Newspaper Page Text
VOL. II.
)
PRESIDENT AND PARTY GIVEN
GREAT OVATION.
A RECEPTION BY LEGISLATURE.
A Monster Parade—President Speaks at
Auditorium—Festivities End With
Grand Banquet.
Atlanta’s Peace Jubilee celebration
began Wednesday morning with tha
arrival of President MoKinley aud
party at 8 o’clock.
The trip of the presidential special
from Washington to Atlanta was with
out incident and but few stops wore
made. At every station after leaving
Washington the train was met by tre
mendous crowds, but w-ith few excep
tions the sightseers only had an op
portunity to catch a glimpse of the
flying cars.
When the chief executive stepped
from tha train at Atlauta he was ac
corded an ovation by a big crowd
which bad gathered at the station.
The party was escorted at once to the
Kimball House where lynch was serv
ed and where the president remained
until 1 o’clock when carriages were
drawn up and the party driven to the
capitol building where a reception was
tendered the distinguished guests by
the Georgia legislature.
There was a great ovation to the
visitors, but General Wheeler was at
cnce picked out by the crowd for es
pecial honors, and cheer after cheer
was given for the brave ex-Confederato
officer.
President McKinley and Governor
Candler were escorted to seats upon
the spealrer’s stand, and the other dis
tinguished gentlemen and tho ladies
f the party were given places upon
ie left of the hall.
President Dodson introduced Mr.
Kinley with appropriate words.
The President’s Address.
’^sident McKinley spoke as fol
ixtwd .
“Sectional lines no longer mar the
map -vf the United States. Sectional
feeling no longer holds back the love
we bear each other. Fraternity is the
national anthem, sung liy a chorus of
forty five states and territories at home
and beyond the seas. The Union is
once more the common altar of our
love and loyalty, our devotion and
sacrifice. The old flag again waves
over us in peace with new glories
which your sons and ours have this
year added to its sacred folds. What
cause we have for rejoicing, saddened
only by the fact that so many of our
brave men fell ou field or sickened and
died from hardship and exposure and
others returning bring wounds and
disease from which they -will long suf
fer. The memory of the dead will be
a precious legacy, and the disabled
will be the nation’s care.
‘A nation which cares for.its dig
obled soldiers, as we have always
done, will never lack defenders. The
national cemeteries for those who fell
in battle are proof that the dead as
well as the living have our love.
What an army of silent sentinels we
have, and with what loving care their
graves are kept! Every soldier’s
grave made during our unfortunate
civil war is a tribute to American valor.
And while when those graves were
made we differed widely about the
future of this government, these dif
ferences were long ago settled by the
arbitrament of arms—and. the tim«
has now come in the evolution of sen
timent and feeling under the provi
dence of God, when in the spirit of
fraternity we should share with you in
the care of the graves of the Confed
erate soldiers.
“The cordial feeling now happily
existing between the north and south
prompts this gracious act, and if it
needed further justification it is found
in the gallant loyalty to the Union and
the flag so conspicuously shown in the
year just passed by the sons aud grand
sons of these heroio dead.
“What a glorious future awaits us
if unitedly, wisely and bravely wo face
the new problems now pressing upon
us, determined to solve them for right
syid iinmauity!”
When McKinley had concluded there
were continuous calls for General
Wheeler, and he consented to speak.
President Dodson introduced the
gallant hero of Santiago by sayiug
he needed no introduction.
General Wheeler said:
“Gentlefnen of the General Assem
bly of Georgia, and Fellow Citizens:
“I appreciate more than I can ex
press the honor of being invited to
accompany his excellency, the presi
dent on his tour of the south. I have
looked forward with great pleasure to
meeting old friends of a lifetime. I
was glad that the president of the
United States had decided to visit our
section, to meet our people aud see
what progress we are making in the
development of our resources.
“The president, as commauder-in
chief of the army and navy of the
United States, has alluded to the gal
lantry of the soldiers and sailors of
our army and navy, but it is not
known, because of the modesty of the
chief executive, that every effort was
exhausted to preserve peace.”
