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AMBASSADORS INSTRUCTED
TO SOUND. ATTITUDE OF EUROPE
ON CUBAN QUESTION.
UNCLE SAM READY TO INTERVENE.
Government Official* Wish to Know, How
ever, What the Result Would lie
Hefore Taking Action.
A Washington special says: Officials
of the state department were very ret
icent Friday when asked concerning a
report in circulation that definite in
structions have been given all our for
eign ambassadors and ministers in
European countries to sound and as
certain the attitude of European gov
ernments in case the United States
intervene in case of Cuba.
While denials were made by some
of them, others intimated that the
United States was ready to assume
the position taken by President Grajjj
in 1874, shown by the instructions of
Secretary Fish to Mr. Cushing,
although it never appears that these
instructions were carried out, and
there is no knowledge of what Spain
would do in tho premises. It is pos
sible that Minister Woodford will have
a different report to make.
It can be stated, on information re
ceived here, that there is no truth in
the report that Lord Salisbury has
sent an unfavorable answer to a sug
gestion that the United States should
interfere, the fact being that he has
not replied at all to the attempt of our
ambassador to sound him on the sub
ject., and that his attitude gives reason
to believe he will not oppose such ac
tion as our interests may make neces
sary. Minister Woodford’s instruc
tions are to intimate to Spain that the
United States will intervene unless the
situation in Cuba speedily improves.
These were the instructions which
were given Mr. Cushing by Mr. Fish,
and it is understood that the attitude
of the United States is almost identi
cal with the position taken during
General Grant’s administration. Then,
as now, the good offices of the United
States had been tendered to Spain, to
bring about a settlement of the war,
“but,” said Secretary Fish, “the well
intended proffers of the United States
were unwisely rejected by Spain.”
The secretary reviewed the situa
tion, which presents many similar
phases to that which exists now.
President Grant, said the secretary,
regarded independence as the only so
lution to the Cuban question.
ANGIOLLO EXECUTED.
Castillo's Assassinator Meets Death on
the Garrote.
Advices from Sebastain, Spain, says:
Michael Angiollo, who shot anti killed
Senor Canovas del Castillo, the prime
minister of Spain, at the baths of Santa
Agueda on Sunday, August Bth, was
executed at 11 o’clock Friday morning,
according to the sentence ef the court
martial imposed upon him.
Angiollo heard calmly the news that
he was to be executed, but he appeared
to be surprised at it, and bitterly com
plained of the frequent visits of the
priests, declaring that they would ob
taiu nothing from him.
He declined to enter the chapel, say
ing he was comfortable enough in his
cell. An executioner from Burges
performed the garroting, just prior to
which Angiollo responded:
“Since you cannot get me out of
prison, leave me in peace. I myself
will settle with God.”
ONE DOLLAR WHEAT.
&Jiort Crops of Foreign Countries Cause
of High Prices Here.
Friday 90£ @ 90|c was bid for Sep
tember wheat at the opening on change
at Chicago. Even at this price an ad
vance of 91c since Thursday offerings
were few and far between, and the
market continued .to run up to 91 io.
Higher prices at Liverpool, bullish
crop estimates from Minneapolis and
widespread damage to crops in Hun
gary were the main factors when the
regular trading began on ’change.
Dispatches said wheat at Minneapo
lis had touched sl. New York wired
that wheat acceptances by cable were
simply enormous, sixty-two boatloads
being taken for export at New York
and tweutv-eigbt load? at other points,
all for England.
AZCAKRAGV SPANISH PREMIER.
Queen Regent Names th General as Can
ova*' Successor.
The queen regent of Spain, Friday,
conferred the premiership upon Gen
eral Asearraga, who is also minister of
war. The cabinet will not be modi
fied, but it is expected that there will
not be instant dissensions.
It is well understood that had Sa
gasta, liberal, been appointed to suc
ceed Canovas, there would have been
wholesale resignations. It is said that
General Weyler’s resignation is now
in hand, hearing an “if” in reference
to Sagasta.
The belief is expressed that Sagasta
would have received appointment but
for Weyler’s threatened resignation.
HANNA AND GAGE DISAGREE.
Trouble Over Appointment of Customs
Cllector at New Orleans.
A Washington dispatch says: There
is a scrap between Secretary Gage and
Mark Hdnua with McKinley as referee.
The trouble is over the attempt of
Hanna to have A. T. Wimberly ap
pointed collector of customs at New
Orleans.
