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CARNESVILLE ADVANCE
. ^VOLUME V.
AMERICA WINS
Decision of Alaskan
miision in Our Favor.
CANADA IS DISPLEASED
State'Department Is Notified of the
Outcome —With Only One Excep¬
tion, Claims of Uncle Sam
are Upheld.
A London special says: The Alas¬
kan boundary commission Saturday
reached an agreement whereby all the
American contentions are sustained
with the exception of those in reia-
t;on to the Portland canal, which Can¬
ada wins. All that now remains to be
done is for the commission to affix
their signatures to the decision a.ta
complete the map which will accom
pany it. On the map will be marked
the boundary line definitely fixing the
definition of the American and Cana¬
dian territory on such a basis as the
American citizen will not lose a foot
of land he already believes he held,
while the United States' will get all
the waterways to the rich Alaskan
territory, with the exception of the
Portland canal, which gives Canada
the one outlet she so much needed.
The long standing dispute was only
settled after a week of keen, trying,
secret deliberation between the arbi¬
trators. Even up to noon Saturday
there was an acute possiiiility that a
disagreement might result and tlia
whole proceedings fall to the ground.
Lord Alverstone, though openly inclin¬
ed to believe in the justice of the
American argument that, the United
States was entitled to the heads of
inlets as contained in question five,
held out that Canada had establishe 1
her case in questions 2 and 3, dealing
with the Portland canal.
After luncheon Senator Lodge, Sec¬
retary Root and Senator Turner
agreed to cede those' points and ti
start the American boundary line from
the head of the Portland canal, thus
giving the Canadians that channel anl
some small islands, on which there
are only a few small disused store
houses. This accomplished, the ma¬
jority of tribunal agreed to fix, with
this exception the entire boundary as
outlined in phg American case.
State Department Notified.
The Associated Press bulletin from
London, announcing the decision of
the Alaskan boundary dispute, was the
first intimation received by the state
department that the commission had
reached an agreement. Although the
bulletin from London is exceedingly
brief, state department officials say
that it shows a distinct victory for tire
United States. It is their opinion that
the effect of the decision regarding
the Portland canal merely gives to
Canada possession of Pearse island, a
small island in the Portland canal, and
of no special importance. This de¬
tail of the controversy is admitted
by the state department officials to
have been open to argument on both
sides.
Pearse island is at the mouth of the
canal. The latter is divided between
two canals by tho island and Canada
formerly had undisputed use of the
eastern channel. Under the present
decision Canada will have the use of
the western channel.
Canada is Disappointed.
According to a dispatch from To¬
ronto, great disapproval cf and disap-
pointment is felt there over the Je-
cision in the Alaskan boundary case.
GATHERING OF NUT GROWERS
Will Take Place in New Orleans on
October 28th and 29th.
The National Nut Growers’ Associa-
tion will hold its convention at New
Oriean October 28 and 29.
President G. M. Bacon, of DeWilt,
Ga., h3s prepared an interesting pro-
gram and the foremost authorities in
the United States will discussi various
tonics connected with the culture of
ruts.
It is expected that Secretary of Ag¬
riculture Wilson will be among the
speakers.
SEVERAL GIRLS STABBED.
Bloody Fracas Follows Strike In a
New York Rag Factory.
In a riot Friday night, the result of
a strike at a rag factory in New York,
several girls were stabbed, one of
them seriously.
The employees, about fifty In num-
ber recently organized under tho
name of the Clip Sorters’ Union. De-
mands were made upon the firm,
which were refused, and a strike was
declared. To carry on their business
the firm engaged a number of Italians
This caused the riot.
SOME NEWS FROM MANILA.
Taft Starts Home December 23— Do-
faulting Constable Caught,
A Manila special says: George Her-
man, the defaulting constabulary offi-
cer, has been captured and taken to
Bayauan. Eight hundred dollars was
recovered * ro “ h ™;
Governor Taft has designate 1 D,
cember 23 as the date o tiis depar
ure for Washington to-enter upon his
duties as secretary of war.
Cream of News.
Brief Summary of Most
Important Events
of Each Day.
—The confederate veterans of Ma¬
con, Ga. ( are preparing to extend a
warm welcome to all veterans who at¬
tend the state fair in that city.
—Brown, the New Orleans cotton
king, in a statement, declares that
French money was used to make his
famous corner and that it will result
in a permanent higher price for the
fleecy staple.
