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Manta Strnrnal.
VOL. V.
CASTRO’S SHIPS
- SEIZED AND SUNK
German - English Forces
Seize Many Ships of
Venezuelan
Navy.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 10.-The great cri
sta in the Venezuelan-English-German
controversy has been re ched today.
The situation is exceedingly critical.
President Castro has retaliated by ar
resting many German and resi
dents of Venezuelan cities.
The English-German naval forces have
■Sized many Venezuelan warships and
gunboats, and the complete blockade of
several porta will be effective by night.
It is believed the seizure of customs will
be made immediately.
American warships are assembling in
Venezuelan waters to see that the repub
lic is not too heavily punished.
United States Minister Bowen ia now
the recognised representative of both
, Germany and England, though at first his
authority was questioned by President
Castro. He succeeded today, after an em
phatic stand, in forcing Castro to re
lease many of the political prisoners of
German and English descent.
The battleship Texas and cruiser To
peka. of the United States navy, have
been rushed today from Norfolk to Ven-
• g tela. The Texas goes with battery re
pairs but half completed.
LAGUAYRA, Venezuela. Dec. 10.—The
combined English and German fleet la
entering thia harbor, and the first vessels
are not 800 feet away from the custom
house. The landing of marines has be
gun.
Destruction of the Fleet.
LAGUAYRA. Venezuela. Doc. 10.-Ten
German and four British cutters captured
the Venezuelan fleet yesterday. They
went alongside the Venezuelan vessels
and ordered them to surrender, and. with
out a shot being fired, the British and
German forces seized the fleet tn the name
of the German emperor and the king of
England. Two of the vessels, which were
undergoing repairs, were broken up. The
German cruiser Panther steamed into the
harbor during these proceedings with
her decks cleared for action. The Vene
zuelan steamers were taken outside the
harbor, and at 2 o’clock this morning the
General Crespo, Tutmo and Margarita
were sunk The Ossun was the only ves
sel spared. in view of the protest made
by the French charge d'affaires, H.
Quievreux. who notified the commodore
of the allied fleet that the Ossun is ths
property of a Frenchman.
AMERICAN WAR FLEET
TO GO TO VENEZUELA
NEW YORK. Dec. 10.—The principal
British creditors whose claims are to bo
enforced by the ultimatum against Vene-
’ respondeat tn London, railway and barber
Some of these companies complain of
defaults of interest guaranteed by the
Venezuelan government and another cor
poration. which took up an issue of bonds,
claims that a considerable amount of un
paid interest ia due it. There are also
claims for damages to railways and other
.property from war looses, and also for
.unpaid charges for freight on the govern
ment's account. The British claims in the
'main are based on government defaults
or negligence, and are not uncollected pri
vate or business debts.
The German claims are larger in amount
and more varied in their nature and the
responsibility of the Venezuelan govern
ment for the redemption of the obligation
is leas obvious In certain sections of the
account. There are no intimations here of
.the aasounts either of the French or
American claims, which must be consider
able.
’ The precautions taken by the United
States in ordering a strong fleet to the
Venezuelan coast do not escape attention,
it la considered a sign that the Washing
ton authorities are on their guard against
the taking of too drastic measures on ths
part either of Germany or England for
the collection of a debt from a weak pow
er distracted with revolution. European
nations have been financing railways and
harbor improvement schemes in South
America half a century, but they have not
been accustomed to depend on naval dem
onstrations for the collection of defaulted
Interests.
ONLY FORTY-EIGHT HOURS
18 ULTIMATUM’S LIMIT
CARACAS. Dec. k—lt )s said on good
authority that the captain of the British
cruiser Retribution this afternoon sent
a special courier from LaGuaira to Cara
cas with an ultimatum for compliance
with the note deposited yesterday by the
British and German ministers at the home
of the foreign minister before their de
parture from Caracas. It is said the ulti
matum gives a maximum Os 46 hours tn
which Venezuela is to accede. The note.
It is said, refusals the immediate cash
payment of 884.000 each to Great Bri.aln
and Germany for the settlement of claims
•rising from past revolutions, by a mixed
tribunal, the same as the last agreement
made with France.
U is also said that the British minister
» at the last moment failed to present
claims, except for $40,000. but his claim Is
not duly supported by legsl documents
and facts and ia considered absurd.
- it is understood here that the United
States minister. Bowen, has assumed
charge of British and German Interests.
