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SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS BE TOTED TO GITIE6 THE NEWS, ENCOURAGING THE PROGRESS AND AIDING THE PROSPERITY OP SCHLEY COUNTY. B. E. ELLIOTT Editor aitiBnmess Manaeer. CHINESE PRAY FOR MEDIATION Government Directs Earl Li Hnng Chang to Secure Peace. PRESIDENT AGAIN ANSWERS Reply Is a Reiteration of the De mands Previously Made By This Government. A Washington special says: Official confirmation of the rumored appoint ment of Li Hung Chang as peace en voy was received at the state depart ment Sunday morning. At half-past 10 o’clock Acting Secretary Adee re ceived from Minister Wua copy of the imperial edict announcing this ap pointment, This copy was received by Minister Wu late Saturday night, and as the memorandum given out by the state department shows, was for warded by the privy council at Pekin under date of the fourteen day of the the seventh moon (August 8) to Gov ernor Yuan at Tsi Nan, Shan Tung, who transmitted it on the seventeenth day of the same moon (August 11th) to the taotai at Shanghai, by whom it was transmitted to Minister Wu, who received it on the night of the same day (Angust 11th.) The text of the imperial edict is as follows: “In the present conflict between Chinese and foreigners there has been some misunderstanding on the part of the foreign nations, and also a want of proper management on the part of some of the local authorities.* A clash of arms is followed by calamitous re sults, and caused a rupture of friendly relations, which will ultimately do no good to the world. We hereby appoint Li Hung Chang as our envoy plenipo tentiary, with instructions to propose at once by telegraph to the govern ments of the several powers concerned for the immediate cessation of hostile demonstrations, pending negotiations, which he is hereby authorized to con duct on our part, for the settlement of whatever questions may have to be dealt with. The questions are to be severally considered in a satisfactory manner, and the result of the negotia tions reported to us for sanction. Respect this.” In many respeots this is the most important information which has been received from China since the first ci pher message from Minister Conger told of the safety of the ministers and the legation foroe. This indicates more clearly than anything else has that the central government of Pekin at last realizes the gravity of the situa tion and need for speedy action on its part. It is regarded by officials, in a sense, a ray of light piercing the gloom which has clouded the situa tion. As yet nothing has been received from Li Hung Chang on the line in dicated, but the transmission of the edict to the Chinese minister here with instructions that it bo laid before the authorities will doubtless be im mediately followed by action on the line indicated. PRESIDENT SENDS RETRY. Sunday night Secretary Adee, by direction of President McKinley, pre sented to Miuister Wu for transmis sion to his government the reply of the United States to the imperial edit appointing Li Hung envoy to ne gotiate with the powers for the cessa tion of hostilities. In effect, the text of the reply is a reiteration of the de mands previously made by tho United States upon China, coupled with a vigorous intimation that no negotia tions will be entered into until the Chinese government shall have com plied with these demands. LONDON SUSPECTS RUSSIA. Dliplraieil at Czar's Act In Allowing D« Glers to Leave Fekln. The Russian government's permis sion to M. DeGiers and his staff to leave Pekin under Chinese guarantee, while the United States and other gov ernments tell their ministers to hold out. till relieved, is the subject of much moment in London, where supposed Russian resigus are closely scrutinized, ELLA VILT.E. GA.. THURSDAY. AUGUST 10. 1900. GROWTH OF THE SOUTH. Many Nsw Industries F.stabllalied During tlie Fast Week. The more important of the new in dustries reported the past week include box factories in Florida and Texas; brass foundry at Charlotte, N. C.; can nery in Virginia; a $25,000 chair and ta ble factory in North Georgia; a $150, 000 cigar manufacturing company at Tampa, Fla.; coal mines in the Bir mingham and Fairmont districts; coflin factory in Atlanta; copper and gold mines in the Dahlonega district; a cottou mill in South Carolina; a cotton seed oil mill in Georgia; a municipal electric light waterworks plant at Wrightsville.Ga; a ferry company at Sa vannah; two fertilizer factories in Vir ginia; flouring mills in North Caro lina, Texas and Virginia; a $25,000 fruit evaporating plant at Pensacola; a harrow factory in Mississippi; a coiled hoop factory in Florida; an ice factory at Columbus, Ga. ;iron works in South west Virginia, knitting and yarn mills in Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee; lumber mills in Florida, Mississippi and West Virginia; machine shops in New Orleans; a branch packing house for the Armours at Louisville; a roof ing manufactory (rebuilt) in Atlanta; a spoke and handle factory in Alaba ma; steel works at Newport News; a sugar refinery at Tampa; a tannery in Virginia; a telephone exchange at Ma con, Ga.; tobacco factories in Ken tucky and North Carolina.