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The Jones News
YOL. IX.
PENSIONS RECEDE
Commissioner Ware Presen's
Figures in Annual Report.
JUST UNDER A MILLION
To be Exact, 996,545 Names Are or*
the Rolls, and the Cost Per Capita
to Maintain System Is
c,s' Placed at $1.75,
The annual report of Commissioner
of Pensions Ware places the total
number of pensioners now on the rolls
at 996,545, of which 729,356 are sol¬
diers and 267,189 are widows and de¬
pendents. Mr. Ware announces that
it Is not probable that the pension roll
will again cress the million line, the
high mark having been reached a year
ago Five of the pensioners are on
the roll on account of the war of the
revolution, 1,116 on account of the war
of 1812, 4,734 on account of the Indian
wars and 13,874 on account of the
Mexican war. The great bulk of the
roll Is ao follows:
Civil war invalids, 703,456; widows,
248,390; Spanish war invalids, 9,200;
v- dows, 3,662, and the regular estab¬
lishment Invalids 9,170; widows, 2,938.
The roll shows a net loss of 2,901 pen¬
sioners during the year. Out of a to¬
tal of 304,809 applications on hand
during the year 130,109 were admitted
end 113,794 were rejected.
The average annual value of each
pension Is now $1333. The annual
value of the Spanish war pension roll
has reached $1,765,310.
Cbmmissioner Ware makes the fol¬
lowing recommendations:
Laws forfeiting the pension or light
to pension of any man convicted In
court of an infamous crime: prohibit¬
ing tho giving of pensions to the wo¬
men who marry soldiers after the sol¬
diers become old pensioners, and a
different method of examining appli¬
cants for pensions, stamping the pres¬
ent system as uncertain, expensive,
unsatisfactory arid generative of an
enormous amount of political friction
Mr. Ware suggests boards constitut¬
ed of experts under civil service rules
which should go from place to place
on fixed days, giving examinations and
receiving testimony regarding the con¬
dition of applicants and making .e-
ports thereon. He also recommends a
law providing fer superannuated
clerks, vigorously urging some law of
retirement and provision.
An analysis of pension figures
shows that the actual total of disburse¬
ments in pensions on account of the
revolutionary war, war of 1812, Indian
wars, Mexican war, civil war and the
war with Spain was $3,038,623,590.
The cost of the pension system per
'capita of population >or 1903 is given
as $1.75.
STORM WARNING ISSUED,
Weather Bureau Notes Indication of
Atmospheric Disturbances.
The weather bureau at Washington,
Thursday night issued the following:
“A disturbance was noted Thursday
morning over the western Bahamas,
and it rapidly increased in intensity
during the day, without apparent
movement, as there are only slight in¬
dications tonight of its presence as
shown by reports from the Florida pe¬
ninsula. There are also some appear¬
ances of a local disturbance near the
month of the Mississippi river. It isi
impossible at this time to furnish any
information as to the future develop¬
ment and direction of these disturb¬
ances, as they are beyond the limits
of observation, but storm warnings
hare been ordered from Charleston io
N ew Orleans and advices sent to all
Atlantic and gulf ports.”
UOED DYNAMITE ON EDITOR.
Home Was Wrecked Because Rohr
Opposed Saloons in His Paper. editor
The home of Fred Rohr, of
The Berne, Ind., Witness, was almost
ent rely demolished early Thursday
morning. The family was extricated
from the ruins with slight injuries.
Rohr’s paper has been leading the op¬
position to licensed saloons.
TESTING NEW YORK STATE LAW.
Tobacconist Defies a Statute Claimed
| to be Unconstitutional.
In order to test the constitutionality
of the act passed by the New York
legislature at its last session prohib- ■
iting the use of the American flag for
advertising cigar boxes, '
purposes on
cigarettes and tobacco, J. R. McPike, j
a cigar seller, submitted to arrest in
New The York city charged Wednesday. him with . hav- j j
warrant
ing exposed for sale and sold two
boxes of cigars containing advertising
matter In which the flag appeared.