I BERLIN DOES NOT CREDIT
WHOLESALE ARREBT REPORT
BERLIN. Dec. 10.—The foreign office
here up to noon had received nothing
from LaGuayra since Monday evening,
when Charge d’Affaires Von Pilgrim Bal
taxzi cabled that he had gone on board the
Vinetas. The officials here have no con
firmation of the announced arrest of all
the German and British subjects at Ca
racas and are therefore disposed to dis
credit the statement. They say that pos
sibly a few Germans and Englishmen
have been arrested under some pretext
by President Castro, but the foreign office
considers it extremely doubtful that he
would permit the arrest of all German
•nd British subjects at Caracas.
GERMANS AND BRITONS
ARRESTED BY CASTRO
CARACAS. Venezuels, Dec. 10.—All Ger
man and British subjects tn Caracas were
arrested yesterday.
President Castro received the corre
spondent of the Associated Press at Mira
flores palace yesterday. In reply to ques
tions the president of Venezuela said:
•-The Venezuelan government has not re
ceived any ultimatum properly speaking,
but rather simultaneous requests from
Great Britain and Germany. The claims
they ask this government to settle are
•msit and up to the present time we have
’ ’ not been aware of them. Never having
been presented, Venezuela has consequent
ly never refused to settle them. Great
Britain's action, threfore, is without jus
tification.
"The Venezuelan government cannot de
cide on foreign claims before the revolu
tion has been entirely crushed."
What Castro Will Do.
"What do you intend to do in view of
the present attitude of the powers?” was
asked.
"Enforce our rights." replied President
Castro, "and explain to the world that
Venezuela has laws and prove that we
have never denied our engagement.”
The president was asked what reply the
Venezuelan, government would make to
I the requesra handed It by the Germans
and British envoys. To this request he re
plied:
"The Venezuelan government is aston
ished that after the notes which were
transmitted'to it by the diplomatic repre
sentative of Germany and Great Britain
these envoys should leave Caracas with
out awaiting the reply of the Venezuelan
government. Regarding what he intended
to do should the powers declare a block
ade the president declined to answer.
No ultimatum had been delivered to the
Venezuelan government up to 2 o'clock
yesterday, afternoon. Should Venezuela re
fer or fail to reply to the notes of Great
Britain and Germany, it is believed an ul
timatum will then be delivered.
There are comparatively few white Brit
ish subjects in Caracas and La Guaryra
railroad Is a British concern and its gen
eral manager and other high officials are
Englishmen. There are a large number of
natives, of the British West Indian is
lands in Venezuela, especially in Caracas.
They are negroes with few exceptions.
A census of 1884 gives 6,154 British sub
jects in Venezuela. This number Includes
a great many of the Islanders, as well as
the British population in the territory
awarded to Great Britain.
The Germans in Caracas are much
more numerous. They are found at the
head of important commercial houses and
banking institutions. The railroad from
Caracas to Valencia is a German concern.
The census of 1884 places the number of
Germans in Venezuela at t'62.
A dispatch from Carac as dated Decem
ber Bth. said that the British minister to
Venezuela. W. H. D. Haggard, and the
German charge d'affaires, Herr von Pil
grim Baltazzi. left Caracas that after
noon for La Guayra, the port of Cara
cas, where Mr. Haggard went on board
the British cruiser Vtneta. The German
and British ( legations in Caracas were
closed, consequently the members of the
legation staffs of these countries are prob
ably not Included among the men arrested
Tuesday.
in firiTpanic sunday’two
ARE KILLED BY FALLS
MENOMINEE, Win.. Dec. B—Fire late
last night destroyed the general store and
dwelling of Max Manthey, at Colgate,
fivq miles north of here. .
MrManthey tost Mia Ufii to attempting
tp escape, and one of his children was
burned to death. Another child was
probably fatally Injured. Several others
escaped with Isas serious Injuries.
Mr. Manthey was aroused by the smoke
and flames and called to hie family to
jump from the windows. He jumped first
and slid down a porch, a distance of 12
feet. He fell to the ground on his head,
breaking his neck.
One child, 8 years old, fell down a stairs
head foremost, running a nail into her
head and probably into her brain. She is
not expected to live.
Another child fell on her shoulder,
breaking it. and another child broke her
collar bone. In the extreme excitement
another child was forgotten and burned
to death.
The mother and two children were the
only ones to escape Injury. Mr. Manthey
was 30 years old.
! A IK PRESIDENT
GETS SIXTY
Dffi ’
WEALTHY CITIZEN OF PENSACO
LA CONVICTED TUESDAY
OF STABBING AN-
OTHER.
PENSACOLA, Fla., Dec. 10.-WllHam C.
O'Neal, president of the American Na
tional Bank of this city, was sentenced
to 80 days in the Escambia county jail
yesterday by Judge Charles Swayne,
of the United States district court. Mr.
O'Neal will endeavor to secure a super
sedeas bond at 3:30 o'clock today, this
time having been set to argue the matter.
