’lfius j.« tho (r’end of Mothers, A.ltili* mid Children. It J- BLANCHE K. BRUCE DEAD. A Prominent Negro Succumbs to a Com plication of DImmm. Blanche K. Bruce, register of the : treasury, died Thursday morning at Washington. His death had been ex pected for several days. He suffered from a complication of stomach trou bles. At Birmingham, Ala., Avondalo mills will be ready by June 1st, capacity, 15,000 bales a year. Thoir capital is 8500,000—half northern and half home. In woolens, Kentucky reports n $25,- 300 plant, and Georgians will invest 850,000 in making underwear. Gen eral business and trails conditions aro -oportod satisfactory throughout tho south. Results In tho Death of Three—An Old (irudc» the Cause. One of the bloodiest battles ever fought in the Kentucky mountains took Blanohe K. Bruce was born in Prince : place Bunday on Puckett’s Creek in Edward county, Va., March I, 1841, ; Marian couuty, in which three men and therefore was 57 years of age. Ho was of African decent, was born a slave and received the rudiments of educa tion from tho tutor of his master's son. He taught school for a time in Hanni bal, Mo., and later became u student st Oberlin. Next after Fred Douglass, Bruce bad been regardod as perhaps the most conspicuous man of his race. Torpedo Boat Destroyer. TERSELY TOLD TELEGRAMS. The total for the present gold inovo- ! ment from Europe to the United States | has reached §25,000,000. ]- An import duty of §5 por bond has According to a special dispatch from !i°“ u l’' uce ^, on cnt ^° imported into c, , , , T t *. ic. „ Cuba from the United States. Sunderland the United States Govern- , , , , In the United States court at Galves- meut has purchased a torpedo boat ton, Tex „ flvo 0hinameu we e adjudged •destroyer from a ship-builder named to be in the United States contrary to Doxsors of that place. It is further , the provisions of the Geary act. They stated that tho boat is to have a speed werB orderod deported. •of thirty knots an hour. Men uro re- por.ed to be wqrkiug nights to com plete the boat. Howard Gould, the owner of tho ocean-going steam yacht Niagara, now- nearing completion, will surrender his vessel to the government in the event of hostilities between this country and Spain. Near DeFnniak. Fla., W. Manning, sheriff' of Walton county, attempted to Transferring Unttcrles. Batteries B and F, Fourth United ■States artillery, have been transferred from Fort Riley, Kan., to the south. Bnttory F goes to Savannah, Gn., and arrest a negro, when the desperado Battery B to New Orleans. suddenly drew a pistol and shot the sheriff' in tho breast, from tbo effects of which he died in about two hours. c °al fo r ,,1 o -Navy. ( The American medical mission in The United .states government lint suburbs of Chung King Fu, pre contracted with Arkansas mine owners v ; lu 0 c ,f 2e Chnwn, on the Vang Tse for the delivery of 500 enrs of coal for Kiang, has been attacked by a mob. the use of the navy. Ihe coal will be The native medical assistants have been shipped from Coal Hill to Galveston. Another contraot for 10,000 cars is said j to have been made with the Western 1 Coal and Mining Company. Itullillng Sub-Marino Mines. A force is at work planting Savan nah harbor with sub-marine mines and torpedoes off Fort Pulaski, at the mouth of Savannah river. maltreated and one has been murdered. A negro boy, whoso name cannot lie learned, was lynched ut Marcella, in Stone county. Ark., Tuesday. He was accused of stealing §20 from tho cash drawer of a store. Tbo mob strung him up three times in an effort to make him confess and finally left him on tho ground in a dying condition. wore killed uml two injured. Tho killed are: Tbad Buellings, Josiah Leroy and Wes Taylor. They wore at a neighbor's house drinking when a quarrel nroso between Snolling and Taylor, tho former getting in the first shot, but missing. Taylor tlion opened fire, killing Buellings. Leroy bad boon nt the stable, but hearing tho shooting rushed to Bnoll- ings’ defense. Finding him dead, ho opened fire on Taylor, both shooting about the same time. When this fracas was over both wore found to bo stretohod ou tho ground dead. FORMING A NEW SQUADRON. Five Hattlo.liipu of the Host Typos to He Placed at llainptou Hoads. The navy department has issued orders for the formation of a new squadron of naval vessels to lie sta tioned at Hampton Roads. Thu squadron, in the beginning, will con sist of five ships, all tho best of their typos. Two of them, the battleships Massachusetts and Toxas, aro with drawn troin the present North Atlantic fleet at Key West and Tortugas. It would lie a gravo mistake in or dering this movement if tho navy tle- pnrtmeut is animated by any purpose of yielding to representations, or inti mations, that may have come from the Spnuisb minister as to the mischief caused by the gathering of so large a naval force as Admiral Bieard's fleet in tho vioinity of Cuba. On tho con trary, the formation of tho now squad ron was brought about by purely strategic considerations, although it appears from the nature of tho force so far under orders to rendezvous nt Hampton Roada that this strategy is of the defensive nature. The now squadron