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miERN RECORD SUCCESSOR TO (Si. Established “ 1890 1872
/OL. XXVi.
Tallulah Falls Ry. Co.
TIME TABLE NO. 2.
In Effect June 13, 1808.
js'O H i No 12
Pawn. STATIONS. Mixed
Daily j Dai ly,
except | Except
Sun’y j Sun’y
Lv Ar P M
Tallulah Falls
Turnerville.. 12 45
Ana ndale 12 25
.Clarkesville. 12 05
.. Deniorest.. 50
| .. .Cornelia
M Ar Lv >
North-Eastern Railroad
Time Table No. 3
Between Athens and Lula.
1 I 9 12 IO
Daily, Daily STATIONS Daily- Daily
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P. M A. M Lv Ar A. M P *
8 30 11 05 W Lula N 10 50 8 2
8 .15 11 22 Gillsville io 33 3
8 47 I 11 30 j Maysville | io 19 ?,
9 01 i 11 52 Harmony K) 03 2
9 15 I 12 07 Nicholson j 9 48 0 38
9 22 12 15 Center 9 40 r, 30
9 35 | 12 30 W Athens D 9 25 (i 15
P. M. P. M. Ar Lv. A. M P. M
11 9 I 2 io
Note. —Trains No 10 anti 11 are dailies
except both tiie Sunday. vestilmled Trains 37 and 38 meet
Southern passengers at Lula, on
the Railroad. This train leaves
Lula at 3.20 and arrives at Athens at 4.30;
leaves Athens at 1.25 p. in., and gets to Lu¬
la at 2:40 p. in.
R. W. Sizer, Auditor.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY#
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Washington, D. C Atlanta, Ga
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OFFICE-Mathxsos Mmcuasdisk Brn.-
Dixo, RESIDENCE: Ejowakds Hotel.
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Office in Davis Building, Doyle
•treet. Toccoa. Ga.
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RI0 ] | N WILMING¬
TON; DEATH OF
EIGHT NEGROES
Whites Give a Good Account of
Themselves in a Pitched Bat¬
tle With the Colored Men.
OFFICE OF NEGRO NEWSPAPER TORN
TO PIECES AND BUILDING BURNED
Armed Aen Patrol the Streets While
the New i*l»yor, Ex-Congressman
Waddell, Guards the Prisoners
from an Infuriated Mob.
Wilmington, N. C., Nov. io.—
The city is thrown into a state of
chaos. Riot is in progress, which
up to the present has resulted in
the deaths of eight negroes and the
wounding of scores of others. One
white man was morially wounded.
The slaughter is going on and no
one knows where it will end. The
naval reserves and light infantry
are endeavoring to bring about a
cessation of hostilities, but their ef¬
forts are fruitless. White citizens
are frenzied with madness and are
determined to rid the city of negro
domination and insolence. South
Carolina has been wired for help,
and before morning several thou¬
sand people are expected from
there in the vicinity of city and
county.
To-night the city is in the hands
of a new municipal government,
and law and order is being estab¬
lished. This afternoon the board
of aldermen resigned one by one.
As each alderman vacated, the re-
mainder elected a successor named
by the citizens’ committee, until
the entire board was changed legal-
ly. They resigned in response to
public sentiment. The new board
is composed to conservative demo-
cratic citizens. The mayor and
.
chief of police then resigned, and
the new board elected their succes¬
sors, according to law. Ex-Repre¬
sentative Waddell was elected may-
or and E. G. Parmlee chief of po-
lice. The first act of the new
government . was to swear in 250
special policemen, chosen from the
most reputable white citizens.
They are vested with all authority,
and will take possession of the city.
The white citizens will remain on
guard, however, throughout the
t0 ' vn ’ to prevent possible attempts
at incendiarism. The-new govern-
ment will devote its attention to
restraining the feeling among the
whites, as well as to keeping down
lawlessness among the negroes.
Further trouble of a serious nature
is not expected.
As soon as the meeting wae over
Mr. George Rountree received a
telegram b from Governor Russell, '
s lying - that lie Would Use all his ef-
forts to influence the mayor and
city - council tO resign, _ * if that would
restore peace. 1 Mr. Rountree sent
the followins? " reolv r." *
“Mayor - and aldermen resigned, =■
T "° hundred and fifty special po-
licemen sworn in. Law will be
maintained and peace restored.”
