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HID 10 RVOID FUSIONS.
POPULIST CHAIRMAN, NAMED AT
NASHVILLE, ISSUES ADDRESS.
PLEADS FOR UNITY IN THE PARTY.
Jle Advises Populists to Sever all Rela
tions With Mr. liutler aiul Work
Together In Harmony.
Milton Burke, who at the national
■conference of populists at Nashville,
Temi., July 4th, was appointed chair
man of the national organization com
mittee, created at the conference, is
sues a lengthy address to the populists
of the United States.
He reviews the origin and organiza
tion of the party, naming the abuses
which led dissatisfied elements of the
old parties to create a new' one and
coming to personal conditions, declares
that “the trusts, the monopolies, the
corporations, the moneyed interests of
fire country are organized. Their
•strength is concerted into the action of
one man; hence their power, their suc
cess. If the people’s party would
hope to succeed they must organize,
they must unify; they must concen
trate their strength. We are confront
ed today by obstacles and enemies
within and without.”
After reviewing the action of the
conventions at Omaha and St. Louis and
deploring the events of 1896, the ad
dress continues:
“As chairman of your organization
committee I urge every populist, every
where, to avoid, repudiate and reject I
all fusion or alliance with the demo- [
cratic or the republican party.
“I suggest that throughout the en- |
tire country wherever there are two or j
more populists in a ward, precinct or |
township they go to work at once, per- |
sisteiitly, to perfect a focal populist j
organ izat' ,a in their midst. Press the !
work fiutil you shall have secured a !
compact organization in every county
in your state.
“If y ur state chairman is not in
sympathy with the policy declared at
Nashville, yon should select one who
is as soon as practicable. In those
states where the state chairman and
national executive committeemen are
in harmony with the policy declared
at Nashville, the national organization
committeemen will aid them in every
manner possible to strengthen the
party organization. In this way an
enthusiasm can be developed that will
know no defeat, no surrender. Pre
serve and perpetuate it by the peace
ful means of the ballot.”
TELLER RIVES WARNING.
Advice* Free Coinage Republicans to Hold
Aloof From McKinlcyiteft.
Senator Teller arrived at Denver,
Col., Friday. In an interview he ex
pressed himself as strongly opposed to
a combination of the silver republi
cans with McKinley republicans in the
state this fall. On the money ques
tion he said:
“It is the purpose undoubtedly of this
administration to retire the greenbacks and
treasury notes and perfect a system by
which the national banks will be authorized
to issue all paper money.
“Their next move will be to retire silver
and then bank notes will not be legal
tender.
‘What will be the result: The administra
tion will have sm ceeded in making gold the
only money by which debts can be paid.
All debts will have to be paid in the yellow
metal.*'
FORGAVE THE ASSASSIN.
'toiicliiiij; Scene at the Funeral of Senor
Canovas del Castillo.
The funeral of Senor Canovas del
Castillo, at Madrid Friday, was a
touching and solemn ceremony. All
the troops of the garrison lined the
route along which the cortege moved;
the flags were lowered and the public
buildings, embassies, consulates and
clubs were heavily draped with crepe.
A peculiarly poignant scene ensued
as the duke of Solomayer, Marshal
Martinez Campos, Marquis Paso del
la Merrzed and the other pallbearers
lilted the coffin. Senora Canovas, in
a- clear, firm tone, said:
“l desire that all should know I for
give the assassin. It is - the greatest
sacrifice I can make, but I make it for
the sake of what I know of my hus
band’s great heart.”
OUR RKwHTS IN MOROCCO.
I nitetl States Vice Consul Carleton Will
Conclude Settlement.
The special commission, headed by
United States Vice Consul Carleton,
has returned to Tangier from the city
f Morocco with the answer of the
sultan to the demands of the United
States relative to the rights of Ameri
can citizens in Morocco.
The answer is satisfactory and
Americans will henceforth enjoy the
same rights as the citizens of other
countries. The foreign minister of
Morocco and Vice Consul Carleton
will now conclude the settlement of
the matter in dispute.
GOODS SUBJECT TO DUTI
When Imported Through Canada From a
Foreign Country.
The attorney general, in an opin
ion to the secretary of the treasury,
rendered Wednesday, decides that
goods, the production of a foreign
.country not contiguous to the United
States, which are regularly imported
into Canada and afterwards exported
to the United States, are subject to
the discriminating duty of 10 per cent
provided for in section 22 of the new
tariff act, and also that the method of
conveyance, whether by water, rail or
otherwise, is not material.
