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■H Pr-skR-s Over
Ceremony.
S'" special says: Never
th of the new navy has
!|MPrebeen such a gathering of ship
and metal kings as were as
■fembled in the office of the secretary
■of the navy at noon Friday to witness
'the opening bids for the amount of the
naval construction which Secretary
Long denominated as the greatest in
dustrial event this or any other coun
try had ever seen, involving the plac
ing of contracts of about $50,000,000.
:V; The secretary left the cabinet meet
ing to preside at the ceremony, and
Associated with him were the chiefs of
the naval bureaus, while among the
spectators were representatives of
y prominent firms and others identified
I with ship building.
There were eight bidders, and most
of the bids were well within the limit
of cost allowed by congress for the
ships. The notable feature was the
attempt on the part of the younger and
concerns to break tbo line of
organizations which have eou-
aii of the heavy vessels of the
Bnew navy up to this time.
W Because of changes made in the
' specifications by the bidders, thegen
fc era! tendenef of which is to consider-
P ably reduce the equipment of the
ships, it is not possible to tell which
of the bids are actually the lowest.
The battleship bids as read are:
Cramp & Sous, one sheathed and
coppered, $3,600,000.
Newport News company, one sheath
ed and coppered $3,593,000; one un
sheathed $3,540,000.
Fort river works, one for $3,580,000,
or two for $3,555,000 each, all sheath-
and coppered. Without sheathing
two for $3,405,000
me price under the act
1900.
John H. B*fflogne & Sons, one
sheathed and coppered, $3,400,000;
one without sheathing, $3,490,000.
Another at the same figure under the
act pf 1900.
L Bath Iron Works, one sheathed
P and coppered, $3,500,000.
N,ew York Ship Buildi<% Company,
Hone sheathed and coppered, $4,200,-
■OO, or two at $4,175,000 each. With
rout sheathing, one for $4,100,000, or
for $4,075,000 each. This firm
jjers to reduce the time limit of com
£7etion six months.
- Moran Bros. & Cos., Seattle, one
sheathed and coppered $3,865,000 or
two- sheathed $3,490,000, Without
sheathing, one for $3,697,000 or twe
for $3,586,000 each. Bids also are
made for two more at the same price
under the act of 1900. This firm also
k offers to reduce the time limit about
months.
Union Iron works, one unsheathed,
■3,400,000.
naval board will consider the bids
llnd report upon them.
acts of congress limit the cost
BBe cruisers to $3,600,0’00 and
to the
HsheaWed. , * l " >
H Secretary Long expressed himself as
pleasecf*ith the result of the bidding
and that\be bids were very libera).
The bi were for five new battle
ships and x-ix armored cruisers, aggre
gating a'tctai displacements of 154,-
000.
Of the battleships, namely the Penn
sylvania, Nertf Jersey, Georgia, Vir
ginia and RLo&e Island, three are to
be sheathed and coppered and will
carry super-imposed turrets; the other
two are to be unsheathed vessels, hav
ing “quadrilateral arrangement” of
eight inch turrets.
Title Given Boutelle.
The bill authorizing the appoint
ment of Bepresentative Bouteile, of
Maine, as a captain on the retired list
of the navy upon his resignation from
congress was favorably reported Fri
day by the house committee on naval
affairs, over which Mr. Bontelle pre
aided until his present affliction.
A SYHPATHCTIC STRIKE.
.
Six Hundred Telegraphers On Sante
Fe System Walk Out.
Six hundred telegraph operators on
the lines of the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe railroad struck Saturday in
sympathy with the operators on the
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe railroad,
a branch of the Atchison system, who
went out Thursday.
The company is taking steps as
rapidly as possible to remedy the
trouble. Agents who are also opera
tors have been supplied with telegraph
instruments are now receiving and
sending all messages governing the
movement of trains.
TOWNE SUCCEEDS DAVIS.
Sliver Republican Receives Commis
sion as United States Senator.
Former Congressman Charles A.
