Newspaper Page Text
T1IK ISLAND 18 FORMALLY TURNED
VVER TO AMERICANS.
OUR FLAG RAISED AT SAN JUAN.
IToiicefortli the United States Will Have
Undisputed Sovereignty Over the
lleautlful Island.
Promptly at noou Tuesday the
American flag was raised over San
Juan, Porto Rico, and the United
States is now formally in possession
of the island. The ceremony was
quiet aud dignified, unmarred by dis
order of any kind.
The Eleventh regular infantry, with
two batteries of the Fifth artillory,
landed Tuesday morning. The lattei
proceeded to the forts, while the in
fautry lined up on the (looks. It was
a holiday for San Juan and there were
many people on the streets.
Rear Admiral Sohley and General
Gordon, accompanied by their staffs,
proceeded to the palace in carriages.
The Eleventh infantry regiment and
band, with troop H, of the Sixth
United States cavalry, was then
marched through the streets and
formed in the square opposite the pal
ace.
At 11:40 a. m. General Brooke, Ad
miral Schley and General Gordon, the
United States evaouation commission
ers, came out of the palace with many
officers and formed on the right side
of the square. The streets behind
the soldiers were thronged with town
people, who stood waiting in .(lend
silence. At last the city clock struck
the hour of twelve, and the crowds,
almost breathless and with eyes fixed
upon the flagpole, watched for devel
opments.
At the sound of the first gun from
Fort Morro, Major Dean aud Lieu
tenant Castle, of General Brooke’s
staff, hoisted the stars and stripes,
while the bond played the “Stnr
Spangled Banner.”
All heads were bared and the crowds
cheered. Fort Morro, San Cristobal
and the United- States revenue cutter
Manning, lying in the harbor, fired
twenty-one guns each.
Senor Munoz Rivera, who was pres
ident of the recent autonomist coun
cil of secretaries, and other officials of
the late insular government, were
present at the proceedings.
Congratulations and handshaking
among the American officers followed.
Ensign King hoisted the stars and
stripes on the intendencia, but all
other flags on the various publio build
ings were hoisted by military officers.
Simultaneously with the raising of the
flag over the captain general's palace
many others were hoisted in different
parts of the city.
The work of tho United States evac
uation commission is now over and all
the reports will be forwarded to
Washington on Tuesday next. The
labors of both parties have terminated
with honors to all concerned. The
American commissioners worked with-
ed without delay and in tlio most
thorough and effective manner.
Cuban Atmembly Will Eleot Full Cabinet
at the Coming Meeting.
Advices from Santiago state that
tho meeting of the Cuban assembly at
Santa Cruz is fixed for October 20tk,
but owing to look of transportation
facilities the members of tho assembly
will bo unable to nrrivo at Santa Cruz
on time, and the end of tho month
will probably hnvo como before the
election of a president aud cabinet
takes plnce.
El Cnbano, a daily paper of Santi
ago, predicts the eleotion of the fol
lowing ticket:
President—General Maximo Gomez.
Vice-President — Senor Bartolomo
Maso.
Secretary of Foreign Affairs—Dr.
Domingo Mendez Capote.
Home Secretary—Senor Benjamin
Guerra.
Secretary of Justice—Sonar Jose A.
Lana za.
cretSry of War—General Calixto
J^Fc
lecretary of Public Instruction—
Senor Enrique Vnrona.
AID FOR 8TOIIM SUFFERERS.
UNITED STATES WILL NOT AS
SUME CUBAN OBLIGATIONS.
THE MATTER ALREADY SETTLED
American Peace CominiB«tom*r* Flatly
Refuse To Accept a Cession o€
Sovereignty TemlcreiV.
Advioes of Tuesday from Paris state
that Spain can no longer hnve nny
doubt regarding the ultimate attitude
of the United Statoe toward the-so-
called Cuban debt. The American
commissioners hnve declined to ae-
snme any part of it by express treaty
or by eontraet. Thoy also declined
to accept a cession of sovereignty to
tho United States, for in that cose
Spain would claim that snch a cession
by its own force would impose the ob
ligation for the debt.
