Newspaper Page Text
i
I rl r\ IVlvJrVLNliNvj v >/\ Ijl
Vol IX No. 194.
WAR BEGINS SATURDAY.
————
fgx y RESIDENT SIGNS THE WAR
RESOLUTION YESTERDAY-
:
HE ‘ i,
Spain it Told That Her Answer to
the United States Must be Mede
by Saturday Morning.
i# v 4 4- jt i
Washington, April 20 —The Coban
resolution is now a- law of the land
and ultimatum to Spain an accotn
plitbed fact. . j ;
Tbs president, al 11 :2* o’clock, fix
* ed bis signature to tbe joint resolution
of congress requiring Spain to evaqu
ate tbe island of Cuba. ..
'lJwe ultimatam mean while bad beta
prepared at tbe state department by
Assistant Secretary Day, and at 11 :30
o’clock announcement was made el
tbe white boose tbst it had been sign
ed by the president and bad been sent
to the Spanish government.
The ultimatum was brought over to
tbe white bouse about 10:30 o'clock by
Assistant Secretary Day, who wont
over it with President McKinley be
fore tbe latter affixed bis signature. -J
After tbe public announcement, As
sistant Secretary Day. said that tbe nl
timatutu had been transmitted this
morning to Madrid, addressed to
United States Minister Woodford, who.
delivers it te the Spanish government.
As soon as the final determination
to send it bad been reached and it
had been started on its way to Madrid,
Senor Polo deßernabe, the Spanish
minister, in accordance with diplomat
ic courtesies, was furnished a copy of
tbe paper by the colored messenger of
Assistant Secretary Day.
The minister, as soon as he received
it, made a brief reply and requested
bis passports.
It was said at the white house that
the terms of tbe ultimatum would hot
be made public until tomorrow. It
consists largely of a diplomatic para
phrase of the joint resolution of con
gress, concluding with a statement
that this government awaits Spain’s
W Tbe ultimatum gives Spain utrtH
Saturday to answer.
It also states in emphatic language
that unless tbe demands made in the
resolution are met by that hour tbe
president of tbe United States will
without a minute’s delay call upon
tbe land and naval forces cf this
government to put them in execution.
Conscious that Spain will reject tbe
demand of congress and spun the
president’s ultimatum, every branch
of this government is busy today to
carry out tbe instructions of tbe bouse
and senate to expel tbe Spanish from
the island of Cuba.
Tbe navy department is arranging
details for tbe blockade of Cuban and
Porto Rican ports.
Tbe war department is figuring
upon the movement of troops. Con*
grew is discussing a bill providing for
the enlistment of a volunteer army of
60,D00 to be enlisted immediately, and
the president, the commander in-chief
of thc-army and navy simply awaits
congressional authority to place the
national guard where it can be trans
ported to Cuba at a few hours’ notice.
Open warefare will begin on Satur
day afternoon. Spain is given until
midnight Saturday, Madrid time, or 7
o’clock Saturday morning, Washington
time, to make answer to tbe president's
ultimatum. •
Tbe belief is general in diplomatic
circles that Spain will decline to make
any answer at all, ip which case tbe
fleet will be put in hostile motion
Saturday, tbe army and navy being
directed to move on Cuba.
Tbe present intentions of tbe preai
dent is to appoint General Fitzhugh
Lee major general at tbe bead of tbe
volunteer force. When asked by the
president what be wanted or what
suggestions he bad to make regarding
his own disposition, General Lee re
yponded:
4 T should like to ride at tbe head of
the first column which enters Hava*
na”
*
When Traveling
Whether on pleasure bent, or business,
take on every trip a bottle of Syrup of Figs,
as it acts most pleasantly and effectually
on the kidneys, liver, and bowels, prevent
ing fevers, headaches, and other' forms of
sickness. For sale in 60 cent bottles by
all leading druggists. Manufactured by
the California Fig Syrup Company only.
CA.STOHXA.
Tta tie-
COL. BEARCY FORGETFUL
' ...
Does Mot Remember That Monroe De
feated Boynton for Governor.
Editor Gall: Tn 4 letter tn . the
Griffin News of Ibis morning, giving
Spalding county should
support Berner for Governor, Mr. VV.
