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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has given its assurance that it still has the utmost confidence in President Kruger and it is believed that he has withdrawn his res ignation.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. VETS TO ACT ON PENSIONS. NUMBER 14 Baking Powder Makes the food more delicious and wholesome WOVAt lAKINO EOWPtW CO., SEW VOW*. 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 ...III .. .. ...... 1. 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.” W.< L. DOUGLAS’, for Men and Boys. H. C. GODMAN CO.’S, fo. Ladies and Children, More Service, Comfort and Better Styles for less than any other Shoes made. " ioes made. _ flcflATH BROS. consumption almost before you are aware of it; tiie other is when the trouble is at last discovered and fully realized to give up hope too soon. throat vital these bronchial ailments the instant they appear; neve? wait till* to - morrow. The right remedy taken now may save months of severe ill ness. Ou the other hand if the illness has ady come upon you; and you find your- icened,'wasted and discouraged, do >t lose hope. There is a medicine that will rtainly restore you to health and strength. My boy was in a very bad way when I l to give him Dr. Bierce’s Golden Medical Discovery," writes J. W. Price, Ksq., of Ozark, Monroe Co.. Ohio, in a recent letter to Dr. R. V. Pierce of Buffalo, N\ Y. ” The doctors claimed he hud consumption and we doctored with them until he was past walking. After using five bot- ties of the * Discovery' he is now nil right. It has been ten mouths siuce he stopped taking yotir medicine and he Is still ft» good health. We are very thankful to you for saving our sou." Hundreds of similar cases are described in one chanter of I)r. Pierce’s great thou sand-page illustrated book The People'* Common Sense Medical Adviser which will be sdnt free for the bare cost of mailing, 21 one-cent stamps. It is a veritable family library in one volume;—the fruit of Dr. Pierce’s life-long experience with the se verest types of obstinate chronic diseases. Any one’ may write to him for advice; which will be sent in a plain a( Jed envelope, free of charge. 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.