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BlIL / RF’S LETTER.
Bartow Man Agrees With Sher
man That “War Is H-l ”
OUR RACKET WITH SPAIN A DISGRACE
Brings Micery and Ruin to Thousands
of American Homes—Arp Re
gales Visitor With His Own
Wartime Experiences.
Not counting the great civil war of
forty years ago, this last year of 1901
was the most bloody and disastrous
of any in my recollection. Over 40,
000 of our soldiers died in the Philip
pines—most of them in hospital. That’s
of little consequence, of course, to the
government, but it brought myriads
of sighs and tears to mothers and
wives and children. The Spanish war,
and what has grown out of it, has eter
nally disgraced the annals of the na
tion’s history. And it keeps on and
will keep on, no doubt, bringing mis
ery and ruin in its train. Some preach
ers say it Ik the work of the I.ord. l
don’t believ- it. “Offenses must need3
come, but woo unto them by whom
they come.” Besides all this, the year
was full of disasters on land and sea.
Explosions in mines, railroad wrecks,
boilers bursting, fire, floods, murders,
suicides, husbands, killing wives and
children, lovers killing sweethearts,
and every other devilish thing. Every
day’s dispatches record something new
and horrible, and wo are getting so
accustomed to it that it hardly dis
turbs or surprises us. We, too, are
getting hardened to blood and bloody
deeds. This unconcern always follows
In the wake of war. After the battle
of Malvern hill I remember hearing
one soldier bet another that he, could
walk across the ridge and step on a
dead man at every step. He tried it
for a hundred yards and won. Sol
diers who had been kind and gentle
at home became hardened to the sight
of blood and death. After the war was
over many a good mother watched and
waited for her boy to come home, but
lie never came, and she died still won
dering how he was killed and where
he was buried. But few of his com
rades were left, and they were widely
scattered. The records were not kept
or were lost in the war. Out of 10,
000 buried at Vicksburg less than 2,
000 have names upon their graves; so
It is at Salisbury and Fredericksburg
and all the others. Of the federals
and confederates 90 per cent of all the
dead are unknown and sleep in un
marked and unrecorded graves. And
this is war and as General Sherman
said, “War is hell.” There is enough
unwritten grief to fill an ocean, and
many a broken-hearted mother let con
cealment like a worm in the bud feed
bn her pallid cheek and turn her hair
gray before its time. And yet we keep
on fighting and calling for more troops
—not for defense or liberty, but for
conquest. It is a war of aggression
upon a people who never did us harm
and beg to be let alone. The eight mil
lion negroes here at home give us
great concern, but the government
wants ten million more to add to the
perplexity of the problem. Oh! the
shame of it—the pity of it. It is the
same old unchristian story. “Man’s
inhumanity to naan makes countless
thousands mourn.” But I didn’t start
to write an elegy on the year that nas
gone. It is pleasanter to wish all a
happy new year and hope for a better
one. A superstitious friend says that
it will be better because 1902 is divisi
ble, but 1901 was not. The times
seem prosperous and new industries
are continually being planted all over
the south. War always brings | Uvity
in its train. More iron and steel for
ships and men of war. more cannon
and guns for the army, more clothing
and food for the soldiers. But I have
more regard for the humble, contented
people than for ail the pomp and cir
cumstance of war. I have more re-
gard for an uneducated honest man
than for an educated rich one, who
made his money by questionable
schemes. My good old friend John
Jenkins is dead. He hauled woou for
me many years and gave an honest
cord. On his last bed he sent for his
brother Jack, and whispered, “Jack,
I’m gwine to die, they say, and I’m
willin’ to go; but 1 owe Bob Pertiller
a dollar and a half, and it bothers me
mightily.” “Never mind. John,” said
Jack, “I’ll pay Bob that money when I
go to town for the coffin. Now, just
turn over and die as easy as you can.”
And he did. He was a Hard Shelled
Baptist.
