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VOL. XXVII. 1 OUT ON THE ROAD.I By Cv Wcirman. |xs P7p3 OOTOOT!” | j< r /I B I It was a biack f] night. i Tlie porter, iu h response to the ! p" push bell,, lmd k just canßo hack j e *’ i^ y< with the cigar?, j iC ’ ■ aa lat the sound ! , -of the two short blasts of the | tgt j I !':'■/■/■";> whiatlo he shot j f* j f. a scared look at Y\ // X'&UyyfZ?* his master. \ Miue host, the \ N '"- general man* \ n *cr, looked the man iu the eye for a s lacMuont, and thou, as the speed of the ! train di 1 not slacken, said curtly, wav ing him away: “Bridge watchman!” A. moment later our train sucked j through a <le*p cut, roared across a long bridge and swept np the slope to the west. “Not ea how that porter shied when \ the engineer answered the watchman’s flag?” asked the manager. “Wo had an experience, years ago, : with train robbers, and this porter : has never been able to live it down. I [ was on the Hannibal and St. Joe at j the time,” he went on, dividing his j pi Alices between mo, his cigar and the : f'pecd recorder over the hack window. I g, Tio pressed the button again and the porter responded instantly. The man- i figer moved his thniuh slightly and ! tlio porter pulled the blinds. The veracity of the speed recarder had been questioned, an l we had been holding our watches on it be tween stations, but I now lost ail in ti rest in the speed of the train or the j reliability of the indicator. When one of these interesting sol diers of the rail who has begun the battle ns wate r boy and who ends a? | president of the road ho has helped ! to grade becomes reminiscent I p.l- i ways listen, for he has lived volumes 1 of thrilling stories. Out on the road the general man ager delights to forget the busy grind ; of the office, to watch the blue rings j rise as lie smokes, to think, and (if he can trust you) talk over the exciting j incidents o t the past. “This tiling happened on a Holi day evoning/’ resumed the manager, ! when the porter had teetered softly | down the sido aisle that led to the other end car. “About eight o’clock I heard a sharp rap, rap on the front dofcr. I knew that the ser vant had jitsf gone out, so I stepped t answer the knock. As f reached j for the handle the rap, rap was re j pouted with added earnestness. I wan j annoyed, for I had gone to some ex- j peuse to have a system of bells put in j the lionso, rather a rare thing in St. j Joe at that time; but now to my | amazement the knob turned, the door i opened slightly and a man dodged in. , “ ‘Excuse me, Mr. Blank/ said he; ! *f want to get in out of the glare of j that street lamp, and I was not sura I that any one heard—pull that shade, j please/ ho said parenthetically. “ ‘Now/ thought TANARUS, ‘lu-re’s an inno- I cent sort of crank/ so 1 pulled the ! shade on the parlor window. Still j my visitor appeared uneasy. “ ‘Would you mind stepping into a j room a little further back?’ ho asked, ; earnestly. “ ‘Certainly/ said I. ‘Come right I thin way/ “My wife was in the nilting room i with the children, and not wishing to j disturb them I led my visitor into the | dining room where the gas was still burning low. “As I turned on the light my visitor i shrank back into the ball. “ ‘Pull that shade/ he said, and j when I had drawn the bliuda he ! stopped into the well-lighted room. “For a moment he waited, as one waits listening for expected foot steps. “Presently he looked me full in the face and said, frankly: ‘l’m a~rob ber/ “ ‘Yes?’ ** ‘Yes, I’m a robber. We are going out to Roy s Branch to hold up No. 3 to-night. We went out last Friday night, but we mistook No. 3 for 17. Seventeen was late that night. When wo had discovered our mistake it was too late, in fact the engine had al ready passed us before we realized that it was not the freight.’ “In those days,” explained the general fuauager, “and for years previous, we were constantly being steered out against fake robbers. Wo would learn that a certain train was to be held up at a certaiu time and place. We would arrange to have de tectives on the train, post the engineer, and iu nearly every case it would prove to be a false alarm. Plenty of hold-ups there had been ou other roads, but ou the Hauuibal aud St. Joe, none.” “Aud bow do yon account for that?” I asked, my interest veering for the moment. “Ob,” said the manager, with a slight wave of bis hand, as though the matter were scarcely worth ex plaining, “Mrs. Samuels always bad an annual over our road—she was , Jesse James’s mother, you know. We kuew that the St. Joe was safe so far as the old gang ” “Excuse me,” said I, breaking in j again (for I meant to steal the story), j “is that true?” “What?” “About the pass.” “Sure.” “On what account?” “Oh, complimentary, same as yours.” “Go ahead, gang,” said I. —“was concerned, and so, of course, j | I doubted the story ot my wild-eyed j visitor. I began to question him. He declared that ho was the son of a ; respectable shopkeeper, iu the town, I whom I kuew, and askjd me to tell j his parents the whole truth, aud not jtj shield hiui. lie said that the | thought of what he was about to do, I and to be—to rob aud so become a ! murderer, if murder became neces | sary, bad so preyed upon him day ( and night, that he was almost insane. At times he had planned suicide. Now, as the appointed hour for the ■ gang to meet drew near he had been j running about like a chicken in a i storm. He had gone home to bid his ; parents good-by, but had not the i courage to face them. Hurraing down | the street he saw my house, and act : ing upon the impulse of the moment : had come to tell me, for his father liked me, he said. “I tried to show him that if what ! ho told me were true 1 should be on the train with armed officers to kill or i capture the robbers, and that in all probability ho would he killed. “ ‘Yes/ he said, ‘he knew that;’ I ‘but tho gang had takeu an oath to i kill any man who ‘penciled,’ and if he failed to show up on time at the rendezvous they would go after him | and they would surely kill him, for most of them had murdered meu be* I fore/ “ ‘Well/ ho said, presently, ‘I must bo off,’ aud beheld out his hand, say ing good-by. “I put him out. with a faint sus picion that lie was crazy, but it was my duty to look after the company’s interests, and so I concluded to call the Chief of Police and tell him the story, and at least get his advice. As I put tho receiver to my ear f noticed that some ono was talking over a tangled wire that touched mine at some point. “ ‘What?* demanded a voice, and it sounded as if talking direolly to me, and then came tho reply: ‘Will 17 he | ahead of No. 3 to-nightV’ “I dropped the ’phone, stood back and stared nt it until my wife, who I had heard the wild story of tho bold young robber, stepped to my side, ■ peered into tr.y face aud askred the | cause of my agitation. That brought |mo ’round. I lied, mercifully, bur ! riedly to her, called Central mi l asked who had been talking. The middle yards, sho said. 1 asked to he connected. Tho man at the ’phono said ho didn’t kuow who called him. Somebody wanted to know if 17 would be ahead of No. 3 to-night. I asked what answer would he given, for 1 had dropped tho receiver when the voice from the grave--this shade of Jesse—had broken upon my car. Well, he said he had auswered no, adding Ihe information that 17, tho fast freight, which, according to the schedule, should leave ahead of No. 3, was late. “Now this talk of the telephone seemed strangely coincident with the tale of the robber, sol called tho Chief of Police, asking him to meet me at a certaiu corner a few minntes later. I then called the Sheriff, and told him to go to tho station, but to keep out of night aud to hoard the first train pulling ont through the yards. My next move was to tell the dispatcher to hold all outgoing trains until I ar rived. I then instructed the yard master to make up a dummy No. 3, and sailed out to meet the Chief of Police. “My wife was frantic at my leaving, and finally I was forced to promise to return to the house when I had suc ceeded iu starting my little army out to