—The striking employes of the Pa¬
cific Express Company have been en¬
joined from interfering with the com¬
pany’s property or employes.
—Wenijz, the young Philadelphia
millionaire, who disappeared in East¬
ern Tennessee, is still missing. The
reward for him lias been increased to
$25,000.
—John Williams, suspected of the
murder of Mrs. Kate L«.man, at St.
Louis, hangs himself in hie cell at the
jail. A building near the jail was on
Are, and the excitement caused Wil¬
liams to think an attempt was being
made to lynch him.
—Prophet Dowie held two monster
meetings in New York Sunday. He
became angered because many left al¬
ter satisfying their curiosity as to his
personal appearance. This led him to
announce that he was not conducting
a Buffalo Bill shown
—About twelve thousand soldiers
aro in camp at Fort Riley, Kans., to
take part in the maneuvers.
—Secretary of Treasury Shaw will
address republican meetings in Ken¬
tucky and Iowa.
—There were twenty new cases of
yellow fever at Laredo, T°xas, Sunday
and six deaths.
—Canadian papers, commenting on
the Alaskan boundary decision, say
that it is a rude blow at imperialism
in Canada, and that Chamberlain gave
it to Canada “in the neck.”
—It is reported that Minister Mac¬
Donald, of Great Britain, will act ns
mediator between Japan and Russia
and try to prevent any further trouble
between them.
—The mixed commission which has
been hearing Spanish claims against
Venezuela has made its award and
closed its session.
—-Two hundred and fifty lives lost
at Tur&hiz, Persia, by an earthetuake.
Thirteen villages were destroyed.
—Marconi system of telegraphy has
been inaugurated in China.
—In Coffee count}’, Ga., superior
court, Lee Crib was resentenced to
hang, November 10 being set as the
date for his execution.
—Broad Street Methodist church, of
Columbus, Ga., has ordered its mem¬
bers. to pay or seek other fellowship.
Fifty delinquents have been Cropped.
—Two prominent farmers of Ander¬
son county, South Carolina, and their
overseer have been arrested by Uni¬
ted States officers on a peonage
charge.
—In Orangeburg county. South Car¬
olina, A. C. Gunter, who was a witness
against J. H. Tillman, cut the throat
of man named Busby, cutting out his
.
tongue.
—Governor Jelks, of Alabama, is¬
sues three pardons to white men. Two
had killed men for impugning the hon¬
or of their wives, and one was a youth
charged with attempted train wreck-
in¬
—In a riot in New York as a result
a strike at a rag factory, several
girls were stabbed.
-—The five convicts who headed the
mutiny in Leavenworth prison have
been found guilty of murder and given-
life sentences.
—The town of Aberdeen, Wash., was
practically destroyed by fire Friday
afternoon. Four persons were burned
t 0 death. The property loss is placed
a t $1,000,000.
—The Union Veteran Legion has:
adopted a resolution bitterly protest-
ing against the placing of a statue of
Genera] Robert E. Lee in the hail of
fame.
—“Elijah” Dowie, at the head of his
“restoration army,” has invaded Now
York city and begun a campaign of
purification.
—President Roosevelt is personally
managing the republican campaign in
Maryland.
—The jury in the case of Ernest
Haywood, charged with the murder
of Ludlow Skinner, at Raleigh, N. C.,
returned a verdict of riot guilty,
—Booker Washington, who lias just
returned from a vacation in Europe,
finds the poorer classes here have
better opportunities than similar
clashes abroad.
—Former Governor Mitchell, 0 {
Florida, died at Tampa Wednesday.
—Negro voters in Ohio threaten to
bolt the republican ticket, and Regis-
ter of the Treasury Judson Lyons has
been called on to hold them m line.
— A t Hamilton, Mont., Walter Jack-
son the conv i c ted murderer of a 6-
_ and
year . old boy> was taken from jail
!ynchedi Tbe mob acted because
Jackson - s lawyer had appealed tho
case.
__ John G . winters has been appoint-
j udge of Alabama’s new judicial
cJrcuit
CARNESVILLE. GA.. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 23. 1903.
Is Set Forth from Cleveland. Viewpoint
of Ex-President
MAKES BANQUET SPEECH
Dirty Politics and Perverted Patriot,
ism Tersely Handled and Remedy
Suggested—Enthusiastic
Reception.
