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BIG DAY AT CAPITAL
First Century of Oar Government
Is Fittingly Celebrated.
PROGRAM AN ELABORATE ONE
All Branches of the Public Ser
vice, Governors of States and
Civilians Take Part.
A Washington special says: The
national capital was iu gala attire
Wednesday in celebration of the one
hundredth anniversary of the estab
lishment of federal government at
Washington, and the wheels of gov
ernment ceased revolving for the time
being. Business, public and private,
was suspended, while the president
and his cabinet, the senate and house
of representatives, the federal jndioi
ary, the governors of many states and
a great concourse of citizens and visi
tors joined in the elaborate festivities
of the day. 0
As congress had declared the day a
national holiday for the District of
Columbia, the whole city presented a
holiday aspect aud the public turned
out en masse.)
Perhaps never again will this gen
eration witness such a significant gath
ering of the executive heads of the
states aud of the chief executive of the
nation.
One hundred years ago tMfc transfer
of the seat of government was made
from Philadelphia to Washington, and
the site previously selected by Presi
dent Washington was taken possession
of by the various branches of govern
ment, President and Mrs. Adams
driving over from Philadelphia, the
senate and the house holding their
sessions here for the first time.
The programme of the day began
with a reception at 10 o’clock by Pres
ident McKinley and the members of
his cabinet to the governors of the
states and territories at the executive
mansion. This was followed by the
unvailiug in the east room of the
model of the proposed enlargement of
the executive mansion, which is to be
a lasting memorial of the day’s cele
bration.
In the afternoon a great military,
naval and civic parade, commanded by
General Nelson A. Miles, moved
through the principal streets and ave
nues, starting from the executive man
sion. The president reviewed the
parade from a stand at the east front
of the capitol.
After the parade commemorative ex
ercises were held in the hall of the
house of representatives, participated
in by the members of the senate and
house, supreme court and other high
officials, these exercises being in hon
or of the anniversary of the first ses
sion of congress in the permanent
eapitok
From 8 until 11 o’olock p. m., there
was a reception in honor of the gov
ernors of states and territories at the
the Corcorau art gallery, after which
Mr. McKinley entertained at dinner.
BON TONS OUSTED.
Wealthy Parishioner* Kofuso t Worship
With “Common Herd.”
Chattanooga is now entertaining
quite a sensation in high up church
circles.
In the St. Paul Episcopal church
there has been a split among the mem
bers and now another church is to be
started. At this church a majority of
the wealthiest people of the city
worship.
Ever since the church was built the
vestrymen have been selected from
only the wealthy men of the church.
At a recent election some of the less
wealthy ones got together aud packed
the meeting and elected a number of
their own crowd to the offices of ves
trymen. This did not suit the bou
tons aud they made application to the
bishop for the privilege of establishing
another parish.
Cotton Mills Begin Operations.
The Knoxville, Teuu., cotton mills
Lave begun operations. The capacity
is 10,000 spiudles. O. M. McGehee,
formerly receiver of the East Tennes
see, Virginia aud Georgia railway, is
the chief owner.
BOOKS ARE DEMANDED.
Standard Oil Company la Given Final Or
ders By Nebraska Court.
The supreme court of Nebraska
Wednesday issued a formal order to
tho Standard Oil Company to permit
the attorney geueral to inspect the
books of the compauy, giving the list
of stockholders at present aud at the
time the company was organized, the
minute books of the company aud other
books and papers. The order follows
the decision of the court a week ago
wherein it declared it was competent
to try the case of the attorney general
against the Standard Oil Companj in
■which it is sought to debar it from the
state.
ORE BARGE GOES DOWN
Eight Persons On Board Unfort
unate Craft Lose Their Lives
By Drowning.
In the midst of one of the most bit
ter gales that ever swept Lake Erie,
the iron ore barge Charles Foster, in
tow of the Iron Duke, went to the bot
tom at 4 o’clock Sunday morning, ten
miles off Erie, Pa., and eight persons
were drowned, as follows :
Captain John Bridge, of Cleveland;
first mate, name unknown; second
mate, name unknown; Seaman Robert
Wood, of Port Austin, Mich.; Sea
man, William Kelly, of Port Austin,
Mich.; Cook Mrs. May, of Detroit;
two unknown deck hands.
The Charles Foster was one of the
fleet of James Corrigan, of Cleveland,
and for two months has been running
from Duluth to Erie with iron ore.
Her cargo consisted of 1,500 tons of
ore.
Captain Ashley, of the Iron Duke,
made Erie in safety. When asked for
an opinion as to the cause of the sink
ing of the Foster, Captain Ashley
said that he could not tell.