Mr - Rountree is a prominent at-
‘°™ey here and a member of the
democratic congressional commit-
ec -
DESTRUCTION OF RECORD OFFICE.
The trouble in Wilmington today
commenced at 8 :30 this morning,
when an armed body of citizens,
numbering about 400 and led by
Ex-Representative Waddell, chair-
man of a committee of twenty-five,
appointed for the pur pose, proceed-
ed to the p ublishin ? house of a ne-
gro newspaper,the Record,to wreck
it> The editor of this paper had
published an article defamatory of
j white women and a mass meeting
of citizen yesterday ordered his ex-
I pulsion from the city within twen-
1 ty-four hours and the removal of his
press. Fifteen leading negroes
were called in by the committee of
twenty-five last night and directed
to notify the chairman this morning
j whether they would agTee to the
removal of the press. They were
44 / Know Not What the Truth May Be, I Tell the Tate as f Twas Told to Me. ”
TOCCOA, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 18, I898.
informed that if no answer was re-
turned the press would be demolish-
ed. No answer was received by
the chairman this morning, and
after waiting an hour the citizens
proceeded in a body and demolished
the fixtures of the printing office,
The building was also fired and
gutted. The leaders say that this
action was the work of irresponsi-
ble persons, and as soon as the fire
was discovered the fire department
was called to extinguish it.
The burning of the printing of¬
fice created a great commotion
among the negroes of the town.
The rumor spread that the whites
were going to burn and murder in
the negro quarter. This rumor
reached the negro employees of a
cotton compress, numbering 300 or
400, who quit work and hung about
the streets in manifest terror.
THE SHOOTING OF MAYO.
Several hundred negroes congre-
gated in the northern portion of the
city and the red-shirts went to dis-
perse them. The negroes fired on
the white citizens and were met
with a hailstorm of bullets.
Five negroes were killed outright
and man3 r wounded.
One white man, William Mayo,
was shot through the breast and
hips, but raised up on his elbow
ofter he fell and shot two negroes
dead. He was conveyed in an am-
bulance to the hospital and is not
expected to live.
The negroes were demoralized
and fled in disorder.
In the meantime the town was
in a state of excitement. The whites
rushed into the streets from every
directions, the local military com¬
pany was ordered out and a battal¬
ion of United States naval reserves
proceeded to the vicinity of the
trouble with a rapid-fire gun.
About 1 o’clock some negroes in a
house fired upon a passing party of
white men. The house was sur¬
rounded and four negroes captured
and taken to jail. One negro broke
away and ran, but was shot down
and killed before he had proceeded
half a block.
EIGHT NEGOES K1LLD DURING DAY.
During the afternoon the were
other affairs of this kind and eight
negroes were killed during the va¬
rious times in the disturbed sections.
Their names at this time are un¬
known. As the news of the riot
spread through the state neighbor¬
ing cities offered to send help and
all such offers were declined except
in the case of Fayetteville, from
which town came about 150 men.
As night fell the town was com¬
pletely patroled and guarded. Very
few negroes were on the streets and
they were not allowed to congre¬
gate anywhere.
The action of the citizens in or-
ganizing a new municipal govern¬
ment is expected to bring peace and
order and no rioting is expected to¬
night. It developed later in the
day that the negro committee sum¬
moned last night had agreed to use
their good offices to have the press
removed, although the editor had
disappeared and they had no au¬
thority on the premises. This let¬
ter instead of being delivered to the
chairman of the committee of twen¬
ty-five in person, was put in the
mail, and did not reach him until
three hours after the expiration of
of the time limit which had been
fixed for the reception of the an¬
swer.
A crowd was formed tonight to
take from the jail and lynch
negroes, Thomas Miller and Ira.
Bryant, who were arrested today,
charged with murderous threats and
were regarded as dangerous cases.
The mayor, Colonel Waddell,
promtly prohibited the assembling
of the crowd at the jail,and he
self beaded a guard of twenty-five
men with winchesters to guard the
prisoners.
CAUSE OF CAROLINA RIOTS.
The bloodshed in Wilmington
yesterday was the culmination
provocations and an epidemic
crime, the Jvictims of which were
respectable white citizens and the
perpetrators blacks and whites.
