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IMS I HELD
ail FOfl MANILA IS STOPPED
SAN FRANCISCO.
.NIHMPlRIALiSTiC LITERATURE.
' 0 .tma*ter Genera! Smith Takes Action
Through the Order* of the Cabinet
at Tuesday'* Meeting.
I \ Washington special says: The
fcostinnster general has directed the
Postmaster at San Francisco to take
Lt of thq mails for Manila three
bamphlets issued by Edward Atkin
Ln, knti-Imperialistic of Boston, vice-president of the
league.
This order does not apply to the
Circulation of the pliamphlets by mail
|n this country, but bars their die
patch from this country to the Philip
pines, discontent and oven mutiny
among the soldiers being stated by
the department to be the design of
these publications.
The three pamphlets are especially
described and in no circumstances are
:hey to be forwarded by mail to the
Philippines.
The absentees from Tuesday’s cabi
net meeting were Secretaries Gage,
Long, Alger and Wilson.
FI One su Lj ect8 discussion
the circulars which were mailed
to the troops at Manila criticising the
Flilippine policy of the government
and advising volunteers whose term
of service is about to expire not to re
enlist.
A member of the cabinet, in speak
ing of the matter, said that Mr. Ed
ward Atkinson, of Boston, who is be
lieved to have been largely instrument
al in the circulars, preparation and sending out
of these was unquestionably
of assisting an insurrection
the authority of the United
States and was subject to a term of
imprisonment or a heavy fine or both.
The law', which, it is said, has been
violated in section 5334 of the revised
statutes, is as follows:
“Every person who incites, sets on
foot, assists cr engages in any rebellion
or insurrection against the authority
of the United States or the laws there
of, or gives aid or comfort thereto,
shall be punished by imprisonment
cot more than ten years or by a fine of
not more ten thousand dollars, or by
both of such punishments; and shall,
moreover, be incapable of holding any
office under the United States.”
What action, if any, will be taken
in the matter has not been deter
mined, but it is said that the govern
ment is disposed to regard the acts of
Mr. Atkinson as those of a person
without any proper conception of the
gravity of the offense committed, and
the government may not at this time
take action against Mr. Atkinsou and
his assistants.
The postmaster general stated at the
cabinet meeting that he had ordered
the circulars stopped at Sau Francisco.
Members of the army department re
gard Mr. Atkinson’s alleged act as
seditious and disgraceful, and it is not
improbable, if repeated, prompt and
•energetic action will be taken.
JYOMEN SUFFRAGISTS MEET.
^Resolutions Kefteetlnfr On Their Sisters
In the South Turned Down.
At a convention in Grand Rapids,
Mich., Tuesday the National Woman’s
Suffragist Association elected Susan
B. Anthony president; Rev. Anna
Howard Shaw, vice president; Rachel
Foster Avary, corresponding recording secre
tary; Alice Stone Blackwell,
secretary; Harriet Taylor Upton, treas
urer; Carrie Chapman Catt t> chairman
of committee organization’s; Taylor, Laura
Clay and Catherine Waugh
auditors.
A colored woman from Michigan
offered a resolution demanding that
colored women in the south be permit
ted to ride in the same cars with -White
women.
Laura Clay, of Kentucky, warmly
attacked the resolution as an insult to
the southern white women.
After a warm debate the resolution
was thrown out as tending* to create
factional feeling. protesting
Resolutions w r ere adopted suf
against the word “male” in the
frage clause proposed for the Hawaii
" commis
constitution. Recommends a
sion of women to investigate the con
ditions in our island colonies.
RECEIVERS FILE REPORT
In Kesarrt To Southern Mutual Building
and Loan Association.
Judge J. A. Anderson and M. A.
O’Byrne, the receivers of the Southern
Mutual Building and Loan association,
filed a report in the clerk’s office in
Atlanta, Ga., Friday showing the re
• eeipts and disbursements since their
last report on December 1, 1898.