cannot bo culled a "Hying squadron,” beonuse tho asso ciation of heavy battleships with fleet cruisors like tho Brooklyn, Columbia and Minneapolis reduces the available speed of tho whole to tho speoil of tho slowest vessel, dtul tho squadron oould hot do much “flying" in the naval sense. Tho indications rather are that, when reinforced by some smuller cruisers, the squadron will constitute an ideal naval defense. Powdor, shot and shell continuo to arrive at Pensacola in large quantities for the forts and katteiies defunding the harbor. Three of the eight big big mortars for tho new battery on Bantu Rosa island have also arrived, and they will be mounted as quickly as possildo. In addition to the six and eight inch ritle gnus a fifteen-inch gun is being mounted on the fort. UPRISING IMMINENT. SPAIN’S MILITARY FORCES. Seventy Thousand Men Killed or Inew- pacltated for Service In the luban War. Seventy thousand mon is the num ber of Spanish soldiers who have been killed, wonuded or ether wise-irieapaoi- tatod for duty duriug the pruseut war in Cuba. Thjaro figures have been re ceived in Washington receutly from reliablo sources, and are laid to be na nearly anthaatio as it ia possible to obtain them, without recourse to tho records kept l>y the Spanish govern ment. From tho Harne source consid erable other information hearing or the military strength of Spain and her dependencies ia obtained. The pres ent force of Spain iti Cuba is as fol lows: Regulars, 125k000 mon. Of this number it is estimated that 80,000 of them are effective for military pur poses. They are distributed tMough- out the Island ai follows: About 25,- 000 are in the two eastern provinces of Santiago do Cuba and Puerto Principe, and the remainder are in the provinoes of Santa Clara, Matauzas, Havana aud Pinar del Rio. Thare are about 80,- 000 members in What is known as the volunteer ermy. These aro mostly in tho proviuoe of IfeVatm, end ere large ly in the neture of home guards, cor responding to our state militia. Thera aro 55,000 meu who are not effeotive fur military duty from various oauses. Tho strength of the Spenish army at home, end inoludiug her neer-by possessions, is 100,000 meu, which, in times of demend for additional sol diers, may bs increased ss follows: First roserre, 60,000; seonnd reserve, 100,000, all of whom are instructed in military tactloi, and a third re serve, whioh is not instructed, ol 900,000 mon, making in all a grand total of 010,000 men. Binoo, these figures wore received reoent drafts of 100,000 men to strengthen tho army in Cuba loaves only 85,000 mon of Spain's regular trmy now in the potiinsula, the Bal- aorio Islands, the Spanish possessions in North Afriea and tho Canary Inl ands. In tho Philippine Islands Spain has an urmy of 82,000 men, whioh inaludes about 15,000 native troops. Several regiments of the latter were disbanded during the time of the lait insurrection in the islands, and in time of war, it is said, they are of very little use to the Spanish government. In Porto Rioo there are 6,000 Spanish troops, whioh, in the event of hostilities, cquld be supplemented by 4,000 volunteers, "SIMPLY lNDESCIUIlAlll.U. 1 POWDER Absolutely Pm Court of Inquiry Still nt Work. Tho court of inquiry ut Koy Wost is diligently continuing its sossious on board the battleship Iowa, and, judg ing from statements lnado by mem bers, it is quite problematical how many more days will puss before tho public loams its conclusions. Senator Galllnaer Talks About the “Des titution In Cuba." Senator Gallinger was at the eapitol Friday for the first time since his re turn trom Cuba. When requested to make a statement as to his observa tions of the condition of affairs on the island, lie responded: "You can sign my name to any pio- ture you may draw of utter wretched ness, destitution aud hellishaoss in that oountry. The condition of affairs, ao far as I had opportunity to observe it, and I was only in Havana and Ma tauzas, Is simply indescribable. I had not expected to find it half us bad as it is, and I do not bolieve that anyone who simply roada tho accounts and does not see for himself can form an adequate idea of tho situation. The reconcentradoa aro wedged into all available places in the cities, aud are perishing by the thousands for want of tbo commonest nooussaries of lifo. Thu best information obtainable leads to the conclusion that thoru have been beyond a doubt four hundred thousand d. utlis as tho result of Spain's brutal policy, and the tragedy goes on from day to day. Tho Society of tho Bed Cross is furnishing some rolief by its efforts, lmt tho moBt of tlioso | eople uro beyond the reach of aid, whether through modiciue or food. Tho mor tality in Matauzas for the lust four mouths previous to our visit has been equal tu ten times the ordinary death rate.” , Ordered Not to Proceed. Admiral Bermejo, the Spanish min ister of marine, has wired tho oom- mander of ' tho torpedo flotilla at the Canaries not C proceed to Havana. FIVE MILLION DOLLARS Serious Trouble Tor Spain in Porto Hire Probable. In spite of official and other denials, it is believed that serious troubles for Spain in Porto llico aro imminent, and it is asserted—though