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VOLUME Y.
TC PRISON FOR LIFE
Is the Sentence Awarded in
Cases of Jett and White.
NO FEAR OF GALLOWS
Verdict cf Jury Was no Surprise and
is Considered a Victory for the
Defense—Motion for New
Trial to Be Made.
At Cynthiana, Ky., Saturday morn¬
ing, the jury in the case of Curtis Jett
and Thomas White, charged with the
assassination of James B. Marcum at
Jackson, returned a verdict of guilty,
fixing the punishment of each at life
imprisonment. The verdict was re¬
turned when there were but few iser
sons in the court room.
Jett received the verdict with com¬
parative indifference and calmness.
White, who has been apparently under
a severe strain during the trial, flush¬
ed up and his eyes filled with tears.
Attorney Golden, for the defense,
stated that a motion for a new trial
will be made as soon as possible. The
general opinion seems to be that the
motion will be overruled by the court
of appeals. The verdict occasioned lit¬
tle surprise in Cynthiana after the de¬
liberation of the jury had been so pro¬
longed. The only question which
caused the delay, it is said, was that
of punishment—death or life imprison¬
ment.
The verdict on the whole is regarded
as a victory for the defense, as the
prosecution asked that no middle
ground be taken and that the men
either go clear or be hanged.
The case has been on trial almost
three weeks, having been begun July
27. At the first trial at Jackson, the
jury disagreed and it is believed the
final verdict was a compromise with
a juror opposed to capital punishment.
The friends of Captain B. L. Ewcn
and other witnesses for the common¬
wealth who have suffered greatly and
were living in fear of their lives are
greatly relieved. They expected the
death penalty which they were confi¬
dent would have been followed by con¬
fessions from the condemned men, ex¬
posing parties high in authority in
Breathitt county who are considered
to he back of the conspiracies. Theie
have been twenty seven lives lost
within the past two years in the Har-
gis-Cockriil feud in Breathitt county,
and this is the first conviction. No ar¬
rests or indictments had leen made
until last May, when the troops were
ordered to Jackson to protect the
grand jury and afterward the trial jury
and witnesses.
Jett is stiil under indictment for
first degree murder for killing To.vii
Marshal Cockrill. Jett said Friday
night the rope had never been made
with which to hang nim, but lie made
no remarks. His friends say he will
have a new trial, and even if he fails
in that effort, he might he pardoneu in
the course of time. The friends of the
defendants showed such relief as io
leave no doubt of their previous appre¬
hensions of the death penalty.
CORBETT EASY FOR JEFFRIES,
Pugilistic Contest at ’Frisco Was
Tame and of Short Duration.
At San Francisco Friday night be¬
fore an immense audience of the sport¬
ing fraternity, James J. Jeffries, cham¬
pion heavyweight of the world, played
with Jim Corbett for nine rounds and
a half, and then Corbett's seconds mo¬
tioned to Referee Graney to stop the
fight in order to save their man from
needless punishment.
The end came shortly after the be¬
ginning of the tenth round, when Jef¬
fries planted one of his terrible Ujtt
swings on Corbett's stomach. The
man who conquered John L. Sullivan
dropped to the floor immediately and
the memorable scene at Carson City,
Nevada, when Bob Fitzsimmons land¬
ed his solar plexus blow, was almost
duplicated. This time, however, Cor¬
bett struggled to his feet and again
faced his gigantic adversary. With
hardly a moment’s hesitation, Jeffries
swung his right and again landed on
Corbett’s stomach. Jim dropped to the
floor.
IMMENSE MORTGAGE FILED.
Seaboard Air Line Railway Plans to
Secure Extensive Equipment.
A $1,605,000 mortgage was filed in
the office of the j-udge of probate,
at Montgomery, Ala., Thursday by the
Seaboard Air Line railway to the
Guaranty Trust Company, of New
York. The mortgage is to secure
equipment to he furnished the road.