—Trades man (Chattanooga, Tenn.) ■-—— APPROPRIATION FIGURES. Calculation of Clerks Shows Last Con gresft Faltl Out •710,150,889.88. The volume of appropriations re quired by law to be prepared and pub lished at the end of each session of congress under the direction of the committee on appropriations of the senate and the house, has been com pleted for the first session of the fifty sixth congress by Themas P. Cleaves and Janies C. Courts, chief clerks, respectively, of the committees. A summary of the appropriations shows the grand total of $710,150,862,88. The details of bills are as follows: Agriculture.......... $ 4,023,500.00 Army................ 114,220,095.55 Diplomatic.......... 1,771,168.76 District of Columbia.. 7,577.369.31 Fortification......... 7,383,628.00 Indian .............. 8,197,989.24 Legislative........... 24,175,652.53 Military academy..... 674,306.67 Naval................ . 65,140,916.67 Pension............. 145,245,230.00 Postoffiee............ 113,658,238.75 River and harbor..... 560,000.00 Sundry civil......... 65,319,915.45 Deficiency........... 15,688,330.61 Miscellaneous........ 132,712,220.00 Grand totai 710,150,862.88 APPEALED TO REPUBLICANS, - mu» Jewett, of Anti-Lynching Fume, “Snubbed” By Hanna. Ferhaps the most interesting visitor at the national Republican headquar ters in New York Monday was Lillian C. Jewett, the so-called “Joan of Arc of the Anti-Lyuching League of Bos ton. Miss Jewett waited for some time while Governor Roosevelt was talking with Senator Hanna, She then had an audience with the chair ma n herself. When Senator Hanna was asked about the matter, he re plied: girl. She wanted the Repuo “Poor lican national committee to indorse the Anti-LyneliingLeague. Of course we could not do it. We all deprecate lynching. I told her that all moral persons and law-abiding ones are against lynching. This is not a party matter.” WRECK INJURES MANY. Southern Train Has Sin*sh-Up In City Limit* of Tennille, On. The Southern train from Augusta, Ga., due at Tennille at 12:15 noon Monday, was wrecked inside the town. The train left Sandersville, three miles distant, on time. Just one mile from Tennille there is a steep grade, and it is supposed that several cars, including two coaches and one box car, broke loose from the rest of the train. As the front section slacked speed foT — Tennille the second section coach collided with it, smashing one and box almost to splinters and wreck ing several others. from Ten There was ___excursion an crowd nille to Savannah and a large wa8 aboard to go on the excursion. There were quite a----- they ■* placed injured that * under medical attention. CANNOT LEAVE PEKIN Mr, Conger Absolutely Refuses to Take the Risk. LARGE FORCE WOULD BO NECESSARY To Insure Safe Departure of the 800 Foreigner*, Including 800 Women and Children From I’ekln. A Washington special says: The department of state made public Fri day the following telegram from Min ister Conger, which was received by Minister Wu late Thursday night, baing contained in a telegram sent to him by the taotai of Shanghai. “Secratary of State, Washington— The tsung li yamen states to the diplo matic body that the various foreign governments have repeatedly asked through the respective Chinese minis ters that we immediately depart from Pekin under suitable escort. The yamen asks us to fix a date for our departure and to make the necessary arrangements to do so. Our reply is that we will seek instructions from our governments, and that in the absence of such instructions we cannot quit our poet, “I must inform you that in order to insure our safe departure, foreign troops only can safely escort us, and they must be sufficient force to safely guard 800 foreigners, including wo men and ehildren, as well as 3,000 na tive Christians, who cannot be aban doned to certain massacre. We cannot accept a Chinese escort under any cir cumstances. All my colleagues are dispatching the foregoing to their re spective governments. Of the