fight a hidden foo. “Into an empty express car we put au empty piano box for the sharp shooters to hide behind, lighted tho lamps dimly in the day coaches, save in the last car. This car we left dark to resemble a sleeper, aud in it the Sheriff, whom 1 now put in command, hid the bulk of his hastily oiganized posse. A deputy sheriff’ and a fear less loeemotive engineer, off duty, were stationed in the express car with rifles. “Tho Sheriff and the Chief had been laughing at my expense, but now as the train was about to pull out, and I began to give final instructions to the trai. linen, it dawned upon them that I was not to be numbered with tho slain. “I was simply pointing the way and pushing them out to do or die, or both. Now they began to chaff me. I was general superintendent, getting good pay. I was my duty to protect the property of the company aud the lives of its patrons. I was willing to send the poor employes ont to fight robbers, and then return to the quiet of my hearth. Well, altogether, the picture was not one that I liked, though drawn half in jesc. “All the while, during the half hour of which we made up the train and arranged the details, I noticed this faithful porter fol lowing me like a shadow, f wanted him to go to the house and throw a lit tle dust in the tear-wet eyes of my dis tracted wife, but he wan nowhere to be seen. Well, I would not go back, so I gave a signal and stepped aboard. “We had scarcely crossed the last switch when in sneaked my shadow, tho porter, with au old-fashioned, muz zle-loading shot guu. The train ran slowly along for a little while and the men in the car began to laugh at me Again, and at each other, at the porter with the long shot gun, and the gen eral job that some wag had put up oa us. Presently we heard the engineer answer a fiag: Mootoot.’ “Instantly the car grew as silent as the grave. As tho wheels ground sand and the train began to slow down tho. Sheriff whispered to the men to keep cool, aud not to lire until they were sure of what they were shooting at. Now the train stopped, Tho silence was deathlike, save for the heavy breathing of my shadow. For at least : a minute we waited breathlessly, and I then a voice out in the darkness said, I ‘Open up/ ‘Open up/ the voi’e re peated, but there was no answer that we could hear. ‘Open up/ and they | began to beat upon the door of the ex press car with the butts of their gnna. j Still the men inside were silent. ‘Open ! np, or we’ll blow this car to pieces; we’ve got dynamite on the door sill/ “By this time we were all afoot in the darkened car, waiting develop* ; meats. Now tho two meu iu tho ex press car, preferriug a fight to dyna mite, slid tho door open and dodged hack behind tho empty piano box, ex pecting the robbers to jump into th§ car. At that moment tho stillness wan disturbed by what was probably tho accidental discharge of a rifle outside. The Sheriff aud a few of his followers droppod t the ground to deploy in the darkness. A deputy peeped out at the front end of tho last car, still dark, and immediately became a target for the robbers, who could soe him out lined against the sky, while they re mained in tho darkness below. I peeped out at tho rear end just, iu time to see a man near tho steps aiming at the deputy ou the front of tho car. A shot from another robber caused me to dodge hack. Running through tho dark car I told tho deputy where the man was hiding, and just at that moment a bullet cut nn upper halt crop from tho officer’s ear. 1 tip toed buck, caught a glimpse of the man and banged away at him through the window. Being anxious to know whether T had hit him I put my face to the window and peered into the night. Suddenly I heard a scufHo among the coaeli seats, felt a strong man seize me from behind aud crush ine to tho floor. I could not turn my gun upon my assailant, for it was a rifle. ‘Bang’ went the robber’? gun again, and the window was shattered. As I went down I heard the voice of my captor, right nt my ear; ‘Fo’ de Bawd sakes, Mistali Blank, keep away from dat windeh, for