The other night we had a good lady
visitor from the north, and when she
said something about this horrid old
Philippine war, the conversation drift
ed to the hardships and sufferings
caused by our civil war, and, just to
amuse and entertain her, my wife and
I related how we got back to Rome
with our half dozen little children. We
an had to sleep on the floor, for we
had no furniture, and we had no flour
or coffee or sugar, and there was none
was kept hidden and couldn’t be
bought with confederate money; and
how our corn meal was nearly all gone,
and there wasn’t but one cow in the.
county, and she was kept hid in a
canebrake, and how 1 borrowed a
horse and rode 12 miles and bought
her for $3,000 in confederate niouey
and drove her home in the night and
kept her hid in the barn, and she gave
juEt enough milk to keep our baby
from perishing; and how I bought ten
bushels of corn away down the river
at $160 a bushel and got good old Row
land Bryant, to keep it hid for me at
his home six miles from town, and
once a week he took a bushel to mill
and had it ground and brought to town
hid under the seat of his buggy; and
how the scouts and outlaws robbed
everybody who had anything, and
these outlaws were a company of cav
airy made up of thieves and deserters
from our own army; and how I had
a bale of factory shirting hid out in
the country for two years ,and as soon
as we dared it was brought home and
my wife could exchange a lew yards
at a time for potatoes and cilkcens;
and how about these times the confed
erate detectives arrested a quarter
master In Selma for big stealing and
put him in jail, and hv was desperately
scared and wanted to get out and run
away, and there wasn’t a lawyer In
Selma, for General Morgan and Gen
eral Pettus and Dawson and all the
rest were in the army, and a friend of
mine advised him to send for me, and
he did, and I went down there in an
old buggy, for there was no railroad
running then and 1 interviewed him in
jail and agreed to get him for ?10,UUU,
and it was deposited with my friends,
and I did get him out on a habeas cor
pus and a straw bond, and he ran away
and is running yet, I reckon; and how
a little steamboat came up from Mo
bile with some blockade goods, and I
bought two pounds of opium for $5,000
and fifty pair of cotton cards on the
leaf without backs or handles for $100
a pair, and that took the rest of the
money, and the captain gave me two
pounds of coffee and as much sugar,
and I put the opium in one side of a
little old rusty valise and the cards in
the other side and returned home and
formed a partnership with Bob Har
grove, who had a half box of cheap to
bacco, and we opened a store and took
in a third partner, which was my wife,
who sent down two bolts of shirting,
and we went to trading for something
to live on. We assessed the cards at
$200 a pair and the opium at $10 in
gold for an ounce and the shirting at
$2 a yard. It was a kind of department
store. Bob clerked on one side and I
on the other. We didn’t take confed
erate money for anything, for it got
worse every day, but we exchanged
things—and we sold the opium to the
few who needed it for gold they had
hid away. Our store was a sensation,
for it was the only one in town that
had a stock of goods. All the others
were empty. In April, 1865, a company
cf blueeoats came down in the night
and next morning we were all surpris
ed to see them. Mr. Lincoln was kill
ed two days before. So it was rumor
ed, but we didn’t believe it. Dr. King
was a great big red-headed man and
said what he pleased, so he rode up to
the company and said: “Cappen, is
there any truth in the report that ole
Abe Lincoln is dead?” The captain
replied roughly: “Yes, sir, he’s dead
and buried.” “Well, I thought if he
was dead it was likely that they would
bury him,” said King, and he put spurs
to his horse and galloped down tho
street to tell us the news. The cap
tain said afterwards he came very near
ordering the men to shoot him.
And so we talked over the old war
times, and the good lady and our other
guests listened and laughed and won
dered until bed time.-—Bill Arp, in At
lanta Constitution.
JOEL SMITH REPLIES.
He Makes Frank Statement in Answer
to Arp’s Letter of Last Week.
Editor Constitution: In The Con
stitution of a week ago, in the head
lines of Bill Arp’s letter, you state:
“But the same Joel advertises that he
is Arp’s boy.” This statement is with
out foundation. I have never adver
tised that I was Arp’s son, but, on the
contrary, have invariably stated that
I was not related to him, when inquiry
was made.
Bill Arp, in his last week’s letter in
your paper, does me a great injustice.
1 feel sure, had he known me, or had
definite information as to my business,
lie would not have written as he did.
The work I have been engaged in is
not “endless chain humbug.’ 1 It is
an
true, I have had a number of agents
for the past, few years who have solic
ited subscriptions for my paper, job
printing, advertising, etc., but I have
kept faith with them. My business
was perfectly honorable and legiti
mate. as every one who has looked
into it has found.
That you may know who I am, 1 will
give you such information as will af
ford you ample opportunity to find out.
I was born and raised on a farm in
Echols county, Georgia, where my pa
rents still reside. My father, J. D.
Smith, has represented that county in
the Georgia legislature, and also the
senatorial district of which Echols
forms a part. I and my family are
well known to the best people of Ech-
ols and Lowndes counties.