“Apparently everything was all
right aboard her,” be said, “until she
took that fatal dip. There had not
been a single signal of distress from
her up to that time.”
There is from 80 to 100 feet of water
where she weDt down, and there is lit
tle hope of ever being able to locate
the place. The Foster was valued at
$19,000, but there was no insurance,
as it elapsed December Ist. The cargo
was not insured. The life saving crew
took a trip out Sunday, but cftnld find
no tiaces of wreckage.
GEORGIANS TACKLE FILIPINOS.
Detachment From Company A, Twenty-
Ninth Infantry, Have a Close Call.
A detachment of 26 men from Cos.
A, 29th United States infantry, com
posed almost exclusively of Atlanta,
Ga., boys, have had a brush with
Filipinos in the vicinity of Boac,
Marinduque Island, P. 1., while com
manded by First Sergeant James T.
Ellis.
In addition to the loss of Corporals
Jacob Spere and Clarence A. Felts,
who were captured by the enemy, sev
eral meu were wounded, among them
being Sergeant Ellis, whose right arm
was penetrated by a bullet and the
bone fractured. Corporal Jefferson
A. Upshaw was shot in the right side
of the chest, but-the wound is not se
rious.
CREDIT IS OCRS.
Milder Term* With Chinn, the Work of
the United State*.
A St. Petersburg paper, in an article
evidently inspired, referring to the
recent dispatch from Dr. Morrison, in
Pekin, to The London Times, saying
that all the credit for securing softened
terms is given by the Chinese to the
Russians, remarks:
“The credit for the existing en
tente really belongs to America.
England begrudges President Mc-
Kinley bis just prestige because
he has emphasized America’s
friendship for Russia.”
The Russian jourual regards the al
terations which Amerioa has procured
iu the peace preliminaries as of the
greatest importance.
WHITECAPS CSE DYNAMITE.
After Warning Onjectlonable Citizen to
Leave, They Blow Up Hi* House.
The residence of A. J. Thomas-, near
Cluttsville, Ala., was blown into atoms
Friday uight with dynamite in the
hands of whitecaps.
Thomas is 40 years of age and un
married. For some time he has had
living with him seven women of ques
tionable repute. He received several
warnings to send the women away,
but gave no heed to the warnings.
Only one woman was hurt iu the
explosion. Thomas fled.
CZVR IS RETTINtt WELL.
lie I* Taking on Weight and Show* De
cided Improvement.
A St. Petersburg special says: A
satisfactory bulletin issued at Livadia
Sunday concerning the czar’s condi
tion was as follows:
“His majesty’s weight is increasing,
and the organs affected by typhoid
fever have returned to their normal
condition.”
FIERCE CONFLICT RAttINU.
Boer* and Briton* Are Still Having Live
ly Time In South Africa.
Lord Kitchener cables the London
war office from Pretoria, under date of
December 12, that General Knox, re
ports from Helvetica that he is engag
ed in a running fight with General
Dewet, and that the enemy is moving
toward Reddersbnrg, where there is a
column ready to co operate with him.
Lord Kitchener iu this dispatch says
the Boers attacked the post near Bar
ton. The casualties were three killed,
five wounded and thirteen taken pris
oners ou the British side. The cap
tured men have since been released.
WORK OF ANGRY MOB
Negro, Charged With Assault, Is
Swung From a Trestle.
BODY IS PULVERIZED WITH BULLETS
Mr*. White, Victim of Ruvlaher, Wa*
Beaton Into Insensibility and Left
In Dying Condition.
Asa result of the fearful assault on
Mrs. Joe White at Early, Ga., Thurs
day afternoon afternoon Bud Rufus,
colored, was lynched Friday night be
tween 11 and 12 o’clock by a determ
ined band of men.
The negro was swung from a high
trestle about half a mile from Early
ou the Rome and Decatur railroad.
The rope was tied around his neck and
he was asked if he had anything to
say. Rufus replied:
“Nothing, ’cept to tell you gentle
men goodby, aud to ask that you tell
my folks farewell.”
He made no referenoe to the crime
and said nothing as to bis guilt or in
nocence.
Rufus was then shoved from the
bridge, but the rope proved too weak
and broke, the body plunging into the
ravine below. The crowd then began
firing upon the prostrate body. One
shot struck Rufus squarely in the cen
ter of the forehead and plowed its way
through his brain. His chest was al
most in a pulp and one hand hung by
a tendon. There is no way of telling
how many shots were fired, but Rufus’
body was struck fully a hundred
times.
The remains were carried up the
embankment and laid near the railroad
track. On his breast was a placard
bearing this notice:
“This is a warning to both black
and white not to meddle or you
will suffer the same fate.