The cash on hand at the time of the
last report was $40,639.43, and the
amount on baud April 30 of this year
was $48,403.89. There has been re
ceived $21,444, and there has been
paid out for various expenses $13,
079.54.
BUYING COTTON MILLS.
English Syndicate Investing Cash In Fall
River Industries.
It was authoritatively stated in New
York that a syndicate of English capi
talists is negotiating for the purchase and
of a number of cotton mills in
near Fall River.
The English syndicate concerned is
said to be the Cotton Spinners’ Fine
Tarns Association, which a year or so
ago purchased nearly ail the smaller
English concerns.
fresh rebel troops
Are Brought, to Opoose the Onward
Maroti of the American*.
A special from Manila under date of
Miiv 7th, stated that to elear the Fil
ipinos of Bacolor would be the next
task of the Americans.
1 he rebel general, Mascardo has a
force of 7,009 men there, well armed
aud possessed of plenty of ammuni
tion. His troops have never met
American soldiers, aud they think, ac
cording to reports carried to San Fer
nando, that they can whip the whole
lot.
Bacolor is well intrenched and thou
sands of natives are working like
beavers digging trenches and carrying
the dirt in baskets. The enemy uses
his riflemen for fighting only, but
compels the Bolo men and Chinese to
labor incessantly.
The rebels have an outpost about a
mile beyond San Fernando, with a
trench that holds between two and
three hundred men. From that point
several volleys were fired Saturday
night upon the camp of the Twentieth
Kansas regiment.
Neither Major General MacArthnr
nor Sunday, Major General Lawtou moved
the although each reconnoitered
country in his own vicinity for
some miles from headquarters, devel
oping the presence of small forces of
the enemy.
In the vicinity of La Guna de Bay
the rebels are extremely active, but
the lines of General Ovenshine and
Colonel Wholley, who is commanding
General King’s brigade during the
latter’s illness, have been materially
strengthened, aud there is no danger
in that direction.
The armed steamers La Guna de
Bay and Cavadsnga, under Captain
Grant, have gone to Guagua, about
five miles southwest of Bacolor, pre
sumably to establish a base of supplies
for the troops engaged on the northern
campaign.
It is rumored that Mabini,president
of the cabinet, and minister of foreign
affairs in the so-called Filippino gov
ernment, who is a radical, is to be suc
ceeded by Paterno, tbe framer of tbe
Spanish treaty of 1890. This change
is regarded as significant at the pres
ent juncture.
TO MEET IN ST, LOUIS.
Democratic National Committee Will Out
line Flan of Campaign.
The preliminary plans for the cam
paign of 1900 are to be outlined at a
conference f the members of the
democratic national committee to be
held at St. Louis on the 25th of this
month. The conference is expected
to be of more than ordinary impor
tance because of the circumstances
surrounding the gathering and is nat
urally creating a good deal of discus
sion in democratic circles at the
national capital.
The call for the conference has been
issued by ex-Governor Stone, of Mis
souri, who, in the absence of Senator
Jones in Europe, is acting as chair
man of what is known as the commit
tee on ways and means.
THE SOUTH’S SPONSOR.
Honor Placed Upon Daughter of General
Henry Heth.
General John B. Gordon, command
er-in-chief of the United Confederate
Veterans,appointed Miss Nannie Ran
dolph Heth, of Washington city, and
daughter of General Henry Heth,
sponsor for the entire south at the an
nual reunion in Charleston, Miss
Heth gracefully accepted the designa
tion.
This most honored sponsorship at
these annual reunions to which the
heart of the confederacy gathers has
been filled on former occasions by Miss
Winnie Davis, the always cherished
“Daughter of the Confederacy.” Miss
Heth does not, how'ever, by this ap
pointment, succeed Miss Davis as
daughter of the Confederacy. After
much controversy following the death
of Miss Davis, it was decided that she
should have no successor in this re
gard. ____ .