Gage opposes the appointment on
the ground that Wimberly demanded
of Mrs. Marthilde Guile, of New Or
leans, the honor of her daughter as
the price of appointing her to office.
BANKERS ADJOURN.
Joseph C. Hendrix, of Now York, Suc
ceeds Lowry, of Atlanta.
The twenty-third annual convention
of the American Bankers’ association
oame to an end at 1 o’clock Thursday
lafternoon.
According to precedent, First Vice
(President Joseph C. Hendrix, of New
York, was raised to the office of presi
dent. George H. Bussell, of Detroit,
received a large majority of the votes
oast for first vice president.
SHERMAN MAKES ANSWER
To Japan** Note Hegimliiiß the Annexa
tion of Hawaii.
A Washington dispatch says: Secre
tary Sherman has submitted to the
Japanese government an answer to
Japan’s late note relating to the an
nexation of Hawaii.
The answer was delivered to Mr.
Hoshi, the Japanese minister, last
Saturday. It is his reply to Japan’s
note of July stli, which up to that
time had not been acknowledged.
Mr. Sherman’s answer is marked by
a friendly expression toward Japan,
which gives special satisfaction in
view of the somewhat strained rela
tions resulting from the previous cor
respondence. It reiterates the posi
tion heretofore taken by the secretary
of state as to the right and propriety
of annexing Hawaii to the United
States. With this, however, is coupled
an assurance that the interests of Ja
pan in Hawaii will be safeguarded. It
also expresses satisfaction at the plan
of arbitration between Japan and Ha
waii on the question of Japanese im
migration to Hawaii.
Minister Hoshi has cabled the sub
stance of the answer to the Tokio gov
ernment and the full text of the an
swer has been forwarded. It will not
reach Japan until September 7th, and
no action may be taken until the text
is before the Japanese foreign officer.
The Japanese legation is reticent
over the dispatch, although there is no
effort to conceal the satisfaction felt
over the friendly spirit displayed
throughout Mr. Sherman’s answer.
The attention of the Tokio government
has been particularly directed toward
these expressions of good will.
NO SCHOOL HOOK UNIFORMITY.
Committee Authorized by the Georgia
legislature Make Recommendations.
The special committee appointed by
Governor Atkinson, of Georgia, in
in compliance with a resolution of the
legislature, to investigate the matter
of purchasing schoolbooks in the state
and to recommend a plan for securing
cheaper books, held a meeting in the
state capitol Thursday and mapped
out its report. They have recom
mended a plan which they think will
reduce the cost of books, but it is not
the governor’s plan. Tho governor
has been writing and talking in favor
of uniformity in school books ever
since the question was first agitated
and the committee has gone against
uniformity.
The plan recommended by them is a
much simpler one, and will not in any
way involve the state in the book pub
lishing businsss or commit the state to
the exclusive use of any particular line
of books. It declares in favor of en
larging the power of the county boards
of education, of incorporating those
bodies, and authorizing them to pur
chase books direct from the manufac
turers and sell them to the children at
first cost price. This is known as the
Ohio plan, because it was adopted in
that state some years ago, and has
been in successful operation ever
since.
The main object of the commission
was to do away with the heavy profits
of the middle man, without in any
way revolutionizing the present course
of study. To do this the county
boards are instructed to do their own
buying in the future, except in such
cases where the retail dealer will sell
at the list price. In either case the
county is to become responsible for
the book bill, and, therefore, will be
able to secure a larger discount from
the publishers. The present discount
is from 20 to 25 per cent.
This report was agreed upon unan
imously by the commission after a
lengthy session and a full discussion
of the matter.
OFFICE-SEEKERS IN WAIT.
President Will Be Greeted By Them On
His Return to Washington.
A Washington dispatch says: Presi
dent McKinley is storing up a large
sized disappointment for himself. He
will find it on his return to the white
house. And it will be in the shape of
the old guard of office-seekers whom
he left behind. There may not be quite
as many of the old ones, but what the
old guard lacks iu identity it will
more than make up in numbers.
When the president left for his va
cation he conceived the delusion that
during his absince the old guard which
had clamored unsuccessfully for spoils
would be, not exactly frozen out, but
melted out, and report from Platts
burg has it that he has been hugging
that fond delusion to his breast.
TICKET SCALPERS LOSE.
A Permanent Injunction Against Their
Selling Special Kate Tickets.
In the famous case of the Nashville,
Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway vs.
George E. McConnell, etal, Louisville
& Nashville vs. Duckworth, et al,
aud Western & Atlantic Railway vs.
