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CUBANS AGAINST PLATT AMENDMENT Constitutional Convention Goes On Record. DEFIANCE TO YOUR UNCLE SAM Puts Commission In Embarrass ing Attitude—Spooner Talks Plainly—Other News. A Havana special says: The Cuban constitutional convention placed itself upon record Friday against the Platt amendment by a vote of 18 to 10 on a resolution that the convention should declare itself opposed to the amend ment “on account of the terms of some the clauses, and the way in which they are drawn, and also on account of the contents of others, especially clauses 111, VI and VII.” The conservatives assert that this action is embarrassing, inasmuch as it practically ties the haudß of any commission that might be sent to Washington. NEWSPAPER MEN SENTENCED. Senors Torrel aud Urritis, respect ively the editor and director of El Es tivador, the organ of the stevedores and lightermen, have been sentenced by the captain of the port of Havana, Lieutenant Commander Lucten Young, to thirty aud sixty days’ imprisonment respectively. They were charged with the publication of libellous nrtioles intended to invite trouble among the dock laborers of Havana. At a late hour Friday afternoon both men were released. It is admitted that Lieutenant Commander Young’s court had jurisdiction in the matter of sentence, but he considered that his object had been attained in making an example of two agitators who, it is al leged, were at the bottom of the re cent labor troubles, and who had been even more recently engaged in incit ing another strike. The former strike was settled by a mutual agreement by all parties to re gard the schedule of wages drawu up and published iu the official Gazette, as the law, by El Estivador had been attacking the schedule as unjust, and calling upon workmen to resent it. NEELY TO SELL PROPERTY. The legal authorities have granted permission to Charles F. W. Neely to sell the brick yard and land in Havana standing in his name. The money realised will be turned over to the court and kept in trust until a decision is reached in connection with his al leged embezzlement of postal funds. SPOONER IS EMPHATIC. “Congress has defined the relations ifliicb shall exist between the United States and Cuba, and in my judgment it will not agree to any modification,” said Senator Spooner, member of the senate committee on relations with Chiba, after a conference at the war de partment Friday with Secretary Root. “The terms offered Cuba,” Senator Spooner continued, “are more in the interest of the island than that of the United States. I am confident that the mass of the people of the island appreciate the unselfish attitude of this government, and if they had an opportunity to declare their views they would unhesitatingly approve the relations as defined by congress.” The attention of the senator was called to the suggestion that General Wood should dissolve the convention and issue a call for another, the peo ple at the time of the election of dele gates to vote upon the question of the aceeptauce of the Platt amendment. “I have seen that repoit,” he said, “I know nothing about it. I believe, however, that the convention after further consideration of the matter will come to the conclusion that the wise course to pursue is to incorporate in the constitution the terms offered them.” Another step toward the establish ment of full civil government in Cuba was taken by the appointment by General Wood of Ernest Sterling as deputy auditor of the island. Senor Sterling has been discharging similar duties for some time past under Major Lathi, bat is now re-appointed as a purely civil official. CIO CASE COMPROMISED. Government Will Pay $4,000,000 ti Philadelphia Merchants. The famous “bat trimmings” cases, involving about $20,000,000 and which since 1884 have been the subject of a bitter legal battle between the govern ment and a number of Philadelphia importers, have at last been settled. It is stated on high authority that a compromise has been effected through which the merchants interested will receive about $4,000,000 from the United States treasury in full settle ment of the much larger amount they claim to have been forced to pay ia ex cess of legal duties. MILLIONS OF LIABILITIES. Once Wealthy New York Banker Now Has Only $25 in Assets. William C. Coffin,of New York City, who was a former partner in the bank ing house of Coffin & Stanton, which made a general assignment in 1894, tiled a petition in bankruptcy in the United States district court Friday. He schedules his liabilities at $4,150,- 907 and assets at $25, which is cash in bank. The secured claims , amout to $2,986,172. CUBAN