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The Jones County News.
VOL. IX.
MAY FORCE ALLIANCt
Between /m:rica and Trance in
Venezuelan Lmfcraglk
INTEREST OF BOTH IDENTICAL
Course of Germany and Britain Jeop¬
ardizes Every Other Nation Hav¬
ing Claims Against Castro.
Situation Serious.
A Washington special of Friday
says: No answer has yet come from
the allied po-wors to Mr. Bowen’s last
proposition. The British ambassador
sent a long cablegram to Lord Lans-
downe Thursday afternoon, stating
what might be expected In case Great
Britain and her two allies insisted on
the preferential treatment for the
blockading powers. The text of the
cablegram cannot be published, but it
informed the foreign office that Min-
ister Bowen, in the event of a refusal
fl|of representatives his proposition, of would Iho otner cal! upon claimant the
powers in Washington and state to
them that Venezuela was being forced
by the triple alliance to yield to a plan
which would affect seriously the inter¬
ests of France, Belgium. Norway and
Sweden, Spain, Denmark, Holland and
the United States.
When this step is taken, it is ex
pected that France will make repre¬
sentations at once to London, Berlin
and Rome, protesting against any in¬
terference with the previous arrange
ment she had made with Venezuela for
the settlement, of claims. France may¬
be joined in this protest by the other
claimant nations.
France and United States.
There is no reason to believe that
the French government has sounded
the United States government to learn
how much in common there may be
between their interests in Venezuela.
It is said that there is a strong resem¬
blance between the claims of the two
nations; perhaps enough to link their!
together in resistance to any policy on
the part of the allies which would tend
to destroy or impair those interests.
For instance, the United States,
through a regular tribunal, the Vene
zuelan claim commission, has secured
judgment against Venezuela for a con
siderable sum ef money, which Vene¬
zuela has been paying in installments.
^^France, by treaty and negotiations.
secured what amounts to a judg-
against Venezuela, snd she
claims that her debtor must not be de
stroyed or Venezuela’s means of meet¬
ing her payments to France impaired,
as will be the case by the adoption of
the preferential treatment demanded
by the allies. The considerations are
tending to draw France and the Uni¬
ted States together in a policy that is
likely to take issue with that of the
allies.
Important subjects In several rou¬
tine departmental matters were con¬
sidered at the cabinet meeting Friday.
All the members of the cabinet were
present. Secretary Moody has re¬
turned fro mhis brief vacation. His
condition is much improved. The
question of most serious importance
related to ships, in connection with
the Venezuelan question. The action
taken in congress for the strengthen¬
ing of the coast defense fortifications
and the improvement of tho naval and
military estimates generally were re¬
ferred to and cordially approved. It is
clear that the United States Is not ex¬
pecting and is not looking for trouble,
blit the administration is determined
not to be caught short-handed.
MANY DIE IN ALMSHOUSE.
Sensational Charges Made Regarding
Treatment of inmates of Poor House.
During the past two weeks at the
& alhoun county, Ala., alms house at
cltsonville have occurred six deaths
of inmates.
It is claimed that improper food
was the cause of the deaths.
It is said that those dying were una¬
ble to eat the stuff given them. It is
also said that the deaths were caused
by smallpox.
SHIP TRUST LAUNCHED.
Great International Mercantile Marine
Company Elects Officers.
At New York Friday the complete
organization of the International Mer¬
cantile Marine Company was an¬
nounced. The officers of the incorpo¬
ration are: President, Clement A.
Griscom; vice president in Great Brit¬
ain, Sir Clinton E. Dawkins; vice pres¬
ident in America, Philip A. S. Frank¬
lin; treasurer, James S. Cwartz ; sec¬
retary, Emerson E. Parvin; comp¬
troller, Monroe G. Tilley; general
counsel, Francis Lynde Stetson.
ENGINE STRIKES TROLLEY.
Eleven Passengers Injured on Street j
Car in Springfield, Ohio.
