Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

VOLUME XVI. DALLAS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 80, 1*98. NUMBER 46. niwsia RATS “SCANDAL MONGING NEWS PAPERS” ATTACKED HIM. “I APOLOGIZE TO NO Wl« til* Feeling Went* of the Beeretnrj In a Speech at Jacksonville, Florida. REMAINS EXHUMED. During hia visit to Jacksonville, Fla., Secretary Alger was entertained by the chamber of commerce and de- . livered himself of a notable speech. He'broke his silence and deolared war, not against the Spaniards, bnt •gainst his American oritics. With one quiak and unexpected maneuver he plaoed himself on the offensive in stead of the defensive side of the present controversy as to whether the department was properly conducted during the Spanish war. The secretary does not hope to es- cape farther attack, bnt he proposes to ' do some firing himself. In his Jack- * sonville speech he declared himself in plainer and stronger language than | ever heretofore, and he ronndly de nounced his enemies and the critios ofj the war department. It was with (S eat | feeling that the secretary delivered his speech and his words have since beon the tnlk of the city. He had been presented with a copy . of resolutions adopted by the chamber of commerce, and the tribute paid to I him worked him up to a high pitoh. With vigorous denunciatory language •nd gestures he came back at the > American press. i He nek.'ly broke down at one time, ao full was he of tho feeling of resent-1 ment and indignation. Bnt, encour aged by tho applause of the business men of Jacksonville, he retained pos- j session of his powers of speech and declared forcibly, among other things, | the following: "The war department and njy ad ministration of it have been oriticised 1 by the sensational and scandal mong- ’ ing papers, which have attaoked me 1 and the war department without reason •nd unfairly. To their abuse and , slander I have this to Bay: “ T apologize to no man for my ad- ; ministration of the war department, j The department has been managed as best it could be under the conditions, : •nd to prove it I point with pride to j the fact that the American army has ! won a great and noble victory, a mir- j aculous victory, one that will go down ' in history ns the most remarkable in the century for speediness of conquest, •nd achievement of glory in battle.’ ! “The newspaper sewerage that is j being dumped out against me is not •gainst the secretary of war. It is •gainst the glorious victory of the American troops, the bravo deeds of our men and their achievements, the marvel of the age. Again I say that I have no apology to make to any man, and I am ready to answer for my pari in the conduct of the war.” General Alger continued along this line and spoke perhaps fifteen min utes. HUremaikn were in response to a toast proposed to his health by General Fitzhugh Lee. Inspect* Seventh Corps. The secretary spent a busy Sunday in Jacksonville. He arrived in the morning from Atlanta and was wel comed to the city by General Lee, commanding the Seventh corps, and a committee of prominent citizens of Jacksonville. , He was escorted at once to the First division comp grounds and to the hospitals there. He went through all the wards and said kind things to the sick soldiers. He said the hospitals and camps are in good condition. After inspecting the grounds nnd hospitals he reviewed the troops com posing the First and Second divisions of the Seventh army corps. The reg iments were paraded in spite of the expressed desire of the secretary, who said he did not want the men to be worked so hard on Sunday, their only day of rest. General Lee insisted on showing off his troops and the secreta ry finally yielded and viewed the parade. The troops in line were the First Texas, First Louisiana, Second Louis iana and Fourth United States volun teers, comprising the First brigade, under command of General Keifer. The troops in the Second brigade were the First North Carolina, Second Illinois, Fourth Virginia, Forty-ninth Iowa and Ninth Illinois. In the afternoon the seoretary in spected the Third division hospital and camps. The hospital was found to be not up to the standard and Gen eral Sternberg criticised it quite se verely. It was found that there were not enough sheets and that the men are crowded too close together. Gen eral Sternberg gave directions that better conditions be established there. In his speech Secretary Alger an nounced that General Lee would be granted leave for a time and would go to Washington to recuperate. Hast of Christopher Columbus Belas Removed From Herons. At 9 o’clock Monday morning th* official exhumation of the remains of Columbus took place at Havana in tho presence of General Blanco, Secretary Govin, the civil governor and other authorities. The general pnblio was ordered out of the cathedral at 8 o’clock and no one was allowed inside after that hour. The