COMMISSION. Five Delegates to Visit Washing ton are Selected By the Ha vana Convention. A Manila special says: The trial of Commissary Sergeant John Meston, charged with complicity in the com missary frauds, is finished. No verdict was announced and Meston’s convic tion is uncertain. Other trials of those implicated will follow. Captain James C. Read, formerly depot commissary at Manila, has been arrested. It is alleged that entries upon the books of Evans & Cos., government contractors, indicate that the commis sary officers received the following sums: Major George B. Davies, upward of $1,000; Captain James C. Read, $1,000; Captain Frank H. Lawton, $750; Mr. B. Tremaine, Colonel Woodruff’s chief clerk, S7OO. It also appears that Evans & Cos. furnished the handsome residence of Colonel Woodruff. Harold L. Pitt, manager of Evans <fc Cos., who is now under arrest, was notoriously lavish in entertaingiug commissiary and other officers, while the depot commissary, a frequenter of the “tenderloin dis trict,” occasionally spent days at Pitt’s house iu questionable society. Pitt’s bouse is a bacchanalian rendezvous, and prominent officers frequently visit it, drinking champagne and playing poker. Women of doubtful reputa tion have been known to be there. It is alleged that Pitt had the inside track in securing government con tracts, and it is also asserted he was the prime mover in the scheme to re-estab lish cock pits iu Manilla, Mrs. Lara being subsidized in securing a cock pit. It is asserted that the commissary deparment made unauthorized pur chases of quantities of champagne. Pitt sold some. In addition t* what the transports brought the com missary imported 200 gallons iu Feb ruary and a like amount in March. The commissary and the commissary sergeant kept private carriages auu indulged in other extravagancies. The Methodists in Manila are plan ning a vigorous proselyting campaign. Bishop Warren, of the Methodist Episcopal church, has just arrived and the native converts are inthusiastic. SOUTHERN PROGRESS. Th* Various Industries Established During the Past Week. Among the more important of the new industries reported for the past week are #IOO,OOO brick works at Parkersburg, W. Va.; #30,000 brick works at Texarkana, Ark.; and a brick plant at Bristol, Tcun.; a broom fac tory at Sherman Heights, Tenn.; a buggy and carriage factory at Valdos ta, Ga.; and #150,000 caual and rice company at Jennings, La.; a #25,000 clay and sand company at Bolivar, Tenn.; a #50,000 coal and railway company at Bessemer, Ala.; a #IOO,- 000 coal and iron company at Wald ron, Aik.; a #25,000 coal company at Rockdale, Tex.; a coal mine at Rock wood, Tenn.; cotton gins at Mullins, S. C.; Ash Creek, Boyce, Iredell, and Taylor, Tex.; a cross-arms factory at Meridian, Miss.; electric light and power plants at Madison, Fla.; Gaines ville, Ga.; and Port Arthur, Tex.; a #IOO,OOO electrical and* improvement company at North Augusta, S. C ; flouring mills at Strand, Ark., West Point, Ky., Chatham and Roopville, Va.; a flour and grist mill a Maysville, Ga.; a hardware company at Valdosta, Ga.; a #50,000 hardwood factory at Bristol, Tenn.; ice factories at Eliza betliton, Ky., and Norfolk, Va.; a #150,000 ice and refrigerating plant at Shreveport, La.; u #50,000 land com pany at Hitchcock, Tex.; #25,000 medicine factory at Wheeling, W. Va.; an iron mining company at Brimiug ham, Ala.; a $1,000,000 mining and milling company at Jefferson, N. C.; #40,000 oil mills at Pecan Gap and Valley Mills, Tex.; a #30,000 rice company at Lonoke, Ark.; a sash, door and blind factory at Fayetteville, N. C.; saw mills at Bronson, High Springs and Zolfo, Fla.; a shoe factory at Atlanta, Ga.; a #IOO,OOO stave and wooden factory at Louisville, Ky.; a tannery at Moorefield, W. Va.; a $25,- 000 telephone company at Montgom ery, Ala., and other telephone com panies at Chapel Hill, N. C., Cooke ville, Tenn., and Lake Creek, Tex.; a tobacco factory at Cory, N. C., and a #25,000 woolen mill at Nashville, Ark. —Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.) FLORIDA LEUISLA I URE. Many Measures of General State In terest are Introduced. A special from Tallahassee says: In the senate Friday a bill making radical changes iu election law and a laborer’s lien bill were introduced. In the house a bill for a method of assess ing and collecting revenue; bills pro hibiting railroads charging a passen ger rate of over 3 cents a mile; pro hibiting state attorneys and county solicitors from serving transportation companies as attorney, and a bill pro viding for jim crow cars were intro duced. In both houses a bill for a uniform divorce law proposed for adop