UNION MINERS ARE BARRED.
Mine Owners in Colorado are Against
Federation Members. I
The Mine Owners’ Association, of
Colorado, has announced that no mem¬
bers of the Western Federation of
Miners will be employed in any of the
properties owned by members of the
association. The federation’s influ¬
ence on the prosperity of the district
has been bad, according lo tbe mine
owner*,
IN LAND OF THE LIVING
Though Reid Was Supposed to Have
Been Buried Over Twenty Years
Ago—Returns to Old Home.
Over twenty years ago a young man
named Jack Reid was thought to have
died In a western city, aild his re
mains were shipped to Griffin, Ga., his
Childhood home, and buried in the
family burial ground.
Last Thursday night a man claiming
to be Jack Reid reachod Griffin, and
pro’ ed beyond a shadow of a doubt
that his claim was true. He has told
small incidents happening in his early
life which no one but Reid could
know, and while at first his story was
scorned as untrue, those most compe¬
tent to judge are emphatic in the as
sertlon that the man Is none othei
than what he claims.
Reid belongs to one of the most
prominent families in Georgia, and be¬
fore the elvil war his father was one
of the wealthiest men in middle Geor¬
gia. Jack was a wild hoy, and sowed
his oats with a prodigality that shock¬
ed may of his friends; spent money
with a lavish hand. At his father’s
doatli he inheritod a considerable for¬
tune, and when he became of age It
is paid that his guardian gave him
$50,000 in gold. He did not realize Lbe
value of money and looked upon It
simply as the means of gratifying nls
appetite for pleasure, and even to this
day tales are told of his reckless ex¬
travagance.
He married a Miss Boston, of Savan¬
nah, but their married life wa3 unhap*
py and they were divorced.
He again married, but soon after
left Georgia and went to the far west,
after having squandered the princely
inheritance left by his father. Little
is l nown of his life In Ihe west. Ho
says he made a fortune in California,
which he lost by going security for a
friend.
Twenty years ago a telegram waa
received by his Griffir relatives from a
small town in Texas, stating that Jack
Reid had died out there and the re
mains were ordered shipped back to
hi? old horqe. His second wife attend
ed tho funeral. The casket was open¬
ed at the grave and friends who knew
him in his younger days declared the
dead man was Reid. His family
mourned his death and his wife shed
bitter tears over his grave. Friends
opolte softly of his follies and extolled
his virtues, and soon Jack Reid was
torgotten.
Held says he knew of the imposi¬
tion which was practiced upon his rela¬
tives, but declinos to state w-hy it was
done. It may have been that ho
thought he had caused his family trou¬
ble enough and by taking that course
he would forever drop out of their
lives. Soon thereafter Reid left for
Central America and later to South
America, In which countries he has
since lived. He says he left Lima,
Peru, nine weeks night. ago and reached
Griffin Thursday
BRITISHERS ARE WORRIED.
Over Seizure of Islands Off Coast of
Borneo by American Gunboat.
Tne British foreign office at London
is said to have made representations
to Washington anent the recent seiz¬
ure of two or three islands off the
northwest coast of British North Bor¬
neo by the United States gunboat Iro¬
quois. These Islands are not connect¬
ed with those off the coast of Sanda-
kai. capital of British North Borneo,
over which the American flag was re
cently hoisted.
The Iroquois is stated to have lately
visited a portion of the northeast coast
of Borneo and to have thence steamed
to Darvol bay, an impo'rtant center of
Borneo, 150 miles southward. There
the seizure is said to have occurred.
Th i is’ands, which have been under
British administration /ior the last
twenty-five years, were originally in¬
fested by pirates, who were driven out
by the chartered company, of Borneo.
Th? action of the Iroquois was brought
lo the attention of the foreign office,
which then took tne matter up.
A communication has been received
at . ,he .. n'ate . . department .■ In , „ Washington . .