.Gen. Wheeler said war was not de
clared until it became necessary for the
preservation of the country’s honor.
He told of the order sent to Commo
dore Dewey to proceed to Manila aud
capture or destroy the Spanish squad
ron.
“In eight days that order was exe
cuted, ” he said.
’’’It was the ^president, as command-
The Abbeville Chronicle
cr-in-chief, who, when troops were as
sembled for the purpose of going on
an expedition to Havana, after consul
tation with the secretary of war,
changed the plans aud decided on the
expedition to Santiago.
“The army in conjunction with the
uavy was ordered to attack and destroy
the Spanish forces at Santiago. In
four weeks that order was obeyed and
its purposes accomplished. The proud
Spanish nation stood suing peace from
the nation which a month before it bad
held up to ridicule and scorn.
“I Lave to thunk him for giving me
an opportunity to share in the glories
won by soldiers who came from nearly
every state in the union. I thank
you, ladies and gentlemen, for giving
me an opportunity to address yon.
General Young was next presented. Georgia,
He said he was glad to be in
aud referred in high terms to the oon
ditious of the camps of his corps in
this state. He said the criticism of
** le army camps had not come ^from
Lawton waB tUen iutro .
duced by Fresident Dodson. Ho
.
said:
“I thank you in the name of the
men I had the honor to command at
Santiago for the honor you have done
me in calling on me to speak.”
The joiut session was then dissolved,
Fresident McKinley and General
Wheeler stood by the clerk’s desk and
shook nands with the legislators and
several thousand visitors. ,
At 2 o’clock the presidential party
left the house for the public reception
in the main corridor,
Such an ovation as that given Pres
ideht McKinley by the legislature
and the public was never before ten
dered to an American at the capitol.
The crowd—and it numbered several
thousand—that gained admission into
the building yelled itself hoarse, capitol
After the reception at the
the president and party were driven
out Peachtree street to the reviewing
stand to witness the floral parade.
This part of the program was inaugu
rated by the ladies and was a beauti*
ful and interesting sight.
Wednesday night Mr. and Mrs. Mc
Kinley and the gentlemen aud ladies
of the cabinet, the visiting officers of
the army and navy and the represen
tatives of the press of the north and
west were tendered a brilliant recep
tion at the Capital City Club.
A Gorgeous Pageant,
The Jubileepageaut which took place
Thursday was a magnificient success
in every detail. The pent-up enthu
. of , ,, citizenry ... of , At , anta,
* ,asm
Georgia . and of the south, which has
been smoldering- in the breasts of
thousands since the first shot was fired
iu the Spanish-American war, broke
out in cheer after cheer when the
great parade of American arms and of
a nation’s heroes and idols passed
through the streets an hour after noon.
Throughout the entire line of march a
mass of people thronged the streets
and as the divisions passed in review
a cheer was given—one that was loud
and long.
The crowd was a demonstrative one
a:ld , showed , ... lts appreciation . of , the ,,
presence of the , visitors who took part
111 the procession. The parade itself
required an hour to pass a given point
and , alt which the Pennsylvania „
S
and New Jersey soldiers kept up was
a rapid military stride, space was cov
ered at almost a trot.
The success of the parade from the
point of size, magnificence and inter
est was beyond doubt the greatest
that Atlanta has ever had.
At the Auditorium.
President McKinley received at the
auditorium at Piedmont park a stir
ring, prolonged ovation from the great
multitude who heard the eloquent and
prophetic words of the chief executive.
Speaking to the people of tho south,
the president outlined definitely the
policy of the government with refer
ence to the newly acquired territory,
and paid a glowing tribute to the
south for the part it had taken in the
war . With hand uplifted and voice
vibrating with emotion, he said:
“That f flag lias been planted in
two hemispheres and there it remains
the symbol of liberty and law, of
peace and progress. Who will with
draw from the people over whom it
floats its protecting folds? Will the
people of th> south h§lp to haul it
down?”
