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VOL. II. EVIDENCE OF MILITARY CONSPI RACY AGAINST GOVERNMENT. UNEARTHED BY ARMY GENERAL. Frcmler Brisson Promises to Investigate and Take Prompt Action In the Matter. It was announced at Paris Friday morning that a military plot against the government has been discovered. The Rappel, The Aurore and The Petite Republique Francaise publish almost identical stories on the subject. It appears that the plot was discov ered by a general holding an impor tant position. The plotters wore to have taken action on Saturday, during the absence of the minister of war, General Ckanoine. It further appears that when the government was warned of the plot the ministers were not sur prised, having already obtained infor mation regarding the conspiracy. The Matin says the plot was not in favor of one of the pretenders to the throne of France, who has been talked about for some time, but was only for the purpose of changing certain officials of the government without touching the provident. The premier, M. Brisson, was among those who were not surprised when notified of the plot. He promises to lake action in the matter. The government refuses to furnish any information regarding the discov ery of the plot, but it is rumored that the conspiracy involved Prince Louis Bonaparte, who is a colonel of Russi an lancers, and in whose favor his elder brother, Prince Victor Bonaparte, re cently resigned the leadership of the imperialist party. It is added that certain political personages handed the premier, important documents, in cluding a cipher dispatch concerning certain military men. The minister of war has recalled his announced intention of leaving Paris. # The Liberte asserts that the mili tary mtfn alleged to have been con cerned in the conspiracy are Generals Boisdeffre and Pelliux. Attempts, it is added, were also made to compromise General Zurlin den, the-military governor of Paris, who for a short lime was minister of war, but it appears the present minis ter of war, General Chanoine, refused to countenance it. According to the Jour the rumor of the plot arose from a forged letter purporting to have been sent by Gen eral Boisdeffre to General Zurlinden containing the words: “Let us be ready for Saturday.” The News In London. A Lodon special says: The situa tion in Paris is regarded in well-in formed quarters here as being more serious than at any time since tho commune. The St. James Gazette of Friday afternoon says: “A military revolution, however peaceful, which replaces the Brisson cabinet with the nominees of the gen erals, would imperil the relations be tween England and France almost to the breaking point. The semi-official and partly inspired Paris papers are still pretending that negotiations are proceeding between the two govern ments, and France believes it, although everybody in England knows the statement to he ready to close. Even supposing Major Marchand is uncon ditionally withdrawn from Faskodn, the difficulties with France will in no way end. Behind it lies the whole question of the Bahr El Ghazal, tire richest prize in the Soudan. ” The Paris correspondent of the Lon don Times says: “It is impossible to obtain clear proof of tbe existence of a plot. I be lieve, however, that the idea of some act of force haunts certain military minds. Maddened and stung by violent criticisms of the army arising out of the Dreyfus affair, they are especially irritated at tbe attitude of the civil authorities in claiming to interfere in the detention of Colonel Picquart, for which the entire military authority is responsible. Looking to the excited state of men’s minds at the present time of conflict between the military and civil authorities, it is only surprising that such alarms are not more frequent.” REBELLIOUS REBELS Mak. a Forcible Kffort To Undermine Acuitialdo’. Influence. A rumor at Manila says that Maca bulos, chief of the five northern prov inces of the Philippine islands, has re belled against Aguinaldo and that hard fighting has already taken place between the opposing factions. It is also reported that General Bios, the Spanish commander nt Iloilo, has sent emissaries from that place to undermine Aguinaldo’s influence and induce the natives to demand that Spain retain the Philippine islands. A BUTCHERY IN CANADA. Father and Four Children Found Mur dered In Their Home. Advices from Winnipeg, Manitoba, state that a cold-blooded butchery took place iu the Galician settlement Sat* uiday. A Galician man and his four children were found dead in their house by a neighbor. The wife is missing and is suspected to be guilty of the crime. Tho weapon used was an ax. Tho man’s head was nearly severed from bis body and the child ren’s bodies were more or less muti lated. Chronicle PRESIDENT LEAVES OMAHA. Pcopla of t itle, and