dat robber blow yo* head clean off wif dat cannon o* his.” “That was the voice of the porter, and lie had pulled me from tho win dow in time to save my life. “By this time the firing grew pretty general. In the confusion, and while I held the attention of the robber’s rear guard, the deputy with the smart ing ear crawled under the car, and when the robber stood up to shoot at me tho deputy located him and tho two men fought it out under the win dow. In a few seconds the robber lay dead. Now only two of the gang kept up the fight. Seeing that they were surrounded and hemmed iu against the train they called out to the Sheriff aud surrendered. “The battle had lasted probably not. more than five minutes, but it had been a life time to my family, who could hoar every shot distinctly. “I gave orders to pick up the dead and wounded, aud with our three prisoners hastily backed into town. “Tho wounded man died shortly after our arrival at St. Joe. “Tho informer, of course, turned State’s evidence, and so went free, hut that was ail that remained of tho orig inal gang of five, four of whom were desporato inou. Of this four wo buried two and sent two to tho penitentiary for a long term. “All this happened some years ago,” added the general manager, after a pause, “but that porter still remem bers, aud he always shies when tho whistle says ‘tootoo/** —New York In dependent. Sirnkp* Charm and Kill a Ifoiae. Abram Robeson, near Grantsburg, Inti., wbilo linn ting a stray horse which hail been missing for two days, noticed a large blacksnake, which re treated toward a cave formed by an overhanging ledge of rocks in ono of the high bluffs surrounding bis pasture hold. His horse was fonud lying in this cavern, but covered by what looked to him liko u mountain of snakes, so numerous were the rep tiles. Robeson Hod to his house and secured his shotgun, with which he reinrned and opened Are until his cartridges were exhausted. After the battle he coanted the bodies of 115 snakes lying around and over the body of bis horse, which was dead, while many reptiles escaped in a wounded condition. He believes that his horse, which was a magnificent animal, weighing 1000 or more pounds, had been charmed by the reptiles so that be was powerless to escape.—Knox ville Heutinel. Tlie t.t Stand. The castle of San Felipe, in the harbor of Callao, Peru, is famous be cause tbe Spanish flag waved from its battlements for the last time on the continent of America. It was the ultimate refuge of Spanieh authority on this continent, and tho Governor of Peru with a garrison was beleagured there for cloven months by the armies of the patriots during the war for in dependence. They did not surrender until they had eaten all their old boots anil shoes, made sonp of the rats and mice and other animals that in fested the place and three-fourths of them hail died of starvation and ex haustion.—Chicago Record. Don't Mind 'Kin Nw. “Here's sn example of how famili arity breeds contempt,” he said, as he looked over the top of his paper at the lost ef the family. “What is it?” “This is u Kansas paper, aud under the head of ‘Local Jottings’ it says: ‘Three or four cyclones ripped through the village since onr last, iesue.’”— Detroit Free Press, THOMSON, GA*BPIPBA Y OCT OBER 24. 189!). Democratic Cartt^P?W[ n Buckeye State Op K M6mrmers Escort A special * 0., Br the the mag' the river Pv i i '''m'HHw I "'''' Tlu* train ft'n during m o J|HHnrv , Greenville, Thursday Mr. Bryan 6 Mftfe. C >-t j hire?? crowd present*ratioiis were nn? i, r-nis W'm\ the enthu • iaMii visiting party vu* ©scortod toK Wthouse rquare by a mounted compound of tli© fanner? 