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VOL. X/
UCHT IS SHUT OFF
An Investigation of Postal
Affairs Again Blocked,
HOUSE GOES ON RECORD
Leader of Democratic Minority, Mr.
Williams, Makes an Unsuccessful
Effort to Have a Probing
Committee Appointed.
A Washington special says: The
house of representatives Thursday
again put itself on record against any
investigation of tho postoffice depart-
ment. Eight pages of the postofiice
appropriation bill were disposed of.
The question of an investigation of
the postofflee department was brought
by Mr. Williams, the minority lead-
who proposed an amenuiment pro¬
viding for a selection of five members
of the house and three senators to
make a complete investigation into
the alleged frauds In that department.
He taunted the republicans for their
failure to order an investigation, and
said the party was opposed to it.
The chair sustained a point of or¬
der by Mr. Overstreet against the
amendment, and when Mr. Williams
appealed, the chair was sustained 133
to 99.
Before the vote was taken Mr. Wil¬
liams appealed to Mr. Overstreet to
withdraw his point of order, which
Mr. Overstreet refused to do.
“Then the gentleman has a perfect¬
ly stony heart,” said Mr. Williams.
“He stands in between this investiga¬
tion of the postofiice department by
congress with his point of order.”
Thereupon Mr. Williams appealed
from the decision of the chair, which
brought from Mr. Overstreet an ap¬
peal to the house to uphold the chair.
To do otherwise, he said, would be a
reflection upon the chair and the dig¬
nity of the house.
Mr. Williams inquired: “What does
a miserable little rule of the house
amount to when you consider it is the
only obstruction lying between you
and a righteousness far greater than
the righteousness of a technical decis¬
ion?”
He declared that the very essence
soul of good government is hon-
in the public service and econo¬
my of public administration.
“Tho only way we can secure hon¬
esty in the postoffice department,”
he continued, “is either by the gen¬
tleman withdrawing his point of or¬
der or by the house marching over
the point bodily.”
He was loudly applauded by his col¬
leagues on the democratic side.
He implored Mr. Overstreet to with
draw his point “to save the country
from saying that rather than have an
investigation of rottenness, the house
will stand upon a bare little parlia¬
mentary technicality, that amounts to
nothing in any citizen’s mind.” He
was again applauded.
Ho said the house can secure an in¬
vestigation by an outside authority
“not intermingled with the corrup¬
tions existing in the postofiice fiepart-
mont” by the two ways he had sug¬
gested.
There is a power greater than the
house, he declared, and it is the peo¬
ple of the United States. When a gen¬
tleman makes a point of order, as rep¬
resentative of his party, it is because
his party don’t want the postoffice
department investigated.
“Won’ you,” Mr. Williams asked,
“do something to keep the great body
of American citizenry from believing
the postoffice department is infa¬
mous.”
Mr. Overstreet, he said, now had
the opportunity of a lifetime, that
never come again, to remove
blots from the department and from
the administration.
Mr. Lever, of South Carolina, criti¬
cised the department for “its discrimi¬
nation and palpable favoritism against
the south in the establishment of rib
ral free delivery routes.”
Provisions in the bill forbidding ru¬
ral carriers engaging in business or
carrying merchandise and increasing
their - salaries from $600 to $720 a
year went out on points of order.
MERGER BILL HELD UP.
Governor Vardaman, of Mississippi,
Shys at Legislative Enactment.
' The Mississippi legislature adjourn¬
ed sine die at Jackson shortly after
the noon hour Tuesday.
The closing session was enlivened
by a bitter fight over the celebrated
merger bill, authorizing the consolida¬
tion of the Mobile and Ohio and
Southern railways.
Governor Vardaman has announced
that he will not act ou the bill until
the next legislature convenes. In
Other words, it will be two years un-
til It Is known whether or not the
merger bill is to become a law.
INCREASE FOR RURAL CARRIERS.
Item Struck from Postoffice Appro¬
priation Bill Is Re-Inserted.
