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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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