It is confidently believed that in re
fusing to accept a cession of sover-
eignty tho American commissioners
acting also upon their announcement
to tho world in the intervention reso
lutions, disclaiming any intention to
exoroise sovereignty or authority over
Cuba except for pacification, and then
Government Grants Army Rations to Peo
ple In Flooded Districts.
A Washington dispatch Roys: Gov
ernment aid in the shape of army ra
tions will be given to the sufferers
from the reoent floods in Georgio who
are in need of the bnrest necessities of
life.
Application for this assistance came
to tho war department from Hon. Wil-
Horn Clifton, secretary of state of j to leave the island to the control of
Georgia, and Representative Living- ; its people and its people to the as-
ston. Secretary Alger referred tho j sumption of its obligations,
matter to the president, re'eommend- Ua Liborte, referring to the Ouban
ing favorable aetion, and the former j debt as ‘‘now dividing tho two couu-
suggestod that a conference be had j tries,” says:
with the officials of tho department of I “The Spanish regard the refusal of
justice before auything was done. j the United States to assume the Cuban
This was held Saturday morning i debt as an exaggerated pretension.”
and Solicitor General Richards, who ! In ono sontouce La Liberte declares
is acting attorney general, holds that that Spanish finances were ruined in
while there is no direct statutory trying to suppress tho Cuban insnr-
authority for extending suoh relief, ; rection, and in the next says that “tho
there iB no statutory prohibition, and debt was contracted for tbe benefit ..of
in view of the foot that tho govern- j Cuba.”
ment has given assistance in such j Then it points to Spain as pleading
emergencies as the present, he fol ‘ arbitration where the cominissiona
thought that the exeoutivo power gen- 1 do not ngroe, nud Rays:
erally would authorize the relief ask “Tim Wnnliinirt.mi «n
eel for.
LEAVE FAHHOBA OK FIGHT.
Knglaml Insist* That France 81iall Evac
uate That Territory.
A London dispatch says: The week
opened with an ominous rattling of
sabers over Fashoda and ended with
the rumblings of a revolutionary vol
cano in Paris.
The situation arising ont of the
question between Great Britain and
France as to the right of occnpying
Fashoda is extremely grave. Every
thing hinges on the nature of the re
port of Major Marchaud, the French
commander at Fashoda, which is now
The Washington cabinet will not
listen to anything. We have already
pointod out the abnormal conditions
attending the appointment of Ameri
can delegates aud their imperions in
structions. Mr. Day and his collaguos
are not proper negotiators, but only
mandatories whose work is to carry
out preoUe orders. They hove no
right to disenss or mako concessions,
but simply may announce to the Span
ish government the exactions of the
United States.
“The American commissioners have
formal orders not to lend themselves
to any modifications of the conditions
of peace and to repel all arbitration,
giving notice finally if the Spanish do
Wmy of TIioid S. Uounl r.rlahtd lit the
Flame*.
Advices frori- Margirte, England,
sisto that tho British Blrip Blengfoll,
Captain Jokusoiv, from New York,
September 19, for London, was de
stroyed by a sudden fire off that place
early Mondojr morning. Nino of the
crow, the captain, IVis wife mad chil
dren, tile first aud sevoud males nud »
pilot perished. .
The Blengfoll wns pussing Margate-
in tow, on her way to London,, a#
about (1:30'a. m. and was about four
miles off tlie const. Suddenly sho was
enveloped fn flames and smoke ponrod
from her hatchways. The life boats
immediately put off to hor assistance,
but before they were able to reach the
burning vessel her mnsts foil nntl Rhe
was burned to the water’s edge. Her
hull eventually drifted upon the Good
win sands.