0. Anderson presided and introduced John R. McLean, tbo Democratic candidute for go Mr. McLeqn SftSodaer.d Mr. Bryan as the y./yader of the dem ocratic to avoid tho crisp inor|^l ut <>n a skull cap, which pMfc-lK matured laughter, in it ®,f u kick lu said: “My hair ifl protection as it used to I>M y°u ought not to complain if Ia little bald. In 1895 they too young to ho president. jj^L M I had to depend upon the protect me. Now 1 can dq'Hv u*y baldness. “The Chienl|!lß|Sorr, to which you gave such {yß-J>ort in 1896, is still tlie platiflHßljhe Democratic party and of the Ohio Democracy ag<®B|PWrpcs that plat form. 1 beliejHKr planks of tho platform are BtrEyr too ay than when they were writtar Mr. Bryan Zn entered into an elaborate defers of tbo income tax and predicted indorsement of the proposition- He cited the ef forts of the gO’.Sjf'inmr. to raise a rev* enue to conducSLho Spanish war be cause of the of the supreme court against tax. He said tho money ill unsettled and the fight wm||| Jkfcmtinned. Ho treated the mjJjR \|i'ls in praoi cally tlu* sHnij||BflH^A*'Vhitructer* I.xi rrJB | Ni. most ox riling tluyi atin Lomlon the there to learn the expeili tion to Gorilon^^^Krtoum. Tho newa Fifth Lancern hnil been engag<porought many lailiex and other frienda of tho regiment to inquire for newe. The gravest intelligence seems to bo tbe report of tho rapture of a train with officers ot FJaudslaagto, because it was understood that tho whole cross-country lij was regularly pa trolled. £ As no corresp JSfnts ore nlloweil at tho front, it is to gain defi nite information,Spit it is known that General Sir White has been making moves of the troops in aud developments ly expected. It is rumored bert’a northern Bnmn, with twolvo guns, is now ot lOinhauser. Although the have shown con siderable Natal, there is nothing to they are yet prepared for a combined at tack, and the belief here is that unless soiSHg-jg unexpected happens, General Kir George Stewart White will maintain tho defensive. PICK Kit T 8 WKRE I Mil (TED. firaml Jury Kefurn True frills Against I r atl>-- The Fulton jury nt At lanta., Ga., bills of indictment his bod, Okert. A. F. c-rt ••lmrgeß^^h-riving st en goods and hfljßj jL accused of burglary. S| W roiliJH^^^Kro who I: ad Ia ho VH|g' Wati-mcnt to tin- detectives i'flHP-rS'te alleged "perotl'n-ki-rt. tfic grand jury and WjfM evidence of these witnesses bills were H v ntsvii.l^HT "room. Alnl>nm City I SactCrog Many Big Maniifadurin / Plants. A deal was closed at Huntsville, Ala., Thursday for the location of a big cigar manufacturing plant at a cost of $50,000. A capitalist of Carthage, Mo., will establish tho new industry and will later on be joined by a prom inent Georgia manufacturer. It will be the largest in Alabama, will employ a big force of work on the new at once. The New health reported one new '■■■it □o deaths. IN INJURES IPfSBu,. Chicago I/cinocrstic I"I- lii ▼ firilng Kent The Chicago i)? Vobing null, 500 strong, ngton, Ky ~ Thursday a by a band anil They wen; ■ ideitami■ ■ yyjbsSßEijiteith ' I ''l il- 1C % GEORGIA FAIR OPENS Ushered In With Big Parade and Eloquent Addresses, THE FIRST DAY WAS A BIG SUCCESS State Fair of 1890 Illcgeit and Host In the History of (inorglii and Agrl rnlturol Association. The Georgia State Fair was opened in Atlanta Wednesday >vith all the splendor of procession, eloquence of speech and animation of interested spectators that could havo been wished for, and the events of tho day were such as will long bo remembered by thousands who witnessed the parade, listenod to the speeches and viewed the eounilesa interesting exhibits which make tlie Georgia State Fair of 1809 tho biggest aud tho best in tlio hiatorv of the state. The advance guard of the visiting contingent bgnu to ponv into tho city Monday and kept coming all day Tues day, and ou Wednesday -hours before the parade—the business streets were crowded with strangers, attracted to I Atlanta by the fair, and Expontioo I park was thronged with a lieteroge | noons mass of moving humanity that ■ Hvfnrmed through the buildings, in vaded tho Midway and otherwise put in the time before the exercises as, their inclinationa prompted. Everywhere the crowd went,whether it was to inspect the interesting ex hibits in the niapvffectnrerß* building or to gaze oit (lie queer sights on tho Midway, the unanimous verdict was that Atlanta in providing Georgia with the state fair had accomplished a task the completed results of which would