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V OLUME XVI.
DALLAS, GEORGIA. FRIDAY. AUGUST
Such Statement
is Given Out.
L
Only tup Onfalls of Proposition
Needed to Mad Hostilities.
The President Receives
the Information.
A special cable to the New York
Evening Journal from Madrid pub*
lished in a late extra edition of that
paper Tuesday saya:
"Spain accepts the principal condi
tions of peace as set forth by the
American government and only the
peaco details are neeeded to cause all
hostilities to cease at once.
"A peaoe delegation will be chosen
at once to confer with the representa
tives of the United States. The peace
conditions set forth by President Mo-
Kinley were discussed at length by
Minister Sagasta, and at the conclu
sion it was given out officially that the
terms of the United States would be
acoepted. There are one or two
amendments to the proposition of the
United States that Spain will ask to
be made, and if this is done peace will
be declared at once. ”
Caintion Ha. Spain'. An.wer.
The Madrid correspondent of the
London Standard, telegraphing Tues
day, says:
“The government’s reply to the
American terms, .was forwarded yester
day (Monday) evening through M.
Cambon and there is a strong prospect
that peace will be concluded. It is not
to be supposed that the United States
government will o'bjeot to representa
tions being made on the Philippine
question anil upon some pecuniary
claims which were mooted by the
United States in the West Indies. On
all nie remaining main issues Spain
shows a disposition to assent to the
American demands.
“No cabinet oouncil wns held Tues
day nor are the ministers likely to
meet again until fresh intelligence is
received from Washington. The gen
eral impression is that both govern
ments are disposed to put an end to
the war as honorably as possible for
Spain, which would have been easier
had the United States not imposed such
hard conditions with regard to the
Philippines.”
Information Unofficial.
A Washington special says: Shortly
before midnight Tuesday night Secre
tary Alger, as he left the white house
after a conference with the president,
said the administration had received
no official information that the Madrid
government hail accepted the terras of
peace proposed by the United States.
Unofficially, the president had been
informed that the Spanish ministry
had acceded to the terms of this coun
try for a cession of the war.
The unofficial advicos reached the
president in the form not only of
press dispatches, but of private dis
patches from confidential agents ef
the United States government.
While the government has strong
reasons for believing that its terms of
peace have been agreed to by the
Madrid government, the president is
taking nothing for granted.
Arrangements for pressing the war
to a successful conclusion are going
forward precisely as if no negotiations
for pence were in progress.
At a conference participated in by
the president,Secretary Alger and Ad
jutant General Corbin at the executive
mansion Tuesday night, a final decis
ion was renched as to the constitution
of the provisional corps for Porto Rico
to bo commanded by General Wade.
HOBSON THE TOAST.
Lieutenant Ilntl Possession of Atlanta,
fin., For a Whole Da)’.
Richard Pearson Hobson has had at
least two warm receptions in his life.
One was under the belching fires of
Morro; the other wns in the midst of
Atlanta’s hospitality Tuesday. The
hero of the Merrimac was the toast of
the whole town. From the time he
arrived Tuesday morning until he de
parted Tuesday night he received one
continuous ovation from young aud
old, big and little, patrician ami ple
beian. The reception of Hobson prov
ed that Atlanta is not lncking in her
appreciation of true bravery.
PEACE TERMS OF THIS GOVERN.
MENT ARE DISCUSSED.
PRICE BISMARCK IS DEI
GREATEST DIPLOMAT GERMANY
EVER PRODUCED.
FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS WANTED'.
Negotiation. May Soon B. Vtonclnded
Satisfactorily nml the Wnr Brought
To An Knd.
A Madrid special saya: Tho cabinet
Teoeived a cablegram from M. Cambon
Monday and held two long sessions
discussing peace. The members re
fused to talk further than to say that
the United States had imposed another
condition entirely new besides those
already known. No hint is given as
to what this condition iB.
Duke Almodovar, minister of for-
eighn affairs, conferred at length with
the French, Austriau and German
ambassadors and then consulted Sa
gasta. The universal impression is
that the cabinet will finally aocept the
principal conditions imposed and
agree to evacuate Cuba aud ourren-
der Porto Rico, time securing an ar-
mistioe and discuss less hurriedly
other minor conditions and details of
evacuation.
