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SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS. DEYOTED TO GIYING THE NEWS, ENCOURAGING THE PROGRESS 1N» AIDING THE PROSPERITY OP SCHLEY COUNTY, E. E. ELLIOTT. Editor and Beks Manager. BIG BATTLE; HEAVY LOSS illies Go Against Chinese Forces On March to Pekin. FOREIGNERS LOSE 1,290 MEN Fight Occurred at Pietsang, a Vil lage Six Miles Out From Tien Tsin on the Road to Pekin. Tbe following cablegrams were re ceived at the navy department Mon day: “CnE Foo, August 6. —Bureau Navigation, Washington: British officer reports, unofficial, engage ment at Peitsang Sunday morn ing, 3 to 10:30. Allied loss, killed and wounded, 1,200, chiefly Rus sians and Japanese. Chinese re treating. Taussig.” “Che Foo, August 6. —Bureau Navigation, Washington: Unoffi cial report believed to be reliable. About 16,000 allies heavily en gaged Chinese at Peitsang day light of the 5th, Remey.” According to tbe information in possession of the wav department, the town of Peitsang is at the head of tidewater on the Pei Ho, between eleven and twelve miles by road be yond Tien Tsin. It is a village of mud huts of considerable size, but not wall ed. The river at this point is not navigable by anything larger than a good sized steam launch, and it is thought that the troops probably reached there in small boats, towed by the naval launches. The country all along tbe river be tween Pekin to Tien Tsin is a low, al luvial plain, almost impassable for wheeled vehicles in the wet season and uuder quite a high state of cultivation. It presents no natural defensive fea tures, and the war department knows no strategic reason why the Chinese should have made a stand there rather than at any other of the dozen villages east of the walled town of Tung Chow, where is stored an immense amount of provisions. engagement From the fact that the lasted seven hours, it is argued in the department that either tbe Chinese must have been heavily entrenched or there was an immense horde of them to so stubbornly contest the advance of 16,000 international troops. It is figured by military experts that a loss of 1,200 killed and wounded on the part of the allies probably means a loss of from three to six times as many of the Chinese. It is possible that a blow of this magnitude may break tho resistance of the Chinese to the advance of the foreign column,but on the other hand, it is possible that this may be one of a large number of places on the road that have been intronched with a view to falling back and contesting the for eigu Advance so as to delay as long as possible the arrival of the foreigners at Pekin. Unless the opposition sud denly breaks down the military ex perts look for a desperate engagement when the troops reach 1he walled city of Tung Chow, which is said to bo even more favorably located for pur poses of defense than Tien Tsin. Little doubt was expressed at the navy department that the news from Remey was substantially correct. It is probable a later report may reduce the list of casualties among tbe inter national forces, but it is evident that the move on Pekin is at last fairly un der way, and that strong, opposition has been encountered. The war department officials, who have been exceedingly reticent for several days as to news from the seat °f war, admitted when the naval dis patches were received that the an nouncement of the battle was not un expected. Opinion among the various officials now in Washington is some what divided as to just what is pre saged by the day’s events. The more optimistic are inclined to think that such a severe blow as the Chinese must have received at Peitsang will r esult in the speedy disintegration of the forces now opposing the march of the international column. ELLA YULE. GA.. THURSDAY. AUGUST 9. 1900. ALABAMA’S ELECTION Full State Ticket of Democrats Goes Through—Campaign Was the Quietest on Record. The quietest state campaign witness ed in Alabama in ten years came to a close with the election which occurred Monday. The Democratic ticket went through by a larger majority than ever before. In addition to statehouse officers, each of the counties in the state elected county officers, while members of the next legislature were also selected. m.,„ , ° WmS • 18 . .. State . . tlcket .. . . elected William t bamford, of Lee, t gov „„„ erno Robert P. McD.vid.ot Montgom ery, secretary of state. J. Craig Smith, of Dallas, state treasurer. Charles G. Brown, of Jefferson, at tcrney general. T. L. Sowell, of Walker, state audi tor. John W. Abercrombie, of Calhoun, superintendent of education. Robert R. Poole, of Marengo, com missioner of agriculture. Declarations of the platform are summarized as follows: Honest and economical