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All XVn.liinclo" t* k salng lie Latest
Vliaso of ail All-Ali#*J ubing Question,
Great Activity ii] i Our Navy.
A Washington spdW Jial says : It
is the beginning of j I the end iu
Cuba. That is consider led to bo the
real meaning of tlie riotiAf? » Havana
and the results to which It is sure to
lead. talking
All Washington "as war
Thursday. The talk of rm'ts among
the factions sensational of reports Spanish which sellers bad and our
Uie headed ynade
entire navy that way a
deep impression at the Capital C .,1 y«
I The facts are, of course, that the
Koting has been anticipated for some
us the result of interior dissen
no/j,s over autonomy; that the state
department bns been kept fully in
formed, and that the real meaning of
the order for the ships of the north
Atlantic squadron to winter iu Flor
ida 1 : y is that they might be near the
scene in case of an outbreak which
might call for their services.
The most significant feature of the
developments of Wednesday and
Thursday is found in the international
dissension of which the rioting is the
outward mid visible sign. This can
mean only one tiling. Autonomy is a
future an d Sy ratit's possession of Cuba
ns lias 1,cell said, the
1 ”1 ;!l ’ all
Qid although the offi
tir statements that no
sent to the ships in
Bo go to Havana they
■ shaped their pro
Bslie ■ have a ship ready at
might lie needed
Ini Lee.
|e department that in
lit should be determ
I sl^Mo Havana the
IM arid ahead
that
and
ig|Hi while, in much though less
be fully us ef
PKion of American
me of riot as the heavy
■WESmp.
-During (lie day a telegram came to
the department from the commander
of the Essex announcing that he had
sailed from St. Thomas for Port Royal,
so the fleet of American ships in West
Indian waters has thus another acces
sion, the Essex, though a training
ship, being still serviceable, espe
cially for landing parties.
Quiet Not Restored.
Further advices from Havana state
that about noon Thursday a crowd
gathered in front of the offices of El
Diaria de la -Maria shouting “Death to
Diario.” General Arolas used ihe
regular troops to restore order and to
compel the dispersal of the crowd,
which kept up a continuous shouting
| the streets near Central park.
These people accuse El Diario do la
Marina of being responsible for all tho
attacks made upon army officers and
Spanish that resident^n La DisiWssion the and islands. El Recon- They
say from El
centrado received their cue
Diario de la Marina,
JIANNA’S TRIUMPHAL MARCH.
Greeted With Ovations All the Way From
Columbus to Cleveland.
Senator Hanna was received in Cleve
land, O., Thursday afternoon upon
liis return from Columbus with enthu
siasm far greater than that which has
been accorded any public man in that
city in a decade.
The senator was lustily cheered
.along the line of march, many busi
ness houses practically suspending A pub
business for the time being.
lic handshaking reception occurred in
the loliy of the Hollenden and the sen
ator was congratulated on all sides.
k Senator Hanna received an enthusi
astic ovation till along the route from
_Coluinbus to Cleveland and at several
p'oints jjnbled made crowds. brief addresses to the as
Currant’s uemain s cit emated.
llAalu-s I From tlie Crematory Turned Over
to Murderer's Parents.
L I A Los Angeles, Cal., dispatch says:
H he body of Murderer W. H. T. Dur
B.int was* finally cremated at the ere
of Reynolds A A an Nuys at
n/.ltailiua Thursday. removed from the
p The ashc3 and delivered were to the parents.
-furnace inside of the
| No one saw the cremn
| tory except the employes a_d the Dur
L Xa l « t few gathered around the outside,
K ■ everything was done curiosity s* quietly and
„ ouicklythnt then was soon
■mneased and few before bad the disperse? asi^s were
•em oved those
ABBEVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1S!>S.
CUT WAGES IN EFFECT.
Mill Operative* Will Remain Idle or
Accept Reduction.
Advices from Boston, Mass., say:
The operatives iu over half a hundred
cotton mills in tho New England stntes
ceased to he paid under the old sched
ule of prices when they left their work
Saturday. On Monduy morning the
general policy of the manufacturers
to reduce wages pent into effect in
nearly every mill center in the six
states. Tho redaction also became
operative in- the cotton mills of New
Bedford, Lowell, -Pawtucket and
Biaokstone valley in Rhode Island and
in the states of Maine and New Hamp
shire.