Enormous Increase in Tax Values.
Tax returns of counties to Comp¬
troller General Wright, of Georgia, al¬
ready show an increase of more than
$22,000,000 in property values.
BIG BATTLESHIP DAMAGED.
Massachusetts Came in Contact With
Rock with Serious Results.
Late Thursday afternoon divers who
had been examining the United States
battle ship Massachusetts, which had
her forward plates cracked while leav¬
ing Bar Harbor, Maine, in a fog Wed¬
nesday, found that she was more se¬
riously damaged than was at first
thought to he tho case, as the ship was
settling aft as well as forward.
NEW ARMY REGULATIONS.
General Young Quit3 Command and
Assumes Duties of Chief of Staff.
Secretary Root Issues Orders.
Saturday Secretary of War Root
promulgated an order defining the du¬
ties of the general staff of the army,
which went into efTect under the law
on that day. The most important fea¬
ture of the order is that in relation lo
the duties cf the chief of staff. On
this point the secretary says:
“Under the act of February 14, 1903,
the command of the army of the Uni¬
ted States rests with the constitutlc n-
al commander in chief, the president.
The president will place parts of the
army and separate armies whenever
constituted, under commanders subor¬
dinate to his general command; and,
in case of exigency seeming to him io
require it, ho may place the whole ar¬
my under a single commander subor¬
dinate to him; but in time of pea?e
and under ordinary conditions the ad¬
ministration and control of tho army
are effected without ar.v second in
command.
“The president’s command is exer¬
cised through the secretary of war and
the chief of staff. The secretary of
war is charged with carrying out the
policies of the president in military af¬
fairs. He directly represents and !s
bound always to act in conformity to
ihe president's instructions. Under .he
law and the decisions of the supreme
court his acts are tho president’s acts,
and his directions and orders are the
president’s directions and orders.
“The ciyef of staff reports to the
secretary of war, acts as his military
adviser, receives from him the direc-
ions and orders given in behalf of the
^resident, and gives effect thereto in
he manner hereafter provided.
“The chief of staff is detailed by
he president from officers of the army
it. large, uot below the grade of briga-
lier general. The successful perform-
>nce of the duties of the position re-
inires what the title denotes—a re
ation of absolute confidence and per¬
sonal accord, and sympathy between
he chief of staff and the president,
\nd necessarily also between the chiet
>f staff and the secretary of war. For
his reason, without any reflection
whatever upon the officer detailed, the
detail will in every case cease, unless
;ooner detailed, on the day following
the expiration of the term of office of
he president by whom the detail is
made; and if at any time the chief at
Raff considers th’at he can no longer
tustain toward the president and the
secretary of war the relations above
iescrihed, it will he his duty to apply
to bo relieved.’’
New Officers of General Staff.
Two general orders were also issued
by General Young as chief of staff ot
lie army under the new law. The
first stated that in compliance wiih the
instructions of the president, lie, Gen¬
eral Young, relinquishes command if
the army and assumes the duties of
chief of staff.
The second ordeip announced the as¬
signment of officefts of the general
staff as follows: '
Assistants to chief of staff, Major
General Henry ,C. Corbin, adjutant
general.
Brigadier General William H. Cas¬
ter, Brigadier General Wallace F. Ran¬
dolph, chief of artillery.
War College Board—Brigadier Gen¬
eral Tasker H. Bliss, president; Colo¬
nel Alexander Maykin, secretary; Col¬
onel William P. Hall, assistant adju¬
tant. general, is designated acting adju¬
tant general of the army.
Heretofore all army orders have
been issued from the headquarters of
the army, adjutant general’s office, oy
command of tho lieutenant general.
Hereafter orders will he issued direct
from the war department, signed by
the chief of staff and inscribed "Offi¬
cial, W. P. Hall, acting adjutant gen¬
eral.’’
WHEAT GOES TO CNE DOLLAR.