Duckworth et al, Judge Clark handed
down an opinion Thursday morning
favoring the railroads.
This case arose over the handling of
the special rate Tennessee Centennial
tickets by the scalpers of Nashville,
and the above named railroads asked
for an injunction to restrain the scalp
ers from handling the tickets. The
court giants a permanent injunction.
PUGILIST SLAVIN’ IS LOST.
Was I.list Seen In the Chllkoot, Pass In
the Wilds of Alaska.
A letter received at San Francises
from the head of Lake Bennett sayr
that Frank Slavin, the pugilist, is lost
in tlie wilds of the northwest. Or
August 5 Slavin started back, alont
from the lake towards the summit oi
Chitkoot Pass to find a number of arti
eles lost fl'om his pack.
Up to August 9, the date of the let
ter, nothing had been heard from bin
and grave fears for his safety are en
tertained.
NEW RAILROAD PROJECTED.
The California Southern Will Begin
Operations Soon.
The California Southern Railway j
Company, anew line in course of j
construction from Biggs Station on
the Oregon Railway and Navigation
Company’s lines, south through Sker- j
man, Wasco and Crook cotinties to
Pineville, a distance of 120 miles, will
be in operation about September 5 as
far as Wasco, that much of the line
having been completed.
COMMENT OH DOLLAR WHEAT
LONDON PAPERS EXPRESS THEIR
OPINION SARCASTICALLY.
“UNMERITED LUCK,” SAYS ONE.
“Wpslprn FniTHPi’s Will See at Once That
High Prices Are Compatible With a
Gold Standard.••
A special cable dispatch from Lon
don says: The fact that the price of
wheat has reached $1 a bushel in the
United States has produced consid
erable excitement among grain specu
lators and others in London. The sec
retary of the Baltic said:
“Of course we have been caught
largely short. The rise in the price
of wheat makes a somewhat hysterical
market. The rise of six pence in the
price of barley, for example, Satur
day, was due to no assignable cause.
There is no speculation here, as it is
known on Wall street, although there
is some speculation at Liverpool.
Tho secretary of the corn exchange
remarked:
“There is no speculation here, as
such transactions are generally known.
There has been a disposition on the
part of the outside public to bear the
market; but the brokers have dissuaded
their clients from so doing. The rise
iu prices yesterday morning and today
was not due so much to “dollar wheat”
as to the buying by France, where
threshings are proving disappointing.
Our millers, too, are short.”
“The brokers have not made much,as
they held no stocks; but it is needless
to say that the rise of half a crown in
the price of what yesterday, makes the
liveliest times on Mark Lane. The
Americans have apparently got it their
own way.”
The Westminster Gazette, referring
to the rise in the price of wheat, says:
“Dollar wheat” is an unmerited
stroke of good luck for President Mc-
Kinley’s government, which ought to
have been overtaken by swift calamity
for shamelessly paying election debts
to the trusts by the passage of the
Dingley bill.”
At the same time the Westminster
Gazette finds comfort in the allegation
that “the Bryanites are made to look
foolish,” and adds:
“The western farmers will see at
once that high prices are compatible
with a gold standard, and the destruc
tion of Bryan and his panacea is bound
to follow. But if President McKin
ley’s supporters are wise, they will
not for a moment imagine that when
they dispose of the silver craze they
will dispose of the revolt against the
capit ilists who have never used their
power so ruthlessly as since the late
presidential election.”
The Westminster Gazette then pro
ceeds to denounce “the extortions” of
the new United States tariff', which, it
adds, is one of the worst and most
fruitful sources of corruption of public
men and public servants.”
In conclusion The Westminster Ga
zette says:
“The degree of success which has
attended Bryan shows that Americans
are becoming alive to the rottenness of
something, and the next time the cam
paign will be directed less to the gold
standard tliau to the standard of pub
lic life.”
FIVE CHILDREN DROWNED.
Bumped Into the Water From a Float.
Sixteen Were Rescued.
Five children were drowned in the
harbor at Toronto Sunday afternoon
by the capsizing of a float.
" ' The float was made of rough timber
and used for conveying workman from
the mainland to the breakwater, a dis
tance of about 100 yards. The float is
worked by chains attached to the bank
on one side and the breakwaters on
the other.
Sunday afternoon twenty-one chil
dren, boys and girls, ranging from
eight to thirteen years of age, crowded
on the raft for the purpose of going
to bathe at the breakwater. Half way
across the channel, where the water is
very deep, the raft capsized and all
the children were thrown into the
water.