entrance to the oathedral was guarded and the crowds whioh assem bled in front of the edifice wore kept back. The remains had lain in their late resting plaoe since January 19, 1796, when they were brought from Santo Domingo, that island having been ceded to France by Spain. Since that date the remains had lain in an open niohe in the wall of the presbytery of the cathedral, a yard and a half above the ground, between a pillar support ing the main arch and the choir. In 1892 there was placed in front of the niche a slab of artistio taste, rep resenting in relief a bust of the great admiral and bearing this inscription, in Spanish: "Mny the remains and image of the great Columbus lie a thousand centu ries preserved in this urn and in the remembrance of our nation.” After the four hundredth anniversa- ryof the disoovery of the new world by Columbus the Spanish cortes in cluded in the Cuban budget large sums for erecting n fitting symbol of the travels of the discoverer, to be plaoed in the most conspicuous plaoe in Havana,and the oonstruotion of the mausoleum to hold his ashes. This mausoleum, the work of the Spanish sculptor Mclida, was sent to Havana and placed upon a base erected in the center aisle of the cathedral. KOUTHEIU PROGRESS. THE DEPARTMENT INVESTIGATORS CONFER WITH PRESIDENT. THEIR WORK IS MAPPED OUT. M^Jor General Dodge Made President of the Commission and M%)or Miles He* lected as Military Recorder. The New Industries Reported In tha South During the Past Week. Among the more important indus tries reported during the past week may be noted two flouring mills and a barrel and Btave factory in Alabama, one flduring mill, a telephone system, an electrio light plant and a waterworks in Arkansas, a sawmill, a telephone exchange and a woodworking plant in Florida; a gun faotory, a planing mill, a cotton mill, three flouring mills, a gold mining oompany, a .brick yard and a machine shop in Georgia; a canning factory, electrio light plant and one sawmill in Louisiana; a tele phone exohange in Mississippi; in North Carolina an eleotrio light plant, woodworking plant, woolen mill, coke ovens and cotton mill; in Tennessee two flouring mills and a hoop and excelsior factory; in South Carolina two cotton mills; in Texas a cotton mill, a sugar mill, a woodworking establishment and a flouring mill; in Virginia a gas workB, a sawmill and an ice faotory; in West Virginia a faotory for wagon material, two oil companies and two coal and coke companies. —Tradesman (Chattanoo ga, Tenn.) COL. IlItYAN SICK. HI. Departure from Washington Delayed By un Attack of Fever. Col. William J. Bryan, of the Third Nebraska regiment was unable to leave Washington Monday for Jack sonville, as contemplated. "I have a touch of malaria,” he said to a reporter, “and my physician told me today that I would have to re main here for two or three days.” Colonel Bryan was in bed, where he passed most of the day. His face was flushed with fever and he remarkod that he guessed he was a little tired out. “I have boon delnyiug my return to Jaokeonvillo," he added, “for three or four days, in tho hope that I would feel better the next day and be able to undertake the journey.” FANNY DAVF.NPOHT DEAD. Well Known Actress Succumbs to En largement of the Heart. Fanny Davenport (Mrs. Melbourne McDowell) died at her Bummer home at Duxbury, Mass., Monday night of enlargement of the heart. Miss Davenport had never fully re covered from her severe illness early in the summer and up to a week ago it was thonght that she would in time enjoy good health again. Miss Davenport occupied a unique position on the American stage. She was one of the foremost of the female stars, while she held high rank as a producer of plays, and in this latter work she achieved a great success. WILL FIGHT IT OUT. Colombia Absolutely R.fn.e. To Fay tha Cerruti Claim. Advices from Cartagena, Colombia, state that the Colombian government has Anally decided to deoline to pay the Cerruti claim on the ground that the republic is now able to produoe ample evidence of Cerruti'B complicity in the political troubles that oocurred in the country in 1876 and 1885. The goverument, according to the advices received, has directed the president to urge Italy to agree to resubmit the case to arbitration, and will, in the event of failing in this at tempt, oppose force with force to the last extreme. The commission to investigate the oonduot of the war department during the recent coafliot with Spain held its initial eitting in the office of President McKinley at tho white house Saturday. There were eight members preseut. Dr. Phineas 8. Connor, of Cincinnati, was the absentee. The eight who were present were: Major Genoral Granville M. Dodge, of Iowa; Colonel J. A. Sexton, of Illinois, Captaiu E. P. Howell, of Georgia; Major Genoral J. M. Wilson, chief of enginoorsof the United States army; Hon. Olinrlos Denby, of Indiana, late