Leaving the farm in 1887, I attended
the University of Georgia in Athens
for three years. Leaving school in
1890, I moved to Monticello, Fla.,
where I have since continuously re
sided and been in the newspaper busi
ness. Should you desire to know my
standing there, I invite you to inquire
of auv citizen of Monticello, Fla.
During my stay in Monticello. by
hard and earnest efforts, I have built
up a fairly good business with my pa
per—The Monticello Weekly Constitu
tion—which, by the way. was estab
lished in 1S74 under that name by Col
onel Fildes. By diligent effort I had
increased its circulation to the largest
cf any paper in Floiida—this was done
bv seven years’ hard work. Iu October,
last year, I purchased and carried to
Monticello the best newspaper press,
with the possible exception of one, in
Florida, together with other costly ma
chinery.
However, during the last few months
I have encountered serious opposition
in my business from papers in other
sections whose publishers did not know
me. This opposition has been contin
uous and persistent, and to maintain
my business I have been compelled to
devote more time and energy to it
than my health would permit. My
business having deen damaged and my
health being run down, I am unable to
give it the attention necessary for its
successful continuation. But I shall
protect those who have wored for me,
and to do this I shall voluntarily sacri
fl Ce a !l that I have saved by nearly
twelve years’ hard struggle, provided
j t takes all. Unfriendly criticism,
amounting in some instances to false
hoodi has made this sacrifice on my
part necessary. This criticism inva
riab i y comes from those who do not
know me atl(1 who did not endeavor to
find me out. JOEL E. SMITH.
The Constitution, Monticello, Fla.
SOVEREIGNTY GIVEN UNCLE SAJI.
Nicaragua Awards United States Con
trol of a Large Area.
A Washington special cays: Some
of tho main features of the protocol
between the United States and Nica
ragua referred to in President Zelaya’s
message to his congress have been
made known in recent press dispatches
from Managua. But there are many
other important features which have
not yet been disclosed, one of these
being the complete American jurisdic
tion and the establishment of Ameri
can courts, civil and criminal, through
out a zone six miles wide and extend
ing from ocean to ocean and including
the proposed termini, Greytown, on
the Atlantic, and Brito, on the Pacific.
The entire policing of this large tract
also is placed in the hands of the
United States, so that it has the pow
er to preserve order and after that to
issue judicial process extending
throughout this zone.
JEALOUS OF AMERICA.
London Paper Suggests an Alliance to
Check Our Progress.
The Saturday Review (London) will
print a remarkable editorial in which
it strongly advises Great Britain to
form a working alliance with Germany
in order to check the “continued and
apparently inevitable advance of the
United States into South America.”
According to The Review, “It is the
wisest policy for this country to en
courage the advance of Germany in
the new world, as the most useful
counterpoise to the overwhelming pre
dominance of the United States wh<
is the only other possible outcome of
the existing political conditions.”
ONLY NOTE IS SENT.
Kaiser’s Ultimatum to Castro Has Net
Yet Materialized.
It has been unofficially announced in
Berlin that the German charge d’af
faires at Caracas, Herr Von Pilgrom
Baltazzi, has handed President Castro
a note in which the German claims
against Venezuela are clearly defined,
and in which a limit of time is- set for
President Castro’s answer thereto.
At the same time this unofficial an
nouncement carefully points out that
the handing of the note in question to
the Venezuelan president cannot be
considered an ultimatum from Ger
many since the note does not contain
any reference to Germany’s future ac
tion with regard to Venezuela.
SUCCESSOR TO GAGE 1
Governor Franc, of Massachusetts, Is
Offered Pori folio.
While no official confirmation can be
obtained at the white house, it is be
lieved that President Roosevelt has
offered the 'treasury portfolio to Gov
ernor Crane, of Massachusetts, and the
latter has the tender under advise
ment.
One of the difficulties in the way of
acceptance is understood to be his
connection with the paper company
at Dalton, Mass., which furnishes the
special and secret paper for govern
ment notes. Should Governor Crane
accept the treasury portfolio he will
dispose of his interest in the paper
company.
COLLECTOR NUNN RESIGNS.
Tennesseean Decapitated For Violation
of tho Civil Service Law.
David A. Nunn, whose resignation as
collector of internal revenue of tho
fifth Tennessee district was called for
by the president a few days ago, hand
ed his resignation to the president in
person Thursday.
Mr .Nunn was appointed collector
at the beginning of the McKinley ad
ministration. Soon after he was in
stalled the removal of some democrat
ic employees led to charges cf viola
tion of the civil service law.
Rig Increase of Capital Stock.
