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A he Abbeville Chronic le. r- t I it NA MAKE CRISIS IN ENT. ire awaiting orders. 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. ____s 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.