FUNDS FOR NAVAL .MILITIA.
The Amount Which Some of the Southern
States Will Get.
The navy departmant has just made
an allottment of $60,000, appropriated
for the assistance of the naval militia
of the states supporting such organi
zations. Among the states receiving
appropriations are the following:
Florida, $23,45,81; Georgia, $1,563.95;
Lousiana, $5,003.49; North Carolina,
$2,328.15; South Carolina, $2,310.38;
Virginia, $1,848.40.
COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS
Hold Their Grand Council Meeting In
City of Louisville.
Nearly 200 delegates to the Ken
tuckv and Virginia annual grand coun
cil of the United Commercial Travel
ers were in attendance on the council
which assembled at Louisville, Ky.,
Friday morning. Virginia
Additional delegations from
and West Virginia arrived during the
day. appointing committees the
After o’clock,
council adjourned until 2
when a large number of candidates
who had applied for membership were
initiated.
SILVER FOR BATTLESHIP.
Service to He Presented to the Kentucky
Will Co*t #G,000.
4 Louisville dispatch says: The
contract to furnish the silver servic*
for the battleship Kentucky has been
given tf> a Philadelphia firm at a cost
of $6,000. will be composed o. ,
The service
more than seventy pieces and next t<
those of the battleship Indiana anc
the cruiser New York will be the hand
someston any ship in the navy.
ROAST COMES FROM EX-MEMBERS
OF MILITARY ASSEMBLY.
a GOMEZ WAS ALSO DENOUNCED
All Occurred at a Ran q net at Havana
Given In Honor of Cisneros, Lucia
and Uoderlguen.
A special from Havana says: The
banquet given Friday evening by
members of the recently dissolved
military assembly in honor of the
aged Salvador Cisneros, Marquis de
Santa Lucia, the first president of the
second republic of Cuba, and of Gen
eral Maya Rodriguez was the occasion
for an anti-American and aud anti
Gomez demonstration.
General Manuel SaDguilly, Colonel
Juan Gualberto Gomez, a member of
the assembly’s executive committee,
and other speakers denounced General
Gomez as a traitor to Cuba iu having
given aid to the intervening power,
“los yankees,” who were referred to
iu terms of dislike and suspicion.
The only voice raised in protest
against such assertions among the
hundred well known Cubans who were
present, including the editors of most
the local papers printed in Spanish,
was that of Senor Fidel Plena, editor
of El Independentes, who said that the
Cubans would most speedily gain
their independence by co-operating
with the Americans, adding that the
“purpose of the United States mili
tary authorities is to aid Cuba to pre
pare for self-government and to leave
as soon as possible.”
The local papers continue to fill their
columns with stories of brigandage
from every part of the island. Some
imply that most of these reports are
unreliable, others seem to adopt them
by giving them special importance.
In the latter class are La Discnssion
and La Lucha. In the former are El
Reconcentrado, La Libertad, La Pat
ria aud all the Spanish organs.
According to a dispatch from Cien
fugos, Senor Jicotea Perez, a Spaniard
of high character aud standing, dis
appeared on Sunday,and Thursday his
corpse was found near the city terribly
ni8eheted. The crime is attributed by
the authorities to the same band of
outlaws that burned the cane on the
Constaneia plantation. Bandits in the
same district attacked the plantation
Unidad, owned by Mr. Culleracb, and
the plantation Angeles, owned by
Senor Francisco Garcia; butthey were
finally repulsed by the rural guards,
who killed two members of tbe band
that have not been identified, and a
third, who was recognized as Alfredo
Rodriquez, a well known brigand
largely responsible for disturbances in
Santa Clara.
Governor General Brooke announces
that Senor Federico Mora has accept
ed the post of supreme court fiscal,
which was offered him Thursday, and
which he had said he would be unable
to accept unless upon his own condi
tions. No arrangements have yet
been made appointing his successor
as civil governer of Havana, but a
decision on this point will possibly
be reached within a brief time.
