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< ESTABLISHED IWSO. INCORPORATED 1888. -
I J H. ESTILL, President. )
WILD WORK BY THE WINDS.
Twenty Houses Unrooted at Dallas,
Ga., but No Lives Lost.
The Cloud Splits at Atlanta and Pas
ses to the North and South of the
City Fifteen Persons Killed and
Many Injured by a Blow in Kansas.
Atlanta, Ga., Junes'!—A-cyclone swept
for 50 miles across the counties above At
lanta this afternoon. Dallas, a small
town on the East Tennessee Virginia, and
Georgia Railroad, 35 miles above
Atlanta was * badly wreked
and the followig buildings
were destroyed: The residences of x.
J. Foster; D. W. Lawrence, Mrs. Halden,
and J. B. Hunt; Connelly & Connelly's
drug store, and the Owens brick hotel.
Twenty houses were unroofed, but no
lives were lost. Crops were ruined over
a large tract.
As the storm happroaced Atlanta many
became frightened and ran to their cel
lars. 200 people collected under the new
Forsyth street Iron bridge for safety.
The cloud split on the western edge of the
city and passed to the north and south,
unroofing small buildings and destroying
telephonic communication.
15 KILLED IS KASSAS.
Topeka, Kas., June 22.—About 7 o’clock
last night one of the worst cyclones that
ever visited Kansas swept over a section
of country in the Kansas City valley, 20
miles east of here, one Inilc wide and six
miles long, completely destroying every
house, fence and building and killing in
stantly fifteen people.
The dead are: L. L. Evans, Emery Ev
ans, L, M. Grimes, Mary Grilles and two
children, Mrs. John Hutchinson, Samuel
Kincaide, Clara Kincaide, Sadie Kincaido,
Walter Kincaide. W. F. Peters and Sam
uel Stewart.
Those fatally hurt are James Baker,
■William Geophfert, Mrs.
Geophfert. Seriously injured:
Rose Gray, Horace Gray, Stephen Harris,
Arthur Jones, John A. James, Lizzie
James, Win. Jones, Walter McCracken
and Emily Nichols.
The bodies of all killed were shockingly
mangled. Mrs. Hutchinson’s arms and
legs were found in a tree a mile from
the house.
A WOMAN DECAPITATED.
Eva Kincaide’s head was severed from
her body.
Samuel Stewart and L. M. Grimes were
were carried 300 yards in different direc
tions and mutilated almost beyond recog
nition. Stewart’s body was cut in two as
if by a stroke of a groat knife.
After the storm had passed last night
the people of Perry and Lawrence were
summonsd to the scene. The demolition
was awful, and a hunt with lanterns over
the wind-swept si>ot for the dead and
dying was commenced. All night
long this was in progress. A
corps of physicians from two towns was
quartered tt Perry, two miles distant, ad
ministering to the wants of the crippled
and maimed. While the citizens of tho
towns were gathering the dead and dying
from the prairie and laying them out in a
largo building provided for that
purpose. It was 1 o’clock in the after
noon before all the dead bodies were
found.
The strip of country swept by the
cyclone is as barren as a floor.
In the Williamstown school house were
found tho dead bodies of
the Kincaide family, consisting
of the father, mother and
four children the youngest child is with
out its head, it being blown or cutoff and
carried away by the wind. One of the
children was found 3 miles from the
house.
At Arthur Evans' farm, a quarter of a
mile northeast of Williamston, everything
is destroyod. Evans ran into his basement
but was found dead three rods from the
house in a field. Mrs. Evans also took
shelter in the basement and escaped with
her life' but is badly injured. Evan’s
father was in the rear portion of the base
ment, which yas dug in a bluff and es
caped unhurt.
At the Hutchinson farm Mrs. Hutchin
son lost her life and Mr. Hutchinson was
slightly injured.
Seven horses were killed. Some of the
horses were blown a quarter of a mile
away.
In the cemetery monuments are all
blown away and some of the base stones
were blown away. Where the storm
struck timber it intirely stripped the
trees of their foliage and bark. Trees
are torn up by the roots and broken off
all distances from the ground.
THREE KILLED AT CONCEPTION.
St Joseph, Mo., June32—News reached
this city of a disastrous cyclone at Con
ception! Mo, 60 mil“S north of here.
The house of John-Doyle was blown down
and Doyle and his wife and an old man
were killed, the latter being decapitated.
