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APPALLING FIGURES;
INDEMNITY CLAIMS
China Will Be Asked For
half Billion Dollars.
AMOUNT STAGGERS OFFICIALS
State Department Will flake Ef
fort to Have Amount Scaled
To Reasonable Figures.
A Washington special says: The
state department has heard farther
from Mr. Rockhil), our special com
missioner at Pekin,touching the effort
making there to reach an agreement
respecting the indemnity to be de
manded from the Chinese government.
Mr, Rockbili’s principal effort, acting
under direct instructions from Secre
tary Huy, to induce the ministers of
other powers to keep down the total
of their claims to the amount which
the financial experts, headed by Sir
Robert Hart, have decided to be with
in the ability of China to pay.
The cabinet at its meeting Tuesday
gave attention to the subject of indent
jtitv to be required of China, it being
brought forward by Secretary Hay in
connection with Mr. Rockhill’s dis
patches received since the last, meet
ing. Great surprise was expressed at
the enormous total of the claims be
fore the ministers at Pekin, which ap
proximate half a billion dollars. More
over, at least one of the powers in
sists on keeping the account opau un
til it elects to withdraw entirely from
Pekin at a remote date to he fixed at
its own will, thereby leaving the total
of its claim to be increased greatly
hereafter. The opinion of the other
cabinet officers completely accorded
with that of Secretary Hay as to the
desirability of securing a reduction of i
the claims.
CLAIMS TO BE SCALED.
The United States government has
felt that on no account should the to
tal indemnity claim exceed £40,000,-
000, aud has steadfastly sought to
make that tigure the outside limit of
the claim. Foi itself, the state de
partment claims #25,000,000 indemni
ty, and it has supplied Mr. Bockhill
with data for the presentation of an
itemized accouut showing the expen
ditures made by the governmeut of
the United States in the transports
tion of our military contingent in Chi
na, its maintenance there, aud the
just claims of the missionaries who
were American citizens and suffered in
property and person from the Boxer
outbreak.
Ju its anxiety to avoid oppressing
China, and to procure a speedy settle
ment. of the Chinese question, the
United States government stands
willing to make a heavy cut
in its claim, provided the oth
er nations represented nt Pekin
will abate claims in proportion.
The administration is satisfied that
the great danger of the situation at
Pekin lies in delay. Had the repre
sentations of Mr. Rockhill deen heed
ed, the officials are confident that the
formidable rebellion which has uow
broken oat under the leadership of
General Tung Fu Siang, in Shen Si
province, never would have occurred.
It is the hope of the officials at Wash
ington that Tung Fu Siang’s move
ments will stimulate the lagging min
isters at P< kin to final action. If it
does not, if the court is obliged to flee
from Siran Fu, aud the great Yang
Tse viceroys are ovvrawed by Gen
eral Tung Fu Siang, as seems entirely
probatde, then all China will be plung
ed into anarchy, in the opinion of the
officials here.
KNOX SWORN IN.
New Attorney General Formally Takes
Oath of Office.
Mr. Philander C. Knox, of Pitts
burg. Pa., who succeeds Attorney
General Griggs at the head of the de- |
partment of justice, was sworn iu at j
10:30 Tuesday morning in the cabinet j
room of the white house.
There were present, President Mc-
Kinley, Mr. Knox’a youngest son,Phi
lander C. Kuox, Jr., and Justice Shir
as, of the supreme court, who admiu
isted the oath. Justice rihiras is an
old friend of the new attorney general.
Mr. Knox and his son had arrived in
Washington from Pittsburg at 8:30.
FIFTY THuUSAND KILLED
is the Lowest Estimate of Casualties
In Philippines to Date.
According to a New York Herald
special from Washington, since the re
bellion in the Philippines 50,000 men
is the lowest estimate of the war de
partment of the casualties sustained by
the Filipiuo forces; 7,607 rifles have
been captured or surrendered and 605,-
142 pounds of ammunition, as shown
by incomplete returns, have been
seized.
The number of Filipinos killed can
not be accurately determined, as Gen
eral in his dispatches
states that it is impossible to be aceu
rate on this point.
CASSAVA AND SUGAR CANE.
Two Subjects Discussed at Convention
Meld In Brunswick.
The Southern Sugar Cane and Cas
sava convention called by the Bruns
wick, Ga., Board of Trade met Tues
day morning in that city and had in
attendance the representative agri
culturists of South Georgia.
The object of the meeting was to
discuss and devise means for the better
cultivation of these important south
ern products.
) SLtW C 5 VV Lit; I rlfcAk 1
Jilted Swain Murders Young Lady
In Cold Blood and Takes
His Own Life.
J. J. Arrington and Miss Minnie
I Cleghorn were found dead ou one of
| the main streets of the town of Sam-
I merville,Ga., Tuesday afternoon about
I 4:iJt) o’clock, t-ho was shot three or
four times through the breast and
I lived only a few minutes. He was
shot, five times through the breast and
I died immediately.
He had been desperately in love with
her for some time, and they met on
the street and had been talking for
some time, and it is supposed she bad
I refit-ed to marry him, and he tbere-
I upon emptied one pistol at her, three
j or four shots taking effect, and then
I emptied the other one in himself, all
| five shots taking effect. Two pistols
j were found near them, Nos. 32 and 38
| Smith and Wesson brand.
She said to the first one who came
j to her: “Oh, why did he do it?”
Ho was dead before auy’oue reached
them. They were four or five feet
apart on the ground. Arrington was
a young druggist and Miss Cleghorn
was the daughter of Captain J. S.
Cleghorn, a prominent business man. j
Miss Cleghorn bad just returned from
a trip to Florida and it was the first
time she and Arrington had been to- ,
gother since her return.