’
A Big Four passenger train, struck
.street car at a street crossing in j
iringfield, Ohio, Friday early in the t
evening. The car was well filled with
people, and it was hit squarely in the J
center, driving it 50 feet beyond the
crossing.
Eleven persons were injured, two
of whom are seriously hurt.
MOROCCO PRETENDER ROUTED.
Great Battle Was Fought Wherein
Sultan’3 Troops Were Victorious.
Advices from Tangier, Morocco,
state that the sultan’s troops have ut¬
terly routed the forces of the Moorish
pretender and captured Bu Hamara
himself.
A special courier who arrived Sun¬
day, after making a Journey from Fez,
brought this news. He reports that
at daybreak last Thursday the army
of the sultan, commanded by the war
minister, El Menehbe, attacked tho
pretender's positions and inflicted a
complete defeat on hi3 following, at
the same time capturing Bu Hamara.
Another runner, who has reached
Tangier from Fez, confirms the news
of the defeat of the rebels, but says
that the report of the capture of the
pretender is incorrect. He adds that
it Is unertain whether Bu Honiara’s
body was among the great number
slain. The sultan’s victory was abso¬
lute, almost the entire following of tho
pretender being either slain or cap
tured. His camp, provisions and am¬
munition were taken and the artillery,
which was lost by the sultan's army-
in the battle of December 23, was re
captured. Even if Bu Hamara es¬
caped, it is hopeless for him to seek
to retrieve his defeat, as his claim
that he is a saint is exploded.
BISHOP TURNER’S VIEW.
Secs the "Hand oi God” in Agitation
Over President’s Negro Policy.
Bishop H. M. Turner, of the African
Methodist Episcopal church, in speak¬
ing of the tone of the press regard¬
ing President Roosevelt’s negro policy,
says:
“I knew the negro question was not
at an end when these superficial poli¬
ticians and social economists were
harping over it so fanatically, and,
just as I predicted, It has broken out
with more fury than it has assumed
in thirty-one years, to my personal
knowledge. And, if tho negro does
not return to Africa in large numbers
and establish a civilized nation of
his own and let the world see that we
are not all idiots and miserable fail¬
ures, it will come again, with ton
times more intensity. God does not
mean that the question at issue shall
go into absolute silence till his pur¬
poses are executed. I wonder what
the fool negro now thinks who has
been ridiculing emigration. I get let¬
ters from all parts of the country,
from white and colored, saying, ‘You
have thfe only sensible remedy and
the government should give tne neces¬
sary aid by establishing u Hue of
steamers to the land of your fathers.’
I have nothing to say about the pres-.,
sent agitation. I sed the hand of God
in it all.”
DATE OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED.
General Gordon Notifies Confederate
Camps of Reunion at New Orleans.
General |Gordon, commanding the
United Confederate Veterans, an¬
nounces that according to the custom
heretofore in force, which leaves to
the commanding general and the de¬
partment commanders tho fixing of
the date of the reunion, the thirteenth
annual reunion will be held in the city
of New Orleans, La., on May 19, 20,
21 and 22, 1903, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday, respectively,
those days having been named by^our
host as satisfactory.
With pride the commanding general
also announces that 1,490 camps have
already joined the association ■ and
he hopes that many more will file ap¬
plications before the reunion. He
urges veterans everywhere to get to¬
gether and form themselves into
camps and send at once to these head¬
quarters for organization papers, so
that their aid may be secured in car¬
rying out the benevolent, praisewor¬
thy and patriotic objects of our order.
F. M. Hill, of McKinney, Texas, and
B. S. Ellis, of Caddo, I. Ter., have
bought a splendid blooded dark bay
horse, 15 1-2 hands high and six years
old, without a blemish and fully train¬
ed and gaited, which is to be present¬
ed to General John B. Gordon,
and ridden by him on the parade of
the confederate veterans in May. The
horse will be presented in the name
of the veterans and will arrive in New
Orleans ten days before the reunion.