The Fall River mills, with the ex
ception of three corporations, ent
wages earlier in the month, as did
also the Ainoskeag company, of Man
chester, and the, mills in Salem and a
number of smaller places.
New Bedford continues to be the
storm center. The indications are
that all tho cotton mills in that city
will lie silent for some time to come,
the employees having decided almost
unanimously not to go to work under
lower wage scale. The attempts of
the state board of arbitration to bring
about a compromise failed.
The New Bedford mill hands will
be supported by other centers, The
operatives in the Biddleford,Me.,mills
voted to stay out, and it is possible
several more strikes will occur in
other places. A portion of the Queen
City mill operatives at Burlington, Vt.,
are already out.
Saturday notices of a 10 per Atlantic cent
redu tioi. were posted at the
and Pa 9c corporations of Lawrence,
A dispat - from that city states that
the other cotton mills will undoubted
ly follow. The Lawrence mills are
last to come into line. They employ
about 12,000 hands. Ihe reduction
in most of the New England mills
amounts either to 10 ro 11 1 9 per
ceut.
THE SHROPSHIRE CASE
Brought to tho Attention of Congress In a
Unique Way.
The Clyde Shropshire case has been
brought to the attention of congress
in a very singular way. The Hon.
John' W. Hinton, of Milwaukee,at the
head of the northwestern tariff bureau,
iu a pamphlet of twelve pages reiter
ates his charges that money belonging
to his son, Francis Hinton, who died
in Juris Jn 1895, was m Jsrpprdpriuteu' vice-consul
by Clyde Shropshire, the in the
in Paris. The pamphlet is
form of a petition to congress asking
that a law be passed “To punish
American consuls for robbing Ameri
can citizens dying in foreign coun
tries.” 9
In order to show the necessity of
such a law, lie gives his entire corres
pondence with the president and the
state department concerning the al
leged misappropriation of his deceas
ed son’s money and points to t-lie fact
Shropshire was iiot made to answer to
the government. the allega
Mr, Shropshire denies
tions in toto.
EULOGIES TO MILLIKEN.
A Quiet Day Was Saturday In tlie
Congress.
A Washington special says: The
senate and the house Saturday, after
2 o’clock, was devoted to eulogies on
the life and public services of the late
Representative Seth W r . Milliken.
Immediately after the reading of
the journal Representative Starr (pop.),
of Nebraska, rose to a question of
privilege to deny a publication in a
local paper stating that lie had acted
as attorney in tho pension case of
Jackson W. Cheney.
As a representative, he said, lie had
interested himself in the case, but be
bad never acted as a pension attorney
in his life.
The house then went into committe
of the whole, and took up the consid
eration of the army appropriation bill.
REPUBLICAN MAYOR ELECTED.
Result of tlie greater Knoxville, Tenn.,
Campaign.
The most exciting municipal cam
paign in tlie history of Knoxville,
Tenn., closed Friday night and the
votes were cast Saturday.
The fight between the regular and in
dependent democrats was a bitter one.
The contest resulted in the election
of Captain Rule. The republicans al
so elected tlie chairman of the public
works, but lacked one of getting a
majority of tlie board of aldermen.
CARTER TRIAL UNDER WAV.
Captain Gillette Testifies ns to tlie Work
Under His Supervision.
Captain Cassius E. Gillette was the
first witness introduced iu the Carter
courtrnartial at Savannah Friday morn
ing. He was on the stand sonic time
and testified as to the work under his
supervision and relative to tlie method
by which it was done by the
Constructing Co.
lie told of the work on Cumberland
sound being taken out of bis jurisdic
tion. He recited the fact incident to
his inspection of material for the Cum
berland island work and said that it
was not constructed as tightly as it
should have been.
IN REGARD TO THE WORK OF
BIMETALLIC COMMISSION.
MARK HANNA FORMALLY SWORN IN
New Senator I* Cordially Received By
HI* Colleagues—Many Witness the
Day’s Doing*.