The solid front wall of the Abbey of
New Engleburg being erected by the
Benedictine Monks was blown down and
10,000 feet of brick wall tumbled inside
the structure. Torrents of rain com-;
pleted the destruction of the edifice.
Houses and barns were blown down and
a number of people hurt. The Omaha
and St Louis Railroad depot was un
roofed. V
Clemson’s Preident.
Columbia June23—Prof.E. B. Craighead
has been elected president of Clemson col
lege. This is the new agricultural college
which will-be opened July 1- Prof. Craig
head is considered one of the finestt educ
ators of the south. He is a native of Aiiss
ouri and has studied at four foreign col
leges. .
Half Kates at the Fair.
Chicago, June 33.—The members of
Council of administration are discussing
the advisability of having a 25 cent ad
mission day at the fair and the chances
are that a half rate will be tried Sunday
week
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REFORM IN THE SERVICE.
A Clearing House Scheme in Connec
tion With Government Clerks.
Washington, June 22.—A general plan
for the betterment of the departmental
service of the government has been
agreed upon by the several heads of the
department.
When put into operation as a result of
the investigations now being made.it is ex
pected to produce results of a radical char
acter. In carrying out this general plan
circular letters of instruction havo been
addressed to the chiefs of bureaus and
divisions in every department of the gov
ernmental service at Washington. In a
general way this letter asks all clerks,
male and female, to state their age, when
appointed, whence appointed, their pres
ent grade, past promotions, number of
relatives in office, etc., and such like ques
tions, which, when answered, will give at
a glance a satisfactory history of the
clerk’s official life. When these
have been answered, tho appointment
clerks of the several executive depart
ments will form themselves into a kind
of clearing house board, compare notes
and make such recommendations os the
facts in each particular case may seem to
warrant. These investigations are ex
pected to disclose that numerous govern
ment employes are aliens, also that many
families have from three to ten
relatives in the government service, and
that many clerks and others now carried
on the rolls are too old and decrepld to
perform efficient work and are represent
ed by substitutes at greatly reduced pay.
These facts when established will form
the basis of a general reorganization all
along the lino and by a weeding out pro
cess the government service is expectod
to be increased in efficiency fully ten or
fifteen per cent.
’FRISCO CALLING FOR CASH.
The Transfers from New York Made
by Telegraph.
Washington. June 22.—Extensive ship
ments of money by telegraph from New
York to San Francisco were made to-day
by direction of United States Treasurer
Morgan. The bank failures yesterday on
the Pacific coast evidently spurred tho
banks to increase their supply of ready
money to meet emergencies. This money
is transferred in a simple manner. A
bank at San Francisco telegraphs its
New York correspondent (a bank) to
place in the sub-treasury at New York a
given sum of money to its
credit to bo sent to the
San Francisco bank. The sub-treasurer
at New York telegraphs the sub-treas
urer at San Francisco to credit the Na
tional bank with the given amount of
money. The San Francisco bank thus
saves express charges and the govern
ment, which receives gold for the money
it transfers by telegraph, builds up its
gold. It is a mutual arrangement by
which both banks and the government are
benefited.
SNUG FOREIGN BERTHS.
Two Consuls General and a Number
Of Consuls Appointed.
Washington. June 22. —The president
has mado the following appointments;
Darius H. Ingraham of Maine, consul
general at Halifax. ,Nova Scotia.
Spencer Pratt of Alabama, consul gen
eral at Singapoore, Straits settlements.
To bo consuls: W. S. Campbell of New
York, at New Castle, England; John R.
Mobley of Texas, at Baracoa, Cuba;
William F. Kemmler of Ohio, at Hargen
Switzerland; Charles H. E. Benedict, of
Minnesota, at Cape Town, Africa; James
A. Demarest of New Jersey, at Brock
ville, Canada; Joel Linsley of Vermont,
at Coaticook, Canada; Henry M. Smythe
of Virginia, at Fuchan, China; Thomas
C. Jones of Kentucky, at Funchal,
Madeira; Jesse W. Sparks, of Tennessee,
at Piedras Negras, Mexico; John H. Cop
pinger of Illinois, at Toronto, Canada.
Benjamin D. Williams of Alabama com
missioner to negotiate with the Chippewa
indians in Minnesota, under the act
approved January 14th, 1889.
PREPAYMENT OF INTEREST.
The Government to Honor July Obli
gations on Monday Next.