Town* Alone Rout* Turn Out to Greet Him. President McKinley and party left Omaha Thursday morning. A large delegation accompanied the party to the train, including Senators Allen and Thurston, Mayor Moores, Presi dent Wattles, Governor Hwfcomb and many others. The presidential train left over the Burlington Flyer, aud at every station along the route home the president was greeted by great throngs. In western Iowa the crowds were large and clamorous at every point, bnt when the eastern part of the state was reached their magnitude seemed to swell at every stopping place until at Burlington, on the Mississippi, the climax was reached. There the pres ident did not attempt to talk, but was taken in a carriage through the bril liantly lighted streets, and for twe'nty blocks was kept busy lifting his hat in response to thewild cheers of the citi zens. Probably the worst crush of people that Mr. McKinley ever experienced was at the Burlington station when the carriages came hack. The presi dent was forced almost to fight his way for fifty yards to reach the en trance to his private car, but through out all this he preserved his good temper and maintained a smiling coun tenance, as iudeed has been the case with him during his western trip. As the train swept eastward the ten or of the president’s speeches seemed to center more and more on the ques tion of the foreign policy of the gov ernment, and, judging by the applause in of his auditors, they were largely accord with his sentiments. At some points after he had finished speaking, Mr. McKinley presented to the people the members of the cabinet who are with him, and the cheers for Secretaries Bliss, Gage and Wilson and Postmaster General Smith were almost as hearty as those given for the president. QUIET REIGNS IN VIRDEN. The Military of the Slate Now ControlB the Town. Advices from Virden, Ill., the scene of the desperate battle between the striking miners and deputies, state that Thursday passed without another outbreak of violence, but aside from the restraining influence of the mili tia no progress was made toward permanent peace. Battery B, First Illinois artillery, arrived during the morning from Pana. The idle miners are excitable and determined while the Chicago-Virden Coal Co. has shown no sign of a pur pose to abandon its plan of operating its mines with imported negroes. Wednesday’s Later advices show that shopting resulted in fourteen deaths, so far, while the number of injured will not much exceed the previous es timate of twenty. Of these a few are in a critical condition. The coroner’s inquest Thursday brought out no evidence of importance. After the examination of about thirty miners the sitting was adjourned until Friday. A meeting of the executive commit tee of the strikers was held late Thurs day evening. Chairman John Belgar asserted that not a man among the Thiel agency aud Pinkerton detectives stationed withjn the stockade had been sworn as a deputy sheriff. He follow ed this statement by declaring that all of them could be held as accessories on a charge of murder, He stated that there were twenty men inside the stockade whon the train, bearing the negroes, stopped at the shaft on the day of the fight, aud that fifty Pinker ton and Thiel men, acting as guards, were ou the train. He said none of these men are residents of Illinois, and consequently Sheriff Davenport had refused to swear them in. The matter was discussed, and a de cision made to employ counsel and lay the matter before the grand jury. SONS OF VETERANS Mustered In By Adjutant General of Illi nois For Duty at Virden. Assistant Adjutant Ewart has mus tered into the Illinois national guard four companies of the Sons of Veterans’ regiment for service at Virden. Ad jutant General Reece returned to Springfield from Virden Thursday. He states that from the best informa tion obtainable, firing began by tho deputies on the train. The bodies of the dead men showed wounds ranging downward, indicat ing that shots were fired from the train and tower. MRS. GEORGE HELD. The Justice Sends the Case to the Grand Jury For Investigation. A Canton, O., dispatch says: Mrs. George was held to answer to common pleas court at the conclusion of the preliminary hearing Wednesday and her case will be investigated by the next grand jury. The presiding justice of the peace in passing upon the case said there was sufficient circumstantial evidence connecting Mrs. George with the crime to justify holding her for the investigation of the higher courts. She is held on the charge of murder in the first degree and cannot be admitted to bail. OREGON AND IOWA. Big Ilattlcsl.lps Sail From Now York Under Sealed Orders. The battleships Oregon and Iowa sailed from New York Wednesday with sealed orders from Washington. There lias been considerable speculation battleships. as to the destination of the It was first stated they would proceed direct to Manila, but subsequent re ports threw some doubt on this and Honolulu may be their objective point, from whence they may go to Manila. ABBEVILLE. GA.. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20. 1898. CHIEF EXECUTIVE ADDRESSES AN IMMENSE THRONG. TALKEDOFSPANISH-AMERICANWAR Touched Idglitly on Territorial Expan sion But Accorded Great Pralge to .Oiu Soldiers and Sailors. Wednesday, tbe third day of Omaha’s peace jubilee aud “Presi dent’s day” at the Traus-Mississippi exposition opened with lowering sky. About 10 o’clock, however, tho sun burst forth in all its radiance, making the hearts of thousands of people feel easier. The president was up ear ly and at 9 o’clock was in the parlors of the Omaha club, where he greeted the members of his party and other distinguished callers. It was after 10 o’clock when the presidential party, escorted by Presi dent Wattles and members of the en tertainment committee in carriages, started for the exposition grounds. They were headed by a platoon of mounted police, while the members of the presidential party wero escorted by tho board of governors of tho Ak-Sar-Ben, mounted, and dressed in their regalia. The party proceeded directly to the graud plaza on the bluff tract of the exposition, where, on the music pavillion, the formal exer cises of the day occurred. President McKinley probably never received a more enthusiastic greeting than which awaited him at the expo sition grounds. By far the greatest crowd in the big western show’s his tory,so large a crowd that its numbers are almost beyond ou estimate,throng ed about the huge platform from which the president made his address. Hardly one sentence was spoken by him which did not evoke from the people cheer upon cheer. After President Wattles had in troduced the distinguished guest of the exposition it was fully five min utes before the subsidence of the ap plause permitted the president to be gin speaking. The subject of his ad dress was the war with Spain. The address was replete with praise for our soldiers and sailors, and the presi dent declared that the recent naval and military achievements surpass that of any nation at any time in the history of the world. The president touched only lightly upon the question of territorial expan sion, suggesting merely that our inter national rights must and will be pro tected. Regarding our international respon sibilities, the president said: “In this age of frequent inter change and mutual dependency, we cannot shirk our international responsibilities if we would; they must be met with courage and wisdom and we must fol low duty even if desire opposes. No deliberation can be too mature or self control too constant in this solemn hour of our history. We must avoid the temptation of undue aggression and aim to secure only such results as will promote our own aud the general ‘good.” WOMAN’S NECK SAVED, Aged Murderess Only Sentenced to Two Years In Penitentiary, A special from Columbus, Ga. ,says: Webster county, after all, will not hang anotlie' 1 woman. Mrs. M. L. McGuirt, arraigned in the superior court of that county on the charge of having murdered her husband, John A. McGuirt, escaped with a sentence of two years in the penitentiary. The trial of the aged woman has just come to a close in that county, at Preston. After the jury had deliber ated in the case for more than twenty fonr hours it became evident that a mistrial would result. It is under- I stood that eleven men of the jury wero in favor of a verdict of involuntary manslaughter and one for murder, with recommendation for mercy. The attorneys for the prosecution and de fense held a consultation, as a result of which a consent verdict was an nounced. The court directed a verdict of voluntary manslaughter, and Judge Littlejohn sentenced the woman to two years in the penitentiary. NEGROES MAKE APPEAL. Unable to Obtain Work In Mississippi Owing to Quarantine. Judson Lyons, the register of the treasury at Washington, has received ?, letter from James Hill, the collector of internal revenue at Jackson, Miss., in which he makes an appeal for aid in behalf of the several thousand col ored people there who, in consequence of the quarantine against yellow fever, are unable to obtain work. The letter states that “nearly all of the white people have left the city. We haVe at least 4,000 or 4,500 color ed people here and from 2,000 to 3,000 have to be fed by charity.” WARRANTS SWORN OUT. Managers of Chicago-Virden Coal Co. Charged With Murder. A special from Virden, Ill., says: As the result of a meeting held by a number of union miners, during which the terrible fight of Wednesday was discussed, a warrant has been sworn out by Virgil Bishop, a union miner, chaigiug tho managers of the Chicago Virdon