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CARNESVILLE ADVANCE VOLUME CASTRO’S FOES AIDED Through Gernniiy’s Failure fo Return Captured Vessels. . BILL WANTS MONEY AT ONCE Bowen, However, Informs Him that He Will Have to Wait Until March 15th for First In¬ stallment. The German government, through its representative at Washington, -Ba¬ ron Spec von Sternberg, has made a request of Mr. Bowen for the immedi¬ ate payment qf the £6,500 which it was- stipulated in the protocol, signed on February 13, should he paid with¬ in thirty days from that date, as a preliminary to the raising of .the block¬ ade against Venezuelan ports and the agreement to send the question of pref- erential treatment of the blockading nations to The Hague for determina¬ tion. Mr. Bowen -promptly declined to cede to the request, but informed Ba¬ ron Sternberg that, as provided in the protocol, the money would be paid to the German representative at Caracas thirty days from February 13, which would be on the 15th -of March. The reason that animated the Ger¬ man government in making the re¬ quest is not disclosed at Washington, nor-is Mr. Bowen a\vare of it. The matter, however, has soma signifi- eanee'; perhaps, iifi view of the fact that the ships taken by the Germans during the blobkad-edrave not yet keen returned to Venezuela. During the day Sunday Mr. Bowen, had calls from the French ambassador, M. Jusserand; the Spanish minister, Senor Ojeda, and the Belgian minister! Baron Monclieur, in regard to the pro¬ tocols that are in preparation for_ the settlement of the claims of the citizens of their countries against Venezuela. .Rciugh drafts of these instruments are already on their way by mail to the European governments interested, but there are certain provisions regarding which the envoys desired to consult Mr. Bowen. The protocols are expect¬ ed to reach their destinations the lat¬ ter' part of this week pending which no final steps for their joint signature can be taken. Germans Aid Castro’s Foes. It is a matter of comment in official circles at Washington that the Ger¬ mans are aiding the Venezuelan revo¬ lutionists in refusing to return Presi- dent Castro’s ships. Word has been received that the German commander has informed the Venezuelans that the ships will be turned over to them at the Port of Spain. In the protocols it was provided that all ships should be returned and it was the intention of the allies’ representatives that the transfer of tne vessels should occur in Venezuelan waters, where they were captured. The interpretation which Germany has put upon this article is re¬ garded as somewhat petty, but it will not be noticed officially. Instead the state department will' place the Mariet¬ ta at the disposal of President Castro and carry officers and men to Trinidad with which to man the vessels. The Venezuelan* rebels are importing large supplies of arms and ammunition into Coro-and mother, unguarded ports. Presi- dent Castro has no navy to prevent this, and is therefore becoming restive at Germany's conduct. OREGON ELECTS SENATOR. On Forty-Third Ballot Charts Fuiton, of Astoria, Wins Out. At Salem, Oregon, shortly after mid¬ night Friday night, Charles W. Fulton, of Astoria,“was’'elected' United States senator on' the 43rd ballot, he having received forty-six votes. When the result was announced a. scene of wild enthusiasm followed. Men hugged each other, threw up their hats and shouted themselves hoarse, It was several minutes before order- could be restored. Then President, Brownell, in a few words', introduced Senator Fulton, who tharikod the mem¬ bers and pledged that he would repre¬ sent no particular section of Oregon, but would give his best efforts to the I upbuilding of every section- "of. the state. ' + 71 Or. FOR PRESIDENT’S’ PROTECTION, --- Senate Accepts House Amendments to Original Bill. ! The conferees on the bill for Abe pro- I tection of the president have , agreed , j and their report has been submitted to j the house. The senate accepts till house amendment to the original bill, j with some changes in ihe wording. j The death penalty is provided mali-1 for j any one who shaii wilfully or ciously kill the president, official. or vice presi¬ | dent, or any government An attempt to murder is made pun j lshable by death or imprisonment for not less than ten years. CHILD LABOR BILL A LAW. Measure Passed in South Carolina Leg¬ I islature Signed by Governor. A Columbia, S .C., dispatch says: - The child labor bill has been signed by governor. It is not so sweeping J as was asked for, but the compromise seems satisfactory. From May 1, this year, no child , under the age ot „ eleven , shall be employed in any factory o** textile establishment. mm FL# ™ a »* fuel. Result