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THE CO UR ANT AMERICAN. V()L- NX. Serous IDE! IDEAS yyill Be Introduced in China as Result of Negotiations. aB 3UT INDEMNITY REQUIRED. ,t Will Amount to an Enormous Sum-How It will be Financed- Economic Reform. New York, Nov. 12.—'The open jug of the interior of China to mod ern civilization is regarded at Washington, says a Journal and Advertiser special, as a probable outcomeof the present negotiations between China and the powers. While the details are being left to the ministers at Pekin in order to secure a basis of agreement, the information which is reaching the state department and the various representatives of the*p° wers in Washington, indicates that several important steps will probably be taken in the negotiations now go ing on which will tend to make easier the adpption of modern economic ideas in the celestial em- pire. The steps to be taken turn to a considerable extent upon the ques tion of the payment of the indem nity. An effort is being made by the United States supported by the other liberal powers, to check the excessive demands and limit the!' money payment to the actual dam ages suffered b£ the powers with their citizens and subjects during the recent troubles. Notwithstanding this policy of moderation, the amount to be ask ed of China by all the powers will be considerable —say $100,000,000 or 200,000,000. It may be possible to accept the principal in bonds, but these bonds will not find a ready market unless the interest is secured in some effective manner, and it is understood, tacitly at least, that the support of the civil ized powers will be given for its payment in case of default on the part of the Chinese imperial gov ernment. It is felt, both by the Chinese liberals at home, and by the rep resentatives of some of the powers, that it is not wise nor practicable to force reforms upon the whole of China with a rapidity which might lead to fresh outbreaks among the ignorant masses, like those which have recently aroused them against the “foreign devils.” It is hoped, in view of the rep resentations which are reaching the state department, that the Chi nese imperial government w ill adopt a policy which will extei.d eco nomic reform and open the interior of China to the commerce of the civilized powers as rapidly as ad vantage can be taken of such op portuuity. SEA GIVES UP ITS DEAD- Twenty-Five Bodies Are Recover ed From Wreck of the Steamer. Yarmouth, N. S., Nov. 11. — The shore of tnis connty for ten miles east and west of this county for ten miles east and west is strewn with the wreckage of the hull and cargo of the steamer city of Monticello. which foundered Saturday morning, and twenty-five bodies ot victims of the disaster have been recovered from the sea. which is still raging with terrific fury. Many people have assembled at Rockville, near where the first body came ashore, and numerous rela tives of members of the crew, who nearly all belonged to points on have arrived to identify the dead The bodies were arranged in a room in the public hall and Coroner Fuller, who held an inquest, gave an opinion of accidental drowning. A:1 the bodies are terribly battered. The first body was found at day bght, when the zinc lifeboat, which Was supposed by the survivors of fhe first boat to have been swamp ecL was discovered on the shore. A Rw,- yards distant were the bodies ri Eldridge, a passenger; S-econd Engineer Poole, Mr. Fripp, a trav er f° r McGee & Sons, of St. Johns, and the body of a seaman. AH tour had life belts around them. t short intervals along the beach !t even bodies were found making te en discovered up to noon today. . *’ev had all evidently come ashore in tne lifeboat and were killed on diking the beach, not one escap- CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1)00. GREAT CIS FOR REW SHIPS. Most Powerful in the World to be Tested This Week- SOME NEW COALING STATIONS Are to Be Established on the Coast of Maine and Massachusetts. Purchases Made. New York, Nov. 12. —Two na val guns, the most poweiful of their respective calibres in the world, will be tested this week at the Indian Head proving grounds, says a Washington dispatch to the Herald. One of these weapons is 12 inches and the other is 6 inches in cali bre. They are intended for the monitors of the Arkansas class and the battleships, armored cruisers and protected cruisers under con struction and projected. Both guns were built in the na val gun factory in the Washing ton navy yard, under plans passed b> Rear Admiral O’Neill, chief of the bureau of ordinance. The