Senor Domingo Mendez Capote,
secretary of the government in Gener
al Brooke’s cabinet, will soon forward
to General Russell Alger, United States
secretary of war, a report of the re
forms needed in the province of Ma
tanzas and of those already effected
there. The collector of customs at
Matanzas proposes to construct a float
ing warehouse and to receive goods
direct from vessels.
The Spanish minister of marine,
Admiral Gomez Imaz, has cabled Cap
tain Feral, head of the Spanish marine
commission in charge of the Havana
floating dock, an authorization to sell
the structure at public auction May
31st.
The medical officers express regret
at the sending of recruits to Cuba at
this time of year, as such troops could
not become acclimated before the very
worst part of the season had set iu.
They believe it would be better to
have depots in the United States and
to send drilled men to Cuba in the
early autumn.
“INHUMAN” BOMBARDMENT.
Stevonion'sWIdow Criticise* Policy of the
Americans In Samos.
Robert Lonis Stevenson’s widow has
written a letter to The Westminster
Gazette (Landon) from Funchal, Ma
deira, on the bombardment *f Samoan
villages by British and American war
ships. Mrs. Stevenson soys:
“President McKinley allowed no
firing on Cuban towns unless they
gave active cause of offense, and
Commodore Watson was ordered not
to attack undefended Spanish cities.
Does the president keep his humanity
for civilized countries alone?”
PAMPHLETS ARE STOPPED.
Sftii Francisco Office Shuts Off Some of
Manila Mail.
The San Francisco postoffice officials,
Wednesday, seized some of the pam
phlets sent out by Edward Atkinson,
vice president of the Anti-imperialistic
League of Boston.
The pamphlets are addressed to Ad
miral Dewey, General H. G. Otis,
General Miller and Professors Schur
man and Worcester, the latter two
gentlemen being members of the
Philippine commission.
ROTH HIDES HONORED.
Kentucky Monument to Blue and Gray
Unveiled at Chlckaniaiign
The beautiful granite monument
erected by the state of Kentucky in
Chickamnugn Park was dedicated
Wednesday' afternoon with imposing
ceremonies.
At noon Governor Bradley, his staff
aud other prominent Kentuckians left
Chattanooga for the park and prompt
ly at 2 o’clock the exercises begun.
The preliminary portion of the pro
gramme consisted of music—one of
the numbers being “My Old Kentucky
Home”—and an impressive invoca
tion.
Maj. Thomas H. Hays, of Kentucky
commission, iu an eloquent address
formally tendered the monument to
Governor Bradley. Following this
address Miss Christine Bradley, the
governor’s beautiful daughter, grace
fully unveiled the shaft.
Governor Bradley next formally ac
cepted the monument and transferred
it to the government. The governor’s
address iu part was as follows:
“Many monuments have been erect
ed upon battlefields of this republic,
but it has remained for Kentucky to
be the first of all the states, with ten
der aud motherly devotion, to erect a
blended monument to all her sons, a
monument that carries with it and
upon it complete reconciliation of all
contending passions.
“This shaft is dedicated,, not alone
to those who died on this and sur
rounding fields, but to the gallant sur
vivors who, when the frowniug clbuds
of war were dispelled by the bright
sunshine of peace, returned to their
homes to repair broken fortunes and
are today numbered among the best
and most distinguished sons of the
commonwealth.
“Kentucky has evinced no partiality
in this evidence of loving remem
brance. It carries with it no heart
burning, no jealousy, no invidious dis
tinction. It is not an emblem of honor
to the victor and reproach to the van
quished—but an equal tribute to the
worth of all.
“That the union should have been
preserved and slavery abolished all are
ready to concede. That the victors
won in honorable fight no one will
dispute. But while this is manifest,
it is equally true that those who were
defeated, were inspired by sincere
devotion to principles conscien
tiously believed to be just; that they
fought with valor, equaled alone by
those who opposed them, but never
surpassed,and their heroic bravery aud
suffering entitle them to the admira
tion of all mankind.