minister to China; cx-Govoruor Urbatia Woodbury, of Vermont; ex-Govoruor James A. Beaver, of Pennsylvania, and Major Genoral A. McD. MoCook, of tho army, retired. The commission spent an honr nnd a half with the president, nnd then proceeded to the room nssigned it at the war department for the purpose of organizing nnd beginning work. The proceedings with the president consisted in tho mnm of a general ex change of views as to the scope of tho commission’s investigations, in which the president participated quite freely. The president had put his own viewa in writing and road them before pro ceeding to a verbal discussion. In this statement ha Bnid that complaiuts had been directod especially at the surgeon general's, tho quartermaster general's and the commissary gener al’s departments of tho army, and he suggested that the conduct of those departments should receive especial consideration at the hands of the com mission. He wished the commission to go to the bottom of the subject in all eases and proceed with its work without fear or favor. “If,” he saij in the formal disons- sion that occurred, “the commission should hnve difficulty in soonring tho attendance of witnesses or obtaining access to papers thonght to be essen tial to the prosecution of its laborB, I hope the matter will be brought to my attention, when I will do all in my power to overcome the difficulty. I want tho commission to hnve a clear field, nnd I will do all that is*posslble for mo to do to see that It has. ” The suggestion was also made to the commission that the first effort should be to sooitro general information in re gard to the organization of the army and the time in which the work was performed. Tho president suggested tho name of Major Miles, of the army, for the position of rocorder of the com mission. Secretary Alger’s request as made in the letter read by the president was for a complete inquiry into the con duct of the war, especially on the lines of the charges published in the newspapers. He said these oharges had assumed such magnitude that he did not foal satisfied to have the de partment rest under them, and that he desired an investigation by men emi nent in military and civil life. Dr. Phineas 8. Connor, of Cincin nati, announced as the ninth member of the commission, was seleoted be cause of his eminence as a physician. The president had been anxious from the beginning to secure tho services of a medical man, because the medical department of the army is much in volved in the charges that have been made. Aftor the close of the conference at. the white hhUHe, the president ex pressed his satisfaction with the per sonnel of the commission, adding that he believed their investigation would be thorough and their report fair and impartial. The commission organized by elect ing Granville M. Dodge chairman and Kicliard Weightman, of Washington, secretary; Major Miles, of the in spector genoral’s office, to be military recorder. The commission adjourned about 10:30 o’clock to meot again Monday. The session was devoted to method of procedure, nothing definite being reached. DEWEY’S RICH PRIZE. *’ Wa.lilngton Authorities That Span iards Evacuate Cuba at Once. A Washington special says: A very peremptory message of instrnotio: has been sent to tho Cuhnu military commission, and by thorn made the basis of a note to the Spanish com missioners. The authorities in Wash ington will not make public tho term* of the note, but its goneral tenor is that the Uuitod States will not be sat isfied with any further delay in the svaouation of Cuba. It is to the effect that the ternnr of the protocol called for the immediate evacuation of Cuba and that Spanish sovereignty must he relinquished, the American commissioners linve been informed that tho evacuation ot Cuba cannot be deluyod. The war department in determined that Cuba, at least, shall be ready for some of our troops by the middle of next mouth, and all speed is being made to oquip troops to bo sent there at that timo. The administration has determined that the Spani^ shall he brought to an understanding that they aro the vanquished and not the victors, and thoy nro to tako torms ami not dictate them. Vessels Captured at and Near Manila Ara Given a Value of •l.SOO.OOO. An Associated Press correspondent, writing from Manila under date of August 30th, says: "The work of setting the wheels of business in the harbor of Manila in motion has been entrusted to Captain Henry Glass, of the United Statos steamship Charleston. One of his first duties was that of taking an inventory of all the shipping that fell into Ad miral Dewey's hands on the 14th in stant. This includes everything afloat, either on the bay or river, which means • radins of forty miles, and its valne ia about 81,660,0000.” DECIDED UPON AT MEETING OF FRENCH CABINET. ORDERS ISSUED FOR DOCUMENTS. DacUlon It R«c«lvffid Wltk Groat Re joicing Bjr tha