tion in all the states was introduced. SAMOAN CENSUS FIGURES. Islanders Under Control of the United States Number 5,800. A census of the population of the Samoan group has been taken. The number of Samoans in Upolu and other islands under the German gov ernment is 32,000, while the popula tion of the six islands under the Unit ed States government is returned at 5,800. The very slight increase dur ing the last thirty years ia about the same in proportion all round. THE WEEKLY NEWS, CARTERSVILLE, GA. GEORGIA NEWS ITEMS Brief Summary of Interesting Happenings Culled at Random. Treasurer Must Pay Shortage. At Marietta, Saturday last, fi fas issued from the court of ordinary of Cobb county and amounting to more than eight thousand dollars, principal aud interest, were levied on the prop erty of Captain W. R. Montgomery, the former clerk of the superior court and treasurer of the county. It is claimed that Captain Montgomery is due the county that amount, the inter est in such cases being 20 per cent per annum. The first official news of this indebt edness was made public through the presentments of the grand jury, in which the report of an expert account ant was embodied. * * * Itieh Gold Strike. President J. W. Adams of the Dahlonega Consolidated Gold Mining company, reports what he considers the richest gold find that has been made in recent years in that district. The shute is in the celebrated i inley mine, from which over $300,000 was taken up to 10 years, ago, when the vein was lost at a depth of 150 feet. Within the past few days the work men on the consolidated again blasted into the vein, and samples of ore taken out from the pay streak that run iu value from SIOO to SIO,OOO a ton. * * * The Winnie Dnvia Monument, The Savannah Press says: Tho Daughters of the Confederacy of Geor gia are pushing ahead with commend able zeal the collection of funds for the purpose of erectiug at Athens the Winnie Davis memorial dormitory. * * * Nejjro Murderer to Ffan^. Romulus Williams, colored, who kill ed Adam Huunieutt, another negro, some time ago, has been sentenced to hang at Perry on May 31st. Appeal for new trial will be made. • * * Governor In WasMnuton, A Washington dispatch is as follows: Governor Candler, of Georgia, is in Washington to settle accounts between the federal government aud Georgia for the equipment of troops for the late war with Spain. In speaking of this the governor says: “The law provided that vouchers in certain form should be made out for every expenditure. In some cases the military authorities did not issue any vouchers at all, and that has caused some delay in the final payments, but the state will lose but little. After I finish here I am going to New Ycrk, but my trip there is entirely on per sonal business.” He says be has not come north to borrow money for the state, but that if he is unable to get it from the state treasurer he will have to borrow it later. • • * Klnc'rt Dinighter# and Soda. The approaching state convention of the Georgia branch of the Interna tional Order of the King’s Daughters and Sons, to be held in Atlanta April 23, 24 and 25, is being looked forward to with much interest by all those con nected with the order or identified with the noble work being done by the association. Members of the local circles are making extensive arrangements for the entertainment of the delegates and the visiting national officers who are expected, and an interesting program will be arranged for the three day3 of the convention. The convention will meet at 9:30 o’clock each morning and adjourn ment will be had at 10 o’clock each night, with daily recesses from 2 o’clock in the afternoon until Bat night. All members of the order in the state are invited to attend the ses sions and the Atlanta members aud state organization officers urge all cir cles to send delegates tc this meeting. * * * New Georgia Pontimtster*. The following fourth-class postmas ters for Georgia have been appointed: Buff, Gordon county, W. H. Ellis; Cole City, Dado county, H. W. Dews; Eulonia, Mclntosh county, L. L. Britt; Grange, Jefferson county, W. V. Walden; Lulaville, Wilcox countv, F. C. Ford. Ulj£ Wane In Curilcli'. The wholesale grocery * house of Clegg & Sons, at Cordele, was de stroyed by fire at an early hour last Friday. Loss amounts to sl9,ooo,with only $9,000 insurance. Eleven freight cars ou the tracks of the S. A. L. rail road were also burned. The loss to the railroad company will be SIO,OOO. • * * Court to Validate Bond*, The case of the state of Georgia against the city of Atlanta was called in the Fulton county superior court Saturday morning. City Attorney Mayson made the necessary