of Scarcity of Coal In St. Louis, Frightful Frigidity Throughout the Northwest. Owing to the scarcity of coal at the “Pour Courts,” which contains the jail, police headquarters, criminal court, etc., at St. Louis, the building was closed Wednesday. Not a pound of coal could be found in the engine room, and old floors wero torn up to keep the 250 prisoners in the jail warm. The grand jury investigation into in¬ vestment companies was suspended, and the two branches of the criminal court and the court of crinTTnal cor¬ rection adjourned for the day. This condition is the result of negli¬ gence on the part of the contractor, who failed to deliver the coal already cohtracted for. Other city institutions are also short of fuel, and an investi¬ gation will be held to ascertain whc is to blame. Ten Below in Chicago. A Chicago special says: A “rein¬ forcement” of the cold • wave, w-h+etj, according to the official forecaster, ‘precludes any moderation in tempera¬ ture” in the immediate future, gave Chicago a temperature which promised to beat the record for the winter, reached early Tuesday, 10 degrees below. A biting wind that sprang up during the night increased in keenness and reached nearly the velocity of a gale as the day advanced. There was much suffering among the destitute, notwithstanding the best ef¬ forts, of all charitable organizations-.— Through trains continued to arrive -.behind schedule, while surbur- and traction li»es operated with -or less irregularity. A Tumble in Quaker State. Reports received in Philadelphia Wednesday from up the state are to the effect that Tuesday night was a - record breaker for low temperature. At Pittsville early Wednesday morn¬ ing it was 14 below ;at Tamaqua, 6 be¬ low; Reading, 10 below, and at many other places the thermometer regis¬ tered from 1 to 3 below. Bilzzard in Wyoming. According to a Cheyenne dispaten the blizzard that has been raging in the southern part of Wyoming for a week continues fiercer than ever and the blockade on all railroads is practi¬ cally complete. The storm on Sherman Hill has been very severe and every cut is filled with snow. The average depth of the snow on the Union Pacific track over the hill is four feet and in places the telegraph poles and wires are com¬ pletely buried by drifts. Frigid Throughout Northwest. A dispatch from St. Paulfi Minn., says: The northewest is still in the grasp of the ice king, the lowest official temperature in the city Tuesday night, being 18 below, while intense coid weather was reported from all weath¬ er stations in the northwest. A biting wind intensifies the cold. TO BRING SETTLERS SOUTH. Is Object of New Association Formed by Railroad Industrial Agents. For the purpose of formulating plans that will result in an influx of desirable settlers from the north and northwest into this section, a number of the land and industrial agents of the railroads of the southeast met in Atlanta last Tuesday. As a result of that meeting the Southeastern and Mississippi Valley Railway and Industrial Association has been organized, and its object is the furtherance of the pldris which were discussed at the meeting which took placeiri the rooms of the Southeastern Passenger Assocation at the Equitable building. The meeting began aflout? 10 o’clock in the morning and- lasted until 1 o’clock. During that time immigration methods that are now in force and those, that have been in operation in years p^st, were thoroughly discussed. Ideas were exchanged and out of the mass, of evidence submitted it now seems certain that great good to this section will result. This is really the first time the rail¬ road land and industrial men have got- ten together for concerted action rela¬ tive -tq the question of immigration and the enthusiasm with which they went at the subject would indicate that they propose doing all in their power to turn the tide in this direction. The following were the officers ot the company elected at the meeting: President, M. V. Richards, of Wash- ington, D: C., land and industrial agent of the Southern railway- first vice' - President, G A Park, of Louisville Ky., land and industrial agent of the Louisvi n e an^ Nashville; second vice president, J. E. Ingraham, of St. Au- gustine, Fla., vice president of the- Florida East Coast railroad; secretary, W. L.' Glessner, of Macon, Ga., com- missioner of immigration of the Geor- gj a , Southern and Florida railway, Two meetings of the Association will be held each year. The next confer- ence will be held at Miami, Fla., on March 6, at which time various plans will be given consideration. PRESIDENT HAS COLD. Took Ride in Snow Storm and Has Throat Trouble in Consequence. President Roosevelt’s insisting upon I leading the strenuous life has put him again in the doctors’ hands, says a Washington dispatch. This time the trouble is with his throat. A couple of days ago he and Baron Speck von tennbeT g, t i ie German envoy, went for a four hours’ horseback ride in a blinding snow storm. CARNESVILLE. GA.. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 27. 190.'! ! Guests Engulfed in Flames of a Veritable Death Trap. TEN KNOWN TO BE CREMATED Those Who Escaped Death Were Forced to Jump From Windows. Forty-Two Were Thus Injured. Fire early Friday morning destroy¬ ed the Clifton hotel, at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, cremated ten of the guests, and caused injuries to forty-tWo persons, who were scorched or forced to jump to the frozen street from second and third story windows. The loss is $60,- 000 . The dead are: W. A. Mowery, What Cheer, Iowa; E. C. Yo.ung, Mipneapo-. Iis7' Minn.; two unidentified men, bodies recovered; five bodies still in debris. Nearly all those injured were Iowa people. While their injuries are se- in many cases, no one was fatally hurt. The fire started at 2:30 o’clock, and at 10 o’clock the smouldering debris furnished so fierce a heat that search for bodies was impossible. The list of dead may prove larger than the number given, but it is hoped that the which accounts for all but this number Hotel a Fire Trap. The hotel, a three-story brick veneer structure, Is said to have been a verita¬ ble fire trap. The flames started in a pile of rubbish in the basement, pre¬ sumably ignited by defective electric- light wires. The night clerk was on the third floor when the cry of fire, raised by a bell boy, startled him. He took up the cry and in an instant the hallways were choked with frightened guests. A rush was made for the stair-' ways. It was then that the crowd, al¬ ready collected in the street, hearu heartrending cries of anguish and des peration, for the fire, feeding - raven¬ ously on the tinder-like material of the lower floor, had completely cut off es¬ cape. There followed a stampede for the windows, the only means of exit left. The street below was now filled with a crowd scarcely less frantic than the despairing ones in the fast' burning' building. It was like a Dore picture of “Inferno sprung to life,” said one spec¬ tator in describing the scene. “The flames, looking blood-red from reflec¬ tion against the snow, lit up the pale, drawn faces of the people in the win¬ dows with the glow that was un- earthly.” Forced to Leap. The victims were literally driven by the flames to jump. Nearly every one of them lingered to the last moment, urged by the people below to wait as long as possible in the hope of assist- ance. Then a cry would tell that th* fire had reached them, or the smoke had made it impossible to breathe, ant* one after another jumped, some to the street and some, more fortunate, to the roofs of buildings adjoining. In a short space of time the street was filled with men and women bruised, battered, broken-limbed and half-craz¬ ed. Ail were in their night garments. In an hour St. Luke s hospital contain¬ ed fifteen injured, while many more, chiefly those who had escaped with compatatively slight injuries, were be¬ cared for in buildings near the scene of the tragedy. Some who jump- cd owe their lives to the fact that their was broken by telegraph wires interposed in their downward AGREEMENTS NOT EXECUTED. Caracas Newspapers Say Allies are lg- noring Terms of Protocols. The Caracas papers publish a pro- test directed to Venezuela, the United States and the European nations, as follows: “In order that the public may know how Germany, Great Britain and Italy execute their agreements, we call at- tention to the grave fact that up to to- day, February 20, the ships taken by the three powers have not been de- livered to the goverment of Venezuela, as stipulated in the protocols.” POPE’S SILVER JUBILEE. Catholics Celebrate Twenty-Fifth Year of His Ascension to Pontificate. Friday was the twenty-fi.th year of the pontifical reign of Pope Leo, and Catholics throughout the world cele-' brated at their altars the noUble event. Elkins’ Rebate Bill'Signed. The president Friday signed the El- kins rebate bill/ With the. signing of this measure the administration’s j anti-trust program for this session ot congress is completed. FOUR KILLED IN EXPLOSION. Disastrous and Fatal, Accident in Workroom of Naval Magazine. | Three men were killed outright, one man so injured that he died later, two other men fatally and at least seven seriously hurt in a powder explosion in work room of the naval storage magazine at Fort Lafayette, in New York bay, about 2 o’clock Thursday af- , ternoon. A". G:.i dead and injured were workmen at the fort. VAN WYCK GIVES