the report cannot be verified nt present—that the Spanish cruiser Vizcaya, when ahe leaves Havana, will go to Petto Rico in order to strengthen the hands oi the government official, there. The residence and contents of T. J. Bevei ly, of Spalding, were destroyed by fire Sunday. Will bo Spent Out or tho War Fund fo* Atlantic and Gulf Fortification.. Steps liavo boen taken by the engi neerB’ office of the government for the expenditure of $'>,000,000 originally allotted out of tho850,000.000 national dofeuso fund for the continuation of ttiojimprovcmonts of various works of fortifications. Practically all of it will bo devoted to tho Atlantic and Gulf coasts. While tho expenditure will be under tho genoral supervision of the engineer’s office nt Washington, the details connected therewith, in cluding the making of contracts, etc., will lie left to tho discretion of the local engineers. Sold Hi. Yacht. Charlos It. Flint, of Now York, has sold the government his new yacht, now building, to be used as a torpedo boat. The boat is to be a twin-screw, with two engines of 1,200 horse-power each. She will be 130 feet long, 5 feet draught, anil capable of a spoed of 31 knots. Her coal capacity will be sufficient to allow her to cross the At lantic. She will have accommodations for twenty-four men. FLIGHT OF fbe Speed of tho Winn. Thoro line been the conclusions of relative height above more especially ns to at movement In the semi-annual north or south, of some of our tory birds. Judging from nil that has been nerved, It seems probable that tho tocity of some of theae far tins been exaggerated. Careful measurements by means ol the cloud theodolites used by the ob- lervors nt the Moti>nrologl(?il station tt Blue 11111 In Milton, a few miles south of llnsteu, have shown that the nhserved decks of northward going wild geese wore at an elovntlon of 000 Feet above the sea level, aim! that the velocity of (light was 44.3 miles hour. This also Is about tho height which n flock of wild ducks flew, thoir velocity w as 47.8 miles an These velocities uro speed with which wild credited, for those swift birds have boon said to fly ut a rate exceeding 100 miles an hour. That ducks do at times exceed the rate noted by tho llluo Hill observers seems very probable, but It is by no means certain that they ever fly at luch a velocity a* 100.8 miles an hour, is some nlisorveni have asserted. Just what velocity would be requisite m a duck striking tho heavy, projecting floss of a lighthouse to drive his bill town his throat may be a difficult problem, but tho fact Itself has been noted. In the case of nt least a num- hor of hup flock of ducks that had been (lying southward ou their autumnal mi gration, and were picked up at the foot »f the light-house tower on Anastasia Island, near St. Augustine, Fla. Sweeping In the darknoss of a cloudy alght, the ducks had followed the in creasing 1>enm from tho light and lushed down upon the thick but clear llass wall with tho effect above men tioned. Very likely n velocity of 00 miles an lour would sullleo to drlvo a duck's >111 down Its throat, and it may l>e a luestlou whether the duck ever really ly at a much grenter velocity than ilxty to seventy miles an hour. There are other migrating birds—no tably tho swallows—that seem to fly at least as swiftly ns the wild duck. As to elevation, It seems probable that few migrating Hocks of any kind travel it a greater height, except In going over mountains, than about 1,000 to 1,500. Thu smallness and Indistinctness of high-flying flocl: of geese, seemingly so far up ns almost to blend with tho gray sky nftil to render their far cries almost Inaudible, would all be produced if these largo birds were flying at on elevation no greater than 1,500 to 1,800 feet. Palms Declare. That tlie Cuban. Will Not Have Autonomy. T. Estrada Palma, head of the Cuban Junta, has issued a proclamation to tbs people of the United States in which he.stated that tlio Cubans would not accept autonomy. "Independence oi death,” was thoir motto. Tho proclamation says: “I cannot bolieve tlmttlio American people would ever loud themselves to tho most treacherous and blood-stained mon archy of history for tho purpose of trying to moko Cuba aeeopt autonomy. Should such prove to be tlio case, however, I docluro in tho name of the Online people in arms, that force alons can compel our submission.'’ No Other Banner Than That or Spain a* the Entrance to tbo Gulf. General Blanco, at a banquet to the officers of the Vizcaya and the Almi- rante Oqttendo, toasted "The King, the Queen Begent, the Army and Navy of Spain.” He said: “The present generation will never see another banner than that of Spain at the entrance to the Gulf of Mexioo. That banner, repre senting civilization, progress, liberty, humanity and religion, will be eternal, like that of tho first Amerioan nation.” Admiral Muuterola, responding in behalf of tho navy, said,: “In union, the army and navy will always be in- destructible. ” Only about seven out of every 105 men now in the Klondike gold Holds aro making a living. But every man of tho throng uow rushing into that cheeriesa region confidently expects tia bo one of the seven. •f'S *