WHOLE FAMILY MURDERED.
Heinous Crime is Thought to Have
Been Committed by the Father.
Charles Rowe, his wife and three
children were found dead at their
home near Teneha, Texas, Friday. The
three children had been killed with an
ax. Mrs. Rowe's throat was cut and
Rowe had ihis throat cut and stab-
wound near the heart. It is believed
Rowe killed his family and suicided.
No Senatorial Choice in Delaware.
The ninth bailot for United States
senator was taken in the Delaware leg
islature Friday without result.
FIRST MARCONI MESSAGE FILED.
Ne re e To Incoming j
Sen* N ews
The first attempt to supplying in- '
coming steamers wit ha new service
was made in London Friday when
Reuter , s Telegram Company filed with J
the Marconi Telegraph Company one i
hundred words of news for the Cunard j
line York steamer Saturday Lueania, last, and which which left New was ]
•
due to arrive at Queens-town Friday, j
GRAY. JONES CO.. GA.. THURSDA Y. FEBRUARY 5. 190.
SCORES ARE MANGLED
Frightfully Horrible Wreck on
Railroad in New Jersey.
FLAMES ADD THEIR TERRORS
Fast Express Crashes Jhto Rear of
Accommodation Train, Telescop¬
ing Passenger Cars and
Wreaking Death.
The most appalling railroad wreck
that has occurred in the vicinity of
New York in many years, the loss of
life being estimated at not less than
thirty persons, took place Tuesday
uight at Graeeland, near Westfield,
N. J., on the Central railroad of New
Jersey, when the Royal Blue line ex¬
press, westbound, plunged, at top
speed, into the rear of a local train.
Seven bodies have been identified,
while sixteen more, almost unrecog¬
nizable corpses, have been recovered.
After the crash three cars of the
local train took Are, rendering impos¬
sible the rescue of many of the
wounded who were pinned fast in tho
wreck. Many bodies are believed to
have been consumed.
On board the flyer all the passen¬
gers, although badly shaken up, es¬
caped uninjured, except for trifling
bruises.
The train which was run into left
New York at 5:45, runs as an express
to Boundbrooli, making stops at Eliz¬
abeth. Westfield and Plainfield. Be¬
yond Boundbrook it runs as a local.
The Royal Blue train left fifteen min¬
utes later. It travels at a high
speed, and makes no stop except at
Elizabeth and is scheduled to overtake
the slower train just beyond Grace-
land, where the latter switches from
track three on to track four to permit
the Royal Blue to pass.
At the time of the accident a freight
train was blocked on track four and
the local received orders to proceed
on the express track to Dunellon, and
there take the outside, or No. 4, track.
Shortly after receiving orders the train
had to stop for a hot box, which de¬
layed her so that when she got under
way again she was due at Dunellon.
She had just started and was moving
slowly when the Royal Blue, traveling
apparently at full speed, which at that
paint usually approached 65 miles an
hour, crashed into the rear end.
The heavy engine of the Royal Blue
tore its way int othe rear end of the
car ahead, which in turn was driven
into the third car, and this in turn was
driven into the fourth car from the
rear. The fourth car Was only partly
wrecked, but the last three were torn
to pieces. The Royal Blue engine left
the rails and turned over on its side,
the engineer and fireman sticking to
their posts and going down in the
wreck.
Hundred Dead and Hurt.
The engine and the three worst
wrecked cars were piled into a heap,
containing at least one hundred dead
and injured. From the mass came
fearful cries for aid. A minute later
the wreck caught fire from the firebox,
The screams of^he injured in the heap
were intensified as they found them-
selves hemmed in by the flames.