That Price Again Reached on ’Change
at Minneapolis, Minnesota.
“Dollar wheat” was at last seen on
’change at Minneapolis Friday for the
first time since the Leiter corner, it
was cash wheat, and there were sales
at that figure. Later $1,02 was asked
and $1.01 bid, with no sales. The Sep¬
tember option touched 85, the highest
point in fourteen years.
RUSSIA’S IRE 13 KINDLED.
Warships of Czar Nicholas Ordered to
Sail fer Turkish Waters.
A squadron of the Russian Black
sea fleet has been ordered to sail for
Turkish waters.
Notification cf this move has been
telegraphed from Sebastapol to ihe
Russian ambassador at Constantino¬
pie.
ple dispatch of the squadron is in¬
tended to emphasize Russia’s intention
of exacting complete compliance with
her demands as to satisfaction for *he
murder, by a Turkish gendarme, oi
her consul at Monastir.
KEPT CASH IN CU3TLE.
Woman Who Feared to Risk Bank3
Loses Sum of $7,300.
Mrs. Augusta Van Clerke, of Shaw¬
nee, Kans., reported to St. Paul ae-
Sn^lKo 'whftodTJhi wS’to'st
Paul on a Rock Island train. Mrs.
Van Clerke, who i 3 well advanced in
years, said she feared to leave her
money in a bank ar d that it would he
safe if she put it in her bustie.
CARNESV1LI7E. GA.. FRIDAY. AUGUST 21. 1903.
Appeal to Powers to
Butchery by Turks.
HARROWING STORY
Hundreds of Villages in Balkans Have
Been Pillaged and Plundered and
Christian Inhaoitnast Slaugh¬
tered Right and Left.
The Eulgarian government has pre¬
sented a memorandum to the powers
setting out at great length tho condi¬
tion of affairs during the past threo
months in Macedonia since the Turk¬
ish government undertook to inaugur¬
ate the promised reforms. The most
precise details, dates, places and
names of persons are given in
memorandum, the whole
a terrible category of murder, torture,
incendiarism, pillage and general op¬
pression committed by the Ottoman
soldiers and officials. These particu¬
lars were obtained entirely from offi¬
cial sources, such as the reports of the
Eulgarian consuls and agents of the
Bulgarian government, and, in many
Instances, the reports made by Turk¬
ish authorities. Tne Bulgarian govern¬
ment guarantees the absolute truth of
every statement and challenges the
porte to disprove a single charge
made in the memorandum, which be¬
gins by stating that during the past
three months the Ottoman government
has taken a series of measures with
the alleged intention of inaugurating
an era of promised reform and of as¬
suring peace and tranquility to the
Bulgarian population of European Tur¬
key, but which have nad the contrary
effect of further exasperating this
population and reviving the revo¬
lutionary movement. Instead of pro¬
ceeding solely against persons guilty
of breaches of the public order, the
military and civil authorities havo
sought every possible pretext to perse¬
cute, terrorize and ruin the Bulgarian
Inhabitants, alike in the large cities
and in the small villages'.
Wholesale Massacres.
Wholesale massacres, individual
murders, the destruction of villages
and setting fire to houses, the arrests,
ill treatment, tortures, arbitrary im¬
prisonment and banishment, the clos¬
ing and disorganizing of churches and
schools, the runing of merchants, the
collection of taxes for many years in
advance—such, proceeds the memoran¬
dum, are among the acts of the Otto¬
man administration of the vilayets of
Salonica, Monastir, Uskub and Arrhn-
ople.
The memorandum next relates in
detail a number of such cases in each
village. During the first three wee.vs
of July twenty-five villages in the dis¬
trict of Tikvesch were subjected to the
depredations 1 of the Turkish soldiers
and Bashi-Bazouks. The cillagers
sv-rp beaten and tortured, the women
violated and the houses plundered
while the administrative authorities
looked on.