T he double tragedy was an appalling
one. The young couple had been j
walking together and when near the
law office of John D. Taylor the shoot- j
iug began. Just how the tragedy was !
brought about and what passed be
tween them will never be known.
The couple had been sweethearts for
years atid it is said it that both were
deeply in love with each other. Miss
('leghorn’s parents objected strongly,
it is said, to their daughter marrying j
Mr. Arrington. Miss Cleghorn had
finally broken the engagement on ac
count of her parents’ objection and it is j
presumed that the young man brooded
over the matter until his mind became
unbalanced.
Miss Cleghorn was strikingly beau
tiful and was a social favorite in Home,
Chattanooga, Atlanta and wherever
she visited.
BOCKS LOSE 1E MHJUARTERS.
Iletadim-nt of Itritons, However, Are
Captured As • Set Off.
Lord Kitchener, reporting to the
war office at Loudon under date of
April Bth, say?:
“Pluuier has eutered Petersburg,
with slight opposition. He captured
two locomotive* a:. 1 thirty-nine trucks.
He took six pr.* ners, capturing a
seven-pounder and iestroyiug 210,000
cartridge*, I,rounds of eeveu
pouoder amm u • n and a considera
ble anion: t of i *r iul dynamite.”
The capture Petersburg is regarded
a* important. The place is the termi- |
mis <jf the Hoer government since the
evacuation of Pretoria. The northern
railway is now in the hands of the
British.
According to Lord Kitchener’s dis
patch oniy one officer and one man
was killed. The Boers evacuated the
town during the night, prior to Pin
mer’s arrival, after blowing up two
trucks loaded with ammunition.
Lord Kitchener further reports the
capture of sixteen prisoners, fifty
horses ami the depot of war stores at
Boshmanskop, Orange River colony.
As an offset the commander in chief
reports that a detachment of 100 men
of the Fifth Lancers aud Imperial
Yeomanry were attacked by 50 Boers
to the northward of Aberdeen, Cape
Colouy, and that after several hours’
fighting the British were surrounded
and captured, with the exception of
twenty-five, who succeeded in making
their escupe.
CARTER DENIES ALLEGATIONS.
Convicted Ex-Captain Score# Hi# For
mer Secretary at Savannah.
The reply of Oberlin M. Carter in
the suit of M. A. Connally, his former
secretary aud stenographer, for #2,500
for services rendered in getting up
evidence, securing witnesses and in
other ways for the celebrated Carter
conrtmartial case, was filed in the city
court at Savannah, Ga., Tuesday.
While the answer is filed by Carter’s
attorneys, it is understood that it is
practically the work of Carter himself.
In it he scores the once “useful
Michael" at great length. Practically
every charge and allegation made by
Connally as to services rendered, is
emphatically denied.
ANOTHER COfIBINE SCHEME.
Move on Foot to Consolidate Ma
chinery Manufacturing: Plants.
A Milwaukee special says: Charles
Allis, representing the great plant of
the E. P. Allis company, is in New
York in connection with a proposition
to consolidate all the machinery and
stationary engine plants of the coun
try.
The trnst will, if formed, have a
capital of #50,000,000 and include
over 40 plants.
They are located in Milwaukee, Fort
Wayne, Canton, 0., Wiikesbarre, Pa.,
Pittsburg, Youngstown,O,, Cleveland.
0., Pitston, Pa., Hamilton, 0., New
York, Philadelphia and Akron, t).
“NEVVo” FROM PARIS.
French Paper Says Kruger Will Lec
ture In Interest of Democrats.
Le Rappel (Paris), which has al
ready published several remarkable
statements as to the plans of Mr. Kru
ger, displayed the following dispatch
from The Hague Tuesday morning:
“Mr. Kruger’s departure for the
United States has been fixed for May
31st. He will lecture in Tammany
hall about June Bth, as the guest of
the Democratic party.”
THE WEEKLY NEWS, CARTERSVILLE, GA.
attorney GENERAL KNOX.
! President Announces to Cabinet Se
lection of (Irigg’s Successor.
At the cabinet meeting Friday Presi
dent McKinley announced to the mem
' hers that P. C. Kuox, of Pittsburg,
has accepted the attorney generalship,
j which was offered some time ago. His
! commission was signed immediately
after the president bad informed his
advisers of their new colleague’s ac
ceptance.
Piague Reported at Ann Arbor.
Nothing has been received by the
I officials of the marine hospital ser
vice at Washington regarding the
sickness believed to be bubonic plague,
of a student in the Ana Arbor, Mich.,
university.
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Tax Receiver's Notice for 1901
I will attend at the places mimO below on th*
day* stated lot rece.ving lax Returns tor the
year in. to wit:
Cartersville, April i, iB, May 15, June 3, 8. 13, 14
and 13.
W olf t\ n, A i ril 13, May io ard *l.
-tan.p Creek, April 15, May 13 and 30.
Ai atoona, April i'., M.,y 13 and 31.
t nerson, April (7, May 14 and June 1.
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-alacoa April 12. May Sand aS.
Gum "prints. May 6.’at night.
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I ,n Mill, April 5. 25 and Mav 21.
t i.ariee. April 2. 22 and Stay 16
i ayt,rsvilie, April 4. 24 and V.ay 2c.
Sti'esboro, April 3, 23 and May 17
Cassvilie, Apnl 0. 2') and V ay 23.
Cass Station, April 20 2 p. ni.
Sogers, Apn'.2o,9 a in.
T artds, April 19
Douthets. May iS, a. ::i
Whites. May ji.
II it- hccck's Mill, April 26, p. ni.
1 Sugar Hill, May 9
HEAD CAREFULLY.
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Marsh 1901. must be returned.
Under lecent laws and reuulations require the
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Ihe given nsnies of tax payers must be given
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and bo years of age.
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on their premise* on April ist.
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