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PRESIDENT KRUGER
GIVES UP HIS CHAIR
Transvaal Republic Without
an Executive Now.
DISPUTE OVER MONOPOLY
••(Join Paul” and the Members of tile
Volksraad Couldn't Agree on Cer«
taiu Dynamite Concessions, Hence
the Former's Resignation.
Cape Town, July 25.—Advices have
been received here confirming the re
port that President Kruger of the South
A^ficau republic has resigned owing to
differences between himself and mem
bers of the volksraad.
President Kruger had been absent
from the government building since
Friday and it was understood that
owing to the opposition shown him by
the executive council and the volksraad
regarding the questions of the Johannes
burg fort and the dynamite monopoly,
be had arrived at the conclusion that he
no longer possessed the volksraad's con
fidence and threatened to resign
Yesterday, however, a deputation, in
cluding General Jouberr, the vice presi
dent; Herren Schalk und Burger and
the chairman of the volksraad, waited
upon President Kruger and induced
him to attend a secret session of the
yo'ksraad, which lasted over three hours.
Meanwhile an anxious crowd bad as
sembled outside the building, waiting
expectantly to learn the outcome of
what was regarded as a momentous de
bate.
Late last evening it was announced
that the volksraad had finally assured
the president that it had the utmost
coufideuco in him. It was known, how
ever, that a majority of the members of
the volksraad still differed with the
president on the dynamite monopoly
question, and his action today in
signing is the result.
Reports regarding the resignation of
President Kruger are coutiictihg, but
according to the best information he
actually resigned office conditionally.
The volksraad, while maintaining its
opposition to President Kruger’s views
on the dynamite concession, has given
its assurance that it still has the utmost
confidence in President Kruger and it is
believed that he has withdrawn his res
ignation.
As to the difference of opinion on the
quesion of the dynamite concession,
General P. J. Joubert, vice president ot'
the republic, and the majority of the
volksraad favor cancellation of the mo
nopoly, while President Kruger sup
ports it. The minority of the volksraad
desires to buy out the company.
ROOT AT WAR DEPARTMENT.
The New Secretary Galls on General
Alger la Washington.
Washington, July 25.—Secretary Al
ger attended the meeting of the cabinet
today, but had no special war depart
ment business to submit. Tonight he
will leave Washington to be absent un
til Aug. I, the date when is resignation
takes effect. 31 r. 31eiklejobn will be
acting secretary until that time.
Mr. Root, the new secretary, called at
the war department today and wai
with Secretary Alger some time dis
cussing matters relating to the depart
ment. Assistant Secretary Meiklejohn
called upon Mr. Root this morning at
the Arlmgtou and again met him in the
office of the secretary.
It was expected that the bureau chiefs
of the war department would meet Mr.
Root tonight, but at his suggestion tho
meeting was deferred until ho actually
became secretary. Mr. Root’s commis
sion has already been made out, bearing
date Arc 1 .
TWO niSTAKLS,
ROOT IN THE ROLE OF
COLONIAL SECRETARY
New Possessions to Have His
Suecial Attention.
ALGER’S JOB FOR ANOTHER
President Believes the Time Hus Come
When the Cubans Should Be Given
a Chance to Show What They Can
I>o In Way of Self Government.
Washington, July 24.—Elihu Root,
tho new secretary of war, will spend
his first evening at the White House as
thTguest of the president tonight. Ho
will dine with the president and spend
the remainder of the evening discussing
with him aud probably some of the
members of the cabinet the important
duties which will devolvo upon him as
the new head of the war department. It
is not improbable that the near fntnre
will see 3Ir. Root in the position of co
lonial secretary and a new man at the
head of the war department.
The entire colonial policy will doubt
less be gone over at this conference, but
Cuba, contrary to expectations, will
probably receive more attention than
the war in the Philippines. Of course,
Mr. Root will have a voice in all mat
ters relating to tho conduct of the war,
but the president desires him to give
particular attention to the many com
plicated legal questions involved in the
change from tho military to the civil
control of the dependencies. The presi
dent will continue to give close personal
attention with the assistance of Adjut
ant General Corbin to the purely mili
tary work connected with the campaign
in tho Philippines.