Tho Rlengfell had a quantity of
naphtha on board and the smell of it T
was so strong during the voyage that
the officers of the Bhips had to Rhift
their quarters last evening. An ox-
plosion oeourred just ns the captnin of
the Blengfleld had engaged the ser
vices of a tug which saved tho survi
vors.
The Blengfoll was an iron vessel
built at White Haven in 1870, she
registered 1,117 tons, hailed from
Liverpool and was owned by J. Edgar
Ace.
APPEAL FROM LIBERIA.
on its wav from Khartoum to Paris. I nottgr*. to their terms of a naval
The evacuation of Fashoda by tho 1 demonstrotion in Spanish waters.
President McKinley is dictated to by
French must, however, take place if ... . . ... ... ,
war between Great Britain and France public opimon, which will someday
repent its loss of head.
SOUTHERN’S STOCKHOLDERS
Hold Their Annual Meeting In Richmond.
President’* Report Submitted.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Southern Railway com
pany was held in Richmond, Va.,
Tnesdny. There were present in per
son or proxy tho shares of preferred
stock and shares of common stock,
being more than a quorum.
Joseph Bryan presided, nud Joseph
F. Hill was elected secretary.
The annual report of the president
and directors to the stockholders for
ihe fiscal year ending Juno 30, 1898,
wns submitted to the meeting by
Colonel A. B. Andrews, first vice pres
ident of the company.
CUBAN BOND SYNDICATE.
One in Forming in Madrid Composed of
Englishmen niul Americans.
A dispatch to The New York Her
ald soys: It is regarded here as a good
sign that a large Anglo-American
syndicate is being formed to bny up
Cuban bonds. This is, of course, in
terpreted as evidence that a satisfac
tory arrangement is at hand.
There is good reason for supposing
that the big cannon mounted at Havana
will fall to the Americans.
is to be nvertod. as the marquis of
Salisbury has nailed his colors to the
mast and cannot recede from the posi
tion he has taken up and in which he
has received the unanimous support
of the country.
THE CREW MUST SHARE.
Decision As To Disposition of Prize Money
In Rita Case.
In the United Stntes district court
nt Charleston, Saturday, Judgo Brad
ley handed down an opinion in the
Rita prize money case. The question
nt issno was whether nil of the crew of
tlio Yale should share in the money or
merely those who were enlisted regu
larly in the United StateB navy.
Judge Brnwloy decrees that all the
erew shall share in the proceeds of the
sale of the ship. The Rita was bought
by the government for 8125,000.
Captain Wise, ol the Yale, will re
ceive 89,000.
LANGFORD “NOT GUILTY.”
PRESIDENT IS HONORED.
Chicago University Confer. Upon Him the
Decree of Doctor of Lawi,
The University of Chicago, Monday,
conferred upon President McKinley
the degree of doctor of laws. Hundreds
of people applauded to the echo as
the president of the college placed
around the shoulders of the nation’s
executive a hood of purple—purple to
indicate, as Dr. Harper Baid, in Latin,
that the receiver of the degree had
“surpassed other men in native geuias
and devotion to it.”
The exercises at the university,
while tampered very much by wet
weather, were still impressive in the
extraordinary degree.
Acquitted of the Charge of Murder Rut
Held on Another Warrant.
The jury in tho Langford case, nt
Zebulon, Ga., after being out all night,
made a verdict Saturday morning
which reads:
“We, the jury, find the defendant,
Tom Langford, not guilty.”
Sheriff Milner had a warrant for
Langford under which he wns detained
after the verdict was read, nnd he was
already under bond in another case, so
that he is yet in the clutches of the
law.
COL. CANDLER QUITS.
lte.lgn. Communion ns Colonel or Third
Georgia Regiment.
Colonel John S. Candler has resign
ed the colonelcy of the Third Georgia
regiment and will continue to preside
in the courts of the Stone Mountain
circuit. The resignation was for
warded to Adjutant General Corbin on
Saturday.