Towne, silver Republican, of Duluth,
arrived inSt.Paul, Minn., Tuesday and
at once called on Governor Lind. He
formally accepted the nomination to
the United States senate for the
■vacapcy caused by the death of Cush
man K. Davis, and received his com
mission.
REPORT ON WAR TAXES
Submitted By Chairman Payne of the
Ways and /leans Committee.
A Washington dispatch says: Chair
man Bayne, of the ways and means
committee, Friday submitted the re
port of that committee signed by ail
the Republican members in favor of
the bill reducing the war revenue tax
es about $40,000,000. The report
says, in part:
“While the war for which these ad
ditional taxes were levied is ended,
the train of extraordinary expendi
tures has not terminated with the close
of actual hostilities.
“According to the report of the sec
retary of the treasury, the receipts for
the fiscal year ended June 80, 1900,
were $660,595,431, while the expendi
tures were $590,068,371, showing a
surplus of $79,527,060. He also esti
mates the receipts for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1901, at $687,773,252,
and the expenditures at $607,773,255,
which would leave an estimated sur
plus of $80,000,000.
For the fiscal year ending June 30,
1902, the secretary of the treasury es
timates the revenue at $714,633,042,
and the expenditures at $690,374,804,
leaving an estimated surplus of only
326,258,237. It will be seen that for
1902 there is an estimated increase ill
the revenue of $29,000,000 over the
previons year, and au increase of ex
penditures of nearly $S3,000,000.”
••BOGUS BUTTFR” BILL
Is Passed In National House of Repre
sentatives By Decisive Vote.
A Washington special says: The
house Friday passed the Grout oleo
margarine bill by a vote of 196 to 92.
The bill as passed makes all articles
known as oleomargarine, britteriue,
imitation butter or imitation cheese
transported into any state or territory
for consumption or sale subject to the
police power of such a state or territo
ry, but prevents any state or territory
from forbidding the transportation or
sale of such product when produced
aud sold free from coloration iu imi
tation of butter.
The bill increases the tax on oleo
margarine colored in imitation of but
ter 2 to 16 cents per pound, and de
creases the tax on oleomargarine nu
eolored from 2 cents to J of a cent per
pound.
A long and interesting discussion
preceded the vote.
SOUTH GEORGIA METHODISTS
Meet In Annual Conference at Cuth
bert With Large Attendance.
The thirty-fourth annual conference
of the South Georgia Methodist Epis
copal church was convened in the
.Methodist church in Cuthbert with
the promise of being one of the most
important and successful sessions ever
held by that organization.
Enthusiasm was rife and the dele-
entered into the work of the
conference with a vim and energy
that was pronounced.
About three hundred and fifty dele
gates—ministers and laymen—were in
attendance.
One of the most important features
of the session will be the assignment
of the ministers to their charges. The
distinguished divine of Kansas City,
Bishop E. K. Hendrix, presided over
the conference.
RETURNED TO SCENE OF CRETE.
Negro Charged With Assault Remov
ed From Atlanta Jail.
Jim Alexander, the Henry county,
Ga., negro, charged with an attempted
assault upon Miss Lummis, near Mc-
Donough, and sent to Atlanta for safe
keeping some time ago, was returned
to McDonough, Friday.
At the time of his capture Alexander
was at work on a farm near McDon
ough, and was taken to McDonough
and placed in jail there. Later a
crowd formed and it-was learned the
negro would be lynched. Ho was
carried to Atlanta and placed in the
Tower.
ANXIOUS FOR STATEHOOD.
Move Is Started For Admission of Ar
izona and New Mexico.
A conference fraught with much
promise for the people of Arizona and
New Mexico was held in Chicago
Thursday night.
Governor N. O. Murphy, of Arizona,
and Governor M. A. Otero, of New
Mexico, were the two conferees and
immediately after the conference Gov
ernor Murphy left for Wanhington to
inaugurate the campaign which has for
its object the admission of the two ter
ritories to statehood
MODERATE IN DEMANDS.