{Tora Mr - Ralkes ’ tbe Brit5sh char 8 e
d’affaires, now at Bar Harbor, and it
Isp thought that It relates to islands re¬
cently visited by a United States gun
boa* from the Asiatic station, but the
state department officials would mate
no statement concerning It.
THE ALASKAN COMMISSION.
Arrives in London and Is Prepared
for a Busy Meeting,
Secretary of War Ellhu Root, ejt*
Secretary of State John W. Foster,
Hannls Taylor und Judge John M..
Dickinson arrived at Liverpool on tho
Celtic Sunday for the meetings of the
Alaskan boundary commission. They
were received by Mr. - etheriek, as-
sistant United States dispatch agent.
on behalf of the American embassy.
Tbe party went directly to London.
The Canadian commissioners are also
oa hand.
REFUSED TO FIIRE FOREMAN.
And a General Strike Was Ordered at
Packing Plant in St. Joseph.
A general strike,was ordered at the
Nelson Morris plant, packers, South
St. Joseph, Mo., at noon Thursday, and
the plant is practically at a standstill.
The trouble was caused by the refusal
of the superintendent to discharge a
foreman who was charged with being
unfair to union workmen Twelve bum
tired men are out,
GUAY. JONES CO.GA.. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER IT, 4903.
REVEALS CRAFTERS
Names of Alleged Robbers of
Uncle Sam Made Public,
BOODLE FLOWED FREELY
Beavers, Machen and Their Willing
Pels Have Again Been Indicted.
Formation of an Extensive
Conspiracy Is Alleged.
A Washington special says: United
8t.ates Attorney Beach Friday an¬
nounced that the persons named In the
eeven indictme i s returned by the
grand jury last Tuesday were:
George W. Beavers, former chief of
the division of salaries and allow¬
ances, postoffice.
August w. Machen, former general
superintendent of the free delivery
system, postoffice department.
James W. Erwin, former postoffloe
inspector with headquarters in San
Francirco.
George H. Huntington and Isaac S.
McGeihan, both of New York city,
owners of the Columbia Supply Con-
pany, of that city.
Eugene D. Scheble, of Toledo, Ohio,
a dentist, and interested in the firm
of Mayberry & Ellis, of Detroit, Mich.,
letter box manufacturers.
Beavers, Machen and Erwin are
named Jointly in one Indictment for
conspiracy to defraud the United
States. Another Indictment Is agala.it
McGeihan, Huntington and Machen for
conspiracy to detraud the United
States, and still another te against Lie
same three conspiracies to commit
bribery, both under section 6441. R.
S. Scheble and McGeihan are indicted
jointly for conspiracy against the Uni¬
ted htates and again for conspiracy
to commit bribery. Another indictment
is against McGeihan for bribery and
tbe last is against Machen singly for
accepting bribery under section o01,
revised statutes.
All the indictments are based on
transactions relating to the supply of
letter boxes and package boxes and
devices. Some sensational charges
are made. The indictment against
Beavers, Machen and Erwin alleges
that the postal device and Improve¬
ment company of San Francisco for¬
merly the Montague Indicator and Let¬
ter Box Company, was composed al¬
most entirely of western postal em
ployes; that in 1889 It sot aside 1,000
shares of stock for forwarding Its in¬
terests, and that armed with this -u-
thorlty Its president, Daniel S. Rich¬
ardson, and Inspector Erwin came to
Washington, saw Beavers, Machen,
Heath and others and got an order for
equipping 2,084 letter boxes with thoir
device.
The indictment says the company
was systematically relieved of Its ob¬
ligations in the way of paying freight,
crating, painting and printing caius
for the devices It was furnlsning. The
Indictment charges that Beavers and
Machen owned stock under assumed
ngmes. Most of the thousand shares
of stock set aside, the indictment says,
went to different postofflee officials
and again President Richardson came
to Washington and following an In¬
crease In the contract price he got r or
the company dividends were paid on
the stock.