There were many boats in the neigh
borhood, and these were quickly at
the scene of the accident. All of the
children were rescued except five.
GOLD MEN IN CONFERENCE.
Commissioners Appointed to Investigate
the Currency Question.
Hugh H. Hanna, of Indianapolis;
George Foster Peabody, New York
city;- A. E. Williams, Philadelphia,
and J. W T . Fries, Salem, N. C., the
sub-committee appointed by the exec
utive committee of fifteen selected by
the recent sound money conference at
Indianapolis, held an executive session
at Saratoga, N. Y., Wednesday and
appointed commissioners to act on the
recommendation of President McKin
ley in relation to the currency ques
tion.
The names of the commissioners
will not be given to the public until
their acceptance is received.
SWAPPED GOLD FOR GREENBACKS.
Sub-Troaury Receives SSI ,000,000 of Yel
low 3letal From a Bank.
The National Park bank deposited
$1,000,000 in gold in the United
States sub-treasury at New York
Wednesday morning in exchange for
greenbacks.
It is expected that the treasury's
gold reserve will be increased in this
way by banks which need currency in
the shape of small bills for shipment
to the sonth for harvesting the cotton
crop.
HEAVY BUSINESS THIS.
Pennsylvania Bailroud Taxed to Its Ut
most To Furnish Cars.
A high official of the Pennsylvania
railroad says that business is showing
a material increase aud that the com
pany is taxed to furnish the cars.
Owing to the heavy grain movement
which is now coming east there is a
great demand for box cars. Whits
there is not a car famine, there is a
scarcity of oars and those that have
been in storage are now being utilized.
DROWN ALUMNI AROUSED.
Sink*, an Appefll to Uphold tho Interests of
the University.
The following petition, which is to
be presented to the Brown corporation
at its next meeting at Providence, K.
1., on September Ist, is being circu
lated among the alumni of the univer
sity for signatures;
“As alumni of Brown university,
deeply interested in her welfare and
jealous of her good name, we respect
fully address your honorable body
with reference to the action of the
committee appointed by you to confer
with President Andrews regarding the
best interests of the university.
‘ ‘The recent correspondence between
that committee and President Andrews
has rightly or wrongly been interpre
ted to mean that the president and
faculty of Brown university are called
upon to renounce their cherished
rights of freedom of thought and
speech and that the propriety of their
expression is to be measured by its
pecuniary value to the university.
“This interpretation is giving Brown
university a widespread reputation for
intolerance and mercenary standards,
inconsistent with her history and
damaging to her good name and use
fulness and is further giving color to
the charge that our universities in
general exist for the propagation of
ideas favored by a certain class rather
than o_f the discovery and dissemina
tion of truth.
“We cannot remain silent while our
honored institution of learning is thus
misrepresented. We, therefore, ap
peal to you to take action upon the
resignation of President Andrews as
will effectually refute the charge that
the reasonable liberty of utterances
was, or ever is, to bo denied to any
creature of Brown university.
“We ask that by emphatic vote you
shall announce to the public that en
lightened toleration shall be tiro guide
of our alma mater in the future, as it
has been the dearest treasure iu the
past.”
FAURE’S DEPARTURE EXCITING.
Bomb Was Exploded on the Route He Had
Followed.
Advices from Paris state that the
departure of President Faure on his
visit to the czar at St. Petersburg
Wednesday was marked by scenes of
intense excitement, accompanied by
the circulation of the wildest kind of
rumors. After his departure a bomb
exploded along the route the president
had followed, and although no damage
was done, and in spite of the fact that
nobody was hurt, the greatest excite
ment prevailed for a long time after
wards and the sensational reports had
it that those who exploded the bomb
had intended an outrage of a more
serious nature.
The president received an ovation
from the public when he started on
his journey to Russia, large crowds of
people lining tho route from the
Elysee palace to the railway station
and greeted the president with enthu
siastic cries of “vive la republique,
vive la Russia, vive Faure,” etc.
Ten minutes after the president’s
departure, when the crowds were re
turning along the route traversed by
M. Faure, a bomb exploded at the
corner of the Boulevard Magenta and
the Hue Lafayette, in front of the
Restaurant Duval.
JUDGE FIELD BREAKS RECORD.
Has Served on Supreme Court Bench
Longer Than Any Other Justice.