Colonel Candler was appointed to
the command of the Third Georgia
regiment on the 20th of July. There
is a great desire to know who will be
his successor. Lieutenant Colonel
Berner is the next in command, and
Major Robert E. Lee Spenee tho third
in command, a lieutenancy.
Madrid now linowR that tho effort
to induce tho United States to assume
any part of tho Cuban debt or to re
nounce the Philippines wholly or in
port, was doomed in advance to fail
ure. Spain has nothing to do but to
give way nobly to tho hard lows of
war, as a fresh humiliation would be
certain to follow Senor Sngnsta’s non-
succcss against the grasping disposi
tion of the United States.”
The TempB says editorially:
“It is still thought that a tribune
of arbitration will alone settle the
disputes. ”
The Journal des Debats thinks tho
United States should compel the Cu
ban government to assume the debt
and believes the Spanish would be
willing to submit to arbitration, which
it understands tho United States de
clines to uccept. .
PORTER GIVES A DINNER.
United State* Ambassador nt Pari* Enter
tain* Spanish Commissioner*.
A Paris special sayB: General Horace
Porter, the United States ambassador,
gnve a banquet Tuesday evening nt the
American embassy to the United States
and Spanish peace commissioners.
The moeting of the two commissionn
at the same table was a notable event
and borrows special interest from the
semi-prediction of the Paris corres
pondent of the London Times that the
Spanish commissioners would not
meet their opponents at dinner under
the roof of tbe American embassy.
African Republic Want* Uncle Ha nr to
Take Charge of Government.
A Pittsburg, Pn.,. dispatch says:
Bishop Joseph C. Hnrtsell, of the
Methodist Episcopal churoh,. whose
bishopric is Africa, states that lie has
been commissioned by tbo negro re
public of Liberia to go to Washington
and nBk that tbe republic be taken un
der the sheltering wing of the United-
States.
“I nm on my way to see Secretary
D«7.” snid he, 1 ‘as tho special repre
sentative of the Ropublio of Liberia
to Beoure a protectorate either quns
or actual. What they want. America
to do is to say to the European powprs
in Africa- ‘We have an interest iu Li
beria; this country belongs to us.’
Whether nn actual protectorate cau ho
established or not will depend upon
how far the Liberian government is
willing to go, assuming that the
United States answers favorably."
INTERESTING SESSION OT WAR IN
VESTIGATING BOARD.
SHAFTER PREFERRED TO MILES.
Hlwt of tlio Commanding- General’*
Recommendation* DiMfpWTfid
r*in Alger.
INDIANS WILL SURRENDER.
Red Skin* Want No More Fighting and
Agree to Give Up.
Adjutant General Corbin has re
ceived the following dispatch from.
General Bacon, indicating . that the
Indian uprising in Minnesota is prac
tically at an end:
“Walkicii, Minn., October 17.—Ad
jutant General, Washington: At.coun
cil with hostile Indians today, the lat
ter said they wanted no more fighting
with the United States soldiers, and
agreed to come and surrender on Wed
nesday. This is the result of their
defeat when engaged with me on the
5th. Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Jones bus been shown this telegram,
nnd concurs in the entiro foregoing
statement. Bacon,
“Brigadier General."
KAWLKH DEFENDS ISLAND.
A statement having appeared in sev
eral papers under date lino of Charles
ton, October 13th, in which it wns
snid tlmt the health of tho army post
nt Sullivan’s island wns causing tho
commnndnnt much concern and that
four hundred men were sick in quar
ters. Colonel j .B. llawles, in command,
was shown the article and made the
following statement:
“I deem it my duly in the interest
stall concerned to most emphatically
deny the truthfulness of tho assertions
therein made. It is not an exaggera
tion simply, but a misrepresention of
the most glaring character ns to the
health conditions of the troops on Bul-
livan’s islnnd.”
