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.HE . J e ■M w . ^ ' RRESPONDENT.
IX.
NEW G. A. R. HEAD
Major Rassieur Elected Comman-
der-In-Chief By Veterans.
ST. LOUIS MAN SUCCEEDS GEN. SHAW
Closing Day of Grand Encampment at
Chicago—Denver Selected as the
Next Place of Meeting.
With the selection of officers and
the choice of Denver for the national
encampment of 1901, the thirty-fourth
annual encampment of the Grand Army
of the Republic, practically came to a
close at Chicago lhursday.
te^appointed to cSdeV^hVan^uai
recommendation of an effort to aecnre
S’ltehTMS. I ay - * ‘ y 7
in ;
r , ,
e.epor was a op e ant e c e -
egates took up the vexed question of
penMons. The report was adopted
witkou amendment and practically
without debate. Its main feature was
,he petition to congress to pass a bill
providing for a court of appeals to act
uumedia ely on the thousands of pen-
sion applications now pending, which
court of appeals shall have final juris-
diction.
Later in the day pension ma ters
were again brought before the dele-
gates by majority and minority re-
ports of the committee on resolutions
on the subject of service pensions,
The majority report, which was adopt-
ed after a somewhat lengthy discus-
jion recommouded that the whole mnt-
ter be referred to the committee on
pensions, thus practically burying it
untfl the next annual encampment,
last Commander Hurst, of Ohio, rec-
ommended the passage by the encamp-
ment of a resolution favoring service
peusioas based on length of service.
the election of officers was taken ™ up
and ini an eloquent speechi Major IV ll-
;iam \\arner, of Kansas City, placed
Major Leo Rassieur of St. Louis, in
nomination for the position of com-
mander in chief.
Judge Advocate General Torrence
made a brief seconding speech. There
wero no other nominations and a mo-
tion to suspend the rules and declare
Major Rassieur elected by acclamation
was carried amid much applause.
The new commander in chief was
escorted to the platform amid hearty
cheers from his comrades and returned
his thanks for the honor, which he ac-
ce P*ed.
The other officers were also elected
by acclamation as follows:
Senior Vice Commander—E. C.
Millikeii, Portland, Me.
Junior Vice Commander—Frank
Seaman, Knoxville, Tenu,
Delta, Surgeon General—John A. Wilkins,
O.
Chaplain in Chief—Rev. A. Drahms,
San Quentiu, Cal.
BUBONIC IN SCOTLAND.
Dread Scourge Seems to Have a
Good Hold In Unfortunate
scotch Hetropohs.
Eleven persons are now suffering
?•“ aeotkaJ, P-*»e >» have
«d five other, «ymp.
toms of the plague. The post mortem
examination of the body of a person
who died from plague August 27th es-
tablishes tbedisease of bubonic plague.
xhis has been officially announced by
^r. Chalmers, the chief medical officer,
eud is supported by Prof. Muir and
Dr. Brownlie. The foreign consuls
are in communication with the medi-
cal authorities, and all Glasgow ships
be quarantined.
Americ&u Coal In Demand.
Mail Accordigg to The London Daily
an order was placed at New Cas-
tie Thursday for 70,000 tons of Ameri* !
i an coal for the Mediterranean.
- storm Was Fearfully Fatal.
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KNOXVILLE. GA.. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 7. 1900.
DATES MUST APPEAR
Confusing Messages Eeceived
Fram China Cause Disgust.
STATE DEPARTMENT TIRES OF THEM
Orders are Issued That the Practice of
Omitting Date Lines Must Be Stop*
ped Henceforth.