government. Conscientious regard for the consti tution. Advocacy of commercial expansion. Construction of the Nicarauga ca nal. Denunciation of treatment of Porto Ricans. Regulation of trusts. Death to protective tariff. Furtherance of public education. Belief in Chicago platform. Demand for Bryan’s renomination. MAYOR’S VETO SUSTAINED. Atlanta City Council Reverses its Action Regarding: Kieciric Light Franchise. By a vote of ten to three the Atlan ta, Ga., city council sustained the mayor in his veto of the electric light franchise previously agreed on by that body at its secret caucus and subse quently unanimously adopted by both council and the aldermanic board. Preceding the vote ou the vetoqnes tion Alderman Harvey Johnson made oue of the hottest speeches the council has heard in rnauy mouths. He scored the Atlanta Constitution for its edito rials on the situation and roundly roasted President E. Woodruff, of the petitioning company, for claiming the streets of Atlanta. He referred to Mr. Woodruff as the “by-product presi dent.” Both Mr. Woodruff and Mr. Joel Hurt sat in the council chamber and heard the alderman’s speech. Alderman Johnson began his speech by saying he wanted to be fair to all parties concerned in the franchise sit uation. He said he would never vote, thougb, to give the street railway com pany a franchise for anything as long as it claimed the city’s streets. immediate The argument was for an settlement of the question whether the Atlanta Railway company con trolled the streets of Atlanta under the state laws, or whether the city had the control. He said as long as the rail way people claimed control and threat ened to take the streets for their con duits, whether or not council was will ing, he would never vote to give them the rights of the streets. He read parts of a letter Mr. Woodruff sent to elec tricity consumers, in which he said the company is now erecting a plant and would soon be able to fur nish power ami light, showing that the company was already iu open defiance of the council. CANDIDATE FOR HEMP. Negro Brutally Assaults Young Fatly ami I.eares Her For Dead. A negro brutally assaulted and near ly murdered Miss Ida Enzer, daughter of one of the most prosperous farmers of Cobb county, Ga., at Mclver’s sta tion on the Western – Atlantic railroad about ten miles from Atlanta, Monday afternoon. The young lady was returning home after a visit to friends aud was met in a lonely place on a public road by tho negro. He beat her almost into insensibility aud left, thinking, per haps, that she was dead. Meat For Troops In Orient. Chicago packers have been asked by the government to furnish 2,000,000 pounds of meats within thirty days for the American soldiers in the orient. This is said to be the largest requisition ever issued by the govern ment of the United States. AMERICANS TR Filipinos Either Capture or Kill a Scouting Party of Fifteen Men. fflE FIRST SERIOUS CHECK SO FAR Insurgents Become More Active In Am bushing and Attacking Small Be connoiteriug Parlies. The _ fir8t serious check which .... the Americantroops have met in the Phil ippines during the last two months is ^ re ceive,l in Washington Saturday morning from aeneral MacArthur. There has beau an increase of insur gent activity during the last‘three weeks, especially in the way of am bushes and attacks upon small parties. First Lieutenaut Alstetter, of the en gineer corps, with an escort of fifteen men, was taken in ambush in the province.of Ecija, Luzon, by a large force. The Americans fought until their ammunition was gone and as they were surrounded, there was noth ing to do but surrender. One man was killed and three wounded. ' General Lacuua, in coramand of the insnrgents, returned the wounded with a letter promising to treat the prisoners well. Lieutenant Booton Huelsberg was ambushed and killed near Santa Cruz, province of Laguna. Five men of the Twenty-fourth in fantry were captured in Nueva Ecia, but Sergeant Schmidt, of the Twelfth infantry, with seven men, trailed the captors and killed five. Captain Lara, of the Manila native police, was dangerously shot by an unknown assailant Saturdav "effectively while on the street. lie had been engaged in enforcing regulations, and had made enemies among the Filipinos, some of whom have long threatened vengeance. Lara had been generally accused of gross corruption in office and specific charges were made against him by American officers. of' At the suggestion Archbishop Chappells, Judge Taft has been exam jning the heads of the religious orders as well as Monsignor Nozaledas and other ecclesiastics, preparatory to the time when it shall be necessary to take definite action regarding the af fairs of the friars and the church, It