approximate amount of smokeless powder required for each charge of the 12-inch gun is 400 pounds. The projectile weighs 850 pounds. Rear Admiral O’Neill estimates that the muzzle velocity will reach, if it does not exceed, 2.800 feet a second, and the energy is estimated at 46,442 foot tons. A shell fired by this gun will perfo rate 23.5 inches of Harveyized steel and 20.4 inches of Krupp steel. By using capped projectiles a still greatei thickness of Krupp armor can be perforated. The latest 12-inch gun built abroad has only produced a maxi mum velocity of 2,600 feet a second at its muzzle. The 13-inch gun now on board the Oregon and oth er battleships of her class, has a maximum velocity of 2,300 feet a second with smokeless powder. Rear Admiral Bradford, chiei of the bureau of equipment, timate in his forthcoming annual report for SBOO,OOO for the con struction of the new coaling sta tions. He has awarded a New York firm a contract for construct ing a coaling station at French men’s Bay, Maine. His station will accommodate 12,000 tons of coal. He has concluded negotia tions for the purchase of a site tor a coaling station in Narragansett Bay, obtaining a tract of 148 acres possessing a water front of three quarters of a mile. The price paid for the laud was $35,00. ATTEMPTED ASSAULT. Charles Brooks a White Man. Ar rested on Serious Charge. Deputy Sheriff Warren Tinsley last Monday afternoon arrested Charles Brooks, a white man, in the neighborhood of Emerson, at the instance of Rev. D. M. Turner, a Primitive Baptist preacher,whose little daughter Brooks attempted to assault. Brooks was traveling the road from Emerson by the C. M. Jones farm afoot, about nine o’clock in tne morning, when he saw in front of him in the road a negro woman named Lula Hawkins. He over took her and attempted to assault her, when she screamed and ran out of his reach. He then turned back in the direction of Emerson and soon met Miss Fannie Turner, a thirteen-year-old white girl who had been with her little brother and sister to see them safe to school, and was returning home. lie approached the child with demonstrations which eyidenced his purpose and when she scream ed and ran in affright he called to her to stop. Her cries frightened him and he fled into the woods. Mr. Turner, the girl’s father, lives at the C. M. Jones farm. Brooks had a splendid Smith & Wesson pistol on his person when arrested. He is said to have come from Cherokee county and is said also to be a rather bad citizen. Great indignation over his con duct has been manifested and but for the fact that he is believed by some to be off his mental balance he might have been dealt harshly with ere this. Brooks, it is said is a married man, and his wife has just been taken from Cherokee county to the asylum. ERE FILIPINOS STIFF FIGHT. * \ Will Probably Continue Guerrila Warfare for Years- LIKE EXTENSIVE FREEBOOTING. Country Cannot Look for Any No table Decrease of War Ex pensesfor SomeTlme New York, Nov. 12. —A special to the Herald from Washington says: The higest official of the war de partment believe the election in the United States will have a good effect in the Phillippines and will lead the more sensible Filipinos to abandon the insurrection. At the same time the officers look forward to a long period of guerrilla warfare. It is realized that the independent irresponsible li|e of the military freebooter has many attractions for the Filipinos, who would rather extort tribute at the muzzle of their rifles than work for their living. Eyen if the insur gents should be deprived of the leadership of Aguinaldo. and many of the other influential among them, it will probably take several years and a considerable military force to eradicate all the wandering bands, Much is expected to be accom plished by the American troops between this time and January 1, when the withdrawal of the volun teers will be actively begun. Unless congress shall so amend the law under which the present volunteer army enlisted as to per mit volunteers to be discharged in the Phillippines and subsequently transported to the United States, it will be necessary to begin the homeward movement of the volun teers by January 1, in order that all may be mustered out in the United States by June 30. This necessity is regarded by the military authorities as most unfortunate. When only two regiments of infantry' and a battery of artillery were withe' 'awn for service in China the Filipino lead ers encouraged their followers to believe that the United States was abandoning the struggle. It is feared that the withdrawal