The house, Friday, passed the post-
office appropriation bill, after a pro¬
longed debate on the paragraph affect¬
ing rural letter carriers, which was
previously stricken out, but which
was reinserted under a special order
of the committee on rules. Every
amendment and substitute offered to
this paragraph was voted down.
TH0SE swayne charges
Furnished House Judiciary Committee
in Pamphlet Form—Judge's De¬
fense Also Included.
A Washington special says: The
evidence In the impeachment proceed¬
ings against Judge Charles Swayne,
of the northern district of Florida.
taken in Florida by the house sub¬
committee of the judiciary committee
and including the brief of Judge
Swayne before the committee in his
own defense, and that of Judge B. S.
I.iddon, for the prosecution, was fur¬
nished to the committee Thursday In
printed form for the first time. Iffio
document consists of 360 printed
pages
The charges against Judge Swayn-i
are concisely as follows:
Non-residence in the northern dis
trict of the state of Florida.
For unlawfully Imposing a fine and
imprisonment of one E. T. Davis and
S. Beiden in 1901.
For unlawfully committing to pris¬
on in 1902 one O'Neal for alleged con¬
tempt of court.
For conduct unbecoming a judge in
appointing one Tunison in 1900, know¬
ing him to he a man of bad character.
In his own defense Judge Swayne
filed with the committee letters of in
dorsement from seventeen lawyers
and five other persons, not attorneys,
written in November, 1897, recom¬
mending to President McKinley h's
appointment to succeed Justice Field
on the supreme court bench of the
United States. He also filed twenty-
four letters mostly from Florida at¬
torneys, written in February, 1898,
recommending his appointment to the
position of circuit judge of the Fifth
circuit, which had just been create:!
by an act of congress.
In his brief Judge Swayne reviews
his life briefly, stating that he was
born In Delaware in 1842; read law
in Philadelphia, and was admitted to
practice there. In 1885 he moved to
Sanford, Fla., where he practiced law
until appointed to the bench in 1889
His appointment was a recess ap¬
pointment, which was not confirmed
until April, 1890.
Judge Swayne said he never was a
registered voter nor had he paid any
taxes in Florida. He said he had
spent his summers mostly in Dela
ware, but had understood that the
summer months were the proper time
for his vacation. His recollection was
he said, that no one ever had been in
jured because of his absence from
Florida and that the business of bis
court had not suffered.
Judge Liddon, in cross examining
Judge Swayne, asked him if he did
not understand the laws of Florida to
provide that a man could not hold of¬
fice there unless he is a qualified elec¬
tor. Judge Swayne admitted this.
Judge Swayne, in commenting upon
iho proceedings against him, said to
the committee that they were due to
but two causes—the malice of the
man O’Neal, who was sentenced, and
the intense political feeling engender¬
ed at that period. There never would
have been anything of this had it not
been for these causes.
ARMSTRONG CHEATS GALLOWS.
Young Man Who Killed Sweetheart
Suicides in Prison Cell.
At Tuskegee, Ala., Ralph Armstrong
was found dead in his cell Thursday
morning, having hanged himself with
his belt.
Armstrong was under sentence of
death for the murder of his cousin,
Miss Alice Armstrong, at Notasulga,
three months ago. He shot her when
she refused to marry him, telling him
she was engaged to another in At¬
lanta.
A special term of couit was called
and Armstrong was tried and con¬
victed of murder in the first degree,
hut an appeal was taken. The de¬
fense was mental irresponsibility at
the time. He left two letters to his
mother outlining his purpose to kill
himself.
The young man was a son of the
late Colonel H. Clay Armstrong, con¬
sul to Rio de Janeiro, under President
Cleveland and was a member of one of
the most prominent families in the
state.
ASSOCIATION OF CATTLE MEN
Formed at Meeting in Jacksonville
and Officers Elected.