appears that the real estate hold ings of the friars are smaller than had been expected. - CHARGED WITH PATRICIDE. Young Boy Accnned «>f Shooting SUter and l’oUoniu* hu Father, On the afternoon of July 28th last, while John I. Tindall, who was a highly respected and industrious farm er > living two miles south of Gordon, Oa., with his wife, were visiting neigh bors, his daughter Ruby, aged ten years, was shot and instantly killed b 7 her oldest brother, aged seventeen years, with a shotgun, which shooting at the time wa« supposed to have been accidental, but in the light of subso events is now thought by many to have been intentional. Tba motive for the shooting is supposed to have been revenge for his sister having pre viously told his father of the brother’s misconduct, causing his father to whip him. On Friday morning, August 3d, J°kn I. Tindall, who had been slight ly indisposed for several days, woke n P complaining of a headache, and as be been medicine for some time, took a dose for this ailment, and was seized within fifteen or twenty minutes *■““ afterwards with violent con vulsions, one convulsion succeeding another in rapid succession, ending in death within fifteen minutes from the first seizure. The coroner’s jury, after a thorough investigation and autopsy by physi cians, rendered a verdict in effect that Tindall came to his death by strych nine poisoning, the drug have been mixed in the medicine he was taking by his eldest son, James Tindall, with intent to kill. The motive for this deed is supposed to have been furnished by a whipping given the boy by his father a week or two previous to his death. Boers Continue to Give Up. Lord Roberts telegraphs to the war office in London that General Hunter reports that 3,348 men have surrender e( j jjj m altogether. General Hunter a j 30 secured 3,046 horses and three guns. SUFFRAflE kMmm A« Ratified By the Voters of North Carolina In Thursday’s State Election. Section 1. Every male person born in the United States, and every male person who has been naturalized, twenty-one years of age and possess ing the qualifications set out in this article shall be entitled to vote at any election by the people in the state, except as herein otherwise provided. Sec. 2. He shall have resided in the slate of North Carolina for two years. in the county six months, and in the precinct, ward or election district in wbicl1 be offers to vote four months ”e»P^edi»g o^er the election: Provided, iL eletion eIectl » n diZf?'' distwct to another m denrTve 1 vnl ° perate J° ‘ n p on n of the right to vote • her electl rHstrir^frnm’Jiff.v , hicu or he °^ has removed °a ... . hll'T* h va1 N ‘ pe / 80U . 3m ™ been 8U convicted, ° r . erao . or ’ as co “ 0SS0; bis guilt in open T,™ „ * *T lndl0t “«nJ of any crime, e ,utsnment ot which now is, or a f ereafter be, imprisonment in the , a 0 P r ^ on shall be permitted to vote » ° eS3 \ e sai P e ^ 30Q shall be first prese^b 4 , cltlzen6a, .. m the P manner l’ r ^ Rtn ec 'J law - ec V r' Ter /,, P" 8on offering to ° . ® 8 a ,, ,e at tue time 8 legally reg • f . , prescribed aud .jf VO er a3 herei “ • hereinafter provided e ma ?“® r t , ,/' T , an S enera l assembly of ’ r . aro i na sba enact general • . , laws into effect e S ls ra jcm to carry e provisions of this article, S f', f ; tver J person presenting e ' )r 1 egistration shall be able , da . d , nEe section of the 01c f. ? ? any 0U ? \ ut lon English language; „ U ! , H . °. r a 1 a> shall be entitled to ’ ° e V ° 8a p , tr \l Ye } )au ou or before +1 e l f 1 , larch of y the in , . f , , 110 c c * * to vote, his year poll V Ic P l ‘oposes , aS P re8cr ‘ b ed by law, for the pre ■ Po sliaI J be Iien V,0ns yeftr ’ taxes a °r as ® e68e<1 property, and no process f? a lssue to enforc ? tbe collection of tHe same, except against assessed prop ertj> Sec. 5. No male person, who was on January 1st, 1867, or at any time prior thereto, entitled to vote under the laws of any state in the United States wherein he then resided, and no lineal descendant of any such per son,shall be denied theright to register audvote at any election in this state by reason of bis failure to possess the educational qualifications prescribed in section 4 of this article, Provided he shall have registered in accordance with the terms of this section prior to December 1st, 19C8. The general assembly shall provide for a permanent record of all persons who register under this section _i on or before November 1, 1908, and all such persons shall be entitled to register aQ d vote at all elections by the people in this state, unless disqualified under section 2 of this article: Provided, 8 «ch persons shall have paid their poll tax as required by law. SHAH ESCAPED DEATH.] Assassin Made Desnerate Attempt to Annihilate the Persian Ruler at Paris. An attempt ou the life of the shau of Persia, Muzafer ed-Din, was made at Paris Thursday morning, but luckily it resulted iu noWa. to Ms an*.