The scene in the auditorium at these
words front the president was bewilder
ing. The big audience frantically
came to its feet with a common im
pulse, amid wild hut genuine applause
and cheers that rent the air. Cries of
“No! No!” swelled from a thousand
throats, while the members of the cab
inet aud distinguished guests on the
stand urged the audience to renewed
and deafening applause.
The address throughout breathed of
conciliation and fraternal union be
tween the north and the south, and
again, as in the short address before
the Georgia legislature Wednesday
afternoon, the broad and patriotic ex
pressions of the president met with
strong sympathy from nil present.
The Banquet.
The jubilee ceremonies were closed
Thursday night with a brilliant ban
quet tendered to the president and his
party. Three hundred Atlantians and
visitors sat down to the dinner at the
Kimball House. The picture pre
sented in the great dining hall of the
hotel was one long to be remembered.
Surrounding an oval table at the head
of the dining room eat the president
of the United States, the governor of
Georgia, several members of tbo presi
dent’s cabinet and a number of dis
tinguished visitors from different parts
of the country.
The president made a notable speech,
It overflowed with that fraternal spirit
which he had shown all during his'
stay. He was exceedingly gracious in
his remarks about Atlanta and he
brought his audience to their feet time
ABBEVILLE. GA.. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22. 1898.
ami again. • At least half a dozen times
did his hearers spring up impulsively
and cheer and wave napkins in in
dorsement of his expressions. Some
times the hall was a mass of waving
linen.
Following the president in respond
ing to toasts were: Secretary of the
Navy John D. Long, Major General
William R. Slmfter, Hon. George R.
reck, Major General S. M. B. Young,
Richmond Pearson Hobson, Stephen
O’Meara, Secretary of the Treasury
Lyman J. Gage,Major General Joseph
Wheeler,Governor Joseph F. Johnson,
of Alabama; Hon. Charles F. Warwick
and Hon. Evan Settle, M. C.
All the speakers were accorded en
cores and the dinner will certainly
have n place in history. It helped to
obliterate the rapiijly disappearing
sectional lines and to draw the people
of the north, wost and south more
closely presidential together. party left Atlanta
The
in the early hours of Friday morning
en route to Tuskeegee, Ala.
Advertise with us ir you wish to
keep the people posted as to the
amount, the character, the quality
and prices of goods you have for sale
cd will briny ’em every time. *
»u
FOREIGN jiUS AFTER OUR DOLLARS
Proposition For Rig: Doan Said to Have
Been Made By Russia.
James H. Eckels, president of the
Commercial National bank, of Chica
go, said Saturday:
“I am credibly informed that a
great foreign power has sent repre
sentatives to the United States and
that they are now in New York for the
purpose of negotiating a loan of im
mense proportions. If the source of
my information is reliable it is the
first ease in the history of the United
States of a foreign power borrowing
here.”
The Chicago Daily News declares
Eckels’ statement may startle the gen
eral public, but says in the financial
world the report will cause no aston
ishment, although the action will be
unprecedented iu the monetary history
of the country.
For two months, The News contin
ues, money has been the cheapest
thing in America, as financiers phrase
it. For a fortnight call loans have
been made in Wall street as low as J
per cent, while short time borrowers
with approved collateral are accommo
dated at 3j per cent in Chicago.
The bond on the markets are abso
lutely of first-class securities, yielding
more than 3J per cent. Five per cent,
coupon issues are bought on the ex
changes at 137 and high grade stocks
paying dividends at the rate of 5 per
cent, per auuum were quoted at 132.
Chicago aud Northwestern common
was an iustance. Early in the week
Cook county bonds were purchased on
a 3.21 per cent, basis. Indianapolis
sold at 3fi per cent. level. The buyers
were local investors, which menus that
bonds now eommand as high a premium
in the west as well as iu the east.
We Eclipse Great Britain.
On the first of the year corporations
will distribute about $100,000,000 in
interest and dividends. Besides, ex
ports are increasing rapidly, while im
ports are decreasing quite as speedily.