The passengers in the two forward
cars of the first train and all the men
from the express and every one in the
neighborhood started at, work to get
out the injured before the flames
could reach them. At times, while
toiling i:t the wreckage, the flames
reached the rescuers and their cloth-
lng took fire, hut they worked on,
death in sight of the men who were
working with desperation to save
them. The flames soon gained com-
plete mastery of the last two cars.
The sight while the wreck was burn-
Ing was horrifying. Men could be
seen in the wreckage pinned fast amid
the timbers of the cars and struggling
to be free, while tho flames roaroa
around them.
HALL CLOSED TO BOOKER.
Negro Educator Not Wanted at Meet¬
ing to Be Held in Gainesville, Fla.
Recently W. N. SUeats, Florida's
state superintendent of public instruc-
tion, invited Booker Washington to de
liver an address before the Joint con
vention of county superintendents oi
education board to meet in Gaines
ville on February 4th.
Mr. Slieats is severely censured in
home town, and County "vr Superintend -
ent Holloway telegraphed The Gaines-
ville Sun that Booker Washington will
not be permitted to speak in the au-
ditorium on the occasion.
INFLAMATORY SPEECHES MADE.
Assistant Treasury May
be Asked for Ex P lanatlon -
Because a meeting in Washington
Monday night over which he presid-
ed, was characterized by some incen-
d j ary speeches, Cyrus Field Adams, a
ne g ro w b 0 j s assistant register of the
treg^m-y^ j s having his part in the af-
fa(r scrut jnized by the officials above
j,j m Tbe meeting was under the aus-
pices of the Afro-American council.
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I X
Brief Summary of Most
Important Events
of Each Day.
—A negro labor agent was killed
Monday In a lumber camp in Harrison
county, Mississippi. I.'.e had refused
to leave when ordered.
—Eli Rogers, a crazed man of Union
count, North Carolina, Monday after¬
noon killed Miss May Pressley and a
negro boy.
—Tho democrats of tho Alabama
legislature in joint caucus Monday
nominated Senator Pettus to succeed
himself.
—Senator Morgan, of Alabama, is
making a fight on the Panama canal
treaty.
- -The house has adopted a resolu¬
tion calling for information in regard
lo the Inciauola affair.
—Tbe Afro-American council lias is
y ucd an address condemning 'he south
for !, s treatment of the negro)t.
—Philip Doblin, who swore that
Lemuel Quigg offered Congressman
Dossier $5,000 for his vote, confesses
that he perjured himself.
• -Judge William It. Day, of Olvlo,
has been offered and accepted the po-
s i ion of associate justice of tha Uni¬
ted States supreme court.
—Lieutenant Armstrong, of Ala¬
bama. is lead of the smallpox at Ma¬
nila.
—At Durban, South Africa, the bu¬
bonic plague is committing such rav¬
ages that the people are fleeing.
—Three alleged widows arc suing
for damage for the death of a negro
fireman at Spartanburg, 3. C.
—At Wartburg, Tenn., Morris Jett,
a youth, was killed by an exploding
gun. His aged grandmotuer died after
hearing of his death.
—Steamer Dawson City, eighty-six
days out from Nome, reaches Port
Townsend, Wash., with no losses.
—Senator Teller says if he is re¬
fused a certificate of election oy the
governor of Colorado, he win carry his
case to the United States senate.
—John D. Rockefeller is bothered by
letters telling him how to better his
weak stomach, the result of ome joker
who reported that ltockeU ler would
give $1,000,000 for a cure.
—Volcano Stromboli, on St. Vincent
Island, is again in eruptio’.I
—It is announced that the blockade
of Venezuela will be raised at odcs
under satisfactory terms,.
—In the elections in France Satur-
,} ay Count Boni de Castoilane was re-
turned to the chamber of ueputies.
..Venezuelan foreign and war min-
isters atjsert that tlle Panthcr fire d
first at San Carlos.
—Solomon Hotema, a famous Choc
taw Indian who has acted as represent¬
ative, senator, judge and Presbyterian
minister in his nation, is now in the
federal prison at Atlanta to serve life
sentence for murder.
