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CARNESVILLE ADVANCE.
VOLUME V.
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GALLOWAY OFFERS HELP
Mississippi Bishop Sends Ready An-
swer to Call—Situation, However,
Is Reported as Highly
Favorable.
A special from Jackson, Miss., says;
Bishop Galloway, of the Methodist
church, telegraphed to San Antonio,
Texas, Friday, offering his services to
that city in case the yellow lever there
shall develop to such a degree that
outside aid is needed.
According to a dispatch from Austin,
Governor Lanham has quarantined all
Texas against San Antonio on account
of yellow fever there.
The order is mandatory upon ail
railroads to operate nq trains in or
out of San Antonio’ nor handle any
freight or passenger business from
that city in any shape whatever.
Indignation at San Antonio.
The yellow fever situation in San
Antonio at the close of tho day Fii-
day was very encouraging. The offi¬
cial bulletin was as follows:
New cases. 1; deaths, none, total
eases, 9; total deaths, 8.
The new case reportad is that of a
soldier at Fort Sam Houston, who was
talten sick before the post quarantined
the city, but it was not determined
until Friday that his case was yellow
fever. It is a mild case.
The state quarantine declared
against San Antonio has caused tnucJ
indignation in the city-, as the gover¬
nor has not declared s’aic quarnntin;
against Laredo, where there are nearly
500 cases, against 9 cases in San An
tonio.
The official yellow fever bulletin is
sued at Laredo Friday night was as
follows:
New cases. 13; deaths, 5: total
cases to date, 509; total deaths. 42.
The latent report from the little
mining town of Mir,era states that
there have been two additional cases
of fever and one death there, making
tie total cases 101 and the total
deaths 8.
A bulletin issued at Neuvo Laredo
says there are at present eight cases
there. Two deaths took place there
Thursday.
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER SLAIN.
Diabolical Double Crime cf Assassins
in Cherokee County, Ga.
Last Wednesday night, in Cherokee
county, Ga., about 9 miles east of
Jasper, Mrs. Annie Iloicomb and her
17,-year-old daughter, who live alone,
were shot down at their home and
their bodies mutilated by knife
wounds and in other ways, The wo-
men were assaulted before they were
murdered.
Mrs. Holcomb was found just hack
of her house with a bullet hole in her
breast and two or three deep stabs In
her side made with a knife.
The body of her daughter was found
about 150 yards from their house with
three or four bullet holes and nine
stabs made by a knife in her body.
Evidently the daughter was trying
to escape the terrible vengeance of the
assassins and was overtaken and
killed.
Two men evidently are guilty of the
crime, as two tracks were plainly seen
about the premises and tracking the
girl in her flight.
The people of the settlement are
greatly excited over the heinous crime.
FIGHT ON TOY PISTOLS.
Medical Association Takes Strong
Stand Against Their Sale.
Henry E. Tulley, of the Mississippi
Valley Medical Association, lias given
to the press a set of resolutions taking
a strong stand against the sale of toy
pistols, favoring the enactment of na-
Monai laws against the manufacture of
fireworks and the open treatment of
all wounds, however insignificant,
which were adopted recently in Mem¬
phis.
REVENGE MOST DIABOLICAL.
Farmer Kills Hi s Children Because
Wife Had Li' l Him.
Near Marion, Ind., Saturday, Jesse
McClure, a farm hand, murdered his
two sons, aged 5 and 7 years.
While a mob was farming to cap¬
ture and lynch him, McClure drove on
a run to Marion and gave himseif up.
He has been secreted by the author-
ities.
McClure admitted the murder of his
two children, and said ho had killel
them because his wife bad left him
and refused to see him.
ONLY TWO SURVIVORS.
All Others of Crew of Unfortunate
Vessel Found Watery Graves.
On the schooner John K. Kirkman,
which arrived at. Newport News, \ a.,
Thursday, were Two seamen of the
■hK. of the-Gloucester fishing schoon-
T. Williams, which went to
"stu in a reef off Cape Cod light in
the a Week ago. They are prob¬
ably the only survivors of the four¬
teen men on board when the schooner
Struck.
APPEAL TO THE SWORD
Seems Only Alternative In Disagree¬
ment Between Russia and Japan.
War Clcuds Again Lower.