motion and Judge Lumpkin took the papers, announcing that he would render his decision within a few days. The case is that which w ill legalize the issuance of $200,000 of water bonds by the city of Atlanta. The suit was brought by Solicitor Hill, of this circuit. This is always done when bonds are to be is sued in order that any future question as to the legality of the issue might be disposed of. * * * Scot! Brother* Acquitted. In the case of the two Scott ne groes, charged with conspiracy and the murder of Deputy United States Marshal Whitely, in Lincoln county, the jury brought in a verdict of not frailty. The judged charge was an I-mTX Ever have them? j Then wc can’t . j teii you any thing about ' s A wlir them. You n Ms 'wr know how dark p J everything locks E j iztor k° w Y° u are a b° ut ( \ pr ready to give up. Some how, you can’t throw off the terrible depression. ►] rj Are things really so lN Al blue? Isn’t it your nerves, L'l after all? That’s where ’4 U the trouble is. Your ►J f j nerves are being poisoned rl from the impurities in L'j L] your blood. jf sj purifies the blood and gives power and stability to the nerves. It makes health and strength, activ ity and cheerfulness. This is what “Ayer’s” will do for you. It’s the oldest Sarsaparilla in the land, the kind that was old before other Sarsa parillas were known. This also accounts for the saying, “One bottle of Ayer’s is worth three bottles of the ordinary kind.” SI.OO a bottle. All dnijjlsts. Wrlto tho Doctor 1 . it you have any complaint whatever and desire the best medical advice you can possibly receive, write the doctor freely. You will receive a prompt re ply, without cost. Address, Dr. J. C. AYEK, Lowell, Mass. able review of the entire case, and specially stressed the fact that the proof of conspiracy was essential to give the United States jurisdiction and that the government must have estab lished this beyond a reasonable doubt. The jury seems to have accepted the theery of the defense that Whitely was killed by Lum Scott, who was also killed. * * * Indictment Against Registrar*. On May 11th an interesting hearing is to take place before the United States conrt at Atlanta on the de murrer filed by the defendants in the case of the Pauii,u county iegistrars, who vere indicted for refusing to register voters in the county who claimed that they were entitled to registration. The case lias created a great deal of interest throughout Fan nin county. * * • To Levy on Curs. Levies will be made by Atlanta city authorities upon the property of the Southern Iron Car line, and it is prob able that a fight before the tax com mittee or before council will be the result. City officials have announced that they will proceed to make the levy. This may cause a conflict be tween them and the members of the tax committee of council, as that body some time ago decided not to have the levy made upon the cars that bear the name of the Southern Iron Car line. Professor Pound Klected. President Jere M. Pound, of the Gordon institute, at Barnesville, is to be superintendent of Bibb’s public schools, to succeed Superintendent Abbott, who goes to the Normal col lege, at Athens. The board of educa tion of Bibb county elected President Pound, and be was nt once notified. There were twenty applicants for the place. * • * Centennial We*-S% At University. The centenuial of the University of Georgia will be celebrated at tie com mencement in June and the program of exercises as arranged indicates the event will be the most brilliant in the history of the institution. The occasion will bring together at Athens an array of distinguished men aud speakers, among them Dr. J. L. M, Curry, LL.D., Dr. Benjamiu M. Palmer, D.D., LL.D., Hon. Oscar Straus, of New York, Judge Emory Speer, of Macon, aud Dr. Henry Van Dyke, of Princeton. Miss llJill Gets Firs! Honor. Miss Margaret Hall, of Macon, has been given first honor at Wesleyan. The announcement was made Satur day. For second honor there was a tie between Miss Mary Lovejoy, of De catur; Miss Mary Park of LaGrange, and Miss Dorothy Rogers, of Walesca. * ♦ K*v. You ij; J. Allen Coining: Home. Dr. Y r oung J, AlieD, missionary to China, will spend the summer in Geor gia. He is expected in Atlanta about the 20th of this month from Shanghai, China, where be has been located for many years. Dr. Allen has written Mrs. Arthur H. Allen, of Atlanta, say ing that he will arrive about that time. Dr. Allen will attend the forty-sixth session, fifty-sixth year, of the South ern Baptist convention at New Orleans May 10th and will then come to Geor gia. .He will attend the ecumenical conference to be held in London next fall, returning