Washington, June 22.—Secretary Car
lisle today directed Treasurer Morgan to
anticipate the payment of the July inter
est on the 4 per cent United States bonds
and on the Pacific railroad bonds. Checks
in payment of the interest will be
placed in the mail Saturday aft
ernoon, and all the sub-treas
uries in the United States will
be instructed to cash them on presenta
tion. The total interest on both classes
of bonds aggregates $7,534,000, of which
$1,900,000 is for Pacific Railroad bonds,
and $5,634,000 for the 4 per cent, bonds.
This action of Secretary Carlisle is taken
to relieve the tightness in the money cen
ters. _
California’s Capital.
Woodland, Cal., June 22.—Superior
Judge Grant has decided in favor of Sac
ramento and against San Jose in tho state
capital removal case. The constitution
ality of the action of the recent legisla
tre ill submitting an amendment to tho
constitution, allowing a change of capital
was brought to be tested in his court and
the act is declared void. The case will
doubtless bo appoaled.
No Pension Deficiency.
Washington, June 22.—There will be no
pension deficiency - for the current fiscal
year which ends on June 30. That is as
sured by figures obtained at the treasury
department today. They show that an un
expended balance will remain of about
$1,000,(XX) of the amount appropriated for
the payment of pensions for the current
year.
Anastatia Island's Ownership.
Washington, June 22.—Secretary of the
Interior Smith to-day affirmed the decis
ion of the Commissioner of the General
Land office in refusing to recognize the
validity of the claim of the heirs of Jesse
Fish to Anastatia Island in the State of
Florida.
SAVANNAH, GA., FEIDAY, JUNE 23, 1808.
STANFORD'S BIG ESTATE.
The Senator’s Property Estimated at
$35,000,000.
Nearly One-Third of it Invested in The
Pacific Improvement Company—The
Senator’s Income From Stocks And
Bonds Estimated at $1,000,000 And
From All Sources at $3,000,000.
San Frifhcisco, June 22—A careful esti
mate of the late Senator Stanford’s prop
erty, indicates that its value Is somewhere
in the neighborhood of thirty-five millions
of dollars. The estate consists in large
part of one fourth-sliure in the Pacific Im
provement Company, the legal association
through which Messrs. Stanford, Hunt
ington, Hopkins, Searls and Crocker own
and control the Southern Pacific company.
Its normal assets in the way of railroad
property amount to $210,000,000, but
the actual value is about S3O a share,
or $42,(XX),000, of which Stanford’s holding
is about $10,000,000, Besides this tho
Pacific improvement company owns a
large block of Southern Pacific bonds,
which pay interest of 5 and 0 per cent
annually. Senator Stanford’s share of
these bonds is said to best4,ooo,ooo. From
stocks and bouds alone, the Stanford es
tate is said to receive an income of nearly
$1,000,000 annually.
Then there is the San Francisco cable
road property that pays ten per cent an
nually on $12,000,000, of which Senator
Stanford’s share is one foudth. He leaves
100.000 acres of land, including tho great
Vina vineyard, Palo Alto property, his
stock farm and other :il estate worth
$6,000,000, and other personal property
worth $1.000,000, making the aggregate va
lue of the estate about $35,000,000, on
which there is an annual income of per
haps $3.000,(XX).
ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE PUNERAL.
Menlo Park, Cal., June 22.—The ar
rangements for the funeral of Senator
Stanford are all completed and will doubt
less meet with the approval of Mrs.’
Stanford. The services will take place at
the chapel at Palo Alto University Sat
urday. They will be very simple. While
recently in Europe the senator, who was
always a stanch friend of the rail
way engineers, requested that when
his pall-bearers were selected that
they should consist of a number
of Engineers selected from those longest
in the employ of tho Southern Pacific
Railway Company. The request is to be
honored, and of the twenty pall bearers, 8
are to be Engineers.
Dr. Stollard, the physician who was
called to the death bed, said the Immedi
ate cause of death was paralysis of the
heart.
REPRESENTATIVES OF CONGRESS.
Washington June 22.—Vice President
Stevenson and Sergeant at arms Valen
tine have telegraphed Senators Mitchell
of Oregon and White of. California to rep
resent the senate at Senator Stanford’s
funeral, there not being time to send a
delegation from the East. Similar action,
it is understood, will be taken by Speaker
Crisp on the part of the house.
REAL ESTATE DEALERS FAIL.
A Chicago firm Assigns with Liabili
ties of SOOO,OOO.
Chlcaga June 22.—The real estate firm
of Baird & Bradley assigned this morning
to the title guarantee and trust company.
