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SOUTHERN RECORD SUCCESSOR TOC s te<t 1873.)
lieJ 1890. t
VOL. XXV.
J
HOUSE is DECIDEDLY AGAINST A
rOSSTITCTIONAt COSTBNTIOS.
house honors memory of crisp
A Brief Summary of Each Day's Pro¬
ceedings In the House ami
the Senate.
Mr Mi. Nevin’s Neun s bill bill for for a a constitutional »• ,
r ( ,n\rii ion < amt. up as t le special or-
(ler at 10 o’clock in the house Friday
and after much debate was commit- defeated
bv a large majority. The S
substitute *, tUntp providing nrnvidincr for f nr + ten delegates . ,'
to each congressional district aroused
more opposition than Mr. Kevin's bill
and helped to defeat it. 'i.
\r. iiiil’a i,;ii “ w P ° e '’• . ‘ t r T COdr J*
-
nimei s passed , with
amciH m . p v o to c , mg < 1 ry towns and
fy districts m wet counties. Speaker
Jenkins * ie i ban to support the
Mr. ,r Moore of , n Carrol „
won a pre-
liniinary gbt on his bill to tax surren-
3er values of life insurance policies,
in( m, ommitment of the bill was
reconsidered by more than seventy
votes, lie mating that the bill bus con-
stderable strength It was opposed
i>y Mr. Knowles, of I ulton, and Mr.
Pearce, of Houston.
Friday was a dull day in the senate.
Several important bills were intro-
uncoil, but the session was almost en-
tirely consumed in the transaction of
routine matters.
Senator Carter’s , denial of an inter-
view reflecting on Hon. Tom Watson
which was recently printed in the
Macou Telegraph, was the only inter-
eating incident of the session.
Thursday’s Proceedings.
The house honored the memory of
Charles Frederic Crisp Thursday by
voting $500 to pay for a life-size oil
portrait to be placed in tbe capitol.
The resolution spoke significantly of
“his services in defeating the infa-
inous force bill.”
A message was received from the
governor informing the general assem-
bly of the destruction of the negro
ward of the lunatic asylum, aud ask-
ing that the asylum committee of the
legislature meet the trustees at a called
meeting to be held at Milledgeville.
An effort to revive the omnibus pen-
sioxi bill, which was voted down by the
house on Wednesday, failed signally,
aud a bill to make penal the hiring of
misdemeanor convicts to private par-
ties shared a like fate.
Mr. Calvin’s bill making women eli-
gible as assistant physicians at the
lunatic asylum passed by a good ma-
jority.
The bill for the election of judges
and solicitors by the people w as fav¬
orably reported, and one for the re¬
peal of the registration act was re¬
ported adversely.
Among tlie new bills introduced
were were measures measures to to repeal iepea the tne registra- iwistra-
non law, to gt\e the railroad comnns-
snm authority to make schedules, to
a id $40,000 to the indigent pension
appropriaUon, to require juries to fix
) e mines where discretion is given by
1 aw, to hx the common school term at
six months, to establish the “w ire-
Kiass judicial circuit, to reduce jury
panels from 48 to 36, and to withdraw
tlie landseript and Morrill funds from
the university.
The senate held a very important
session Thursday. Senator Turner’s
anti-badge wearing bill, which was
passed Thursday was reconsidered and
a hard fight was precipitated by Mr.
Kilpatrick to secure the reeousidera-
tion of the hill for the benefit of church
aud educational property which also
•rr 1 a-nt
Ihe dental bill, establishing a board ,
o dental examiners, was passed and
other business of less important nat-
ure was transacted.
Senator Hopkins’bill providing foi
the election of judges«nd solicitors by
the people was made the special order
for next Friday.
Saturday in the House. •
.... hen the house convened Saturday ,
u
morning there were scarcely half the
members present. The first business
" us that of reading bills for the sec-
oud time, as there was no quorum
present. A large number of bills came
up for a second reading. The next
work was receiving reports of commit-
Only one -eport was deserviug ot
notice. That ™; h :“r in c°:^; ep
trom th . com c and
countv ed matters. This report was sign-
by four of the committee, and was
iu favor of the court house and county
*
soni **' 01 t DeKalb tv t- iu i ■*“* • Kt “ med • i m ; De t-, '
eatur.
Thirlv ti 3 , 1 nSrked
of confedemto soldiers may he
and provided L wHh tombstones as a re-
suit „ b T Lh,
house Theresolution 5 r was LJiLdfor by Mr.
Calvin appotofmenTof nfD-1 ^onfm^ston
tbe i f a ol
seven ’.G.nl ‘ / to * confer t wit -i+h lpcisla- g
tures oi
soldiers wh“ lie buried in unmarked
graves iu tae far north.
bwo bills were introduced which ii .
rassed will p i ac e very stringent re-
toi.tions around the street railways.
Behind the introuction of at least one
°f the bills mav be a scheme to secure
transfers iu A u anta Alayor Collier,
tbe advocate of the transfers, was on
the floor of the house for quite a while
berea around ihehonaelhat the major
* *
street
Vr. Togarty, of Uichmond, inLo-
t'ueed a very important bill whicl
exactly- fits tha present commercial
conditions in this country. The meas-
6 * S f n f e Qded to break the too
practice of firms breaking full
auded. So many firms aud business
Rouses have recently gone to the wa
ter making mortgages to members of
'he families of the members of the
f rms was > that necessary Mr - Fogarty to stop thought this. some
r Monday^sTproceedings.
fbe fight on the state university be-
€** iu the house Jenkin! Monday morning
w hen Speaker introduced a
^solution providing that the general
i A t i u m zt\% m
ter trustees bIy of s ir tv the ioint university ses8ion hear the the
cisms which have been on criti¬
management of made of the
that institution
| and ex-Gov^rno^R!™^ Blalock
^-W’ff’ he 0 "' agTicultliral fHDda
from F&li'Sr th ■■
5I "' o'
"*..'4%.^;;:''! 8 to
NfrR) ] e ari f g P ublic .^rvauts.