“Give to our people something that
will concentrate their common affec¬
tion and solicitous care, and let that
be the country’s good; give them a
purpose that stimulates them to unite
in lofty endeavor, and let that purpose
be a demonstration of tjie efficiency
and beneficence of our popular rule.”
This was the solution offered by
former President Grover Cleveland, rs
a remedy for corrupt politics, in a
speech before the members of the
Commercial Club of Chicago at their
annual banquet given Wednesday
night.
He received an enthusiastic recep¬
tion by the two hundred banqueters
when he appeared at the speaker’s ta-
ble.
Mr. Cleveland tool: as his topic,
“Good Citizenship,” prefacing his re¬
marks by saying that he understood
himseif to be under bond “to keep the
peace, If possible, by eschewjng poli¬
tics.” He likened the too prevalent in-
difference of citizens to their politi¬
cal duties to the disposition often man¬
ifested by the members of our church¬
es, who, “having made profession of
their faith and joined the church, ap¬
pear to think their duty done when
they live honestly, attend worship reg¬
ularly, and contribute liberally to
church support.”
Of the odious and detestable evils
that are threatening our national life
—the open and notorious corruption of
the suffrage, the buying and selling of
political places for money, the pur¬
chase of political favors and privi¬
leges, and the traffic in official duty for
personal guin—Mr. Cleveland spoke at
some length, saying in part:
“These things are confessedly com¬
mon. Every intelligent man knows
that they have grown from small be¬
ginnings until they have reached
frightful proportions of malevolence;
and yet respectable citizens by the
thousands and hundreds of thousands
have looked on with perfect calmness,
and with hypocritical cant have de-
dared they are not politicians, or with
silly pretensions of faith in our
strength and luck, have languidly
claim id that the country was prosper¬
ous, equal to any emergency, and
proof against all danger.
“Resulting from these conditions in
a manner not difficult to trace, whole¬
some national sentiment is threatened
with utter perversion.”
In touching upon the relations of
labor and capital, he said:
“We now see its worst manifesta¬
tion in the apparently incorrigible dis-
location of the proper relation be-
tween labor and capital. This of it¬
self is sufficiently distressing; but
thoughtful men are not without dread
cf sadder developments yet to corns,
There has also grown up among our
people a disregard for the restraints
pf law', and a disposition to evade Us
limitation?, w'hile querulous* strictures
concerning the action of our courts
tend to undermine popular faith in the
course of justice; and last, hut by no
means least, complaints of imaginary
or axeggerated shortcomings in our
financial policies, furnish an excuse
for the flippant exploitation of ail
sorts of monetary nostrums-.
“I hasten to give assurance that I
have not spoken-in a spirit of gloomy
pessimism. I shall be the last of all
our people to believe that the saving
grace of patriotism among my conn- •
trymen is dead or will always sleep. 1
know that its timely revival and acliv- i
ity means the realization of the lof¬ .
tiest hopes of a free nation.
Good Men Must Arouse.
is as clear as noonday that if
t b e patriotism of our people is to bo
aggressively vigorous and equal to our
national preservation, and if politics
is* to subserve a high purpose Instead
of degenerating to the level of a cun¬
ning game, our good men in every
walk of life must arouse themselves
to consciousness that the safety and
best interests of their country involve
every other interest; and that by ser-
vice in the field of good citizenship
they not only do patriotic duty, bu$
j n a direct way save for themselves
the share of benefits due them from
our free institutions. . 1
Slayer of Boy Lynched. I
Walter Jackson, the convicted mur-
derer of bonny Buck, a 6-year-old boy,
was taken from jail at Hamilton,
Mont., Tuesday night by a mob and
lynched. !
FOUR DIE IN FLAMES.
Conflagration in Town of ‘
Dlsastr0 us
Aber deen, State of Washington.
jrj re that burned from 9 Friday
morning until 2 o’clock deaths in the destroy- after- j
noon caused four and j
ed property valued at $1,000,000 in tho
town of Aberdeen, Wash. It wiped j
out the main business street of the j
town, which is built mostly of wood,
Six persons' were injured. Ten bus!-
ness blocks were destroyed.
CONVICTS ARE CONVICTED
Felons Who Took Part In Fatal Mu¬
tiny in Fort Leavenworth Prison
Given Life Sentences.
All five leaders of the Fort Leaven-
worth prison mutiny of November,
1901, charged with killing Guard Wal-
drupe, were found guilty of murder
by the jury of the United States cir¬
cuit court at Leavenworth, Kans., Fri¬
day morning without capital punish¬
ment, and will he given life sentences.
