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The Jones County News
M. C. GREENE, PUBLISHER.
BREAK BETWEEN SECRETARY ANI)
ADMINISTRATION IS IMMINENT.
OFFICIAL SIDE OF THE MIR
In Splto or Semi-Official Dtwiial*, Previous
Reports of Secretary'* Uesianotion
Are Said To He True.
A Washington special nays: The
trouble in Major McKinley's cabinet
reached . - . . than ,, ex-
a crisis sooner was
pected. In spite of the semi-official
denials of the report that Secretary
Gage had resigned, it is nevertheless
true that the secretary of the treasury
o a tiered . , Ins resignation . and it was de-
dined. There were some peculiar
complications which grew = out of the
report some days ago. At tho treasury
department i * . it .. was openly , admitted , . , , by
Mr, Gage’s confidants that lie had ten-
dored his resignation in order to avoid
embarrassing the administration.
During the early hours before the
» cabinet met it was admitted also at
the white house that the secretary of
the treasury had offered to resign, but
Mr. Porter said lie would make no
further statement until after the cabi-
net meeting.
About the only thing done at ihe
cabinet meeting, so it is learned now,
was a discussion on the action of Mr.
Gage, and it was unanimously decided
ting, it would be advisable to quash
tho whole matter by an official denial.
This could be done, inasmuch as the
resignation was not tendered in writ-
ing. Mr. Porter made the
for tho president that the report grew
out of the fact that Secretary Gage
offered to leave the cabinet if he should
provo au embarrassment to the presi-
dent.
This is the official side of it. Tho
fact remains that the secretary’s offer
to leave the cabinet was a bona fide
resignation. Either he had determ¬
ined to resign and go back to Chicago
or that the president should have the
responsibility for his financial recom¬
mendations. This last explanation of
bis act seems the most logical one to
j politicians who believe that the
\ president’s declining to receive the
resignation means nothing lor- than
"t*o5 determination to stand by Mr.
Gage.
Many believe that the president will
> still continue to play a double role in
the financial matter, and he will be
: forced finally to accept the resignation
of his secretary of the treasury as the
only solution of the difficully.
jl A break between the president and
the man who is presumed to hold the
position of financial adviser to the
administration is bound to come, and
everything points to its being not long
delayed.
GUS FA31IJLES AGAIN RESPITED.
So Long as Mrs. Nobles Lives Ho Has a
Lease On Life.
Gus Fambles, Mrs. Nobles’ associ¬
ate in the murder of her husband,
received another respite Thursday.
Mrs. Nobles is making a very earnest
Families struggle to avoid the gallows. Gus
isn’t doing anything. Mrs.
Nobles gets a stay of sentence through
the genius of her lawyers. Gus Fam¬
bles “lays low” and gets a respite.
Thus it goes.
Though Fambles has been under
sentence for many, many months, he
is no nearer the end than when first
sentenced. The gallows recedes ns the
end of his respite approaches, for Gus
invariably gets another. He is now
safe until February 11, Governor At¬
kinson having decided to renew his
lease on life, which will bo a life lease
if old Mrs. Nobles escapes tho death
penalty.
INDIANS FAMINE 1VAS COSTLY.
Tho Total Amount* to Several Millions
of Dollars.
It is officially announced at Calcutta
that the recent famine cost the treas¬
ury £800,000 ($4,000,000), while loans
to agriculturists and suspensions of
taxes, mainly repayable, absorbed an¬
other £400,000 irrespective of chari¬
table contributions, approaching £J,-
750,000.
FATAL CARELESSNESS.
Cm* Backed Over Five Men, Killing Two
Instantly.
Through carlcssness in backing a
shifting engine on a track in tho yard
of the Warden boiler works at Phila¬
delphia Friday afternoon, two men
were killed, two others received inju¬
ries which will likely resuit in their
death and a fifth was severely injured.
Five employees of the boiler works
were engaged in pushing an empty ear
when a shifting engine rather swiftly
entered the yard and struck the car.
All five men were thrown down and
the cat- ran over them.
BULLETS FOlt “BARKERS.”
Smith Shot Two Clerks For Trying to
Pull Him.