A dispatch from Minister Conger
Monday Monday. 61 ^ It w^chtfly was chiefly Inte"^ interesting
from being the first word from him
since his dispatch of about August
27th, referring to the proposed parade
il Pekfn. ^Likf tS! ^ispltch^this
.fated that it contained nothing mate-
[ a ? k of tr??A date ed to P a deleimiuation fr**?--.. ** to
take energetic . , steps by which all
patches coming to the state depart-
ment from China will have the date
clearly stated •
Two other dispatches received Mon-
day from China referred to the state
of health of the troops, which gener-
ally is satisfactory. It cannot be
learned that there has been any mark-
ed advancement of the negotiations
between the powers touching the with-
dr ®T a * of J be * nt «5 n at*onal forces from
Pekin. The plain indication is that
the powers are acting upon the hint
conveyed in the last note of the state
department and are bringing all their
influence to bear upon Russia to in-
duce her to change her mind as to
withdrawing her troops. WWhington
For .« re.»on the
authorities appear to feel a growing
confidence that this effort will be sue-
cessful. It is noted as a fact of great
*¥*. *i" "rt' “
being advanced to have Prince Ching
return to Pekin as the acting head of
the Chinese government. The sugges-
tion is made that the progress of this
r aV6 ° f r r; ganiz4ti0U ru' [e
ternational t troops are still in Pekin,
promising, as it does, to speedily pro-
vide an actual de facto Chinese gov-
eminent which the nations may treat
without further doubt as to its
strength, may solve the present prob-
lem and put the Chinese question in a
fair way to final and satisfact?ry set-
tlement.
Much may depend upon tho atti-
tude of Russia in this matter, and the
manner in w hich she treats this appeal
from the Chinese notables’may prove
to be a test of the sincerity of her ex-
pressed desire to deal with the Chi-
nese government as soon as possible.
Dr. Hill, the first assistant secreta-
ry of state, returned to Washington
Monday and assumed the duties of act-
ing head of the state department, re-
Iieving Mr. Adee, who has performed
these duties during the perplexing
diplomatic exchanges of recent date,
Soon after arriving, he went to the
white house and spent a half hour
with the president, going over the
present status of the Chinese negotia-
tions.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
\» any x in 1 Katnhiuiin 1 iinrin?
*
the Fwit ivsek
Among tho more important of the
wTek industries lie renorted durinc the
5,, a •'brick $300 000 brewery at
, t ^ ‘is*?. r works in Ken-
Georgia .a,
eoal »■» in| J
®® ed ^Metric Carolina and
J power plant
,a We8 ‘ A g ’ i fonnlrvandma- ° ““
chine shops m v No h n ,
*: pain Georeia* a sixty-
f on lce fac ! or J at ,^, * .‘ ’
“ewee, ”{^“mauT^^^AlebJma" T
e88ee - a mat tr eS s and
spring bed factory in Mississippi; pulp
and paper mills in North Carolina and
West Vireiuia- a pearl button factory j
j Middle Tennessee a peanut factory
4n v _th Carolina- Quarries in Arkan-
_‘ nd N - rth Carolina; a stave factory
in Florida telephone systems in Ken-
tuckv Virefnia South Carolina Texas and West
a table factory in North Caro-
g a .
SAW UNIONS MARCH
Bryan and Roosevelt at Labor
Day Celebration In Chicago.
B0TB APPEALED TO WORKING MEN
Democratic Nominee Addresses Great
Throng In the Afternoon Follow¬
ing tlie Kepnbliean Candidate.
“ aad Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
1 7 ' Horn-after Wr lnW
.
“““° ito^ hot^on ^the
f Aud ium ’
.
for present and the^pub!
E. Mason and a dozen other
meQ ag they marched b the hoteI
When the last man of the lone line
£ ? ers had swung ^ around 'boulevard Michi-
Sonll Rryan^^ Jackson
^nHnsf^the and Co wf onel RooseveU S
^ hotel unch^n ere soon
e ’j they J sat repreleutatives down to a gheTi
, } * trSce’’^ lt was a
J ® luncheon decked for the
nio n m e n had DaythUe that in
™ of Lab™ J
^ be no politics
tytj] e para( j e wa8 mov j n{ , a host
^e^the . 1 p ’ t ‘uJed in Electric nark wer^
speeches of the dav
dehvered follows The proKramme P 8 meof.peeches of speeches
waS !S
__ Qovprnor Roofle .
I^urD^ooT.t'crudid.teforg^. velt Charles A Towne Samuel Al-
ernor 0 ( Illinois; Richard Yates the
can C C ubern.torkl TLT,,d nominee-
Milwaukee;' M*nvor Harriaoa of Chi-
’ R m * Patterson and P ' „i' T O’-
”
D ’ t k : the order b veu *
. , r _Colonel Brvan
p R u in the
afternoon and Colonel Bryan at night,
. .. . . Cumberland that' Md
. ^ , camoaien 1 8 iu state
^ ue ** da 7 _ ‘
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HESTER’S " COTTON FIGURES. *
-.
n e p„t« the Tot»,i crop of 1899-iauo at
9 , 4 . 10,4 ir> r.ni< »,
Secretary Hester’s New Orleans cot-
ton exchange annual report was issued
j u full Monday. He puts the cotton
crop of 1899 1000 at 9,436,416 hales, a
decrease of 1,838,424 under 1898-99.