THE INDIANA DOCKED.
Uncle Sam's Great Battleship Will Be Put
In Good Order.
The United States battleship Indi
ana was successfully placed in dry
dock at Halifax, N. S., Thursday
morning. Although the hour was
early, hundreds witnessed the docking.
Two hundred of the ship’s crew
were placed at the disposal of Con
tractor Bowles and the manager of the
■dock. In addition to these, 100 men
bad been engaged by the dry dock
■company to assist in the work.
MAYFIELD QUITS RACE.
Will Not Further Contest fur South Car
olina Senatorial Honor.
The incident of the Sontli Carolina
senatorial campaign meeting at York
ville Thursday was the withdrawal of
Candidate Mayfield. Mayfield had
made his customary speech attacking
the tariff views of McLaurin and in
sisting that he was not now nor had
ever been in a combination. He then
said that on Wednesday and on previ
ous occasions he had charged McLau
rin with having written the populist
platform and attempting to organize
that party in South Carolina.
At Spartanburg McLaurin had de
nied the charges, but after getting
what he regarded as further evidence,
he offered McLaurin that if he did not
prove the charges he had made he
would withdraw from the race, and if
he proved them, McLaurin himself
should withdraw. Mayfield said he
had made the charges in good faith,
and that he never misrepresented any
one. He was now satisfied from what
he had heard and from conclusive
proof shown him by McLaurin, that
he did not dictate the populist plat
form and that McLaurin did succeed
in striking out that portion relating to
organization in the state, and to Mc-
Laurin more than any one else was
due the credit that there was no popu
list fight made in South Carolina.
BROOKS AND REYNOLDS GUILTY.
1 Murderers of M. C. Hunt Are Both Sen
tenced to II Hfl£.
Bud Brooks and Grady Reynolds,
the murderers of M. C. Hunt, were
both found guilty at Jefferson, Ga.,
and sentenced to hang for their crime.
Neither of the juries recommended
the prisoners to the mercy of the
court and the gallows will avenge the
death of the peaceful old merchant of
Bellton, who was murdered by the
conspirators.
The argument in the case of Bud
Brooks, the first of the murderers
placed on trial, was finished Tuesday
night. Wednesday morning Judge
Hutchins delivered his charge to the
jury and in twenty minutes the jurors
filed out of their room with the ver
dict in the hands of the foreman.
Ten minutes elapsed and Judge
Hutchins called the case of the state
against Grady Reynolds, charged with
murder. In little more than five
hours after he was placed on trial the
second jury brought in the verdict
that made Beynolds a victim of the
gallows. The jury was out only sev
enteen minutes.
CONVICTS HIRED OCT.
State of Alabama Makes h Good Bargain
Financially.
A Montgomery, Ala., dispatch says:
An exceedingly important contract,
involving the settlement of a very
vexed question, for a term of years at
least, was entered into by the state
Thursday night.
The state convicts were leased and
all of those now in the mines in the
Birmingham district will remain there.
The terms of the lease are as follows:
General Charles M. Shelley takes
150 first, second and third-class men
at $lO, sl*2 and $8 per month, respect
ively. He will work them in ore mines
and rock qurfrries in the Birmingham
district.
The Sloss Steel and Iron Company,
of Jefferson county, Alabama, the sec
ond mining and manufacting company
in importance in the state, takes 250
first, second and third-class men at
sll, $lO and $7, respectively.
The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail
way Company takes the balance, about
650, at same rates the Sloss company
pays.
It is estimated that the contracts
made will net the state a profit of
$500,000 per year.
RESTORES FORFEITED LANDS.
Interior Department lieaftirms Action in
Grants in Alabama.
Acting Secretary Ryan, of the inte
rior department, has reaffirmed a for
mer action of the. department in the
matter of forfeited lands of the Mobile
and Girard land grants in Alabama,in
volving about 20,000 acres.
The lands of the contemplated road
were forfeited under the general for
feiture railroad lands, but the law
contained a provision protecting bona
fide purchases of lands which had
been patented to the company.
Through several alleged sales and pur
chases the Perdido Land Company
claimed to have purchased the right in
the forfeited lands.
MAIL QUARANTINED.
Pouches from Alalmma Towns Witheltl
from Columbus, Ga.