Tho cattle breeders in convention
at Jacksonville, Fla., organized them¬
selves into an association to be known
as the Southeastern Cattle Breeders
Association. They adopted a constitu¬
tion and elected officers as follows:
President, S. H. Gaitskill, Florida;
vice presidents, C. A. Carson, Florida;
I. C. Wade, Georgia, and Dr. H. F.
Cary, Alabama; secretary, J. A. Hol¬
loman, Florida; treasurer, Jasper
Summerlin, Florida.
An executive committee was also
named.
PRESIDENT “LECTURES" INDIANS
They are Told of the Evils of Gam¬
bling on Horses Races, Etc.
President Roosevelt soundly lec¬
tured a party of his callers Wednes-
day. They wero O’Gallalla Sioux In-
said, ... Cv ,
(Bans, who, it is are more a
ed to horse racing and gam ng an
! they are to the pursuits of agriculture,
The president endeavored to mpress
on hia visitors ideas of industry and
thrift
OR AY. JONES CO.. GA.. THURSDAY. MARCH 31, 1904.
REPUBLICANS MEET
Convention of Party Held at
Capitol in Atlanta.
SUMMARY OF ITS WORK
Delegates and Alternates to National
Convent on Elected, Platform
Adopted and State Commit¬
tees are Named.
Georgia republicans held their state
convention in Atlanta Wednesday, and
after much wrangling between two
factions represented, the convention
named four delegates and four alter¬
nates from the state at large to the
national republican convention; nam¬
ed a new state central committee;
adopted a platform; adopted a reso¬
lution calling on congress to punish
those states which have passed laws
resulting in the disfranchisement of
the race, and sidetracked a resolu¬
tion looking to putting out a state
ticket over the, pro f &t of certain
members of the convention.
H. L. Johnson, of Atlanta, was tem¬
porary chairman of the convention;
VV. H. Dempsey, of Albany, was made
temporary secretary and afterwards
permanent secretary. Colonel H. P.
Farrow, of Hall county, was made
permanent chairman of the conven¬
tion.
The convention was a large one, al¬
most every county in the state being
represented. There were som 400 or
500 present, about 10 per cent of
who mwere whites. Te gallery was
crowded with spectators.
The first hour of the gathering pre¬
liminary to the organization was con¬
sumed in a fight over the admission
‘of delegates. An effort made to pro¬
vide for admission to the floor by tick¬
ets caused the row, at the bottom of
which was it is said, the fight be¬
tween H. L. Johnson, ^he colored
lawyer of Atlanta, and Henry A. Ruck¬
er, collector of the port of Atlanta. An
agreement was finally reached, how¬
ever.
Following are the delegates chosen
from tho state at large: Walter H.
Johnson, United States marshal of the
northern district of Georgia, Atlanta;
Judson W. Lyons, of Augusta, regis¬
ter of tho treasury; H. M- Johnson, a
colored attorney, of Atlanta; Harry
Stillwell Edwards, postmaster at Ma¬
con.
Following are the alternates cho¬
sen: W. H. Swayne, of Cedartown;
Alex Ackerman, of Macon; H. M. Por¬
ter, of Augusta, and B. J. Davis, of
Dawson.
W. R. Leaken, of Savannah, was
chairman of the committee on reor¬
ganization and reported as follows
the new state cent/ral committee,
which was unanimously chosen: Wal¬
ter H. Johnson, chairman; J. H. De-
veaux, secretary; A. Graves, assist¬
ant secretary; M. B. Morton, treas-
urer.
The following compose the commit¬
tee from the state at large: H. S.
Edwards, H. A. Rucker, H. L. John¬
son, T. H. Malone, J. E. Peterson, If.
G. Dunn, Walker Ackerman, J. W.
Lyons, W. R. Leaken, M. B. Morton,
A. N. Tumlin, J. M. Lee, W. H. Har¬
ris, E. S. Richardson, H. L. McKee
anil E. F. Blodgett.
Committees for each of the eleven
districts were also selected.