At St. Louis, Thursday, while Wil¬
liam Smith was passing a second-hand
store on Morgan street, Morris Miller
and Victor Goldstein, attaches of the
store, seized him by the arms and tried
to induce him to enter the store and
make a purchase. pulled
Smith drew a revolver and
the trigger five times. Miller was
taken to the hospital in a dying condi¬
tion; Goldstein’s arm was punctured
by a bullet and Smith was taken to
jail.
UOMPERS TQ GAGE.
President «t Xmcrloan Federation of
b,,r Argue* AgiihiHt Gold Standard.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
A “ e ri can ro,,el ' ati,m of L »bor, has re-
plied , in . an open letter to Secretary
Gage’s recent letter taking exceptions
' to the resolutions passed by the fed-
! part:
“You take exception both to the po¬
sition which our organization lias
; taken upon your bill as well as the
I language employed, liven if you are
justified iii the one, you certainly mis-
apprehend the other. I submit that
you will seek,in vain for a single de-
nnucint ory word eiliter in regard to
your motives, your plan or your bill,
. <Xll0Be reso l«tion B declare against
a tiog plan foi* more thoroughly commit-
our country to the gold standard,
a fo1, destroying our greenback
plan in fact am ] ^bstituting for weakening bank the notes, cou-
trol of the national gouernment over
that most important of all measures—
the measure of values—and strength-
“ in * the banka, a plan aiming at what
they call ‘currency reform, and which
we call < hank monopo i y .
“That you should take offense at
these resolutions I regret, ior the
right to express disapproval of the acts
of their servants is one of the rights
held sacred by the American people
and one you will freely accord. We
do not charge you with ‘ignorance,
'’dative or absolute,’ or allege any
Vvil purpose’ or a ‘perversity of mo-
tivo ’ on y° ul- Part, as implied by your
latter; iior, upon rearranging tho reso-
lutions > will you find them condema-
,01 T denunciatory, as you say they
aro - The resolutions are declaratory
°. f the views of tho American Federa¬
tion <’ f Labor and are entirely imper-
for > of a| l 1U( ’“ iu l»i ] dio life,
we have the greatest respect for your
P r °liity and integrity,
“The wage-earners of America repre-
souto(l m the Amoricon Federation of
Labor Ifelieve the position you have
taken in regard to the retirement of
greenback currency is antagonistic to
their interests and they are opposed
to your plan for more thoroughly com¬
mitting this country to the gold stan¬
dard.”
EXPRESS AGENT SKIPS.
Mabry Was Short ami Grabbed All tho
Cash In Si^ht.
P. II. Mabry, agent of the Southern
Express company at Brunswick, Ga.,
disappeared Wednesday with Saving* $5,000
consigned to tho Brunswick
amt Trust company and $5,000 con¬
signed to the National Bank of Bruns¬
wick. This currency was shipped by
the Savannah Banking and Trust com¬
pany, arriving at 11 o’clock Tuesday
night.
In addition, Mabry is supposed to
have taken $1,500 placed in the ex¬
press office by the Johnston Steamship
line. Other shortages may develop.
Mabry’s shortage and flight became
known early in the day. Tuesday
night Route Agent Lovett arrived to
check up tho office. Mabry worked
all night and checked himself up $500
short.
After vainless figuring trying to find
it, he wrote a three-page letter to his
wife, coached in the most affectionate
terms. Iu it lie stated that he was
short and did not know where the
money was, and Route Agent Lovett
would discover the shortage and prob¬
ably jail him. The disgrace was too
much for him to face, and he took
$10,000 then on hand and left. If ap¬
prehended he would kill himself.
WASHINGTON! ANS IN I) I ON A NT
Over Publications Regarding the Hdsyed
Hilton Trophy.
A Washington dispatch states that
General Harries, who is in command of
the militia of the District of Columbia,
is indignant over the stories which
come from Georgia about the Hilton
trophy. He considers that these
stories reflect upon the district militia
“Everything in those statements the
that suggests that we are holding
Hilton trophy is asinine,” declared
General Harries. “Of course,” ho
continued, “there is no truth in the
suggestion that we desire to hold on
to the trophy even temporarily.”