Until further developments no mail
will be forwarded from Montgomery
or Birmingham, Ala., to Columbus,
Ga,, on account of the smallpox scare.
The Columbus authorities recently
quarantined against the two Alabama
cities, and gave orders that no mail
should be received at the Columbus
postoffice from either of the places
until it had been fumigated.
It developed that that the postoffice
department has no funds available to
meet the fumigating expenses and the
superintendent of mails has given or
ders that no mails shall be forwarded.
BOTTLING TIME EXTENDED.
More Liberal Provisions Made As to Dia- ;
position of Remnants.
Acting Commissioner Wilson, of the
internal revenue bureau, has modified
the regulations governing the bottling
of distilled spirits.
By this amendment the time within
which the bottling may be completed ;
is extended from one to six days. The j
number of cisterns for bottling pur- j
poses is increased from one to six, if !
necessary, and more liberal provisions
have h#en made as the disposition of j
remnants resulting from each dumping.
UNITED LABOR LEAGUE
Holds a Meeting In Pittsburg But Takes
No Action Regarding Strike.
A meeting of the United Labor
League was held at Pittsburg, Pa.,
Sunday uight, but contrary to expec
tation, took no action regarding the
miners’ strike.
Samuel Gompers and others made
addresses in which the workmen of
the company were heartily thanked
for interest they have taken in the
strike, but no resolutions concerning
the matter were offered.
FOB DUEL WITH SWORDS
.
ITALIAN AND PttENCRMAN SEEK
SATISFACTION ON FIELD.
CRIMSON GORE ACTUALLY SHED
Combat Who Fast anti Furious From the
Start—Prince llenri Wan Filially
Placed Hors (In Combat.
A dispatch from Paris says: The
| count of Turin and Prince Henri of
Orleans fought a duel with swords at
5 o'clock Sunday morning in the Bois
: <le Marecliaux at Vancressen. M.
| Leontieff acted as umpire.
The fighting was most determined
and lasted twenty-six minutes. There
were five engagements, of which two
were at close quarters.
Prince Henri received two serious
wounds in the right shoulder and the
right side of the abdomen. The count
of Turin was wounded in the right
hand. Prince Henri was taken to the
residence of the Due de Chartres and
received medical attendance.
The seconds of Prince Henri of
Orleans were M. de Leontieff, gov
ernor general of the equatorial prov
inces of Abyssinia, and M. Raoul
Mourichon. The count of Turin’s
were General Count Avagradorde
Quinto and the Marquis Carlo di
Ginori.
The condition of Prince Henri is
reported as satisfactory as could be
expected. The doctors, after consul
tation, have expressed the opinion that
no important organ was touched, but
absolute rest was necessary for re
covery.
Owing to rumors at Naples and else
where the public had not expected the
duel to come off. It was therefore
quite private. The official account,
furnished by the seconds, recites the
circumstances leading up to the en
counter. It says:
“The count of Turin, considering
the letters of Prince Henri of Orleans :
to Figaro offensive to the Italian army,
wrote to him on July 6th, demanding
a retraction. This letter could not be
answered until August 11th, the day
of the arrival of Prince Henri in
France. The prince replied to the
count’s demand by telegram, maintain
ing the right of a traveler to record
his experiences.”
The official account then describes
the arrangements for the duel and j
gives the names of the respective
seconds, and says at the first interview
they agreed that the encounter was
inevitable. By common accord the
conditions were settled as follows:
The weapons to be duelling swords;
each combatant to use that of his own
country, but the blades to be of equal
length, either combatant to be at lib
erty to maintain the ground he gained
and each to be allowed the space of
fifteen metres within which to advance
or retire; each assault to continue
four minutes. The combat to be re
sumed in the positions occupied and
only to terminate on the decision of
the four seconds or the advance of the
doctor, when one of the adversaries
was manifestly in a state of inferiority;
the conduct of the meeting to be en
trusted alternately to the two parties,
lots to be drawn at the commencement.
This latter feature of the arrange
ment was due to the formal objection
of the seconds of Prince Henri of
Orleans to the direction of the en
counter by a fifth party. At a later
meeting the seconds decided upon the
rendezvous.
The details of the duel show that
the encounter was very sharp and de
termined.
ASSASSIN (JOLLI TRIED.
Sentence of Courtinartial Will Not Be
Known Until Its Approval.