The prisoners are Gilbert Mullins,
Turner Barnoa, Frank Thompson,
Fred Robinson and Robert Clarke, nil
desperate men. Mullins and Robinson
had practically finished their terms at
the time of the outbreak and the oth¬
ers were short term men.
All are from the Indian Territory.
The defense set up the plea that the
prisoners in the federal prison are
illy treated and that the men who
touk part in the mutiny preferred to
make an attempt to escape and face
death, rather than remain and endure
torture. Attorney for the United
States introduced several witnesses
to disprove the charges of improper
treatment at the hands of the peniten¬
tiary officials. Gilbert Mullins several
months ago escaped from the jail at
Junction City, to which institution he
had boon transferred.
In the mutiny twenty-eight prison¬
ers escaped after a fierce fight with
the guards during which one guard,
Waldrupe. was killed and several of
the convicts were shot. All but. one of
the convicts were finally captured, al¬
though three of them were shot in
engagements with posses.
RUSSIA BECOMES SUSPICIOUS.
Notwithstanding; Peace Negotiations,
Bear Fears Attack from Japs.
Advices of Friday from Yokohama,
Japan, state that the Russian squad¬
ron has returned to Port Arthur. Cor¬
respondents there report that prepara¬
tions have been made against an ap¬
prehended attack on the ninety-throe
war vessels in port. The entrance is
protected by a boom of heavy logs.
The negotiations at Tolcio, though
critical, are proceeding peacefully.
America and Europe are cautioned by
the officials against alarmist reports.
Dispatches from Chee Foo, China,
state that the Russian administrator
of New Chang, Manchuria, proposes
to organize a muunicipal council with
one American and two British mem¬
bers. Their decisions will be subject
to the administrator’s approval.
A cl“er investigation of a number
of troops reviewed by Viceroy Alexiff
at Port Arthur seems to indicate
(hat the official total of 76,000 would
have been correct if all the corps en¬
gaged contained their full complement.
It appears, however, that most of the
regiments had only about two-thirds
of their nominal strength. The total
of the Russian army about Port Ar¬
thur is 75,000 men.
BROUGHT DOG’S HEAD ALONG.
Two Patients Enter Atlanta Pasteur
Institute to Await Developments.
Two young men arrived in Atlanta,
Ga., Friday evening from Alexander
City, Ala., to wait for development
of symptoms of hydrophobia received
from the bite of a mad dog Thursday,
with the two y01lng men was a phy
8ifian of Alexajlder city a large New .
foundIand dcg belonging to htai and
tbe bead 0 f t be mad dogi wb | cb bad
j 3gpn g j 10(
The entire party was taken irarae-
diate]y (o t „ R Pasteur ingt!tute for
treatment . Usual j y it takes f€urteen
„ before the flrst signs of hydro .
phobia develop, and with the first
symptom the victims of the mad dog
will be immediateily placed under the
latest treatment, as prescribed by the
wonderful advances and discoveries
made in Paris.
TWO "KEROSENE” VICTIMS.
Attempt, to Kindle Fire With t.he
Fluid Has Usual Result.
A special from Sandy Run, Gates ’
county, N. C., says that as a result of
an attempt to kindle fire in a Stove
with kerosene, two white girls, aged
4 and 15 years, grandchildren of Mrsf.
Ward, were burned to death there
Thursday.
JUDGE PAYS INCOME TAX.
In Test Case, Ccurt Decides that He
Must Pay cn His Salary.
Tho North Carolina supreme court
at Raleigh, Thursday, decided that
Judge Purnell, of the United States
district court, must pay the income tax
cn his salary. This If a test case.
The superior court decided that, thfs
income was liable to the tax. The tax
was assessed by the state tax commis-
sion, which was the real defendant,
and the suit was brought on an appeal
by Judge Purnell. U pto this date,
no federal officere have paid the tax
on the income derived from their r,al-
ary.
FLORIDA EX-GOVERNOR DEAD.
Hon. Henry L. Mitchell Passes Away
at His Home in Tampa.
Ex-Governor Henry L. Mitchell, of
Florida, died at his home in Tampa i
last Wednesday of general debility. He '
was 69 years old and his health had j
been failing a year. He wag circuit '
j udge from 187* to 1S88 and from \
jggg to 1890 was justice .of the su-
preme court of the slate. He was
governor from 1893 to 1897.