A second dispatch states that the
Spanish cabinet council sat Monday
afternoon and again for four hours at
night dismissing the peace terms. A
dispatch wus then sent to Washington
for further explanation of some diffi-
onlt points.
When the replies are received the
cabinet will reassemble. Senor Sa
gasta, the premier, confirms the report
that some “modifications of the origin
al terms have been obtained."
Waiting At Washington.
A Washington special says: All
eyes were turned toward Madrid Mon
day, for it was realized that on the
Madrid cabinet depended the restore'
tion of peace. Any question that nmy
have arisen as to the powers of the
French ambassador was set at rest by
a short, gnardod and concise state
ment issued from the embassy itself.
There wan much speculation as to the
nature of tho change made at the in-.,
stiftice of M. Cambon' in tho list of
American demands. It was consider
ed in some quarters that no change
bad been made, in others that an im
portant modification bad developed.
Tho administration believes that the
change is not essential and that it cer
tainly does not alter the principle of
the document.
Pencil Term. Made Public.
The following statement prepared
by the president nnd cabinet in re
gard to the terms of peace bos been
given out:
“In order to remove any misappre
hension in regard to the negotiations
as to peace between the United States
and Spain it is deemed proper to say
that the terms offered by the United
States to Spain in the note handed to
the French nmbnssador ore in sub
stance as follows:
“‘The president does not now put
forward any claim for pecuniary in
demnity, but requires the relinquish
ment of all claims of sovereignty over
or title to. the island of Cuba os well
as the immediate evacuation by Spain
of the island; thecession to the United
States and immediate evacuation of
I’orto Rico and other islands under
Spanish sovereignty in the West In
dies; and the like cession of an island
in the Ladrones. Tho United States
will occupy and hold the city, hay and
harbor of Manila, pending the conclu
sion of a treaty of peace whioh shall
determine the control, disposition and
government of the Philippines.
“ ‘If these terms are accepted by
Spain in their entirety it is stated that
commissioners will be named by the
United States to meet commissioners
on the part of Spain for the purpose
of concluding n treaty of peace on the
basis above indicated.’ ”
The statement as given out is a
mere synopsis of the full terms, the
orignal numbering 1,100 words, writ
ten in diplomatic language,and cover
ing all the details.
The commission will be actually a
peace commission and will prepare the
treaty which will terminate formally
the war with Spain. However, a sus-
oension of hostilities may be sooner
declared.
DIRECT WIRE TO PONCE.
MADE POSSIBLE GERMAN EMPIRE.
am Warrior Nation. Wcie A. Tot. In HI.
Hand.—Brilliant and Sn«-
caa.ful Career,
General Greely Bai K.tabll.bcd Commie
nicntlon Wifi Mile.,
General Greely, chief signal officer,
was able to announce with a great
deal of gratification Monday that he
was now in direct communication with
General Miles’ headquarters at Ponce.
Heretofore all messages from the
general have come via a dispatch boat
to St. Thomas sod thence by cable, in
volving a delay of from twelve to
twenty hours. When the Spanish
forces retreated from Ponce thev de
stroyed the cable instruments. Gen
eral Greely succeeded in getting the
officials at St. Thomas to Bend over
new instruments.
A^pecial from Berlin states that
Prince Bismarck died shortly before
II o’clock Saturday night at Fried-
richsrnhe.
The death of the ex-chancellor came
as a surprise to all Europe. Despite
the family denial, there was an under
current of apprehension when the
sinking of the prince was first an
nounced, inspired more by what the
family left unsaid than by any infor
mation given.
Prince Bismarck never for a moment
believed himself in danger until the
last day.
It appears that the ex-chancellor's
death was not precipitated by sudden
complications, but was rather the cul
mination of chronic diseases, neural
gia of the face and inflamation of the
veins, which kept him in constant
pain, that wns borne with the iron for
titude which might have been ex
pected.
The beginning of the end dates
from July 20th, when the prinoo was
confined to his bed. HO had been sev
eral days prostrated before an inkling
of his decline reached the world.
The prince was unconscious for sev
eral hours before the end came and
his breath nlmost failed repeatedly.
He died without a struggle.
Brief Sketch of the Iron Chancellor.
Prince Otto. Eduard Leopold Bis
marck von Schonbnusen was horn of
an old noble family of the "Mark”
(Brandenburg) at Schonhausen, April
1, 1815. He was created a count Sep
tember lfi, 1805, and prince (Furst)
Von Bismarck in March, 1871. He
was educated at the universities of
Gottingen and Griefewnhl, spent some
timo in the nrmy and subsequently
settled down ns a country gentleman.