The charge upon which the banker was
so sentenced was an attack upon Adolph
Greenhut, of Pensacola. a wealthy
3iolesale merchant, on October 90th when
eenhut was severely stabbed by O’Neal.
Greenhut at the time was trustee of a
bankruptcy claim and it was held that
O’Neal's attack upon Greenhut
was an act of contempt in
that the injuries inflicted kept
Greenhut from performing his duties as
trustee, a position given him by the Uni
ted States court. The case as adjudged
this morning is regarded as a precedent.
The American National Bank is capital
ize at 8300.000 and is the richest in Flor
ida.
TWO CUBANS HAVE FIGHT;
WILL SETTLE WITH DUEL
NEW YORK. Dec. 9. Senor Perez, sec
retary of the house of representatives,
says The Tribune's Havana correspon
dent, was attacked in a conference room
of the house by Representative Mendieta,
and twice knocked down before congress
men separated the men. The first named
is a Nationalist and Mendieta a Repub
lican.
The difficulty grew out of debates in the
house.
It is asserted that a duel is sure to re
sult.
Clever Swindler Defrauds Romans.
ROME. Ga., Dec. A swindler has
been visiting the private residences of
i Rome, pretending to be government agent
for the postal department, and having
' bogus authority. He tells them that the
postoffice department wants private boxes
at each house, for which he collects 60
cents and give a receipt. The postmaster
says he is a fraud, as no one is authorized
to so act.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA. DECEMBER 11, 1902.
SENATOR FORAKER
TOWARD SOUTH
SOFTENSHEART
OHIOAN NOW PROPOSES TO HON-
OR GRAVES OF HEROES WHO
WORE THE SUIT OF
GRAY.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—Senator Fora
ker, of Ohio, who has been for years one
of the leaders of the anti-Confederate sen
timent in congress, tyas experienced a
change of heart. He ‘ has introduced in
the senate bill appropriating one hun
dred thousand dollars for marking with
white marble head stones the graves of
soldiers and sailors of the Confederate ar
my and navy who died in Federal prisons
and hospitals and who were burie.d near
the places of their confinement. Senator
Foraker it was who during Cleveland’s ad
ministration fiercely opposed the restitu
tion of northern states of Confederate
flags to southern states that he was led to
exclaim: "None of Ohio’s captured Con
federate flags shall be returned so long as
I am governor of-Ohio."
The bill he Introduced provides for the
purchase by the government of land about
to Confederate graves, the appointment
by the secretary of war of a paid com
missioner to locate the graves and for the
care of such graves in every proper res
pect.
Quay’s Defeat Forecasted.
A little flurry in senate yesterday over
the New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma
statehood bill is said to be a straw in the
wind showing the probable defeat of the
Quay movement to have all three states
admitted together.
Senator Allison arose to give notice that
be would tomorrow call up the bill for
paying the coal strike commission.
Instantly Quay was on his feet with the
statement that he would object to the
consideration of any measure which would
interfere with his omnibus statehood bill.
The interference is that he fears delay,
since the votes, he has countd in favor
of the bill are dwindling daily.
He was informed by the president of the
senate that his bill had not the right of
way until 2 o’clock and he sat down ap
parently very much put out. Since the
incident occurred in the senate, it has
leaked out that a combination of Republi
can senators has been formed for the pur
pose of voting aside the Quay bill at 2
o'clock, which act would put it down at
the foot of the calendar and kill it for
this session.
Clay Defeats Ledge.
Senator Clay addressed senate yesterday
on the subject of foreign Immigration and
made a particular plea for a law that
would allow immigrants from Canada,
Mexico and Cuba to come into this coun
try untaxed. He said he wanted to give
his support to the bill restricting foreign
Immigration because he believed the ques
tion of foreign immigration was one of
vital Importance to the peopte of this
country■ Me dectaeSd foreign immigra
tion should be restricted, but he wanted
this country to be extremely careful of
our commercial relations with out
friends, Canada, Mexico and Cuba.
"They are right here at our doors ” he
said, "and I do not believe that people
from those countries, who want to come
into Georgia or Florida or any other
state, should be taxed at three dollars
per capita, as the bill contemplates tax
ing immigrants from France, Germany
and other nations."
Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, at
tempted to break the force of Senator
Clay’s argument, but in his statement he
took an exactly opposite T>osltion to a
statement he made Monday, and he
was forced to acknowledge that he was
wrong and,that he had changed his mind.
Senator Clay wound him up nicely.
HONOR TO REED’S MEMORY
ALMOST WITHOUT PRECEDENT
WASHINGTON, Dec. B.—The house to
day paid a remarkable tribute to the
memory of former speaker Thomas B.