Yesterday’s riot was a parallel to
the uprising of the citizens of New
Orleans a few years ago, when they
marched in a body to the jail and
shot to death a dozen or more mem-
bers of the Italian Mafia. The Ma-
had made war on society and the
police, though willing, were unable
to surpress the cut-throats. When
Chief Hennessy was assassinated
the best citizens assembled in broad
daylight and proceeded to the
without the slightest attempt ' at
disguise.
Just so has Wilmington been
terrorized by a criminal element
of the blacks. The negroes had
control ot the city government, not
by virtue of election, but through
the connivance of the legislature
and the governor, Daniel Russe 1 !,
who desired the humiliation of the
decent people among whom he had
lived prior to his elevation,
The whites could have controlled
the city government had not the
legislature forced upon the people
a new charter, which provied for
the appointment of five members
of council by the governor. These
appointees were republicans, and
that party having a majority on the
board and having been vested with
the power to elect the mayor and
other city officers, ward politicians
were selected.
The mayor and chief of police
were white, but the policemen and
a11 sanitary inspectors and most of
th e other appointees were negroes.
The police had no control over the
criminal classes. Burglaries were
frequent and the citizens had to
keep guns in their homes for pro¬
tection. When burglaries were re¬
ported to the police no apparent ef¬
fort was made to arrest the guilty
ones. One citizen captured a ne¬
gro on the streets carrying articles
which had been stolen from the
citizen’s house several days before.
The police had been given a de¬
scription of the articles stolen and
the prisoner stated that he had
passed five policemen with the
plunder in his arms.
Last Winter a negro policemen
entered the store of a prominent
merchant and beat him unmerciful¬
ly. The policeman said that the
merchant bad insulted his little
daughter. The merchant had wait¬
ed on her during the morning, and
rvpt having what she wanted she
went home. The negro policeman
was never purnished.
White ladies and children were
constantly annoyed and insulted
when on the street. Country peo¬
ple were especial marks of the ne¬
gro boys, who followed them and
guyed them.
This is one reason why so many
farmers went into Wilmington last
night. They have long waited for
an opportunity of this kind.
A mulatto,named Alex L. Manly,
was editor of a negro paper called
the Record. This paper was con¬
tinually stirring up feeling among
the blacks against the whites. Man¬
ly was deputy register of deeds of
New Hanover county and had an
office in the courthouse. His news¬
paper office was a square or two
away.
On August 18th last, The Daily
Record published an editorial re¬
flecting on the virture of the poor
white women of the state. This
letter raised a storm of indignation
throughout all North Carolina, and
was one of the things which helped
on the union of the whites over the
state. Manly took as his text an
address which Mrs. Felton,of Car-
tersville, Ga., made on lynching
before the State Agricultural So-
C ‘ et '
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WINTER T0URIRT TICKETS
TO S0USHERN RESORTS.
Now On Sale Via the Southern
Railway.
From November 1, 1S9S, until
April 30th, 1899, Winter Tourist
tickets to principal Southern Re¬
sorts, including Ashville and Hot
Springs, N, C., and Floida points,
will be on sale at reduced rates via
Southern Railway. Tickets allow a
fifteen days stop-over,and is good to
return until May 31,1899.
Quick schedules and excellent
service via the Southern Railway,
Call on any agent of the company
for detailed information as to sched-
ules, rates, etc. S. H. Hardwick,
Asst. Gen. Pass. Agent, Atlanta,
Ga.
SPAIN’S TERMS
ARE IRREVOCABLE.
PllllippiIlC TCIHIS Sllj^UStCll
Will Not BC 4 CCCl)tG(l *
*
GOVERNMENT MUST HAVE MONEY.
The nadrld Commissioners Will Not
Permit the Americans To Ask
How the Philippine Islands’ Debt
Has Been Made.
Paris, November 15.—The Span¬
iards declare that their refusal to
sign a treaty based on any Philip¬
pine terms thus far suggested by
the United states is irrevocable.
They say that they do not and
cannot view the taking of the Phil¬
ippines as anything else than a
wanton ravishment of their pos¬
sessions, unless it is accompanied
by a financial consideration of ap¬
preciable size.
Therefore the turn of events in
the peace conference depends upon
the purpose or the willingness of
the American commisssoners to ex¬
tend their financial terms. Span¬
ish sovereignty in the Philippines
is now clung to by the Spaniards
chiefly as a means to obtain finan¬
cial reliesf if possible. It is almost
purely a matter of money now, if
the amount be large enough to ab¬
solve the Spanish government from
possible charges by their creditors
that the collateral has been given
away. Persons near to Spain’s
heaviest creditors believe that
should the Americans assume the
Philippines’ debt or pay Spain its
face amount in cash the Spaniards
would sign.