1 '■ a ‘ ock , ‘-eclared his willingness
£ siuted gl r*w that it rr be te done , es a in bearing committee ’ but of
hY be questioned 1?’ , re by members trustees of could
substitute the
is to that effect
? aS ?®f e P ted Speaker Jenkins, and
Rebate re8olu ceased. tl ? n the speaker
° a special . grew
message from the gov-
ernor, including a letter from Hon. N.
’ 1 ammond, president of the board
° 1Uhtees » asking a hearing. The
! goyeinor ur K ed the general assembly
° near the trustees at a time when a
j ’^attendance could be bad.
he remainder of the session was
devoted to the consideration of new
bills and other minor matters.
Monday morning’s session of the
8 ® nate A Z, af * °P eu ed by Senator Battle,
of the Twenty-fourth, asking a recom
j suleiation of the senate’s action Fri-
day on the house bill by Mr. Calvin
regulating the benefits of debentures
or redemption companies. He stated
as his reason for a reconsideration
Ciat the seriate journal does not dis-
close what amendments were made to
the bill or whether ! hey were adopted.
Gn motion of Senator Stewart the
bill was recommitted to the committee
on banks.
A message from the governor was
read stating that the trustees of the
university had written him a letter re-
questing an opportunity to explain to
the legislature their management of
the university.
The message was referred to the
committee on rules.
Tuesday's Proceedings.
The convict bill was up in the house
Tuesday as the special order, and the
fighton this important question is now
well under way.
Two substitutes were offered. One
of them is a straight lease bill, differ-
i»g only in detail from the present
lease system, except that it provides
for the election by the people of tbe
principal keeper of the penitentiary,
This substitute comes from Mr. Stone,
of Walton. The other substitute is
the Hall bill, which reflects the senti-
inent of tbe present administration,
and looks towards a reformation of the
lease system.
The fight did not progress far dur-
ing the day. The house weut into a
committee of the w hole to consider the
measure, which it was proposed to
take up section by section. The house
got no further, however, than the first
section. The matter w r ent over until
Wednesday and the ,, house , took , up the ,,
consii era ion o other matters.
bin^oJffbd^o^e 8 bv Mr ‘state W«r uni’-
of Lowndes, providing for
formity in school books and for a book
commission commission, The me hill mu is is in in line line wnn with
the minonty leport of Mr. Beauchamp.
Air. Hill, of Troup, wants to increase
the revenue of the State university by
charging tuition and introduced a bill
to that effect
In the senate, Tuesday, Mi. xr Cal- r i
vin s resolution for the appoint-
ment of a commission to mark
soldiers’ graves in the northern states
was taken up on motion of Senator
Blalock and unanimously passed.
The following bills were also passed:
Making Stafford’s almanac legal evi-
deuce from 1400 to 2000; to create a
new charter for the tow n of Lyons; to
abolish the city court of Coffee county;
to establish the city court of Douglas;
to provide for the validation of bonds;
the ’possum bill, requiring county
-t * se, ‘ “ d
useit on tea(> herslicense
The senate, after a In ely discussion
decided to invite itself to attend the
hearing given the university trustees,
and, in order to show its independence, the
changed the hour at which hearing
was to be hold,
llal Lewis Honored.
Hon. Hal T. Lewis, of Greensboro,
b&g been a p po inted by Gov. Atkinson
8npreme court.judge to succeed Judge
g pencer p. Atkinson, who resigned to
ft0Cept a p i aee 0 n the Georgia state
raitr o ad commission,
. pbe appo i n tment of Colonel Lewis
a surpr i se a ll round, but it seems
tbflt p} overnor Atkinson has long con¬
templated the appointm* nt of Mr.
T *• • tbe even t that Judge Samps
=«*"
“/“he governoMhat he could the not ac-
cep * tb e P proff, re 1 seat upon su-
preme bench, _, and a. tbe ° Governor at onc«
Mr r Leww^ T •
determined to nppomt
Colouel Lew is was not
bis 8 PP olut “ ien un *‘
terao <? n He atoUie decided to ac
’
eept the place. a
BONDS roNDsTsSECURITY. jAS_
Gage xvm sign over Nin. Then-
gecretarv Them.
*»nd of
W T ashinwton dispatch says: Sec-
afrom,ba X. ;
tional City bank of New York *9,600,
COO in United States bonds as secury
for a part of the L nion with it
C hase money to be deposited with n
aud other New York hanhs
preventing a contraction of the «r
culation by reason of the withdrawal
the reorganization committee of
bT their bid for the Union
t h e amount of
Pacific road. *13 „ 61ic 250 2=0 , in a
Tl.c tranafer of. .ho
pond, m Qage
Sns\de.wbl. * lahof.
' finTwiSST VASE
MAMJATb---
Supreme coart-wm Haste.