Of this, he says that Texaft, including
Indian Territory, shows a falling off
of 961,000, the group of other gulf
states, consisting of Louisiana, Arkau-
sas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Oklahoma,
Utah and Kansas, 100,000, and the
Atlantic states, consisting of Alabama,
Georgia, Florida, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Kentucky and Vir-
ginia, 475,000.
He places the average commercial
value of the crop at 38.55 dollars per
bale against 25.08 dollars last year,
28.62 dollars year before last and
36.76 dollars in 1896-97, and the total
value of the crop $363,785,000 against
3282,773,000 last year and $322,553,000
tbe y ear bef° re -
He calls attention to the fact that
the money value of the crop just
marketed is $81,012,000 over the 1898-
99 crop, which was 1,838,000 bales.
He puts the total spindles iu the south
1,418,197 uew,m>t complete. The
net gain in the number of southern
mills over last year has been 113, mak-
mg the total now 663.
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OUTBREAK IN BOHOL.
FU,pln ‘’ 9 „ "Tit" 7 Areh^iar" Ti T -
ern 1 A 1 S \
ceived The " the ar followln d ® partmen « * from Mon , t ^ General a J re '
MacArthur:
“Manila, September 3.—Adjutant
General, Washington: General Hughes
reports outbreak on Bohol. First
Lieutenant Lowack, Forty-fourth vol-
nnteer infantry, reports engagement
near Carmen, Bohol. Our losses in
killed, one; wounded, six. Enemy’s
loss in killed. 120. Have not received
365 mU6S
RAPIST DIES LEGALLY
g am Robinson Pays Penalty of
His Crime at Marietta, Q-a.
VICTIM AND HER HUSBAND PRESENT
a.arge Crowd Was On llaml But No I>i»-‘
order Occurred—Prisoner Confessed
His Crime on tlie Gallows.
Sam Robinson paid the penalty of
Ga ’ *1™ S * turda °“ y tU 1U ° g plain f° W view * at of about
fiftoen hundred people. Tlie couutry
pe ° pl ® began S atberiu S in town earI y
iu the day and by 10 o’clock some two
thousand wu-e in town. The streets
*“?■ pe ° pl *'
.t
Confederate cemetery crossing and the
prisoner was taken off there. Sixty
armed guards met the train and escort-
ed the prisoner and party to the place
of execution. The sheriffs and pris-
oner arrived without incident. Robin-
*on smoking a cigar as they rode from
the train, a distance of about a half
“ile, to the gallows. He seemed in
fairly thosJ good spirits and conversed with
about him.
On arriving at the gallows a great
crowd of people was found there wait-
ing. board
The gallows was inclosed by a
fence sixteen feet high, and only
Ruards, officers, newspaper men and
colored preachers—Revs. G. A.
Parish and D. B. Bond—were allowed
inside, Jndg/Oober. except a fe v who had orders
from Mr. „d Mr.. In-
zer were on the grounds and had an
order to allow them to see the hang
in g, but they did not go inside the
ineloaure.bat remamed .» the hill
some distance away.
At 10:30 o’clock the door was closed
to all outside except those mentioned,
Rev. Parish read a passage of scrip-
ture and talked very sympathetically
and earnestly with Robinson, taking
him by the hand and asking him if he
realized how soon he was to meet his
God, and if he was prepared to meet
death, to which he replied he was.
R ev . D R Bond then offered a very
fervent and earnest prayer, closing by
saying the jury did right in convicting
him and the judge iu sentencing him.
Robinson was then asked if he
wished to say anything and he Raid he
did, but before he rose to make his
statement the crowd pnslied down one
side Of the inclosure, exposing the
whole thing t(, view, so that the great
(yowd who bad gathered on that side
could see everything that transpired.