A Washington special says: Iu an
ticipation of an interesting session of
the senate Monday, all of the galleries
were well tilled some time before the
senate convened. The long-looked-for
speech of Senator Wolcott was the
drawing card.
Mr. Hanna, who lias just Wen elect
ed senator from Ohio, made his first
appearance on the floor since his elec
tion. He was cordially greeted by
his colleagues on both sides.
Mr. Foraker presented the creden
tials of Mr. Hanna for the remainder
of Mr. Sherman’s term of six years,
ending March 4, 1889. They were
read. As there was no objection to
the administration of the oath of office
Mr. Foraker escorted Mr. Hanna to
the vice president’s desk anil the oath
was administered.
Senator Wolcott, Speak*.
Mr. "Wolcott summarized the work
of the bimetallic commission and the
present situation by saying tbiit it is
apparent that for tho time being it is
useless to count on any co-operation
f rom Great Britain towards a.bimetal
;j c agreement, and that while France
actively desires to see silver restored
j(- s c p| position as a standard of
value equally with gold, she insists
that the problem is one which demands
international action and the co-opera
tion to some adequate extent of other
leading commercial nations of the
world.
Questions of possible future negoti
ations between France, the United
States and other countries and the
question of change of ratio, are for the
moment held iu abeyance. While we
hope for continued joint action, France
owes no further duty to us.
“It is my sincere conviction,” he
said, “that an international bimetallic
agreement is still feasible, by the
Jar.ms ui tvA.vF .certain countries
will join us and open then uiA.**
to the unlimited coinage of silver, and
others will contribute to the plan an
enlarged use of that metal as money;
and I say this the more freely because
I shall give way upon the commission
to somebody more fitted for such ne
gotiations and better able to give them
his constant time. This result cannot
be brought about without the expendi
ture of both time and patience, and
the persons entrusted with the duly
of negotiation must have back of them
the hearty support of ihe president
and of-congress.”
He thought it might lie necessary to
change the ratio to something like 20
to 1.
Referring to the attitude of Secreta
ry Gage on the financial question, con
trusting it with the president’s Gage’s posi
tion, he said of Secretary bill. re
marks upon his currency
“The two statements are utterly at
variance, and contradictory to each
other. They caunot be reconciled.
This is not the proper occasion to
analyze the bill of tho secretary. It
will reach limbo long before it reaches
the senate. But I do not intend to
discuss the bill which the president’s
message specifically does not indorse;
and it is premature to criticise the sec
retary’s republicanism, for his advent
into the party and tiie cabinet were
practically contemporaneous. We must
accept tho situation. In my opinion,
the great majority of the members of
the republican party are bimetallists,
and the fact that they are misrepre
sented by a cabinet officer is not
pleasing, hut it is endurable.
“The selection of the members of
his official household is the president’s
own affairs, and so long as he stands
upon the question of bimetallism where
he has ever stood, there is no serious
ground for apprehension, But even the
in the inconceivable event that
chief magistrate of this people should
in the excercise of his judgment deter
mine to countenance the final fasten
ing upon this country of burdens of
the gold standard, I trust we way still
find warrant for faith and hope in the
pledges of the party and the wisdom
of its counsels.”
MORE TIME GRANTED.
Taylor Men Worn Not Beady To Proceed
With Nomination.
A Nashville dispatch says: The
democratic caucus -members of the
legislature met Monday night. Rep
resentative Fitzpatrick, ft McMiliin
man, urged immediate nomination of
aTfnited States senator. Air. Parker,
supporter of Governor Taylor, pleaded
for delay, McMiliin, said
Mr. Brandon, for a
short delay would lie fair and could
hurt no one of the candidates. The
caucus thereupon adjourned until
Wednesday night without voting on
the senatorial nomination.
SOUTHERN PROG HESS.
The New Industries FstnbHahcd During
th Past Week.
Southern correspondents report en
cournging prospects in nil lines of
trade for the now year. A feature of
the week is the increased number of
new industrial enterprises, prominent
among’ them being the organization
of companies with large capital to
develop valuable water power in Geor
gia and Tennessee.
Furnace operators in the south re
port inquiries for iron more numerous
than for a long time a fid orders are
booked ahead for several months.