* By
Hanging.
dispatt-U ^
' * Washington Attorney General General
on of Ass j s tant
the supreme com ■ a on .
* udersOU immediate y -
deoided the to issue Unrrant murue ' ^ ’
date j n representative of Durian .
-
motion was ^ ’ *
couj . fc wben the hurried ion
court after a con-
t he bench, jounced thimigh
on the Fuller that tft
Chief Justice issne.forthwith -V
J should ■ - t
j and *>n thinks hasten 1 J
TOCCOA, HABERSHAM COUNTY. GA., FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 19,18;»7.
W °”* ° P P0St ° FF ,CE
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Mt:>T F0R PAST T ®AB.
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some interesting deductions
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In T 1>eta11 and Some
important Chang...
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The annual report 6P ° ri °* of Poatmimtov P ®«tma 8 te»
General Gary, covering the operation,
of the department for the fical year
ending June 30, 1897, contains publicTl much
that is of interest to the
large g '
' -the special feature of the report il
the postmaster general’s discussion of
the subject of postal savings denosito-
ries. General Gary is an earnest ad*
vocate of hTs such ideasTt depositories and he
, elaborates Wh
' There
j are several other matters of
public interest in the postmaster giftog een-
eral’s report. He begins by
j statistics showing the work Thews "done recants hv
the department. This
j from all sources *82 665 462 73 and
j expenditures of $94 077 242.38.
This shows a deficit of $11 411 -
! 779.65. In explaining the deficit *
General Gary says:
“The increase of the postal deficit
for 1897 is largely a reflex of the de-
pressed business conditions which pre*
vailed all over the United States dur-
ing the first three quarters of that pe-
riod. There has been no extravagance
of expenditures, except that rendered
obligatory bylaw.
The abuses that have grown up un-
der the second-class matter provisions
of the law are treated at some length.
“The injustice inflicted both upon
the postal revenues and the people by
existing laws regulating tbe carrying
represented of second-class mail TonwesB matter Ras enortl Been
epiesentea to to congress in in reports
out Th"^"JtiuS* efl'eot ii- remedial of lecielation tlS department ”
show that there has been an increase
ill woio-Lt of H,; a A.-oeU. n i
matter of from 143 000 000 rounds in
1888 to 365,000,000 pounds in 1897.
This means a loss on transnortatinn P
alone of ^°8 000 000
The postmaster general adds-
“It is 8 impossible to continue the
present
transportation without eventually
swamping the revenues of the postal
service.
On this subject, the postmaster gen¬
eral says:
“Of the 914 postofllces and stations
in the United States 240 were in gov-
eminent buildings at the end of tha
fiscal y ear< and about twenty addi-
tional public buildings 4™ were nearing h?
“"i”*'’ ^ occupied
Sfo? sT 8 000* e 1^\«Xd
and thirtv-two tnirty w° postofllces postomces and and stations stations
and , au b- s tations are in leased build-
i n g S> the rental amounting to nearly
aohn 000 a rear
There were 28,000 ’ letters mailed last
year without an addre9S whatsoever.
The daily record of dead letters haa
averaged 20,000 for every business day
ln the year. More than $30,000 was
tak en from misdirected letters, but
$23,000 of this finally reached its des-
tiuation through the efforts of the
department. These figures do not in-
elude drafts, checks, notes, deeds, and
so f or t bi which represented a total
value exceeding $896,000.
Rural Mail Delivery,
On the subject of free rural delivery,
“ if J^ S'i.w P ^Crural df aT(oni tHnt«aJmI ,; m .
8
This ee rvice commenced in October,
lg96> baa been carried on for a year
geleeted routeg in twenty-nine
8 dte ’ ndt nch conditions ° ^ as a to X
give tbe experiment the fairest and
fullest test. Congress placed $40,000
at tne disposal of the department for
this purpiose in the fiscal year 1896-97,
and provided $50,000 fora continua-
tion of the experiment during the
present fiscal year. It would difficult
to point to aiiy like expenditure of
public money which nas been more j
generously appreciated by the people,
or which has conferred greater bene¬
fits in proportion to the amount 1
ex¬
pended.
SOVEREIGN IS AMBITIOUS.
AB *
The Louisville Courier-Journal in
its issue of Sunday morning, under
the caption “Sovereign’s Vaulting Am-
hitinn ” «avs-
sccret is oal at last . j.
R goverein the retiring general mas-
ter workman of the Knights of Labor,
resigned his position in order that he
misht push his candidacy for president
of “While United States it is said iu that 1900. Mr. Sovereign j
aud the Hon. W. J. Bryan are on toe
friendliest terms, the supporters of
yjr. Sovereign ,1, sav he will make every
j Bryan ff„ rl to seeks to secure fh. pnve -hiah Mr
LODGE LOSES CHARTER.
ReguIt of the Inltlation of
Bobert Fitzsimmons.
^ from Harrisburg, Pa.,
Grand Euler Meade Detweller
. 8nspend ed the Marion,
- and forwarded the
^ of Elks
capers 1,^, to District Deputy Armstrong,
atale , autUol ,, mg Wm tosccnrc
the charter, paraphernalia and lodge
ThS action was due to the alleged
vW method fif of of mutating thela^of Robert Fitzatm
me ns.