bo felt in the south for years to come. Tho day at the grounds was brought to a fitting close by the formal cere monies nt tho auditorium, where a large crowd gathered to listen to the brilliant speeches of Chancellor Wal ter B. Hill and Hon. J. Pope Brown. The big military aud civic parade which ushered into existence tho fair os’ii s complete and brilliant. Long.bc fci.l i. / ' hour of. 2 o’clbck, when the WT**? m l VVdod to diAit, Whito- Rmll amt penchtree streets from Mitch ’'ell to Fourteenth'street wore thronged with surging humanity. The formal opening of the gates found hundreds already in the grounds. The soldiers and tho civic organiza tions made a magnificent showing and the parade was iu every way a big success. OFFERS TO SELL OUT. Filipino (,'onvtimntlpr Saudi I/niqne Pro posal to Genflml (Hli, A Manila difqmtch saye: General Otia has received messages purporting to come from tbe general, Fio del Pilar, offering to sell out bis army and to deliver Aguinaldo into the bands of the Americans. Although bo is not satisfied that his offer in authentic, it is not improbable. Tbe policy of General Otin is firmly set against buy ing any surrenders. t’io del Pilar offers, for tbe sum of $50,0110 to refrain from attacking Mu niln; for $*200,000 he offers to surren der bis nrmj after a sham battle, both sides firing into the air, and for tho sum of $500,000 he says lie will pro cure the overthrow of tho insurrection mid tho capture of Aguinaldo, and tho other leaders. In tho course of the communication be refers to Aguinaldo in contemptu ous torms, indicating that strained re lations exist between them. Reports are being received from the districts occupied by Ihe enemy that the Fili pinos believe that I’io del Pilar lias nn audacious plan to brenk through tho American lines into Manila and seize General Otis and the archbishop. Possibly these rumors were started with the idea of helping him to make a deal with the Ainerioans. It is un necessary to Bay that the Americans would weloome an attack of that sort. There has been much speculation of lute regarding the whereabouts of Pio del Pilar. The roccnt attack at La Loma is credited to him. It is believed that he is now in the vieinjty of Hnn Mateo valley with a force of from 1,800 to 3,000 meu. MOB WAS OUTWITTED. Two Prisoner* In Valdosta, G:i , Jull Wore Unmoved In Time. Sunday night tho county jail at Val dota was for the second time tbe scene of a mob who were after the two pris oners who murdered Henry Vickers, some three weelte ago. The citizens of Valdosta, were in someway notified of tho coming of the mob, aud tbe two prisoners—Jim Goddin aud Wash Powell—were put on tho train nnd sent to Waycross. The mob was about four hundred strong. The jailer assured them that the two prisoners had been taken away to Waycross, but a thorough search was made before the men went away. JUDGE HENDERSON DEAD. Wns For Twelre Years Georgia's Agricul tural Commissioner. Judge J. T. Henderson, who was for vwiclvo years commissioner of ag riculture /or Georgia, and for many years a prominent figure in the state, died at the home of his son-in-law in Atlanta Monday morning after a long illness. 110 was seventy-two years of age, and bad beeu in feeble health for sev eral years, DATE FIXED FOR DEWEY Admiral and Brumby Will Make Visit to Atlanta October 24. LATEST OFFICIAL INFORMATION Hatter In Brumby’s Hands —Lieu- tenant Caldwell Will Accom pany Them .South. A Washington special says: Admiral Dewey will visit Atlanta, Gn., the 24th instant. Such is his present in tention, unless eomo unforeeeen de mand upon his presence here should be made in the meantime. The admiral arrived iu Washington Monday evening, accompanied by Lieutenant Brumby. The hour of his arrival was not generally known, hence there was but little demonstra tion over him ns he walked briskly ont of the Pennsylvania railroad depot and proceeded to his apartments in the Everett flat, on H street, between Seventeenth and Eighteenth streots. His apartments nro modest, bnt comfortably furnished, bnt there is no