Coal company, Messrs. Luk ens, Louicks, Yorke and others with murder. AGREEMENT REACHED. Conunlaslonem Complete Details For Avamifttlon of Porto Rico. The following cablegram was re ceived at the war department Thurs day: ‘‘San Joan dr Porto Rico. —Secre tary of War, Washington: The United States commission has informed the Spanish commission that the United .States expects to have complete pos session of Porto Rioo on October 18th. The Spanish commission assents to this and says it is expected that evac uation will be complete on or before that day. If not it will concede pos session. The United States commis sion has practically completed the de tails of >he evacuation, and the joint commission has held its last session and adjourned without day. United States troops will be placed in San Juan and the flag hoisted at noon Oc toher 18th. Bbookk.” This dispatch is very gratifying to the war department officials and it ends all contention regarding the pos session of Porto Itico. The details of the agreements reached by the com missioners have not been received at the department, but as the negotia tions seem to have progressed smooth ly, it is supposed that the instructions of the administration to the commis sion have been carried out. CASHIER FOUND SHORT. Senator rintt’s Hank Ordered Cloned By Comptroller Duweg. Thursday Charles G. Dawes, comp troller of the treasury, wired the cash ier of the Tioga National hank of Os wego, N. Y., of which Senator T. C. Platt is president, to close the doors of that institution, receive no more deposits and transact no more busi ness, stating that he had placed C. E. Vanbrocklin, national bank examiner, in charge of the bank. The action was taken by the comp troller as a result of tho recent exam ination by Examiner Vanbrocklin, which disclosed a large defalcation on the part of Eli W. Stone, the assistant cashier of the hank. Stone died at his homo Wednesday night shortly after he had been confronted by the exam iner with the defalcation. He con fessed his guilt to the examiner. NO MORE DISCHARGES. Washington Officials Say That the War Is Not, Over Yet. The war department is constantly in receipt of requests from soldiers ask ing to be mustered out, stating that the war has closed and they wish to go homo. This is the excuse made by nearly all those now seeking discharge. The war department officials say that the war will not be over until the treaty of peace is signed and ratified by the United States senate and that the soldiers may be needed for further duty. No discharges will be .granted ex cept for sickness and disability, and the requests in these cases must be approved by the colonels aud higher commanding officers. SULTAN’S REQUEST REFUSED. No Modifications In Terms For Evacua tion of Island of Crete. A cable dispatch from Rome states that Great Britain, Russia, France and Italy have decided to reject tho porte’s suggested modifications in the ultimatum to the Turkish government on the evacuation of the island of Crete—particularly the sultan’s pro posal to hold three fortified places, with garrisons sufficient to protect the Mohammedans and to defend the Otto man flag. They are sending an identical note to this effect to Constantinople remind ing the sultan that, every Turkish sol dier must leave Crete within the time specified in the ultimatum. LANGFORD ON TRIAL. Last of the Delk Gang Answers the Charge of Murder. Tom Langford was placed on trial at Zebulon, Ga., Thursday, for the mur(icr of Sheriff Gwynn two years a 8°- He is the last member of the Delk 8 an K to 1,6 tn ed for Hio crime, Langford’s attorneys are Thomas E. Watson, G. D. Dominick and S. N. Woodward. Much interest is centered in the ease, not only because of Langford’s association with the Delks in the mur der of Sheriff Gwynn, but because of the spleudid legal talent employed in the case. Langford lias been in jail in Zebulon ever since his arrest in Arkansas in July, 1897. WYMAN TO INVESTIGATE. Sursreun Ooneral Will Vl.lt Yellow Fever District. In South. Surgoon General Wyman,of the ma rino hospital service, left Washington Friday for a trip of a week or ten days’ inspection of the work in the south in fighting yellow fever. Ho will go di rect to Cincinnati, then to Chattanoo ga, Atlanta, Mobile, Now Orleans and other points. Ho will confer with the state and local health authorities. The fever is reported at Amite City, in Tangipahoa parish, La., and the town and parish have been quaran tined. The reports for Thursday in clude 26 new cases in Franklin, La., though no deaths were recorded there. NO SAN JUAN MAILS. Postal Representatives In Porto Rico Can not Be Bonded Yet. A cablegram received at the post office department Wednesday from the postal commission sent to Pyrto Rico, says there are no provisions in that Ward for bonding postal represents - fives, and that as tho Spanish still occupy San Juan, no American postal station can be established there at present. mm TROUBLE CAUSED BY THE IMPOR. TATI ON OF COLORED LABOR. SEVEN WHITE MEN ARE KILLED. Fatalities Among the Negron Unknown As tlio Train Hearing Thom Was Unshed Away, A special from Virden, Ill., says: The arrival of the imported negroos from the sonth at 11:30 o’olock Wed nesday was followed by a dosperate battle. Five hundred shots were exchanged between the soldiers on ono side and Sheriff Davenport and his deputies uud railroad police on tho other. When tho Chicago and Alton train bearing the negroes arrived it was met by fully 1,500 armed miners, wlio were lined up ou each side of the track be tween the telegraph office and the mine of the Chicago aud Virden Coal Company. The train was stopped immediately in front of the east gates to the stockade aud the trouble began. Dozens of shots wero fired from tho stockade at the white men, while the strikers were half a mile away.' Shortly before 1:30 o’clock p. ni. Manager Lukens tried to make his es cape from the shaft. The attempt was a signal for another fusilade from a body of men said to be miners. The manager and a small force of detec tives ran into the alley behind the postoffice, the attacking party having continued to fire away. The sheriff thinks possibly 100 men have been killed and wounded, but others deem this estimate too large. There is the greatest indignation felt in Virden against Lukens, who is held responsible for the trouble. The list of casualties according to latest reports are seven dead and eigh teen wounded. It is said that six men were wound ed inside the stockade, but this has not been verified, and those inside the stockade refuse to communicate with outsiders. For the past two weeks rumors have reached Virden that a train having negroes from Alabama would reach the city, and the Chicago and Alton depot lias been surrounded day and night by miners awaiting their arrival. Train Loaded With Negroes. The Chicago aud Alton limited due to pass Virdin at 10 o’clock Wednes day morning eu route to Chicago pass ed through an hour lata, displaying flags on the rear, indicating that a train was following. Immediately the word was spread, and a dense crowd of min ers lined the stntion platform, while another crowd ^collected at half the mile en trance of the stockade a north of the station. D. B. Kiley, a Chicago and Alton detective, stood guard at a switch at the south end of the station platform to see that it was not tampered with. At 12:30 o’clock the special train passed the station, and a signal was fired from the south end of tho train announcing its arrival. Immediately shots wore fired from the moving train and outside, and the battle was on. A few moments after the train had passed the switch where Kily was sta tioned, and while he was talking with two citizens, ho threw up his arms and dropped dead, with a bullet through his brain. He was the first man killed. The train continued to the stockade, the minors firing into it all along tho route and the negro passengers re turning the fire. The moment the train reached the stockade the miners opened a desperate fire with winches ters, revolvers and firearms of all de scriptions. The negroes on the train answered with a steady fire. Engineer Tigar received a bullet in the arm and dropped from his seat. His fireman seized the throttle, pulled it open and with a jerk the train was under speed, carrying a load of wound ed negro pnnsengerB to Springfield. How many were wounded is not known. The train stopped at the stockade but two minutes. Its departure did not cause the firing to cease, The tower of the stockade was filled with sharp shooters. Armed with winchesters, they kept up a steady fire into the crowd of union miners. MANY SOLDIERS SICK. Throe-Quarter# of lGnlliited Mon at Sulli van's Island Are Incapacitated. A Charleston, S. C., dispatch says. The great amount of sickness among the enlisted men stationed at Sulli van’s island is causing the command ant, Colonel Rawles, much concern. During the summer many of the men were ill and typhoid assumed and malarial proportions fever have almost the of an epidemic. At present 409 men are confined to quarters. Considering the great number of fever cases that have been treated in the garrison hos pital, however, the mortality has been light. UNDER STARS AND BAR”. Six Steamer# of Northern V art tic Com - pany To Be Transferred. It is stated 'on good authority that the Northern Pacific Steamship Com pany is arranging to put under the American flag six British steamers, which it is operating to China and Japan, from Tacoma, Wash. These steamers include the transports Arizo na, which was sold to the government last July, the Tacoma, Olympia, Co lumbia and Argyle. mine owners reamed