Associate Justice Stephen Field, of
the supreme court of the United
States, broke the record Monday for
continuous service on the supreme
bench, having served 34 years, five
months and six days, or one day
longer than former Chief Justice John
Marshall.
It is probable that his seat upon the
bench will become vacant in the near
future, and upon his retirement Attor
ney General McKenna, according to
the present understanding, will suc
ceed him.
MANGLED BY DYNAMITE.
Georgia Farmer Placed tlie Stull' Under
the Stove To I>ry.
W r . B. L. Davis, a wealthy farmer
living three miles west of Roekmart,
Ga.,was killed at 5 o’clock Wednesday
morning by the accidental explosion
of seventeen dynamite cartridges.
He had placed the box of dynamite
under the kitchen s:ove for the pur
pose of drying.
The kitchen and dining room were
badly wrecked, and the body horribly
mutilated. Davis was 60 years old.
ALASKAN BOUNDARY CORRECT.
Official of the Coast an l 'Geodetic Survey
Say* Linen Will Not Be Changed.
In speaking of the boundary line
between Alaska and tbe British
possessions, General Duffield, of
the coast and geodetic survey, said:
“I do not believe that when the mat
ter of the boundary lines between the
two countries is settled there will be
any appreciable change from the lines
which are down on the map. Dawson
City is 100 miles or mure east of the
141st meridian, which is the boundary
line. The difference between the
United State aud Canada surveys on
the 141st meridian is a matter of feet
only.”
ARMY oFTHE POTOMAC
Hold Their Twenty-Eighth Annual Item’.-
ion lii Troy, N. Y.
Great preparations were made at
Troy, N. Y., to entertain the 3,000
visiting members and friends of the
Army of the Potomac who gathered
there Friday for their 28th aunual
reunion. The city was ablaze with
decorations and every ball and availa
ble space has been turned into an ar
mory for tbe accommodation of wel
come guests.
ALABAMA COTTON MILL CLOSED.
The State’s Conviet Factory Iluns Out of
Material.
Alabama’s state cotton mill, at
Speigners, which is worked by female
and indigent convicts, w-ill he shut
down in a few days on account of the
failure of the cotton supply and the
hands will be put to picking the sta
ple from the state’s fields adjacent.
Hitchcock’s Commission Signed.
The commission of Ethan A. Hitch
cock, of Missouri, as minister to Rus
sia, was made out at Washington Fri
day. The appointment dates from
August 10.
DNDERGUARDOF PINKERTONS
THE OPERATORS DECIDE TO OPEN
UP THEIR IDLE MINES.
COURT’S DECISION AGAINST MINERS
There Will He No More Marching and tho
Selge Agninot DeArmltt lfa. Ileen
Called Off.
The decision reached by the opera
tors of the Pittsburg district at their
conference at Cleveland, 0., Wednes
day night, to open their mines regard
less of the consequences will probably
cause serious trouble, according to lo
cal coal men.
It is the intention of the Pittsburg
operators to engage. Pinkerton men to
protect their non-union men.
This action on their part will prob
ably precipitate a terrible climax to
the great strike, and the operators ad
mit that blood will proliab'y flow.
In speaking of the probable result
of the operators’ decision,Rufus Cuddy,
of the Cuddy Coal company, said:
“If it is found necessary to do so a whole
army of detectives will ho employed to
protect our men, and if tho worst comes
they will be supplied with gatiing guns
and other equipments to convince the strik
ers that we mean business. There wili be
no delay in inaugurating this movement.”
Mr. Cuddy’s statement is upheld by
J. P. Zerbe, president of the Ohio
and Pennsylvania Coal company, who
said:
“We are determined to operate our mines
again in spite of tho strikers, and I see no
reason why wo should not succeed. There
are plenty of non-union workmen in the
country who are willing to fight for their
protection, although I am of the opinion we
will be able to protect them ourselves. I
think when the old miners find they cannot
prevent the mines being operated they will
go back to work again peaceably. The op
erators' conference was adjourned to meet
again next week in Pittsburg, at which
meeting all the linns represented at Wed
nesday’s meeting will bo present.”
Decision Against Miners.
A special from Pittsburg says: When
court opened Wednesday morning
Judges Stowe and Collier handed
down a decision in tho injunction
proceedings t f the New York and
Cleveland Gas Coal Company against
the United Mine Workers of America,
Patrick Dolan, William Warner and
others. The preliminary injunction
was made permanent, and the plaintiff
was ordered to file a bond of $5,000 to
answer for such damages as may be
sustained by the defendants by reason
of the injunction.