A special from Yokohama, Japan,
says: It is currently reported that
the check in the negotiations Is due
to the Japanese demand for equal rail¬
way rignts in Manchuria, but it is be¬
lieved that a more serious difficulty
exists.
The feeling of popular unrest is
growing. The asbai of Tokio announc¬
ed Thursday that a preliminary mobi¬
lization order had been issued to the
thirteenth array division. Though this
was officially denied, tho report coin¬
cides with much open preparations
against contingencies.
Thirteen vessels of the Japanese
squadron are engaged in gun practice
off Sascho, 25 miles irom Nagasaki.
A dispatch from Reuters Telegraph
Company, from Tokio, received in Lon¬
don Thursday, says:
“It is said that another conference
of the elder statesmen will be con
vened tomorrow when dec.is.ions hav¬
ing important bearings on the future
course of events are expected, al
though there is no fear of an immeli-
ate rupture. In the meanwhile pre-
cautionary preparations are progress¬
ing.
“It is reported from Pekin that M.
Lessar, tho Russian minister, has ad
dressed a long not? to Prince Ching.
head of the Chinese foreign office, sav
ing that Japan’s interference in the
Manchurian question will compel Rus
sia to adopt final measures and threat
ening China with severe punishment
if she sides with Japan. This action
while the negotiations .are pending
has caused deep umbrage.”
A request of the Associated Pres.- at
St. Petersburg for a statement from
the foreign office indicating Russia's
position in connection with the Fai
Eastern question elicited only the sig
nificant reading of a less reassuring
dispatch from Tokio. Tho St. Peters
burg newspapers say the Russian
squadron consists of fifty-four wav
ships, including six battle snips, eight
first-class and five second-class cruis
ers>, seven seagoing gunboats, two tor¬
pedo cruisers, two torpedo transports
and twenty-four torpedo boat destroy
ers, having an aggregate of 750 offi
cers and 13,200 men. There are now
on the way to the Far East two battle
ships, three first-class cruisers and
eleven torpedo boats of various classes
with 164 officers and 3,2f4 men.
A dispatch from Berlin says: It has
been announced that the Russian vice¬
roy of the Far East, Admiral Alexieff,
is opposed to the opening of the Man
churian towns to foreign trade. This
has excited no surprise in Germany.
The treaty of commerce between the
United States and China recently-
signed at Shanghai provides that suit
able concession be given at Moukden
and An-Tung for the residence of for¬
eigners and for their commerce. Rus
s4a”s latest proposals to China, which
embody Viceroy Alcxieff’s policy, stip¬
ulate that such concessions he given
only to Russians.
COWISITES TIRE O” GOTHAM-
“Elijah” Warns Againt Kissing—Many
Bogus Checks Received.
Two hundred of the followers ol
John Alexander Dowie indicated (hat
they were tired of the work of reform
Ing New York city and wanted to re
turn to Zion City when the "general
overseer” invited all who wanted r c
give up the work and give others a
chance to take it up to step forward
at the early meeting in MadisoD
square garden Thursday morning.
Dowie at that • meeting said he
should endeavor to convert the pope
He added that he had received many-
bogus checks since coming to New
York, but that others had been goo-i.
“There is no need for followers to
rush hack to Zion,” said he, “because
G f those suits by merchants of Chi-
P ago. They are against me personally
riot against Zion.”
Turning his attention to kissing,
Dowie said people should be careful ol
their kisses and use them carefully In
tlie family,
“Why, my son Gladstone never kiss-
fid a woman outside the family,” he
said.
WANTS AN AMERICAN CHURCH.
Bishop Gailor Suggests that Episco¬
palians Become Independent.
At Thursday’s session of the Pan-
American conference of bishops at
Washington, Rt. Rev. Frank Gailor,
the bishop of Tennessee, advocated
the development of the Eifiscopal
church in the United States along na¬
tional lines with a view to the crea¬
tion of a -orJrtinctively American
church. He was opposed to the Epis¬
copal church being called a branch of
the church of srflgland, and also to the
introduction of English forms and cus¬
toms into the American church.
EXPLOSION KILLS HALF DOZEN.
Boiler of Locomotive Gives Way,
Wreaking Death and Destruction.
Six persons were killed and several
injured Wednesday by the explosion
of the boiler of a West ’pjrglnia Cen¬
tral railroad freight locomotive in the
yards at Elkins.