By Governor Tannnr For Deadly Riot at Vlrden, A special from Springfield, III., says: In an interview with Governor Tanner Wednesday evening regarding the Virden riot lie said: “Mr. T. C. Louck, president, and Mr. Lutkin, superintendent of the Virden Coal Company, at 12:40 o'clock today made good their threats to land a train load of imported laborers from the south and attempted to put them to work in their mines at the point of the bayonet and the muzzle of the winchester, such laborers being drawn largely, if not entirely, from the crim inal class, ex-convicts, who learned their trade while doing time in the penitentiaries of Alabama, after hav ing been fully advised and having full knowledge of the landing of sunk im ported laborers would precipitate a riot. “I had wired them if they brought these imported laborers they did so at their own peril ntid under the circum stances would he morally responsible and criminally liable killed for anything that might happen. The and wound ed are largely idle miners who were 1 the outside. The others were the h ed guards who were brought along by the coal company. Most, if not all, of tho latter were non-residents of Illinois. There is no means of learn ing their names or whereabouts for the reason that they declined to give them out, knowing, perhaps, that they are criminally liable for murder, ns they had no permission from any officor in Illinois authorizing or deputizing them to act as deputy marshals or dep uty sheriffs. “Instantly on learning of the trou ble I directed Adjutant Genera! Reece to order Captain Craig, of the Gales burg battery, and one company of the Sons of Veterans regiment, now sta tioned at Pana, to proceed at once by the quickest route to the scene of the trouble. I have instructed General Reece to select a camping ground most suitable for the occasion to quell the riot and maintain ordor, protect life and property, to disarm nil per sons bearing arms and to not allow imported laborers to unload from nny train within the limits of the city nor to march in a body. These avaricious mins owners have so forgotten their duty to society as to bring about this blot upon the fair name of our state have gone far enough, yea, too far, as .they had fair warning from me, by wire and telephone, that the im portation of labor which brings to our sta f " an undesirable class of citizens had to stop. And I say now to all such others that this is a thing of the past; that it shall not be tolerated in Illi nois while I an. governor. These men, the president and officers of the com pany, participated in this riot by bringing this imported,labor, and are guilty of murdef au'o should be. aud I believe will be, indicted by tr 1 Vnd jury of Cacoupin county and tried and convicted for the heinous offonse.” STATUE OF WAR GOVERNOR. Unveiled at Lansing, the Capital City of Michigan. The population of Lansing, Mich., was augmented Wednesday by upward of 30,000 residents of other portions of the state, to witness the unveiling of a statue of Austin Blair, erected to commemorate the life, deeds and char acter of Michigan's famous war governor. A feature of tho occasion was the presence of Major General Shaftor, who received a great informal reception before the exorcises of the day began. roviewed by Gov The parade was Shatter, De ernor Pingree, General partment Commander Patrick, of the Grand Army of the Republic, mem bers of congress and of tbe legisla ture, and other distinguished guests. CUINE8E CONTROL TRADE. Pig Tails Do Most of the Business of the Philippine Islands. United States Consul Frankenihall, at Berne, has collected some informa tion upon business opportunities in the Philippines which he has made the subjoet of a special report to the state department. Tbe published report contained in short compass a great deal of information that may be of value to business men intending to find openings at Manila. The Chinese, it seems, control the retail trade of the island, the Spanish coming next in order, and the re mainder of the list, including about 300 citizens of other European coun tries. GRAHAM TESTIFIES. Oenernl Says Timts al Camp Alfjar Ware Ton Clone Together. A Washington dispatch says: Gen eral Graham continued his testimony before the war investigating commis sion Wednesday. He believed that the proximity of tho tents to one an other at Camp Alger was responsible more than nny other cause for the sickness there and said the medical officers also were of this opinion. He thought the want of water for bathing purposes and the habits of the men in eating other food there than that pre scribed by the regulations had had deleterious influence. EXISTENCE OF PLOT DENTED. Anli-KevIslonUt Paper* Ih France Declare There ... Was ho Conspiracy. ,, , . T> . , «■£“££•<> discovery of a military plot against tlje government