Amer can marines, seven have been killed and sixteen wounded, among the latter Ca|)tain Myers and Dr. Lippett, who are getting along nicely. Conger.” The message is undated, but it is supposed to have been sent on or after the 5th of August, when the imperial edict removing the inhibition against the ministers sending cipher telegrams was received by the tsung li yamen. It substantially accords with the dis patch of tho French minister, M. Pichon to his government, which was made public in Paris Thursday. In the light of the message from Minister Conger the attitude of the administration is that there is but one thing to be done in the present cir cumstances, namely to press on to the relief of the besieged garrison at Pekin. This was made known after extended communications between Washington and the president at Can ton. The Conger dispatch was accepted as showing conclusive justification for the imperative demand of the United States sent to the Chinese government on Wednesday night, insisting that the imperial troops co-operate with tho international forces in the rescue of tho ministers, and until this condi tion, as well that for the cessation of bombardment, is fully conceded by Chiua, there is no other course open but to press steadily onward in the mission of relief. FITZ STILL IN THE RING. Lanky Bob Puts a Quietus on Akron Giant In Short Order. Bob Fitzsimmons met Gus Ruhlin, the Akron giant, Friday night before the Twentieth Century Club, at Madi son Square Garden, New York, and won by knocking the Ohioan down and out in the Bixth round. Before the fight and for some weeks past there have been many reports to the effect that Fitzsimmons was too old to cope successfully with his younger oppo nent. It was argued that Fitzsimmons knowledge of the game and his capa bility for bard hitting would not be able to count«ba!ance the youth and strength as well as the recently ac quired ring tactics of the Ohio maD. All this has been changed, however. Fitzsimmons did the trick cleanly and cleverly. ____ Murderer Executed at Tallahassee. Will Wright, colored, was hanged at Tallahassee, Fla., Friday, for the murder of John Smith, colored, in Ootober, 1897. Both men were tur pentine hands, and quarreled over their work. Wright brained Smith with an ax at a negro church. BRYAN IN CHICABO. Holds Conference With Leaders And Address Is Formulated And Sent Out. W. J. Bryan, his wife and son, the Stevenson party. Governor and Mrs. Thomas, of Colorado, and Coionei John I. Martin, sergeant-at-arms of the National Democtatic convention, arrived in Chicago Tuesday evening. The Bryan party was driven to the ail consulting with Chairman Jones and members of the Democratic national committee regarding the conduct of the campaign. the A night conference was held and following address was given out: “To the Democrats of the United States: The Democratic party and its friends must meet the forces of cor ruption and intimidation in politics this year and by thorough orgauiza tion. A Democratic club or society should be organized in every city, town, village and precinct in the United States. Democrats, and all who are in sympathy with the princi ples set forth in the Kansas City plat form are earnestly urged to join Democratic clubs, or when none exists to assist in organizing them. This work of uniting the forces of law and liberty into cue great systematized civic army should be carried on simul taneously in every part of the country and without delay. “The friends of government, accord ing to the hitherto unchallenged Amer icau theory of political equality every where under our flag, cannot afford to be less zealous or less active than the advocates of an American colonial empire supported by rifles. No patri otio citizen can ignore the attacks which are being made upon the very foundations of our present irreproach able form of government. “This year every citizen should be a politician. Clubs and societies should at once communicate with the ‘secretary of the national Association of Democratic Clubs, 1370 Broadway, New York City,’ so that the united membership may work systematically in defense of the republic as the fathers made it. All Democratic com mittees, state and local, are requested to aid the National Association of Democratic Clubs in this work. “W. J. Bryan, “Adlai E. Stevenson, “James K. Jones, “Chairman Democratic Committee. “William R. Hearst, “President National Association of Democratic Clubs. ” TEXANS ENDORSE PLATFORM. Slate Democratic Convention Approves of Action Taken at Kansas City. The platform adopted in the Texas Democratic state convention