The report of the committee on
platform was lengthy, The princi-
pies of the republican party were af¬
firmed and the country was congrat¬
ulated on the condition of our island
possessions, the discharge of obliga¬
tions to Cuba, the consummation of
the canal treaty, peace with other
nations and the improved condition
of labor.
The present administration was in¬
dorsed and a personal eulogy paid to
President Roosevelt.
The courtsf who have convicted par¬
ties of peonage were congratulated.
The platform declares for respect
for the law and a fair trial in the
courts for all offenders. Mob violence
is deprecated. closed
The report of the committee
with resolutions eulogizing the late
Senator Ilanna ard W. H. Pledger.
RACE RIOT IN ARKANSAS.
Three Negroes Killed After Firing
Upon a Posse of Deputies.
Three negroes were killed in a race
battle Wednesday at St. Charles, Ark.
A posse of deputy sheriffs was en¬
gaged In a search for two negroes
who had seriously wounded two white
men in a fist fight, and while passing
through a section of woodland they
were fired at from a thicket by a par¬
ty of negroes. The whites returned
the fire with the result stated. The
tragedy has greatly aroused the com¬
munity, and further trouble is feared.
LEASE EXP1RE8 IN 3000 A. D.
Dowie Gives Permit to Build Street
Railway Through Zion City.
Under a lease which expires 1,096
years hence, the Chicago and Milwau¬
kee Electric Railroad Company has se¬
cured from "Prophet” Dowie the right
to extend & line through Zion City.
According to the terms, “said lease is
to expire 3,000 A. D.” The reason
for a lease instead of a purchase is
that it is forbidden "to sell the prop¬
erty of God.”
CANAL PRELIMINARIES.
Commission Holds Its First Meeting
In Washington—Letter from
President Roosevelt is Read.
A Washington special says: Pre¬
liminary work was begun Tuesday by
tho isthmian canal commission. The
first full meeting of the commission
was held Sn tho offices of Admiral
Walker, the chairman. Little of im-
portance was accomplished, the ses¬
sion resolving itself into an informal
discussion of various features of the
preliminary work and of preparations
for the first visit of the commission
to Panama.
General instructions to the mem¬
bers of the commission were contain¬
ed in a letter from President Roose¬
velt to the commission under date of
March 8. The letter, which was read
at the meeting, says that the com
mission has been appointed to “un¬
dertake the most important and also
the most formidable engineering feat
that has hitherto been attempted.”
It is said the commission has boen
chosen purely because of “personal
and professional reputations for integ¬
rity and ability;” that it represents
neither section nor party and as to
the majority the president has not the
slightest idea what their political af¬
filiations are.
The letter says tho president will
not hesitate to remove any member
failing to give the best service it is
possible to procure. The letter con¬
tinues:
“I assume as a matter of course
that in dealing with contractors you
will act on precisely the principles
which would apply in any great pri¬
vate business undertaking.
“As to the details of the work it
self, I have but little to say. It is to
be done as expeditiously as possible,
and as economically as is consistcht
with thoroughness. There is one mat¬
ter to which 1 wish to call your spe¬
cial attention, the question of sanita¬
tion and hygiene. You will take
measures to secure the best medical
experts for this purpose whom you
can obtain, and you will, of course,
make the contractors submit as im
pilcitly as your own employees to all
the rules and regulations of the nv dl-
cal department under you.
“The expenditures are to be super¬
vised as rigorously as if they were be¬
ing made for a private corporation,
dependent for its profits upon tho re
turns. You are to secure the best
talent this country can afford to meet
the conditions created by every need
which may arise. The methods for
achieving the results must be yours.
What this nation will insist upon is
that the results be achieved.
“THEODORE ROOSEVELT.”
After the meeting adjourned Prer'i-
dent Roosevelt entertained the mem¬
bers of the commission and Secretary
Taft at luncheon.
DEATH CLAIMS DR. M’DONALD.
Well Known Baptist Divine Succumbs
to .Stroke of Apoplexy in Atlanta.