TILLMAN FREE MAN
Verdict of Not Guilty in Case
of Gonzales’ Slayer.
JURY OUT TWENTY HOURS
Cheers Greeted Announcement of Ver¬
dict—Tillman Thanks Judge,
Shakes Hands of Jurors and
Makes Statement.
After being out twenty hours, the
jury in the case of J. H. Tillman at
Lexington, 5. C-, found him not guilty.
The Jury announced at 10:45 Thursday
morning that a verdict had been
agreed upon.
The defendant and attorneys were
sent for, and the jury then filed into
the court room and the verdict was
read.
A demonstration followed the an¬
nouncement, friends of the defendant
giving vent to their feelings in a about.
The court, previous to the reading of
the verdict, had admonished the spec¬
tators to refrain from any demonstra¬
tion.
The counsel for the defense at onoe
moved the defendant’s discharge from
the sheriff’s custody. No objections
being made by the state, the court
made the order.
The defendant shook hands with
the judge and members of the Jury
and left the courtroom, aeeompanlod
by hi» friends and counsel. The trial
occupied eighteen days.
How Jury Reached Verdict.
Soon after the jury retired a ballot
was taken, the result being ten to two
for acquittal. After some delibera¬
tion one of the two went ever to the
side of the acquittal, but It was not
until 20 minutes before the jury gent,
word to the court Thursday morning
that an agreement had been reached
that the twelfth man yielded.
Very few of the jurors got any steep
during the night. The long delay
caused apprehension that a mistrial
would result. The jury could not have
stayed out beyond Saturday midnight.
The count in the indictment charging
the carrying of concealed weapons
was lost sight of in the trial and was
not considered.
The wife and mother of the defend¬
ant, who have attended the trial daily,
were not in the courtroom when the
verdict was announced, but the lattrr
was on her way to the court. She had
Just heard the news, when her son
walked out and met her on the street.
His wife awaited him at the hotel, hav-
ing been informed of the verdict in
advance of his coming
Senator Tillman was not present,
having returned to his home Wednes¬
day, where his wife is recovering from
injuries received in a runaway acci¬
dent. A telegram was cent him imme¬
diately after the verdict was an¬
nounced.
Tillman is Grateful.
James H. Tillman, after his acquit¬
tal, made the following statement to
tho Associated Press:
“I feel very grateful at the result
of the verdict, but at no time did i
apprehend any serious consequent as.
I, of course, deeply regret the death of
Mr. Gonzales, but I was farced to do
what I did. I have never apprehended
a conviction for I felt that I did no
more than any man would have done
under the same circumstances, and
what I was compelled to do. My posi¬
tion was fully stated In the testimony
I gave on the stand.
“I did ask for a change of venue,
because I was convinced on account of
prejudice in Richland county that I
could not get a fair and impartial
trial in that county. I felt sure that as
soon as my case could be presented to
impartial jury I would be vindicated,
The verdict has justified the correet-
ness of my judgment. Lexington co tin-
ty was selected by the prosecution. Its
people aro law-abiding and have long
been noted for correctness of their
verdicts and have been praised by the
press.”
TO ANSWER PEONAGE CHARGE.
Three White Men in South Carolina
are Bound Over to Court.
R. W. and Foster Pruitt, farmers,
and John W. Neece, their overseer, of
Anderson county, S. C., all white,
were arrested on Thursday charged
with violating the federal peonago
lav/s by unlawfully requiring Bill Mc-
Fall, a negro, to work and for whip-
pj n g the negro once,
They were given a preliminary hear-
j ng before United States Commission-
er Frierson Friday and bound over for
trial at the United States court in
Greenville.
CHILDREN PLAY “HOOKEY.”
Five Thousand in Topeka Will be
Forced to Attend City Schools.
The truancy officer of Topeka, Kan.,
nntifiert the cif v Ri.nertatenHe.t
that there are 5 000 children of school
age that arc not attending the city
schools as required. A list.], in tho
bands of the officers and the parent!
of tbe children who play “hookey
will be flaed according ° to the laws,
BIG MONEVFORconvicts
8tate of Georgia Will Receive (250,000
Net for Hire of Felons—Awards
Made by Commission.
Awards of the labor of 1,500 felony
convicts made Thursday by the state
prison commission show that Georgia
will receive net for that number of
convicts during the five years begin¬
ning April, 1904, at least $250,000 R
year, possibly a good deal more.