In the ilayet of Monastir, artillery
bombarded and razed the flourishing
town of Smerdesch, the 300 houses be¬
ing left a heap of ruins. At the be¬
ginning of July two Greek hands with
the connivance of the authorities, pil¬
laged Bulgarian villages and murder¬
ed many of their inhabitants.
Altogether, the memorandum gives
particulars of no less than 131 indi¬
vidual and general cases of excesses
and outrages committed by the Turk¬
ish authorities. In summarizing the
specific details of the outrages mor.-
ioned, the memorandum declares that
wholesale massacres were perpetrated
by regulars and Bashi-Bazouks in the
town of Salonica and tho villages of
Baldevo, Banitza, Techourilovo, Kar-
binza, Moghila, Smerdesch and Enidje,
while the scene of carnage, pillage and
incendiarism were everywhere terri-
ble.
Articles of Merger Filed.
There was filed in the office of tho
secretary of state at Montgomery, Ala.,
Saturday articles of agreement of
merger and consolidation of the Sea¬
board Air Line railway and Florida
Central and Peninsular Railroad Com¬
pany.
TOMMY IS NOT SATISFIED.
Mayor of Cincinnati Has a Little Con-
ver.tion of His Own.
The faction favoring Mayor Tom L.
Johnson for governor held in Cincin¬
nati, Friday night, what was called "an
adjourned democratic convention of
Hamilton county.” Delegates to the
state convention were selected who
are expected to favor Mayor Johnson
for the nomination for governor. The ■
delegates selected by tho previous con¬
vention are in favor of John L. Zim¬
merman, of Springfield, for the nomi¬
nation.
THOSE SHANGHAIED KIDS
Will be Detained by American and
British Consul at Santos, Brazil, j
The United States commissioner at
Savannah, Ga., Friday morning held an
investigation of the case against John
Olsen, charged with shanghaing Geo.
Rucker and John Seago, Atlanta and ;
Savannah boys, ajid shipping them j
aboard the ship Kambria, for Santos,
Brazil.
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Grief Summary of Most
Important Events
of Each Gay.
..—Dock laborers at Brunswick have
demanded an increase of two and a
half cents an hour in wages and a
strike is probable.
—Lewis Wiggins, last survivor of
the cruiser Shenandoah, that sailed
the seas under confederate colors for
nine months after wap ended, and who
died Saturday, was buried at Colum¬
bus, Ga., Sunday.
—Ralei rh, N. C., will vote on dis¬
pensary q lestion on 3cBtember 6.
—Citizens of Florence, S. C., in
mass meeting declared a boycott on
the products of the tobacco trust.
—Alabama legislature reconvenes
on the first Tuesday in September.
—The president, and his family
Sunday morning attended divine ser¬
vices on board the battleship Kear-
sarge.
—President Roosevelt Sunday after¬
noon addressed a gathering of Catho¬
lics at Oyster Bay on decency of
speech and conduct.
—Justice David Brewer, in an arti¬
cle on lynching, says that speedy ac¬
tion by the courts would have a ten¬
dency to allay the mob spirit.
—At Washington the opinion pro-
vails that, owing to the differences
among republicans, there will be no
financial legislation at the extra ses-
sion of congress.
—Statucbics show that the deaths
among the negroes in cities far exceed
tho births. The urban nepro popula
tion is decreasing, except as it is in¬
creased by arrivals from the country.
—A petition has been forwarded
from Panama to the Colombian con¬
gress urging the passage of the canal
treaty.
—Because he was socially snubbed
by Reina Castillo, President Cabrera,
of Guatemala, has thrown tne farmer
into prison.
—The Bulgarian government has
presented a memorandum to the pow¬
ers charging the Turks with unspeak¬
able atrocities in the disturbed dis¬
tricts cf the Balkans.
—Albany, Ga., officials deny the pub¬
lished story of the lynching of a white
man and a negro at Hartsfield for as¬
saulting a white woman.