Tho bodies of the dead
were hurled many feet. Telegraph
wireo were prostrated, tracks torn
and two freight cars were
by the force °f the explosion.
CARNESVILLE. GA.. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 30. 1003.
FOUR MORE FIRED
Postmaster-General Payne
Wields Decapitating Ax.
CLEARING OUT GRAFTERS
Bristow’s Report Leads to Discharge
of Additional Quartet of Post-
office Employes—Payne Ex-
plains His Action.
A Washington special says: Post¬
master General Payne Wednesday re¬
moved from office Michael W. Louis,
superintendent of tho supplies of the
postofflee department; Louis Kemp-
her, chief of the registry division of
the third assistant postmaster gener¬
als office, and C. B. Terry, a $900
clerk in the postoffice department, and
directed the postmaster at New York
to remove Otto Weis, a clerk.
Those removals are the first result
of Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen¬
eral Bristow’s report on the irregu¬
larities in the posloffice department.
Information oi'the contemplated dis
charges did not leak out at the depart¬
ment until after 4 o’clock, and at 4:30
the postmaster general mane an offi
cial announcement of his action; as
follows:
“Michael W. Louis has been remov
ed from the office of superintendent of
the division of supplies' because the
recent investigation shows that he in¬
fluenced the awarding of contract? for
supplies to favored bidders; that he
has been extravagant and wasteful :n
the administration of his office, and
that he has paid excessive prices for
supplies to favored contractors.
“Ixtuis Kempner, superintendent ot
the registry system, has been removed
for incompetent and negligent admin
istration, for wasLoful and reckless
extravagance in sending expensive
manifold registration hooks to a large
number of fourth-c-lass postoffices and
for violating the revenue laws by a
system of petty smuggling.
“C, B. Terry, a clerk in the division
of supplies, has been removed for
making false affidavits; attempted to
obtain money from clerks under the
guise that he could influence their pro
motion, and general inefficiency.”
The postmaster general also stated
that the postmaster at New York had
been directed to remove Otto Weis,
a clerk in the New' York postoffice,
.for collecting money from clerks to in
flueijce legislation and to procure pro¬
motions.
Due to Bristow Report.
In reply to questions Mr. Payne) said -
the discharges were the result of dis¬
closures made by the Bristow report.
“I have read the report,” he said,
“and am free to say that my action
today was the result of its perusal.”
He declined to say whether there
would he other removals as a result
of the report.
Terry is from Indiana. He was a
temporary clerk in the postoffice de¬
partment and was afterwards remov¬
ed. He made charges that he had been
discharged from his position by John
M. Mastcn, then chief clerk of the
first assistant postmaster general, but
now assistant superintendent of the
railway mail service, because he had
refused to give money to Masten for
his retention, and the president direct¬
ed his reinstatement. It is understood
that the investigation falied te sub¬
stantiate Terry’s charges and his per¬
manent removal is the result of that
failure.
Both Louis and Kempner have been
in the postal service for some years.
HAYWOOD CASE A HOBBY.
North Carolina Papers Suggest a Radi¬
cal Change in the Law.
North Carolina pai>ers are laking
up the result of the Haywood murder
trial at Raleigh to an extent never be¬
fore heard of, and there is a general
demand that tlie law regarding such
trials shall be modified so as to equal¬
ize the number of challanges and to
give the state the right of appeal.
MEMORIAL SHAFT UNVEILED-
People of Greenwood, South Carolina,
Honor Confederate Dead.
Greenwood, South Carolina, Thurs¬
day afternoon, paid tribute to the Con¬
federate dead when the handsome
shaft commemorating the valor of the
heroes—those who wore the gray and
the devoted women who stood by them
in the dark days—was unveiled with
imposing ceremonies.
The handsome shaft of granite and
marble adorns the grassy plot In front
of the courthouse.
BLACK MAM CONGRATULATED.
President Sends Letter ' > the Nevi
President of Santo Domingo.
A special from San Domingo, Rcpitu-
lie of Santo Domingo, says: Unite 1
States Minister Powell has delivered
at the national palace an autograph
letter from President Roosc-elt con
gratulating General Wos y Gil upen
his election as constitutional presi¬
dent of the republic.
CHARGEDWITHSTEALING
1
James Blair, Forma,- Counsel to
World’s Fair at St. Louis, Col¬
lapses and is Dangerously III.
A special from St. Louis says: Jas.