McGIehan, principal owner of the
Columbia Supply Company, of New
York, Is charged with agreeing to pay
Machen 60 cents for each $1.25 paid
on the package box contract by the
government. Specific payments to
Machen are cited In consideration of
increased compensation and under the
package box contract, ostensibly lor
attaching a different support to the
boxes. Scheble became interested *n
the firm, of which Mayor Mayberry, of
Detroit, Mich., is a member and whi'.'h
furnished letter boxes to the govern¬
ment, and Schebel and Machen in a
joint indictment are alleged to have
schemed to defraud the government by
the supply of excessive quantities of
boxes. The indictment says that May-
bury and Ellis paid Schdbel to the <x-
tent of the latter’s Interest In the
company and that he in turn paid
larje sums to Machen. In seventeen
counts the Indictments., cite specific
payments to Machen by Schebel.
EDWARD TO SEND SHIPS.
Will Come Over on Courtesy Visit
and in Exchange of Compliments,
The Press' Association at limdon
announces that the British Home
squadron will be sent to tne United
States on a courtesy visit In return for
the American action ot sending a
squadron to Portsmouth.
The squadron consists of the first-
class battle ships Benbow, Empress of
India, Hood, Revenge, Royal Oak, Roy¬
al Sovereign and Nonpareil, the sec¬
ond-class battle ship Anson; soeond
cruisers Edward, Hawk; second-class
crulsero Dido, Mersey and Venus, and
several other powerful cruisers.
RUSSIA TIGHTENS HER GRIP.
Ad de Fresh Conditions on China as to
Evacuation of Manchuria.
The British foreign office in London,
has received official confirmation of a
dispatch from Pekin, received
uer 10, saying that the Russian minis-
ter at the Chinese capital had added
two fre3b conditions to those imposed
on China as conditional to the evacua¬
tion of the Manchurian provinces Octo¬
ber 8,
ROBBER RUN TO EARTH.
"Rev." Johnson, Colored, In Grip of
Law for Stealing $15,000 from
Women Who Aided Him,
The $15,000 robbery, in which
Mlsees Battle, of Barnett, Warren
county, Ga., lost a fortune thoy had
hoarded up lor years, had a sensation¬
al sequel In Atlanta, us., about noon
Friday, says Tile Atlanta Constitution,
when two city detectives and a bicyje
call officer arrested Rev. Samuel
Johnson, a negro preacher, and found
$3,000 of the stolen goods secreted m
his house,
Johnson had been living high In tho
city, owning two residences and a
store. In his arresi not only has a
fortune been recovered, but the old
fable about the warming of a serpent
has been retold, as the Rev. Johnson
was well raised and well cared for by
the two old maiden ladles whom he
attacked and robbed.
By his treachery to his benefac¬
tresses and his cowardly attack on
them when they looked to him for pro¬
tection, Johnson secured $8,000 In cash
and $7,000 Ih mill and railroad bonds
and stock. The officers have now In
thoir possession $3,000; the property
he bought with a part of the money
will amount to about $2,000; thl3
loaves $3,000 In cash unaccount ad
for, and $7,000 in bonds and stock.
The prisoner has not so far told where
the balance of the money and tho
stocks and bonds have been hidden.
Miss Amelia and Mi6s Mary C. Bat¬
tle, two old maiden ladies, who lived
quietly and peaceably by themselves
at Barnett, Ga., a small town 113 miles
from Atlanta on the Georgia railroad,
were attackod on the inght of Decem¬
ber 22, 1901. While they Slept, a re-
gro entered their -ome by breaking
open a door. One of them fainted.
The other tried to give an outcry for
the purpose of calling 3am Johnson to
their assistance—the negro who was
then In the very act. of robbing her.
The room was dark and the old ladles
could not see who the burglar was.
When the attempt at outcry was made,
tho negro choked Miss Battle Into in¬
sensibility, and proceeded to get iho
fortune, which he must have known
was hldcen in the room.
In a chest, under the bed, the old
women had secreted $8,090 In gold
and greenbacks and stock in the Geor¬
gia railroad and bonds' In an Augusta
cotton mill to the amount of $7,000.