MACHINERY FOR COAL MINING
ToTa-e - T
win 3«--n Prob I> 1 ^ 1,- V ^^* a ^ strike ke Among K
( IM
T iio s
*>i2rators , , Chattanooga savs:
The at the Cross Mountain
co-.u. /• t. - t , a. a T.xPiL-o region are
^
TJ cial electrical apparatus
mini 1 ' and have notified the
men. nipn that that wy thev will . then only • be paid L
“ at fo load g .
stvi’.e. the men say, will
^ ^mediav’y auer the introduc* i
^ ^
Devoted to Southern Progress and Colonization.
COTTON GROWERS TO MEET.
'Will Assemble In Force at Atlanta, Ga.,
December 13.
A special from Columbia, S.C.,says:
SlXgo? th”o.!ZLnonhe” tloa
growers of the southern states in At-
tS :
taken at that time. President Wil-
born,of the farmers’alliance,president
of the state convention, is confident
that the gathering in Atlanta will be A
most representative one. The follow-
ing was issued Monday:
“By direction of the South Carolina
Cot ton GrowelV Conve ntion, which
assembled in Columbia, November 10,
1897.-I hereby call upon every cot-
ton grower and cottoi each person interested
in Poncing to assemble at
their respective county courthouses on
the first Monday of December for the
purpose of effecting a permanent or-
ganization to join in with the other
southern states in taking such action
as vrill enable the cotton growers to in
Some way better control the produc-
tion and sale of the cotton crop of the
south and in some measure obtain the
ful1 market value of this great staple
cro P’ C - Wibbobn,
“ Pres - S. C. Cotton Growers’ Associa-
tion -”
^ r - Wilborn fears that the cotton
growers in the various states will not
bay e time to meet and elect delegates
to re P resent them at the convention
because of the nearness of the date
appointed, and he will ask Governor
Ellerbe to write a personal letter to
each of the governors of the other
southern states, asking them to ap-
P° iut tw o delegates at large aud one
from eacb congressional district in
tbeir respective states.
Governor Ellerbe, it is understood,
W B1 write these letters at once. The
Sey eral governors will be asked to ap-
P oiu t men who are directly concerned
in tbe mat t e r, and such men only.
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ERADICATE THE GERM.
Unc,e Sam Wi!1 Ta,te a IIand ln the Work
of Disinfection.
,eVOT cpiaemic
!" ^ ‘E 18 counlr ^ y i as lle ** « u brought prac-
?
hospltaI Se ;''
vice at Washington is preparing to
b<?gin a P ost ' e P ide “ io crusade for the
P ur Pose of preventing a recurrence of
th e contagion next year.
The officials of the bureau will eo-
operate with the health authorities of
the various states affected in conduct-
i Lm TLeeSansiJof T
foothold. o The cleansing of all infect-
ed cities will be ur g ed and eaeh house
in which there was a case of fever will
be thoroughly fumigated.
POSTPONEMENT OF AUTONOMY.
Blanco's Decree Will Not Be Published
Till November 25th.
The Madrid SiaudlZa^ correspondent of tbe
Loudou
„.“ At ® e of M«.l»l Blanco,
government has postponed to the
2oth of November the publication of
the decrees of autonomy for the West
Indies This is with h a ^ view e of ot ga eazet-
+• ind of^aJtowin^MftrJhal^Blanco n +t ^^ . , ., . toe
theinsurgents.andtocompletethere-
organization of the colony
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TO CONSTRUCT NIAGARA CANAL,
Government Asked to Set Aside Money
Received For Kansas Pacific.
The trustees of the San Francisco
chamber of commerce have adopted
a resolution asking toe government to
set aside the money obtained from the
payment of the debts of the Union
Central and the Kansas Pacific rail¬
roads, toe fund to be applied to the
construction of the Niagara canal.
The government w r as also asked to
establish a patrol of the Yukon river
and to station two additional artillery
regiments at San Francisco.
MERRY COMES HOME.
Our Minister to Nicaragua Gets Summons
by Telegraph to Return.
Captain W. L. Merry, of San Fran-
emeo, . who . was appointed • . i by , President -r> • i
months ago as nunis-
ter to Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Sal-
vador, is in Washington. Because of
representations made to this govern¬
ment by the Central American states,
Captain Merry never entered upon the
duties of his office.
ORDERS FOR ENGINES.
°~
The Baldw in locomotive works at
Philadelphia have in the past few days
booked orders tor fifty-six locomotives.
The orders include twenty-one loco-
mo ,ive 8 for the government elate rail-
way of Finland, the first order of any
magnitude that has ever been placed
in this country from that country ;
Another order is for twenty-four
broad guagei locomotives for the gov- j
ernment of Brazil, while the third or-
der is from the Grand Trunk railway
of Canada and is for ten locomotives,
All of these orders call for the comple-
^ n of , h e eagmes bj
Januaiy, I.c..
CELEBRATION CALLED OFF.
No Demonstration i« T M.dnd . To Honor
■
" ey,ersKet " rQ ’
A special . from .Madrid says.^ Gen-
eral Stewart L. Woodfoid the United ^
States minister, had a conference Sun-
da y with Seuor Marat .the minis er (
tbe Col °J- 1 J?;. “ d
*“*•££**»« o. the export of f
to / /
c orJing t0 , di5patch from Cor- :
"tnfcthe partisans of Lientenant Gen-
^
a „ iral of the Moalserrat ,
INSURGENTS DYNAMITE A TRAIN.
a Dozen People Reported Killed In The
wreck Which Resulted
Advices from Havana stato that the
insurgenst dynamited and derailed a
train running between Nuevitas, the
port of Puerto Principe, and the City
of Puerto Pritcipe, capital of theprov-
ince of that name. The force cf the
explosion overturned the engine, de-
stroyed several ears, killed the engi-
***** ^man and ten other perspns
and injured twenty-eeven.