Immediately after the filing of the
decree and upon motion the court
ordered a similar decree to be drawn
in the case against the Bunola miners,
in which an injunction had also been
applied for.
The indications are that the camp
about DeArmitt’s mines will be aban
doned, and there will be no more
marching. Uriah Bellingham reached
Plum Creek about noon Wednesday,
and calling the men together,told them
of the adverse decision of the court.
He told them there would be no fur
ther use in remaining in the camp, as
no more food would be furnished.
In order to follow up their advan
tage, the operators held a largely at
tended meeting at the Monongahela
house and arranged for the starting of
their mines, with or without force. If
force seems to be unavoidable, it is l
their intention to start a certain few
mines under the. protection of depu
ties and whatever expense may result
will be shared pro rata by the mine
owners. ;
TENNESSEE HEALTH OFFICERS.
A New State Association Organized At a
Meeting In Nashville.
About 50 city and county health of
ficers of Tennessee met at Nashville
Wednesday to organize a state associ
ation. Dr. Albright, of Somerville,
was made president.
Dr. Albright appointed a committee
on organization which recommended
Dr. W. S. Nash, of Knoxville, for
president; Dr. E. S. Raymond, of
Memphis, for secretary; Dr. F. O.
Johnson, Clarksville; Dr. T. E. Aber
nathy, Chattanooga, and Dr. -T. B.
Thornton, Memphis, vice presidents.
The report was adopted.
NO BIDS RECEIVED.
The Mathews Cotton Mill In Alabama
Was Not Sold.
The Mathews cotton mill property
at Selma, Ala., was again offered at
foreclosure sale Wednesday at the
upset price of $85,000. There were
no bidders. The property had pre
viously been offered twice at the upset
prices of $150,000 and SIOO,OOO. It
is thought the upset price will be re
duced even lower and *ke property
offered again. It is a valuable plant
and for several years has paid hand
some dividends on $900,000.
The foreclosure was forced l>v the ,
failure ot the Commercial hank. Three
hundred operators are out of employ
ment awaiting a sale.
INSANE HUSBAND’S DEED.
Slays His Wife and Her Brother and
Attempts Suicide.
Sunday night at Nashville, Tenn.,
insane from drink, Robert Blum Rich,
a yonng cabinet workman, murdered
bis wife and her brother and then at
tempted to commit suicide, inflicting
wounds from which he will die.
Rich is thirty-four years old and
was married to Mary Oliva Porter De
cember 25, 1887. He was a heavy
drinker and did not get along well
with his wife, from whom he separated
last May.
MOB SLAYS GREEN.
He Had Killed a White Man and Fatally
Wounded a Negro Woman.
Two quick deaths and a probably
fatal wounding marked the day at
Lovett, Ga., a station on the Wrigkts
ville and Tennillo road Sunday.
Andrew Green, a negro, after shoot
ing Lula George, a woman of his own
color, killed George Heath, a pronji
lient citizen, and was in turn killed by
a mob organized to avenge the death
of Heath,
ENCOURAGING OUTLOOK. '
Mercantile Agencies lteport Great Im
provement In Trade GoiuliUon*.
Bradstreet’s summary of business
conditions the past week says:
“Special telegrams front trade cen
ters throughout the country emphasize
the growing prosperity of the farmer,
due to higher prices for almost all ag
ricultural products still in his bauds,
and principally to a continuation of
the demand which lias been conspic
uous within the past few weeks. The
volume of trade continues to increase
and prices are hardening. Xu such
volume of business, largely iu anti •-
pation of requirements, Ims been re
ported since 1892. Larger transactions
have been had in dry goods, clothing
and shoes with south and west in
wagons and farm implements.
“Another very favorable bank clear
ing report is found in the total of sl,-
140,000,000 for the week, which,while
it is 1 per cent less than last week, is
40 per cent larger than in the third
week of August, 1896; 26 per cent
heavier than ill 1895; 49 per cent
larger than in 1891, and fully 55 per
cent larger than in the like week of
1893, when clearings totals were re
duced to very low figures, compared
with the like period iu 1892, a year of
large volume of business, this week’s
total shows a gain of 13 per cent.
Among 86 of the cities reporting bank
clearings only 17 show decreases this
week compared with the correspond
ing period last year. Bank clearings
at other cities than New York are 17
pier cent larger this week than in the
like week a year ago, but at New York
tlie increase is 56 per cent.