This Is in decided conirast to the
results of the present contracts un¬
der which the net revenue to the state
for the labor of more than 2,100 con¬
victs is less than $90,000. In other
words, the state will receive nearly
three times as much under the new
contracts, for one-third less convicts.
The maximum bid was $252 a year
each for fifty men, while $220 was the
lowest figure at which the labor of
any of the convicts will go at this
time.
For the 1,500 convicts the state will
receive a total of $338,119, an average
price of $225.14 a year each. The ex¬
penses of conducting the system with
nearly 700 convicts on the public roads
at the expense of the counties using
them, will fall considerably below
$100,000. It is evident, therefore, that
the net results will be nearly, if not
quite, $250,000.
With thirty-one counties taking
their convicts to work on the public
roads, this $250,000 will be divided
among tho remaining 106 counties in
proportion to school population, and
each county may use its pro rata, in
accordance with the recommendation
of the grand jury, either for school
purposes or in public road improve¬
ments.
The prices bid were Indeed surpris¬
ing. It was generally agreed that
they would go over $200, but it was
not believed it would be above $210
or $215 at, the outside.
Following is a list of the successful
bidders, with the number of men bid
for, the price, the location of the camp
and the employment at which they
will be put:
Durham Coal and Coke Company,
coal mining at Pittsburg, Walker coun¬
ty, 50 at $252; 50 at $240, and 50 at
$228.
Flowers Bros. Lumber Company,
sawmilling, Early county, 100 men at
$240.
Lookout Mountain Coal and Coke
Company, J. W- English, Jr., presi¬
dent, coal miping. Walker county, 100
men at $223.25.
Chattahoochee Brick Co., Chatta¬
hoochee, Ga., J. W. English, president,
175 men at $221.25.
Cruger & Pace. Albany, brick mak¬
ers, 75 men at $221.50.
North Georgia Iron and Coal Co.,
coal mining, Walker county, 50 men
at $225.
E. J. McRce, Lowndes county, gen¬
eral farming and saw milling, 100
men at $220.75.
W. E. James, saw milling, Berrien
county, 50 men at $220.
J. Lee, Ensign Lumber camp, Wayne
ebunty. 50 men at $220.50.
W. B. Hnnby and W. M. Tnomer,
lumber camp, Ware county, 500 men
at $221.25.
E. E. Foy Lumber Co., Effingham
county, 50 men at $221.
Dr. J. B. S. Holmes, farming and
saw milling, Lowndes county, 50 men
at $220.75.
The foregoing thirteen contractors
will take 1,500 men whose labor will
bring into the state annually, ae stat¬
ed, $338,119, an average of $225.14 a
year per man. The average price un¬
der the present contracts is $100.
There were eight of the old con¬
tractors, some of whom have been
working convicts for years, whose low
bids eliminated them from the awards.
Of these the largest was G. S. Baxter
fk Co., who employ 400 convicts at
Fargo, in Clinch countv. in lumber
and turpentine camps. Thev put In a
bid for 400 men at $200 each.
Peace Negotiations Proqresslng.
A Tokio dispatch 'o The London
Times, under date of Thursday, say3
,he Rus so japaneso negotiations' are
P ro K ressIn 1 g there, and (here is no rea-
son at present to apprehend any but
a peaceful Issue.
MAGNATES OF THE SOUTHERN
Royally Entertained by Governor of
Georgia and Citizens of Atlanta.
President Samuel Spencer and the
board of directors of the Southern
railway were welcomed to Georgia and
Atlanta Thursday by Governor J. M.
Terrell, Mayor Evan P. Howell, mem¬
bers of the Atlanta chamber of com¬
merce and other prominent citizens.
The capitalists were kept busy from
the time they awoke In the morning
until their special train left the union
P assen *er station in the afternoon for
Birmingham.
CRUISER IS FOR SALE.
Sheriff Gives Notice that the Chatta-
nooga Will Go on Block.
Notice was posted at Elizabeth. N. ^
J., Wednesday by the sheriff for t he
sale of the cruiser Chattanooga, which
has been in process of construction at
the Crescent shipyard.
Authority to sell comes from Special
Master Miller, under a claim made
by the Babcock <& Wilcock Company,
of Newark, N. J., for pay for boilers
NUMBER 49.