L. Blair, former counsel to tho world’s
fair, was stricken while on tho porch
of his suburban home Saturday after¬
noon, with a fit of illness, which was
the result of poisoning.
He was carried In an unconscious
condition to his room, and physicians
immediately summoned. The physi¬
cians were delayed in reaching the
bedside, and when they arrived their
patient was in a critical condition.
Stomach pumps, were at once press¬
ed Into use, and Mr. Blair’s stomach
thoroughly cleansed, but he gave no
immediate indication of recovery.
The Globe-Democrat, !r. a three page
story, published charges that Blair
had misused a half million of dollars
from the funds of estates which he
had charge of. A reporter had been
asking Mr. Blair for a statement re¬
garding charges made by James T.
Roberts, a former employee, that Blair
had embezzled $340,000 from Dick
Brothers, of Philadelphia, and $63,000
from the Blow estate, which ho heHd
as trustee. Roberts gave dates, names
and documents, and such a detailed
story that it required five hours for
its presentation to the grand ury.
The publication of the story pro¬
duced the profoundest sensation in
years. Mr- Blair denied to the re¬
porters each and every one of Rob¬
erts’ allegations, and took two hours
to explain tho case.
Then the reporter asked him about
the report that Blair was shielding a
brother who was really responsible
for the shortages. This story, it is
said, came from Blaif'Vmself.
Mr. Biair seemed all at once to col¬
lapse. He gasped, shrieked, frothed at
the mouth and then fell forward heav¬
ily, his head striking the stone steps
of the porch as he fell. The reporter
picked the unconscious man up and
carried him into the house.
Sunday Roberts gave out a supple¬
mental statement, going into more
minute details of tho rascalities com¬
mitted, giving dates, etc. This is an
elaborate statement, eovetring the case
in all its nastiness. If true, Blair is a
sociological wonder. For nearly twen¬
ty years he has. advocated the highest
ideals in private and public, and yet,
according to Roberts, during the past
decade has been living a life which
his public utterances condemned.
In a St. Louis morning newspaper
there appears what purported to he
interviews with Evans R. Dick, of
New York, and George S. Graham, of
Philadelphia, the one a partner in tho
firm of Dick Bros. & Co, from whom
Blair is alleged to have embezzled
§340,000, tho other the attorney of the
firm, denying the charges of Roberts.
~ When Mr. Roberts read thes.a re¬
puted interviews he at once telegraph¬
ed to Messrs. Dick and Graham, chal¬
lenging them to come to St. Louis
with the books and papers of the firm
and go before the grand jtiry, stating
that this was due to Mr. Blair, who is
a cousin of Mr. Dick.
James L. Blair has ranked high in
the legal profession in St. Louis, and
has always been considered an exem¬
plary citizen. His father, the late
Frank P. Blair, was one of Missouri’s
most distinguished sons and James. L.
Blair hid fair to follow in his foot¬
steps, having gained especial promi¬
nence in recent political reformations.
When the Louisiana Purchase Ex¬
position Company was organized Blair
was -appointed general counsel at a
salary of $18,000 per year, which posi¬
tion he held until his resignation was
given a few days ago.
His wife is president of (he board
of lady managers of the exposition,
but. it is thought that she will resign
both tho presidency and her member¬
ship on the board in a few days.
Blair’s friends steadfastly aver that
there is no truth in the charges and
that they are only an effort to injure
an innocent man.
Fast Train Kills Five Men.
Five Italian laborers, who waro re¬
pairing the tracks of the Erie railroad
at the Ramapo curve, near Sufferin,
N. Y„ were instantly killed by an ex¬
press train. A number of other la¬
borers were injured and removed to
a hospital.
DISAGREES WITH CARNEGIE.
Redmond Says Majority of Irishmen
in America are Unhappy.
Speakinng at Killarney Sunday,
John Redmond, the Irish leader, de¬
clared the time had arrived to start a
campaign, against emigration. One
cause of emigration that ought to he
removed, ho said, was the exaggerated
prospects held out to Irish-hoys and
girls if they went to America. He crit¬
icised Andrew Carnegies recent speech
at Waterford and said the poorest la¬
borer of Kerry was happier than the
majority of Irish workingmen in tho
United States.
CYNAMITET ON THE RAILS.
Dastardly Attempt of Fiends to Wreck
Train on Northern Pacific.