General Harries declares that Adju¬
tant General Heyl shipped the trophy
directed to the adjutant general’s
office, Atlanta, some days ago. He
declares that tho fault must be with
the express office as he does not won¬
der at it because of the Christmas
rush.
TESTIMONIAL AND RESOLUTIONS.
Manager* of the Iteeent Citadel Hop Will
Remember Ml** C'rano.
A dispatch from Charleston, S. 0.,
says: To show that they were not par¬
ties to the treatment of Charlotte
Crane, the managers of the Citadel
hop have decided to present the young
actress with a testimonial and resolu¬
tions to assure her that they regret tho
affair and were not to blame for it.
Mrs. Lewis, the lone chaperone, who
objected to Miss Crane’s presence, is
coming in for the brunt of the gen¬
eral condemnation.
UNPOPULAR WITH BANKERS.
Opposition to Postal Savings Institutions
Strongly Manifested.
The postal savings banks idea is not
a popular one in New York banking
circles. A canvass of presidents of
prominent institutions developed that
fact clearly. few presidents
At the same time very
were willing to express opinions for
publication. All practically agreed
with President E. S. Mason, of the
Bank of New York, in the statement
that there are already so many banks
in existence that rates for money have
been cut to where there is little profit.
GRAY* JONES 00., GA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 0 1898.
OPPOSITION CLAIM THAT HE WILL
BE TURNED DOWN.
POLITICIANS GATHER AT COLUMBUS
Ohio Senatorial Fight in tho Legislature
Will Start From the First ami
Be a Battle Royal.
A special of Wednesday from Col¬
umbus, O., says; As the case stands
now, Mr. Hanna is a defeated man.
Charles L. Kurtz has enough repub¬
lican votes pledged against him to pre¬
vent his election to the United States
senate. The question now is, will
Kurtz bo able to hold his men in line?
Six years ago J. B. Foraker had
John Sherman defeated for the United
States senatorship two weeks before
the vote was taken. But the influence
of the national administration was
thrown by President Harrison in favor
of Sherman, aud tho Foraker men
could not withstand the influences
brought to bear upon them to bring
them to the support of Sherman. His¬
tory will repeat itself, unless the men
who have taken a stand with Mr.
Kurtz in this fight aro made of stuff
that will withstand the inducements
that Senator Hanna, backed by Presi¬
dent McKinley, will be able to offer.
Kurtz is a veiy shrewd manager and
very conservative. He would certain¬
ly not go into such a fight, for defeat
means utter annihilation, if he did
not feel suro of winning.
The lending Foraker republicans of
the state have been called to Colum¬
bus aud are working effectively as the
lieutenants of Kurtz. W. I. Squire
and Charles P. Griffin, of Toledo - ,
Hugh Bulkeley, of Cleveland, and
State Librarian Galbraith are on the
ground and reiterating Kurtz’s state¬
ment that Hanna is defeated.
Mayor McKissen, of Cleveland, long
a bitter enemy of Mark Hanna in bis
own parly in Cleveland, arrived
Wednesday night and assumed man¬
agement of the anti-Hanna republican
headquarters in the Southern hotel,
just across the corridor from tho state
headquarters of the democrats.
If three republicans refuse to vote
for Hanna ho cannot be elected unless
he gets some support from the fusion
republicans from Cincinnati. Hanna’s
friends do not claim more than iliree
of these five. The anti-Hanna repub¬
licans claim that there will be at least
eleven republicans refusing to vote for
Hanna. The names of these aro not
Senators made public, but they are undoubtedly
Burke and Shepard and
Representatives Mason, Bramley,
Jones, Smith, Griffith, Bossard, Man¬
uel, Reddy and Rntan. None of these
have expressed themselves.
’Will Ignore tho Caucus.
It is evidently the intention of tho
auti-Hnnna republicans to ignore the
caucus. Some of them will not attend
at all. Senator Shepard says he will
not attend, but will not be bound to
vote for the caucus nominee.
News comes from Wilmington that
Representative Griffith,of that county,
a strong Hanna man, is dangerously
ill of a chronic disease and will not bo
able to take his seat. This will be a
loss of one vote for Hanna, and re¬
duce his constitutional majority to
two.
