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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. 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