Robinson faced the crowd and walk-
ed steadily to the end of the gallon's
and made his statement, speaking in a
loud, clear voice. He said:
“Let me tell you all, friends, my
colored friends and white, never com-
mit the crime that I have. If 1 had
not committed it this time I might
some other. Teach your children
never to commit this crime. I am
guilty. I committed the crime and
don’t deny it. I am going before my
Qod and that is all I have to say.”
He then stood where he hail made
his statement and the black cap was
placed over his head and rope around
bis neck. The trigger was pulled at
u>:44 o’clock. The drop was lire feet
broke Robinson’s neck. He shrugged
W., aho^er. .lew ,1™ aod .H wa.
Kobineoff. father, Derry Kobinaon,
from Anderson, S. C., then came for-
warded and asked if he might have the
body. He was told that he could: The
old man took the corpse’s head in his
jd s '
arm8 and wept> u e sa a m was
tweuty-four years old and was mar-
ried, leaving a wife and two children.
Sam left home, he said, in May with-
out telling where he was going, as he
had often done before.
The old man did not hnve money
enough to pay the express to Ander-
son, but a contribution was made up
for him that enabled linn to leave bat-
urday evening with bis boy.
The crowd that witnessed the hang-
ing was orderly throughout and every-
thing was done in a decent manner.
After the wall was torn down, so they
NUMBER 48
IS A SEVERE TEST
Unity of Allies Will Be Decided
By Russo-American Proposal.
OPPOSITION FROM SOME QUARTERS
London Papers Kalse a Howl Willie
Germany Seems Not at All
Pleased.
A London special of Friday says:
ab8en - of *”*her
China the papers are again tilled with
discussions of the Russo-Americau
proposals which, so far as may be
gathered from the representations of
opinions in the various European
and dangeron, teat.
In Germany capaniatly. the., pro-
posals are so diametrically opposed to
Emperor William’s policy that they
have produced something like con¬
sternation. As the London Daily News
editorially remarks, “Count von Wal-
dersee was assuredly not sent to assist
in restoring the empress dowager.”
It is recognized on all sides that
Germany’s decision is the pivot of the
matter. Emperor William intended
by dispatching Count von Waldersee
to have the master baud in the Chinese
settlement. Russia has taken the
wind out of that officer’s sails, and is
now posing as the friend and protector
of China.
The morning papers express the
greatest suspicion of the intention of
Russia. The London Times’editorial
fairly represents the opinion of all,
savin*: policy
‘The advantages of Russia s
are not manifest, and it is very doubt-
ful whether it will recommend itself to
power, like Eaglaad aud Germany
that have large commercial interests in
the establishment of a stable and pro-
gressivegovernmenttoreplacethere- impeded
actionary clique which has
all progress and development in China
in recent years.
“Negotiation with Li Hung Chang
would be a condemnation of govern-
/neut crimes and the throwing away of
all the advantages gained by the oecu-
pation of Pekin.
“Much mischief may already have
been done by the hesitation to enter
the forbidden city. To withdraw from
Pekin would be interpreted as proving
not only that the allies are cowards,
but that they are hopelessly divided.
It may be that some of the powers
will withdraw, but that does not imply
that others are bound to leave Pekin
and to acquiesce in the restoration of a
government guilty of a gross interna-
tional crime.”
The Standard says:
“Diplomacy sometimes makes strange
bedfellows. It is carious to .find the
mighty autocracy of the old world and
q je g rea t republic of the new world
g en tiy coaxing the other powers along
the paths of pace. Nothing could be
better than the spirit of these doeu-
me nts, and it is interesting to find two
8Ucb powers anxious to determine the
con troversv in an unselfish spirit.”
“The Daily Mail says:
“Russia has forced the hand of the
tn e miter. At tne same dme ume
the United States government has ad-
duced such valid reasons why Russia a
■>-£” The Daily Chronicle thinks the
‘open door will prove the rift m ,he
[oot which now sounds such harmony
between the United States and Russia.
The Daily Telegraph remarks:
“The Russian proposals are attempt among
the most extraordinary coups
ed re cent vears even bv Russia,
The up8h ot will probably be the ac-
ceptance of Li Hung Chang to nego-
tiate some kind of a compromise with
the empress dowager.’
Vienna special a show that the Russo-
American proposals have caused ex-
treme annoyance there,
“Germany’s attitude toward the Chi¬
nese crisis,” says a dispatch to The
Times from Tokio, dated August 29,
18 causing much perplexity in Japan.