Brought up in political faith of the
junkers, or Prussian Tory squirearchy,
lie became, in 1840, n member of the
provincial district of Saxony and of
the Prussinn diet, in which ho first
attracted attention by his fiery speeches
in defense of tho old monarchial party.
Bismarck was sent as ambassador to
St. Petersburg in 1850 nnd held that
position until 1802. In May of 1802
he became Prussinn ambassador at
Paris. Five months Inter lie wns mnde
first minister of the Prussian crown.
Within the next ten years ho hum
bled the Austrinn empire, destroyed
tho French empire and created the
new German empire. He remodeled
the map of Enrope, dismembering
Denmnrk and Frnnce. Ho enlarged
the frontiers of Prussia by the annex
ation of vnrious provinces, including
the dominions of three dethroned Ger
man princes nnd succeeded in placing
Germany, which had previously been
the weakest and less respected of nil
the grent powers, at the head of all
the states of Europe.
Bismarck’s next achievement was to
prevent the attempted annexation of
Luxembourg by Napoleon III in 1888.
In 1888 Bismarck withdrew for some
months from active public life, hut he
was in power again before the end of
the year. Thor came the Frnnco-
German wnr of 1870, and after a cam
paign consisting of nn unbroken ae
ries of victories, largely due to the
strategic genius of Count von Moltke,
King William was nhlo, through his
chancellor, to dictate terms of peace to
his nssnilnnt.
Of the events in Prineo Bismarck’s
life subsequent to the Franco-German
war, it may be mentined that he pre
sided at tho congress of Berlin in 1878
and 1880, nnd the Congo or colonial
conference of 1884.
Prince Bismark took a prominent
part in connection with the triple al
liance between Germany, Austria and
Italy.
The publication of the late Fredrick
William’s dinry, in September, 1888,
threw a light upon some of the imperial
transactions in which Prince Bisinark
has been engaged. Much sensation
was created both in Germany nnd else
where, by the revelation of the diary
respecting the authorship of the idea
of German unity. Tho late emperor
claimed to have proposed this policy
and to have experienced great difficulty
in persuading Prince Bismark of its
practicability.
The reported resignation of Prince
Bismarck as Prussian prime minister
and chancellor was announced in
February, 1890, hut did not actually
occur until March 17th of that year,
when divergences of opinion between
him nnd the emperor 1- d to his retire
ment. His departure from Berlin
was made the occasion of great popu
lar demofistrntion.
The desire of the German people for
a reconciliation between the Prince
aud Emperor William was happily
granted in 1895.
BY SPAIN TO TREAT DIRECTLY
FOR PEACE.
HERO OF THE MERRIMAC AR
RIVES AT LYTHIA SPRINTS.
AMBASSADOR SHOWS CREDENTIALS A JOYFUL WELCOME
I«*l«»ll of Being Only a Hearer of Petition
He It Given Full Authority to No-
yotlate I'eaca Terma.
A Washington special says: Events
of the most momentous character oc
curred at the conference at the white
house Saturday afternoon between the
president, Ambassador Cambon, of
Frnnoe, and Secretary Day, carrying
the peace negotiations far beyond the
mere submission of terme of peace by
the United States and reaching the
point of a preliminary basis of peace
between the government of Spain and
the government of the United States,
needing only the ratification of the
Madrid cabinet in what was done to
bring the war to an end.
This was accomplished on the part
of Spain when Ambassador Cnmbon
presented to the president credentials
he hod received from the Spanish gov
ernment appointing him envoy extra
ordinary and plenipotentiary, with
complete instructions ob to the man
ner of acting upon, every one of the
pence conditions presented by the
United States, inolnding the disposi
tion of Cuba, Porto Bico, the Philip
pines, the Ladrones, indemnity, arm
istice anil nil other questions likely to
arise iu the oourse of the negotiations.
With these credentials authorizing him
to spenk as plenipotentiary for the gov
ernment of Spain, and with full in
struction on every point at issue. Am
bassador Cambon, in behalf of Spain,
not only received the peaco conditions
laid down by the American cabinet
some hours previously, but thereupon
entered upon tlieir full discussion with-
a view to reaching a final and com
plete agreement.