from there to China. THE PUiUU KIGANS NOT PROSPEROUS Says Native Commissioner From the Island. ALLEN IS ROUNDLY ROASTED Statements Made By Governor Regarding Conditions Are Branded As False. A New York dispatch says: Reply ing to the public utterances of Gover nor Allen, of Porto Rico, since his ar rival in Washington, Wenceslao Borda, Porto Rican commissioner Thursday made the following statement: “The question at issue between Governor Allen aud the commission ers are merely two: “First, whether his administration in Porto Rico has been conducive to the prosperity aud welfare of the island; second, whether the Hollander revenue law was such a measure as should have been passed, and, with out a hearing, approved by the chief executive of Porto Rico. Governor Allen has gone out of his way to attack personally the commissioners -when he says that the members of the so-called commission are foreigners; one a Spaniard, one a South American and one an Englishman. We fail com pletely to see how this assertion, even were it true, could affect the merits of our case, but. we do think that it shows his arguments must be poor when he has to vail himself of one of this nature. “Governor Allen states that Porto Rico has never before, in its history, been so prosperous; that more persons are employed today than before; that the sugar crop will yield 100,000 tons. He shows, however, no facts or figures to substantiate these assertions. They are, therefore, mere statements of an interested official. There is no more truth in them than ihere is to the statement that we are tax dodgers and that the rest of the Porto Ricans are well satisfied with the situation. Now comes a Porto Rican labor leader, Santiago Iglesias, with a petition signed by 6,000 workmen which de clared that the condition of the Porto Ricans could not be worse. These people certainly are not tax dodgers. “Governor Allen is apt to believe that everybody who criticises his ad ministration is bad, but he cannot call his new crities tax dodgers, whatever else he may call them, since they have nothing that can be taxed. “Porto Rico is not as prosperous as he would like the people of the Unit ed Ststes to believe, as is eloquently and conclusively shown by the cus toms statistics. “It is misleading to compare the exports and imports of this year, that is to say, the production and consump tion of the island, with that of the years of the war and hurricane. The test contrast should be made, to be fair, with the fiscal year just previous to our occupation of Porto Rico and with the present fiscal year, which, ac cording to Governor Allen, is also a normal one. The exports during the former year amounted to about $19,- 000,000 pesos, or #11,400,000. The imports to about $18,000,000 pesos, or about $10,800,000, a balance of trade in favor of the island of 1,000,000 pesos, or $600,000. The exports from May 1, 1900, to February 28, 1901, were #5,814,083, and the imports #3,100,000, a balance of trade against the islaud of $2,285,- 917, which is wholly unsupportable and spells ruin when it js recalled that our circulation is less than #2,000,000 and that Porto Rico has lost her credit in the commercial world. “Governor Allen states that never has there been the number of laborers employed as at present. He fails to offer the grounds for this belief. The production of the island does not show it. The alarming emigration of labor ers to Ecuador, Cuba, Hawaii and Santo Domingo, which he admits is taking place, emphatically belie the governor’s assertion in this respect. “Why does not the governor men tion the other industries of the island besides sugar? We answer, because misgovernment has nearly wiped them out.” CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bough! HEROIC AC I REWARDED. Woman’s Lfe Was Saved and Her Rescuer Gets Big Fortune. Henry H. Hawthorne, oue of the invalid soldiers in the Soldiers’ home at Dayton, 0., has just received notice that he has been made the beneficiary to ihe amount of $209,000 to $500,000 left him by a woman out of gratitude for having saved her life many years ago. The woman is Mrs. Josephine Fairfax, who recently died iu the south of France. Hawthorne was born in England and came to the United States when a boy. Later he went to Englaud on a visit. While at Kent bathing in the sea he saw a woman aud her son in a boat which capsized. Hawthorne, being an expert swimmer, succeeded in res cuing the woman, but the Bon was drowned. IIJUUUAU At PARIS IN 1000. ~ Tb# Fsmou. Chicago Company Recelrcd irxo r *** Greater Honor, Than Wore Er # * Before Accorded an amorf Exhibitor in the History of'w* positions. 