“Wa Ark The People.”
Friday morning the body was viewed
by hundreds of curious people who
traveled scores of miles in buggies,
wagons, horseback and walking to wit
ness the grewsome sight.
The full and awful details of the as
sault on Mrs. White are as follows:
Mrs. White was picking cotton near
home Thursday afternoon when the
assault was made. The miscreant evi
dently slipped up behind her and
dealt a fearful blow over the head
with the limb of a tree as large as a
man’s leg.
He then dragged her unconscious
form to the river bank and seized an
other large stick and beat the woman
about the head and body until he
thought life extjnct. Mrs. White was
then flung into a cauebreak on the
river bank. The stick he tried to
throw into the water, but it was found
next day in some vines. It was clot
ted with blood.
When Mrs. White failed to return
at dusk the search began. It was over
an hour before she was found, and
then by a low gurgling groan coming
from the canes.
Her skull was crushed in, jawbones
broken and face and head cut and
beaten almost beyond recognition. She
never gained full conscousness,bnt lay
in a stupor.
Bud Rufus, who was suspected of
perpetrating the crime was arrested on
the place of Mr. Appleton, near
Early, and carried before the dy
ing woman. She could not speak, bufr
when asked if the negro was her assail
ant, nodded her head. The negro was
then given a hearing before ’Sqnire
Early and remanded to jail.
The officers hoped to get him into
Rome, twelve miles distant, on a local
freight train which passed that point
jit 6:25 o’clock, but an armed cordon
of men stood grimly about the train
and the effort was abandoned.
Bailiff Poole then carried the pris
oner to an old out of the way House,
thinking to thus throw the crowd off
the track and spirit the negro to some
jail.
The hope was futile, for about 10
o’clock the lynchers broke into the
house and overpowered the bailiff.
Rufus was carried to the .trestle and
met death as described.
Johannesburg Is Fenced in.
A dispatch received in London from
Johannesburg says the town has been
fenced round with barbed wire to pre
vent the inhabitants getting foefd to
the Boers.
PROPOSED “JUNKET” sqUASHED.
Governor Fro Tem. Jelks of Alabama
Imui First Veto.
Governor Jelks of Alabama sent up
his first veto to the legislature Tues
day, and, like his first message, it was
in the liue of retrenchment, in spend
ing the public money of the state. A
joint resolution of the two houses ap
pointing a committee of ten to junket
over the state during the recess for the
purpose of inspecting the practical
workings of the sixteen normal schools
of the state, aud report at the reas
sembling of the legislature, did not
meet with the governor’s approval,and
iu plain, terse language ho so informed
the legislature.
REDUCTION TOO SMALL
Minority Report Calls For Heavier
Cut In the War Rev
enue Taxes.
A Washington special says: The
report of the minority members of the
ways and means committee on the
bill reducing war revenue taxes about
$40,000,000 is signed by the entire
Democratic membership—Richardson,
of Tennessee; Swanson, of Virginia;
McClellan, of New York; Newlands, of
Nevada; Cooper, of Texas, and Under
wood, of Alabama.
The minority thinks the proposed
reduction of revenue is too small and
that the remaining taxes are unneces
sary and should be removed.
The minority takes issue with Sec
retary Gage’s estimate of $26,000,000
surplus in 1902, aud say that if con
fess observes proper economy in ex
penditures the surplus ought to be
$109,000,000.
The report says that a reduction of
$70,000,000 in taxation would permit
the relief of the tobacco and beer pro
ducing interests which have suffered
from the heavy war tares and would
enable the abolition of many vexatious
and annoying taxes that will be con
tinued under the proposed legislation.
The Republican house caucus on the
war revenue reduction bill decided
Monday uight by a large majority to
stand by the bill as now drawn.
CARTER STAYS IN PRISON.
Judge* Decide That No Pardon Will Be
Extended Convict.
In a decision handed down .by Jndge
Hook, of the federal district court of
Kansas, and concurred in by United
States Circuit Judge Amos Thayer,
Monday afternoon, Oberlin M. Carter,
former captain U. S. A., uuder sen
tence of five years’ imprisonment for
misappropriation of government funds
while in charge of the harbor work of
Savannah,is remanded to the custody of
.Robert W. McLaughey, warden of the
federal penitentiary at Leavenworth,
where Carter has been, confined, the
court overruling the petitioner's de
murrer on the habeas corpus writ is
sued some time ago and sustaining the
ruliug of the trial courts together with
the tubsequent action of President
McKinley, who set aside twelve of the
charges under which he was convict
ed, but made no change of the sen
tence imposed by courtmartial.