—The two hoys from Atlanta and
Savannah, Ga., who were shanghaied
and shipped aboard a South American
oteamer, will be detained at Santos,
Brazil, by the American consul.
—Fifteen negro prisoners make their
escape from jail at Wasnington, N. C
—Tennessee will have an exhibit ot
her products at the World's fair in St.
Louis.
—A. E. Batson was executed at
Lake Charles, La., Friday, for the
murder of a family of six persons.
—Coil and coke company of Bir¬
mingham, Ala., cold its property to a
Pennsylvania company.
—Forty-nine hashes were laid on the
bare back of a negro, 23 years old, by
his father, at police station in Macon,
Ga, The fellow was given the prefer¬
ence of term of ehaingang or whip¬
ping. He chose the latter. His father
did the whipping.
—Secretary Root has issued a state¬
ment in regard to the duties of the
chief of staff.
—Jett and White were convicted of
the murder of Attorney Marcum and
sentenced to life imprisonment.
—In an address at Dixon, Ills., Fed¬
eral Judge Grosscup declared that tho
I governornment must supervise mono-
p 0 iies in order to save the nation,
—The British parliament has been
prorogued. There was nothing in King
Edward's speech of special interest.
—Tho Turkish gendarme who killed
the Russian consul at Monastir has
been executed in obedience to the re¬
quest of the czar.
—Announcement is made in New
York of the merging of Seaboard Air
Line railway system with Rock Island
and ’Frisco interests.
—The dreaded Mexican boll weevil
has at last crossed to this side of the
Mississippi river and much apprehea-
sion is felt.
—The Georgia legislature adjourned
its summer session at 6:30 o’clock
Wednesday evening amidst great re-
job in„.
—The West Indies cyclone, which
swept the island of Jamaica last Tues¬
day, did fearful work in the destruc-
tion of life and property.
—Before adjournment, Wednesday,
the Georgia house of representatives
agreed to senate amendments to the
convict bill, and the measure is no 1 *
up to the governor.
—Two negroes attacked five white
men in Greenville county, South Caro¬
lina. One of the white men is dyir.g
and the other four were slightly
wounded.
—An American fishing smack
caught poaching in Canadian waters
Wednesday and was badly Shelled by
a Dominion gunboat.
—The Georgia legislature and Gov¬
ernor Terrell take up the whipping of
jvlamie DeCris, a young woman convict
at the state prison farm, and order in-
vestigation.
—Experts declare that the will cf
the late G. W. Collier, of Atlanta, Ga.,
j 3 an impression copy and other start¬
ling testimony is given.
CONGRESS TO MEET
In Extraordinary Session in
October or November.
TWO OBJECTS IN VIEW
To Make Operative the Cuban Reci¬
procity Treaty and E'.act, if
Possible, Some Needed Finan¬
cial Legislation,
A special from Oyster Bay says:
President Roosevelt’s conference Wed¬
nesday night with the members of tho
sub-committee of the senate finance
committee was not concluded until the
small hours of Thursday morning.
The whole subject of financial legisla¬
tion at the approaching session of con-
gross was dlscussod thoroughly.
The committee did not present even
a tentative draft of a currency bill to
the president, although some proposi¬
tions which, subsequently may be em-
bodied in the measure, were reduced
to concrete form, no definite conclu¬
sions as to the shape of the proposed
legislation were reached. The confer
ence related rather to methods of pro¬
cedure in the work at hand, rather
: f than to the form of legislation. At 11
| o’clock some ot the members left Sag
; amore Hill for Senator Aldrich’s home
in Rhode Island.
One fact of distinct importance was
developed at the conference. While
an extraordinary session of congress
next fall is assured, it hn* not been de¬
termined whether It will be called iq
meet in October or November. It has
been supposed that the-extraordinary
session would convene Monday, No¬
vember 9, hat the indications now are
that it will be called perhaps several
•'weeks earlier.