Reed. His death had created a profound
impression and there was a universal de
sire among the members that the house
show a signal mark of respect to his
memory. For the house to take action
on the death of a former member had only
three precedents in its history—namely on
the occasions of the death of Benton,
Blaine and Alexander Stephens, when
the house adopted resolutions and ad
journed out of respect to their memories.
It was decided to follow these precedents.
At the opening of the session a feeling
tribute was paid to the ex-speaker by the
chaplain.
Mr. Sherman, of New York, then amid
profound silence, arose and in a few
feeling remarks, offered the following
resolution:
"Resolved, That the following minute
be spread upon the record of the house of
representatives:
"The Hon. Thomas Brackett Reed died
in Washington, December 7, 1902. For 22~
years he was a member of the house; for
six years its speaker. His service termi
nated with the fifty-fifth congress. With
in this chamber the scene of his life’s
great activities was laid. Here he render
ed services to his country which placed
him in the front rank of American states
manship. Here he exhibited characteris
tics which compelled respect and won ad
miration. Forceful ability, intrinsic worth,
strength of character, brought him popu
lar fame and congressional leadership. In
ius depth and breadth of intellect a full
and rounded development had produced
a giant who towered above his fellows
and impressed them with his power and
his wiedom.
"A distinguished statesman; a lofty pa
triot; a cultured scholar and incisive wri
ter; an unique orator, an unmatched de
bater, a master of logic, wit and satire;
the most famous of the world’s parlia
mentarians; the great and representative
citizen of the American republic has gone
into history.
"Resolved, That in honor of the dead,
the house now adjourn.”
When the reading of the resolutions
wqre concluded Speaker Henderson asked
if there was objection to their present
consideration. The silence remained un
broken. The resolutions were then unan
imously passed and the house at 12:50
adjourned.
GEORGIA POSTMASTERS
NAMED B/ ROOSEVELT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. « The
president today sent to th« senate for
confirmation the names of H. F. Brimber
ry as postmaster at Albany and Mamie
F. Autrey as postmistress at LaGrange.
QUAY URGES SENATE
ON STATEHOOD MEASURE
WASHINGTON, Dec. B.—After some
routine business in the senate today, Mr
Quay, of Pennsylvania, sent to the desk
and had read the resolutions adopted by
the Indian Territory executive committee
or. territorial legislation m opposition to
statehood bill, combining Oklahoma and
Indian Territory, expressing sympathy for
Oklahoma in her efforts to secure state
hood, appealing for some form of local
self government, such as Is provided for
AFTER DEFEAT
LOUO MH
GET EVEN
CALIFORNIA CONGRESSMAN
MAY BE MADE BOSS OVER
PEOPLE WHO CAUSED HIS
RECENT POLITICAL DEFEAT.
WASHINGTON. Dec. Id—lt is highly
probable that the president will appoint
Representative Loud, of California. fourth
assistant postmaster general, and that the
letter carrier service of the department
will be put under his control all this to be
intended as a rebuke to the National Let
ter Carriers’ association, which brought
about the defest of Loud in the lat«
election.
The letter carriers had a bill in the last
congress for increase of their salaries and
Loud was chairman of the committee
which had the bill in charge. Their ef
forts were so persistent tq have the bill
reported that the president issued an
order that no employes of the government
should come to Washington to influence
legislation.
The bill was not reported, and the car
riers turned on Loud, in his home district,
with the result that he was left at the
post. It is presumed he will get his re
venge when he gets charge of the car
riers.
The North Carolina Lily White row has
taken a decidedly interesting turn for
Georgians since Georgia's senators have
been asked by Senator Simmons, the Dem
ocratic senator from North Carolina, for
advice. Senator Simmons and the Demo
cratic members of the North Carolina del
egation called on Postmaster Payne in a
body this week to protest aginst the ap
pointment of the negro Vick, as postmas
ter at Wilson.
Yesterday Star printed on
"excellent authority” an Article practical
ly denouncing the Democrats for what
was termed unprecedented officiousness
and calling on them in so many words
to mind their own business.
The story bore the ear marks of inspi
ration from the administration and it
charged the Democrats with an attempt to
raise up the negro question in order to
harrass the president.
Since Senator Pritchard, the Republican
from North Carolina, had already asked
the president not to appoint Vick the ac
tion of the Democrats did, as a matter
of fact, put the negro problem right up to
the president, as there are none to urge
Vick's appointment but negroes.
Yet Senator Simmops grew wroth at
the “inspired" article in the “Star” and
declared last night be would today rise
to point of personal privilege on the case
on the senate floor. He called on the
Georgia senators, anMs other of his
friends fbi’"MFWW Cfd if m understood the
Georgians told him to go ahead and make
the statement in the senate. Senator
Simmons changed his mind, however, and
said nothing.