This view is new in the quarters
where it now prevails, because
time has been required for the
Spaniards to become convinced
that the American commissioners
do little if any diplomatic jockey¬
ing, and that their final attitude
may be found identical with their
first.
If they have not already done so,
the Spanish commissioners will
ultimately advise the Americans
that they must not permit any con¬
troversy as to the binding charac¬
ter of the mortgage resting upon
the revenue of the Philippines to
pay the so-called Cuban debt.
Tenacious adherence to this claim
would set up on the Spanish side
an ultimatum under which no trea¬
ty would be signed which did not
stipulate that the Philippines reve¬
nue should pay the Philippines
debt.
In such event the Americans
would claim that the Philippines
debt of $40,000,000 amounts to
$20,000,000 in gold, of which about
$11,000,000 has been employed in
fighting the United States, leaving
less than $10,000,000 chargeable in
gold to the Phiiippiines. Indeed
the United States doubtles contends
that even the reduced amount was
used in fighting the Filipinos, and
object to the Spanish conclusion that
it is a fair charge against the Amer¬
icans.
Trouble will arise, however, be¬
fore that stage is reached, as the
Spanish commissioners will un¬
doubtedly inform the Americans
that the latter have no right to ex¬
act a schedule of Spain’s expendi¬
tures or any explanation regarding
the destination of the money secured
on these loans.
A Spaniard who is posted as to
the exact status of affairs iaformed
the correspondent of the Associated
Press this evening that he did not
believe the Spanish commissioners
would take their final stand at
tomorrow’s session, although he
thought it possible that they might
finally deline to continue the dis¬
cussion execept whithin the limits of
Spain’s construction of the
protocol.
This is another way of saying
Spain may cease her contention.
Should she do so she would make
an open protest to the world against
spoliation.
The Record from now until
January 1 for 23 et*.
MASKED MEN HOLD UP TRAIN.
Passengers On Great Northern
Stopped By Robbers.
Fergus Falls, Minn., November
10.—The Great Northen through
train, which passes through this
city at 7 130 p. m., was held up and
robbed about five miles west of here
tonight. There were eight robbers
in the gang, all well armed. Two
of them evidently boarded the blind
baggage in this city.
The train was scarcely out of
town when these two climbed over
the tender and presenting revolvers,
told engineer Brace and his firemen
to stop at a lonely r spot near the
Pelican river bridge.
Arriving at this place the train
was stopped and the engineer and
firemen were ordered to leave the
cab. The other members of the
gang rushed from the woods and
boarded the express car. All wore
handkerchiefs over their faces
The gang was regularly organiz¬
ed and went by numbers.
When the train stopped the con¬
ductor and brakeman started for¬
ward to find out what the trouble
was, but the bandits fired a number
of shots and warned them to keep
back. Tncy then compelled the
express messenger to leave the car
and while three or four stood guard
the others proceeded to blow open
the safes. The local safe was des¬
troyed, and it is thought that they
succeeded in securing considerable
money, but the exact amount can¬
not be learned. The through safe
was drilled and dynamited, four
charges being used. The jacket
was blown off, but it was found
impossible to reach the inner part
and get at the cash. They worked
over it nearly two hours, holding
the train for that length of time,
but gave up, finally, and joining
their companions on the outside,
started south.
The two men who stood guard
over the engineer compelled him io
give up $20 which he had upon his
person. The express car had been
somewhat wrecked by the explo¬
sions, but the trainmen managed to
get it to Carlisle, where it was
patched up and the train proceeded
on its westward journey. Con¬
ductor Smith sent a trainman back
to this city to give the alarm, but
riothing has as yet been heard of
him. Several posses have been
sent out, but no trace of the robbers
has as yet been had.
“Lest We Forget, Lest We For¬
get.”
“And now, what of Cuba and
Porto Rico, the Phillippines and all
the rest?” inquires the war corres¬
pondent, Peter MacQueen, at the
end of his strong article in “The
National Magazine” for Novem¬
ber. “We must get into the current
of history and guide with wisdom
the mighty ship that bears the hope
and fortune of the world.