The money had been carefully saved
for many years, the time ' running
back before the war. Some of the gold
was dated in the forties. Many of the
coins w~re not only old, but very rare.
The Misses Battle had been Impor¬
tuned several times to put their monny
In a bank, but they refused to do so.
“Sam Johnson was on the place,” they
oftep said, “and would protect them
from any thieves.”
When the robbery occurred a great
sensation was created and three or
four arrests wore made on suspicion.
Aipong those taken In custody ware
two white men, but they were subse¬
quently released.
For nearly two --ears the robbery
remained a mystery and ail hope of
recovering the stolen fortune had
about been given up.
Johnson had, In the meantime, de¬
cided to remove to Atlanta. He came
here last November and was here omy
a short while when he purchased two
corner lots on Murray street in South
Atlanta. On one of the lots he had a
dwelling erected on the installment
plan. Later he had another dwelling
and store built, all on the installment
plan. That was a part of Johnson's
scheme to get everything on credit In
order to create the imprecision that he
did not have much money. He opened
up a store and claimed that all the
cash he was spending was made by
selling groceries.
A search was made of the store and
home of Johnson, and hidden behind
a rafter of the negro’s bouse was the
little tin box which had been taken
with the money from the Misses Bat¬
tle. It, contained $3,000 In gold ami
greenbacks, and the gold coin was
readily Identified.
JJohnson made a confession to a
representative of The Constitution.
He admitted that ho had kept all tho
$8,000 in cash which was stolen, but
held out that two other negroes we-e
the leaders in the robbery. He do±3
not oxplain why his pals did not get
some of the money. Hie story about
having had help is not believed.
GEORGIA STATE HEALTH BOARD
Organized at a Meeting in Atlanta and
Officers Elected.
Organization of the Georgia state
boa d of health was perfected at a
meeting In Atlanta by the election of
Dr. Willis F. Westmoreland, of At¬
lanta, president and Dr. H. F. Harris,
also of that city, secretary.
The permanent organization of the
board was perfected in a brief execu¬
tive session, which was presided over
by Dr. A. P. Taylor, of Thomasville;
Dr It. M. Harbin, of Rome, acting as
secretary. The session of the board
was held in the senate chamber at
tho capltol.
Senator Platt Favors Roosevelt.
United States Platt, of Connecticut,
has announced that be favors the nom-
lnatlon of President Roosevelt as the
head of the republican national ticket,
This is his first expression on the sub-
^ ect -
Boiler Explodes; Two Men Killed.
Two men were silled and five Injur¬
ed at a boiler explosion Friday at the
lumber mill of the Buchanan Lumber
Company, in Jackson county, N. C.
STORM IN FLORIDA
Equinoctial Gale Sweeps Both
East and West Coasts.
MUCH DAMAGE IS DONE.
Middle Florida Suffers Considerably
from Fierce Blow—Wires Pros¬
trated In Every Direction and
Many Points Isolated,
Beginning Friday morning on the
east coast, and Saturday morning on
the west, and lasting twenty-four
hours at each, south Frollda was
swept by the strongest cyclone ever
known In tho history of the section.
The wires went down at the begin¬
ning, and railroad service was delay¬
ed. On that account, no details
reached the outside until Sunday, and
even then they were not completo,
for many places that were in the cen¬
ter of the path of the storm were nst
heard from.
At Miami the wind attained a ve¬
locity of G5 miles per hour. Tho ear
shed of the Bast Coast railroad was
lifted from Its foundations, clear of
the cars that were under It and de¬
molished, not even scratching the
cars.
The tin roofing of the Belcher block
was torn off and blown across the
stroet, completely demolishing tho
front of the building on that Slide.
Great damage was done to plate glass
windows.
Large trees were uprooted and sev¬
eral small houses were blown dowu,
but no one was hurt. Several small
boats wore sunk In the bay.
Passengers on the East Coast train,
which arrived in Jacksonville Sunday
night, reported many wrecks along
the shore between Miami and Ilobe’s
sound. Among them is one four-mast¬
ed and one three-masted schooner,
and several smaller vessels.