“Looking into the future, may not
tlte fond hope be indulged, that in the j
end our country may, in all things, be !
deliberate, just and wise. That our
flag may wave in triumph, feared by
tyrants, in every land and on every
sea. "That beneath its folds shall
gather the oppressed of every clime.
“God grant that ours shall be the
victory of enlightenment and liberty,
Justice over injustice, of humanity
over cruelty and oppression, until
empires shall have passed away and
the nations of the earth become one.”
The monument was accepted for the
government by General H. Y. Boyn
ton, president of the Chickamauga
Chattanooga National military * park
commission.
Following General Boynton’s ad
dress the band played the “Star Span
gled Banner” amid the waving of flags
and tbe cheering of the assembled
throng aud the exercises ended.
The monument, which is one of the
handsomest at Chickamauga, was
erected to the memory of Keutuekiaus
who wore both the blue and tbe gray
and both sides are equally * represented
in the "inscriptions.
THREE NEW TRUSTS
or Gieantic Proportions Just Born in New
Jersey.
A charter was granted by the secre
tary of state of New Jersey Wednes
day to the American Hide and Leather
company, with an authorized capital
of $70,000,000, $30,000,000 of which is
7 per cent cumulative preferred and
$40,000,000 common.
Articles of incorporation of the Re
public Iron aud Steel company, were
also filed with the secretary of state.
The company has an authorized capi
tal stock of'$55,000,000, $25,000,000
preferred with 7 per cent cumulative
dividends.
The third trust chartered was the
National Light and Power company of
Jersey City, with a capital of $15^000,
000 .
PEACE DELEGATES LEAVE.
American Representative* Off For G'tm-fer
ence at The Hague.
President Seth Low, of Columbia
university; Captain A. T. Mahan, U.
S. N., and Frederick W. Hollis, the
American delegates to the peace con
ference at The Hague, sailed from New
York Wednesday on the American liner
St. Louis.
Captain Mahan said the main point
the Ameiican delegation would en
deavor to get the representatives of
the other nations to agree to would be
to stop privateering and exempt mer
chant vessels not carrying contraband
of war from seizure.
IMMUNES MUSTEHED OUT.
Colonel Kay’s Regiment I* Finally Dis
charged at Macon, Ga.
Ray’s regiment of Immunes, the
Third United States Volunteers, was
mustered out at Macon last Tuesday.
This regiment spent months in hard
service on the south coast of Cuba,
garrisoning the territory captured by
Shatter in the fall of Santiago. The
men passed through the warmest
months in a tropical climate and saw
much hard service.
ALABAMA REPRESENTATIVES SUS
TAIN GOVERNOR JOHNSTON.
MEASURE IS SENT TO THE Sf NATE.
A Francltl.se Amendment, Similar to the
North Carolina Law Is Intrw
duced In the House.
The Alabama house of representa
tives, Thursday night passed the bill
providing for the repeal of the act
calling a constitutional convention to
be held, by a vote of 60 to 33. Forty
one, of those who voted for repeal
were democrats.
The bill proceeded one stop further,
Friday. Mr. Tunstall, in the house,
moved a reconsideration of the vote
by which the bill passed that body,
but on motion of Mr. Brandon his
motion was laid upon the table by
a vote of 50 to 28, The bill, there
fore, went to the senate and was re
ferred to the committee on constitu
tional revision. Four members of
this committee oppose the repeal and
three favor it.
The assembly is already directing
its attention to amendments to be
submitted to tbe people in the next
state election. A franchise amend
ment,. fashioned after the North Car
olina law, has been introduced into
bouse. The qualifications prescribed
in this bill for a voter are in addition
to those already imposed by the pres
ent constitution and are ns follows:
Section 3. Every person offering to
vote shall be at the time a legally reg
istered voter as herein prescribed and
in the manner hereinafter provided by
law, and the general assembly of Ala
bama shall enact general registration
laws to carry into’ effect the provisions
of this article.