General Wheeler and others have
shown how we may reasonably put
our army on a par with the best in
Europe. The general verdict seems
to be gradually shaping itself into
a kinder judment regarding the way
the army was handled at Santiago.
Grand old Admiral Cervera advises
Spain to cultivate the friendship of
America and imitate her virtues.
Brown skin will soon no longer be
a disability for any man in any
place. The Porto Rican country
lends itself kindly to our many
nervous folk in winter. England
understands now; and the rest of
the world has a wholesome respect
for the nation of merchants. We
shall yet belt the globe with colo¬
nies. The sails of our commerce
shall whiten every sea. Inven¬
tions shall spring from the
fruitful life of our people like roses
from the juicy shoots of June.
“The best hearts are leading the
nation. All the fever, hunger and
wounds were on the programme
when our men went forth to war.
Let us correct the mistakes of the
past. The day of our expansion is
here. No longer shall we be small,
provincial and mercenary. ‘Night’
candles are burnt out, and dusky
day stands tip-toe on the misty
mountain tops. * 5 5
SUBSCRIPTION, 51.OO A YEAR
NO. 1
Hon. W. R. Rankin on Retrench¬
ment.
Editor Constitution—The eyes ot
the people are on the legislature.
They hope and believe that everv
member will be influenced by prop¬
er motives,and do what he conceives
to be his whole dntv to his bur¬
dened constituents.
In the multi-sided views that
may be entertained as to where
retrenchment should begin and
where end, lies the danger to the
state. “Hasten slowly” and“take
care that the state suffer no detri¬
ment” are maxims that should be
rigidly observed in matters of
legislation.
The trend of popuiar StriUiUii_.il IS
indicated by the follow ing sugges¬
tive questions:
“Why should the law providing
for a geological survey of the state
be repealed and that bureau be
abolished?”
“Why may not the salaries of
the railroad commissioners be
reduced to.£1,500 per annum each i*’’
“ Why, in view of experiences
with the military of the state in the
late war with Spain, should $20,000
or$25,ooo be wasted annually on
military junketings?”
“Why may not the office of
secretary of state be merged with
that of the comptroller general?”
“Why may not the duties and
burdens of the judiciary be appor¬
tioned and equalized and the number
of judicial circuits reduced?”
“Why may not solicitors general
be salaried officers?”
“Why may not the largest annual
appropriations, not warranted by
any constitutional authority, to so-
called branches of the state uni¬
versity be stopped?”
“Why may not the pension laws
be so amended as to relieve the list
of a large number of wealthy
pensioners who do not need this
state’s contribution to honored
disability?”
“Why should any educational
institution be maintained at the
expense of the state, to which only
a limited and select few are able to
and can get admittance? If boun¬
ties are to be distributed, why not
spread the butter evenly?”
There are others, but these are
sufficient to attract attention of
members of the assembly. Let
us hope that some interest will 1 e
taken in their solution.
As a private citizen, interested
in the wellfare of my fellows, I
know that many strong reasons can
be advanced against any inter¬
ference with the status quo of the
subjects matter referred to in the
preceding questions. But, gentle¬
men, the strong reasons that can
be advanced in favor of some reform
on the lines indicated, the logic of
low prices of farm products and
the fact that the masses are ap¬
proaching pauperism appeal to you.
What are you going to do ?
W.R. Rankin,
Calhoun, Ga., November 5.
riaria Teresa a Total Wreck; Cap¬
tured Cruiser Cannot be Saved
Washington, November 15—The
navy department today received a
cablegram from Captain McCalla,
dated Nassau, stating that he had
arrived at the scene of the wreck of
the Maria Teresa with the tugs
Potomac and Vulcan.
The first thing Captain McCalla
did upon setting foot upon the
deck of the Teresa was to hoist the
American flag. After a careful
examination of the stranded ship
and her situation upon the rocks
and a careful consideration of the
instuctions from the navy depart¬
ment, appreciating the great
interest taken by the nation and
government in the fate of the Ter¬
esa, Captain McCalla says he re¬
grets exceedingly to express the
opinion that it is hopeless to expect
to rescue the ship. His opinion,
he says, is confirmed by such expert
engineers as Hobson, Blow, Craven
and Crittenden.
The vessel is stranded in from
sixteen to twenty-one feet of water
and rests on a roesy reef, The
tide rises and fails in the ship below
the protective deck. Captain
McCalla says he can best describe
the condition of the ship generally
by stating that she is “telescoped.”