of more than 30,000 men will lead the Fil ipinos to believe the abandonment of the island has begun in earnest. Unless General MacArthur’s pending campaign shall be attend ed by very good results, and unless the effect of the election in the United States shall be all that h s been hoped for, the country cann t go forwarclt any immtdiat de crease of expenditures on account of the military and naval operations in the Phillippines. City Tax Books to Close- I am ordered by the mayor and aldermen to close the books for collection of the City Tax for the year 1900 on December Ist. and to issue fi fas on all who fail to pay. I will be at the council chamber from 9 am. to 3 p. m., until said date, Dec. 1,1900. Please call and pay. S. P. Satterfield, td. City Tax Collector. Come to Us for Your Winter Shoes. Men’s $3.00 Shoes at $2.50. Men’s $2 00 Shoes at $1.50. Men’s $1.25 Shoes at $1 00. Ladies’ $2.50 Shoes at $2.00. Ladies’ $2.00 Shoe at $1.50. Ladies’ $1.50 Shoe at sl-25. SEE THE NEW Inpoved Plow Horse Collar. FREEMAN& HALL THOUSANDS OF CORPSES IN RIVER. A Large Proportion of the Cadavers Were Women and Children- DROWNED BY THE RUSSIANS- Locked To*ether by Their Long Hair, the C<*aavers Form a Tangled Mass of Putridity. London, Nov. 13. — The Globe this afternoon publishes a letter from a Belgian gentleman who has been traveling to Pekin via the Trans-Siberian railroad. He de scribes, under date of Sept. 9, what he saw on the Amur river. His account surpasses in horror those previously published. “The scenes I have witnessed during the three days since the steamer left Blagove f chensk,” he says, “are horribly beyond the powers of description. It is the closing tableau of a fearful human tragedy. Two thousand people were deliberately drowned at Morxo, 2,000 at Rabe and 8,000 around Blagovetchensk, a total of 12,000 corpses encumbering the river, among which were thousands of women and children. Naviga tion was all but impossible. “Last week a boat had to plunge her way through a tangled and mangled mass of corpses lashed together by their long hair. The banks were literally covered with coipses. In the curves of the stream were dark, putrid smelling masses of human flesh and bone, surging and swaying in the steam er’s wake and wash. The captain vainly ordered full speed ahead. The sight and smell will be ever witk us. -•‘From Blagovetchetisk to Ai gune, forty-five kilometers, numer ous villages had studded the bank, with a thriving, industrous popu lation of over 100,000. That of Aigune was 20,000. No one wi I ever know the number of those who perished by shot, sword and stream. Not a village is left. The silence of death was around the smoking rums of Aigune on the right, with broken down, crumb ling walls and shattered roofless houses.” To Ask for Larger Army- Washington, Nov. 11. —Senator Proctor, of the senate committe on military affairs, and Adjt.-Gcn. Corbin, of the war department, held an informal conference with the president yesterday relative to the legislation to be asked of con gress in connection with the pro posed increase of the regular army. ‘‘Under the existing law,” said Senator Proctor at the conclusion of the conference, “the present strength of the army, 65,000 regu lars and 35,000 volunteers, will be reduced on the first day of next July to 27,000 regulars. Congress will be asked by the president to reorganize the army upon a larger basis. “My own judgment is that con gress will provide a regular army of about 55,000 or 60,000 men with direction of the president to raise the total to 100,000. I have no doubt that this legislation will be enacted at the coming session.” ROYAL • The Absolutely Pure BaKing-Powder is the baking powder r of general use, its sale exceeding that of all other baking powders combined, i Royal Baking Powder has not its counterpart at home or abroad. Its qualities, which make the bread morel healthful and the cake of finer appearance and flavor, are peculiar to itself and are not constituent in other leavening agents. tat efforts are made to sell alum taking powders under the plea that they arc so may cent* a pound cheaper than Royal. The admis sion that they are cheaper made is an adasia sion that they are Inferior. But alum pow ders contain a corrosive poison and should not be used ia food, no matter how cheap. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 100 WILLIAM BT., NEW YORK. THE APPORTIONMENT. The Census Figures Will be Avail* able as a New Basia* Washington, Nov. 13 —Director of the Census Merriam today called the attention of the president to the fact that the figures on the population of the United States will be at the disposal of congress for action on a reapportioument bill. The apportionment following the count of the twelfth census will become operative by law in 1903. There probably will be a considerable increase both in the ratio and total number of repre sentatives under the new appor tionment Starting with a ratio of one to every 30,000 inhabitants there were sixty-seven representa tives in the first congress. The eleventh census, in 1890, gave a population of 62,622,250, or an in crease of 12,500,000 in ten years. The ratio was 173,901 people to each representative, and the house numbered 356 members. The ra tio under the new census probably will reach 200,000. With an in crease of 13,225,464, shown by the present census, and letting major ity fractions of the apportionment count for an additional member, as has been the custom, this would make an increase of eighteen mem bers in the next house. Reapportionment on this basis would cause only four states to lose representatives. They are Maine and Virginia in the east and Kansas and Nebraska in the west. These states would lose a member each. Any ratio smaller than 200,- 000, which would save chem their full representation, would cause a considerable addition to the mem bership of the house. Concert- There will be a first-class con cert at the opera house Friday eve ning, November 23d, given by Mrs. Simmons, of Shorter College, for benefit of Cartersville Public Li brary. Ten of her best pupils will take part. Among them Miss Worril, Miss Lavender, Mr. Will McWilliams and others quite as ; ccor .'bed. Mrs. Simmons needs no .Mruction, being one of the finest teachers in the south. She studies in Germany during vaca tion, keeps up with the latest methods, and takes great pains with her pupils. We hope a large audience will greet-her and show their apprecia tion of her interest in our town library. She refuses to accept any thing but the expenses of the trou; e A complete programme will ap pear in next week’s paper. ""l*j Hu KliiW hlk! ALL ELSt FAILS. EjJ Ljj Bert Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use PSJ In time. Sold t>y druggists. pjj SOUTHERN INDUSTRIES: Proirimm* ot tho Convention at Now OrlMnt. The Southern Industrial Con vention takes place in New Orleans December 4to 9. This association was formed to assist in the devel opment of the southern industrial conditions. The programme is an exhaustive one, and many proiuineut men from different parts of the country will address the convention on the topics in which the association is interested. Secretary Cannon will address the convention on “The Mississippi river and tributaries.” Among the prominent railway offi cials who will discuss the lelative value of railroad facilities t > the advancement of trade conditions are Stuyvesant Fish, president of the Illinois Central Railway; T£. L. Russell, president of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad; S. F. B. Morse, traffic manager of the Southern Pacific Railway, and M. V. Rich ards of the Southern Railway Com pany. The mayors of several southern cities will address the convention on different subjects. Presidents of many southern universities will discuss the relation of technical education to industrial conditions, and the relation of the southern press to the industrial future of the south will be discussed by the editors of the prominent southern newspapers. Every subject touch ing upon the improvement of southern industries will be touched upon by able speakers. Carter Har rison, mayor of Chicago; We Tin Fang, Chinese Minister, of Wash ington, D. C.,are also on the pro pramme. Afraid of Russia. New York, Nov. 10. —Forty-five cotton mill owners in the south fearing the recent war will serious ly change trade conditions between this country and China, have pre pared a petition to Secretary Hay. They fear that Russia may ob tain possession of Manchuria and impose such heavy duties on American goods as to render a withdrawal of the American inter ests necessary. They express approval of the open door policy and express the hope that the administration will take what action it may deem proper to maintain the protection and perpetuity of existingcommer cial relations with China and es pecially as regards Manchuria. The petition is signed by eight een mill owners in North Carolina, twenty-one in South Carolina, four in Alabama, one in Georgia and one in Maryland. The total capital invested in the mills is $14,364,500, total number of looms, 31,089, and total number of spindles 1,072,652. NO.