One of the Standard Oil Company's
large steamers, with two barges, is
beached near Boynton. The crew of
fifteen men were saved. The bodies
of two unkonwn white men drifted on
the beach near Boynton.
The storm did not extend as far
south as Key West, and did no dam¬
age as far north as St, Augustine.
Trees and small houses were blown
down at Cuttier.
At Stuart fifteen acres of pineap¬
ple sheds were blown down, as well
as tho saw mill aud sheds acrosa the
river and the building occupied by the
postofflee at Wa Wa. The racing
yacht No. 23 was blown up into the
woods, where she now lies high and
dry. The residence of Captain McNeil
was blown from Its foundations at
Stuart.
At Jupiter tho gale blew 75 miles
per hour, with the rain falling in tor¬
rents.
Taking a day in crossing the pe¬
ninsula, the storm struck Tampa Sat
urday morning, soon attaining a ve¬
locity of 70 miles an hour and raged
all day. The rooting of the Alme.-ia
and tho De Soto hotels were blown
oft.
Several cigar factories were badly
damaged at Ybor City and several
buildings were unroofed.
In Tampa the Hampton block was
unroofed and six small buildings we e
blown down. No loss of life Is re¬
ported. The streets are a tangle of
wires. Street lines made no efforts
to run cars. The wires leading from
Tampa In all directions are down, and
the city was left In total darkness.
The orange and grapo fruit, crops
have been greatly injured, the fruit
being blown from tho trees or cut up
by the thorns.
At 9 o’clock Sunday night the wires
west of Madison wont. down, indicat¬
ing that the cyclone was then raging
in middle Florida.
Mrs. Gordon Accepts Honor,
A Chicago dispatch says: Mrs. W.
W. Gordon, of Savannah, Oa., grand¬
daughter of the first settler In Chi¬
cago, accepts an Invitation to he the
guest of honor at the centennial ne.it
week.
HEAVY SNOW IN NORTH DAKOTA
Storm Reached Proportions of Bliz¬
zard—Minnesota Also Reports.
A special from Dickinson, N. Dak.,
under Saturday’s date, says: “Snow
has been falling ever since last night
and the ground Is covered six Inches
deep. Tho storm assumed the pro¬
portions of a blizzard, blowing down
trees and telegraph lines and delaying
traffic.”
A heavy wet snow is also reported
from Staples, Minn. This was pre¬
ceded by an all-night rain and the
outlook Is gloomy for saving the
crops.
WATERY GRAVE FOR FIVE MEN.
Party Returning from Ball Game
Lose Life in Collision of Boats.
Five men, all of East Jordan, Mich.,
were drowned In Pine lake Saturday
evening in a collision between tho
steam yacht, and a naphtha launch.
Saturday evening about 8 o’clock,
when half a mile from shore, the Pil¬
grim ran down a naphtha launch con¬
taining thirteen men returning from
$ hall game at Harbor Springs.
EXTRA SESSION DELAYED.
At Suggestion of Leaders, President
Changes Date of Meeting of Con-
gress to November 9th.
After mature consideration and con¬
sultation In person and by mail with
members of both the senate and line
house of representatives. President
Roosevelt has abandoned the sugges¬
tion that congress be called Into ex¬
traordinary session, which b$ an¬
nounced many months ago would
bo held this fall, will be called, ac¬
cording to present plans, to meet oa
November 9, which was the date ten¬
tatively fixed somo time ago. It is
not expected that the formal call tor
the session will be issued until after
the president shall have returned lo
Washington.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
suggestion of an October session of
congress came from prominent sena¬
tors who warmly advocated Its adop¬
tion, the proposition was not receiv¬
ed with favor by members of congress
generally. The Idea of a session In
October was opposed particularly be¬
cause Ite* would oblige senators and
representatives to leave their states
and districts In the midst of a cam¬
paign which to many of them and
their party waa of vital importance.