Both Nicaragua and Costa Rica Will
Show Great Liberality.
A special to The Chicago Record
from Washington says:
“Nicaragua and Costa Rica have
announced their willingness to grant
a lease to the United States for a pe
riod of 200 years of the territory nec
essary for the construction of the
projected Nicliragua canal. It is un
derstood that Nicaragua and Costa
Rica will accept bonds, the value of
those to be accepted by the former
government to be less than $6,000,000
and by the latter to be less than sl,-
500,000.”
Queen Receives Kruger.
Queen Wilhelmina received Presi
dent Kruger in audience at the Hague
Saturday. As the Boer statesman
was traveling incognito the visit was
not attended by the ceremony usually
paid to a chief of state.
Will Scatter the Bexers.
The Boxers are disturbing northern
and western Korea, according to the
St. Petersburg correspondent ef the
London Daily Mail, and the Russian
troops are preparing to scatter them.
NEGRO HAHGFD
FROM 1 1 MM
Hob Metes Out a Horrible Vengsence
On Ravisher.
BODY" RIDDLED WITH LEAD
The Victim,Mrs. White, Received
Fearful ana Fatal Injuries.
Asa result-of the fearful assault on
Mrs. Joe White at Early, Ga., Thurs
day afternoon afteruoou Bud Rufus,
■colored, was lynched Friday night be
tween 11 and 12 o’clock by & determ
ined band of men.
The negro was swung from a high
trestle about half a mile from Early
on the Rome and Decatur railroad.
The rope was tied around his neck and
ho was asked if ha 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 reference to the cmae
and said nothing as to his 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 ceu
ter of the forehead aud plowed its way
through his brain. His chest was al
most in a pulp and one band hung by
a tendon. There is no way of telling
how many shots were fired, but Rufus’
holy was struck fully a hundred
times.
The remains were carried up the
embankment aud 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 f-.te.
“We Ake Th People.”
Friday morning the body wns viewed
by huudreus of curious people who
traveled scores of miles in buggies,
wagons, horseback and walking to wit
ness the giewsome 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
i with the limb of a tree as large as a
man’s leg.
i He then dragged her unconscious
; form to the river bank and seized an-
I other large Btiek and beat the woman
! about the bead and body until be
. thought life extinct. Mrs. White was
then flung info a eanebreak 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 aud face and bead cut and
beaten almost beyond recognition. She
never gained full conscousness,but 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 uot speak, but
when asked if the negro was her assail
ant, nodded her bead. The negro was
then given a bearing before ’Squire
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
at 6:25 o’clock, but au armed cordon
of men stood grimly about the train
aud the effort was abandoned.
Bailiff Poole then carried the pris
oner to au old out of the way house,
thinking to thus throw the crowd oil'
the track and spirit the negro to some
jail.
The hope wns 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.
Fence Around Johannesburg.
A dispatch received in London from
Johannesburg says the town has been
fenced round with barbed wire to pre
vent the inhabitants getting food to
the Boers.
STUDENTS GO HOME.
Appearance of Scarlet Closes
Doors of Ciemson College.
I'he last o 0 students of Ciemson
college at Fo Hill, S. C., left for their
homes Tuesday. The sudden exodus
was caused by the appenranco of a case
of scarlet fever in the college hospital.
All the students stay in one building,
aud in that the fever appeared. It was
a heroic remedy for President Harts
zog. Not to disband meant perhaps
500 cases. The corps was assembled,
addressed by the president and in
structed by the physicians as to the
course to pursue if taken sick. Then
they were sent to their homes “till
further orders.”
BOXER LEADERS EXECUTED.
A New Chinese Governor Orders Eigh
ty Rebels Put to Death.
The Chinese minister in Berlin has
handed the foreign office officials a let
ter from Li Hung Chang to the effect
that Sih Liang, the new governor of
Sban-shi, has publicly executed up
ward of eighty rebel leaders,and assert
ing that be is otherwise acting with
the greatest severity in the suppres
sion of the boxers aDd energetically
nrotectine the missioawies.