The democratic leaders have decided
to wait for the organization of the two
branches of the legislature to see what
strength the anti-Hanna movement has.
If it shows such strength as to promise
success in a joint fight against Hanna,
they will be ready to co-operate. In
the meantime they are getting* tlieir
forces ready for such action.
BROKER GOES WRONG.
Operated In Wall Street Similar to the
Dean Company.
A New York dispatch says: A war¬
rant is out for the arrest of Henry
Oliver Goldsmith, one of the best
known men of Wall street, The spe-
cific chargo against him is grand iar-
ceny in tho first degree for appropriat-
ing a check for $3,000, the property of
°T The f r V- officials , Wi of rT," the e district 7 f • ] l r0 attorney’s ( °, klyri ’ .
office say that Goldsmith has managed
to get away with something like half a
million dollars l.il by operations similar to
Hat U,„ E. S.
company before the public.
CARTER MUST ANSWER.
Indicted For Larceny After Truwt By Bibb
Grand Jury.
II. B. Carter, who was carried from
Florida to Atlanta, Ga., to answer to
the charge of cheating and swindling,
has succeeded in giving bond, but has
not yet secured his release.
The accused man was taken to Ma¬
con Wednesday afternoon to %nswer to
the charge of larceny after trust. He
has been indicted by the Bibb county
grand jury.
In addition to the other charges
against Carter a warrant has been
sworn out at Atlanta charging him
with having committed arson in Wayne
county
FLOUR COM FAN V ASSIGNS.
Manufaclurers of the “Owsley” Him ml Go
Under At Naativlllft.
The Owsley Flour Company, at
Nashville, Tenn., made a special as¬
signment Wednesday. Henry S. Bow¬
man was named as the special assignee,
and to him was conveyed all the stock,
machinery, fixtures, accounts, etc., in
the company’s place in Nashville, and
also the stock of flour in the possession
of agents in Atlanta, Ga., and Charles¬
ton, S. C. The special liabilities are
about $12,000.
THE CARTER COURTMARTIAL.
Thirteen Officer. In Atteiwlan o Mnut
Pay Own Kxpen.e*.
A Savannah dispatch rays: Cclo iel
J. W. Clous, deputy judge advocate
general, and Captain Charles McClure
began their Work Wednesday by pre¬
paring their case, preliminary to the
Carter courtmartial proceedings.
Captain Gillette was asked if he
would take part in the prosecution of
the case against Captain Carter, as ho
had done before the board of inquiry.
Ho replied that he would appear as a
witness and that under instructions
from the war department he would as¬
sist Colonel Cions in preparing the
evidence. Beforo the court, however,
the case will ho conducted entirely by
Colonel Clous.
An interesting feature of the court-
martial is that thirteen officers who
will sit as judges will have to pay their
own expenses. Besides railroad
tickets, they aro allowed mileage of 4
cents, and sleeping car fare, but will
have to pay their own hotel bills while
in the city. This is in accordance
with the army regulations.
When au officer comes from a long
distance lie has sufficient from his
mileage to pay his hotel bill in part,
but when ho comes from a nearby sta¬
tion and has to remain for some time,
flic expenses run up, and it is not so
pleasant for him to have to pay them
out of his own pocket. Such officers is the
rule, however, and tho will
pay their own expenses iu the
city. Some of those who will sit with
the court come from the western sta¬
tions. Their mileage, therefore, will
amount ton considerable sum,and will
no doubt go a good way toward pay¬
ing expenses, Others will travel
only short distances, and not bo so
fortunate.
NEW CUBAN CABINET.
General Blanco SignM Appointments of
Autonomists.
A special from Havana says: Cap¬
tain General Blanco has signed the
appointments of the president of tho
council nml tho five secretaries. The
name of Edwardollolz was substituted
for Ibnt of Senor Amblard as minister
of commerce.
The following compose tho first col¬
onial cabinet of Cuba, under tho re¬
cently instituted scheme of autonomy,
which went into effect on the first.
President of the cabinet, Senor Jose
Maria Galvez.
Minister of finance—Senor Bafael
Montoro, Marquis of Montoro.
Minister of interior—Senor Antonio
Govin.