Stockholders in Swift – Co., Chicago
packers, have decided to increase the
capital of the corporation from $20.
000.000 to $25,000,000, as recommend
ed by the board of directors.
Ron s Ambush Rod ( oats.
The Beers ambushed a party of the
Scots Grays Saturday near Bronkhorst
Spruit (about forty miles east of Pre
toria). The British casualties were
six men killed and thirteen wounded.
Georgia/.CuHings
Brief Cat Interesting Summary
of Happenings in the Stale.
Waycros3 Is Oil-Struck.
Waycrcss begins the new year with
an oil sensation. For some time there
has been talk’ cf the possibility of a j !
gusher spouting forth there, Not un
til the last day or two, however, has
the matter taken much shape.
*
Newnan Is Offered Library.
Much interest has been aroused in
Newnan over a conditional offer of
$10,000 from Andrew Carnegie for a
library for that place. The only con
dition imposed by Mr. Carnegie is that
the city shall do its part toward the
founding and maintenance of the insti
tution.
Cscieioti Will Settle Question.
If Judge W. T. Newman, at Atlanta,
decides that the state of Georgia has
the power to collect taxc-s on $l,a00,
000 worth of Georgia railroad stock |
owned b.- the Louisville and Nashville j
railroad, over $300,000 will be paid
into the state treasury.
To Succeed Judge Failigasit.
Hen. Pope Barrow of Savannah, will
succeed the late judge Robert Balii
gant as judge cf the eastern judicial
circuit.
This appointment, it is understood,
was determined upon by Governor
Candler last Saturday, and the order
will be drawn and Mr. Barrow’s com
mission issued at once.
The appointment will be given Mr.
Barrow by Governor Candler, in spite
of the fact that he was not an appli
cant for the position.
Enormous Car.e Crop.
Captain T. J. James, of Adrian, one
of the largest planters and lumber
manufacturers of middle Georgia, was
among those visited by Dr. \7. H. Wi
ley, of Washington, on his recent trip
through Georgia in the interest of the
syrup industry.
Captain James stated a day or two
ago that he had finished making his
syrup. From the 100 acres planted
he said he had secured not only 12,000
gallons of syrup, but also enough seed
cane to plant 150 acres next year. He
has sold none of his syrup yet, but
will hold it for the spring market.
The State’s Insurance.
The state will insure its property
this year to the amount of $810,036,
whereas the amount three years ago
was $786,0G6. The amount of the pre
miums paid three years ago was $16,-
164.98. This was two years’ premiums,
for which the state, by paying in ad
vance, secured the insurance for three
years.
This year the state will pay $24,-
773.62 in premiums on the amount of
insurance to be taken. By paying this
amount in advance the state secures
its insurance for five years.
With $100,000 Capital.
Secretary of State Phil Cook a few
days ago received an application for a
charter from the Lewis Banking Com
pany, of Montezuma, with a capital of
$100,000. The amount of the capital
stock is the largest stated in a char
ter since Secretary of State Cook has
been in office.
The president of the bank is Con
gressman E. B. Lewis, of the third
congressional district. Generally the
charters state the capitalization at
$50,000 and sometimes $75,000, but
most of the time only $.25,000 is asked
for.
The L–wis Banking Company is re
garded as a very strong financial in
stitution and does a tremendous
amount of business.
Cost of Last Legislature.
Assistant Treasurer C. T. Furlcw
has just finished figuring out th.e cost
of the last session of the legislature,
and the total is $70,044.30. Of course
by far the greater part or this is for
per diems and salaries of the members
and employees of the house and sen
j ate. The per diems of members and
j j the employees salaries of of clerks, both porters houses and amount cth
er
I to about $58,000, while the balance,
$12,644, was paid out for mileage of
members for trips* 1 of special commit
tees.
The cost of the session just closed
was greater by several hundred dol
iars than the cost of any session since
the fifty-day limit went into effect
This is probably accounted for by the
fact that there was more committee
work than usual, and the general ex
penses were cne or two hundred dol
lars more than usual.
Submitted to Arbitration.
The couunty board of education and
the family of the late Colonel W. S.
Ramsay, county school commissioner
of Laurens county, have agreed upon
arbitrators to settle any differences
which may be found by the books be
tween Colonel Ramsay and the board
of education.
The board of education claims that
the books show a shortage, and some
months ago suit on the bond of the
late commissioner was commenced in
the city court of Atlanta. The mem
hers of the family of Colonel Ramsay
deny that there is any shortage. This
view is concurred in by James M.