7 H,tion and th elaborate exhibits which w™ prepared with consummate skill and distlarM m a manner not excelled by anv other Those of Harvesting Machinery i n particular were most complete and interesting Doering Harvester Company, of Chicio America a foremost manufacturer of this of goods, was accorded the position of honor having contributed more to the advancement of the art of harvesting than any other manu facturer, living or dead, and with a *re*£ array of important inventions to its credo than any other company in the world Visitors to tho Exposition wore promnt t* accord the Deer mg exhibits supreme honor, and it only remained for official mandate to ratify the popular verdict, which was done m a manner a.- substantial as it ww well-merited Each one of the seven Deer ing exhibit secured tho highest award m its class. In addition to four high decorations fb Dcering Harvester Company received twenty five awards, or twenty-nine in all, as follows* Decoration of Officer of the Legion of Honor Decoration of Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, Two Decorations of Officer of°Merit* Agricole, a Special Certificate of Honor The Orand Prize, Six Gold Medals, six Silver Medals and Eleven Bronze Medal*, including Leering Collaborator Medals. * Tho Decoration of Legion of Honor was in, itituted by Napoleon Bonaparte when Pirn Consul in 1802, and is only conferred in recog nition of distinguished mifitary or civil achieve ments. It is the highest distinction in the gift of tho French Republic. Tho Decoration of Merit© Agricole is an honor of but slightly less importance, which is conferred upon those who have contributed, greatly to the advancement of agriculture. An Official Certificate of Honor was accord ed the Deering Retrospective Exhibit, which showed the improvements in harvesting ma chinery during the past century, and excited the highest praise of the French Government Officials who had entrusted to the Deering Harvester Company the preparation of tbii most important exhibit. By special request this exhibit has been presented to the National Museum of Arts and Sciences at Paris, whera it has become a permanent future of that world-famed institution. The Deering Twine Exhibit and Corn Har vester Exhibit, both of which received th* highest awards, havo by request of the French Government been presented to the National Agricultural College of France. There was no field trial, cither official or otherwise, in connection with tbs Paris Expo sition, but the most important foreign contest the past season was held under the auspice* of the Russian Expert Commission at the Gov ernmental Farm of Tomsk, Siberia, August 11th to 18th. All the lending American and European machines participated and were subjected to the most difficult test* by th* Government Agriculturist. The Expert Com mission awarded the Deering Harvester Com - pany the Grand Silver Medal of the Minister of Agriculture and Domain, which was th* highest award. The Deering Harvester Works are the larg est of their kind in the world, covering eighty five acres and employing 9000 people. They are equipped with modern automatic ma chines, many of which perform the labor of from five to fifteen hands. This Company is also the largest manufac turer of Binder Twino in the world, having been first to produce single-strand binder twine, such as is in general use today, making over a third of the product of the entir* world. The output of its factory for a singl* day would tie a band around the earth at tn* •quator, with several thousand mile* to spare. The annual production would fill a freight train twenty miles long. Made into a mat two feet wide, it would reach across the American Continent from ocean to ocean. Deering machines are known as Lids'* Draet Deals, consisting of Binders, Mowers, Reapers, Corn Harvesters, Shredder* and Rakes. Thi* Company exhibited at the Pari* Bxpori - tion an Automobile Mower, which attracted much attention, and exhibitions were gi>*a with one of these machines in the vicinity of Paris throughout the season. A REMINDER. "A baby reminds me of poetry,” said the sentimentalist. “Yeß,” answered the man of family. “It reminds me of poetry, too; especi ally when it is inclined to be bad and you have to walk the floor composing it.”—Washington Star. JFfree! CAT r V;f SPORTING GOODS \\M RAWLINGS SPORTING pjfe GOODS COMPANY, ,20 Loco., SI.. ST. 1.0 1 IS. Mo. FRAGRANT a perfect liquid dentifrice for the Teeth and Mouth New She SOZODONT LIOUID. 25c flTf SOZODONTTOOTH POWDER, 25c f Larte LIQUID and POWDER, 75c V At all Stores, or by Mail for the price. HALL&RUCKEL, New York. 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