ID BID BIS UNIVERSITY.
PROJECT FOR FULFILLMENT OF
GEORGE WASHINGTON’S WISH.
MUTTER TAKING DEFINITE SHAPE.
j
Prominent Women of America Are En¬
listed In the Movement and
W ill Carry It Through.
A Washington special savs: The oft
: agitated question Wain T of establishing ? “? in “
j the city c tv of of Washington a great national
j unnersity on the lines suggested by
President Washington, has at last
! taken more detinitp form than in the
past, and a number of representative
! men and women have taken hold of
'the project with a determination to
push it to a successful conclusion if
possible. They have started out iu a
| practical manner by seeking to raise
| the first $250,000 necessary for the
j erection of an administration build-
mg to form the nucleus of the univer-
sity and hope to be able to lay the
corner stone on February 22, 1899.
Their P ur Pose in the interim is to
urge the matter continuously on the
attention of women all over the coun-
try. They intend likewise to interest
all the school children in the work.
As a first stop for awakening interest
in the undertaking they will assemble
in convention in Washington December
14 to decide on ways and means for
arousing public sentiment. Among
those who have initiated the movement
to fulfill Washington’s wish are Mrs.
Phoebe .Hearst, of Washington; Mrs.
Ellen A. Richardson, of Boston; Mrs.
Clara R. Anthony, Miss Rachel How-
land, Miss Louise Thicker and Mrs.
Edmond Anthony, Jr., of Massachu-
setts; Mrs. T. S. Boyd, of Georgia;
,{ 13 ’ J°h ^ \ n Iv. Goodloe, of of ^ ew Kentucky; Jersey;
NLs. II. II. Adams, Connecticut; Mrs,
C. S. Brice, Ohio; Mrs. Eugene Hale,
Blaia Mrs David Starr Jordan .F.S.'Sbbarf^ Dr Obarlntto
Brown, Mr.
Miss Caroline Jackson, of California.
ton, . “’T chief E ( " organizer en A : Kic of S‘ ar the , d8 °"' movement, ° f Bo9 '
writing of the plans, said:
“The patroitic ladies of America are
to build the administration building,
and they propose to make the 22d of
February;1899,thenation’slirst offer-
ing for this purpose, asking no large
contributions, begging nothing. Amer-
!P'“ gl W> , ### mo ' ^ ### l “ ant «T ’ pto If. I ^ 30,000,-
non 000 children vn in the public schools of
Arae rica would give an offering of one
penny each on Washington’s birthday
they would raise a sum sufficient to
erect the build and endow 8 it. Let us,
then, join hands and have an Ameri¬
can university, American science and
American ideas for Americans.”
Mrs. Richardson further stated that
she had arranged with the proper au¬
thorities that the bureau of engraving
and printing shall produce certificates
which will be given to those who con¬
tribute to the movement.
EXPEKTS REACH AGREEMENT
By Which the Bering Sea Question Will
Be Adjusted.
A Washington special says: The
Bering sea meeting, in which repre¬
sentatives of Great Britain, Canada
and the United States have partici¬
pated, came to a close Tuesday night,
the seal experts making a unanimous
report concerning thexondition of the
seal herds, and the diplomatic repre¬
sentatives of the respective govern¬
ments reaching an uderstanding by
which they hope at a later day to effect
final adjustment, not only of the Ber¬
ing sea question, but of other pending
border controversies!’
For the present, however, no final
action was taken as to the suspension
of pelagic sealing,
The Canadians urged that other
questions be embraced in any plan of
settlement, and suggested an interna¬
tional commission to accomplish this
end. This proposition was fully dis¬
cussed, and an agreement reached
that the Canadian officials would put
their views in writing after returning
to Ottawa and submit them to the
authorities here. All parties con¬
cerned say that the outlook is favora¬
ble to a satisfactory adjustment.
The agreement of the experts brings
the governments together for the first
time on all the facts relating to the
seals.
SETH LOW HOLDS ON.
Columbia College Will Still Retain Him
a# Its President.
AK „ Yorkspeoia ,, ays:m<BSeth
Lo-’ decided to become the candidate
of The citizens union for mayor oi
New York he sent his resignation as
president L of Columbia college ‘ to the
a rJ of trnateea.
The latter, at their last meeting, de-
cide d to lay the matter of President
Low’s resignation over until the next
monthly meeting, which was held
Monday.
The committee, of which Rev. Dr.
Morgan Dix was chairman, decided
nottoaccepttheresignationaudre-
quested Mr. Low to withdraw it. To
,Ua Preset Low co— .
TflE COTTON YIELD.
An Approximate Representation of the
Crop’s Condition.
Prehminai-y reports to the statisti-
ciau . of the Department of Agriculture
mdicate an average yield of 181.9
pounds of cotton per acre. The prim
cipal state averages are as follows:
^ 0 / t ^ Car0ima ’-J 8 \’/5 0Uth
184; ft Georg.a, 1,8: Alabama, loo. Mrs-
sissippi, 220: Louisiana, 245; Texas,
i 65: Ark.tteaa, 215; Tennessee, 182;
Oklahoma, 225; Indian Territory, 300.
picYVi V^’el itt
weather having been highly favorable.
RATIFIES POSTAL TREATY.