—An unknown white woman walked
on a bridge on the Central below Ma¬
con knowing that a train was just bo
hind her. She was decapitated.
—Dr. Eugene Foster, of Augusta,
one of the best known physicians in
Georgia, is dead of heart failure.
—Laymen in Mississippi arc object-
ing to alleged caucusing before tho
election of Dr. Lloyd as bishop of Mis-
Bissippi.
—United Mine Workers receive re
port of wage committee. The miners
will make demand for an advance.
_The United States, in the canal
treaty, agrees to pay Colombia $10,-
ooo.OOO for ber ri £ ,!ts in r(,utes across
^e isthmus.
_ Colonel Arthur Lynch was convU't-
eit of hiuh treason at London and sen-
tence( j t0 death
- KingOS ^ ° fN " rW a e,:r?o S :rew e
^inc^^emporarfly"' 11 n ' n
P^e temporarily
—Cement and w ei p ‘
$2,000,000 will be constructed at Car-
tersville, Ga„ by Chicago capua is s.
—The Millard Lee insanity case is
dismissed from the superior court and- j
Will be taken to the supreme court.
—The Panama canal treaty was]
signed at Washington Thursday. i
—Horace Aivers, a prominent real
estate man of Savannah, Ga., has been
fined $750 by Judge Pope Barrow for
renting properly for gaming purposes.
—While stealing coal Thursday
morn j ng j ane Mayo, a negro woman,
’ of
Q{ Mac0 n Ga., received two loads
buckshot. She was found dead iate in
the morning.
—The North Carolina democrat.c
senatorial caucus was fairly stampeded
ran
au 1 w .o-
en votes to win the nomination.
—At Spartanburg, S. t... a „-year-o d
girl feeds strychnine pills to her in-
fant sister, causing almost Instant
death.
—The deadlocks in Colorado and
^
—German cruisers bombarded bort
gan Car]og at Maracaibo, Venezuela,
Thursday,.
—Herr Hebei, socialist, in tbe Ger¬
man reichstag, said the emperor was
crazy to play the first role in the
world.
—The volcano Soufrierer, on St. Vin
cent island, is in eruption again.
FOURTEEN MILLIONS
Is Claim of the Allies That Little
Venezuela Must Pay.
BOWEN’S PLAN MEETS FAVOR
British, German and Italian Ambassa¬
dors Urge Their Governments
to Accept and Lift the Block¬
ade at Once.
A Washington special says: Tho
British and German ambassadors and
Count Quadt, tho German chargo
d'affaires, Wednesday night called on
Mr. Bowen, Venezuela's representa¬
tive in the negotiations, looking to a
raising of the blockade and settle¬
ment of the claims against Venezuela.
The conference was by appointment,
and at the request of the representa-
tives of the allies. It is believed that
the purpose was to present tho claims,
of the allies to preferential treatment,
in payments over those nations which
have not exerted physical pressure on
Venezuela, lmt it was impossible to-
get any direct information on this,
point.
The conference broke up at 12:30
o’clock, and the representatives of the
allies proceeded at once to their
homes. It was made known that, no
agreement had yet. been reached for
the raising of the blockade, and that
further word must he awaited from
Europe before this state of the nego-
tlations is passed. Mr. Bowen made
tho following statement:
“We have been discussing tonight
certain points which needed to bo-
clearly understood. They have been
referred to us for consideration and
our views are now to bo communicat¬
ed at once to Rome, London and Ber¬
lin.”
The*further statement was made af-
ter the conference that there was ab-
solutely no foundation for charges
that Germany was delaying the sign¬
ing of tho preliminary protocol. Tho
representations considered emanated
i’rom the London foreign office.
Fourteen Millions Asked.
The Italian and British ambassa¬
dors and the German charge d'affaires
at a joint conference Wednesday
agreed ^o cable their governments
urging a prompt acceptance of Mr.