No definite agreement yet has been
reached as to the character of the
financial legislation which may be en¬
acted at the approaching session of
congress. Indeed, It Is not certain
that an agreement can be reached be¬
tween the two branches of congross
whereby any special legislation can be
enacted. It may be that a solution
of the problem, whlrb is allhe com¬
plex and perplexing, will be reached
before the convening of the extraor¬
dinary session, but even that Is by
no means assured.
COLOMBIA’S NEW TERMS.
Draft of Measure Recently Drawn at
Bogota Furnished State Depart¬
ment by Minister eaupre.
President Roosevelt received a ca¬
blegram Saturday from Minister Beau-
pro, dated Bogota, September 5,
summarizing the provisions of the
bill reported to the Colombian con¬
gress by the committee recently ap¬
pointed to study the condition upon
which the construction of the Pana¬
ma canal could be authorized. The
main provisions recommended by the
committee are:
1. Approval of the action of the
sonato in rejecting the Hay-Herran
treaty.
2. Authority to be given to the
president to conclude treaties for a
canal, or to contract for a canal with
private parties, subjects to the rights
of the companies.
3. The Panama Railroad Company
is permitted to transfer Its property,
all existing obligations to be assumed
by the purchaser.lncluding the annual
payment of $250,000 and the surren¬
der of the property to Colombia in
1967.
4. The canal company to be permit¬
ted to transfer .Its right and property
on payment of $10,000,000 to the gov-
rnment of Columbia.
5. Authority to be given for the
president, of Columbia to make the
following concessions and conditions:
Loar'3 of the canal zone for 100
years, including therein tho cities of
Panama and Colon. Annual rental
therefor until 1967 to be $10,000.
Lease reenwable every hundred years,
with Increase of 26 per centum in the
rental for each succeeding 100-year
period. Neutrality of the canal and
recognition of the Colombian sover¬
eignty over the whole territory and
Ihe Inhabitants thereof. Fixed tri¬
bunals only In the caanl zone. Police
and sanitary committee to be exclu¬
sively Colombian. A time limit to bo
fixed for the completion of the canal
and works.
6. Colombia to receive from the
contracting government. $20,000,000
on the exchange of ratification of the
treaty.
7. Regulations to bo made fixing
conditions of purchase of private com¬
pany (property). Mr. Beaupre adds
that the debates upon the reported
bill were to begin on Monday, Sep¬
tember 7.
WOMEN WAR ON SMOOT.
Strong Fight to be Made Against the
Mormon Senator from Utah.
The National Woman’s Christian
Temperance Union has begun a cam¬
paign for the expulsion of Senator
Reed Smoot, of Utah, from the United
States senate. Ten thousand letters
are being sent from tbe national
headquarters at Evanston to local
branches all over the country with
blank forms for petitions to the sen-
ate.
The form of the petition to bo
signed asks that the senate investi¬
gate the charges made and filed
against Smoot.
OBJECT TO JUDGE TOWNSEND.
South Carolina State Attorneys in
Tillman Case Make New Move.
The attorneys represetnlng the
state of South Carolina, in the Till¬
man case have informed Chief Justice
Pope that. Judge Townsend is objec¬
tionable to them, as the presiding of¬
ficer at the trial, and that they desire
to move for a revocation of the order
appointing Judge Townsend and move
the appointment ot eome gne else,
NO. 43.
MUDDLES AFFAIRS
Our Warships in Turkish
Waters Causes Talk.
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APPROVE AND CONDEMN
Germany Would Do Just What Uncle
Sam Has Done in the Matter,
However—Admiral Cotton Awaits J
Further Developments.
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A delayed dispatch from Constant!*
nople to The Lokal Anzelger (Bert!#
newspaper) which sometimes prints
official news, s-ays: . 7
"Telegraphic consular reports re¬
ceived here say that the murder of
Christians in different parts of Beirut
continues. Disorder prevails and traf¬
fic is destroyed.