A Washington-speoial soys: After
dbvoting Thursday afternoon.to bear
ing-the testimony ot Dr. HoitLanoUief
mirgoon of the Third! army eo:ym, sta
tioned at Camp Thomas, the war in
vestigating commission gave tbe re
mainder of the day to the reading-of
papers submitted by‘Secretary Alger;,
with his statement «onoernin£r the-
oomlinit of tho war.
Tile- papers included!orders for the-
movement of troops, cemmunicatlons-
to the-secretary of war from the ofl|.
cent in the field and from the navy to
tliom- ood various other documents,
bearing upon the subject of the in
vestigation.
The documents reveal the faots that
General' Miles recommended tho occu
pation of tho Isle of Pines about the-
timo-wf the kattlo of Santiago, and that
Secretary Alger disapproved the sug- ■
gestion. It also appears that Goneral'
Miles recommended that some point
betwoon Santiago and Porto Bico bo
taken previous to the beginning o!
either campaign.
Tile correspondence also developed
the fact that there was an apparont-
confliot of authority liotwocn Generals
Milos and Shnfter at. Tampa boforo the
Santiago campaign wns inaugurated.
It also shows that orders Were issued
by the secretary of war that in the
event that Gonornl Shnfter should be
disabled by sioknons or other onnse
tho commnud of tlie troops nt Santi
ago should devolve upon General
Wheeler and upon tbo next in com
mand in enso of the disability of both
Shnfter and Wheoler.
Lieutenant ColomSI J. O. Hoff IvnB
before tho war investigating commis
sion nt its forenoon sossion. He is a
rogulnr nrmy officer nnd wns chief
surgeon in tho Third nrmy corps at)
Camp ThomnR, Chiekamauga park. He
said ho did' not consider the camp to
have been in the bent sanitary condi
tion, hut expressed the opinion that it
woe .the best it could he, under the.
circumstances.
Camfwil Too Cloae Toanther.
The meu were encamped somewhat
closer to ench other than they should
properly have been, nnd it had been,
impossible without blasting to make
tho sinks as deep as good sanitation,
required, owing to a layer of limestone
two or three feet bolow tho surfaco of
tho ground throughout tho camp.
Furthermore, it was impossible to-
compel the men to nso tho sinks, nnd
he thought it prohohle that this diffi
culty had led to injurious results.
Every offort had been mado to have
tho sinks properly ooverod and disin
fected and to have the men use them.
Dr. Hoff said that in the beginning
the camp was lacking in medical sup.
plies. There were at this time many
cases of diarrhoea aud it had not been
possible to meet all the demands tor
remodieH.
The shortage wns duo to tho fact
that it had been expected tho
troops would como to camp supplied
with medicines, but Borne of them
failed in this respect, making a greater
demand than had been counted npon.
Continuing, Dr. Hoff said the capacity
of the division hospital was often
donbled nnd trebled. It sometimea
oeourred that there were eight men in
tents which were intended should ac
commodate six, because of delay ic
securing tentage to care for the in
creases which was uuexceptionally
rapid.
soven a. powflM'ce..nvvmk.
EMPEROI l WAS IN DANGER.
Well Laid Am* rclilstJe I'lot W»* Frus
trated. , J .
The Alexsn dria correspondent -of
tbe London Di lily Mail, telegraphing
regarding tbe nunrehist plot against
Emperor Willis in, wbioli was dicover-
ed on Friday, si ys:
“Tlie plot sga iust tlwkniser is hour
ly proven more : important, each arrest
disclosing new ramifications. The
documents fonn d disdbse a- plot to
Mill King Hnmh art already woM ma
tured.
“Fifteen persons, alt Kalians, have
been arrested. T he original plan-was
to throw a bomb <sf guncotton nnd fnl-
minute of mercury at Emperor Wil
liam’s carriage in a narrow street of
Cairo.”
COMMISSION IN FLORIDA.
AFTER GOVERNOR TANNER.