Dr. Henry McDonald, the well
known and beloved Baptist dilvine,
passed away Tuesday morning at tho
home of one of his daughters in At¬
lanta, Ga„ from a stroke of apoplexy.
Dr. McDonald was 70 years old at
the time of his death. He held many
position!! of trust and honor, having
been at one time professor in the col¬
lege at Georgetown, Ky., president of
the mission board of the Georgia Bap¬
tist convention, and also of the home
mission board of the Southern Bap¬
tist Convention. Ho was for many
years a trustee of the Southern Bap
tist Theological Seminary, at Louis
ville, Ky., and in countless ways has
been a leading figure in the affairs ol
his church in this section. During his
career he served some of the largest
and most influential churches in tha
denomination in the south. For 18
years he was the pastor of the Sec¬
ond Baptist church in Atlanta.
Born in Ireland, he early demon¬
strated his love for fair play and the
observance of the rights of others by
leaving his native land to avoid wit
nessing the oppressions of tho English
which he was powerless to prevent
Seeking a home In this free country
he at once went to work to fit him
seif for one of the learned profeesions
He read law and was admitted to the
bar, but soon left the practice to enter
the ministry, and from that choico he
never wavered.
EVIDENCE AGAINST BURTON.
Tell-Tale “Graft” Check Presented at
Trial of Kansas Senator.
At St. Louis, the first witness in
Thursday's session of the trial of Uni¬
ted States Senator Burton, of Kansas,
charged with having illegally accepted
fees from the Rialto Grain and Se¬
curities Company, was Joseph Carr,
who was a clerk in the employ of tho
Rialto company. On March 26, 1903,
witness drew a check for $500 in fa¬
vor of Burton, cashed it and handed
five $100 bills to Vice President W.
D. Mahoney, in whose room Burton
was sitt'ng. The check was offered
in evidence.
NEW RAILROAD CHARTERED.
Dublin and Southwestern Company
Given Legal Right to Build.
Secretary of State Phil Coek, of
Georgia, has granted a charter to the
Dublin and Southwestern Railroad
Company. point
The new road will run from a
near Dublin, in Laurens county, via
Eastman to Abbeville, In Wilcox coun¬
ty, and will pass through Laurena,
Dodge, Telfair and Wilcox counties.
SWAYNE IS LASHED
In Report of Judiciary Com¬
mittee to the House.
DEMANDS IMPEACHMENT
The Various Charges Pending Against
Florida Federal Jurist are Set
Forth in Most Caustic
Language.
"Resolved, That Charles Swayne,
judge of the district court of the Uni¬
ted States and for the northern dis¬
trict of Florida, be impeached of high
misdemeanor.”
This is the recommendation, says a
Washington dispatch, of the house
committee on the judiciary to the
house, In the report of the committee
filed Friday by Representative Pal¬
mer, of Pennsylvahia, chairman of t lie
sub committee which investigated the
rase against Judge Swayne. After
discussing the charges in detail
against Judge Swayno and giving the
findings in each case, the report con¬
cludes as follows:
“Upon the whole case it is plain
that Judge Swayne has forfeited the
respect and confidence of the bar of
his court, and of the people of his dis¬
trict. He has so conducted himself
as to earn the reputation of being sus¬
ceptible to the malign Influence of a
man of notoriously bad character.
“He has condemned to a term of
Imprisonment in the county jail, a re¬
putable citizen of the state of Florida
over whom he had no jurisdiction, who
was guilty of no thought of a con¬
tempt of his court, for no offence
against him or in the presence of the
court, or In obstruction of any order,
rule, command or decree, And after
the accused had purged himself on
oath.
“For all of these reasons, Charles
Swayne has been gulty of misbehavior
in his office of judge and grossly vio¬
lated the condition upon which he held
this honorable appointment. The
honor of the judiciary, the orderlp and
decent administration o public justice
and the welfare of the people of the
United States demand his impeach¬
ment and removal from the high
place which his conduct has de-
graded.”