Finn, cashier of the Dublin Banking
Company, who handled the money for
'
the commissioner.
The amount of the alleged shortage,
$2,000, has been pieced in the Dublin
Banking Company by the Ramsay es
tate subject to the draft cf the arbi
trators. The judgment of the arbitra
tors is to be Anal.
Decision Relieves Embarrassment.
The Georgia supreme court Satur
day decided that the Howell resolution
passed at the last session of t.ho gen
eral assembly directing that the inter
est on the bonded debt for 1902,
amounting to $325,800, be paid out of
the public property fund was consti
tutional and legal.
This decision sustains the order of
mandamus granted by Judge John S.
Candler and directs State Treasurer R.
E. Park to transfer the amount of the
public property fund stated to inter
est account and to pay the interest
with it.
This decision of the supreme court
will relieve the embarrassed condition
of the state treasury and will enable
the state to meet practically all of
obligations promptly when they fall
due this year. While the amount is
not sufficient to wipe out the deficit
d enable the state treasurer to pay
aU appropriaticns promptly> it win g0
so far toward it that any little differ
ence will scarcely be noticed. In the
event it should bejieeded the governor
still has authority to borrow $200,000
to tide over any temporary deficiency,
bat it is not. thought now the neces
e = ty w ;]j a ,,j ge j- or mak i n g u Be 0 f this
au tl i0 rity.
Besides wiping out the present de
ficit of $73,000, the use of this public
property fund to pay the inters', and
the turning cf the interest money col
lected by taxation into the general
funds in the treasury will enable the
state to pay the pensions of the indi
gent widows, amounting to $78,000, the
pensions of additional indigent veter
ans whose applications were approved
during the latter part of last year and
to pay whom it will require $62,500,
and the $20,000 for the support of the
state troops. In addition to this, it
fixes things so that there will be no
doubt about the school teachers get
ting their money on time, since in the
event of any shortage, other arrange
ments can be made to pay them
promptly,
The majority opinion of the court
was written by Justice William A.
Little, and with him in these views
were Chief Justice Simmons, Justice
L ew is and Justice Lumpkin, The mi
nority, or dissenting opinion, was
written by Justice Cobb, who wrote the
opinion cf the court in the other case,
relating to the public property fund.
With Justice Cobb, Justice Fish signed
the minority decision.
The majority is a long document of
about 7,500 words, while the dissenting
opinion is even longer. These two
documents go into every detail of the
case.
Justice Little’s opinion states there
is only one question involved in the
case, and that is whether the interest
on the bonded debt is a part cf it. The
court holds that this interest is a part
of the bended debt, and therefore the
public property fund can- be r^ed to
pay that interest under, the section of
the constitution which provides that
the public property fund shall be used
only for the purpose of paying the
bonded debt of the state.
Justices Cobb and Fish, in their dis
senting opinion, hold that the words of
the constitution should be taken in
their popular sense, and they consider
the popular construction is that the
interest on the bonded debt is. not part
of it.
COL. E. W. AYRES DEAD.
Was One of Hie Company That Offici
ated at John Brown’s Hanging.
Col. E. W, Ayres, at one time Wash
ington correspondent or the Kansas
City Times, dropped dead in the Citi
zens’ National bank at Washington
Friday.
j Colonel Ayres was born in Lynch
burg, Va., iu 1837, and served with
; distinction in the Confederate army,
| He belonged to the famous Richmond
Blues and was a member of the com
| pany John that Brown. officiated at the hanging of
CONVICTS IN COURT.
Ringleaders of Leavenworth Mutiny
Being Tried For Murder.
The most novel court which ever sat
* n Kansas convened in the library of
the United States penitentiary at Leav
Cnworth, Thursday, for the arraign
ment of the ring leaders of the mutiny
of November 7, who are implicated in
the killing of Guard Waldrupe. Every
person in the court, with one excep
tion, was either a United States offi
cial or a prisoner wearing the stripes.
The seventeen mutineers were
brought in, each wearing the ball and
chain.
FROM POVERTY TO AFFLUENCE.
Montgomery, Ala., Widow Is left a
Fortune In Germany.
Mrs. Lonnie Hanson, a widow living
In Montgomery*, who has long been in
the direst poverty, was notified Wed
nesday through ex-Governor Johnston
that a large fortime has been left to
her in Germany. The message was ta
ken to her by the chief of police. He
found her in actual want. Blanks .with
directions for forwarding the necessary
proofs of identification, have been re
ceived and Mrs. Hanson will get her
money in a short time.