El H. Searcjf saye, (and It is the qi ly
really good reason advanced), "that
Spalding shock! support Banter $•-
osuse Monroe couotyhas
portod
- ArorilotegMe IMM this county to
the only GdwpaU)fiai cqpveniion in
which Spaldidf'-i Barf over offered a
name for tbe office,4van well remem
tar (feat the vppeMEqa to Governor
Boynton beaded by the delegates
Mpnroe cqunty, Thomas B.
OHfineOs tt HgWMgg county was the
chairmafcal the Bacon caocus and it
was Monroe more than any other doz
en counties which choice
of Spalding. He omh-
mittee which was finally SpyMotefi to
break the deadlock -M at' atiy mo*|
ment in convention M in committee
the gentleman from -Monroe could
have nominated Judge Boynton, but
tbe delegation from Monroe bitterly
headed the opposition to Boynton and
wese the moving factors in nominat
ing McDaniel after failing to beat
Boynton with Bacon, .
Mr. Searcy i* very unfortunate as a
letter writer, and in this instance has
made a great mistake, as tbe facts
mentioned above are matters of histo
ry, and 100 fresh in our -minds to be
forgotten and tbe bitterness of Monroe
to Spalding too great for too early for.
giveneee. Fair Play.
Griffin, Ga., April 20th.
Battle Twenty Thousands Years Ago-
Twenty thousands years ago, accord
ing to the announcement of Prof.
Walters, tbe archaeologist, in tbe Now
York Sun, a terrible battle was fought
on tbe Arkansas River, in tbe Indian
Territory, between tbe mound build
ers and the Mayas, in which over I
75,000 warrors bit tbe duel. He has
reaebnd thia remarkable oMplusiou on
account of his investigations of a pre
historic burying ground in tbe Choc
taw Indian country, which be ha®
found to cover thirty acres and to
contain fully 75,000 skeletons. His
attention was first called to the re
markable number of human skeletons
to be found there several months ago,
when the Kansas City, Pittsburg and
Gulf Railway was built through the
Choctaw country. Tbe workmen, in
grading, brought to light tons of hu
man bones and a remarkable number
of implements of savage warfare, and
Prof. Walters sat about to investigate
the matter scientifically. To bis amaze
ment be found a large tract literally
underlaid with these relics of a forgot
ten race.
Tbe skulls were pierced with darts
or arrow beads, one specimen contain
ing thirteen moss agate arrow points.
This proved that they died in battle.
Tbe skeletons were found buried in
geological periods. These facts ena
bled Prof. Walters to compute approx
imately tbe period whan tbe battle
occurred. He has compared these
facts just learned with the result of
seventeen years previous study of tbe
mound builders, and formed tbe theo
ry that tbe battle wap one of a long
series of sanguinary encountars be
tween that mysterious race and the
Mayas, which latter race came from
Central and South America and
sought to gain popsession of North
America.
Grocery Stores to Close at Six O'clock.
We, the undersigned retailed gro
cerymen of Griffin, agree to close our
places of business at 6 o’clock p. m ,
sun time, from tbe Ist day of May to
the Ist day of September, 1898, Satur
days excepted ; tbe term of the mili
tary encampment, if one is held, also
excepted:
R. H. Drake, < J. M. Bears,
J. M. Leach A Co., M. M. Jones,
G. W. Clark & Bon, S. H. Deape,
W. H. Baker, T. M. Berry,
J. J. Elder A Son, B. R. Blakely,
E. 8. McDowell, A. B. Clark.
CASTORIA
■
For Infanta and Children. 7
//W *•
To Core Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or Se.
« a C. CftSto sare. druggists refund money
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 21, 1898.
WILL CALL OUT 80,000 MEH-
Initial Request Will Giro the State
Militia the Preference Generally.
Washington, April 19—The wag
department bill to provide for tempo
rarily increasing the military estab
lishment in time of war was sent today
to Chairman Hull, of the house mili
tary affairs committee, and Senator
Hawley, the chairman of a similar
committee in the senate.
Th* measure was prepared under
the immediate supervision of Assistant
Secretary Meiklejohn, after a thorough
and careful study of tbe best interests
of tbe service. -
In transmitting the bill to congress
A request is made for favorable consid
eration, and in view of tbe exigencies
of the situation, speedy action is ex
oec ted
th time of war the army is to con
sist of two branches, tbe regular and
tbe volunteer army, the latter to be
aaainteined only during the existence
of ewer or while war is imminent, and
»<• be Mised and organized only ah
ter congress authorizes it. All enlist
ments for the volunteer army are to
be for three years unless sooner termi
nated. All tbe regimental and com
pany officers of the volunteer army
are to be appointed . by the* president
upon the recommendations of gover
nor of state in which their*' respective
organizations are raised.