ADVICE. In Banquet Speech Former New York Mayor Says Southerners Alone Can Settle Race Problem. Tho annual banquet of the Southern Society of New York took place Satur¬ day night at the Waldorf-Astoria ho- tel. The annual address of the president, Hon. Augusta Van Wyck, was very striking, for the reason that it dealt with the race problem. Mr. Van Wyck took the position that the southern whites are the best friends of the ne¬ groes and that the former should be al¬ lowed to settle the problem without Interference. In part, he said: “Prior to 1796 the south led all sec¬ tions in variety of products—agricul¬ tural, miueral and manufactures. When Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin made the cultivation of that staple so profitable, the whole product selling readily for 50 cents per pound', that’ she abandoned to a large extent all other enterprises for that during the period of about fifty-years, while the north.rev.elled in manufacturing that staple. The result was a loss o\' her leading position In variety of products and enterprise. Cotton monopolized until 1845,' when its price fell to 5 1-2 cents per pound, causing the south to recognize her mistake and extend her lines once again into every field of human endeavor and enterprise. In 1860, fifteen years thereafter, she herself again fuliy abreast of the ever alert north in commercial, in¬ and agricultural enterprises. Her wealth, prosperity and prestige so great as to arouse the envy of world. Her wealth was 44 per cent that of the country, her agricultural products 50 per cent, her banking cap¬ 30 per cent, her mileage of rail¬ roads over 50 per cent. "In the meantime, as a result of her good climate, the cotton gin and rich lands, she attracted to her cotton fields all the northern slaves; slavery, an in¬ stitution for which th-e south was no more responsible than the north, soon aroused a northern sentiment against it, they no longer having any practical or pecuniary interest tnerein—the ir¬ repressible conflict broke out into act¬ ual revolution in 1861, at a time when the south was leading in wealth and enterprise. Appalling was the devas¬ tation and ruin, impoverishing the south and proportionately enriching the north. In the decade from 1860 to 1870 her wealth actually decreased 40 per cent, and in the decade ending in 1880, the dark days of her reconstruc¬ tion, her values were still further re¬ and her poverty and prostration seemed complete. But finally peace came and with it a change, which in the next two decades advanced her 72 her on amount invested were 25 per cent, she was producing 75 per cent of the tobacco of the country and, 100 per cent of the cotton of the country and 75 per cent of that of the world. Her cotton spindles increased 415 per cent, her manufactures 222 per cent, her pig iron product increased in 1900 550 per cent over that of 1880 and her coal products 716 per cent over that of 1880. The percentages cited, for which I am indebted to Richard H. Edmonds, can be relied upon. Today these gifts utilised by an energet¬ ic .intelligent p.nd industrious popula¬ tion, have made our southland once again triumphant in material progress —a fair and just competitor of the north once again, to the glory of both and to the common welfare of our na¬ tion. “What the south needs and must have is peace at home and jointly with the rest of the nation, international peace. There is but, one unsettled problem peculiar to that section, com- raonly called the negro question. The south understands it and if left alone It will be settled rightly and justly in a Christian spirit. The national friend- ship between whites and blacks of long standing (with no idea of social equality) is well known to those at ail familiar with the subject. The best friend of the black rare is the white race of the south. The future welfare and development of the former rests upon the absence of conflict between two, and he who destroys or Iess- the amity so existing between the is not a iriend of ihe black man, an enemy, intentionally or uninten- to civilization, ABOUT “NEW” WHITE HOUSE. Congressman Gaines Asks for a Thor¬ ough Investigation. Representative Gaines, of Tennes¬ see, Saturday introduced a resolution; requesting the president to transmit to the house at this session a detailed staten ient of the character and cost of repairing, remodeling and adding to the white houses- ■s- Famous Showman Dead. George F. Bailey, who was famous as a circus man and was first a rjval and then the partner of^ P. T. Barinum, is dead in New York'at the age of 84 Death was due to paralysis. JUSTICE SHIRAS RESIGNS. Quits Supreme Court Bench, and Day is Named as His Successor. A Washington special says: Justice sjjiras, of the United States supreme cour t presented to the president Wed- negday his resignation as a member of tribunal to take effectjlfetiruary 24. ' Former Secretary of Stat;.