DILATORY TACTICS
PREVENTS A VOTE
Sts te Depot Bill Blocked Ip the Geor
gia Legislature.
FILIBUSTERS HOLD FORT
Result of Exciting Contest Was
Displacement of Measure.
An Atlanta special says: Under the
rules of the Georgia house of repre
sentatives, which admits of a handful
of men controlling the entire action of
the body, the depot bill wns success
fully blocked Friday by the use of
dilatory tactics. Gathering around
him a majority of the men who are
against legislation, thirty-one in num
ber, the member from Bibb county,
Hon. Joe Hall, determined that in
spite of the majority of the houso and
in contravention of the report of the
steering committee, the depot bill
should uot oome up on its passage.
Ten votes more than enough to pass
the bill were ready to be oast for the
measure, according to those favoring
it, and its passage was assured as soon
as vote could be cast, aud iho oppo
nents of the bill resorted to a filibuster
as their only hope of killing the bill.
The entire morning was taken up in
a stubborn wrangle. Every effort
made by the majority to biing on a
vote failed. The obstructionists re
sorted to every parliamentary expe
dient afforded them under the rules to
prevent a vote.
So stubborn were the filibusters
that it became apparent early in the
session that the hopes of reaching a
vote during the day’s session was a
slender one.
Some believed that the obstruction •
ists would keep up their tactics and
prevent a vote during the entire ses
sion.
The opinion was expressed by some
that the blockers would make it neces
sary for the governor to call an extra
session of the legislature to pass nec
essary bills. j|
Dilatory motions and speeches, roll
calls, questions of personal privilege
were resorted to over and over again.
It was a red-hot and spirited fight
from the start. Much feeling was man
ifested.
There were many heated exchanged
of repartee and the friends and oppo
nents of the bill engaged in a constant
clash from the outset.
Much time was taken up over a
resolutien that the house adjourn sine
die.
The galleries were packed with peQ
ple and the interest was intense.
Several times the galleries vented their
feelings by cheers >r hisses and Speak
er Little was forced several times to
threaten to clear the galleries. He at
one time threatened to arrest and bring
before ths bur any person guilty of
hissing.
Many senators came over from their
wing of the capitol and watched the
fiaiit.
The house was powerless to place
tho bill on its passage so long as the
call for the ayes and nays continued,
and finally at 12:30 o’clock, when it
was evident that nothing could be
done at the session, the bouse agreed
almost unanimously to au adjourn
ment.
At the close of the session tho steer
ing committee was called to order for
the purpose considering the action of
the minority. Iu the interest of
economy, of time and money, two con
siderations which the minority bad
failed to take into account or bad
ignored, the committee decided to put
the depot bill aside for the time being
and recommend that a number of sub
sidiary measures be placed on then
passage. This arrangement met with
the hearty approval of tho minority,
for at the afternoon session the seren
ity of the house remained undisturbed.
SENATE ENTERS PROTEST.
The filibustering in the house on the
depot bill aroused the senate and the
latter body entered a severe protest.
On the motion of .Senator Ellis, the
bouse woh informed that if it does not
send the tax act and the general appro
priations act promptly to the seriate,
the latter body will refuse to consider
bills of the house until those two im
portant bills are sent.
MRS. M’LEAN SERIOUSLY ILL.
Physicians In Attendance Express
Little Hope of Her Recovery.
Mrs. Washington McLean, mother
of John 11. 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 Washington. Tile
attending physicians have little hope
of her recovery.
Threa Killed In Wreck.
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.
FEVER HOLDS HOBSON.
Hospital Physicians Will Allow No
One to See Naval Hero.
According to a New York dispatch
there was no chango in Lieutenant
Hobson’s condition Wednesday night.
He is still very ill. Hundreds of let
ters and telegrams arrive for him, but
none are sent to his room, the physi
cians forbidding it. There are also
many callers, but no oi e is allowed to
see kirn.