Section 4. Every person presenting
himself for registration shall be able
to read and write any section of the
constitution in the English language,
and before he shall be entitled to vote
liave paid on or before tbe first day of
March in which he proposes to vote,
his poll taxes as prescribed by law for
the previous year. Poll taxes shall be
a lien only on assessed property, and
no process shall issue to enforce the
collection of same except against
assessed property.,
Section 5. No male person who was
on January T,. 1867, or at any time
prior thereto, entitled to vote under
the laws of any state in the United
States wherein he resided, and no
lineal descendant of such person shall
be disqualified by reason of liis failure
to possess the educational qualifications
provided in section 4 of this article;
provided he shall have registered in
accordance with the terms of this sec
tion prior to December 1, 1908. This
general assembly shall provide a per
mauent record of all persons who reg
jster under this section on or before
November 1, 1908, and all such per
softs shall be entitled to register and
vote at all elections by the people of
this state, unless disqualified for other
causes; provided, such persons shall
have paid their poll taxes as required
by law.
The law further requires all elections
by the people to be by ballot and all
elections by the legislature to be by
viva voce vote. All persons convicted
of crime and all persons who deny the
being of Almighty God are also de
barred from voting under the terms of
the proposed 5 act. amend
Various amendments to the
ment will be offered and from among
them all it is is believed a satisfactory
electoral qualification can be estab
lished.
HAH CAPITAL OF $22,000,000.
American' Railway Equipment Company
Ih Reing Organized.
The Chicago Chronicle says that
manufacturers of specialties used in
the manufacture of railway rolling
stock have" united, and will transfer
their plants to a new corporation,which
will bear the title of the American
Railway Equipment Company.
A charter will be secured in New
Jersey, and the company will be capi
talized to tbe amount of $22,000,000.
Of this amount $10,000,000 will bo
preferred stock and the remainder
common. Tbe president of the new
company will be a Chicago man, yet to
be chosen.
GEORGIANS TO CRUISE.
Naval Militia Will Have a Sixteen Day*
Experience Outing.
A Washington dispatoh says: The
Georgia naval militia will be the first
to make a cruise on the “Prairie,”"
which the government has fitted out
for a drill ship for the naval militia of
the coast states.
The program as arranged will take
the “Prairie” to Brunswick, when the
Georgia militia, under command of
Frank D. Aiken, will embark on her
for a ten days’ cruise. After she
lands the Georgia boys the “Prairie”
will take the North Carolina naval
militia for a drill cruise.
CARNEGIE STEEL COMPANY.
Articles of Incorporation Are Filed at
Trenton, New Jersey.
At Trenton, N. J., Thursday articles
of incorporation of the Carnegie Steel
company, with an authorized capital
of $2,000,000, were filed with the sec
retary of state.
The incorporation of this company
is said to be a step in the direction of
the movement now on foot for the
consolidation of all the big iron and
steel combinations already formed.
REBELS LEAVE SAN FERNANDO.
Kvaeuatlon 1V«« Forced By Advance of
Mur Arthur’* Division.
A Manila special says: Major Gen
eral MacArthur’fl division advanced to
San Fernando Friday and found that
the place had been evacuated by the
rebels who left only a small detach
ment to cover their retreat by train.
General MacArtliur occupied the burn
fng town without loss.
The rebels south of Manila attempt
ed to rush through Brigadier General
Ovenshine’s line Thursday night. The
attempt failed, bnt the rebels main
tained a fusilavfe of musketry tire on
the ffMirtli infantry regiment for sev
eral hours. Tike demonstration was
ineffectual beyond scaring the inhabi
tants of Malate.
The outposts of the Idaho and Cali
fornia regiments beyond Ban Pedro
Macati were also attacked during the
night.
Major General Lawton is still quar
tered at Balinng.