The question of the future of Cuba
will receive the immediate attention of
Mr. Root. The president believes the
time has come for doing something in
the dire nion of establishing a civil and
independent government in Cuba. He
wants to have a policy well defined, so
that he will be able to tell congress in
his forthcoming annual report what the
future attitude of this country toward
Cuba should be.
He had an interview yesterday with
General Charles Garcia, son of the old
general, in regard to the question of
holding conventions for the elections in
Cuba preliminary to the establishment
of an independent form of government.
General Garcia came here to secure au
thority from the president for taking
steps through the medium of suffrage
for the establishment of an independent
form of government and thus prepare
the way for complete political control
of the inland.
The president believes the time has
come to give the Cubans a trial at self
government and ho wants Mr. Root to
take hold of this matter und formulate
plans whereby tho Cubans will have an
opportunity to establish some kind of
government which this country can
recognize. It is this class of work, in
volving a knowledge of constitutional
and international laws, which influ
enced the president in the determina
tion to have a lawyer instead of a sol
dier at the head otji the department,
Eventually it is the president’s expecta
tion that there will »be a new depart
ment to have direct control of all the
affairs pertaining to tho colonies.
Mr. Root will be expected to do the
work of a colonial secretary rather than
a war secretary, pending tho establish
ment by congress of the proposed new
department. Probably in tho future he
may be transferred to tho control of the
new department, if it is authorized.
Mr. Root, of course, will have much
to do With tho Philippine war, but the
president will naturally depend more
upon his advice for substituting a civil
for a military government in the Phil
ippines when the time conies for snch
action than ho will upon his assistance
in connection with tho military cam-
mien.
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HOKE SMITH RAISES
VOICE AGAINST WAR
No Spread of Philanthrophy
With Gatling Guns.
SAYS SOUTH CONDEMNS IT
Former Secretary of the Interior, Not,
In Washington, Give, Ili, View, an
tho Campaign Being Conducted In
the Philippine Island,.
Washington, July 24.—Ex-Secretary
of the Interior Hoke Smith was inter
viewed on the subject of the campaign
in the Philippine, and said:
“Nine-tenths of the people in onr sec
tion are opposed to continuing the war.
The sentiment all over the south, I be
lieve, is overwhelmingly against trying
to retain the islands. The Filipinos are
fighting for liberty in the same way that
we did 100 years ago and the American
peoplo are already tick and tired of tho
slaughter going ou there.
“I am not in favor of having onr
troops leave the iilands with an armed
force lined up against them, but that
would not be necessary. If we would
avow our intention of leaving the islands
to the natives and abandoning our at
tempt at sovereignty the fighting would
stop at once. Then after we had as
sisted in establishing a government, if
the natives so wished, onr troops conld
properly be withdrawn. If the next pres
idential campaign were to be waged
solely on the issne of continuing the
war, the opposition candidate would
carry the country."
It was snggested that tho insnrroction
might be pnt down in the meantime.
Tho word “insurrection” seemed to dis
please Mr. Smith, who replied:
"There isn’t any insurrection. There
is simply an invading armv trying to
conquer a spirited people and it will be
impossible, as I behove and hope, to put
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SIX ITALIANS STRUNG
UP AT TALLULAH, LA
Wholesale Lynching Follows
Attempt at Murder.
PROMINENT DOCTOR SHOT
A Slob Quickly Organizes and Wreaks
Summary Vengeance on the Would-
Be Slayer and Five of Ills Alleged
Accomplices.
them down. We will no sooner think
we have dono it than there will be an
other outbreak. President McKinley
entirely misunderstood the sentimentof
our people ou the question when he vis
ited the south. Ho made a speech in
Atlanta before a great throng, in which
bo asked the citizens if they wanted to
see our soldiers turn their backs on tho
American flag in the east, and they an
swered no. What else could they say
when the question was pat in that way?
“We can leave tho Philippines with
out leaving the flag or running irom au
enemy. 1 am opposed to soreadiug
philanthropy with a Gatling gun.”
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Any one’ may write to him for advice; which
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State Reunion at CIi *t«*r Will Ho
Important Gathering.