The primary purpose of the extraor¬
dinary session will be to enact legisla¬
tion making operative the Cuban re
-ciprocity treaty, but financial legisla¬
tion also will be pressed upon the at¬
tention It of be congress said that after the It convenes,
r can senate finance
I; committee will dra.t bo measure for¬
mally and conclusively until consults
lions have been held with other mem¬
bers of the senate, democrats as woil
f as republicans, with members of the
house and with the best authorities on
finance in the country. It Is the do-
slre of tho committee to be constantly
in touch with the president, with other
i* senators, with members of the house,
' with bankers of the west as well as
\ those of the east, • and with country
hankers as well as city bankers, 3o
that some plan of legislation may be
; formed by the opening of the extraor-
dinary session of congress.
It is the hope of the committee lo
devise a genuinely elastic currenjy.
system—a system that will expand
when necessity shall arise and con¬
tract when the necessity shall have
ceased to exist.
Senator Aldrich, when asked with
to the visit, said:
"We talked with tne president about
financial conditions and the need of
legislative changes. No bill has been
drafted or agreed on and none will be
until after the fullest , consultation
■with our democratic associates of the
sub-committee and all the members tf
tfi-e finance committee. It is, however,
our purpose to have H bill in readiness
for presentation to the senate at the
beginning of the extra session, if one
shall be called in October or Novem¬
ber, We are hopeful that a bill can be
agreed upon and reported that will
receive tho approval of both houses of
congress and afford prompt and effi¬
cient relief to tho business interests
of the whole country.”
FUNDS OF LEO FOUND.
Late Pontiff Had a Large Sum of
Ready Cash Laid Away.
A dispatch from Home says: Mon¬
signor Cagiano, the major domo, ac
companiod by Cardinals Rampoiia and
Mocenni, opened the apartment of
Pope Leo Thursday afternoon, break¬
ing tho seals put on at the time of
the pontiff’s death. They found a con-
siderable amount of money, it is stat-
ed, several millions of francs, besides
other valuables,
I
HOMELESS AND STARVING.
Horrible State of Affairs on Island of
Jamaica Results from Storm,
Recent dispatches state that there
are heartrend.ng scenes all over the
eastern and northern portions of tho
island of Jamaica. At Port Antonio
thousands are homeless and starving.
Similar conditions prevail at Annota-
ta bay. Bluff bay, Orange bay, Port
Maria, Manthlonoal, Morant bay, Bow- !
and other smaller seaports.
In the interior the distress is equal¬
ly acute. Scarcely a peasant’s home is :
standing.
BED BUGS WON FOR TENANT. 1
Gained Case in Court in Suit by Land¬ i
lord for Back Rent.
The Monmouth, N. J., county court I
of common pleas has decided the case j
brought by a landlord against a tenant j j
for rent which was unpaid because the j
tenant had to move owing to bed bus. - ■
The court favors the tenant. Few
ord. cases of the kind are on the court ra.;- j
WARDEN OUT OF A JOB.
As Result of Whipping White Womin
Allagood Resigns—The Prison
Commission Issues Report.
As a sequence to th.e whipping of
Mamie DoCrls, tho white woman con¬
vict, Deputy Warden Allagood has ten¬
dered his resignation as official in
charge of the prison farm at Mlllodge-
vllle, (la., and that resignation his
been accepted by the prison commis¬
sion. Allagood will remain at the
prison farm only until his successor
can be selected.
The official announcement of the
resignation was contained in tho re¬
port of tile commission upon the Du-
Cris case, made public late Saturday
afternoon. This report embraces a
calm, dispassionate review of the case,
taken from the testimony submitted
by all those having knowledge of the
affair, as taken by State Warden
Moore upon his • investigation at '.lie
farm, and the conclusions of the com¬
mission from this testimony.