Minister of education—Senor Fran¬
cisco Znyns.
Minister of commerce—Eduardo
Dolz.
Minister of posts and telegraphs—
Senor Laureau S. Rodriquez.
VAN WYUK’S APPOINTMENTS.
Names of Some of (ho Greater City’s Mu¬
nicipal Officers.
Mayor Van Wyek has announced
officially the selections for a portion of
the municipal offices of Greater Now
York within liis gift. The remainder
will be made within a few days. The
list as far as completed up to date is as
follows:
Corporation Counsel —John Whalen.
First Assistant Corporation Coun¬
sel—Theodore Connelly.
Second Assistant Corporation Coun¬
sel—William J. Lodd.
Third Assistant Corporation Coun¬
sel—Charles Blandy.
President and Commissioner of tho
Board of Charities for Manhattan and
Bronx, six years—John W. Keller.
Bhiriff—Thomas J. Dunn.
District Attorney—Asa Bird Gardi-
nor.
Assistants—James J. Grady, John
F. McIntyre, James W.
Henry W. Unger, James D. Me-
Clelland, Stephen 8. Blake, James J,
Walsh, Robert Townsend.
RHODE ISLAND NEXT.
Cotton Manufacturers In That State
Decide to Dost Reduction of Wages.
A dispatch from Providence says:
That the Rhode Island cotton mills
will cut wages is now assured. A
prominent cotton manufacturer says
that there is nothing left for the man-
iifaeturer» to do, and that action will
be Nothing J ftk r in definite ? |. 0W , <kyH has - been , learned , ,
regarding the probable action of
Rhode Island owners of Connecticut
mills, but it is to be presumed that the
KM. •>» >»
by tho Connecticut mills.
WILL COMPLETE HOAD.
N«*\v FurcliHHurs of Tenncunee Central to
Build from Knoxville to Nartliville.
Colonel Jero Baxter aud associates,
Colonel N. C. Chapman, of St. Louis;
T. C. Doremus, of New York, and B.
L. Morris, of Nashville, have
tho first payment of $125,000 on
Tennessee Centra! railroad purchased
by them a few days ago. already
The gentlemen have raised
$1,500,000 with w hich to complete the
road and have placed art immense or¬
der with the Carnegies for nails. The
original idea of the projectors was to
build the line from Knoxville to Nash¬
ville, and this Colonel Baxter and his
associates will (any out.
DISTILLERS COMBINE.
Half Million Barrels of WhiMkic* Will Bo
Put In Pool.
Leading Kentucky distillers have
inaugurated a movement for a pool of
the big stocks of past years. It is
claimed that 500,000 barrels of whisky
will be pmt into the pool. A common
distributor will be employed.
The whisky firms at Cincinnati, St.
Louis, I’eoria, Chicago and otherplaccs
are interested in tho enterprise.
CAUGHT IN BURNING BUILDING
AND ROASTED ALIVE.
JERSEY CITY SCENE OF TRAGEDY.
bodies of Father, Mother and Four Chil¬
dren Horribly Disfigured—'Tivo Other
People Badly Burned.
Six members of olio family were
killed by flames and smoke in a fire
that occurred early Sunday morning
in Jersey City. Tho dead are;
Adolph Reich, forty-two years old,
tho father.
Emma Reich, forty-two years old,
(lie mother.
Tillio Reich, twenty-two years old.
Ida Reich, fifteen years old.
Albert Reich, fourteen years old.
Gustav Reich, eight years old.
Several others were injured and it
may to that another member of tho ill-
falod family will die. Ho is the nine
teen-year-old son and his body is cov¬
ered with burns.
John Conway, chief of the Jersey
(lily lire department, was very badly
burned. He fell tliri ti?h a burning
floor and was rescued with difficulty.
Adolph Reich’s home was at 111 7
Germania avenue. He was a real es¬
tate agent and well to do.
It is believed tho lire broko out from
a heater in Hie basement, and it work¬
ed its way up to the third floor, where
the sleeping apartments of ihe family
were located.
Henry Reich said it was Into when
tho family retired, tho evening having
been spent in entertaining Now Year’s
callers.* Early in the morning he was
awakened by shouts.