Michael Angiollillo, alias “Golli,”
was tried at Vegara, Spain, Sunday
morning by courtinartial for the mur
der of Senor Canovas del Castillo, at
the Baths of Santa Agueda on August
Bth.
The court consisted of a lieutenant
colonel and six captains of artillery.
All the statements of Angiollillo were
submitted in writing.
The sentence of the courtinartial
will not be divulged until it has been
confirmed by the supreme council of
war. _
M’LAURIN IS ILL.
South Carolina Senator Will Stop His
Campaign Work.
A Columbia, S. C., special says:
Governor Ellerbe received a dispatch
Saturday afternoon from George M.
Crossland, Senator McLaurin’s private
secretary, from the Senator’s home in
Bennettsville, stating that Senator
McLaurin’s illness is more serious
than was first supposed, and summon
ing the governor, who is a strong per
sonal friend of the senator, to his bed
side by the evening traiu.
McLaurin’s physician has absolutely
forbidden him from attempting to con
tinue his campaign work for the pres
ent. This leaves the campaign work
open to Evans, Irby and Duncan.
A M BASSA DOR TO RUSSIA.
Ethan Allen Hitchcock, of St. LouU, Se
lected by the President.
J. A. Porter, secretary to President
McKinley, has sent a dispatch from
Hotel Champlain, New York, to the
Associated Press, stating that Ethan
Allen Hitchcock, of St. Louis, has
been offered and has accepted the am
bassadorship of Russia.
Mr. Hitchcock is a warm personal
friend of President McKinley. Asa
manufacturer he is well known in his
section. He has had occasion to visit
Washington frequently in connection
with tariff matters.
AMBASSADORS AWAIT REPLIES.
Tlie Peace Arrangements Between Greece
and Turkey About Consummated.
Advices of Friday from Constanti
nople are to the effect that some of the
ambassadors have not yet received the
replies of their government in regard
to the evacuation compromise propos
ed by the Turkish minister for foreign
affairs, Tewfik Pasha, but it is expect
ed the compromise will be accepted
and that the peace preliminaries may
be signed at once.
SENATOR GEORGE DEAD.
! Was Mississippi's Senior Member in Uni
ted States Semite.
Senator J. M. George died at his
[ home in Mississippi City Saturday
afternoon, and while his death was not
j unexpected, has saddened the whole
commonwealth.
Senator Walthall telegraphed the
J vice president and sergeant-arms of
the senate, who will have charge of
I the funeral, and asked them to com
municate with J. W. George, son of
| the senator, who was with him when
| he died at Mississippi City.
The vice president will name the
! committee of senators and representa
tives to attend the funeral.
Senator George was not a native of
Mississippi, hut had resided in that
state since his eighth year. He was
born in Monroe county, Georgia, on
tlie 26th day of October, 1826. After
the death of his father, which occurred
in the senator’s early infancy, ho
removed with his mother in 1864 to
Noxube county, Mississippi, remaining
there for only two years and then
going to Carroll county, where he
maintained his legal residence until
his death.
Senator George obtained his educa
tion in the common schools and did
not begin his professional career until
after the close of the Mexican war,
during which he served as a private in
the regiment commanded by Jefferson
Davis.
He afterwards took an active part
in the civil war, casting his lot with
the south. He left the convention hall
to be captain in the Twentieth regi
ment of the Mississippi volunteers. He
rose to the rank of brigadier gene.”a'
of state troops before tlie close of the
war.
When the civil war closed Mr.
George returned to Carroll county, re
suming the practice of his profession,
and later entering politics. In 1879
he was appointed to the supreme
bench and soon afterwards was elected
"chief justice, in which capacity he was
serving his state when first elected to
the United States senate in 1881. Had
he been permitted to serve his entire
term he would, on the 4th of March,
1899, have completed his eighteenth
year in the senate. He declined a re
election a year ago on account of his
health. _
LEFT VICTIMS FOR DEAD.
Brute Assaults Two Women and Trios to
Brain Them,
In Catoosa county, in the Chicka
mauga National park, Saturday morn
ing, in the absence of Mr. Hitchcock,
a park laborer, from his house, a white
man assaulted Miss Hitchcock, his
fifteen year-old daughter. The assail
ant also struck the prostrate girl on
the head with a bludgeon and left her
for head.
Her mother, a feeble woman fifty
years of age, came upon the scene,
when the trespasser, with the same
blungeon that he had crushed the
skull of his first victim, struck the
mother.