The latest figures tell that the exports
of merchandise from this country ex
ceed those of Great Britain for the
first time in the history of the two
countries.' The United States is in
the unique position of desiring to
bny the American stocks and bonds
that are held abroad.
The national treasurer states that
for the current month money in circu
lation has increased $20,303,722. This
following a gain of $50,000,000 'for
October makes a total expansion of
about $75,000,000 for the last sixty
days. •
Compared with a year ago the total
circulation of all kinds of money is
$165,795,000 greater and amounts in
all to $1,886,800,000. The perspective
reveals even more money.
It is this condition that has war
ranted a foreign government in mak
ing tentative overtures for a big loan
here. The borrower is supposed to bo
Russian. The representatives of that
country were negotiating with Frenc i
bankers some time ago for a large
sum, hut the transaction was not con
cluded.
A PECULIAR WRECK.
Swiftly Running Train Rumps Over Cross
tics on a High Trestle.
A wreck occurred on Ike Indiana,
Decatur and Western railroad Sunday
morning, fifty miles west of Indian
apolis, near Guion station. The In
dianapolis express, east bound, left the
tracks west of a high trestle, and
passed over the trestle, which is sixty
feet long, with seven coaches off tho
rails and bumping along the ties.
The trestle is fifty feet high and it
is considered phenomenal that the
train was not hurled off into tho
creek, in which event tlie slaughter of
life would have been awful. The rear
car had just left the trestle when a
spreading of the rails ahead of tho
baggage car piled the seven cars into
a heap. The baggage car and smoker
were ground almost into splinters and
all of tlie cars were badly wrecked.
There were about fifty passengers
on the train. One man was killed and
about a dozen more or less injured.
BRAINED IJV CRAZY SISTER.
Horrible Tragedy Enacted Near Little
Town of Oconee, Ga.
Miss Addie Harrison, an old lady
living near Oconee, Ga., was murder
ed Friday night, her head being
crushed with a club.
Miss Harrison’s sister, Mrs. Joyner,
who is thought to he insane, is be
lieved to have committed the crime,
Mrs. Joyner has been living with
Miss Harrison.
SPANIARDS ARE RAPIDLY LEAV
ING HAVANA SUBURBS.
MANY ENCOUNTERS TAKE'PLACE.
American aud Cuban Plugs Are Being
Raised and Islanders Are
Overjoyed.
A special from Havana says: Tho
Spanish evacuation commissioners in
formed the American commissioners
Sunday evening that the Havana
suburbs Cerro aud J esus Del Monte
had been evacuated. Tho Spanish
troops left Jesus Del Monte at 5 o’clock
immediately after which American
and Cuban flags were raised, crackers
fired and the usual demonstrations
made by the large crowds iu honor of
the event.
When American and Cuban flags
were displayed from tbo houses on the
Calzeda del Cerro crowds rushed
through the streets shouting, “Vive
Cuba libre.”
A crowd of Cubans of the lower
class passed a barracks of engineers
<?n the Infanta avenue, shouting,
“Long live Cuba” and “Death to
Spain” aud firiug shots into the air in
celebration of the evacuation of Cerro.
The crowd then passed on from tho
Calzada del Monte to tho Calzada del
Cerro, stopping the street ears and
compelling the passengers to shout
“Viva Cuba libre.”
Jose Ganeedo and his cousin, Teo
doro Huertas, who were on the ears,
were wounded with knives. Ganeedo
died within a few hours aud Huertas
will probably die.
Later the crowd mot some engineers
at the Esq'uina deTajas and fired upon
them, seriously wounding one. The
engineers returned the fire, wounding
a street car conductor, a civilian, Iso
doro Basois aud John Leonard, a col
ored man.
The rioting continued, many shots
being fired in front of the Casade So
corro, where the wounded wore as
sisted.
Spanish soldiers were ordered to the
scene and arrived about 9 o’clock.
While marching through Cerro they
were fired upon by men concealed be
hind pillars.
One Spanish privates fired into the
air to scare the rioters. On resuming
their march they were again fired upon
and anotner man was hit. The Span
iards then firod and dispersed the riot
ers.