I DEATH TAKES
THREE!,
IN FEARFUL WRECK
Freight Trains on South
ern Road Go Together.
| JUMBLED MASS TAKES FIRE
I
Two of the Victims Cremated
While Thirty Demolished Cars
Go Up In Smoke.
Three men were burned to death,
and thirty freight cars were destroyed
by fire as the result of a wreck cn the
j Southern at 11 o’clock "Saturday night
j near Rex, Ga., fourteen miles from At
j lanta. The three men who died in
the flames are: Engineer C. C. Wal
, lace, cf Atlanta; Flagman 2. H. Har
ris cf Jacks, Ga.; Fireman Prater,
The Injured are: Engineer Leo
J Whatley and Fireman Hicks, both cf Cj
Atlanta.
Freight traiu second Lo. 51, in
j j charge of Wallace, Conductor J. A. Wood and
Engineer was bound north
i and passed McDonough at high speed
\ when they should have waited there
for the freight coming south to pass
Conductor Wood states that no sig
nal lor a siding (the red board) was
hung out at McDonough. The opera
tor asserts that he gave Wallace the
red board and it was disregarded.
Freight first No. 54 going south in
charge of Conductor Strickland and
Engineer Whatley, went into the north
bound freight head-on, a mile and a
half from Rex. Both engines were
derailed with a number of cars on
both trains. Both freights had just
passed a trestle and the smash-up.
which occurred on a sharp curve, took
place between the two trestles. •
Wreck a Mass of Fiames.
The cars cf the two trains, which
numbered thirty in all, took fire and
were soon a sea of flames. The train
men on the scene, who escaped injury,
found it impossible to get water to
their aid.
The fire burned all day Sunday and
a fearful mass of ruins is all that is
left of the two trains. The body oi
Fireman Prater, cut and burned be
yond recognition, was taken out of the
wreck Sunday morning and sent to At
lanta. The bodies of El gin , r ('.
Wallace, of Atlanta, and Flagman Z.
H. Harris, of Jacks, Ca., had not been
located up to an oa-iy hour Monday
morning The met: of the wrecking
crews do not believe the two bodies
will ever be found. The fiames swept
through the cars piled up in a mass of
ruins like a scourge, leaving nothing
that fire could destroy. If any sign of
the two missing men is found it will
be only their charred bones. This is
the belief of the railroad men.
NEELY ARRAINGER IX COURT.
Havana Court Begins Work In Cuban
Postal Fraud Cases.
The trials of the cases arising from
the Cuban postoifice embezzlements
opened Saturday in the audiencia
court at Havana before five judges.
The court room is located ever the
prison in which Neely has been can
fined. One hundred and two witnesses
had been called to testify, and of these
about eighty responded.
Of the defendants Neely, Rathbone
and Reeves were seated on one side
of the room, and Moya and Mascara,
the Cuban stamp clerks, on the other.
Neely showed no signs of his
ment. He has grown stouter, and was
in good spirits.
Upon the opening of the court Rath
bone was informed by the judges that
his counsel had withdrawn. The court
asked the other counsel for the de
fense if they would assume charge o;
Rathbone’s case, and being answered
in the negative, appointed Lawyer Pas
cua, a court employee, and gave Rath
bone one hour in which to consult
with his new counsel. pkuik
The court then asked Neely to
and the latter responded that he bad
never heard the accusations again.-.
him, but after consulting with his
counsel, he entered a plea cf not guilt."
Rathbone, Moya and Mascara also
pleaded not guilty. *
HANNA NOT DOWNED
His Crowd Will Control Lower Branch
of Ohio Legislature. at CV >L
In the republican caucuses tne
land, Ohio, Saturday evening for
general assent t v j.”
organization of the of
the Hanna men secured control ■■
house and the Foraker men of the sen
ate. Some of the nominations f°*
latter were made without opposiho^ finish
but there- was “a fight to a
those house, especially foi n
of tho conipi J
speakership. There was no
mise in either caucus.
Pi KIN IN LAY ATTIRE
Court’s Re-Entrance In Chinese Capi*
tal Will He Gorgeous- the
The Chinese capital, Pekin, on
return, presents 2“ 1
eve of the court’s
animated and gaudy scene never
Ai ••
fore witnessed in its history, iiave
palaces, pagodas and temple® g
been repaired and painted to
glittering spectacle. The rooi o. “
the cit.- ^
buildings, viewed from and
are patches of shining yellov.
brick.