From this it would appear that Alla¬
good lias been nn excellent official,
that his personal character is above
reproach, that ho acted within his au¬
thority in inflicting this sort of punish¬
ment upon any convict; but read be¬
tween the lines, U is evident the com¬
mission is of the opinion that he lac ks
the judgment arid discretion which an
official in his position should possess,
and that with the ipcCrls whipping his
days of usefulness at the farm havo
come to an end.
It is worthy of special note tuat the
commission expresses its conviction
that the charge made by Miss DeCris
—that Warden Allagood was guilty oi
improper relations with other femaie
convicts, white and black, and that slit
was whipped because she had rejected
improper advances toward her—Is “ah
solutely false, unfounded and mali¬
cious.” That tho warden was led to
punish the woman because of extreme
aggravation is plainly the opinion of
tho commission.
The report makes it clear that such
punishment is in 'express words, au¬
thorized by the statutes and that the
commission has. had no occasion here¬
tofore to rule against it, but Ihe num¬
bers of that body conclude that this
particular punishment was “an error
on the part of the excellent warden,"
who, recognizing that his usefulness
may havo been impaired “by reason oi
the prejudice which has been created
against him by gross misrepresents
tion of the facts of the case,” has vol
untarily tendered his resignation.
The last paragraph of the commit,
sion's report, will be taken as an tndi
cation of the purpose of that body to
issue such orders or rules as will make
a repetition of the DeCris scandal an
impossibility.
GOOD ANGEL TO GIBSON.
Tennessee Congressman is Left a
Snug Sum by Mrs. Martha Graves.
By a provision in the will of Mrs.
Martha Graves, recently deceased in
Washington, D. C., Congressman Hen
ry R. Gibson, or the second Temuri
see district, becomes heir to between
$50,000 and $100,0.0 cash.
Mrs. Graves, president of a bank
in Seattle, Wash., was a coliegemate
of Gibson and it is said Mrs. Graves at
that time took recognition of the good
qualities of tho future congressman
and aided him financially in securing
his education. It is said she since con¬
tributed $1,000 to the campaign fund
each of the five times he has success¬
fully run for congress.
Congressman Gibsr/i has accepted
the bequest and is caid to be planning
an endowment to help worthy young
men through college, as Mrs. Graves is
said to have assisted him.
TO TRAIN JOURNALISTS
Joseph Pulitzer Provides Two Millions
to Establish New Department.
Joseph Pui'tzer has provided the
sum of $2,000,000 to establish a school
of journalism at Columbia uhiversl’y,
in New York. A new building for tho
school will be erected at a cost of
$000,000 for the school which will ho.d
toward tho university a relation simi¬
lar to that of the other professionll
schools, as the law school, the school
of medicine and tho school of mines,
and like them will be national in
scope.
NOAKES AGAIN STAR WITNESS.
Says Caleb Powers Suggested an Easy
Way to Kill Goebel.
At Georgetown, Ky., Monday, Rob¬
ert Noakes, who three years ago in the
first trial of Caleb Powers was a sen¬
sational witness, but who ran away
from Kentucky after leaving the stand,
appeared as a witness for the common¬
wealth.
Noakes said that James Finley, ox¬
secretary of state, said to him that
the moving of a large bunch of men
to Frankfort was too expensive, that
the best way to settle the contest was
to pay James Howard $2,000 to kill
Goebel.
TURKEY WARNED BY BRITAIN.
Ottoman Ruler Advised to Stop Reign
of Bloody Butcheries.
According to advices from Const.tn-
linople the British ambassador nas
called the attention of the porte to the
serious situation in Macedonia. He
pointed out that graVo consequences
may attend fresh murders of consuls
or subjects.
The ambassador had an audience
with the sultan Friday.
NUMBER 40.
:
TREATY REJECTED!
Colombia Refuses to Ratify
the Canal Convention.
i
VOTE WAS UNANIMOUS.
Details of Congressional Action ara
Meagre—President Roosevelt
Disappointed, But is Silent,
News in Washington. 'i.