ELIJAH IN GOTHAM
Host of Dowieites Crusaders
Arrive in New York.
READY FOR THE ATTACK
Vast Concourse Marches to Madison
Square Garden and Establishes
Headquarters—Majority are
Womem and Children.
A New York dispatch says: The
“restoration host,” under the leader¬
ship of John Alexander Dowie, garris¬
oned Madison Square Garden Friday
and completed preparations to com¬
mence on the works of the "enemy.”
The first detachment, numbering about
400 arrived early in the morning and
the remaining trains followed during
•the day and evening. Leaving the
ferry boat, the crusaders boarded spe¬
cial cars vhich were in waiting and
proceeded direct to tho garden to tho
music of their bands and the singing
of hymns.
The general overseer himself, ac¬
companied by his family and' staff,
arrived in his special train at tho
Grand Central station, where, owing to
a misunderstanding, his private car-
vage failed to meet him and he was
compelled to go to the Plaza hotel in
a hack. During the confusion of leav¬
ing the train a thief slipped into Mrs.
Dowie’s room on tho car and stole a
$1,500 diamond and pearl brooch.
From the Plaza Dr. Dowie went to
the garden, where he restored order
out of tho general confusion that pre¬
vailed and outlined his plans in an in¬
terview with newspaper men. Ho de¬
nied that ho intended to raise a fund
of $50,000,000 while in the city, and de¬
clined to say whether he was going to
found another Zion City in Gotham.
Zionists Sing Hymn.
The “crusaders” landed at the bat¬
tery and at once boarded cars for Mad¬
ison Square Garden. As soon as the
first car started, the crowd on board '
began singing a hymn and a a large
crowd of curious spectators gathered
around those waiting outside the ferry
house. Men In the Dowie party dis¬
tributed tracts among them. The men
were all dressed in a uniform resem¬
bling that worn by the United States
infantry. The women did not wear
uniforms. '
The crowd around the ferry house
grew so large that it blocked the
street and police drove the spectators
back to the curb. One of the features
of the party was tho junior choir, con¬
sisting of about fifty little boys. There
was also a drum and fife corps of thir¬
ty men dressed in khaki uniforms.
Thirty per cent of the party were wo¬
men and children of all nationalities.
Arrival of “Elijah II.”
Dr. Dowie, himself, arrived in his
special train at the Grand Central sta¬
tion, disappointing the crowds who
were awaiting him at tho West Shore
railroad ferry, his train having come
from Albany over the Hudson River
division. His private carriage was
awaiting him at the West Shore depot
and the Zion leader, with his son and
two lieutenants, took a public hack to
the hotel. A number of his own peo¬
ple greeted Dr. Dowie, but there was
little demonstration.
HOSPITAL BUILDINGS BURN. r
.
No Casualties Occurred, But Two Pa'
tients Die from the Excitement.
Two wards of the Grady hospital
at Atlanta, Ga., were destroyed by
fire at 1 o’clock Saturday morning;
and only prompt and heroic action on
the part of the hospital people, citi¬
zens, police and fire department pre¬
vented a holocaust beyond description.
The wards that burned were the ne¬
gro wards, the male and female, and
in addition the building in which were
(he hospital laundry, kitchen and jani¬
tor's sleeping apartments. It was in
the latter structure that the Are start¬
ed, the source being embers left in the
laundry range.
There were no casualties, but two
negro women, both very ill and expect¬
ed to die, succumbed under the excite¬
ment and exposure during the removal
of the patients from the blazing wards.
BACKED BY FRENCH COIN.
“Cotton Corner” Brown Tells How He
Engineered the Great Coup.
W. P. Brown, the cotton king, re¬
turned to his home in New Orleans
Sunday from New York. He an¬
nounced the complete success of the
bull campaign, which actually handled
390,000 bales of cotton.
He admitt)r;’i that French capital
was largely interested in the corner
and claimed that the campaign would
permanently raise the price of cotton,
the fact that a corner could success¬
fully be accomplished preventing low
prices in tho future.
EACH SIDE IS OBDURATE.
Russia and Japan Making Slow Prog-
re8s j n p eace Negotiations.
The negotiations between Japan and
R USS i a , according to the view of the
situation taken in Berlin, is not mak¬
ing progress. Each side, it appears
from official information, will not yield
on the essentia] points.
Japan persists in requiring an agree¬
ment that shall sot limit their respec¬
tive spheres of supremacy.