The assets* are placed at $600,000 and the
liabilities at $400,000. The firm had
plenty of assets in the way of valuable
real estate, which if it could have been
disposed of. would have saved it from
going into insolvencey. But the condition
of the real estate market at present is hot
stimulating and ready cash was not forth
coming. Baird & Bradley are one of the
oldest real estate firms in Chicago. They
havo been in business since 1865 and have
been connected directly and indirectly
with some of the largest land deals inci
dental to the growth of the city.
FUT BACK IN THEIR PLACES*
The Eighty-seven Special Examiners
of Pensioners to be Reinstated.
Washington, June 22.—Eighty-seven
special examiners of pensions have been
reappointed to take effoet on July 1. The
law has always limited these appoint
ments to one year and the salary is re
duced for the next fiscal year from $1,400
to $1,300.
Following are among the appointments:
Thomas A. Broadus, Joseph S. Vowels,
Robert S. Coleman of Virginia; John M.
Foote and James A. Graham, of North
Carolina; Edward B. Hamner of Ala
bama, Harlam P. Maxwell of Tennessee;
William S. Rudenuth of Mississippi.
INCENDARIES AT WORK.
The Fires at Iron ifiver, Wls., the
Work of Firebugs.
Ashland, June 22.—Reports from Iron
River state that the fires there have been
discovered to be of incendiary origin
Another attempt was mado yesterday to
set fire to a house on the outskirts of Iron
River. The tire department has been on
duty night and day, and it is thought that
the worst is over. The total losses by the
fires during the past week reach
$3,000,000.
Stevenson at Memphis.
Memphis, Tenn., June 22—Vice-Pres
ident arrived here
yesterday on his way to Lit
tle Rock. He was met at the station'by
a large delegation of prominent citizens.
He was escorted to the Appeal building
where an informal reception was held
and a large crowd greeted him.
Our Minister to Liberia Dead
New York June 22—News has reached
New York py way of England that Wm
D. McCoy, of Indiana, United States min
ister Resident to the republic of Liberia,
died at Monrovia May 14, and was buried
with military honors.*
A BANK RUN AT BIRMINGHAM.
The Scare Started by a False Story of
a Failure.
Birmingham, Ala., June 23—There was
a run on the First National bank, tho
strongest financial institution of this city
to-day caused by idle gossip connected
with the failure of tho Tennosseo Coal
Iron and Railway Company to pay Its em
ployes last Saturday. Tho First National
is the Tennessee Company’s
depository here, but otherwise is
not in any way oonaoctcu with the com
pany. Only small depositors took part
in the run, and they drew about $20,090.
The deposits of the day trebly exceeded
that amount. Tho run was soon over and
there is no danger of it being renewed.
An evidence of the bank's strength was
shown in an offer of $300,000 from New
York, which was declined. Tho indi
vidual deposits subject to check exceed
$70,000, and the bank is in a position to
meet every possible demand upon its re
sources.
The Tennessee company employs about
1.000 miners hero, and the failure to pay
last Saturday was explained by inability
to prepare tho pay rolls owing to physical
accident at tho last moment to the cliiof
clerk. The suspicion of the men was
aroused, however, and the trouble yas
charged to the First National hauk which
really does nothing more than act as pay
master of tho company. Tho compuny
does not owe the bank nor does the hank
owe tlio company. Tho relation between
the two is purely one of convenience.
Rumors that have gone about that tho
Tennessee company has gone into the
hands of a receiver arc without founda
tion.
WATERLOGED AT SEA,
The Schooner Mary A. Power Left
Adrift by Her Crew.
Lewes, Del., June 22—The American
bark, Edmund Finney, Captaiu Young,
from Cienfuguß, arrived at tho
breakwater last night having on
board tho shipwrecked crew of tho
schooner Mary A. Power, Cap
tain Wyman, from Fernandina, Fla ,
with lumber for New Bedford, Mass. On
the 16th, the Mary A. Power meta severe
wind from the south with a heavy sea.
About 2 p. m. on the 17th, with moderate
weather, the vossol began leaking, and in
two hours was water-logged with the
crew in the rigging and tho sea making a
complete breach over her, washing her
deck-load off. The crow took to the boats
at 7 p. m. and laid under tho lea of the
vessel all night. At Bp.m. on the 18th,
the crew was picked"p in latitude 35° 22'
and longitude 74* by tho hark, and landed
here this morning.