Both were left for dead, but their
cries had reached the ears of a man
passing by before the woman became
unconscious. The information was
wired to Chattanooga and later a posse
was organized and started in pursuit.
STRIKE SITUATION MUDDLED.
"West Virginia Miners Claim That Big
Mistakes Have Been Made.
A special from Wheeling, W. Va.,
says: The beginning of another week
of the coal strike in the Wheeling and
eastern Ohio districts shows a mud
dled situation.
A vigorous opposition to the course
of the United Mine Workers in closing
down the mines that supply the sever
al iron manufacturing plants has de
veloped among the workingmen them
selves, many asserting that a big mis
take has been made.
The situation at the Laughlin mill
mine across the river has been
straightened out by the declination of
the miners to work as long as the
campers are in the vicinity. The
Laughlin and other plants are now
getting coal from Fairmont.
RELIEF FUND EXHASTED.
Consul General Bee Gives an Accounting
of the Money Spent.
Consul General Lee, in a report to
the state department, says that the
SI 0,000 placed to the credit of the re
lief fund on May 2‘2d last was equiva
lent to $10,975 Spanish dollars.
This fund, which he he says was ex
pended with the greatest care and
economy, is nearly exhausted.
DAUNTLESS UNDER BURVEILANCE.
Government Officials are Keeping Close
Watch On the Little Tug.
Information has reached the secre
tary of the treasury through the state
department that the steamer Daunt
less is about to take on ammunition
and men at Tampa for the insurgents
in Cuba.
The collector cf customs at Tampa
has been directed to exercise vigilance
to prevent infractions of the naviga
tion and neutrality acts and to com
municate with the United States attor
ney.
Captain Shoemaker has also in
structed the commanders of the reve
nue cutter fleet to be on the lookout
for the Dauntless.
ANARCHISTS UNDER ARREST.
Italian Police Claim Conclusive Evidence
of an International Plot.
A special dispatch from Milan says
that three anarchists were arrested
there Friday morning aud that the po
lice seized a number of documents,
bombs aud two explosives.
The documents captured by the po
lice, it is further stated, include let
ters from Csesario Santos, the assassin
of President Carnot, and Pietro Aeci
arito, who attempted to assassinate
King Humbert in April last. Other
arrests are expected to follow.
ROAD TO BE EXTENDED.
Committee on Extension of Birmingham,
Selma and New Orleans Report.
A meeting was held at Selma, Ala.,
Friday evening looking to the exten
sion of the Birmingham, Selma and
New Orleans road to Linden,'in Ma
rengo county.
The delegation sent oyet the line re
cently made a favorable report and a
committee, composed of leading busi
ness men, was appointed to confer
with the owners of the road.
VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS ACT.
HON. J. lIOGE TYLER IS NOMI
NATED FOR GOVERNOR.
PLATFORM IS FOR FREE SILVER.
No Deviation From the Cliieago Platform.
Edward Echols Named For Lieu
tenant Governor.
The democratic state convention of
Virginia was called to order at noon
Wednesday in the Academy of Music
at Roanoke.
Nearly, if not quite all, of the 1,548
members of the body were present or
represented by proxy.
The convention began its operations
at noon, and had an afternoon session,
but nothing was accomplished until
the night session, because of some
complicated fights before the commit
tee on credentials.
Major J. Hcge Tyler, a
free silver man, was unanimously
nominated for governor. The contest
over the lieutenant governorship was
a close drawn one but resulted in tb e
nomination of Edward Echols.
The convention then adjourned until
10 o’clock Thursday morning.
Special emphasis is laid upon the
four great demands of the platform
formulated which are;
For a tariff for revenue in the lan
guage of the Chicago platform.
For an income tax and a constitu
tional amendment, if it is necessary,
in the accomplishment of that end.
For the complete regulation of
trusts and combines. For the free
and unlimited coinage of both gold
and silver at the legal ratio of 10 to 1,
without waiting for the aid or consent
of other nations.