Detailed reports of the woik of Ma
jor General Lawton’s expedition show
that harder fighting took place during
the early part of the week than ac
counts indicated. In the attack upon
San Rafael the American forces were
met with a heavy fire from a large
number of rebels who 1 were concealed
in the jungle on all sides. It was on
ly the adoption of the tactics followed
in Indian fighting in the United ’
States, every man for himself, that
saved the division from great loss.
General Lawton,, as usual, was at the
head of his line with his staff. Scott’s
battery demolished a stone fronted
trench at short range.
The insurgent leaders-Gregorio and
Pio del Pilar, who had 1 800 men in
Balinag, retreated' when General Law
ton approached the town. Chief of
Scouts Young, with eleven men, en
tered Ralinag ahead of the army and
rang the church bells- to announce
that they bad possession of the city.
General Lawton, when attacking in
force outside of Balinag,. saw women
and children in the rebel trenches
and sent Captain Case ill.advance with
a white flag to warn the insurgents to
remove the non-oombaLants. When
within 500 yards of the trenches two
volleys were fired' at Captain Case’s
party.
Chief of Scouts Young,, whose bra
very at Balinag was most notable,
served as an Indian scout under Ma
jor General O. O.-Howard in his cam
paign in the northwest in 1876. The
work of Young’s scouts was a feature
of the expedition. On "Wednesday
twenty-three of them enoountered a
body of 300 Filipinos beyond Balinag
and drove them until of the 150 rounds
of ammunition which the scouts car
ried, they had only fifteen left. They
were about to retire when Lieutenant
Boyd with a troop of the Fourth cav
alry came up with them and chawed
the enemy into San Miguel.
There are 2,000 Spanish prisoners
in the hands of the Filipinos at San
Miguel. They are served with 5 cents’
worth of rice daily and are compelled
to work hard on the rebel defeuses.
Several hundred of the Filipino
wounded are at San Miguel.
The insurgents are sending their
women and children to the Biacnabatto
mountains.
A Bolo chief and 100 men were
captured at Balinag.
General Lawton has released many
of his prisoners.
STAHLMAN FILES SUIT.
Ig After Newspapers Which' “Roasted**
Him In Regard to War Claim*.
Mr. E. B. Stahlman, editor of tha
Nashville Banner, and the attorney
who collected the celebrated Metho
dist war claim, has brought suit for
$50,000 for libel against Rev. W. B.
Palmer, D. D., editor of The St. Loai9
Christian Advocate.
Dr. Palmer has written several caus
tic editorials on Mr. Stahlman and oth
ers connected with him in the collec
tion of the claim.
Mr. Stahlman has employed some
of the best legal talent in the state
and will make a vigorous fight.
GENERAL LUNA WOUNDED.
Manila Iftlspaloh Say* the Filipino ICebel
Leader Was Shot.
A Manila special to the New York
Journal says General Luna was
wounded in the fighting near San
Tomas last Thursday. The dispatch
also stated that the monitor was shell
ing Paranque, south of Manila.
TO INCREASE WAGES.
Bmptaye* of Stove Manufactories Are
Agreeably Surprised.
The stove manufacturers of Chatta
three in number, and of the
Pittsburg, Tennessee, Fort
and Bridgeport, Alabama, and
American Pipe Foundry Co., of
notified their employees]
night when they were paid*
that beginning Monday, wages in
the plants operated by these concerns,
would be increased 10 per cent.
These plants employ about 800 men.
increase came as a surprise to the
who had made no demand re
for increased wages.
COLLEGE OF BISHOPS.
in Nashville, Tennessee, and Plans
Episcopal Visitations.
The college of Bishops of the Meth
Episcopal church, south, met in
Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday and
adopted the plan of Episcopal visita
tion. The Tennessee conference will
meet at Columbia October 18th, and
Bishop Galloway will preside. The
conference will meet at
November 15th, Bishop
presiding.