Coal Company Want* to Blame Hln
Vlrden Riot*.
Attorney William Patton, of the Cki-
cago-Virden Coal company, at Virden,
Ill., is authority for the statement that
no further attempt' will he made to
land the Alabama negroes, whose com
ing resulted in the loss of so many
lives.
There is under consideration, ac
cording to Attorney Patton, an at
tempt to fix the responsibility for the
tragedy upon the governor of Illinois.
The lawyer declares thnt it is the in
tention of the coal company to press
the matter.
War Inv«*tlgator* Inspect Cninjb* In
Vicinity of Jacksonville.
The war investigating commission
spent tho afternoon Monday inspect
ing the campB in tho immediate vicin
ity of Jacksonville, Fla. A heavy rain
was falling during a part of the tour,
but the commissioners performed their
self-appointed task of going through
the camp from ono end to the other in
a very painstaking manner.
MANY SOLDIERS SICK.
Three-Quarter* of Enlisted Mon nt Sulli
van’* Island Are Incapacitated.
A Charleston, S. O., dispatch says.
The great amount of sickness among
the enlisted men stationed at Sulli
van’s island is causing the command
ant, Colonel llawles, much concern.
DnriDg the summer many of the men
were ill and typhoid and malarial fever
have almost assumed the proportions
of an epidemic. At present 400 men
are oonflned to quarters. Considering
the great number of fever cases that
have been treated in the garrison hos
pital, however, the mortality has been
light.
DESERTER SHOT DOWN.
I>l«k.on Resisted Arrest By Detail From
Camp Northcit.
A Griffin, Ga., dispatch says: Pri
vate Henry Dickson, a deserter from
Company B, Third regiment, was shot
and perhaps fatally wounded nenr
Locust Grove Thursday morning by a
detail from Camp Northen. Dickson
resisted arrest nnd was shot down
while attempting to kill one of the
soldiers.
SAXTON’S lVILL DISCOVERED.
Murdered Man I.eavee About •eoo.OOC
to Mr.. Barber. Hie Sister.
A Car.ton, O., dispatch states that
the will of George D. Saxton kaB been
found. It was mode last April, and
was witnessed by James J. Grant and
Oliver F. Bchiliman.
The document bequeaths all his
estate to Mrs. M. C. Barber, Bister of
the deceased, as entailed property.
After her death, the estate is to be
divided among the five children of the
beneficiary.
The value of the property is not
known, but a personal friend of tho
deceased estimates it will foot up
8200,000.
UNDER STARS'. AND*'IIAES..
Ml Steamer* of Northern Iftctflt Com
pany To lie Tr#n»IMrwl.
It is stated nn good authority that
tile Northern Pacific Steamship Com
pany is arranging to pnt’ under titw
American flag Hix British steamers,
which it is operating to-China and
Japan, from Tacoma, Wash. Them
steamers include the transports Ari»-.
nni which was sold to the government
last July, tho Tacoma, Olimpia, Ca.
lumbia and Argyle.
DAHLONEGA, GA.
A collotfo education In tho reach oftall. A.B.,
n.S.. Normal and Itusiiioss Man’s count**.
I laboratories; healthful, Imy i|f,orati»|f cll-
t; military discipline; pood moral and
religion* influences. Chrajicst Hoard lo iten
Stale; a Ihi ml met) of country produce ;<‘xt*nn*ft
nil 975 to $150 a year; board ilm dor miturlea
private families. Special license cournofor
teacher*; full faculty of nine; all under the
control of the University. A' col luge prepar
atory class. Co-cdticat ion of sexes. The insti
tution founded npccially for atudenta of limited
means. Send for r^talogno to chn President.
Jon. S. fl rjitv-UM-, A.M.
A strictly high-Qrado Family Sewing
Machine ‘ "
Prices very reasonable. Obtain them
from your focal dealer and
mako comparisons.
BELVIDERE.ILU