On these points the platform reads
as follows:
“Wo reaffirm the platform of tho demo
cratic national convention adopted at Chi
cago in July, 189 C, and upon which William
Jennings Bryan was nominated for tho
presidency of the United States, and we
extend our congratulations to a noble
champion upon the able and brilliant man
ner in which he discharged his trust. Tho
fact that he received more votes than any
previous democratic candidate for the pres
idency and more than any candidate of any
party, barring alone his successful oppo
nent, is evidence that democratic principles
are still dear to a vast mass of the Ameri
can people and that democracy is living
in the hope of an early and complete tri
umph. We especially indorse the doctrines
of the national democratic party upon the
four great issues which are before the peo
ple of this country, viz: The tariff, the in
come tax, the regulating of trusts and the
currency. Tariff duties should bo levied for
revonue purposes, and only for so much
revenue as may be needed for an economic
administration of tho government. Upon
the subject of currency, we declare ourselves
unalterably opposed to the British system
of monometallism which has aggrandized
that empire at tho expense of the
nations producing food supplies and raw
material anil its adoption has only aggra
vated our financial servitude to Londoa.
It is not only un-American, but anti-Ameri
can, and it can be .fastened on the United
States only by the stifling of that spirit and
love of liberty which proclaimed our politi
cal independence in 1776, and caused the
war of the revolution. We demand an un
limited coinage of both gold and silver at
the ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for the
aid or consent of any other nation.”
The platform calls for tlie repeal of
the 10 per cent tax on state bank issues,
and then goes at some length into state
affairs.
Asa separate plank, by the narrow
margin of 15 votes to 14, the commit
tee adopted a resolution providing for
the nomination of United States sena
tors in the primaries. Details of the
plan are gone into at some length. It
is an elaboration of the South Carolina
plan.
GIANT POWDER EXPLODES
Resulting In the Death of Two Men and
the Injury of Four Others.
Advices from Bonne Terre, Mo.,
state that about 300 pounds of giant
powder exploded in the St. Joe lead
mine, near that place, Wednesday
night, killing William B. Madden and
Taylor Dodson, seriously wounding
Albert Morris and Joseph Miller and
painfully injuring Cal Gibson and Ed
Forsbee.
CAUGHT ON TRESTLE.
Mother and Daughter Crushed to Death
By a Train.
Mrs. Tolar and her twelve-year-old
daughter were run over and killed on
a trestle at Red Springs, N. C., Wed
nesday, by the train from Fayetteville.
They were walking on a trestle and
the mother was trying to rescue the
girl, who got her feet hung as she was
about to jump off. The mother was
on the point of jumping, but stopped
and remained with the child.
The train knocked the mother oft
the trestle, while the little girl’s body
was cut up into fragments, half the
body dropping through the crossties
into the stream below.
CANDY AS’ WIDOW DISJECTS.
Premier’* Remains Not To Be Gazed Upon
By tlie Public.
A Madrid dispatch states thatSeuora
Canovas del Castillo, widow of the dead
premier, objected to his remains lying
in state and the admission of the public
to the mortuary chamber at the family’s
residence was stopped.
It is the intention of the government
to confer upon the widow the dignity
of a grandee of the first class and a
pension of 30,000 pesetas.
STATUS OF GEORGIA BANKS.
Comptroller Ecltles Gives Abstract of Re
ports On Their Condition.
Comptroller Eckels, at Washington,
has given out an abstract of reports of
the condition July 23, of the National
hanks in Georgia, exclusive of Savan
nah.
It shows total resources of $13,136,-
153.52. The loans and discounts ag
gregating $8,083,313 and the reserve
in banks and deposited with reserve
agents- $2,287,463. The deposits
amounted to $6,118,756 and the aver
age reserve held was 28.74 per cent.
PRINCES TO CROSS SWORDS.
Duel Arranged Between Henry of Orleans
and Prince Victor.
A special from Paris says: The sec
onds of Prince of Orleans and General
Albertone had a brief conference Fri
day and, it is said, postponed tbe dis
cussion of the proposed ditel betw’een
the general and the prince, in conse
quence of the intervention of Prince
Victor Emmanuel, count of Turin, the
second nephew of the King of Italy,
who claims precedence over all others
in the matter. The count is n major
of cavalry in the Italian service.
A local newspaper of Borne says
that the Couut of Turin, who is under
stood to have challenged Prince Henry
of Orleans to fight a duel, left Italy
secretly for the purpose, his departure
being unknown eveu to the commis
sioner of police. It is added that the
count w r as accompanied by the Mar
ques di Ginori and an aide-de-camp.
Swords are reported to have been
selected as the weapons to he used.
The causes which have led to the
challenging of Prince Henry by Ital
ian officers are of unusual interest and
sufficient in themselves to make this
the most famous duel of the century,
aside from tlie prominence of those in
volved.