- William R. Day, of Ohio, has been Selected, as the successor of Mr. Shira,s. • -" CHILDREN Train Crashes Into Trolley Car Crowded With Little Ones. A DISASTER MOST Happy and Light-Hearted Victims Horror Were on Their Way from School When .Icy Rails Caused Their Doom. A fast express train on the ware, Lackawanna and Western road Thursday cut through a car crowded with school children Clifton avenue crossing, in Newark, N. J., killing eight of the children and juring a score of them. The motorman of the car, who stuck to his post, will die, and the engineer of the express train was so severely hurt that there is little hope of his recovery. Both the express and the trolley were on steep grades going at right angles. Tho train wr.s signalled and the crossing gates were lowered, while the trolley car was only half way down the hill. The motorman shut off the power and applied the brakes, but al¬ most immediately the car began to slip along the icy rails. It gained tre¬ mendous momentum, and at. tne bot¬ tom of the hill crashed through the gates directely in the (rack of the on¬ coming train. The locomotive plowed its way through the car, scattering the. chil¬ dren in all directions. hose killed were Viola Hill, Maud Baker, Ernestine P. Mueller, Ma¬ bel K. Karschner, Tiffin, Ohio; Alma Loehnberg, Rosebud Kohn, Ella Wer- puph, Evan L. Eastwood, Jr. Nearly Hundred Pupils. The accident happened within three blocks of the high school building and in the car at the time were nearly one hundred pupils. As many as thirty other's had managed to throw them¬ selves from the car before the crash came. The troliey was one of the specials which every day took the chil¬ dren to school. It had more than its ordinary load, owing to the cold. It contained every child that could .squeeze inside and others stood on the •rear platform. Because this car had been so crowded many who were awaiting it before it was reached could not get on, although some climbed on the platform with the motorman. A‘score or more .of children followed the car afoot. They say that when the car was still less than half way down the hill, the railroad gates began to drop. Peter Brady, tho motorman, promptly shut off the power and ap¬ plied the brakes. The speed of the car was checked, but it continued to de¬ scend. There was no thought of dan¬ ger. When it began to move faster, the ice covered rails afforded no hold for the wheels, and although Brady jammed his brakes harder and ttien swung on the reverse, the momentum of the car grew at every yard and the car shot down toward the railroad. When it was right at the gate3, the ex¬ press thundered into view. Warned by cries of those afoot and by their own sense of danger, those on the platform began to throw themselves off into the snow, and as the car sped along the few remaining feet to the rails perhaps one-third escaped death or injury in this way, but there was no time for those within the- car to do more than rush toward the rear. Cries of Maimed Children. Tlie gates were snapped like twigs and the car was struck by the locomo¬ tive, which had slowed,down. The air was filled with the cries of the help¬ less children. The wreck of the trolley car was complete. The locomotive turned it partly around and then cut, it in two. <pj, e children were hurled in every di- rection. One-half of tho car, was thrown to one side :and lay on the tracks. The other section was hu-rleu’ SO me distance away. In every direc¬ "tj on ] ay the injured and dead. The e pgj ne was brought to a standstill, and from the train and from near-by houses men rushed to the rescue. Within five minutes as many dead bodies had been laid side by side in the snow along the track. MENACE TO .CANAL TREATY. Its Fate May Depend on Disposition of Statehood Bill. A Washington special says: There jg a movement on among some of the friends of the statehood liGl in tho senate to couple the fortunes of that measure with those ot the Panama ca¬ nal treaty and make the ratification of the one depend upon the passage of (he other , The details of the plan jj ave n0 t come to light fully, but it is understood that the scheme is to me- nace the treaty by delay until an agre ement to vote on the statehood bill can secured. INDIAN CHIEF SEES MILES. Red Man Calls at War Department and "Shakes” With His Captor. One of the most unique meetings Washington has witnessed in years oc¬ curred at tlie headquarters of the com¬ manding general of the army in the war department Friday, when Chief Joseph, of the Nez Forces Indians, grasped the hands of the “great white