Judson Lyons, George H. White and oth
er influential negroes regard the Vick af
fair as a test case, and if the president
throws Vick, they will declare war on Re
publicans. If he retains Vick in office,
then the Lily white Republicans, led by
Pritchard, will open up on them. Hence,
his anxiety. It is understood Vick’s
friends have appealed to Booker Wash
ington for help. •
MEXMNS
TO COMMAND
RESPECT
MEXICO CITY. Dec. 10.-After a lively
debate in the chamber of deputies a bill
was passed amending the penal code so
as to make clear what shall be the pun
ishment for insulting the army, courts,
congress or collegiate bodies. The article,
as approved by congress, reads:
“Insults or defamation and calumny
against the congress, against a tribunal,
against the national navy and army or
against a collegiate body shall be chas
tised in accordance with the rules of this
chapter, but in no ease will the penalty be
less than two months detention,” etc.
This law is designed especially to bring
within the jurisdiction of the courts cer
tain classes of newspapers given to sharp
criticism of congress, the army, etc. The
bill now goes to the senate for approval
and undoubtedly will be enacted Into law.
We fear that a few south Georgia mem
bers are going to allow the session to
come to a close without bumping into
Speaker Morris.
in what is known as the Moon bill and
denouncing certain people, who, it is
charged, have misrepresented the desires
of the citizens of Indian Territory with
regard to joint statehood with Oklahoma.
ROUTINE OF HOUSE;
MILITARY BILL IN SENATE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—Some minor
business was transacted at the opening of
the session of the house yesterday. Sen
ate bill to regulate the duties and fix the
compensation of customs inspectors at the
port of New York was passed.
Also a bill to provide additional districts
In the Indian Territory where legal in
struments can be filed,
Mr. Payne, of New York, chairman of
the committee of ways and means, re
ported back from that committee the reso
lution for the distribution of the presi
dent’s message and gave notice tnu, he
would call it up tomorrow. fTe also call
ed ’up the resolution which provides for
a holiday adjournment December 20th to
January 6th, 1903, and it was adopted with
out division.
Mr. Sherman reported the Indian ap
propriation bill. ♦
Mr. Tawney, of Minnesota, then de
manded the “regular order,” the London
landing charge bill, of which he has
charge. He gave notice that he would
move to substitute the senate bill for
tne pending house bill, the two being
practically identical. Mr. Tawney then
began his argument in support of the bill
The senate today considered the bill to
amend the militia laws of the United
States.
After some discussion the militia bill
went over until Thursday.
WHOLE BLOCK OF
BUILDINGS ARE
BIIBNW
NEARLY HALF A MILLION DOL-
LARS DESTROYED IN BIG
FIRE TUESDAY
MORNING.
Like a flash of lightning flames burst
through the basement of the Snook & Aus
tin Furniture company's building at the
Peachtree street end of the viaduct Tues
day morning shortly after 4 o’clock, and
in less than ten minutes the big building
was a solid sheet of flame.
From this building the flames spread to
the Norcross building at the corner of
Peachtree and Marietta streets, atjd then
jumped into the building occupied by the
Jacobs* Pharmacy company. In the Nor
cross building were half a hundred offices,
and on the top floor was the Nonesuch
lunch rooms. All of these were totally
destroyed, along with the Hammack drug
store and Alonzo Herndon’s barber shop.
On the viaduct end of the fire was the. sa
loon of David Hollis, the Viaduct restau
rant, the Hub clothing store, Snook &
Austin, and the Guarantee clothing store.
AH of these places were completely
wiped out.
Guests of the Williams House No. 1,
which was over the drug store of the Ja
cobs’ company and the Snook & Austin
company, had narrow escapes. They were
aroused just in time to leave the building.
When the alarm was turned in the fire
men found the blaze in the rear of the
Snook & Austin store at a point where a
fire started about a year ago and did con
siderable damage. Before a line of hose
could be strung out the fire was turning
so rapidly that a big conflagration was
seen to be unavoidable.
The buildings of the Snook & Austin
company and the Jacobs' company were
old ones and furnished good food for the
flames. The heat was to intense that the
Norcross building, which was not Are
proof, was soon a solid mass of flames.
In a short time after the alarm was giv
en the walls of the Snook & Austin build
ing fell in arid a shower of sparks was
thrown on the roof of the Kimball house.
For three hours heavy pieces of timber,
furniture, carpets and mattings there
hurled through the air and on the tops
of buildings for blocks away. Firemen
watched those buildings and prevented
any serious damage to them.
The buildings across the street on the
east side of the viaduct were damaged
by the extreme beat and glass fell around
the firemen like hail.
It is hard to appreciate the terrible suf
ferings from extremes of heat and cold
endured by the firemen.
