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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 - Mt:>T F0R PAST T ®AB. ; - some interesting deductions _ ^ * ,, 3#ter ° eaer * 1 In T 1>eta11 and Some important Chang... - 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. ~ L- - - 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 -- ~ 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.