After strong urgmnont the president
and Secretary Day consented to a
modification of the American terms in
one particular.
What that modification relates to is
not disclosed, but it is believed not to
npply to the condition for tho absolute
independence of Cuba, the cession of
Porto Rico or ttie granting of adequate
coaling stations to the United Stntes
in the Pacific or to diminish in nny
vital particular the terms on which
peace will he restored. The modifica
tion brought about practical unanimity
tween tho president and Ambassador
Cnmbon, as plenipotentiary for Spain,
and the latter 1ms now transmitted tho
results of tho conference to Madrid
for approval, which, if given, will end
tho wnr.
Denouvnnnt T7n expected.
The profoundly important resnlts
developed came about most expected
ly. Abassndor C'amhon’s cnll was sot 1
for 2 o’clock, nnd it wns expected to
last but n few minutes, while the an
swer of the United States was be
ing handed to him. But since
the original proposition of Spnin
wns presented some (lnys bofore, M.
Cnmbon hnd prepared himself to speak
with authority on the questions whioh
were to arise. The president himself
lmd preferred this courso, although
outside of himself and tho ambassador
few were aware that the latter would
come rondy to treat as the envoy of
Spain.
The first instructions to M. Gam
bon made him merely a medium of
coinmuuicating Spain’s first note, but
now he appeared with all the attri
butes of the direct diplomatic officer
of Spnin, empowered to act for the
government within his very complete
instructions.
Iu discussing the points at issue M.
Cnmbon, who is a man of fervent olo-
quence, spoke with nn intensity of
feeli' g which made a deep impression
on the president and the others pres
ent, He spoke in French, each sen
tence being caught up and interpreted
by M. Thelmult with rapidity, so that
the earnestness of tho ambassador’s
impression lost little by this indirect
method of communication. Tho pres
ident spoke with equal frankness, and
in the lengthy discission there was
scarcely a point in tho whole range of
tho war which was not met and freoly
considered.
FIVE PICKNICKEKN DROWNED.
Kowlng Hunt. Collide and Occupant. Find
» Watery Grave In Ue.plninea Itiver.
Five persons attending the picnic of
tho Chicago Cloakmakers' Union, at
Columbia park Sunday, were drowned
iu the Despluines river. Tho dead
are: Annie Seibvusky, Annie Pogratski,
Jacob Harris, A. Schiunberg and
Samuel Roche.
Thirteen of the merry-makers were
rowing about tho river in three boats.
In the center of the stream the boats
collided and the whole party was soon
struggling in the water. Rescuers
hurried from the shore a quarter of a
mile distant, bnt before they could
reach the boat five persons had gone
down for the last time.
H«lln| Between Mother and Ron Wa.
Pathetic and AF.ctlnn.te Ovation.
Along tho Way.
Lieutenant Richmond Pearson Hob
son reached Lithia Springs, Ga.,
Monday morning from New York on a
visit to bis mother who is temporarily
sojourning at that resort.
The lieutenant arrived in Atlanta at
5:10 o’clock, a. m., and notwithstand
ing the early hour there were many to
greet him and shake his hand. The
stop in tba Gate City was for only
twenty minntes aud the hero of the
Merrimac was soon speeding toward
Austell.
In the meantime a loving mother
awaited a long absent son on the plat
form by the railroad at Lithia Springs.
When the traiu finally pulled up to the
station where the mother waited, a
crowd of guosts from tho Sweetwater
Park hotel had gathered to join in tho
welcome.
Lieutenant Hobson alighted from
the roar end of the car when his moth
er was looking for him to come from
the front. He saw her ahead and
went to meet her. She turned, aud
seeing him, came toward him. The
meeting was a pathetic one. The son
kissed his mother, who threw her arms
around his ueck and for several mo
ments rested her head on his shoulder,
Bhodding tears of joy. The crowd
stood aside in reverence to snch affoo-
tion.
To say that Mrs, Hobson was over
joyed to see her son would express it
too mildly. As she walked up the
lane from the depot to the hotel, lean
ing upon the arm of her boy, her face
was allow with happiness. She was,
too, justly proud of her son, of whom
so much is being made. These two
led the way from the railroad station,
nnd (he hotel guests followed, two by
two.
At the hotel the lifutenant was
stopped hut a moment to receive the
wcloorai) a few guests were eager to
extend—tlioso who had not gone to
the train.