“Prices of staples continue the fav
orable movement of the past few weeks,
with advances for wheat flour, wheat,
new pork, butter, eggs, cheese, corn
and oats. Hides are also firmer and
higher.
“Exports of wheat (flour included
as wheat) from both coasts of United
States and Montreal this week are the
largest in any week since September
1, 1894, amounting to 5,218,004 bush
els this week, as compared 4,460,000
bushels last week. 3,991,000 bushels
three years ago, and 4,960,000 bushels
in 1893.”
TO PENSION DESERTERS.
The Oucstion Has Been Submitted to th<
President and Secretary Bilan.
A Washington dispatch says: It is
not improbable that official announce
ment will be made in a few weeks of a
radical change in the present attitude
of the pension bureau toward pension
claimants who had a confederate war
service.
Under the present constructions of
the laws, any service in the confeder
ate cause, irrespective of later service
for the gevernment, is a bar to pen
sion. Commissioner of Pensions Evans
believes that if a claimant served in
any capacity in the confederate service
but later deserted or left its ranks, en
listed in the Union army, served there
in and was honorably discharged, it
would be an injustice to refuse him a
pension. He believes that having per
formed honorable service in tlie union
army, the past hostile services be
overlooked.
Assistant Secretary Webster Davis,
whose decisions have been in the line
of liberal construction of the pension
laws, is understood to have similar
views.
The question has been referred to
the president and Secretary Bliss for
their approval.
AN ADDRESS BY TILLMAN
Will Bo it Ftaturo of si Mass Mooting: of
Democrats In Brooklyn, N. Y.
A committee of the “United Demo
cratic Organization of Greater New
York” has arranged for a mass meet
ing at Ridgewood Park, Brooklyn, on
the evening of August 31. Senator
Tillman, of South Carolina, is sched
uled to make on address upon the
“Duty of Democrats.” A circular has
been sent out to labor organizations
urging attendance in order that a de
monstration may be made against
“the serious and persistent assault
now being made upon several of the
fudamental rights of labor and of all
honest American citizenship by the
process commonly known as govern
ment by injunction.”
Armenians With Bombs.
Tlie police of Constantinople have
arrested two Armenians at whose resi
dences they found two bombs. The
prisoners confessed that they intended
to use these bombs at the Russian and
German embassies.
MAY LEASE FOR FLANAGAN.
Judge Camllcr Grants a Stay of Execution
For Indefinite Time.
At Decatur, Ga., Saturday, Judge
Candler signed a stay of execution,
in the case of Edward Flanagan
which means indefinite life for the
prisoner.
After hearing the reading •’t several
affidavits by both sides *‘ n the motion
for anew trial, tbo court announced
that it would not be able to take up
the question for consideration for sev
eral days.
This means that Flanagan will not
„he executed until after the question of
anew trial im- hasa dec.vJtfd,and-even
should it be decided against him he
has another chaiice in supreme court.
COIN COSTA RICA MONEY.
That Government Appeals to the United
States Mint Korean.
Information comes from Costa Rica
that that government has asked the
United States mint bureau to coin
600,000 colons under the former gov
ernment’s new system of coinage, fa
vorable to gold. It will also seek to
secure gold bars sufficient to coin an
additional 400,000 colons. The colon
is equivalent to 40 cents.
The ratio at which the Costa Rican
coinage is made is 32 to 1 as between
gold and silver.
APPEAL FOR CUBAN GIRL.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis and Mrs. Julia Ward
Howe Ask interference.
A special from New York says: Mrs.
Julia AVarde Howe has appealed to the
pope in a letter asking him to interfere
to save Evangelina Cisneros, the Cuban
girl who is said tobe about to he trans
ported to the Spanish dungeon of
Ceuta.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis has written a
letter to the queen of Spain, making s
Similar request.
ffl OFFERED FORMERS
THE EXECUTIONERS OF THE NE
GRO OSCAR WILLIAMS WANTED.
THE SPALDING GRAND JURY ACTS
And Now tho Governor of Georgia Takes
Cognizance of Their PreMentinents
and Offers Rewards.
Governor Atkinson, of Georgia, has
| offered large rewards for the men who
, lynched Oscar Williams, the Clayton
county negro, in Griffin, on the morn
ing of July 22d. The offer is based
on the same plan as that of the Ryder
reward and contemplates not only the
punishment of those actually in the
mob which did the bloodly work, but
also all those who aid iu preventing
the detection of the guilty parties.