The trouble all arose over the
prince’s comments published in the
Paris Figaro on the conduct of
the Italian prisoners at the
Court of Menelik. The Italians were
furious, and every officer who survived
the terrible battle at Abbey Abeba an
nounced bis determination to fight, tbe
young explorer upon his return from
Abysinnia.
Prince Henry, who is persom 1 y
very brave, immediately signified bis
willingness to sustain bis position in
tbe matter, and offered to meet the
chief in rank among his challengers.
This man was General Albertone.
Many other challenges, however, were
hurled at the young prince, and al
most the entire Italian army wanted
to fight him.
Prince Henry returned to Paris a
few days ago from his expedition and
immediately took up the mutter of the
challenges. Preliminaries and ar
rangements for the meeting with Gen
eral Albertone were commenced and
the duel between the two was regard
ed as inevitable, when another, and
even higher, personage, appeared on
the scene and demanded the right, by
reason of rank, of crossing swords
with the scion of the house of Orleans.
If the princes are brought together
on the field of honor it will be the
most remarkable and important duel
of the present century.
GEO R< G A l'K N SlO N MIX-UP.
The Appropriation Was Not Quite Suffi
cient to Go Hound.
There is a curious complication in
the Georgia pension fund this year.
The legislature appropriated $150,000
for invalid pensions, thinking there
would be 2,500 applications.
There were 2,000 on the rolls last
year, and it was estimated that there
would he 500 more. Instead of that
there would be by the time the origi
nal 2,000 were paid that there would
be 1,000 more.
There was full pay for only half
that number, so, after a consultation
between the governor and the pension
commissioner it was decided to divide
the remaining $30,000 among the
applicants whose claims had been ap
proved. These applicants got $3O
each.
Now it is said that these $3O men
having received pensions under the
same law as that which gave $6O each
to the first 2,000 have a claim on the
state for $3O each to put them on the
same basis with the others.
SHERMAN CAUSES WORRY.
If is Utterances and Actions a Tliorn In the
President's Side.
A Washington special says: That
something serious is pending in the
state department no one at the capital
denies, hut just what turn tilings are
going to take is problematical. The
foreign diplomats in Washington all
notified their governments the condi
tion of the secretary of state, but it is
none the less embarassing for the ad
ministration to read nearly every
morning some undiplomatic expression
from the head of the cabinet.
It is injustice, not only to this coun
try and its public men, but to the
aged Sherman himself, for papers to
print interviews with him at all.
Everything he says is promptly tele
graphed abroad and public sentiment
here is judged by these interviews.
GEORGIA LUMBER MEN
To Devise a Plan XVhereby the Cutting: of
Prices Will be Stopped.
The lumber men of Georgia have hit
upon a unique plan to maintain and
advance prices. They have a device
which is intended to minimize compe
tition without making the stockhold
ers obnoxious to the anti-trust law.
The p'an is to organize a company
with $50,000 capital and ten or fifteen
of the largest mills in the state arc to
take the stock. This company will
have offices in Atlanta and Savannah
or Brunswick, possibly at both Savan
nah and Brunswick. The company is
to act as selling agent for the mills in
terested.
CANOVAS’ REMAINS AT MADRID.
Received By 31 in inters, Diplomats and
Civil Authorities.
The remains of the late premier of
Spain, Senor Canovas del Castillo, ar
rived at Madrid Wendesday from
Santa Agueda.
They were met at the railroad sta
tion by the ministers, members of the
diplomatic corps and civil and mili
tary authorities of Madrid and its
vicinity.
MAYORS ANI UOUNCILMEN
Will Hold a National Convention In
Columbus, Ohio.
Columbus, Ohio, has been selected
as the place for holding the national
convention of mayors and eouncilnien,
which will be held September 28 to
October 1.
The programme of the convention
will cover all topics of interest to city
officials, such as street lighting, garb
age, collection and disposition, street
cleaning, franchise grants and reve
nues, paving, sewerage) water supply,
police protection, etc.
Kill id THE IIICII
MIXERS ARE RESTRAINED FROM
MARCHING AM) CAMPING.
BLOODSHED MAY BE THE RESULT.
Strikers Will Defy Orders of Court unci
Arrests Will Follow* Causing Serious
Complications.
A Pittsburg special says: Sweeping
and far-reaching injunctions now fig
ure in the coal miners’ .strike in the
Pittsburg district. The developments
of Thursday tended to make the situ
ation a strained one and it appeared
that a crisis was near at hand.