attempt at display or extravagance iu the interior decorations. Tho Av -erett is a small apartment house, near tho Metropolitan club, of which ho is n member. Admiral Schley also has apartments in tho same house. Tlio admiral declined to receive visitors Monday night, but made an exception for two or three personal friends. Soon after the admiral he was informed that, a delegation repre .senting the city of Atlanta desired to confer with him relative to fixing a date for his visit to that city. He made an appointment to rooet the del egation Tuesday at 11 o'clock. The delegation was composed of Thomas Eglestou, Joseph T. Ormo nnd Harvey Johnson. Messrs. Egleston and Oriue were schoolmates with Lieutenant Bruiuby,consequently they encountered but little difficulty in ar ranging the interview w.ilML# admiral through his trusted flag lieutenant. Wednesday evening tho delegation entertained Lieutenants Brumby nnd Caldwell at dinner in the Shorchnm hotel. PRESIDENT’S DECLARATIONS. lie Is Unequivocally For the Gold Standard and Retention of the Philippines. Preflidont McKinley made tbe first of a series of Addresses in lowa in tbe town of lowa Falls In Dint speech bo said: “.Since I was last, in tbo state we have added some new territory. “It is no longer a question of ex pansion with us; wc have expanded. If there is any question nt all, it Is question of contraction; and who is going to contract? “1 believe, rny follow citizens, that ibis territory that, came to us is the providence of God. We did noi seek it. It is ours with all tbo responsibil ities that belong to it, and * a great, strong, brave nation wc mean to carry our education and our civilization there. lam not ono of those who would take a laurel from tlio brow of tbo American soldier or a jewel from tbe crown of American achievement.” At Ackley, tho next stop, the presi dent spoke as follows: “I recall in this presence my former visit to this people, now, I believe, five years ago. I congratulate you upon the improved condition of the country. When I was hero last we were in a condition of business de pression. Times were hard, fear bad overcome courage. Now all is changed. We have general prosperity, good crops and fair prices, steady *ploy ment aud good wages, and w© aTo a happy and contented people. “We are importing few products from abroad than we have done in many years,and we are sending more of Amer ican products abroad than we ever sent before. “Wo are on a gold basis and we mean to stay there.” (General cry of good.) AXTI-iSKFEKfALIST MEETING At Clilriijvo Closed With > Speech fly liourko Cochran. Tlie anti-imperialist meeting at Cen tral Music hall in Chicago same to a close Wednesday night, Rourke Cock rail, of Now York, delivering tho ora tion of the evening. The hall was filled and tho remarks of the orator were greeted with approval by those present. Mr. Cockran based his ob jection to the policy of the govern ment on the broad ground that tin people had no right to force a govern ment on another. He discussed the question in a dispassionate manner. WILL VISIT SAVANNAH. Admiral Dewey mid X.lcutenant Hriiinby Will ltd urn South I.ftter On, A Washington dispatch says: Admi ral Dewey has accepted for himself and Lieutenant Brumby the invitation from Savannah, Ga., to visit that city, the time and date to be fixed later on, most probably in December. The committee from Savannah colled at the Everett on Admiral Dewey Wednesday Tho admiral readily accepted the eommittee’e invitation, but said it would bo impossible to go anywhere other than Atlanta at this tune NO. 39. BRYAN FOR GOEBEL Nobraskan Making Speaclies To Kentucky Voters. ADVISES ELECTION OF GOEBEL TICKET ICntliunlnstlo Crowds Grest tho Campaign-* or* Everywhere—Ovations Given llryan. Tbe first day’s trip of the Bryan- Goebel party through Kentucky com menced at Cairo, 111., tho first speech of the day being mad© nt Bardwoll, Ivy., in tho presence of a good-natured and good-sized crowd. The special train reached the Kentucky town at 8:30 o’clock Monday morning. In liie opening