McKinley i-ign# Document Which Goei
Into Effect in 1899.
The final act on the part of this
government in the ratification of the
treaty adopted by the recent universal
postal congress was taken at Washing-
ton Tuesday when President McKin-
ley signed the formal convention or
treaty, and Secretary of State Sher-
man had tne government sea! affixed.
The treaty takes effect January X,
1899.
f INDIANS
LYNCHED.
They Were Charged With Murder of the
Spicer Family,
A special from Bismarck, N. D. says:
Alexander Coudot, Indian half breed,
Paul Holytraok and Philip Ireland,
full blooded Indians, the first of whom
was sentenced to death for the mur-
der of six members of tbe Spicer fam-
the latter two self-confessed aecesso-
ries in the murder, were taken from
£;r 8 s,i,*r coun,rSat
The lynching had been apparently
coolly planned aud was carried out
w ithout a break in the program.
Williamsport, where the hanging %T
news of the hanging wasJecehed Sun-
dav afternoon when a mounted mes-
senger arrived and announced that the
three men had been lynched.
The sheriff of the county, Peter
Shier, was in Bismarck at the time the
haugiug occurred. The men had beeu
in the custody of Deputy Sheriff Tom
Kelly, and they were taken from his
control by a mob and hanged to a beef
windlass several hundred yards from
the jail, where their bodies were left
swinging to the breezes during tbe
day.
There were about fortv men con-
cerned in the lynching. They rode
into Williamport on horseback late at
night and tethered their horses a short
difJauce fro m tke d i? , ,U, the,
might secure them again alter the
dee,I was doue. The jail in which the
prisoners were confined is a substan-
tial stone structure.
RECEIVER NOT NIEDED.
Southern Home B. & E. Makes Satis¬
factory Showing.
The application for receiver made
by Alabama stockholders in the South¬
ern Home Building and Loan associa¬
tion of Atlanta was denied Saturday
by Judge Pardee in the court of ap¬
peals.
The restraining order granted No¬
vember 10th, was, at the same time,
dissolved.
The show ing made by the associa¬
tion’s attorneys convinced the court
there Avas not sufficient ground for a
receivership. There was no proof that
the company is insolvent. On the
other hand, the company presented
affidavits showing they were not only
perfectly solvent, but had a large sum
in the treasury. The Southern Home j
Building and Loan Association count
the decision a great victory.
The plaintiff’s attorneys failed sig¬
nally to prove the company was insol¬
vent. Their main charge was mis¬
management, This, Judge Pardee
ruled, was no grounds for receivership,
but for injunction. If the prosecu¬
tion had brought forth sufficient evi¬
dence showing that the association is
insolvent, the result might have been
different. Another ground for the
ruling was that there were no judg¬
ments involved in this case against the
company.
MUST HAUL LIQUOR.
Important Dgcision Kendered In “Origi¬
nal Package” Case at Atlanta.
The Southern Railway Company
will be compelled to haul the goods of
Bluthenal & Bickart, the Atlanta w his¬
ky dealers, into South Carolina.
Judges Pardee and Newman, of the
United States court at Atlanta, Ga.,
handed down a decision in this fa¬
mous dispensary case Saturday morn¬
ing enjoining the Southern from re¬
fusing to haul such goods in future.
The decision is an important one in
that the original package law is in¬
volved. The judges decided that liq¬
uors and wines in bottles, packed in
boxes and shipped in carload lots were,
under the laws of South Carolina,clear¬
ly admissible, and should be handled
by any railroad.
The case has attracted considerable
attention throughout the south, and
the decision will largely affect the sale
of Atlanta goods in South Carolina in
the future.
HAYTI BORROWS LARGE SUM.
Our Minister to That Country Reports i
Conclusion of a Loan of 84,000,000.
The United States minister to Havti j
reports from Port au Prince that the
Haytian government has concluded a
loan for $4,000,000, through Lazard
Brothers, New York, at 9 per cent, to
be delivered immediately; the paper
currency to be destroyed, the fractional
Bilver and copper coin to be recoined
in the mints of the United States.
TWO BIG CITIES INNOLVED. I
Over Seven Million Acres of Band In Dis¬
pute in Minnesota.
An immense claim, embracing 7,000,•
000 acres of land in the northwest
and including tbe cities of Minneapo¬
lis and St. Paul, was brought before
Commissioner Harmann of the general
land office at Washington Tuesday
and the assistance of tie government
in securiug official data was called for.
The claimants are C. B. Holloway,
of Holland, O., and A. U. Gunn, of
Maumee, O. They are now making
an examination of the general land
office records Avith a vieAv to securing
copies of certified papers, which they
assert wil 1 establish their title to the
lands claimed by them.
TUBE MAKERS COMBINE.
Company With a Capital of S5,000,000 Or¬
ganized for Business.
burg, The which Shelby Tube incorporated company at under Pitts- J
was
the laws of Pennsylvania October 28th,
, 189/, or ._ was organized Saturday. _ , The __
capital stock is $5,000,000.
The new concern will manufacture j
iron and steel weldless tube. It will
ply the entire American trade as well
as a good part of the European con- ;
sumption.
THE TOWN NEARLY RUINED.
Twenty-Eight Store* and the Dispensary
Burned At Kerahaw, S. C.
Earlv Sunday morning the town of
Kershaw was almost laid in ruins by a
fearful conflagration which originated
in a bakery. Twenty-eight stores
were destroyed, eight of which were
emptv. The town dispensary was al-
so burned. Loss over $100,000; in-
suranee, one-third. The dispensary
and original package stores are a total
loss.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES: S1.00 A YEAR.