Bowen’s last proposition, to enusble
the lifting of the Venezuelan blockiade
at once. In this cablegram, which
was sen at noon, t was sugge feted
that consideration of the details of
the proposition be postponed until af¬
ter the signing of the preliminary pro¬
tocol.
Signor Mayor des Planches, the Ital¬
ian ambassador, as tho ranking rep¬
resentative of tho aJlies, called on
Mr. Bowen during the afternoon and
informed him of the dispatch of the
joint cablegram to the powers and ex¬
pressed th ehopo that it wqwld
dite the arrival of the final alnswer.
Partial confirmation has been ob¬
tained of cable dispatches that Bel-
gium is to take a prominent pnrt in
the administration of thoi customs re-
co jpts. Mr. Bowen doclinies to discuss
tllc deta |) s 0 f his plan, however, until
t j ie blockade has been raised. Late in
jhe day he gave out a brief statement.
of the diplomatic debt of Venezuela
and the methods for Us future adjust-
ment. in round numbers this deb ( t
amounted on December 31, 1901, to
something over $14,000,^00, and con¬
sisted of claims which had been pre-
viously adjusted. Mr. Jjowen’s plan
provides that 13 per cent of tho cus¬
toms receipts of all the Venezuelan
ports shall go toward tho payment of
this debt.
Senatorial Deadlock „ , in Washington. ... . .__
StltTs “ tSon for United
at Olympia,
Wash Wednesday as as follows:
-
Ankeney, 56 ; Presto 44; Turner, 22;.
Allen, 6. :
Wilson 6;
-—
Spooner Given Full Vote.
The election of John C. Spooner as
xjnitod States senator to succeed him- ■
,,elf was reaffirmed Wednesday In joint
session of the Wisconsin legislature. ;
He received th full party vote.
DEBRIS FULL OF CORPSES. I
Further Horrors cf Wreck in Arizona |
Made Known by Investigation. j
Tho coroner’s jury empanelled at
Tucson, Ariz., . , by Coroner _ Culver ,, , view- . . j
cd the remainsi of fourteen victims of ,
Wednesday’s disaster on the Southern |
Pacific near Vails station. Identlfica- !
tion was difficult and only one body j
was identified with certainty. Other j j
remains are being taken from the |
ruins.
The total number of dead thus far
reported is twenty-four, and if. is now
believed that the fatalities will num¬
ber not less than thirty-five.
MAJOR GLENN EXONERATED.
Declared Not Guilty of Unlawful Exe¬
cutions in the Philippines.
A special from Manila saya: Ma-
wrmknssk: killing prim
the charge of unlawfully
oners of war, has been been acquitted ordered to j
Major Glenn has
return to duty. Th,, verdict «. »
popular one. I
EDUCATION HOARD ORGANIZED.
For Education In the South Rockefel¬
ler Give# Hundred Thousand Dol¬
lars a Year, for Ten Years.
The general education board recent¬
ly’ chartered by congress for tne pro¬
motion of educational work in the Uni¬
ted Stales, organized in Washington
Thursday. The hoard consists of W.
H. Baldwin, Jr., Wallace Buttrick,
J. L. M, Curry, Frederick T. Gates,
Daniel C. Gilman, Morris K Jesup,
Robert C. Ogden, Walter H. Page,
George Foster Peabody, John D. Rock-
efollor, Jr., and Albert Shaw. Mr.
Baldwin was elected chairman, Mr.
Peabody treasurer, and Mr. Buttrick
secretary and executive officer.