Those within the limit of the walls of
living fire were burned and blistered by
the terrific heat that came from the burn
ing buildings. Here it was almost impos
sible <o remain for any length of time.
The bitter cold and the water from the
hose left those standing on the outside
range covered with ice and almost frozen.
The wires that surrounded the scene were
covered with ice.
17 minersdeadTn’
BIG GAS TRAGEDY
♦ -
NEW YORK, Dec. 9.—The actinolite, an
apparatus for the treatment of cancer,
tuberculosis and similar diseases by
means of powerfully concentrated violet
rays, which was installed in one of the
apartments of Flower hospital last May,
does'not give encouraging results, accord
ing to Dr. Forbes.
The actinolite apparatus resembles a
powerful search light In appearance and
is used to produce a light which it was
hoped would possess all the curative prop
erties of the X-rays without their objec
tionable features. But while it does not,
as the X-rays do, burn the cuticle and
cause lose of hair from the face and scalp,
it appears also to lack their power of com
natting the germs or parasites which are
supposed to be the cause of cancer and
tuberculosis.
Dr. Forbes said that although the actin
olite had been somewhat beneficial in a
few cases of skin tuberculosis it had
proved totally ineffective against cancer
and he gave it as his opinion thst it was
prastically a failure. He said that the
hosp><.al had returned to the use of the
X-rays in the treatment of practically all
such diseases.
SHOT BAILIFF, WHO WAS
HIS OWN BROTHER
ANNISTON, Ala., Dec. 10.—A difficulty
occurred near DeArmanville yesterday,
which resulted in the shooting of Mr. Milo
Poland, by his brother. Bob Poland. The
facts of the shooting seem to be as fol
lows: Bob Polartd is the constable of
Beat 11, and went to the plantation of his
brother to execute a judgment upon prop
erty belonging to a tenant. His brother,
for some cause, was not pleased with the
proceeding and drew a shotgun. The bailiff
was prompt with a revolver and fired. An
arm of his brother was broken at the el
bow by the shot.
A shooting occurred near Cobb Town
Sunday afternoon, in which Henry Wilson,
a negro, was shot, from the effects of
which he died yesterday afternoon.
It is claimed by eye witnesses that the
shooting was done by one Will Johnson,
also a negro, and after he had been fired
on by Wilson. Another claim is that the
negroes had been in a crap game and that
a dispute had arisen between the men
when Wilson began firing at Johnson, sev
eral shots hitting his hat and clothing, but
none taking effect. Johnson returned the
fire and two bullets entered the side of
Wilson producing death yesterday. John
son has surrendered.
MILLEDGEVILLE MAY
PREFER PROHIBITION
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga., Dec. 9.—The
dispensary question, which has been up
permost in the minds of the citizens of
this county for some months is probably
settled for the present by the tabling of
the bill at Saturday night’s session of the
legislature. The opposition to a dispen
sary has been steadily growing for the
past several months until it is doubtful
now whether the bill would have been
ratified even if it had been passed by
the legislature. A number of anti-dispen
sary ites, with members of the W. C. T.
U., were in Atlanta last week and ap
peared before the temperance committee
of the house urging that the bill be re
ported unfavorably.
The majority of the citizens here are in
favor of giving prohibition a trial before
having a dispensary Instituted. One year's
trial of prohibition will enable Baldwin
county to vote more intelligently on the
dispensary question. At the next session
of the legislature. Representative How
ward will be guided by the sentiment of
the people, after a year’s trial of prohibi
tion. as to whether or not he will again
bring up the dispensary bill.
CHANGES ARE MADE
IN APPROPRIATIONS
MINE GBR BIGGER
BUT ALL WAGES
BEMMME
MINER TESTIFIES THAT TASK IS
MADE HEAVIER, BUT NO IN
CREASE HAS BEEN MADE
IN MINERS’ WAGES.
SCRANTON, Pa.. Dec. President
Mitchell, of the miners' union, who has
been in constant attendance at the hear
ings of the strike commission, was not
present today when the proceedings open
ed, having gone to New York to attend
the meeting of the civic federation. Mr.
Clark, who, as national president of the
order of railway conductors, is also a
member of the federation, did not go.
Immediately after the opening of the
morning session Chairman Gray said to
the lawyers of the companies and the min
ers that the statements of earnings, hours,
number of men employed and data of
kind should now be in the hands
of the commission. The commissioners,
he said, are very anxious to examine these
statements. Attorney James H. Torrey,
of the Delaware and Hudson, asked that
the witnesses of G. B. Markle & Co., be
asked to return for cross examination,
because none of the lawyers for the Mar
kle company were present. The commis
sion thought it was not. just to keep the
witnesses here.