JURY WAS QUICK IN MAKING UP
THEIR DECISION.
NARROWLY
-
Jury Waa Allowed To visit scene of Mur-
--
~
The trial . , of , ^ alter 0 , at At-
lanta on the charge of having shot
ma killed Pa “ J T -
^ Wednesday morning
a!ul he has beeu foimd uwt a » d
released.
sensation unlooked for occurred
when the court was called to order,
and for a time it looked as though
Judge Candler would declare n
trial; iu fact, be so announced bis
intention, but after tbe strongest of
arguments from the attorneys for tbe
defense be decided to allow the trial
to proceed
The sensation came when immedi-
ately after court was called to order
Judge Anderson, of the counsel for the
prosecution, called the attention of
Judge Candler to the fact that the murdeV jury
had visited the scene of the
»*?“'! No one had spoken ‘“STf to any member ,
of jury he sai.l and ihe part,- had
simply walked bv the place and noth-
ing had been said al.ont the killing or
the trial of O'Quinn.
When this had been done Judge
Candler said: ••Gentlemen, I see no
reason why I should not declare a
mistrial - , • , this rr,, The truth , of e
in case.
the ,, entire .. matter hinges upon that .
locality. This is an outrageous thing
and I do not see how I can keep from
declaring a mistrial.
“The jury, I suppose, did not know
what it was doing and intended no
wrong, but such a thing as this is un¬
heard of.
“I attach no blame to any one and
if there is to be ^lame it must rest up¬
on me, I suppose. Tbe jury asked
for permission to take exercise and I
granted it without telling the officers
not to go near the scene of the killing.
Notwithstanding all this, at the re¬
quest of O’Quinn’s attorneys, the jury
was allowed to visit Stineau’s place
aud inspect the premises. On their ;
return the trial proceeded. At 111
o’clock the state announced closed, !
and then a consultation was held be- I
tween the attorneys for both sides, j
and then one followed between all of
the attorneys and Judge Candler.
Judge Candler, when this confer¬
ence had ended, said to the jury that
the attorneys had decided that as the
points at issue were entirely of fact, !
had decided to submit it without argil-,
ment. He then proceeded to deliver
i his . charge . which i-i brief i aud i i. to ii the !
° w as
point.
Tbe jury retired at exactly 11:17,
and soon returned a verdict of not
guilty.
Louis Steinau aud Julius Simon,
who w’ere arrested at the same time
O Quinn waa and charged , with ... being , . , .
accessories, were allowed to sign their
own bonds in the sum of 81,000 each.
COUDOT WAS INNOCENT.
i
Chief Justice Declares Eynchers Made
Horrible Mistake.
“An innocent man was hanged by
lynchers at W idiamsport, was the j
startling statement made at Grand
Forks, N. D., by Chief Justice Cor-
liss of the state supreme court. “I
have documentary evidence to prove
the statement, continued the judge.
“Ihe supreme court ordered a new
trial in Coudot’s case because it ap-
peared that be was convicted on tbe
uncorroborated evidence of Hollytrack
and Ireland, both of whom confessed
to taking part in the murder of the
Spicer family, and whose statements
were refuted by the strong alibi testi-
mony given by Dr. Ross, the resident
agency physician at Standing Rock.
FIXING FREIGHT RATES.
Board of Control of .loint Traffic Associ-
at ion in Session at -\ew Fork.
Th : board of control of the Joint
Trafiic Association was in session at
New York Tuesday. Among the sub-
jects discussed was that of passenger
and freight rates east aud west bound
wkicli have been iua chaotic condition
for some time.
NEW YORK’S HORSE SHOW.
A Great Society Event at the Metropolis
Opens.
A New York dispatch says: The
entertainment on tbe first night of the
thirteenth annual exhibition of the
New York horse show opened with a
parade of stallions, which was wit¬
nessed by very few, indeed, of the so¬
ciety folks hereabouts.
While the animals were being led to
their quarters tbe boxes began to fill
with late comers and there were about
300 people in the first tier of boxes
when the saddle horses began their
performances. There were twenty-
six throughbreds iu this class and
they looked extremely pretty.
RELIEF FOR WHALERS.
Secretary Gage Will Use Big Herd of Rein¬
deer for Kegcue.
Secretary Gage has requested the
secretary of the interior to instruct
the Alaskan officials to gather about
600 head of reindeer from the govern-
ment , herds , , for , the of the expedi- . -
use
tion for the relief of the ice-bound
whalers m the Arctic. It is expected
that the Bear, which is now at Seattle,
expected that she will be engaged for
for the six hundred-mile overland trip
to Point Barrow.
SHAW WILL SWING.
Fate of the Georgia Train Wrecker Set-
t,ed '* y * tate supreme Court.
The Georgia supreme court handed
down a decision Monday affirming the
ruling of the lower court in the case
of Tom Shaw, of Twiggs county, who
wrecked a railroad train near Jeffer-
for the purpose of causing the
death of his wife, who was on the
train, thereby securing -money for
which her life was insured.
NO. 1.
CLARA LEFT PENNILESS.
Fatlier-in-Law of “Cord” Bereiford Drop#
Dead From Worry.