* A man broke through a line of police men as tbe shah was leaving his apait ments and tried to mount the royal carriage step. He hold a revolver in his hand, but as soon as his intention was divined tbe polioe disarmed him before he was able to fire. At thfl po | ioo station the man ex pressed regret that he had been un able to carry out his intentions. He said: “This is an affair between me and my conscience.” A crowd of 500 people who witness ed the attempted assassination, made a rush toward the would-be mu r deror and tried to attack him, but there were many police In the neighborhood acting as guards of the shah and those prevented the mob from doing vio lence to the miscreant. The prisoner was taken to the police station and the shah carried out his programme for a trip down the Seine to Versailles. The would-be assassin declines ab solutely to give hia name or national ity. VOL. X. NO. 02. ULTIMATUM ISSUED China Must Meet Demands of the United States at Once. HAY SO NOTIFIES THE ORIENTALS President McKinley Returns to Washing ton and Discusses the Situation With the Cabinet. The state department has made pub lio the correspondence between Li „ Hung Chang and , the .. department , re- 8 ‘“ g *£> “^onment of the cam paign m Pekin. “Telegram sent to the United States embassies in Berlin, London, Paris, Rome aud St. Petersburg and to the United States minister to Tokio: “Deportment of State, Washington, August 1, 1900. “in reply to a suggestion of Li Hung Chang that the ministers might be sent under safe escort to Tien Tsin provided the powers would engage not to march on Pekin, the secretary of state replied on the 30th of July: “This government will not enter in to any arrangement regarding dispo sition or treatment of legations with out first having free communication with Minister Conger. Responsibility for their protection rests upon Chinese government. Power to deliver at Tien Tsin prc-snpposes power to protect and open communication. This is in suited on.” This message was delivered by Mr. Goodenow on the 31st to Viceroy Li, who then inquired whether if “free communication were established be tween ministers and their govera meats it could be arranged that the powers should not advance on Pekin pending negotiations. ” To the inquiry the following reply was sent on the first of August: “Goodenow,Consul General, Shang . “I do not think it expedient to snb the proposition of Earl Li to the other powers. Free communication with our representatives in Pekin is demanded as a matter of absolute right aud not as a favor. Since the Chinese government admits that it possesses the power to give commnni cation it puts itself in an unfriendly attitude by denying it. Negotiations ara advisable until the Chinese gov erument shall have put the diplomatic representatives of the powers in full and free communication with the re spective governments and removed all danger to their lives and liberty. We would urge Earl Li earnestly to advise the imperial authorities of China to place themselves in friendly commu nication and oo-operation with the re lief expedition. They are assuming a heavy responsibility in acting other wise. Hay.” M’KINIiEY IN WASHINGTON. President McKinley returned to Washington from Canton Thursday mornins ‘‘" ,1 c ‘ ,lle ' 1 » cabinet to c '’" sillor tIie Ch ™ se 8i ‘“ lion. Two hours were consumed in a general review of the latest develop ments in China, special attention be »ug given to Secretary Hay’s vigorous and unequivocal reply to Li Hung “ JSSEK T^tI, t condition that the advance of the allied forces upon Pekin be stayed. The language w employed w ___^_________ by Secretary Hay in refusing to deviate from the original position taken by the United States with regard to free and unre stricted communication being estab lishe(1 between foreign representatives fl * Pekin and their respective govern men t 8 i fl universally commended. In diplomatic circles it is considered that a cr * 8 * 8 bai been reached, otherwise Hie correspondence between Secretary Hay and Li Hung Chang would not bave been disclosed. That correspondence emphasizes Hiat the attitude of the United States government as one of unalterable op position to any negotiations with China in advance of free communioa tion. with the foreign ministers at Fokin. China must act promptly upon Secretary Hay’s ultimatum, otherwise * be marc b of the allied forces on Pekin proceeds. The president being fully satisfied that Secretary Hay has the situation well iu hand, decided to re turn to Canton.