TO BE GIVEN TO THE SOUTH.
The Assistant Secretary of Agricul
ture to be a Southerner.
Washington, June 22. —President Cleve
land and Secretary Morton are haying
difficulty in selecting a successor to Assist
ant Secretary Wiilitts of the Agricultural
department, whose resignation has been
accepted to take effect on June 26. There
are twenty or more applicants, but tho
President when the matter was brought
to his attention last week, did not
seriously consider more than threo
names. Some of the applicants from
the west, and north are regarded as
being qualified for the place, but the Pres
ident, departing from tho custom of his
predecessors in appointing a Western
man, feels that the South, which has re
cently developed so much in agriculture,
is entitled to the place. There are not so
many “Ellgtbles” from the southern
States, and consequently it seems
probable that the assistant secretary may
be requested to retain his position until a
suitable successor can be determined
upon.
GOTHAM’S TUNNEL CRASH.
Another of the Victims Dies in the
Hospital.
New York, June 22.—Andrew Bartholo
mew of Cedar Creek, N. Y., died in the
Norwegian hospital at Brooklyn to-day.
He was one of the victims of the Long
Island railway accident of Tuesday.
The mysterious quinby of Utica, who
appeurs in the list of killed and whose
body and his $6,000 have disappeared leav
ing no trace, are declared by the coroner to
be mythical.
The dead have all been Identified and
accounted for.
Maryland’s State Convention.
Baltimore, Md., June 22.—The Demo
cratic State Committee met here to-day
and named Wednesday, September 27 sis
the time and Baltimore as the place for
holding the State Convention for the nomi
nation of a candidate for Comptroller, and
select anew State Central Committee.
For the first time In 20 years Senator
Gorman failed to materialize at tho meet
ing of the State Central Committee.
A Librarian Wanted.
Washington, June 22, —A Librarian is
wanted for the department of agriculture
at a salary of SI,BOO. The civil service
commissioners announce that In addition
to the usual clerical examinations appli
cants must be prepared for examination in
modern languages. German, French,
Italian and Spanish, library economy,
bibliography and the literature of agri
culture.
Grain Dealers Assign.
Nashville, Tcnn., June 22—8. T. Rhea
& Son. grain dealers, assigned for the
benefit of their creditors to-day. Their
liabilities are estimated at SIOO,OOO, with
at-out equal assets, local banks are the
largest creditors.
Tea Merchants Fail.
New York, June 22.—The Post announc
es the failure of Henry Sheldon & Cos., a
well known tea and coffee firm. They
are highly rated in the commercial agen
cies and their rosourcces are between
$200,000 and *300,000.
ANEW SCANDAL AT PARIS.
French Leaders Accused' of Taking
Bribes From England.
Tho Alleged Papers Stolen by the Co
oarde from the British Embassy—the
Basis of the Charges—Melleroye
Makes the Names of the Alleged Of
fenders Public In the Chamber of
Deputies.
Paris, June 22.—The story published
by tbeCocarde, the Boulangist Organ, to
tho effect that ono of Us representatives
had purloined from tho British embassy
in Paris papers showing that certain well
known frenchraen had been engaged in
treasonable schemes against the French
republic, has caused widespread curiosity
as to the names of the mon accused and
tho exact nature of the charge against
them. All newspaper* concur
to-day in . demanding that
a full explanation of tho story be made at
once. Milleroye, a Boulangist deputy
and his colleagues, who claim to know
the contents of tho documents, had an
interview yesterday with M. Dupuy,
prime minister, and M. Develle, minis
ter of foreign affairs, in connection with
the Cocarde's charge. They say tliut tho
ministers refused to take official cogniz
ance of tho documents, and declined to
take charge of them, as they were re
quested to do by their visitors.
lIKHZ 8 CONDITION
When tho chamber of deputies met to
day M. Dupuy, prime minister, in re
sponse to a question put to him by M.
Milleroye, announced that the condition
of Baron Horz was such that it was im
possible to secure his extradition.
M. Milleroye thereupon gave notice that
he would interpellate the (goot) on the
subject. M. Milleroye asked several ques
tions concerning the extradition of Ba
ron Horz and the documents alleged to
have been stolen from the strong box at
the British embassy.
With regard to the Hoig matter M. Du
puy replied that England had done every
thing [Kissiblo for her to do to grant ex
tradition as requested by France. As
for the stolen documents, M. Dupuy states
th&t tho public prosecutor could take no
knowledge from stolen documents.