The first witness called was George Kel
liher, a Markle employe, who was on the
stand Saturday. He said it used to be the
custom of the Markle employes to con
tribute SSO to the family of a man killed
in the mines and the men working would
lay off until the dead man was buried.
The Markies made a compact with the
workmen where they would pay the S6O
and the men remain at work. The witness
said the size of the mine car has steadily
been increased but the wages paid have
not been raised.
BURNER JAKE SMITH
• ASKS HANNA FOR HELP
WASHINGTON. Dec. S.-Senator Han
na is becoming the refuge of all officials
who have felt the white house axe.
The latest applicant for the shadow of
his protecting wing is General Jake Smith,
knowq Jo fame as the "jlsll Roaring
Jake," who was summarily retired by
the president last spring for the alleged
cruelty of his campaign In the Philip
pines.
General Smith has asked Senator Han
na to help him regain his standing In
the army and the Ohio leader has prom
ised aid.
It is understood that he will confer with
the president to find if the chief executive
would object to a bill creating a new gen
eralship in the army for General Smith.
All the places of that rank now being
filled, there will be no insists nee by Han
na, it is said, but he will merely ask the
president’s approval before making the
atttempt to create a new office.
General Rathborne, the Cuban postal
official, who was let out of jail by the
amnesty proclamation of President Pal
ma. is here asking Senator Hanna to ala
him in securing a congressional investiga
tion for the purpose of having his record
vindicated.
F 0 FREGWOGITY
DELEGATES MEET
IN DETROIT
NATIONAL RECIPROCITY CONVEN-
TION CONVENED TODAY WITH
ONE HUNDRED DELE
GATES ATTENDING.
DETROIT. Mich., Dec. 10.—“ We are
here for mutual profit; to get thoroughly
aroused over this question of reciprocity
so that we can go home and do some ef
fective work to bring about the recipro
cal relations that we want,” said N. C.
Staver, of Chicago, as ne took charge of
the National Reciprocity convention In
the Hotel Cadillac today after it had been
called to order.
There were present nearly 100 delegates
from the northern tier of states and sev
eral from Canada. F. D. Smith, of De
troit, president of the Detroit chamber
of commerce, called the convention to or
der. Mayor Maybury then welcomed the
delegates to the city.
H. C. Staver, of Chicago, chairman of
the board of directors of the National Re
ciprocity League, was then introduced as
the presiding officer of the different ses
sions.
"We are here,” he said, 'for the pur
pose of broadening the knowlelge of the
people on the subject of reciprocity. I
have no doubt that the manufacturers and
merchants of this country with the excep
tion of a very few, believe in reciprocity.
And I also have no doubt that when the
farming community and the public gen
erally get a further knowledge of re<fip
roclty, they too will be almost unani
mously in favor of it.”
SCHOOL FUND WAS
MADE UP YESTERDAY
Comptroller General Wright and the state
treasurer and state school commissioner met
yesterday and made up the amount of the
school fund for the year 1903, as required
by law.
This year the total school fund amounted to
$1,338,955. The fund as made up for negt
year amounts to $1,547,132 or an increase of one
cent and one-half for each child.
The following are the sources from which the
fund for next year will be derived:
Direct tax levy• ..-$ 800,000
Poll tax. including insolvent polls 273,830
Half rental Western and Atlantic R. R. 210,004
Ldquor tax... 147,500
Net hire of convicts 82.300
Net fees from Inspection of fertilizers.. 30.400
Net oil fees 4,300
Show tax 8.620
Dividends from Georgia RR. stock ... 2,046
Lease of oyster lands 80
T0ta151,547,10
NO. 26.
Senate Finished Wi t h
the General Appro
priation Bill
Yesterday.
The appropriation bill as passed by th«
senate yesterday makes the appropri
' ations good for two years instead of one,
as provided by the house, it appropriates
the public property fund now in the treas
ury for the payment of yie interest on the
public debt, restores the original appro
priation of the state sanitarium which
was $340,000 and which was- cut by the
house to $310,000, gives the Soldiers'
Home $15,000 instead of $18,500. and re
stores the contingent fund of the railroad
commission from S2OO to SBOO.
It also contains a provision that the co
lonial records of Georgia shall be reprint
eu and paid for from the sale of such
records. The amendment was offered by
Senator Howell and unanlmdusly passed.
At its morning session, the senate re
solved itself Into a committee of the
whole to consider the amendments to tbe
general appropriations bill which had been
reported back to the senate with numer
ous amendments.
Among the chief amendments was ths
one making the appropriation for two
years instead of one year, as provided by
the house.
The Soldiers’ Home, by vote of 18 to 21,
was given $15,000 for the next two years,
after considerable discussion. The house
had cut the appropriation to $12,500.