Chester, S. C., July 25.—The stato
reunion of confederate veterans at Ches
ter this week will consider a questiou,
not only of great interest to themselves,
but to ihe taxpayers of the state. As is
well known tho stato only appropriates
flOO.OoO lor pensions, and certain classes
of old soldiers and their widows are de
fined who shall receive certain amounts.
These amounts are small enough, but
tho state can do no hotter at present for
them.
If the moray were available probably
every soldier who fought for the Con
federacy would get a pension from the
state just as northern soldiers do from
the national government. But that is
impossible now. Nevertheless, accord
ing to the testimony of veterans, there
are many persons oil tho pension rolls
who are not entitled by law to any
thing, and many a deserving soldier
goes without even the small pittance
because others have taken advantage of
the law’ and succeeded in having their
names placed ou the rolls.
The confederate veterans have taken
up the question, and at the meeing in
Cheater they will probably devise some
scheme whereby only deserving persons
shall cu joy the benefits of the peusiou
law. It is a question full of difficulties,
bnt if the veterans devise some practica
ble law it will no doubt bo adopted by
the legislature.
Nash Ordered to 3Icl*lierson.
Washington, July 2d. — James R.
Nash, recently appointed first lieuten
ant in the volunteer army, has been
ordered to report for duty with the
Twenty ninth regiment, being recruited
at Fort McPherson, Ga.
During a tbr?doi*iorm at Berlin 40
persons who were leai.in? against a wire
railing at the Cham tt mburg cycle
track were struck by I4 ht iing. Three
were killed and 20 seven lv iniurecL
New Orleans, July 21.—A special
dispatch from Tallulah, La., brings
meager details today of a sensational
wholesale lynching last night following
a dastardly attempt at murder, but the
names of those who were lynched are at
present unobtainable. They were all
Italians.
Yesterday Dr. Hodges, a prominent
physician of Tallnlab, became involved
in an altercation with an Italian and
the latter pumped a load of birdshot
into the bowels of the physician, seri
ously wounding him. The wounding
of Dr. Hodges created intense excite
ment in Tallulah and the surrounding
country and a mob was immediately or
ganized to wreak vengeance upon the
would-be murderer and several of his
alleged accomplices.
Last night the mob rounded *up the
would-be assassin and five of his friends
and strung the entire half dozsn to
trees and then filled their bodies with
buckshot.
Dr. Hodges is sinking rapidly and
there is little chance for his recovfry.
Tallulah is a town of several hundred
inhabitants, in Madison parish, 17 miles
away from the river. It is in the heart
of the best cotton producing section of
the state and many men prominent in
state affairs are resident there and on
the surrounding plantations.
Wilson Caught In Kansas.
Charleston, July 26.—At Topq£a,
Kan., tho executive department has
bouored a requisition issned by the gew-
ernor of South Carolina for Charles
Wilson, who is wantod here for tho
murder of Theodore P. Godfrey on Nov.
1, 1898. Soon after the commission of
tho crime Wilson wont to Kuntas. He
was located at Garnet a few days ago
and was nrrosted yesterday. He will
be brought back at once.
Towing Concerns at War.
Jacksonville, Fla., July 26.—.An in
teresting fight is being waged between
tho towing companies of this city and
of Brunswick, Ga., which promises to
he lively before peace shall be declared.
The Brunswick people olaim the Jack-
vuv-rru invaded their terri-
mVon mm,.-, to retaliate.
LEAVING AMERICUS!
On Seot, 1st I will move away from Ameri
cas. and now offer my entire stock of Shoes,
Hats and Gents’ Famishing Goods lor sale;
also the lease of store I now occupy. The
freight on money is ' much less than it is on
goods, therefore, in order to save the trouble
and expense of packing and moving my stock
I have decided to throw it on the market* and
give the people of Americus and surrounding
country an opportunity to buy nice clean
SHOES, HATS and
FURNISHING GOODS
At Prices Never Before Heard of in
Americus.
The time is short, and I would therefore sug
gest that ycu come ciuick and buy all that
you expect to need for this Summer, Fall
and Winter, as it will mean dollars in your
pocket.
NO GOODS DELIVERED WITHOUT THE CASH
Thanking the people of Americus .for their
kind patronage in the past,
I am very truly yours,
W. D. BAILEY.