EIGHT DROWNED.
Ore Barge On Lake Erie Goes to
the Bottom In Fierce
Gale.
In the midst of one of the most bit
ter gales that ever swept Lake Erie,
the iron Aire barge Chivies Foster, in
tow of the Iron Duke, went, to the bot
tom at 4 o’clock Sunday morning, ton
miles off Erie, Pa., aud eight persons
were drowned, as follows :
Captain Joliu 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,
Mieh.; Cook Mrs. May, of Detroit;
two unknown deck bauds.
The Charles Foster was one of the
fleet of Janies Corrigan, of Cleveland,
aud 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 iu safety. When asked for
an opinion as to the cause of tho 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 bad not
been a single sigual of distress from
her up to that time.”
There is from 80 to 100 feet of water
where she went 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 could find
no tiaces of wreckage.
REBELS TACKLE GEORGIANS.
Company of Twenty-Six Men Have a
Hot Brush With Filipinos.
A detachment of 26 men from Cos.
A, 29th Unitod States infantry, com
posed almost exclusively of Atlanta,
Ga., boys, have bad a brush with
Filipinos iu the vicinity of Boac,
Marindnque 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 wero captured by the enemy, sev
eral men were wounded, among them
being Sergeant Ellis, whose right arm
was penetrated by a bullet and the
bone fraotured. Corporal Jefferson
A. Upshaw was shot in the right side
of the chest, but the wound is not se
rious.
GIVES US THE CREDIT.
Milder Terms For China Brought
About By Uncle Sam.
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 his just prestige because
be has emphasized America’s
friendship for Russia.”
The Russiau journal regards the al
terations which America lias procured
in tho peace preliminaries as of the
greatest importance.
WORK OF WHITECAPS.
House of Objectionable Neighbor De.
malished By Dynamite.
The residence of A. J. Thomas, near
Cluttsville, Ala., was blown into atoms
Friday night with dynamite in tho
hands of whitecaps.
Thomas is 40 years of age and un
married. For some time he lias had
living with him seven women of ques
tionable repute. He received several
warnings to sond the women away,
but gave no heed to the warnings.
Only one woman was hurt in the
explosion. Thomas fled.
CZAR IS CONVALESCENT.
Sick Man Is Gaining In Flesh and ’s
Much Improved.
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, 1
and the organs affected by typhoid |
fever have returned to their normal
condition.”
WANT NAVAL RECRUITS
Station Opened at Savanxali, Qa., For
Enlistment of Marines.
A recruiting office for the navy was
opened at Savannah, Ga., Thursday.
This is the first time naval recruits
have been sought in Savannah in some i
years. The office in the custom house
is in charge of Lieutenant Commander .
.T. B. Collins, who is accompanied by
Surgeon D. 11. Morgan.
The officers say they want specially
men with trades, and are looking for
all the electricians they can get. They
expect to get a good number of Geor
gians for service on Uncle Sam’s wur
shijis.
ROBBER RELIEVES BLaNPFORD
New Ycrker Reports Loss of 44,000
glares of Copp:r Stock.
J. T. Blanford, of New York, ar
rived in Jacksonville, Fla , Sunduy
aud reported that he was robbed of
44,600 shares of stock iu the P.io i
Honda Copper Company of New Mex
ico, while on his way south, he alleg
ing that the certificates were taken
from hi# grip iD a sleeping car. He
has reported the alleged robbery to the
authorities.
re ucnoM
BY THE PRESm|
South’s Representation In Congress
Will Not l>Cut Down.
CANDID STATEMENT MADE
: By McKinley As to His Personal
Attitude In the Matter.
The Atlanta Constitut'ou’s special
correspondent at Washington wires
his paper as follows: President
Kinky declared himself Wednesday
in opposition to any proposition look
ing to the cutting down of the repre-
I sentation of those southern states in
which there have been adopted laws
or constitutional amendments design
: ed to restrict the suffrage by eliminat
ing the ignorant vote. It lias been
known to those close to the president
that he would not favor auy of the at
tempts to punish tho people of the
' south for this sort of legislation which
have spruug from the disordered minds
1 of partisan Republican congressmen,
i bub it was uot until Wednesday that
be gave open expression to bis views.