Concerning the national guard, it is
provided that when tbe members of
any company or regiment of the orv
ganized militia shall enlist in tbe vol
unteer army in a body, as such com
pany or regiment, the regimental and
company officers in service with the
militia organization thus enlisting
may be appointed by tbe president
subject to an eriUnination as to fitaste
and capacity to be officers of corres
ponding grades in tbe same organiza
tion when it is received in th* service
as a part of tbe volnoliser army.
Tbe troops in time of war, whether
belonging to tbe regular or volunteer
army or to tbe military, are to be or
gawlsed iwto divisions at three bri
gades, each brigade to be composed of
three or more regiments, and when
three or more divisions are assembled
in tbe same army, tbe president is to
organize them into army corps, each
corps to consist of not more than three
divisions.
The president is to appoint in the
volunteer army no.t exceeding one
major-general for each organized army
corps and division and brigadier gen
eral for each brigade to be selected
from the regular or volunteer army or
the militia.
Provisions for the Cubans.
A carload of provisions, subscribed
by tbe liberal-hearted and charitable
citizens of Columbus, passed through
this city over tbe Southern yesterday,
enroute for Atlanta, from which place,
it is supposed, it will go to New York
and there be leaded on a ship and
sent to tbe starving reconcentradoes.
The car was very appropriately tabled
“Supplies for tbe Starving Cubans
from Columbus, Ga ”
We tbiuk a movement in this direc
tion should be inaugurated in Griffin,
and we feel sure that tbe “Gem City”
could do as well as tbe “Queen City?’
For Firing in City.
Officer Flynt arrested George Mur
phey, colored, Tuesday night for firing
a pistol within the city limits, and
gave him a night’s lodging in tbe city
prison.
Both the city judge and mayor be
ing out of town, Murphey was tried
before the mayor pro tem> Dr. Jno. L-
Moore yesterday morning.
He plead guilty end was sentenced
to work upon tbe county roads for
sixty days, or pay a fine of S2O.
It is more than probable that Mur
phey will go to the gang.
Mrs- Cleveland's Mew Portraits-
Mrs. Cleveland recently bad a new
set of photographs taken, tbe first
time she has bten photographed since
leaving the White house, and has giv
en them to Mr. Bok, with permission
to publish them in Tbe Ladies’ Home
Journal, where they will be publicly
seen for the first time. The set also
includes the {first authoritative photo
graphs published of tbe new Prince
ton home of the Clevelands.
OAgn.'QrfLi,.
as
fl'll i |' 111 ISM
■coy mmkmm looti puro>
* 1
Ba xw
Jt *
ftOYAKAKINQ POWDER CO., MW YORK
u usU
The Naffiber of the Insurgents.
There hot appear to bs any re
liable Information in respect to the
number of inmed insurgents in Cuba
A few daymago it was stated on what
appeared to be good authority that it
wa” between 80,000 and 35,000. A
Washington dispatch contains tbe
statement that the president doesn’t
believe the number is more than 5,000,
and Thomae R. Dawley, Jr., who was
a long time,correspondent in Cabs for
Harper’s Weekly, gives it as bls opin
ion that th|b number does not exceed
2,000.
If there aye not more than 2,000 or
even s,ooo, farmed Insurgents it seems J
as if Spain .mould have no difficulty in
restoring hfr authority. She has sent
more than 200,000 troops CO the island
and after tbme years of War she is no
nearer master of the situation than she
was throe rionths after the war began.
The only exclusion is that ber cam
paigna agajpat the Insurgents have
been badlyqnanaged or else the insur
gent forces are much stronger than
they are reported to be. If they do
not number more tbkn 5,000, the re
cognition «I tbe Cuban Republic by
the UniteAStatea would be a rather
remarkabiq precedent to establish.
The fact probably is that the Span
iards bavrinot pushed the fighting in
Cuba. Tyr generals have found it
more’comrnrtable to remain fb Hatanh
and send out small detachments of
troops to make a show of fighting. If
the insurgents are no more numerous
than they are reported to be an able
and thoroughly honest Spanish gener
al, with tbe force at bis disposal, ought
to be able to bring the war to a close in
a very few weeks.
It is reported that Gen. Lee has said
that he would undertake to pacify the
island in short order if given a force of
25,000 American soldiers, and there is
not much room for doubt that he
would be successful.