The business offices of tho board
will be at IIC Nassau street, New
York city. One of its main objects is
the promotion of rural free schools in
the southern states, although the char¬
ter con templates educational work In
all parts of the United States. Pcnd-
lng tho granting of tho charier, the
board has been at work for a year un-
d er articles of association,
At tho beginning of its work a
"generous friend,” as stated by the
board, subscribed $100,000 a year for a
period of ten years, which sum, tho
board says, has enabled the demon-
Stratton of the possibility of effective
work and the practicability of phllan-
thropk» co-operation with the public
authorities. It developed later that
ibis donor was John D. Rockefeller,
Other sums of money, smaller in
amount, also have been received,
The board issued the following an
nouncement:
“In developing its constructive pro-
gram to aid rural authorities, state
superintendents of public instruction
l' 1 Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama and Louisiana have held con¬
ferences of all their county superin-
tendents, at which tho executive o.
fleer qYthe general educational board
has been a most welcome guest. Ho
has accepted an invitation to meet
county superintendents of Flor¬
ida at Gainesville in that stato next
week. The knowledge thus acquired
and tho relations established have
convinced the hoard tliat the oppor-
I unities are now at hand lor wise and
prudent investment of large sums of
money to promote the education of
all the peoplo throughout the southern
states. The fact Is demonstrated that
no wiper or more patriotic opportunity
for philanthropy ts before the peoplo
"The hoard is now organized to re¬
ceive funds designated for the further
prosocution of tho work begun, to act
as tnisteo for tho holding and invest¬
ment of funds designated for the bene¬
fit of institutions of learning, and to
pay over the annual income of such
funds under the terms of the trust., to
see that, funds given conditionally to
institutions through the board are dis¬
tributed in strict accordance with the
conditions. Funds held by the gener¬
al education hoard are free of taxa
tion.”
LEE OVERMAN WIN8 TOGA
Named for Senator in North Carolina
Democratic Legislative Caucus.
Lee S. Overman was nominated
United States senator in the North
Carolina democratic senatorial cau-
cub at Raleigh Thursday night on the
sixty-first ballot.
The final vote was: Overman 73,
Watson 58, Craig 11. Tho nomination
is equivalent to an election.
Lee S. Overman is 49 years old. He
is a lawyer of ability, a native Oi Palis-
bury, and in 1874 graduated from Trin¬
ity collego. He was private secretary
to Governor Vance ,and has been a
member of Iho house of representa-
tives five different times, having been
speaker once.
In 1895 ho was democratic candi¬
date for senator lo succeed Vance. In
1900 he was the state democratic pres¬
idential elector,
KANSAS MAY BAR BLACKS.
rarlch | 8 | no 3 B lll of Sweeping Na-
turc lntr0 duced in Legislature,
A resolution was introduced in the
Kanaas legislature Thursday to amend
( j ie e | ect | on laws so as to exclude all
n( vg r oes from voting and io require all
j- or( .|g n i JO m people to become natur-
R j[ zea before voting. There Is much
8cntjmont )n favor 0 f ,i 40 resolution,
an ,i jt w m ca ,|ge a hard contest.
SENTENCE OF LYNCH COMMUTED
Irishman Who Helped Boers Given
Life Term Instead of Gallows.
A London dispatch says: The sen-
tenco of death passed upon Colonel
Arthur Lynch, who was found guilty
of h|gh „. oason on Krl day lagt has
been commutcd penaJ servitude fo ,
life.
The flood of protests against tbe
death sentence impose^ on the irish¬
man who fought in iho Boer army
moved tho government to clemency.
There is hardly a nation in the civil¬
ized world from which protests did not
though I he majority were from
the United States.
NATURAL GAS DEALS DEATH.
Four Men Killed and Others Badly
Hurt in Wreck of Packing Plant.
arSSS
ver(j]y hurt |n an explosion which
wreftk ed a large section of the Eck
“ Packlne Company’s ” plant In
w. 7 Thur.
day morning.
NO. 11.
FRANCE TO ACT ALONE
No Rift Yet Appears in the Low¬
ering Venezuelan War Clund.
ALLIES REJECT LAST PROPOSAL
Representatives of Powers at Wash¬
ington Entertain Gloomy View,
But are Still Using Every
Effort for Pacification.