M. Milleroye thon stated that ho had
the of several of tho documents In re
spect of negotiations with Austin
Lee, second secretary of the
British embassy in Paris, all
of which boro date of April 3, 1898. M.
Milleroye started in to read one of the
documents. He got as far as “I saw to
day M. Clemenceau ” when M. Deville
interrupted him aud begged the president
of the chamber to consider tho matter
an international question.
Baron Demarcay suggested that tho
chamber resolve Itself into a secret com
mittee to hear the documents, but the
suggestion was voted down.
M. Milleroye further accused M. Clem
enceau of delivering to England private
letters that had passed between M. Ribot,
lately prime minister and minister of for
eign affairs, and the French minister to
Egypt, and between M. Kibot and the
French ambassador at Constantinople.
A CHARGE OK BRIBERY.
He produced a list of names of persons
and of papers whom he alleged England
hud bribed, and the amount of money
given as bribes. He read amid an uproar
that almost drowned his voice: Temps,
50.000 francs; Edouard, Lomatin, IX),000
francs; LeJour, 15,000 francs; M. Roche
fort, 80,000 francs; M. Clemenceau, 50,-
000 francs.
At this point tho uproar and confusion
in the chamber became tremendous.
Members of the extreme left rose from
their seats and demands were made that
M. Milleroye leave the chamber. M. Mil
leroye, however stood his ground, aud
when a semblance of order and quiet was
restored, he shouted: “The whole thing
is a scandal. M. Bardeau received 50,(XX)
francs.”
M. Bardeau sprang from his seat and
exclaimed: “I expect the chamber to vin
dicate my honor.”
’’hooting PROM THE LEFT.
Clemenceau and all tho members of the
party on the extreme left again rose from
their seats and hooted. After a time they
Insisted that the rest of the pa]er be
read. M. Milleroye again started to road
but M. Deroulde, whoisulso a Boulangist,
stated that he could not listen to him and
would resign his seat rather than do so.
*An order of the day was then
moved to the effect that the cham
ber condemned the documents and
regretted the time that had been foolishly
wasted listening to their presentation.
Tills was adopted by practically an unan
imous vote, only four members voting
against it, while 489 voted in favor of it.
Deroulde retired to the committee room,
where he spent a long time refusing to re
ceive his most intimate colleagues.
M. Milleroye left the chamber declaring
that he would resign his seat in order
that ho might act independently.
THE NATURE OP THE DOCUMENTS. *
Most of the documents in M. Milleroye’s
possession are.letters purporting to have
been signed by Hon. R. Lister, secretary
of the British embassy some time ago.
Mr. Lister was transferred to
Athens, however, about a year
before the date of the letters. The
letters are regarded generally as
barefaced and clumsy forgeries. When
M. Milleroye referred to that part of a
certain letter which mentioned a pro
jected alliance between the United States
and Russia, the whole chamber shouted,
laughed and jeered, and M. DeVelle re
marked that the whole matter was evi
dently a damnable hoax.
A Private Bank Closed.
Ridgeway, Pa., June 22.—The Ridge
way bank, a private institution, closed its
doors this morning. The officers of the
bank say all depositors will be paid in full
as soon as the assets can be realized on.
IRELAND’S FINANCES.
The Irish Leaders Disappointed Over
the Changes.
Linden, June 22.—1n tho House of Com
mons to-day Mr. Gladstone stated the
alterations tho government had deoided
to inuko in the financial clauses in the
Irish home rule hill. Ho proposed a pro
visional term of six years to effect finan
cial arrangements. At the close of six
years tho contribution and whole arrange
ment would be revis>d. It would be pro
vided that Ireland should collect and
manage taxation, with tho exception of
customs an>l excise duties. Ireland’s con
tribution to tho imperial exchequer
would be ono third of the ascertained rev
enue, also tho wholo yield of any taxes
imposed upon Ireland by the Imperial par
liament expressly for war or special de
fense. John Redmond, Parnelllte, gave
notice that he would oppose the clause
preventing the Irish parliament from col
lecting and regulating existing taxation as
unjust and humiliating to Ireland.
Interviews witti Justin McCarthy and
other Irish leaders show that they are
disappointed over tho proposed altera
tions in the financial clauses of tho home
rule bill. Before committing themselves
to oppose or reject the alterations, a party
conference will be hold and the sense of
the party taken.
BAYARD GOES TO WINDSOR.