Advices from Bogota state that the
Panama treaty has been rejected una-
nimously by the Colombian congress.
It is reported that President Marro-
quin has been authorized by congress
to make a new treaty which will noti
require further ratification, but that
the basis given for the treaty will'
probably prove unacceptable to thw
United States.
It is considered, however, in official '
circles, according to reliable informa¬
tion, that the authorization given by*
congress lurnish a to basis make for a reopening new treaty will]
tions with the negotia-j
United States.
It appears that one of tho objections
to the ratificaion of the reaty which
carried weigh in the senate was that
the Panama Canal Company did not
come to a previous arrangement with I
the Colombian government for thori
transfer of the concession.
Upon the return of the president to!
Sagamore Hill Monday evening from!
reviewing the fleet lie found awaiting
him there information of the rejection,
by the Colombian senate of the Pana¬
ma canal treaty.
While ho naturally is disappointed
at the action of congress, he does noti
desire at. this time to make any com¬
ments upon it.
Washington Advised. t
A cablegram dated August 12, was
received at the state department Mon-i
day from Minister Beaupre, at Bo¬
gota, saying that the Panama canal!
treaty has been rejected by the Co¬
lombian senate.
Very little additional inhumation
concerning the action of the Colom¬
bian senate could be obtained at the 1
state department. Mr. Adee, acting,
secretary of state, would not discuss
Colombian affairs, nor indicate what
course the United States would pur¬
sue.
Section 4 of the Isthmian canal act
provides that should the president be
unable to obtain satisfactory title to
the property of the new Panama Canal
Company and control of the necessary
territory and the rights necessary to
the construction of the canal from the
republic of Colombia, he shall make
tho necessary treaties with Costa Rica
and Nicaragua and proceed with the
construction of a canal by the Nicara¬
guan route.
Reasons for Rejection.
The reason given for the rejection of
the treaty by the Colombian senate, it
is said here, was the alleged encroach¬
ment on Colombian sovereignty which
its opponents contend would result
from the treaty. This information
was contained in a dispatch received
Monday night by Dr. Herran, the Co¬
lombian charge at Washington, from
Foreign Minister Ricos, at Bogota.
This dispatch showed that In its pres¬
ent form the treaty was absolutely un¬
acceptable to the senate for the reason
above stated, and that it had been re¬
jected unanimously. Incidental to the
general question of sovereignty neces¬
sarily was that of lease of the strip
of land through which the canal was
to be constructed and the debate in
the Colombian senate indicated that
that body regarded this as amounting
to a sale of the land and therefore ob¬
jectionable. When the treaty was sub¬
mitted to the senate by the committee
to which it had ucen referred, seven of
the senators favored it with certain
amendments which they proposed, and
the remaining two opposed it abso-
lately.
An interesting feature of the wholo
debate in the Colombian senate and in
the committee’s report favoring the
treaty is said to he the entire absence
of reference to the question of lndem-
nity offered by the United States for
the right of way.
HORRORS REACH THE LIMIT. '<
Bodies of Women and Children Choke
River Near Monastir, Macedonia.
A dispatch from Sofia, Bulgaria,
says: The river near Monastir, Mace¬
donia, is full of the mutilated bodies of
women and children who have been
massacred by Bashi Bazouks.
A dispatch received Monday from
.•Upkub says that COO Bashi Bazouks,
under the command of Albanian
chiefs, who are notoriously cruel, pil
laged and destroyed a number of
Christian villages in the districts of
Debra and Okrida. .
KANSAS CITY AGAIN FLOODED.
River Higher Than Any Time Since
Great Freshet in June.
Boats are again between being the used two to Kansas trans- j j
port persons ^
Citys, says a special of Monday. Thq^
.James street bridge and the Metropoli¬
tan Street Railway Company’s bridge ;
the Kansas river having v been
over i
carried out by the strong current. Tho \J
river la higher than at any time since A
the June flood. J