Alabama iron shows especial activity,
and among the large orders being filled
at Birmingham is one for 10,001) tons
of iron from Japanese brokers. The
Clifton Iron Co.’s furnace at Ironaton
will be put in blast Feb. 1, and the
No. !1 furnace of the Sheffield Coni,
Iron and Steel Co. will be blown in
about Feb, 10. The Borne, Ga., Fur
nace Co. has received an order for
(1,000 tons of high grade product,
which will keep the furnace busy
four months.
Consumers of steel billets are ask
ing for figures covering the year, but
the mills are not selling that way.
The demand for billets, pipe and
structural material is liavy and prices
are stiffening. Heavy orders are
booked from the railroads for spring
and summer delivery.
The coal trade in the mining dis
tricts of the south is still active. Coal
is moving out rapidly, taxing the out
put of the mines at many points and
some operators are compelled to run
extra time to supply the demand.
Among the most prominent new in
dustries reported for the week are
the following: The American Dynamo
Engine and Motor Lamp Co., capital
$150,000, Memphis, Tenn.; a 100-bar
rel flouring mill at Drowmvood, Tex.;
furnace works to cost $100,000 at At
lanta, Ga.; the Pyrites Mining Co.,
capital $250,000, at Alexandria, Va.;
Ihe Mooselalid Ar Kootaiml Mining Co.,
capital $10,000, at Louisville, $£50,000, Ky.; the
Isbell Corundum Co., capital
Shooting Creek, X. C.; the Water Gas
Heating Co., capital $25,000, Norfolk,
Va.; the Atlanta (Ga.) Water Power
Co., to represent a probable invest
ment of $1,000,000, and the Muscle
Shoals Power Co., Sheffield, Ala., to
erect a $500,000 plant.
A hosiery mill lie erected at Cuero,
Tex.; the Enterprise Manufacturing
Co., capital $10,000, has been char
tered at Mobile, Ala., and the Harlow
J-’imber Co., capital SI r \ non, «t
low, Ark.
A $25,000 sash and door mill will be
established at Valdosta, Ga., and
other woodworking plants at Bolling
and Mobile, Ala.; Cordele, Ga.; Nash
ville, Tenn.; Cleveland, Tex., and
Norfolk, Vn.—Tradesman, (Chattanoo
ga, Tenn.)
WAGE BATTLE BEGINS.
Nine ltigge.t Mill. In New Iletlfiinl
F<ircetl tn Close.
A special of Monday from Boston,
Mass., says: The 80,000 or more
skilled operatives employed in about
70 of the chief cotton mills of the
New England states have come
under the sweeping order of a new
wage scale. This reduction brings on
in New Bedford, Lewiston and Bidde
ford, Maine, labor strikes which may
prove the beginning of an industrial
battle greater in extent and more dis
astrous in effect than any in the pre
vious history of cotton manufacturing
in the United States.
The battle against the corporations
undoubtedly would have been fought
everywhere had not the voice of the
men and women who are ill prepared
at this time of the year to go into idle
ness been heeded by the conservatives.
As it is, the great majority of per
sons employed in nine corpui .Li-'»"> in
New Bedford and one corporation each
in two Maine cities will take upon
themselves the task of forcible resist
ance to the reduction.
In New Bedford the nine corpora
tions represent 22 mills, with over
770,000 spindles, or 21,000 looms,
giving means of livelihood to nearly
ten thousand.
The strikes will he directed by the
labor union, tho lead being taken by
the Mule Spinners union, the national
executive committee of which has
sanctioned the strike of opposition and
promised financial aid.
Men. Lonfiriitreet’il Bookkeeper.
A Washington dispatch says: Gen
eral Longstreet, United States railroad
commissioner, has appointed Mr. Al
ton Angier, of Georgia, as,4^8 book
keeper.
IM MIG RATION IU LL PASSE I).
Goes Tlirongli By a Vote of 45 to 118—It’*
Fro visions.
The senate Monday passed the
Lodge bill restricting immigration in
to the United States.
The bill provides that all immi
grants physically capable and over
sixteen years of age shall be aide to
read or write the English language or
some other language; but a person
not able to read or write who is
over fifty years of age and is the par
ent or grandparent of a qualified immi
grant over twenty-one years of age
and capable of supporting such a pa
rent or grandparent, may accompany
the immigrant.