' The consuls called on Rear Admf-
ral Cotton for eventual protection of
the foreign consulates, which ho
agreed to furnish. It la considered 1
that the Americans could land 500
men. Some Americans, It is believed,
have already landed. The American
ships are cleared for aetlon. Other
war ships are expected.
“The German foreign office approve*
of Admiral Cotton’s Intention to land
a guard to protect the United State?
consulate at Beirut, If necessary, apd
of his holding a landing party In readi¬
ness to protect the foreigners there
The officials In Berlin say thi#
would be just what the Germans would
do under the same circumstances.
Nevertheless, the feeling in official
quarters over the American ships off
Beirut, seems situation, to be that it complioatO’a
the Turkish "becausef” R Is
asserted, “a new element has been
brought In which acts independently
of the power more or less co-ordinated,
and the porte may know what to ei-
peet. But the American action is mat
easily calculated and will tend to e*-
cite the Turkish government and add
to tho perplexities.”
Several of the German newspaper^
while rather restrained In their lan¬
guage, look with distrust on the pres¬
ence of the American warships at Bei¬
rut as likely to disturb the Mussul¬
mans. \
FORTUNE FOR MR8. MAYBRI1CK.
That Is, If Her Attorneys are Success¬
ful in Their Efforts.
A New York dispatch says: Fight¬
ing to secure a fortune for Mrs. Flor¬
ence Elizabeth Maybrlck, whose re¬
lease from an English prison is expect¬
ed next July, counsel will at once be¬
gin proceedings to recover more than
$40,000. That Is all that is left of the
Immense fortune of Darius Blake Hol¬
brook, grandfather of the American
woman now spending the last months
of a fifteen-year term In an English
prison.
Attorneys for Mrs. Maybrlck will ap¬
pear before a referee and ask an ac¬
counting from Hamilton B. Bradahaw
and William H. Gardiner, of New York.
They were executors of the will of Mr.
Holbrook, who left his vast estate to
his daughter, now the Baroness voti
Roques, and a resident of Rouen,
France, with a revlslonary Interest to
her daughter, Mtb. Maybrlck. Tens of
thousands of that fortune went to save
Mrs. Maybrlck from the gallows, when
she was sentenced to death In 1889 for
prisoning her husband.
Darius Holbrook also owned 3,500
acres of coal and iron lands In Virginia
and West, Virginia, and suits to recov¬
er them have been Instituted. Should
they be successful, Mrs. Maybrlck may
beeome one of the wealthiest women
In the United States.
Mr. Holbrook was a capitalist of
Mobile, Ala. He was associated with
Cyrus Field In the laying of the first
transatlantic cable. He founded the
town of Cairo, Ills., and was one of
the promoters of the Illinois Central.
When he died In 1868 he was consid¬
ered one of the wealthiest, meu in the
south.
I
Tennessee Bank Suspends.
The Stewart, county bank at Dover.
Tenn., has made a general assignment
and assignees appointed. The liabili¬
ties are placed at $27,306.05 and the
assets at $11,534.40. ,
ATLANTA FIRE CHIEF HONORED.
W, R. Joyner is Elected Head of ttif
International Association,
Chief W. R. Joyner, of the Atlanta
Ga, fire department, was elected presi¬
dent of the International Association
cf ('’ire Chiefs, in sesalon at Atlantic
City, N. J., Thursday night.
Chief Joyner’s name was presented
to 'tie convention unsolicited and other
candidates for the office withdrew
from the race. Chief Joyner’s election
was teen made unanimous.
The international associaton in*
"hides the fire chiefs' of the leading
cities of Europe as well as America.
OPENING GUNS IN OHIO.
Johnson, Clarke and George Launch
the Democratic Campaign.
The Ohio democratic state campaign
opening meeting was held in Akron
Wednesday night, addresses being de-
livered by Tom L. Johnson, candidate
for governor of Ohio; John H. Clarke,
candidate for United States senator,
and Henry George, Jr., of New York.
The attendance at the meeting wa$
entlmatefl at 8,000, ., t