PRESIDENT IN SAVANNAH.
Troops Under Major Keifer Reviewed.
Banquet at the BeSoto.
President McKinley and his party
arrived at Savannah, Ga., at 11 o’clock
Saturday morning. They were met at
the depot by a tremendous crowd. The
Georgia Hussars acted as an escort to
the party to the parade grounds, where
n review of somo fourteen thousand
troops encamped about Savannah, un
der command of Major General Warren
Keifer, was held.
The streets from tlio depot to the
parade grounds were one mass of peo
ple.
The principal feature of the passage
through the streets was the great re
ception tendered General Joe Wheeler.
The doughty little general was kept
standing in his carriage almost the
entire length of the drive bowing his
acknowledgments to tho plaudits of
the crowd.
After the review there was a trip
down the river on tho pilot boat J. H.
Estell, and at night there was a grand
banquet at the DeSoto hotel, at which
the president and members of the cab
inet made speeches.
Notwithstanding Sunday was sup
posed to he a day of rest with the
presidential party, it was, as a matter
of fact, filled with interest and activ
ity. The feature of the day was the
president’s visit to the Georgia Agri
cultural and Mechanical college, the
institution for colored persons, sup
ported by the state of Georgia. Its
president, R. R. Wright, colored, wus
recently appointed by President Mc
Kinley a paymaster in the volunteer
army, with the rank of major, but lias
resigned and returned to the school.
There wefe no elaborate exercises con
nected with the visit of tho president
to the college.
MERRITT RETURNS.
General Comes Home Bringing Bride and
Mother-in-Law.
Major General Wesley United Mocrett, re
cently commander of States
military forces in tha Philippine
islands, from which post he was called
to Paris to consult with the American
peace' commission, reached New York
Saturday on hoard the steamer Luca
nia from Queenstown. With General
Merritt were his bride, her mother,
Mrs. Norman Williams, and Norman
Williams, Jr., ot Chicago, and Captain
L. H. Strother, aide-de-camp.
The General will resume command
of the military in the department of
the east.
TRAIN SMASHES WAGON.
Of the Eight Occupants Four Were Killed
and the Others Injured.
A New York dispatch says: A wag
on containing eight persons, all of one
family, was struck by a train on tbo
Pennsylvania railroad Friday night at
the Allenwood crossing, a feXv miles
from Manasquan, N. J., and four were
killed, two fatally injured and two
others seriously injured. in
Tho eight occupants were thrown
direction.
> »
HIS SPEECH IN ATLANTA AT
TRACTS MUCH ATTENTION.
GEORGIANS ARE HIGHLY PLEASED.
Suggestion In Ula Remarks as to Caro of
Confederate Graves Was
n Gracious Act.
A Washington special says: South
ern congressmen, with one accord,
commend in the moat friendly terms
tho suggestion made by tho president
at Atlauta Wednesday relative to na
tional uid in caring for the graves of
the southern heroes who gave up their
lives iu the war between the slates.
It is probable that a bill to carry out
the president’s suggestion will be in
troduced in the house at an early day.
It is genorAlly conceded that such a
measure should emanato from the re
publican side of the house. It is also
proposed to amend the act which des
ignates the 30th of May as the Na
tional Decoration Day, so that union
aud confederate graves may be strewn
with flowers, accompanied by appro
priate ceremonies, on the same day.
Georgia and South Carolina con
gressmen were especially friendly in
alluding to wliat they termed a magna
nimater on tho part of the president.
Judge Maddox remarked, with a dis
play of enthusiasm not often indulged
in by him: “President McKinley is
the best republican I know. It was
a gracious act on his part and I am
not surprised that tho sentiments he
expressed in Atlanta yesterday touch
ed the hearts of the southern people.
I can well understand the military
patriotism which fills the president
aud he was exceedingly happy in se
lecting the right time and place to
give voice to such expressions as he
gave utterance to.”