Six sticks of dynamite were found
on the Northern Pacific track near
Birdseye, eight mile? west of Helena,
Mont. An extra freight, eastbound,
passed over the powder during the
night without exploding it. The dyna¬
mite was discovered by Action men.
It had been placed under the rail, the
fish plates of which had been removed
GORMAN USES GAFF
Maryland Senator Harshly
Criticises ihe President.
A SENSATIONAL SPEECH
Chief Executive is Accused of Showing
Pernicious Partisanship and of
Forcing Race Issue to
the Front.
in a remarkable speech delivered
Saturday at Highland, Howard coun¬
ty, Maryland. Senator Gorman han¬
dled President Roosevelt without
gloves, criticised him for interfering
in Maryland politics and referred to
him in such terms as “czar" and “’em¬
peror.”
in all previous public utterances Sen¬
ator Gorman has been noted for his
conservatism, but in Saturday's speech
ho seemed to have thrown all reserve
to the winds and attacked the presi¬
dent of the United States in no uncer¬
tain terms. Among other things. Mr.
Gorman said:
“Unfortunately the president of the
United States lias forced this race is¬
sue to the front. Tho Anglo-Saxons
made the laws. They conquered the
English and they conquered the In¬
dians. No other race but the white
race shall ever have possession of this
country. That sensible man of the
colored race, Booker T. Washington,
has given his people some good ad¬
vice. He has told them that politics
demoralizes them.
“I speak of the president of the
United States with die greatest re¬
spect, as all should. I criticise his
public acts because his acts and his
speech go from one end of tile country
to the other and determine foreign
affaire. The white men of the south,
who are reputable men of that, sec¬
tion. the thoughtful men of the north
know that no greater crime was ever
perpetrated on this country than the
enfranchisement of the negro.
“The supreme court of the United
States, which is composed almost ex¬
clusively Of republicans, recognizes
that tho safety of the home, tho pros¬
perity of the south, demanded that
the organic laws of southern states
must be changed, that the negro
should not be gifted with authority
which he did not know how to use.
“With the impetuosity hardly wor¬
thy of a youth in a small community
the president of ihe United States sud¬
denly one morning brought to the
front this race question, which the
people were settling quietly and or¬
derly, by inviting Booker Washington
to dine with him in the white house.
“This act was interpreted by the
whole colored race as- meaning not
only political, but social equably of
the two races. It now -confronts us to
deal with this yestion. Te presi¬
dent of the United States invited the
republican candidate for governor of
Maryland to.dine with him and to oc¬
cupy the same seat which was proba¬
bly occupied by Booker Washington. T
tell you that no liberty, no safety re¬
mains when you have a dictator or a
czar or an emperor in Washington
who can send for Marylanders and
tell them what, he wants done. He
tells them to harmonize their differ¬
ences and to hring the npgroes to the
polls to sustain him in his efforts :o
establish social equality of the two
races.”
STRANGLED THREE CHILDREN.
Deranged Woman Answers the Dic¬
tates of a “Supreme Power.”
While temporarily deranged Mrs.
Louis Iverson, murdered three of her
children Saturday at Pacific Grove,
Cal., at the dictation, she said later,
of a supremo power. She first stran¬
gled her eldest daughter, Louie, aged
12 years. She then attempted the
life of her oldest son, aged 11. but the
boy broke away from her, She then
strangled her son, Harold, aged 6, and
securing an ax, struck him a blow on
the head. Later she killed iter t
months’ old blfby by strangling.
DOLES-COOK BRIGADE
“Survivors” Association Will Meet in
Augusta, Ga., During State Con¬
federate Reunion'.
The railroads wfll furnish trip tick¬
ets at one cent per mile from all
points in Georgia. Lodging and hoard
will be furnished at from one to three
dollars per day. Tho city of Augusta
will furnish food and lodging for all
who are unable to pay.
The reunion occurs on the LOth, 11th
and 12th of November and the brigade
meeting will occur on the 11th—sec¬
ond day—at 2:30 p. m.. Inqurte at Di¬
vision headquarters.
HORROR IN NEW YORK SUBWAY.
Blasts Cause Cave-in and Ten Work¬
men' are Crushed to Death.
The total of lives lost in the gigan¬
tic undertaking to provide New York
ers with rapid transit, known as the
“subway,” was materially added to
Saturday night when a scries of blasts
loosened many tons of rock whicli fell
on a gang of men engaged at work In
♦he tunnel. Ten men were killed and
four badly injured.