Fopulaea—Mob Shouts! “Vive La Revision." Roy ml mmkea the food pure, wholemmm mad dmUclomm. A SENSATIONAL STORY. It la Said That Oerinanjr Will FiirnDh Anns lo Flllplnna. The San Franoisco Post publishes a sensational story to tho effoot that Germany is planning to send numer ous trading vossols to tho Philippine islauds nnd will arm 150,000 Filipinos, besides furnishing Krupp guns and —tillery for field use. The islanders, Tlig Post, alleges, will be thoroughly drilled by Gorman offi cers, and by February Agninaldo will be prepared to moke an onslaught on the American forcos. According to The Post, Gorman agouts have made a report to their government that it will be impossible for the United StoteB to land more than 50,000 in tho Philip- I pines before Agninaldo is roady to 1 make his coup. WHEELER FIRST SELECTED To Command a Division ol Regular Cavalry In Cuba. A speoial to Tho Now York Journal from Washington says: The first steps were taken Friday toward preparing an army for the oconpation of Cuba after tho evaotin- [ tion of the Spfinish troops. Genoral Miles and Acting Seoretary Meikoljohn j had a long conference on this subject I for the purpose of assigning regiments ! and officers to this duty in Cuba and ! Porto Rioo. General Wheeler is tho first officor to be seleoted as a result of tho con ferences for a responsible command in the Caban army of oooupation. He will havo charge of a cavalry division consisting of two brigades, and com posed of eix regiments of regular oar- WOODFORD FORMALLY IIE8IGN8. Former Mini.ter to Madrid Follow. U.n- *1 Cu.tom on breaking Out or War. Following tho custom in the oaso of t,: minister who lias been obliged to leave hiB post by the breaking out of hoatilities, Stcwnrt L. Woodford has filed his resignation as minister to Spain. It is believed that it will he six months hefoie tho United States has occasion to send a minister to Madrid again, nnd if Mr. Woodford’s resignation romains so long unacted upon his status will be merely nomi nal, for under the law, his salnry ceased nfter tho expiration of 60 days from tho dato he left his post. WU TING FANG NOTIFIED Of Accc.lon To China'. Throne of Hit, Downg.tr Empress. The Chinese ministor at Washing ton, Mr. Wu Ting Fang, received a ! cable dispatch Friday from the Chi nese foreign office at Peking giving the text of the edict issued by the em peror Thursday in which, owing to tho oritical condition of Chinese affairs, he calls baok to power the empress dowager and commits to her hands tho direction of affairs of tho empire. THE FEVER SITUATION. City Board of Health Report* No Change In New Orleans. The New Orleans hoard of health issued an official bulletin Friday night showing that there have been no cases of fever in two days. There has not been a single death among the flvo cases previously reported. One new case is reported at Houma, in Terbonne parish. There have been no new enses at Harvey’s Canal in four days. *AKlN* POWDER AD«olut»ty Pur* •oval unm kmm co., siw vom. F. P. HUDSON, Ordinary. A cable dispatch from Paris states that at a meeting of the cabinet Mon day morning, all the ministers being present, a decision was takon in favor of a revision of the trial of former Captaiu Dreyfus, and the doonments i in the caso will be sent to the oonrt of ' cassation. The crowds of people outside the ministry of the interior, whore the cabinet council was held, londly olieerod tho ministers, and there were shouts of “Vivo Brisson," “Vive la revision,” Tho enhinot ordered the minister of justico, M, Sarrien, to lay lioforo tho court of caHsa the petition of Madame J’’‘ * ”’,*“jN PROGRESSING. Dreyfus, wife of tho prisoner of Devil's Align'd, administrator with Island, for a revision of her hnsband'e annexed <\ the estate of William case. Tho court, therefore will decide Allgood, Jr., dccea^ «d, has in due form tho legal question as to whether the tpplled to the undo! Igned for leave to first trial of Captain Dreyfus wan [ hell tho lands belong) \g to said estate, and vitiat ed by the forgery committed by 1 will puss upon the same on the first Mon. who confessed to having forged a doc j ^ ° mc1 *' ment in the case. Tho minister of jnstioo has an nounced that ho has given instructions that proceedings are to be taken im- modintely against any one attacking the army. In The Intransigeant, noury Roche fort accuses Major Esterhazy of hav ing beon hrihod by the so-called Drey fus syndicate to “cover himself with dishonor by confessing to a forgery, of which charge he was twicoacquitted.” M. Rochefort adds that ho paid Es- terha/.y ono thousand franos for copies of all the documents in the case and that, in addition, with two other news paper men, he paid Esterhazy, who was literally without a centime, throe hundred francs monthly to prevent him from dying of hunger while await ing to obtain pension. Continuing, M. Rochefort says: “Rocontly, without any apparent in centive, Esterhazy mysteriously went *° London, abandoning his three hun- For debt on new court house, dred franos monthly. Why this omi- / for his meals?” 