chief” Miles who conducted the cam¬ paign which led to his capture. NEGROES IN MASS MEETING Pass Resolutions Condemning Disfran¬ chisement in .the South .and Charging Up Many Wrongs. Spirited and earnest speeches wero made at a negro mass meeting held Thursday nighl at. tho Cooper Union, New York city. The meeting, which was for the purpose of protesting against the disfranchisement of the ne¬ gro in (lie south, was held under the auspices of the 100,000 colored voters in New York state and to raise money for the legal contest of the new con¬ stitution of Virginia before the su¬ preme court of the United States. Among (ho speakers were Bishops Der¬ rick and Walters, M. D. Conway and John E. Mulholland. Resolutions were' passed and a letter from Susan B. An¬ thony was read. In her letter Miss Anthony said: “To refuse to qualified women and colored men tho right to suffrage and still count them in the basis of repre¬ sentation is to add insult to injury, and is as unjust as it is unreasonable. “Tho trouble, however, is further back and deeper than disfranchise¬ ment of the negro. When men deliber¬ ately refuse to include women in the fourteenth and iiftenth amendments to th national constitution they leave the way open for all forms of injustice to other and weaker men and peoples. When men fail to be just to their moth¬ ers they cannot be expected to he just to each other. “The whole evil comes from the fail¬ ure to apply equal justice to all man¬ kind male and female, alike; there¬ fore, I am glad to join with those who are like sufferers with my sex i.i a pro¬ test against counting in the basis of representation in the congress of the United States or in the state legisla¬ ture any class or sex who are disfran¬ chised.” The resolutions in their preamble recited that the south has halted at no crime to strip from the negro the privileges gained as' a result of the civil war, shooting 25,000 black men from 1868 to i880, and from 1880 to 1890 perpetrating ballot trauds to dis¬ franchise negroes. It further recited that the south, after 1890, sought to disfranchise colored men in various states by constitutional amendment, administered so that illiterate white men are allowed to vote, while the ed¬ ucated negroes are excluded from the polls. The resolutions in part were as follows: Resolved, "That we, the negro citi¬ zens of New York and vicinity, in mass meeting at Cooper Union, Feb- 19, 1903, do hereby commend the Negroes of Virginia for rendering the nation a patriotic servico in contesting before the supreme court of the United Slates the revolutionary constitution of Virginia, recently proclaimed a law without having been submitted to the people for ratification; that wo pledge them our very proper support and call upon colored men everywhere to con¬ tribute liberally to this cause. Resolved, That we urge the republi¬ can senate in the name of 100,000 ne¬ groes in the state of New York to con¬ firm the nomination- of Dr. Crum, a man of ability, good education and ir¬ reproachable character, whose appoint¬ ment is opposed solely on the ground of the color of his skin. It would be an unheard-of thing for the party of Lincoln to ratify the position of thq south on this question and thus side with the extremist form of southern prejudices and formally consent that the door of hope, of opportunity, is to be shut on a man, no matter how wor¬ thy, purely upon the grounds of race or color. trol.ley car HELD UP. Highwaymen Do Bold Piece of Work in Los Angeles, California. The daring deeds of highwaymen who seem to have invaded Los An-’ geles. Gal,, in force, reached a climax Wednesday night, when two unmask¬ ed men held up and robbed a carload of passengers on Ihe Los Angeles Pas- sadena electric line. Thirty-tfl'o passengers, one half of whom were women were forced at points of revolvers to, surendev cash and jewelry to the amount of between $500 and $700. The robbers perform¬ ed their work quickly but effectively. The car was held for ten minutes. The men then left it and disappeared in the darkness. G. A. R- BANQUETS GORDON. General Warmly Received by the Peo¬ ple of Toledo, Ohio. General John B. Gordon, of Atlanta, was banqueted at Toledo, O., by the G. A. It. post of that city, and the af¬ fair was a very enjoyable one. Gen¬ eral Gordon was in Toledo for the pur¬ pose of delivering his famous lecture, “The First Days of the Confederacy." He was warmly received by the peo¬ ple of Toledo and was greeted by a largo audience. After the lecture a 1 public reception was held, and then the banquet by the G. A. R. was given. MORE TALK OF EXTRA SESSION. President Insists That Action be Taken on Canal and Reciprocity Bill. President Roosevelt will call an ex¬ traordinary session