The hotel parlors were decorated
with the most beautiful flowers, flags
were draped over tho portieres aud
the word "Welcome” made of gTeen
leaves was spread over the door. A
string hand furnished music.
The proprietor of the hotel spared
no ctlort in his arrangements for bronk-
fnnt nnd his table decorations. The
flowers used were magnificent and
were, after the meal, removed to the
lieutenant’s room.
After taking hronkfast Lieutenant
Hobson retired to his room for a rest
aftor his long ride from Asheville, N.
C., and the crowd, nevor tired of see
ing him, waited eipectnntly for his re
appearance.
It is easy to nee thnt above the ap
plause thnt wnits upon him every
where he turnH Hobson’s mind is riv
eted on something more substantial,
something that absorbs his every mo
ment and often loads him off in ab
straction. Ho is thinking of his
scheme for raising the Cristobal Co
lon, the proudest ship of Cervera’s
fleet that went down off Santiago.
Conversation with him on this suhjoct
is easily obtained, although the lieu
tenant talkH to the landlubber in
technical language that only a naval
export could fully appreciate. I
MERRITT APPEARS UNEASY.
Again Cabin. Wtr Department of Th.
IMillIpplne Situation.
A Washington special says: General
Merritt has again cabled the war de
partment relative to the situation in
Manila, which he finds very unsatis
factory, owing to the attitude of the
insurgents. It wns reported to Gen
eral Merritt that the attitude of tho
insurgents is similar to that assumed
by Garcia’s Cubans on the question of
their right to enter anil possess them
selves of tho city, although in this
case these insurgents arc a very much
more formidable element, being not
only more numerous, but better armed
anil filled with the arrogance follow
ing numerous victories over tho Span
ish forces.
General Merritt, however, indicates
that he will do his tumost to protect
citizens from the savagery of the in
surgents, though his task is a delicate
anil difllcult one, because of the fact
that he must, while fighting the Span
iards, bo ready at any moment to
repel tho insurgents.
The general gave notice that lie wbb
about to combine with Admiral Dewey
in a joint demand for tho surrender of
the city to the United States forces,
thus forestalling the insurgents, and
this movement may cause a rupture.
It is possible, in view of the fact that
General Merritt’s cablegram was sent
from Cavite last Thursday, that this
movement Iisr been made already
by the combined American forces.
Absolutely Mir*
mru wan. mm. aiw vom.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
The New Inilu.trle. llepnrl.il In thn South
During the Port Week.
The more important of ths new In
dustries reported the past week from
southern points comprise the rebuild
ing of the barrel factory recently
burned iu South Carolina; a casket
factory in West Tennessee; a chair
faotory in Texas; a cotton gin in South
Carolina; a municipal electric light
plant iu Virginia; ii [louring mill in
Arkansas, one of 50-barr Is sapaoity
in North Georgia, one each in
Kontuoky and Virginia, aud two
iu South Carolina—one of them
a 150,000 investment; a hardwood
factory establishment in Middle Geor
gia by Pennsylvania parties; ice fac
tories in Kentucky and tho Carolines;
a knitting mill in North Carolina; a
f15,000 water and light plant in Ala
bama; lumber mills iu Louisiana and
Koutnoky; a mattress factory in Vir
ginia; another petroleum company in
the Corsicana field; a 8100,000 branch
of the American Fish Oil Co., on the
East Texas coast; a plaining milt and
novelty works in South Carolina; a
saw mill in Alabama, and a 825,000
rice, mill in Louisiana.—Tradesman,
(Chattanooga, Tenu.)
TROUBLE IN ALABAMA.
A Smnll-Slieil Its™ Wsr Preolpltateil Near
Cuiiels,
A special dispatch from Opelika,
Ala,, says: Saturday night at 12
o’clock a desperate fight, brought on
by politics, nearly prooipitated a race
war near Cusseta, between Opelika aud
West Point, Ga.
In tho quiot stillness of the early
Sabbath morning the rattle of shot
guns and winchesters seemed strange
ly odd anil after the onslaught was
over it was found that the following
were seriously wounded: W. J. Bus-
hee anil W. W. Meadows,whites; John
Hull, Will Floyd, Tom Combs and
Charles Morgan, oolored. It iB be-
lieved that others are wounded.
The report reached the city Sunday
morning that the negroes were arming
anil gathering for the purpose of wip
ing out the white racs.
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