1 / 00 9 " 10 M. Clemenoean, in the Aurora, re- 1 wh,oh u hore, ’V lovlu l l ‘ for the year marks: “France is divided into two '■ This Sept, thoBtffi, 1898. Tax Levy for the Tear 1898. GEORGIA, PAULDING COUNTY. Court of Ordinnry sluing for county purposes, September term, 1898. It Is hereby ordered that tho Tax Collector or his successor in office co|ject the follow ing amount for county purposes for the year 1898: To pay jurors and superior court ex. 18 10 a 4 7 penses, County current expenses, Jail fees, For support of paupers, Roads and bridges, Coroner fees, Tax Receiver and Collector’s commissions and all other legal demands ngalnst the county, 0^ , Total for county purposes, /fa ’2'lUO camps, those who ooncoive that the in terests of the country depend on the concealment of facts by lies, and those who have a sufficiently high esteem for tho country to separate enthusiasm from the aspirations of justice and truth.” The Libre Parole asserts that Major / -V. P. HUDSON, Ordinary. > GEORGIA, 1 Pavi.dino Coitkty. ) /Vo nil whom it msy concern: B/H, Robertson, hnvlng applied for the Estorliazy has tolegraphed to tho min- j ustn bllshment of n new public road, .min ister of war, General Chanoine, pro- ! liter cing at the Hoekmart and Villa Rlc-a testingBgainst the story published in ros. t near the residence of Peter Plnknrd The Observer of London, purporting „„! running In a smith-west direction to to be a confession made by the major, , ho . olmty n n( , | IG tween Paulding nnd 'H'SrssSfg: b : — document whioh is said to have fur- Dr » kotn wn and Temple road, run- nishod proof of the guilt of Drcyfue. ,ll ’> ,l,rull K | ‘ th * of I’- J- Pinkard, iJIV. E. Hutcheson, It. I,. Dooley and the PROMISES RECOGNITION. tGobertsoa boys. Notice is hereby given .list said application will lie finally grant 'll on the 3rd day of October, 1898, next, IS ROOSEVELT INKLLIGIULEt A dispatch from Albany, N. Y., states that the supporters of Governor Black have exposed their hand, which has been responsible for their great confidence in their ability to defeat Colonel Roosevelt for the gubernatori al nomination, ami which makes tho nomination of the colonel an impossi bility. Colonel Roosevelt, they say, is "in eligible” to run ns a candidate for gov ernor in New York state, as when be was sworn in as assistant secretary of the navy he swore to his residence us Washington, D. C. France Move, to Interfere In Flllllp|il Affair.. A spocial to The London Globo from '/ n ‘ 1 Hong Kong, published Monday after noon, says it is learned from a trust worthy Filipino sourco that France has promised to recognize the Filipino ropublic, and it is added that negotia tions on the subjoct are proceeding at Mnniln, where there are three French warships. The navy dopartmont has decided to sond the cruiser Buffalo, now at New York, to the Paoiflo station. She will probably go to Honolulu, and in the sufficient cause Is shown to the con- rnr^r. This Sept. 1st, 1898. F. P. HUDSON, Ordinnry. commencing at the residence of Morris, and running In a due easter- event that'she is needed to reinforce |f direction, mid running through the said Dewey's fleot she can reoeive orders . V orris’ fsrin, thence through laud cfL. at that placo by dispatch boat. The ). k endows, from there to the Oobbcoun' Buffalo goes out under command of Commander Hemphill, late of the navigation bnreau, who har devoted himself to the conversion of tho ves sel, whioh was lately attached to the Brazilian navy under the name of the Nictheroy, into a modern and ef fective cruiser. Mechanics are work ing overtime onboth the Oregon and Iowa in order to fit them for their cruise to the Paoifio. GEORGIA, I Paiii.uino County 1 To all whom it may concern: C. Moon, having applied for the polling nnd establishing of a new public y 11 ic. Said road to commence at and sad from the Hiram and Pleasant IIII1 ond|to Cobh county line. Notice la hore- y given that said application will be ranted on the 3rd day of October, 1898, exti If no sufficient cause la ahown to the ml fury. This Sept, the 1st, 1898. F. I>. HUDSON, Ordinary. CUBANS STARVING. General Gomes So Notifies the Cnbei Legation st Washington. Telegrams were received at th< Cuban legation in Washington Sun day night from commissioners whi arrived at Key West, sent to thi: country liy General Gomez, the Caban insurgent leader. These telegrams depict the situation in the province of Santa Clara as most critical. The Cuhan army is said to be starving. The vegetables are almost gone and tbe last mules and horses have been killed to feed the sick. The children •nd old people are said to be dying by the dozens every day. MUM Epl 19 IDS Bill. P- 'cn very reasoncble. Obtain them ?-om your local denier ant BELVIDERE, ILL