“From the testimony In tho case,
your committee find that Judge
Swayne has never acqulrod a legal
residence in the northern district of
Florida, nor has he actually resided
there, as required by the act of con¬
gress.”
Tho case of W. H. Hoskins, the re¬
port terms one of “peculiar hard¬
ships.”
Hoskins had accumulated property
to the value of $40,000, and owed
debts to the extent of $10,000. “Tho
evidence Is full and convincing," the
report says, "(hat a lawyer named
Boone conspired with one Calhoun to
put Hoskins in bankruptcy in order
to plunder his estate." Calhoun sent
a man to seize Hoskins’ books at one
of his branch stores, Hoskins being a
dealer in turpentine. He found a
certain book which was taken away
by a young son of Hoskins after he
had stated that It contained nothing
about his father’s business. Contem;*t
proceedings were begun before Judge
Swayne and the young man adjudged
guilty, although the report says, evi¬
dence was offered to show that the
book contained nothing whatever
bearing on the bankruptcy case.
Young Hoskins went into hiding 1o
escape arrest, and statod that he
would rather die than go to jail.
When the charge was not dlsmlssod,
he killed himself.
The case of W. C. O’Neal, which
tho report treats of next, relates to
generally known incidents In bank¬
ruptcy proceedings In which one
Greenhut, a receiver in the case, was
stabbed by O’Neal at Pensacola in an
affray growing out of the inclusion of
the bank of which O’Neal was presi¬
dent In the suit.
“The evidence established the fact
that Judge Swayne reappointed B. C.
Tunnison commissioner of the United
States, after a trial in his court in
which Tunnison as prosecutor had
been successfully impeached as a wit-
ness.
“The, evidence also establishes that
the members of the bar at Pensacola,
Fla., and elsewhere In the district, and
suitors in the United States court aro
of opinion that Tunnison has tho pow¬
er to exercise undue Influence over
Judge Swayne and that he does exer¬
cise such influence. To such an ex¬
tent does this belief prevail that law-
yers advise their clients to employ
Tunnison in their business ns tho best
and only way to succeed in Judge
Swayne’s court. The testimony satis¬
fies the committee that Tunnison is a
dishonest man; also that he is indors¬
er on a note of Judge Swayne that has
been renewed for seven successive
years in the Pensacola bank.”
FILIPINO “PRESIDENT” KILLED.
Macarro Sakay and Fifteen of Hi;
Band Slain by Troops.
A Manila special says: Captain Dc
witt, with a detachment of constabu
lary and scouts, have encountered Ma
cario Sakay, the so-called president ol
the Filipino republic. Sakay, with iif
teen of his followers, was killed, and
the remainder of the band waif cap
tured. There were no casualties or
the part of the American s.
RACE ROW IN ARKANSAS,
Within a Week Nine Negroes Meet
Violent Death at Hands of White
Men Near St. Charles.
Five negroes who had been arrested
as a result of raco troubles at St.
Charles, a little town In Arkansas,
were taken from the guards by a
crowd of men and shot to death.
The flv evlctlms wero: Jim Smith,
Charley Smith, Mack Baldwin, Abe
Bailey and Garrett Flood.
This makes nine negroes that have
been killed within the past week in
the vicinity of St. Charles on account
of the racial troubles. A few days ago
a difficulty occurred over a trivial
matter at St. Charles between a white
man named Searcy und two negroes
named Henry and Walker Griffin.
On Monday tho two negroes met
Searcy and his brother In a store in
St. Charles and the difficulty was re¬
newed. One of the negroes, without
warning, struck both the Searcy boys
over the head with a table leg, ren¬
dering them unconscious und fractur¬
ing their skulls, one of them to such
an extent that, he may die. Deputy
Sheriff James Kilpatrick attempted an
arrest and he, too, was knocked down.
The negroes then gathered and de¬
fied the officers, declaring that “no
white man could arrest them.”