Alexander Pelkey, father-in-law to
Lord Beresford, dropped dead on the
streets at Fitzgerald late Thursday
afternoon from heart disease. Two
I years ago Mrs. Pelkey died of con-
riL/ff a aft 7 ^ °fv sensational °? 7 mar-
’
•
i^ J 118 wU, » glT ff hl9 f ?J’
tune, and.that received . from his wife
^ his only brother at W esterly Rhode
with the request that he pro-
she still follows in his career of crime,
ntt ^ly unable to break the magnetic
8 P^ 1 ara baa a over ^ e next ber ; year and
^ J, ou Bbe ^ d hav bad « ‘nherited , met / both ad fortunes be fo. r o
^ power of kidney Lascelles. Mr.
7 Pe,k f/ baS Sp ® at the past
^nths Lord defending , ,. the . law suits which
B oeesford has caused by c aim-
l " g io b f a of Mr. Pelkey.
1116 . laSF *' compromised the
' SU1 waa
da Y preceJing bi 3 deatb * Jhe other
? Ults '! ere a11 diaml88ed . ^ the late
° C ' lr ’, at jourue .
Pelkey p | l s family and connections
,* re a Q ua ers an ) er Y. S oot
J*®'. . r got , . “ore trouble on his
£ 1
, - . hemonrned'tehis,‘laugh- -n, ■ .
. ler '“ , U, ? m iii h ? “ . , YTUT , - v,.
', 1 8, nc ? E*' B f? ford M r
'
. ^ B .
t'™ th smee Clara f en got mto thcclutchcs
° B oresford. He worried very much
about Clara and this marriage ° caused
, his • death. , Beresford actions .. killed , ,
s
him, but he will not get a cent of the
money.
The Pelkey fortunes at Fitzgerald
and in Rhode Island, since Mr. Pel-
key’s recent losses, will not exceed
$100,000. Mr. Pelkey’s will, in which
all of his property was left to his
brother, was executed on the 23d of
last June, immediately after he was
acquainted with the true character of
his son-in-law. Pelkey was fearful,
so he stated at the time, that Lasc: lies
would have him murdered in order to
get possession of the money.
WHISKY MEN INDICTED.
Fulton County Grand Jury Charges Them
With Murder of Fonder.
Friday morning, at Atlanta, Ga., the
Fulton county grand jury found bills
of indictment for murder against Wal¬
ter O’Quinn, Louis Steinau and Julius
Simon, charged with killing Patrol¬
man J. T. Ponder.
The grand jury began the iuvestiga-
J ion at 10 ^^°’ clock aI ? d wa3 “ 8ession
? or httnd three 1b hours. he det All ctlv of , the ^Pa^ent testimony
m ? * °
was not introduced , and several wit-
nesses summoned , were allowed ,, , to . go
without being heard.
The indictment returned was as fol¬
lows:
“In the name aud behalf of the citi¬
zens of Georgia, we charge and accuse
Walter O’Quinn, odue L. Steinau and Julius
si oud Btate afore .
offense of murder, for
)Uat th „ , aM Walter O’Quinn, L.
Steinau and Julius Simon in the
county aforesaid ou the eighth day of
jfovembes, in the year of our Lord,
eighteen hundred ond ninety-seven,
-with force and arms, did unlawfully
and with malice aforethought kill and
murder one Zb J. Ponder by shooting
b j m a pistol. The said Walter
O’Quinn being then and there the ac-
tor or perpetrator of said crime, and
sa j d j,,, Steinau and Julius iimon
being present, aiding and abetting in
tbe perpetration of said offense con-
trary to the law of said state, tbe good
or der, peace and dignity thereof.”
INDIANS ARE FOREIGNERS,
According to a Baling In United States
' Court at Chattanooga.
In a decision handed down by the
United States court ot appeals at Chat¬
tanooga, Friday, in a case from the
western district of North Carolina, it
has beeu virtually declared that the
members of the eastern hand of Cber-
okee Indians are not citizens of the
United States.
The decision of the court is that the
band has no right to make any con-
tract whatever without the sanction of
the United States government.
FLOODS IN SPAIN.
Towns Inundated and Many People ara
Drowned.
A special from Madrid says: Farther
details regarding the floods in various
parts of Spain, notably to the pro¬
vinces of ‘ Saragossa, Valencia aud
Malaga, where railroad traffic and tel¬
egraphic communication have been se¬
riously interfered with, show that
fifteen corpses have already been re¬
covered.
In the neighborhood of Valencia
enormous numbers of cattle have per¬
ished and the villages of Grao and
Nazareth have been completely inun¬
dated.
Many of the houses of those places
have collapsed.
LEE VISITS BLANCO.
Our Consul Is Received Verv Courteously
At Havana.
Ge ^e?al ^Fitzhng^ Lee 6 plid official
vigits Monday to Marshal Blanco, the
governor general; General Pando, who
has been assigned by Marshal Blanco
tQ conduct the mi j itarv operations in
the field> and ^ enor j ose Congosto,
new secre t ary g ene ral of Cuba.
J'jzszz&sszza | sed himself well
seqnent y expres as
s;atiafied witb the re5U lts of the inter¬
y j ew
RAISED TOBACCO DUTY.
Appraiser Wakeman Fats Large Figura*
on Havana Weed.
United States Appraiser Wakemau
j a ^ jf ew York completed the examina*
^ on an j nvo iee of Havana tobacco
p r ifi ay which was entered at that
a f ew day8 a g G> amounting to
ba i es .
jj e raised pound, the duty makL, f i 35 cent
I 3150 per g an incr
of $10,500.