Colonel Lester applauded the presi
dent’s action by saying: “President
McKinley has such a nice way of do
ing nice things that I am not sur
prised at the sentiments he expressed
yesterday concerning the confederate
dead.”
Colonel Livingston, Representatives
Tate, Bartlett, Griggs, Lewis, Brant
ley and Fleming also Senators Bacon
and Clay, nil Georgians, expressed
their warm approval of the suggestion
made by tho president.
Representative Stokes, of South
Carolina, said: “In my opinion the
speech of President McKinley at At
lanta Wednesday was one which thor
oughly proves to the people of the
south the good will and fellowship of
our brothors in the north. I think it
was n very appropriate thing for the
occasion, and that it will bo highly
commended by the people throughout
the southern states. If this matter
be brought to tne hotico of the house
for approval and an appropriation, as
it most assuredly will, it will undoubt
edly be done by a member from the
north, either a republican or a demo
crat, though it would be preferable
for a republican to propose the matter,
a republican president having been the
originator and introducer of it.”
Confederate Veterans Thankful.
Veterans of tlie confederacy living
in Chicago are very enthusiastic over
the suggestion of President McKinley
that the national government should
assist in caring for the graves of
tho confederate dead. A telegram
heartily thanking the president for
for the steps he has taken in
that direction and indorsing his senti
ments was sent to Atlanta Thursday
by post 8 of the United Confederate
Veterans’ Association.
Gen. Gordon Flensed.
A dispatch from Riclqnond,Indiana,
where Gen. Gordon lectured Wednes
day night, says: General John B.
Gordon, of Georgia, said in an inter
view concerning President McKinley’s
speech at Atlanta: “I have read tho
speech with much interest and was
greatly delighted. It was probably a
great surpriso to somo of our people,
but. it was not so to me. I have kno wn
President McKinley for a great many
years and Lave bad tho profoundest
respect for him as a man and a patriot.
This Atlanta speech is ill entire keep
ing with what I lmvo known to lie his
liberal impulses toward the south for
a number of years. He is a very broad
man as well as a capable one.” ,
LEE’S FUNCTIONS DEFINED.
General’s Duties Will Be Strictly of a
Military Character.
The war department Thursday made
public the formal order providing for
the military government of Cuba. The
notable feature of the order is
that Major General Ludlow, who
is designated as military governor of
Havana city, while nominally subordi
nate to the division commander, Gen
eral Brooke, is apparently charged to
exercise all the civil functions in that
place under the direct authority of the
president. General Lee’s functions
appear to he limited to those ot n
strictly military character.
CONVENTION RILL SIGNED.
Gov. .Jolinston, of AliihamH, Approves Im
portant Measure.
A Montgomery, Ala., dispatch says:
Governor Johnston signed the consti
tutional convention bill Saturday
morning, using for that purpose the
gold pen in silver handle furnished by
Mr. II. I j. McKee, president of the
Alabama Commercial and Industrial
association, which organization took
a stand for the convention.
SUGGESTION BEAUS FRUIT,
A BUI for Recognition of Confederates
Introduced in tlie House.
A Washington dispatch says: In tbo
house, Friday, Representative Rixey,
of Virginia, introduced a bill for the
admission of Coufederate as well as
Union soldiers to all mddiers’ homes
and government institutions main
tained by the government. Although
somewhat iii line with the president’s
suggestion in his speech at Atlanta,
this referred to government care for
Confederate cemeteries, whereas the
Rixey hill refers to living ex-Confed
nee^ly. erntes who are “maimed, crippled or
” The text of tho hill is ns
follows:
"That after the passage of this act
all soldiers’ homes and other institu
tions maintained by the government
for the maimed, cripple and needy
soldiers ami sailors of the United
States shall be open to all soldiers
aild sailors of the civil war of 1861-65,
upon the same terms and without dis
tinetiiM^as to whether they were Union en
listed upon the side of the or
tho Confederacy.”