of the senate of the fifty-eighth congress unless both the Panama canal and the Cuban re; ciprocity treaties are ratified at the present session. The president made this declaration of his intention to sev- eral senators Thursday, and he made it as emphatically and unequivocally as he was capable of making it. NUMBER 15. AFTER BEEF COMBINE Trust Loses Out on First Round in Chicago Court. TEMPORARY INJUNCTION ISSUED Demurrer of Packers Overruled by Federal Judge Grosscup—Illegal Restraint of Trade is the Averment. I At Chicago Wednesday, the so-called “beef trust” case was disposed of by Judge Grosscup in the United States circuit court, the demurrer of the pack¬ ers being overruled, and a temporary injunction granted. The attorneys for tho packers made no announcement of their future intentions. They have un¬ til March 4 to discuss the matter with their principals, it they deny tho facts upon which Judge Grosscup based his decision, tho matter will go beforo a master in chancery, who will her the evidence, and the case again will be argued before Judge Grosscup. An appeal may be taken, in order to hasten the final adjudication of the case. It is not believed likely that the packers will let the matter go bj default, thus making the injunction permanent. In Restraint of Trade. After reviewing the averments in tho petition asking for the injunction, Judge Grosscup said: "No one can doubt that these averments state a case of combination. Whether the com¬ bination be unlawful or not depends on whether it is in restraint of trade. The general meaning of that term is no longer open to inquiry. It has been passed upon carefully by the supreme court in the freight association of rea¬ sonableness or unreasonableness in tho combination averred; nor is it to be tested by the prices that result from the combination. Whatever com¬ bination has the direct and necessary effect of restricting competition, is, within the meaning of the Sherman act as now interpreted, restraint of trade.” The defendants against whom the injunction is issued are: Swift and Company, Cudahy Packing Company, Hammond Packing Company, Armour and Company, Arm out- Packing Com¬ pany, G. H. Hammond Company, Schwarzschild and Sulzberger Compa¬ ny, Nelson Morris and Company (part¬ nership); J. Ogden Armour, P. A. val¬ entine, Calvin M. Favorite, Arthur Meeker, Thomas J. Connors, Charles S. Langdon, Michael'Cudahy, Edward A. Cudahy, Patrick Cudahy, Albert F. Boscherdt, Gustavus F. Swift, Lewis F. Swift, Lawrence A. Carton, Wm. J. Russell, Albert Ii. Veeder, Henry Veeder, Edward C. Swift, Ferdinand Sulzberger and W. H. Noyes. BONDS ABE QUICKLY SOLD. For Purpose of Raising Money to Build Costly Depot in Atlanta. President Samuel Spencer, of the Southern Railway company, has sold $1,500,000 worth of bonds of the Atlan¬ ta Terminal company and the money VFhich was realized from the sale will be used in the construction of the de¬ pot. This announcement was made at the meeting held in Atlanta Wednesday morning between President Spencer, of the Southern; President John M. Egan, of the Central; J. J. Thompson, of the Southern; Major J. F. Hanson, of the Central ; A. R. Lawton, of the Central, and James W. English, presi¬ dent of the Atlanta Terminal com¬ pany. The bonds wer sold to a trust com¬ pany in New Yotk, and the money is now ready, for use. It-is,, understood that at the meeting which was for the purpose of preparing for the erection of the newdepot, it was decided that each railroad desiring, -.to. (inter the . new station should purch&sd $25,000 worth of stock iu the • tcorifiinal com¬ pany, pay its prorata share for the ex¬ pense, of maintaining the station and for paying the interest on the bonds. President Rngllsh jeaid, after the meeting, that actual.work on the con¬ struction of the ’now station would begin withiri thirty tS ilxty days. CORTELYOU SWORN IN. New Cabinet Officer Takes Oath of Office Before Chief Justice Fuller. At Washington Wednesday morning George B. Cortelyou took oath as sec- retary of the department of commeite and labor. At the same time William Lqeb, Jr-, was sworn in as secretary to the president Died the of a Heroine. The residence of C. A. Robinson at Caps, Texas, was burned Tuesday night, his 18 -year-old daughter arid two young sons pepishing. Miss Robinson had an opportunity, to escape, but tried to save her brothers. COAL STRIKE COMMISSION Meets in Washington to Prepare Its Final, Report. The anthracite coal strike commis¬ sion has met in Washington to begin the work of formulating their conclu¬ sions and framing their report. AH the members of the commission are on hand. The commissioners state it 14 impossible to say even approximately how long it will take to frame the award*- .*