Several engine companies responded
promptly to the alarm and ten minutes
later (he fire was out. Then began
the search.
The rays from tho firemen’s lanterns
disclosed three charred bodies against
the wall at the foot of the si airs.
They were those of Adolph Reich,
his daughter Tillie and little Gustav.
The father lmd fallen upon the daugh¬
ter and his son was in his arms.
They were burned almost beyond
recognition. tho
In the basement of the house
searching party stumbled over the re¬
mains of Ida and Albert, two blacken¬
ed corpses with arms entwined. Por¬
tions of the limbs had been entirely
burned away and tho faces were ter¬
ribly distorted. found in the dining
The mother was
room. She was but slightly burned.
Her face showed no look of pain. She
undoubtedly died from suffocation.
BUSILNELL ENTERS CONTEST.
Ho Will Malta fiUjnatoriul Knee Against.
Mark Hanna.
Governor Busbnell in an interview
at Columbus, O., Saturday afternoon,
made the first announcement of liis
candidacy for the United Statts sena-
♦orship to succeed Senator Hanna.
Ho said:
“I am a candidate only in the sense
that I want, the members of the gen¬
eral assembly to settle it for them¬
selves. If I have any political future, The
1 want to rest upon it right now.
people of this state, in my opinion,
arc tired of bossism. I am blamed
because my appointees aro here, some
of them working against Henator
mi. The city is full of federal em-
ployc.es from Washington working for
him, and nothing is said about that.
“J am tired of this attempt do to
hold me up. ft seems to me that 1
not owe anything to Benator lia na
after the way I was treated by him
and his friends in the last state cam-
paign. Hanna’s friends think
“If Senator
they can scare me by threatening to
stop the inauguration exercises, they
are simply mistaken in tl.cir man.”
COTTON MILL ANNEX BURNS.
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i>y« ii..u*e «r ihe m. A<i.-n Company ao«*
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Tll< ; (1 .f h ; mm «* "7. McA,k "
onc of the largest rollon mills n. ho
south, located at McAde.isville, N. L.,
twenty miles from Charlotte, was do-
stroyed by fire last Sunday. The loss
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the fire is unknown.
SHIPS OF TWO NAVIES CLASH.
lie port That Kn«ll*h \ <•*»<•! Wire* Upon
ItuHsImi Sh i p.
A sensation has been caused in
London by a rumor from Plymouth
Umt lLu'ssiau^’im'iinof-war the ui„ English ...................................... admiral lias in fired on
a Chinese
water#
Nothing is known ns to the rumor
at the foreign office or the admirably,
The morning papers publish also the
statement that England is pressing
China to declare Port Arthur a free
port. supposed that tho of
It is presence
British warships there is intended to
insure freedom of access for trading
vessels.__
LONG TERM FOR MRS. NACK.
felie Will Plead Guilty and Gr. Up Por
Twenty-One Year*.
'i born in the murder of Guldensueppe
will dead guilty to manslaughter,
District Attorney Youngs, it is under-
stood, will consent to the imposition
of a sentence of twenty-one years in
the penitentiary at Sing Sing. This
sentence, it is understood, will also be
acceptabie to Mrs. Nack’s attorneys.
VOL. IV. NO. 2.
EMBEZZLER MABRY CAPTURED.
Mnlicn Dospurato Attempt nt SnlcUle In
ftavantiali Prison.
P. H. Mabry, tho Southern Express
company's former agent at Brunswick,
who skipped out with something over
$15,000, was captured by three Savan¬
nah detectives upon n telegram from
Superintendent 0. L. miles Myers Saturday
afternoon about four from Savan¬
nah on the Ogeecheo road and was
placed in a cell in the city barracks.
Savannah was startled Sunday morn¬
ing by the report that Mabry had en¬
deavored to commit suicide iu liis cell
ah t he police barracks, from which he
was to have been taken back to
Brunswick in charge of officers of the
law.
Rather than return to face his many
former friends as an embezzler aud u
criminal, he decided to take his own
life. Some time Sunday morning, it
is supposed about 4 o’clock,he opened
his left wrist with a and penknife,severing
one of tho arteries, making a jag¬
ged cut in it, as was afterwards found,
for about an inch. It was 5:30 o’clock
when he was discovered. The door to
tho corridor of the barracks was open¬
ed about that hour, and the keeper
passing Mabry's cell noticed his con¬
dition and hurriedly gave the and alarm.
