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.
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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
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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
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prese^b 4 , cltlzen6a, .. m the
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l’ r ^ Rtn ec 'J law -
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° . ® 8 a ,, ,e at tue time 8 legally reg
• f . , prescribed aud
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• hereinafter provided
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t , ,/' T , an S enera l assembly of
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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
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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.