The number of porters in the senate was
down from five to three and in the
house from eight to five, while the num
ber of pages In the senate was Increased
from three to five.
The action of the house and the senate
committee was overruled in the appro
priation for the state asylum, which had
been fixed at $310,000, by raising it to $340,-
(XX), as provided for in the original bill.
In the house bill the salary of the resi
dent physician of the state sanitarium
was placed at $2,500, which sum was to
be paid out of money appropriated for
the support of that institution, but by act
of the committee from the senate, this
last clause was stricken from the bill.
The committee favored cutting the ap
piopriation of HO.OuO for :he eranch of th*
University of Georgia at Dahlonega to $7,-
500. This caused a hot fight on the floor '
cf the senate. Senators Perry, Ledford
and McMichael spoke in favor of main
taining the present appropriation of $lO,-
900, while Senator Skelton, from the 31st,
spoke in favor of the proposed cut. On a
vote of ayes and nays the senate allow
ed the appropriation to stand without
amendment.
For the branch cf the State university
lotted at Thomasville, and known as the
South Georgia Agricultural college, an ap
fm>rrla«on oY S?,TOO wtrnrraiw: on an
amendment offered by Senator Hopkins,
cf the 7th district, and on which the sen*
«to committee nad submitted a favorable
report. The provision was for the next
two years, and went through by almost
unanimous consent.
The appropriation of $20,000 for the Geor
gia state troops as made by the house
was trimmed down to SIB,OOO by tbe axe
of the committee from t!je senate.
At the conclusion of the session of the
senate Senator aPul Turner secured
the floor on a question of personal privi
lege and had the editorial which appeared
in The Journal of Tuesday on “The
Third House” read by the/Clerk.
He then made the following remarks
about the editorial:
"Mr. President—l desire at this time to
address myself to the senate of Georgia
with regard to the editorial published in
yesterday’s Journal. Now, Mr. President,
I submit that there are, perhaps, some
good reasons for this editorial. But I
say, sir, that the statements-that the lob
byists sit up with the legislature and in
and lout of the capitol are ever present
and endeavoring to influence the votes
of the of the general assembly is
a misstatement of the fact. k
”1 know of no lobbyist who has ever
approached me. or any member of the
senate of Georgia to influence his vote on
any pending measure. Now. Mr. Presi
dent, I submit, sir. that on the pending
franchise measure and occupation tax wo
had before us a number of distinguished
lawyers whom we had. through our chair
man, invited to be present and be heard.
“Now. Mr. President, as a member of
the finance committee, which has under
consideration these pleasures, I desire to
deny in toto the charges that the lobby
is so strong against these measures that
suspicion has already been cast, justly or
unjustly, upon the senate. Is there any
necessity for this suspicion? If so. why?
Has not the measure, the franchise tax,
already received a favorable report of
the committee? Personally. Mr. President,
I think this measure unwise, and I feel,
sir. that no person or newspaper has a
right to impugn my motives in this or
any other measure.
“In conclusion. Mr. President, I submit,
sir, that the editorial in question is not
consistent, as I know so far the past week
there have been in attendance on the sen
ate of Georgia for the purpose of defeating
certain proposed legislation three officials ,
and stockholders of The Atlanta Journal
Publishing company. If the representa
tion of interests affected by pending leg
islation is a crime, I respectfully submit
that The Journal clear its own house be
fore trying to purify the senate.”
COLQUITT SHERIFF~SHOT
BUT WILL RECOVER
COLQUITT, Ga., Dec. 9.—Friday morn
ing N. H. Stanton shot Sheriff John S.
Wilkin in the right shoulder, the ball
passing through the blade bone and caus
ing a very painful wound, but nothing
very serious. Had the bullet gone an
eighth of an inch lower, it would have
severed an artery and the man would
have bled to death before medical aid
could have reached him. The shooting
occurred in the barroom of Scott Broth-
Sheriff Wilkin and two of his friends
walked into the bar for some cigars.
When entering he saw Stanton in there
flourishing a pistol. Sheriff Wilkin, being
a peace officer, walked up to Stanton and
told him he must put up his pistol. This
angered Stanton who, using some very
strong words, walked away and the sher
iff with his friends walked up to the
counter for cigars.
While at the counter, Stanton shot the
sheriff. Then the sheriff turned and with
the assistance of several others took tbe
pistol from Stanton. Mr. Wilkins did
not realize the extent of the shot until he
went to take the pistol from the other
man. Stanton was taken to jail and Mr.
Wilkins was carried home for medical
treatment. Stanton was afterwards re
leased on a SI,OOO bond for his appearance
in April at the superior court.
Stanton claims that he was drunk and
does not remember anything about it.