! The governor delayed his proclama
! tion because he wanted to let the
| Spalding county grand jury investigate
the case.
As soon as he read the presentment
of the giand jury, he and Attorney
General Terrell got together and drew
up a paper, wherein the secretary of
state was directed to issue a proclama
tion offering a reward of SSOO each for
the arrest and delivery to tlio sheriff
of Spalding county, or to any jailer in
the state, with proof to convict, of the
first two men concerned therein who
are guilty of a felony, and SIOO each
for the arrest and delivery, with proof
to convict, of each subsequent party
guilty of a felony; also that the secre
tary of state issue a proclamation of
fering a reward of $250 each for such
parties as feloniously conspire or aid
in preventing the detection or arrest
of the parties guilty of the murder of
said Oscar Williams; said reward to be
paid on the arrest and delivery of such
person or persons, with proof to con
vict, to the sheriff of Spalding county
or to any jailer iu the state.
The lynching of Williams was one
of the most remarkable that hrs ever
occurred in Georgia. On July 17th
he attempted an assault on the six
year-old daughter of J. C. Campbell,
a farmer near Lovejoy, and escaped.
He was pursued for three days by a
large mob of men and was caught at
Barnesville, where a company of mili
tia protected him in the jail there.
Later he was taken to Macon under
heavy military escort and lodged in
the Bibb county jail.
The news that a mob was forming
in Macon to lynch him reached the
ears of the sheriff and he promptly
made arrangements for a secret trans
fer of the prisoner to Atlanta. While
en route to the latter city a mob took
Williams from the train and put him
to death.
NEW MODEL FARM.
Georgia Wants Land That Will Produc©
All Kinds of Vegetation.
The prudential committee of the
Georgia State University, at Athens,
has purchased a lot of land to he used
by the department of agriculture for
a model farm.
The present model farm, adjoining
Rock college, will now be put on the
market and the trustees hope to be
able to dispose of it for a good sum.
The purchase of a place for a new
model farm, while quite a surprise,has
been contemplated by the trustees for
a number of years. Up to this time
they have always been pursuaded from
buying other property because of the
old farm. The Rock college property
was practically valueless as a model
farm, and the trustees have been de
siring to get land that will produce
all vegetation abundantly. At their
last meeting it was decided to sell the
Rock college farm aud buy better and
mors fertile land.
VIOLATED SUNDAY LAW.
Georgia Railway Officers Indicted For
Moving Freight on thA Sabbath.
Tbe grand jury of DeKalb county,
Ga., has found six true bills against
the Georgia railroad for running
freight trains on Sunday after the
hours prescribed by law.
The charges against the company are
very plain, and tbe witnesses exam
ined by the grand jury gave positive
testimony that the company operated
their through freights after 8 o’clocjs.
in the morning oh the 7th, 14tli add
21st days of February last.
TOBACCO FAIR ARBAXGEV.
Florida State Organization Formed at a
Meeting In Lake City.
At a mass meeting held by citizens
of Lake City, the Florida Tobacco
Fair association Avas organized to hold
a state tobacco fair in that city Octo
ber 27-28. The following officers were
elected: Professor F. B. Moodie, pres
ident;.!. \V. IVny. iii'-t. JVI esidclTT;
B. H. Palmer, second vice president;
T. S. Chalker, treasurer; S. Boteler
Thompson, secretary; J. E. Young, A.
B. Hart, lb L. Geer, .T. O. Harris, and
other wellknown citizens, board of
directors.
The citizens intend to work hard to
make the fair a great success.
110118 THBOWERS ARRESTED.
Armenians Now In Prison Are Certain To
Ie Executed.
Six arrests have been made as a re
sult of the bomb explosions in Con
atatinople Wednesday. All the prison
ers are Armenians. All are certain to
be executed.
The author of the explosions which
took place in the offices of the grand
vizier is a native of Kalsarieh. His
hand was seriously injured by the ex
plosion. The police-are actively search
ing the Armenian quarters for accom
plices of the bomb throwers, aud the
streets are thoroughly patrolled.
WRECK KILLS SIX.
Head-End Collision on the Louisville and
Nashville in Illinois.
A special from McLeansboro, 111.,
savs: News of a disastrous wreck on
1 the Louisville and Nashville railroad,
one and a half miles north of Dahlgreu,
was received Wednesd ly.
At about half-past 7 a m. two freight
trains, headed in opposite directions,
I,collided, killing six men, all employes
lof tho company, and demolishing the
* engine and a large number of cars.