The New Ambassador Presents His
Credentials to the Queen.
liondon, June 23,—Thomas F. Bayard,
tho American ambassador to Great Brit
ain, proceeded to-day from London to
Windsor Custlo, where he presented his
credentials. In accordance with the
usual custom that obtains In the case of
ambassadors, a state carriage was fur
nished by the British government to con
vey Minister Bayard from his hotel to the
railway station.
First of the Second Ballots.
Berlin, June 22—The first of the second
ballot wus taken in to-day in Lubouk.
The candidates were Johann Schwartz,
social democrat, who received on the first
ballot 7880 votes, and Herr Goortz, radi
cal unionist, who received on the first
ballot 7150. Gscrtz was supported by the
national liberals and was elected to-day
by a majority of 150. As Schwurtz was
tho last deputy for I,check, this is a loss
to the social democrats ns well as to the
enemies of the army bill,
’ Madrid’s Explosion.
Madrid, June 33.—The official investiga
tion into the bomb explosion at the resi
dence of Senor Canovas Del Costillo has
led to the discovery of a plot that em
braces anarchists in several European
countries. Twenty-three arrests have been
made and more are expectod.
BAD BOOKS ON TRAINS.
The Baltimore and Ohio Bound to Put
a Stop to Their Sale.
Wheeling, W. Va., June 22.—1 t has
come to the knowledge of tho Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company and Union
News Company thut tho agents of the lat
ter have abused their privilege of selling
on the company’s train by offer
ing a very rank variety of ob
scene literature. The Railroad company,
assisted by the News Compnny, set
out to put u stop to it aud
discovered who was furnishing the ob
jectionable matter. W. B. Jones a news
agent, was arrested to-day at Cambridge,
Ohio. In his Vrunk was found
a roll of obscene literature. Jones said
he did not know tho name of the man'who
supplied the printed matter, but said he
lived in Butler, O. and gavo a description
of him. He explained further that the
man was In the habit of coming on a car
and delivering him rhymes. Jones was
taken to Butler and there Identified the
man from whom he purchased the matter,
onoj. L. Barr, publisher of the “Cyclone”
a banker, general business man, compoun
der of condition powders and superinten
dent of a Sunday school. When confronted,
Barr admitted the truth of tho charge
and was placed under *3OO ball. He says
the same thing has been dono on other
railways.
ROBBERS FIRE ON A TRAIN.
They Intended to Derail It, But
Thought it Wai a Freight.
Denison, Tex., June 22.—South bound
Missouri, Kansas and Texas train No. 8
was fired into at Stringtown at l o’clock
this morning by a band of outlaws, sup
posed to be the Dyer gang. The train
was running on time and did not stop.
One of the train ffien said; “I think tho
freight engine that was pulling us saved
us. The bandits wero in ambush at the
south end of the switch and when the en
gine whistled they thought It was a
freight and laid low. When they saw
their mistake they fired and tried to stop
us. We were running 20 miles an hour.
They flagged the engineer and fired at
him, a hall going through the cab window.
There were probably six robbers.
The train was a rich ono, and especially
in tho express and registered pouches.
The express company expect a shipment
of Cherokee strip money and fear another
attempt will be made to rob It.
DEATH IN A COAL MINE.
Four Men and a Boy Killod by an Ex
plosion of Gas.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., June 22.—At a late
hour this afternoon, while eight men
were at work at Nantleoke, in the
Susquehanna Coal Company’s mine,
about three-quarters of a mile from
the bottom of the shaft, a. terrific
explosion of gas took place which hurled
the victims off their feet and scattered
them in all directions, killing 4 men and
a boy, instantly and seriously but not
fatally three more.
Germany’s New Army Bill.
Brfrltn, June 22.—The Relchsanzlger
announces that the army bill that will bo
submitted to the next reichstag will be
virtually the Httene compromise on tho
old hill.
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TRIAL OF JULIA FORCE.
Two Courses Open to the Attorneys’
tor the Defense.
They May Try to Prove that She wag
Insane when She Killed her Sisters —
If the Attorneys' Succeed She will be
Discharged The Lawyers’ may Fil*
A Plea of Insanity and Have Her
Sent to the Asylum.
Atlanta, Ga.. Juno 22.—Miss Julia
Force will be placed on trial for the mur
der of her two younger sisters,Minnie and
Florence, noxt Monday. That date was
set to-day in the superior court. Judge
Richard Clarke presiding. Miss Force,
it will bo recalled, was adjtidgod insane
by tin) court of ordinary Just after tha
tragedy, but this did not interfere with
her indictment by tho superior court.