Senators Daniel and Martin and
; Representatives Otey and Swanson,
all of Virginia, called at the white
1 bouse Wednesday morning to pay their
i respects. The usual greetings bad linrd-
Iv been exchanged when President
McKinley brought up the subject liirn
| self. He did not suy much, for a great
j many words on tho subject were riot
uecessary, but what, be did say was de
cidedly to tlio point and gave great sat
isfaction to his auditors.
He said that he was not in favor of
any movement to cut down the repre
sentation in congress of tlio southerns
statos which bad felt impelled to put
| into effect these restrictions to the
ballot; that there might be abuses
| gro wing out of conditions .11 the south,
but lie felt these would in time rectify
themselves, and that the people could
Ibe relied upon to do justice. He did
not go into details to any extent, but
be did make bis position clear, which
I is, of course, the main thing.
This statement is an open declara
; tion of President McKinley’s position
as it has been understood. A few men
like Judge Crumpacker and others
who want to cater to the colored vote
in their districts, will probably con
tinue their endeavors to agitate thfv.
cutting down of southern representa
tion, but these efforts huve sympathy
af neither the president nor other Re
i publican leaders.
TO REDUCE WAR TAX.
Agreement Reached to Cut Rcvenua
to Extent of Forty Millions,
i A Washington special says: Cbair
■ man Payne, of (be ways and means
1 committee, Wednesduy, introduced the
bill reducing tho tnxation under the
! war revenue act, after the Republican
members of the committee bad agreed
1 to the form of tho measure and the
articles to receive the reduction of tax.
! The bill provides an aggregate reduo*
tion estimated at $40,000,348.
The chief items of this reduction nro
tlio stump taxes, amounting to $22,-
000,000; beer, $9,632,971; cigars, $3,-
189,764; proprietary articles, omitting,
| wines, $3,948,283.
The estimated reductions in detail
as given out by Mr. I’uyno are as fol
lows:
I Beer, $9,832,712; cigars, $3,186,764;
special taxes (section 2), commercial
1 brokers, $138,281; custom bouse bro
kers, $8,167; circus, $11,7-14; theaters,
$17,178; exhibitions, not otherwise
provided, $84,218; total spociul tax,
$287,589.
Tho decision concerning beer was
arrived at after some division and by a
divided vote. It was first attempted
to make the reduction on tea, but this
was uot concurred in, and the question
recurring to beer, tlio reduction was
decided upon.
Elected For I liirtietli Time.
For the thirtieth consecutive time
United Brothers lodge, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, at Macon, Ga.,
elected Mr. Georgo It. Barker their
treasurer, when the annual election of
lodge officers was held Tuesday night.
Mr. Barker is eighty years old, and is
one of the most enthusiastic secret or
der men iu Georgia.
LICENSES PRIZE FIGHTS.
Denver Board of Aldermen Givec
Right of Way to Pugilists.
The Denver, Col., board of aldermen
has has passed an ordinance licensing
prize tights. The cost of each license
will be $250 for each performance.
Fight promoters have been at work
in the west ever since the death of the
Horton law in New York - trying to
make it possible to bold some of the
great championship fights in one of
the more important cities. They failed
in Chicago and gradually worked fur
ther ont until they reached Denver.
NEW STEAMSHIP LINE
To Be Put on Between Norfolk and
Mexico By Guano Trust.
The guano trust, known as the
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company,
is to operate a lino of steamships
between Norfolk and Tampico, Mex
ico. The compauy has recently ac
quired in Mexico a large amount of
mining property, some 200,000 acres
of laud which contain rich aud exten
sive deposits of sulphur in qnantitiee
that cannot be found at all in the
states. Those deposits will be worked
by the company aud the mine# devel
aned.