Their demonstrations aroused the
fears of I he citizens of St. Charles
and they telephoned to DeWitte, a
neighboring town, for a posse. P. A.
Douglass, deputy sheriff, went out
with five men Wednesday morning.
Constablo L. C. McNeeley went for
ward with a posse of several men to
capture the Griffin negroes. The con
stable met three negroes—Randall
Flood, Will Baldwin and Will MadisoD
—in the road. He inquired of them
if they knew where the Griffins were
and one of them replied that they did
but “would tell no white man," add
ing an oath. The negroes then at¬
tempted to draw their pistols, but the
posse fired, killing all three of them
Thursday sixteen men left DeWitte
for the scene of tho trouble. Large
crowds gathered In from Roe, Ethel,
and Clarendon. During the day, while
tho sheriff’s posse was searching fox
the Griffin negroes, they were fired
upon by a negro named Hinton, from
ambush. Three of tho posse were hit
but the shot used were small and nc
serious damage resulted. The posse
returned the fire end the negro was
shot down. Several other shots wore
fired into him, killing him instantly.
Five other negroes, as above noted,
Jim Smith, Charles Smith, Mack Bald
win, Alio Bailey and Garrett Flood,
who were the negroes that had defied
tho officers, wero arrested, and Thurs¬
day night a crowd of men took them
away from (ho guards and shot them
to death.
It was reported late Friday evening
that the Griffin boys had been cap¬
tured. If so it probably means that
two more will be killed.
JAP8 CHEER THEIR NAVY.
House of Representatives Enthusiastic
Over Admiral Togo’s Victories.
Tho Japanese house of representa¬
tives Friday listened to a significant
speech by M. Yamatoto, the minister
of marine, and passed with enthusi¬
asm and without a dissenting voice a
vote of ihanks to Admiral Togo and
his officers for the'r service to tho
country. When the vote was taken
the members of tho house arose and
cheered the navy.
RUSSIANS PILLAGING TOWN8.
Their Usual Mode of Warfare Being
Carried Out on Non-Combatants.
Advices from Seoul slate that two
detachments of Russian troops, one
estimated to number 500 and the other
200 men, are reported to be pillaging
tho country around Anju. This town
is forty miles north of Ping Yang, and
about sixty miles south of tho Yalu
river.
RUSSIANS CROSS THE YALU.
Jap Scouts Report Advance of Enemy
in Considerable Force.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Seoul, Korea, says: Jupanese scouts
refxort that they have discovered that
the Russian troops are south of (ho
Yalu In much stronger force than was
thought.
BURTON NEEDED THE MONEY.
Kansas Senator Tells In Court Why
He Illegally Accepted Fees.
Previous to the defense resting its
case at St. Louis Friday, United
States Senator Burton, of Kansas,
took tho stand in his own behalf, in
connection with the charge of having
illegally accepted fees from the Rialto
Grain and Securities Company, of St.
Louis. Burton testified that he had
accepted tho offer of the company to
act as its general counsel because he
had lost heavily in a financial panic,
and needed tho $500 a month, for
which his contract called.
HANNA’S SUCCESSOR INSTALLED.
Senator Dick Takes Oath of Office and
Assumes His New Duties.
The opening ceremonies of the sen¬
ate Wednesday were marked by the
official introduction in that body of
Charles Dick, a» the successor of the
late Senator M. A. Hanna. Mr. Dick,
for a time, was unable to occupy hi?
seat, because it was completely hid-
den by floral offerings placed there bj
friends and admirers.
NO. 10.
brisk NAVAL FICHT
Between Japs and Russians
Occurs at Port Arthur.
RUSSIA LOSES R WARHSIP
For First Time Czar’s Flghiers Go
Out Into the Open to Engage
the Enemy—Details of Con
flict Meagre.