Cream of News.
Brief Summary of Most
Important Events
of Each Day.
—The increased rate on lumber is
said to be having a depressing effect
on the business in Georgia. Land own¬
ers are thinking of joining the saw
mill men in their fight, against the
railroads'.
—Sensational developments are ex¬
pected at a meeting of the creditors
of the Southern Car and Foundry
Company at Chattanooga, wli*n offi-
(*>als of the bankrupt corporation will
ho asked to explain certain actions al¬
leged to bo irregular.
—President Roper, of the Anniston,
Ala., Trades Council, is suing the edi¬
tor ot' The Hot Blast for $10,000 libel
damages for stating that, he was in a
crap game.
—Details of the cave-in of the roofs
of the subway in New York Saturday
night, in which ten men were killed,
show that the accident was due to neg¬
ligence on the part of the superintend¬
ent, who knew the rock above was
cracked.
—Jesse McClure, a farm hand, muv-
ders his two sons, aged 5 and 7 years,
near Marion, Ind., and then surren
ders. Sheriff spirited McClure away to
Indianapolis jail to prevent a lynching.
—Mrs. Iverson, of Monterey, Cal.,
strangled her three children to death,
saying that a supreme power had
commanded her to kill them. She has
been ill for a long time, and had
shown signs of mental derangement.
—James L. Blair, of St.' Louis, who
is alleged to hate misappropriated
funds of the St. Louis fair, is unabie
to answer fully, on account of his ill
ness.
—Professor Thurston, of Cornell
university, dies suddenly at his home
on the campus.
—Fire at Ashland, Wis„ Sunday de¬
stroyed a fine block of buildings, doing
$150,000 damage.
—Dispatches from St. Petersburg
say there is a growing ill-feeling in
Russia agains-t the United States and
England on account of the supposed
sympathy of these countries for Ja¬
pan.
—Revolutionary bands, operating in
eastern Macedonia, are reported to be
returning to Bulgaria and Sofia’s
streets qye thronged with theta. They
beg for food.and shelter.
—Venezuela is said to have concern
trated a large body of troops on the
Colombian frontier, in order to indi¬
rectly aid the new opposition to tho
Colombian government.
—A Japanese secretary of legation
was refused permission to land at
Yongampho. One report states that a
fight occurred. War is likely at any¬
time between Russia and Japan.
—Silas Hulin was chief witness in
the habeas corpus proceedings of Cla.-
ence Peak at Knoxville, Tenn., Peak
being under eighteen years sentence
for killing Hulin. Court holds that
Hulin is dead to all intents and pur¬
poses. .
—Two survivors of the schooner .T.
T. Williams arrived at Newport News,
Va., Thursday. Out of fourteen men
on board these two were saved. The
vessel was sunk during last Friday's
storm.
—Felix Mali, negro, was hanged at
Birmingham, Ala., Thursday. On the
first drop the rope slipped and the
man was lowered and hanged again.
—Union machinists in Lonsdale,
Tenn., shops of the Southern railway
quit work because non-union men were
allowed to dismantle engines.
—Tho Southern Steamsaip Companv
at Mobile, Ala., has been reorganized
with a capital of $150,000.
—Monument to the confederate dead
was unveiled at Greenwood, S. 'J.,
Thursday.
—Following the suspension of Fed-
eral National bank, Pittsburg, Pa,, the
First National bank of Allegheny fail-
ed to open its doors for business
Thursday. j
—The confederate veterans of Ma-
eon, Ga„ are preparing to extend a
warn: welcome to all veterans who at-
tend tho state fair in that city.
—Addrersing the pan-American con¬
ference of bishops, Bishop Gailor said
the Episcopal church should change
its name, eschew Anglicism and be¬
come an American church.
—Speaking of the race problem be¬
fore the American Missionary Society,
Dr. Gladden declared that the south
deserved great credit for what it had
done for the negro.
—While Congressman Baker, of
Brooklyn, was s.peaking for Tom John¬
son at Cincinnati, he was whipped and
drenched by the driver ol a sprinkling
cart.
—Tlie Alaskan boundary decision
has been Brought up for discussion in
the Canadian senate.
—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.
—There has been no change in Ihe
Far Eastern situation. War between
Japan and Russia seems probable.