THIN FOR ffi SMI.
HE ANNOUNCES, NOT WITHSTAND
ING CONTRARY ASSERTION.
HAS HEADQUARTERS IN NASHVILLE
Other Candidates and Their Friends
are Indignant at Turn Affairs
Have Taken.
A Nashville, Teu-n., special says:
The contest for the United States sen
n tor ship is overshadowing the other
questions that will come before tho
general assembly.
Governor Taylor lias at last yielded
to the solicitation of friends who have
been endeavoring to drag him into the
senatorial race, and Saturday after
noon announced openly that lie was a
candidate. His friends had already
Before his announcement, Governor
Taylor sent a messenger to Senator
Turley, asking him that he ho released
from the obligation to not run against
him. Senator Turley replied that the
governor was under no obligation to
him but was his own free agent.
An effort was made to have Senator
Turley give a written statement that
he, Turley, had voluntarily consented
that Taylor should run, but Senator
Turley declined to do so, stating that
it would be untrue. He would neither
give nor withhold his consent.
The Turley men are indignant at
Taylor’s candidacy.
Senator Turley’s friends still talk
with confidence and Mr.McMillin says
lie sees no change in the situation, ns
he realized from tho start that Taylor
was a candidate and based his cam
paign plans on this fact.
HON.“BEN” BUTTERWORTH DEAD.
Public! Official Succumb* to Pneumonia
lu Thomasville, Ha.
Hon. Ben Butterworth, who has
been ill at the Piney Woods hotel,
Thomasville, for some weeks, died at
8 o’clock Sunday afternoon.
The end came peacefully and in his
dying hour he was surrounded by his
wife and children.
Benjamin Butterworth was what is
known as a “birthright Quaker.”
Those who knew him best during his
busy i. -•<« ,».e --- "limons in saving
of him “liis daily life w~ -ii exem
pi ary of the tenets of that gou.i (1 |,i
faith as that of any public official
could he.”
He was born in Warren county, Ohio
October- 22, 1817, senate and was a
member of tho state of Ohio from War
ren and Butler counties in 1878- 71;
was elected from the first Ohio dis
trict to the forty-seventh, fortli-ninth
and fiftieth congresses and was re
elected to the fifty-first, congress as a
republican. attained
During the war he the
rank of major in an Ohio regiment..
He was commissioner of patents first
during the administration of Garfield
and Arthur and his record made then
and subsequently had greut weight
with President McKinley in selecting
him for that position.
He was made secretary of the
World’s fair project early iu the in
ception of that great enterprise lit
Chicago during the early nineties and
worked along in that capacity with
honor to himself and profit to the
company until its close.
In Washington City, no less than in
his native state, Major Bntterwortli
enjoyed a wide acquaintance and great
popularity, and the news of his death,
while by no means unexpected, caused
genci rJ sn-vow there. No public man
probably had a larger circle of ;
sonal friends at the capital, lie con
tracted his fatal illness while on the
stump in the late Ohio campaign.
MONTHLY EXPORTS.
Statist leal Bureau <* I vrb Figures F«.r
December, 181)7.
The monthly statement of the ex
ports and imports issued by the bu
reau of statistics at Washington shows
that the exports of domestic merchan
dise for December lust amounted to
$123,181,743, an increase as compared
with December, 1896, of over $7,000,
000 For the twelve months the in
.
crease was over $90,000,000. The
imports of merchandise during Decem
ber last amounted to $51,514,783, of
which $24,184,588 was free of duty.
OREGON SENATOR LOSES.
Committee On Kleetlons Decides That lie
Ih Not Unfilled to Seat.
A Washington dispatch says: The
senate committee on privileges and
elections Friday decided to make an
adverse report upon Hon. H. W. Cor
bett’s claim to a sent in the senate
from Oregon.
The vote was 4 to 3 and was cast on
partisan lines, except that Senator
Burroughs, republican, who was ab
sent, was counted upon his authority
in opposition to Mr. Corbett.
A motion was then mude to declare
that Mr. Corbett was not entitled to
his seat and was carried liy tlie above
vote reversed.