A physician was summoned an
examination showed that he had lost
about a pint of blood, and was totally
unconscious.
The physician had him taken up,
cot and all, disturbing him as little as
possible, for fear that another hem¬
orrhage would result, nml sent to the
Savannah hospiai, where his wound
was dressed and he finally recovered
consciousness. When Mabry was re¬
covering from his stupor at the hos¬
pital, he turned to the policeman who
was there with him as a guard aud
begged him to kill him—to shoot him
through tho bond. Tho policeman re¬
fused, and Mabry began to banter
him, calling him a coward and telling
him ho did not have tho nerve to
do it.
Sunday Mabry seemed considerably
improved. Though he was very weak
from tlie loss of blood, and will remain
so for some days. Ho frets nml wor¬
ries somewhat that ho was not success¬
ful in liis attempt to take his own life,
and threatens to do it when he has the
opportunity.
WILL PROSECUTE WEYLE1L
Spanish Cabinet Meets nml Taken Im¬
portant, Action.
Advices from Madrid state that nt a
meeting of the cabinet Saturday even¬
ing Senor Sagasta, the premier, read
a telegram from Marshal Blanco, tho
captain general of Cuba, giving tho
names of the Cuban ministry, ns an¬
nounced Friday, nml the cabinet
approved of the nominations. The
premier also read a telegram from Cap¬
tain General Blanco in which the lat¬
ter demanded authorization to repeal
the order prohibiting the exportation
of manufactured tobacco.
General Correa, the minister of war,
made a report on the memorial which
General Weyler recently presented to
the queen regent on the subject of
President McKinley’s message this to con-
gress. General Weyler, is report,
denied having sent copies and of liis minis¬ pro¬
test to the newspapers, the
ter for war also read a royal edict di¬
recting the supreme court martial to
prosecute those communicated tho
prosecute those who communicated
the text of the protest to the press.
Tho director of tho Nacional says
that as a personal friend of General
Weyler ho bad access to tho general’s
study, where he took a rough draft of
proto8f> |,j H notes and sup-
Ho(] thijln tQ the H Ho adds that
General Weyler is innocent of distrib-
utin tho ,„ aUor to U)t , , l0WH p a pers.
Th( , government, however, is con-
vjn(!0(1 that General Weyler is guilty
„f having committed several misde-
meimorB a „d is inclined to act in the
mo st iigorous manner.
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THE GREATER KNOXVILLE.
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liy ar, an net n< t of if the the lemslatiire legislature one me year vear
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Um thinl largest eily iu 11m state.
VAN VVVCK INAUGURATED
A* Mayor <*r tin. Greater Now York
.VI inii( i|*;tlif V.
New York Saturday became the sec-
oml city of the world will. Robert A.
Van Wyck as its mayor. At the city
ball a large crowd gathered early to
■witness the induction of ihe new may-
or. Mayor Strong transacted a few
last matters of routine. Nearly all
the strong cabinet dropped in to -ay
good-bye. Strong made appropriate
Mayor induction. an
speech of
Mayor Van Wyck’s speech of accep-
lance was brief. He said. 1 lie peo-
pie have chosen rue to be mayor. (
received the office from them and tc
them I will answer.”
CHINESE YIELD TO GERMANS.
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Chinese Garrison Commandant Gel* 111*
yielded to the demand of Baron Hey-
king, German ambassador at Peking,
for the dismissal of the commandant
of the Chinese garrison at Two-Chow,
province of Shan-Tung, because of the
use of threatening language to the
German missionaries there.
The Chinese government has
graphed a dismissal of cammandaut.
THE LOUISVILLE AND NASIIYILLE
GETS T1IE LEASE.
MATTER NO* OUT OF COURTS.
TlioirmM and Ryan Soli Out Their Interests.
Important Pliant; oh Made on the
Railroad Map.