In addition to the prison sentence
Carter was fined $5,000, which was
prid, and he was dismissed from the
army. Judges Thayer and Hook find
these proceedings were entirely regu
lar. One of the chief contentions
urged in Carter’s behalf was that the
president, in reducing the number of
specifications preferred, thereby made
void the punishment inflicted.
NEW ROAD CHARTERED.
Brunswick and Birmingham Railroad I*
an Aasured Pact.
A delegation of Brunswickians com
posed of Messrs. W. F. Symons, Ed
win Brobston and C. W. Deming call
ed upon Secretary of State Phil Cook
at Atlanta, Ga., Monday, and filed an
application for the charter of the
Brunswick and Birmingham railroad.
Colonel E. C. Machen, the well
known railroad builder, is at the head
of the construction of it. Behind him
are men prominent in the financial
centers of the east. The road is to
be 400 miles in length and will cost
$6,750,000 to build; $3,000,000 of this
amount has been subscribed and 10,-
000 tons of steel rails are contracted
for to be delivered as fast as grading
is completed.
NEELY CASE ARGUED.
Supreme Court Judge* Consider Import
ant Questions of Law.
The Neely extradition case was ar
gued in the United States supreme
court Monday.
The argument developed interesting
and important questions of law with
reference to extradition of a criminal
in the absence of an extradition treaty,
and especially with reference to tho
right of the president since the ratifi
cation of the treaty of Paris to main
tain a military form of government in
the island of Cuba.
The latter feature of the argument
made it the first of the arguments
which bring up for the final decision
by the supreme court the constitution
al relations between this country ana
the territorial acquisitions which it
has gained as • result of the Spanish-
American war.
DEWEY’S MOTHER-IN-LAW ILL.
Physicians Have Little Hope of Mis.
McLean’s Recovery.
Mrs. Washington McLean, mother
of John R. McLean, proprietor of the
Cincinnati Enquirer, and of Mrs.
Dewey, wife of Admiral Dewey, is
very seriously ill of heart complica
tions at her home in Washingten. The
attendiug physicians have little hope
of her recovery.
Conductor and Two Tramps Killed.
A wreck occurred at 10:30 o’clock
Saturday night on the Southern rail
way three miles south of Sanford,
Tenn., resulting in the death of Con
ductor David I. Glover and two un
known tramps.
WHT HE CCULDN’T.
: he twins in 'the habit
of bulldozing the other, and the latter
complained with such frequency that
their father finally said to him:
Why do you come to me? Why
don’t you do to him Just what he does
to you? if he hlta you why
back.
But the next day there was the same
complaint.
He hit me with a tackhammer ”
walled the boy.
“ Well > - ' wll y didn’t you hit him
back?” demanded the father.
‘ I couldn’t find another hammer.”—
Chicago Post.
Paid and Collectable.
•There are only two kinds of style to
put on, after all.”
“What are they?” *
Well,, the kind you put on with
money you own, and the kind you put
on with mouey you owe.”— Puck.
Prosperity For 1901.
Indications everywhere point to great
prosperity for the coming year. This is a
sign of a healthy nature. The success of a
country, as well as of an individual, de
pends upon health. There can be no health
if the stomach is weak. If you have any
stomach trouble try Hostetter’s Stomach
Bitters which cures dyspepsia, indigestion
and biliousness. Obtain our Almanao for
1901—free. It contains valuable information.
A Halloween Risk.
“If I walk backward down the cellar stairs in
the dark I'll see ms- future huiband.”
“Nonsense; you’ll be more likely to see your
family surgeon.”
WHY MRS. PINKHAM
Is Able to Help Sick Women
When Doctors Fail.
How gladly would men fly to wo
man’s aid did they but understand a
woman’s feelings, trials, sensibilities,
and peculiar organic disturbances.
Those things are known only to
women, and the aid a man would give
is not at his command.
To treat a case properly it is neces
sary to know all about it, and full
information, many times, cannot be
given by a woman to her family phy-
T V Mg
Mrs. O. H. Chappell.
aician. She cannot bring herself to
tell everything, and the physician is
at a constant disadvantage. This is
why, for the past years,
thousands of wome® have been con
fiding their troubles to Mrs. Pinkham,
and whose advice has brought happi
ness and health to countless women in
the United States.
Mrs. Chappell, of Grant Park, 111.,
whose portrait we publish, advises all
suffering women to seek Mrs. Pink
ham’s advice and use Lydia E. Pink
ham’s Vegetable Compound, as they
cured her of inflammation of the ovaries
and womb ; she, therefore, speaks from
knowledge, and her experience ought
to give others confidence. Mrs. Pink
ham’s address is Lynn, Mass., and her
advice is absolutely free.
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