The strikers have demonstrated that
their assemblages, marches and mis
sionary work have materially affected
the output of the New York and Cleve
land (fas Coal company, while at the
same time - public sympathy lias been
enlisted in tbeir cause.
The sheriff’s proclamation, issued
two weeks ago restraining the men
from assembling and marching, has
been a dead letter and the marches
have been continued daily. No dis
turbance of any kind has occurred, the
officials of the miners contriving
through the ivliole time to keep their
men w'ithin peaceful bounds.
A preliminary injunction was issue.'!’.
Thursday by Judges Collier and
Stowe, which now brings the matter
to the county courts for settlement.
The order includes President Ratcb
ford and Lee Pierce, of the United
Mine Workers of America, and Presi
dents Dolan and Warner, of the Pitts
burg District Mine Workers.
The hearing of the case and the de
cision is looked forward to with much
interest. The miners and their offi
cials claim that they are keeping
within the law and have the right to
assemble in peace and demonstrate to
the world that they are being wronged
by a rate of wages that keeps them
constantly at the point of starvation;
also that they have a right to use their
presence and influence among men
who are militating against their in
terests by continuing at work.
The New York and Cleveland Gas
Coal Company, on the other hand, as
sert that the inarches and assemblages
are unlawful and a menace to their
employes, many of whom, they say.
are willing to work provided the strik
ers remain away. Looking at the
matter from this standpoint, the com
pany made its radical move in the
courts to bring about a condition un
der which the company can operate its
mines.
The hill for an injunction against
the United Mine Workers’ was filed in
the county courts about noon by coun
sel for the New York and Cleveland
Gas Coal Company. The defendants
named are the United Mine Workers
of America, Patrick Dolan, president;
Edward McKay, vice president; Wil
liam Warner, secretary and treasurer,
and others.
Judge Collier granted a preliminary
injunction restraining order and en
joining the defendants from assem
bling or marching or encamping in
proximity to the mines and houses of
the miners for the purpose by intimida
tion, menaces, threats and approbious
words, of preventing the miners of the
plaintiff from working.
It further restrains the defendants
from inducing or compelling any em
ploye or miner to quit w - ork.
A hearing was fixed for August ICth.
The injunction is regarded as the most
sweeping yet issued. President Dolan
expressed surprise when informed that
it had been granted, and added:
“It will make no difference to us.
We will not break camp and will go
right along as usual until the matter
is tested in the courts. We will stay
there regardless of every judge in Al
legheny county, and if they try to en
force the injunction they w ill have to
build more jails to accommodate tho
men.”
If the strikers continue their marches
in the morning, as they now say they
will, in defiance of the injunction,
capiases will he issued for the offend
ers on the charge of contempt of court.
Should the injunction he enforced, the
strikers’ camps around the DeAimitt
mines will soon he extinct.
The strikers, though excited over
the turn of events, are in no wise dis
heartened. Developments at Cannons
burg are being watched closely.
SETH LOW A CANDIDATE.
He Will Enter Contest for Mayoralty
of Greater New York.
Seth Low, president of Columbia
college, has entered the race for mayor
of Greater New York. Strong press
ure has been brought to bear on him
for several weeks past to take this step,
but it was not until Wednesday that
his decision was given positively and
in the affirmative.
Convinced that those who have been
urging him to accept the candidacy for
mayor represent a majority of the re
publican vote of the consolidated cities,
it is now announced that Air. Low will
assist in the canvass that is being made
for him.
CHECK FOR TWO MILLION
Used In Transfer of Glurose Company at
Peoria, Illinois.
The injunction which stood in the
way of the new glucose combination
by restraining the sale of the American
Glucose Company, of Peoria, 111., was
dissolved Wednesday afternoon, and
the transfer took place immediately, a
certified check fo;- over two million
dollars being passed in order to fore
stall any similar attempts at complica
tion.
COMPENSATION FOR TOBACCO.
Spunish Government Agrees to Pay
Claims of American Owners.
La Lucha, the government organ,
published in Cuba, is authority for
the statement that the Spanish gov
ernment at Madrid has issued an
order that all claims for tobacco by
American manufacturers have been
allowed and tobacco can be removed.
The navy department Thursday
finally accepted the torpedo boat Por
ter, which is now at Newport, and
directed the payment of the reserve in
the sum of SB,QOO,