Her attorneys will probably matte a
plea of not guilty to the charge of
murder and enter into the trial with a
vlow to proving that she wus insane at the
time of tho killing. If they succeeded in
proving this to the Jury, a verdict of not
guilty will he rendered and she will bo
discharged. Miss Force would then be
sent to tho asylum under the verdict of
the court of ordinary, and if she should re
cover bo discharged.
ANOTHER COURSE.
It is possible, however, that her at
torneys may pursue another cosirse If they
see fit. They may filo a pica of insanity
in behnlf of their client. If this is done a
special Jury will lie summoned to try tho
issuo before Judge Clarke. If silo is de
clared sane at this time, she will
then be put on trial for murder
before another Jury selected from
the regular panel of Jurors. If
she is found insane at this time she will,
of courso, go to tho asylum, there to re
main until she recovers, when she may
be returned and tried for murder, and
then the question will have to be decided
Whether who was sane or Insane at tho
time of the killing. John L. Hardeman,
of Macon, Miss Force’s cousin, will bo her
leading attorney.
WORLD’S FAIR AWARDS.
All But Two of the Foreign Countries
Yield to the Thatcher Plan.
Chicago, June 22. —The imperial German
commissioner. Herr Wcrmuth, has ad
dressed a communication to John Boyd
Thatcher, commissioner of awards, an
nouncing that the foreign countries that
withdrew their exhibits on account of dis
satisfaction with tho Thatcher plan of
awards, had come back to tho fold except
France and Denmark. These countries are
Germany,Brazil. Austria, Japan, Norway,
Portugal, Russia, Spain, Switzerland and
Turkey.
One of the foreigners said today that
“Rather than impair the history of the
exposition, which lives in the reports of
the Juries of Awards, wo submit to con
ditions that are unsatisfactory and un
tried.” Commissioner Thatcher was
pleased with the action and remarked
that the whole matter is Just whore it
started, for the foreigners gained prac
tically nothing by withdrawal.
LUMBER PILES ABLAZE.
A Million Feet Valued at SIO,OOO
Burned at Clinch Haven.
HomerviUe, Ga., June 22.—T0-day
while the workmen were all at dinner a
pile of lumber lying between the plankfag
mill and the big saw mill of Paxton &
Mattox’s at Clinch Haven, three miles
from here, caught fire. A million feet of
lumber, valued at $lO per thousand, was
burned, and all the tram railroad trucks
and the track of tho train railroad were
destroyod for some distance, twisting tho
irons in coils.
Some of tho Florida and Western rail
road cars caught, but the fire was put
out. Tho two Mills are thought to be at
this writing out of danger. They are
much damaged however, many of the men
came near loosing their lives, working to
extinguish the fire, tho hose plposbursted
when the water was turned on. Tha
wind was brisk.
A Mirror Of Ocala.
Ocala, Fla., June 22. —It can not bo learn
ed that any one from this section attended
the meeting at Jacksonville of the Fruit
Growers Union. Col. J. W. Hanlon, who
up to Saturday was the associate editor
of the New Gapttal, but retired with
that issue, was reinstated as
chief editor yesterday.
The contract for grading the Ocala
driving park course has boen let to Mr.
Widdon, of the Ocala House, who will be
gin work at once.
A Severe Blow xt Offerman.
Offerman, Ga., June 22.—One of ths
most severe storms in years passed here
to-night about 7 o’clock, blowing down
trees, fences, and unroofing houses. No
news can bo had from the surrounding
country but the indications are that great
damage has been done.
A Michigan Bank Suspends.
Greenville Mich., June 23.—The City
National bank of this city was closed this
morning by order of bank examiner
Caldwell. No statement of the bank’s
condition has yet been made public.
Breokonridge to Marry.
Washington June 22.—The engagement
of representatatlvo W. H. Breckenridge
of lientuckey, and Miss Madeline Pollard v
who is now a guest of Mrs. Blackburn, is
announced.
To Pay Interest In Advance.
Washington, June 22.—Secretary Car
lisle has directed that the July interest on
the four per cent, bonds and Pacific rail
road bonds be paid on Monddy next.
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Wholesale Grocers Fail.
Omaha, Neb., June 23—Sloan, Johnson &
Cos.. wholesale grocers have assigned with
liabilities of upward of $300,000 and assets
of about SBO,OOO.