—Charles Kratz, the alleged St.
Louis boodler who jumped his bond
for $20,000, has been captured it)
Mexico.
NUMBER 50.
People of Dominion of Cana -L
da Talk of Annexation, ..
AWARD CAUSES A KICK
Rather Than See Their Country Gob¬
bled Piecemeal, Many of Them
Say They Would Rather Join
With Uncle Sam.
Nows comes from Vancouver, B. C.,
to the effect that local feeling is very
bitter over tho award of the Alaskan
boundary commission.
There is much talk of annexation
and of Canada becoming independen*,
business men being generally much
dissatisfied at what they pronounce
British disregard of Canadian inter¬
ests to please the United States. It
is a matter of comment that among
the discontented are Englishmen re¬
siding in Vancouver. Many of these say
Canada will never achieve her great¬
est possibilities- until she becomes a
part of the United States.
The Rev. Elliott S. -towe, the lead¬
ing minister of British Columbia, who,
with Chief Justice Hunter, constituted
tho labor commission which sat thi3
summer, in an interview said:
“I am a Britisher and ! have aiwaya
been a Britisher, hut if Great Britain.-
is to hand Canada oyer piece meal to
the United States, I say let us join the
American republic also. By doing so
now, we are large enough, populous
enough and important enough to have
something to say regarding the termA
of such annexation, and also would he.
potent enough to have something to
eay in the affairs of the republic of
which we would form a part. But if
we wait until our best and richest ter¬
ritory is given away we shall simply
be absorbed. It looks to me as if Can¬
ada had won the case ami lost the ter¬
ritory.”
Mayor Neelands, of Vancouver,
thinks that the Alasttan award may
lead to the establishment of Canada 1
as an independent nation. ,
Senate Questioned.
A special from Ottawa, Ontario^
says: In the senate, at Thursday’s
session, Sir Mackenzie Bowell, leader
of the opposition, asked for informa¬
tion concerning the Alaska boundary,
award.
Mr. Scott, for the government, re¬
plied that the most important reason'
why the Canadian commissioners did
not approve of the award was that it
was not a judicial decision. Lord Al-
verstone had, in tho first instance,
agreed that the center of the Portland
canal should form the boundary lines.
The four islands should have gon®'
to either the one country or the other,
depending on the position of the lino
through the Portland channel, conse¬
quently Lord Alverstone deflected the
line so as to throw two of the islands
into the United States and two into
Canada, that is Wales and Pearse is¬
lands went to Canada and the two
smaller to the United States.
Sir Mackenzie Bowell said It wasi
unfortunate that in every case when
negotiations have taken place between
the United States and England, where'
Canada was affected, the United
Slates diplomats had succeeded in se¬
curing islands which command most
important points of the dominion.
There was the island right opposite-
the harbor of Port Arthur, In case of;
difficulty, he said, that island would
have to be secured by the British peo¬
ple, for, Tl fortified, it would command-
the entrance to that harbor. Unless;
that was done the United States could;
secure it, and with the guns they have
at present, would be able to destroy;
Ihe whole connection between east
and west. It was the same with the
island of San Juan, another secured bv
treaty negotiations,
“Now.” said Sir Mackenzie, “the
united States will command Forfr
Simpson. In every case Canadian in-
terests were sacrificed.”
Senator McMullen said the decis-
ion would create as much diseatisfac*
tion in Canada as there was in Iho
Transvaal and Ireland.
FIRE DESTROYS CONVICT CAMP.
Durham Coal and Coke Company tho
Losers—No Casualties Resulted.
News was received Wednesday at
the office of the Georgia prison com¬
mission of the destruction by fire of
all the buildings within the penile l-
tiary stockade at the camp of the Dur¬
ham Coal and Coke Company, at Pitts¬
burg, in Walker county.
The members of the commission,
however were gratified to learn that
no one was injured, and not one of tho
433 convicts employed at this camp
escaped.
NEGROES REACH SAVANNAH.
Three Men Shanghaied Aboard Rus¬
sian Bark Repeat Their Story.
Three of the eight negroes alleged
have been shanghaied aboard the ~r
to
Russian bark, Alice, at Savannah, Ga.,
arrived from Philadelphia Friday
morning.
The men repeat ihe story as told
that they were carried aboard tha
ship, treated like dogs and made to
served without pay.