address Mr. Bryan demonstrated his purpose to support tbo Democratic ticket beaded by Wil liam Goebel for governor. lie held that tho question of whether tbe next president of the United States was a Democrat depended largely upon whether Kentucky was Democratic this fall. Ho held that any Demo crat who stands for the Chicago plat form is better tlmu a Republican. In the presence of the enemy it was not a time to air personal grievances. The real question was one as to prin ciples between tbe parties. In national matters he assailed the attitude of President. McKinley as re lated to the Philippine islands, assert ing that tho president’s doola on that congress would care for tbo islands was a subversion of tho decla ration of independence and the first to bo openly made by a president of tbe United States. Tbo declaration of the president suggested tho uso of the word parlia ment instead of congress and recalled tbo colonial days and policy of King George. Tbo islands did not and could not belong to ns simply because we had paid a decaying monarchy for them. Tbe silver question and tbo Chicago platform as a whole form tlio vital questions to bo solved in tbe coining political content of 1900. At Fulton there was a good crowd. Mr, Bryan said: * Won can dn's-bJiYefitetly good * yell ing here, but I want to toll you if you elect Mr. Goebel governor and Joo Blackburn senator, there will bo more yelling in Nebraska, than there is bore. They say a man does not want another to do hotter than himself, but I am not selfish when I say I want you to give Mr. Goebel a larger majority than you did me is 1893. While I appreciate tho splendid vote of 1896, I believe our party is stronger than it was then nnd there are always sixteen reasons to one why it should be so.” Tlie largest crowd of tho day was met at Mayfield, and tho greeting to tho visiting party was tho warmest. Mr. Bryan and Mr. Goebel were the speakers, the former delivering the most elaborate speech of the day. EXCITEMENT IN BARNESVILEE. Negro * Uosont living Ordered Out of Oxford Knitting Mill*. At 10' o’clock Monday night tho Barnesvillo, Ga., police reported to Mayor Kennedy that forty to fifly ne groes were assembled near tho square, with rifles and clubs, evidently prepar ing for a midnight attack. The mayor at once ordered out tho Barnesville Blues and in less than an hour the city was under military rule and every vestige of a mob had disappeared. The cause of the mobilization of negroes is supposed to bo the outcome of the strike which occurred at tho Oxford knitting mills last week. Tho white operatives refused to work with negroes. The matter was adjusted, but not until every negro had left tho mill. Numerous notices havo been posted by unknown parties warning negroes not to return to their occupa tions. This is supposed to have aroused tho negroes. Newell Will Sign Protocol. A special from The Hague soys: Stanford Nowell, United States minis ter to tho Netherlands, will sign the protocol embodying tlio agreements reached by tho representatives of the powers participating in tho recent peace conference. MILLS AUD rUOSPEUINO. rimiUvlllo V/ISI Sum Ifnvo AlrllHon o! Thread s)i 11 t' Cotton Factory. A (loal lm boon closed nt Untile ville, Ain., anil work begun on build ing an additional thread mill to tho Hnntfmlle Cotton Mill works, svhieh is the oldest established cotton mill in the state. Manager Matthew s attnottneed shortly after tho deal was closed that from $50,000 to SIOO,OOO will bo expended on this uew addition which, when completed, will employ about 200 hando. OI.D mT>NlFltlt SOLD. The Vatt.alr ISrlna. Sit),OOO at Auction In Pen.ncolH, Fla. At Pensacola, Fla., Monday, tho old monitor Passaic, one of tho oldest vessels in the oorvico of the United Statos, was sold to a Philadelphia firm at public auction. She came to Pon snoola navy yard Inst year, having on board the New Orleans naval reserves, who were mustered out there. She has beeu advertised for sale, the estimate by tho got’ornment being placed at SII,OOO, but the price wae $19,000.