In the event of a war between the
United States and Spain hostilities
would not last long, unless tbe Spanish
forces should show greater anxiety to
fight than they have in their contest
with the insurgents.—Savannah News.
WK
Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys
tem effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habituaß
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro
duced, pleasing to the taste ana ao
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial m its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthyana agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50
joent bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
snbstitute.
murmmm m srwpn
9M HtAKMW. CAL.
uumau. kt. kw ro»K. al
Zdoe«t» Your Bowela With Casearot*.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever.
Dc,9Sc. If C.C.C. tail, druggists refund money.
R.F.Strickland&Co.
Dry Goods and Shoes,
Reliable in Quality,
LOWEST IN PRICE.
ALL THE LATEST NOVELTIES IN MUSLINS, LAWNS, WHITE GOODS
AND ORGANDIES NOW. IN STOCK.
NEW LINE OF RIBBONS IN PLAIN AND DOUBLE FACE BATIN, ALL
COLORS AND WIDTHS.
MOUBELIN DE BOIR, ALL COLORS, AT
CHILDRENS LISLE HOSE, BLACK OR TAN, 26c.
NEW STOCK BABIES CAPS 26c. TO gl.oo,
CHILDRENS SAILOR HATS 26c. AND 50p.
BOYS STRAW HATS, NEW SHAPES, 25c., 50c. AND 75c.
MENS STRAW HATS, ALL STYLES, 26c. TO $1.50.
MENS NEGLIGEE SHIRTS 50c. TO SI.OO.
SHOE DEPARTMENT
150 PAIRS BLACK OR TAN OXFORDS, BIZIS 2j TO 5, WORTH SIXO
AND $125, SPECIAL AT 50c.
100 PAIRS OF GENUINE DONGOLA SHOES, 2) TO 4, BUTTON OR
LACE, WORTH $1.25 AND $1.50, SPECIAL 75c. AND SI.OO. DON’T MISS
THIS SALE t
R. F. STRICKLAND & CO.
- SHOES ,■
- ' ...
IN MENS SHOES WE HAVE THE LATEST STYLES—COIN TOES,
GENUINE RUSSIA LEATHER CALF TANS, CHOCOLATES AND GREEN
AT $2 TO SBXO PER PAIR.
IN LADIES OXFORDS WE HAVE COMPLETE LINE IN TAN, BLACK
AND CHOCOLATE, ALSO -TAN AND BLACK 8A ND ATS RANGING IN
PRICE FROM 75C.T0 $2. ’
ALSO TAN, CHOCOLATE AND BLACK SANDALS AND OXFORDS IN
CHILDREN AND MISSES SIZES. AND CHILDREN AND MTSRRS TAN LACW
«OEBJLND RltACfc _ /J ?
MP W.
■■ JLw ■» mXu VaJmSl nJtwMJaw
WE HAVE IN A LINE OF
SAMPLE STRAW HATS.
Pianos and Organs.
J. H. Huff has several Second Hand Pianos
and Organs to seH CHEAP for OASH or rent.
All the latest popular hits in Sheet Music
on hand.
ELTTFin.
1 rfwimnaaiiL
EDWARDS BROS.
RACKET STORE.
<O) ‘
RACKET STORE PRICES!
1 paper of Pina, 10.
1 good lead Pencil, Ic.
1 Thimble, Ic.
16 Hair Pina, Ic, -
3 Collar Buttons Ic.
8 Envelope* 10.
1 spool button hole Twist Ic.
1 Tablet Ic.
1 package of good Envelopes, 3c.
1 paper gold-eyed Needles 3c.
1 paper brass Pins Sc.
1 spool machine Silk Thread 3c.
1 spool machine cotton Thread (200
yards) 3c. '
1 card safety Hook and Eyes 3c.
1 good handkerchief 3c.
■
EDWARDS BROS.
Tex Cents per Week
12 safety Pine Bc.
9 Collar Buttons So.
1 good Ink Tablet Bc.
1 bunch Whale Bones 4c.
144 rice Buttons 4c. g
1 spool Coats Thread, 4c.
1 rubber dressing Comb 4c.
1 large pencil Tablet 4c.
1 quire of good Note Paper, 4c.
Gents Linen Collars 10c.
Ladies Linen Collars 10c.
Ladies and gents Bilk Club Ties XOe
Excellent Hoee'and Half Hose Wo
Will save yon money on a thousand
articles of every day use.