A special dispatch from Mojl (op¬
posite Shimoneski, Japan), says tho
Japanese fleet made another attack on
Port Arthur March 18, bombarded the
city and its defenses and fought a
furious engagement with the Russia
fleet outside the harbor, destroying
one Russian battle ship. Several Jap¬
anese casualties are reported. There
is no information concerning the Jap¬
anese fleet’s condition.
The navy department has not boen
advised of this engagement, but evi¬
dently expects news.
Port Arthur Magazine Blown Un.
It was reported in T
day that on Sunday
fourteen Japanese v. arsiup.-. o;
tacked the forts at Port Arthur, the
first bombardment being done at a dis¬
tance of seven kilometers off shore,
with very successful results.
The Russian fire was without any
effect at th's distance. The Japanese
ships moved into closer range, finally
placing themselves at fivo kilometres
distance. The fire at this range is
said to have been exceedingly de¬
structive to the forts, damaging all
of them severely, demolishing the
great electric searchlight plant and
blowing up a largo powder magaz'ne.
The latter It Is expected, will be a
severe, blow to tho Russians, apart
from the direct damage it must have
done.
A special Associated Press dispatch
received In Berlin from Yokohama
repeats the report sent from Toklo
that the Japanese made an attack on
Port Arthur March 18 and sank a
Russian battle ship.
Appeal by Americans.
An informal meeting of the foreign
consuls stationed at Nluchwang lias
been called for tho purpose of dis¬
cussing means for securing the pro¬
tection of the property of neutrals in
view of tho fact that Niuehwang is
now surrounded by large Russian
forces, having breastworks and bat¬
teries now established at the railway
station on the oast s'de of tho Rivet
Hiao, and also at the fort on the west
side. This situation exposes tho trea¬
ty port to the danger of cannon fire
should the Japanese come up the
river.
Oxv account of the fear that the
Unite-v States gunboat Helena will be
withdrawn, tho American residents at
Nluchwang have telegraphed United
States Minister Conger, at Pck'n, re¬
questing the presence of an American
man of war in constant communica¬
tion during tho conttnuanco of tha
war, for the purpose of especially pro¬
tecting property during the disorder
that will attend tho interregnum be¬
tween Russian and Japanese occupa¬
tions, an event that is anticipated.
IMPORTANT DECISION AWAITED,
Case of Negro Convicted in Recorder’s
Court Raises a New Issue.
A Savannah dispatch says: Judge
Emory Spoor reserves his decision in
the habeas corpus case of Henry Jem-
Ison, of Macon, who was sentenced to
the Bibb county chalngang from the
recorder's court without, it is alleged,
duo process of law.
The impression Is that the decision
of the judge will be In accord with the
contentions of counsel for the negr>,
in which case it will be evident that
the practice that obtains in nearly
every city in Georgia of sending pris¬
oners to the chaingang from record¬
ers’ courts Is illegal.
Dick Confers With Roosevelt.
Senator Dick, of Ohio, had a confer¬
ence with the president Wednesday,
The Ohio senator found President
Roosevelt thoroughly Informed on tha
Ohio situation. Tho entire situation
was discussed'thoroughly.
FOR MILITARY CAMP GROUNDS,
Bill Approved by House Committ !
Introduced in Senate.
Senator Proctor introduced a bill
in the senate Tuesday making appro¬
priation for the establishment of four
military camp grounds as follows:
Near Fort Sam Houston, Texas,
$125,000; Camp Douglas, Wts., $400,-
000; Conewago Valley, Pa., $900,000;
San Luis, Obispo county, California,
$500,000. The bill appropriates also
$100,000 for the purchase of 10,000
acres of land for the enlargement ol
Chickamauga national park. The bill
has already received favorable action
by the house committee
NOT PRACTICABLE JUST NOW.
Boom for a Southern Candidate Not
to Be Pushed in Present Campaign.
A Washington special says: South¬
ern democrats in congress arc, as a
rule, strong in their Indorsement ot
tho principle of the party in the
southern states, giving its support to
a southern candidate for the presi-
dency, but the general feeling is that
this may not be practicable for th4
present campaign.