The bill was referred to the commit
tee on military affairs. A number of
the members of that committee and
some of the Republicans of the house
liavo assured Mr. Rixey of their sym
pathy for this measare and promised
their assistance when it shall come up
for consideration, especially now that
the president has taken the position
he has.
At a meeting of the senate commit
tee on privileges and elections Friday
the charges of bribery against Senator’
Hanna, mado by the Ohio state senate
in connection with the senator’s elec
tion to his present term of office, was
briefly discussed and referred to a
sub-committee consisting of Senators
Hoar, Spooner and Turley. The sub
committee will investigate the question
and practically decido how far it is
necessary to go into the matter. The
charges were tiled during the last ses
sion of congress and haiai not been
pressed by tlieir authors.
TOM MAN HER SEXTON TALKS.
Head of G. A. R. Favors Decorating: Graves
of Blue and Gray On Same Day.
A Philadelphia dispatch says: Col
onel James A. Bexton, of Chicago, na
tional commander of the Grand Army
of the Republic, attending a meeting
iu this city of the executive committee
of that organization, has declined to
disenss President McKinley’s sugges
tion in the speech at, Atlanta that the
national government should care for
tho Coufederate soldiers’ graves as it
now cares for the graves of thoso who
fought on the union side.
When asked for an expression on
the subject, Colonel Bexton said he
would rather, at this time, not discuss
the mutter.
Regarding tho proposition that the
snme day should bo observed os Me
morial Day by both north and south,
the colonel said there could certainly
be no objection to the idea, and he
tlioug’t such a stop would go a great
way toward obliterating so-called see
tional lines.
Continuing on this subject, Colonel
Sexton said:
“I made the suggestion over two
years ago to have the blue and tlie
grny unite on tlie same day for the
purpose of memorializing tho soldier
dead. In Chicago, Iliehmond, Ya.;
New Orleans and Atlanta, Ga., they
follow this course now. Thore are
6,000 confederate soldiers buried in
Chicago and many comrades have con
tributed to the erection of a monu
ment over their graves. At the time
this monument was dedicated on
Memorial Day the commander of
Massachusetts declared against it on
the ground that Memorial Day be
longed to union men. I was then
prompted to come out and take issue
with the commander and felt it my
duty to do so, especially as my post,
Columbia No. 706, of Chicago, took
part in tlie dedication.”
DESPERADO DIES OF WOUNDS.
Bol> Brewer, Colored, Escapes the Gallows
at Jessup. Ga.
Bob Brewer died in the Jessup, Ga.,
jail Friday from tho effects of the
wounds he received by tho sheriff’s
posse that captured him somo days
ago. of
Thus ends tho career a most
nojed desperado. There was no dis
position on the part of the people to
lynch him, ns was published in some
sensational papers, but they were con
tent to allow the law to take its course.
ATLANTA PIONEER DEAD.
Johnathan Norcross Crosses tho River at.
the Age of Ninety-One.
Johliathan Norcross, tho very first
settler of Atlanla, and often called the
“Father of Atlanta,” passed peace
fully away at his home in that city
Sunday night. While his illness was
of short duration, his death has been
expected for some months. He was in
his ninety-first year and his death was
attributed to old age.
The old gentleman had been con
fined to his home the greater part of
his time for several years. He was
very feeble and was able to go around
but little.
CONSUL GENERAL CORDEN
Will Represent the Interests of Great
Britain at Havana,
The Tall Mall Gazette (London)
says Lionel G. Cordon, British consul
at the City of Mexico, has been ap
pointed consul general of Great Britain
at Havana. Mr. Gordon occupied the
same position in Cuba, where, about
fifteen years ago, he married an Amer
ican lady.
NO. 48.
MEMBERS LEAVE PARIS BOUND
FOR THE UNITED*STATES.
SPAIN WILL DELAY RATIFICATION
Opposition of Solons In Washington to
the Treaty Is Rapidly Fad
ing Away.
A Taris special suys: Tho entira
American peace commission left for
tho Uhited States via Havre aud’
Southampton Thursday night, and
will sail for New York on board the
American Line steamer St. Louis.