Friday afternoon tho following tele
gram was received from Augusta, Ga.:
“Tho Louisville nml Nashville Railroad
company has bought Thomas and llyan's
alleged interest In the Georgia railroad
lease,”
This is the most important railroad
news that lias developed since
the organization of tho Southern rail¬
way out of the wreck of the Richmond
and West Point Terminal.
The purchase of the Thomas and
Byau claim to the half interest which
the old Central liailrond and Banking
company held in the Georgia railroad
lease, gives the Louisville and Nash¬
ville system a complete lino from the
Ohio and Mississippi rivers to Augusta,
and probably includes a traffic arrange¬
ment over the Augusta and Port Royal
road, whereby tho Louisville and
Nashville will secure an unbroken
line to Port Royal, the finest harbor
on the south Atlantic coast.
This is believed because it wag
thought the real object of the Thomas
and Ryan suit was not only to unload
its investment in the Georgia railroad
lease bought at the receivership sale
of the Georgia Central’s assets, but to
market as well the Augusta and Port
Royal road. If this is not also sold to
the L. and N. that system doubtless
has tho traffic arrangement to Port
Royal, which will give it an Atlantic
port and also give tho Augusta and
Port Royal road business that will
make it paying property.
In a word, the deal means the ad-
mtssion of a powerful competitor to
the Southern railway in the southeast.
The Louisville and Nashville not only
gets control of tho Georgia railroad,
but, through that will control tho At¬
lanta and Wost Point and the Western
Railway of Alabama. The Louisville
and Nashviile will, therefore, compete
at all points on those roads and their
independent connections.
Tho Atlanta and West Point w ill be¬
come one of the main arteries of the
system in the southeast, anil will un¬
doubtedly rank close to the Western
and Atlantic in earning power. The
immense western business coining over
the state road, which is part of the
system, will be transferred to the
Georgia at Atlanta, and tho Wostern
and Atlantic, the Georgia railroad and
the West Point railroad will doubtless
increase their already large earnings.
Eventually there will no doubt bo
consolidations of management and the
Georgia, the Atlanta and West Point
iyid tho Western of Alabama will all be
brought under one management, if not
merged completely into tho Louisville
and Nashville system.
NEW TRIAL REFUSED PEEPLES.
Judge Fite Think# the Evidence In tho
Case .ItiHfifieM the Verdict.
Judge A. W. Fite lias overruled the
motion for a new trial in the ease of
the state vs. T. J. Peeples, convicted
in October in Whitfield superior court
at Dalton, Ga., of receiving stolen
floods- leader of the
Walter Bohannon, tho
Dalton gang, was brought in from
Dade coal mines, and his affidavit was
read. The judge claimed, after faear-
ing tho motion, that the evidence juk-
tilled the verdict in the case. l ie
effort to show how Peeples got tho
carpeting was a failuro.
Bohannon's affidavit was a complete
denial of all that he was alleged to
have said to Copeland, and the failure
of the effort to show that Bohannon
1,a(1 mall ° l' r °" ‘° Weaken ’
cu the cause of the defendant,
NO CUT IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
Bight Ahead.
A special from Spartanburg, S. C„
says: There is nothing whatever in
the report that the cotton mills in this
j neither eiit nor raise nor
now known.
WANT ACTliESS TO RETURN.
Charleston Society People Will Tender
MIhh Crane a Grand Ball*
Prominent society people of Charles-
ton have begun raising money by pop-
ular subscription to have Hoyt’s “A
Stranger in New York” return to
Charleston, to show Miss Crane, the
leading lady, that the city is in full
sympathywith herintherecentsensa-
tion at the Citadel hop.
It is further proposed to give Miss
Crane a grand ball, with leaders of
ike four hundred as chaperons, but
with the elimination ol Mrs. Lewis,
who raised tho row.
Strong efforts are being made to get
Miss Crane to return for the perform¬
ance and the ball.
CONCESSIONS FROM MEXICO
Whereby Natural , „ Product* ^ of tninlmb-
cession from the Mexican government
for eiploitmg natural productsof Gulf sev-
eral uninhabited islands in the of
Mexico, where there are large amounts
o guano, fruits, woods aud medicinal
plants, and also for a sponge and coral
collection. It is understood tins c n-
cession has been offered for sale in the
United States.