NO, 1.
NEW POPULIST PARTY.
Conferenr* of I.ruil.r. lit St. I.outs Adopt
Now Name.
At tho conference of the popnlist
leaders held in St. Louis a new politi
cal party was christened. It was given
iho cognomen of “People’ Party.”
After lengthy discussions, the mode
of procedure for future action was
agreed upon. A report was adopted
ns follows, iu part:
"To the people of the United States:
The fusion movement consummated at
St. Louis in July,'181)6, and the inex
ousable treatment of our candidate for
vice president in the campaign that
followed, gave rise to such dissatisfac
tion among the rank and tile of the
people's party as to threaten tho abso
lute dismemberment of the only politi
cal organization honestly contending
for the social and political rights of
the laboring and producing classetj of
the country.
“It has been tho purpose always of
the committee to he courteous to the
national committee and our supreme
desire lias been at all times to promote
a harmonious co-operation with said
committee, that factional differences
might he obliterated, onr party pres
tige regained and our organization re
stored to its once splendid estate.
This committee feels confident of its
to show that it is no fault of
ours that the national committee is
not present as a body today, but it.
does not choose to waste valuable time
in wrangling over questions of official
etiquette. We avow it to he our sin
cere purpose now as ever heretofore,
to promote in every honorable way the
reform movement on true populist
lines, and we deem the issues too mo
mentous ntid the dangers threatening
free government too imminent to allow
us to pause to consider personal
giicvaii.'cs or affronts, or to permit
wounded dignity, >enl or imaginary,
to overthapow patriotic itui^.
“Under present conditions our tit.
loved organization is slowly but sure
ly disintegrating and our comrades are
clamorous for aggressive action.
“Having in vain importuned those
who assumed to' he our superiors to
permit us to aid them in the grand
work of reorganizing the people’s
party, that it may accomplish its glori
ous mission, we now appeal to the
people, the true source of all political
power.”
The referendum committee appoint
ed is as follows:
Messrs. Dixon, of Missouri; Tracey,
of Texas; Reynolds, of Illinois;.,Mat
singer, of Indiana, and McGregor, of
Georgia. >les adopted for
A number i>* rl were
sf the national organi/a
sum committee, among them a rule
that the national organization shall
submit to a vote of the people’s party
any proposition when petitioned to do
so by not less than 10,000 members of
the party.
This concluded the work of the con
ference.
On the adjournment of the organiza
tion committee Of the, people’s party,
members of the national committee
met at the Laclede hotel and adopted
the following resolution:
“Resolved, That we, the members
of the national committee present, in
dorse ihe action taken by the organi
zation committee and recommend that
its provisions he carried into effect,
believing that such action will har
monize all differences in the party.”
There were seventy-four members
of the committee represented and by mem
bers present or by proxies letters
who favored a joint meeting of the na
tional committee and organization
committee in the spring. Forty states
were represented at this meeting.
CONGRESS SEEKS INFORMATION.
President Ih Ashed by Resolution to Hive
Ifi n Cuban flam*.
Benator Cannon, of Utah, presented
* he following resolution in the seri
ate Thursday, and it was adopted:
Resolved, That the President is re
quested, if in his opinion it is not in.
compatible with the public interest,
to transmit to the senate at his earliest
convenience a statement showing what
measures are in force by this govern
ment in tho island of Cuba, and in
waters contiguous thereto, to protect
tho lives, liberty and property of
American -citizens now dwelling in
Cuba.”
Late in the afternoon the first news
of the day came to the state depart
ment from United States Consul Lee,
who telegraphed that everything was
very quiet in Havana, and that there
was no cause for apprehension or trou
ble.
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BOOTH LANDS IN NEW YORK.
The Hi* ail of I lie Salvation Army Comes
To America*
General William Booth, the head of
the Salvation Army, reached New York
Saturday morning on board the steam
er St. Paul from Southampton.
He was met down the buy by Com
mander Booth Turkey. On the pier a
large delegation of headquarters Sal
vationists were awaiting their chief.
General Booth was given a war ft re
ception. will to Can
The general go at once of the
ada to inspect the work army
there, and will then return to the
United States. Ho will begiu liis
American tour on February 10.