It developed at Washington Satur¬
day that the answers of the allied pow¬
ers to Minister Bowen’s latest propo¬
sition arrived Friday, but were not im¬
mediately presented to the minister.
Tho answers were to the effect that
the allies could not consent, that tho
United States and the other claimant
nations receive the same treatment as
the blockading powers, and that .hoy
therefore rejected in toto Mr. Bowen’s
final proposition.
Knowing the consequences that
were to follow the. presentation of this
answer, the representatives of the al¬
lies took upon themselves th respon¬
sibility of withholding die notes of
their governments, and of again ca¬
bling, urging a retraction of their
preferential demand. Exchanges are
still In progress between the Italian,
British and German embassies, out
there is no evidence that the allies in¬
tend yielding. If they hold out, their
representatives must, present the joint
refusal, and the Washington negotia¬
tions will come to a standstill.
Baron Sternberg, Germany’s new
envoy extraordinary and minister plen¬
ipotentiary to the United States, con¬
ferred Saturday with Count Quadt,
who, as charge d’affaires, has thus far
conducted the Venezuelan negotia¬
tions for Germany. Afterwards the
minister called by appointment at tho
state department and presented his
letters of credence to Secretary Hay,
and afterwards to the president. From
tho white house Baron von Sternberg
went to the British emuassy.
Baron von Sternberg in l..s calls at
the state department and the British
embassy found the outlook for a relief
of the present deadlock exceedingly
gloomy, and he has cabled as much to
his government.
France to Go Alone.
The French legation has notified the
Venezuelan government that in vir¬
tue of the convention of 1867 France
was allowed to collect directly a part
of the revenues of several customs
houses in Venezuela as a guarantee
for her diplomatic claims arising out
of the previous revolutions. France,
it is said, renounced forever, by the
convention of 1865, the exercise of
this right on condition that the inter¬
est, on this debt always should be reg¬
ularly paid. As this payment has not
been made, France, without asking the
authorization of Germany, England
and Italy, intends to revive her right,
of direct collection. Tho French
charge d’affaires, Quievrcaux, has paid
visits to the foreign minister and has
also called on President Castro dur¬
ing the past forty-eight hours.
This activity on the part of France
is evidently In connection with her In¬
tention to revive her rights, and is
considered as an answer to the atti¬
tude assumed by tho allied powers.
A special from Caracas says: In
reply to Minister Bowen’s inquiry as
to what Venezuela intends to do re¬
garding (he demand for preferential
treatment made by the allies, Presi¬
dent Castro lias telegraphed:
“Tho Venezuelan government de¬
sires equal treatment for all the credi¬
tor nations of Europe and America,
keeping in mind, in addition, its diplo¬
matic conventions and anterior stipu¬
lations.”
MILES DINES WITH ED.
England’s Ruler Hob-Nobs With Rank¬
ing American General.
A London dispatch says: General
Nelson A. Miles was the guest of the
king and queen at dinner at Windsor
castle Sunday night. The prince and
princess of Wales and others were
among the parly. King Edward Is en¬
joying the best of health.
RIOTS QUICKLY QUELLED.
Governor of Connecticut Promptly
Orders Troops to Waterbury.
Eight companies of the First regi¬
ment, Connecticut, national guard, and
flvo companies of the Second regi¬
ment, with two gatllng guns, were
called to Waterbury Sunday night at
the command of Governor Chamber-
lain, because of “the imperative need”
occasioned by tho trolloy strike sit¬
uation. Tho riot about the streets
Saturday night, coupled with threats
of further disturbances, led to the
call for troops.
UNJUST AND UNREASONABLE.
In Strong Terms Caracas Newspapers
Score Attitude of Allies.
All the newspapers of Caracas have
SS-Hr
®ent in the settlement of their own
cla,ms is on a p ^ w ‘ th al ‘^° !r ^
vious acts slnce the be g‘ nnln 8 o( the
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unreasonable.