It is learned that Agoncillo, tha
representative of Aguinaldo, the Phil
ippine leader, has lodged a strongly
worded protest with the commission,
which thus becomes part of the re
cords. It begins with saying that
“The very noble arul gallant General
Aguinaldo, president of the Philip
pine republic,” had honored him
with “the post of official representa
tive to the very honorable president
of the United States.”
Agoncillo then' reviews the case at
length, sayiug that at the time of
“imploring the armed co-operation of
Aguinaldo and other Philippine
chiefs,” both the commander of the
Petrel, Captain Wood, in Hong Kong,
before the declaration of war, and the
American consuls general, Pratt, in
Singapore, Wildman, at Hong Kong,
aud Williams at Cavite, acting as the
international agents of the great Ameri
can nation, at a moment of great
anxiety, offered to recognize the inde
pendence of the Filipino nation.
Spaniard* Delay Ratification.
A semi-official note issued at Madrid
Thursday says:
“As the American senate must rati
fy the treaty of peace before it be
comes effective, our government should
wait for this ratification and not has
ten to cede territory which the United
States may not accept.”
Opposition Subsiding.
A Washington special says: It looks
now as if the opposition to the ratifi
cation of the peace treaty which was
expected in the senate will evaporate
before the matter comes up for dis
cussion. That it will be made the
subject of considerable discussion bear
ing ou the question of territorial ex
pansion is a foregone conclusion, but
it is almost a certainty that no attempt
of any forco will be made to defeat
tbo treaty.
It is possible that there may he no
vote aguinst ratification, the under
standing being the settlement of the
question of expansion will not be in
volved in the treaty. This situation
is likely t„ be brought about by many
PO nsiderations, but chiefly by the fact
t h«t Mr. Bryan ad vises his friends
against making a fight on the treaty,
The fact that in the south a celebra
tion ^J^io signing of the treaty is be
ing lie! made the ofi
casion oTYun dottiest patriotism; also
contributes greatly to the stifling of
the opposition to the treaty. The op
position in the senate comes chiefly
from supporters of Mr. Bryan, largely'
southern men. A canvass of the
senate discloses that up to a few
days ago there was nearly or quite a
two-thirds vote in favor of the ratifi
cation and that the opposition out of
the republicans was confined to prob
ably not more than three men.
Tho most determined opponents
were men who were closest to Mr.
Bryan of all iii congress. It is under
stood that the presentation of the ease
in favor of ratification made by Mr.
Bryan, who at the same time urges
against expansion, together with the
demonstration of joy in the south over
the signing of the treaty, has made an
impression upon ibis opposition. The
chances now seem to be that the fire
against expansion will be postponed
until after the treaty has been ratified.
It will come up when legislation for
the government of the islands is pro
posed, and that will not be before next
congress. Meanwhile the opposition
is likely to he confined chiefly to de
bate.
Both parties are at this time to some
extent divided ou the question regarded of ex
pansion, but it is generally
as certain that the Republicans al
most to a asan will support whatever
policy is finally adopted by the admin
istration.
PEDIMENTS FOR PHILIPPINES.
Five Regiments Are Ordered to Begin
Preparation*, But No Date Is Named,
Orders were issued nt Washington
Friday for the immediate preparation
of the following named regiments of
regular infantry for service in the
Philippines:
Twelfth nt Jefferson barracks; Twen
ty-second at Fort Crook, Neb.; Third
at Fort Snelling, Minn.; Seventeenth
at Columbus barracks, Ohio, and
Fourth nt Fort Sheridan, Ill. In each
case tho orders state that the date of
embarkation apd point of sailing have
not yet been decided and depend
upon the transportation facilities
which may become available.
RIOS BACK AT MADRID.
President of Spanish Peace Commission
Has Audience With Queen.
Advices from Madrid state that
Senor Montero Rios and tho other
members of the Spanish peace com
mission reached the city late Saturday
evening. They were met by many
politicians and high officials. Their
arrival was not attended with special
incident.
Sunday evening the queen regent
received Senor Rios in audience.