as being pure invention, The Gaulois classes the affair as “a conspiracy without conspirators.” But, in spite of this, the papers which announced the conspiracy insist upon the exactness of their tion. NO. 39. I PRESIDENT M’KINLEYTAKESPART IN THE PROGRAM. OFFICIAL ITINERARY MADE PUBLIC. The Peace Jubilee Fxerotses Begin With Religious Ceremonies ftfc the Auditorium. The president of the United States arrived in Chicago over the Illinois Central Saturday night at 9:20 o’clock. Although much wearied by his long journey over the great west and his arduous days at the Trans-Mississippi exposition he said just before leaving the train: “Throughout the journey I have been deeply moved by the patriotism of the people and delighted with the evidences of their prosperity.” reached After the city limits wero crowds lined the inclosures beside the tracks of the Illinois Central railroad eager to see the presidential train sweep by. Tho enthusiasm was un bounded, even when the president himself could not be seen. Mr. McKinley left the train at Thir ty-ninth street, going directly to the homo of Captain Lafayette McWil liams, where Mrs. McKinley has lieeu entertained since arriving from Can ton. The other members of the offi cial party wero taken care of at the loading hotels. The following is the official itine rary of the president during the four days of his visit to Chicago: Sunday—Thanksgiving services at tl«: Auditorium nt 8 p. m. Monday—Private reception at the University of Chicago 2:30 p. m. Public reception at the First regiment armory at 3:45 p. in.; drive through illuminated portion of the city 5:30 p. m.; review of bicycle parade 8 p.m. the Tuesday—Welcome exercises at Auditorium 10:30 a. m.; benefit ball at tbe Auditorium 9:30 p. m.; blue jack ets’ bull at Medina temple 11 p. m. Wednesday—Street reception and review of parade 11 a. m.; banquet at tho Auditorium 1:30 p. m. Fence Jubilee Oponi^ The National Peaeo Jubilee of Chi cago was inaugurated Saturday night with a union thanksgiving service at the Auditorium, President McKin ley attended and listened to addressee by a Jewish rabbi, a Roman Catholic priest, a Presbyterian clergyman and Booker Washington,the colored orator. Easily 12,000 people were within the great auditorium, and probably as many more were on the outside unable to obtain admission. The applause for the president was terrific and at one time he was com pelled to arise in his box aud respond to the frantic cheering of the audience. The services, however, were of a reli gious character, &U4I at times the solemn silence of the v.ist assemblage was applause much moro could eloquent be. thantUe^wild est TO CUT WAGES. Cotton Mills In Augusta, Oa„ District to Make a Reduction of 10 Per Cent. It was officially announced in tho Augusta, Ga., Sunday papers that a reduction will he -made in the pay of operatives in all the cotton mills in the Augusta district, composing the Southern Cotton Manufacturers’ Asso ciation. The reduction will be made some time in November, two weeks after tho new schedule has been sub mitted to the operatives in all the mills. The cut varies on the different giades of work and goes from 8 to 13 per cent of the present wages. President Charles Estes,of the manu • facturers’ association, says the Au gusta mills are paying more wages than any in the south and will be pay ing fi per cent above the average pay in southern mills after the proposed reduction is made. The schedule is not yet arranged, and there is no inti mation yet as to how how it will be re ceived. Augusta mill men say the cut is absolutely necessary and is made with great reluctance on their part, Bix large factories in Augusta and the Aiken Manufacturing Company aud Langley Manufacturing Company across the river in South Carolina are in the cut. Their combined pay rolls are about $1,000,000 aud the average cut is about 10 per cent. SAXTON’S WILL DISCOVERED. Murdered Man I.eaves About 83110,000 to Mr». Barber, Ill. Sitter. A. Canton, O., dispatch states that the will of George D. Saxton has been found. It was made last April, and was witnessed by James J. Grant and Oliver F. Schiliman. The document bequeaths all his estate to Mrs. M. C. Barber, sister of the deceased, as entailed property. After her death, the estate is to be divided among the five children of the beneficiary. The value of the property is not known, but a personal friend of the deceased estimates it will foot up $ 200 , 000 . GREENE WILL JOIN LEE. One or the Manila Heroes „ Attached ..... to fiorenth ___.. Army . Corps. _ sa J *'T” s - Major General ai *r“ Francis - I. Greona has been ordered to report to General Fitzhugh Lee, Seventh army corps, at Savannah, Ga., and will command ii division of the army of the Cuhun oc cupation. General Greene took a prominent part in the battle of Ma nila.