reaffirms the Kansas City platform in toto; characterizes it as being wise, patri otic and expedient »nd as presenting a righteous solution of the great ques tions now involved; congratulates the party on the selection of William J. Bryan and Adali E. Stevenson as their standard bearers; favors the selection of United States senators by direct vote of the people; favors the con struction and maintenance of the Nica ragua canal; indorses the present state administration; favors passing a law prohibiting the issuance of free passes; recommends tho establishment of state industrial schools for girls; favors a law creating a state board of arbitra tion to settle the differences between corporation and employees and recom mends the enactment of a liberal libel law. YOUNG FARMER’S RASH ACT. Threw Wife and Baby From Train and Followed With Fatal Kesult. Wash Turner, an unsophisticated young farmer with his wife and two year-old baby, jumped from a Southern railway passenger train at McFall, near Anniston, Ala., Thursday morn ing, and was killed. He threw his wifo and child from the train and they were seriously injured. The train had whistled for McFall and Turner immediately jumped from his seat and hurried his wife and baby to the door. Two or three passengers tried to stop him, but he brushed them aside. He evidently was not used to traveling, and did not appreciate the the danger of jumping off. Mrs. Turner s Leg was broken and the child’s arm broken. It is stated that Turner had never been on a tram before. VOL. X. NO. » 8 . RUSSIANS FIRE ON AMERICANS Mistaken For Chinese and Many Were Killed or Wounded. T «E A DEPLORABLE ONE _ Sir Claude HacDonatd Again Sets Forth Fearful Condition of Affairs in Pekin. A special cable dispatch to tho New York Eveniug World of Mouday, dated Che Foo, August 9th, via Shang h–b says: A terrible mistake occurred at the taking of YangTsuu. Russian artillery opened fire on the American troops. Before the mistake was discovered many American soldiers had been killed or wounded by the Russian shells. The Fourteenth took part in the at tack on the Chinese trenches. As the Chinese fled the regiment entered and occupied one of the Chinese po sitions. The Russian battery, it seems, did not notice the movement. It open ed fire on the position and planted shells among the American troops, The Russians wore quickly notified, and ceased their lire, Commenting upon this occurrence, The London Standard says: “It is melancholy to learn that the losses of the Americans, who seem to have borne themselves with conspicu ous gallantry, were increased by a deplorable error, in consequence of which one of their regiments was pounded by Russian and British can non. Tbe incident emphasizes the necessity of that close co-operation which is not easily obtainable without a single commauder and a general staff.” SITUATION OF FOREIGNERS IN PEKIN IS DESPERATE. The British consul at Canton, says The London Daily Telegraph’s corre spondent there, has received the fol lowing message, dated August 6th, from Sir Claude MacDonald, British minister in Pekin: “Our situation here is desperate. In ten days our food supply will be at an end. Unless we are relieved u gen eral massaore is probable. “The Chinese offer to escort us to Tien Tsin, but remembering Cawn pore, we refused the offer. There are over 200 European women and chil dren in this legation.” Tho Shanghai correspondent of The Daily Express, wiring Monday, says. “The allies at noon Saturday were within twenty miles of Pekin.” As General Chaffee’s report, which is the only authentic news received at Washington regarding the advance, located the international forces about forty miles from Pekin on Friday, it seems probable that the Shanghai re port is optimistic. It is scarcely likely that the allies could advance twenty miles in as many hours, A Yang Tsun dispatch dated August 7th, giving details regarding the cap ture of that place, says: “The Russians and French held the . left, the British the left center, the Americans the right center and the Ja panese the extreme right. The British and Americans advanced on the vil lage at a rapid rate for 5,000 yards under a severe shell and rifle fire. The Russians opened and the British-Amer ican advance became a race for posi tions, culminating in a brilliant charge. The heaviest loss of the day was sustained by the Americans, the Fourteenth infantry, having nine killed, sixty-two wounded and several missing. The Bengal Lancers unsuc cessfully attempted to cat off th» Chinese retreat.” British Offer Money to China, The British government, according Shanghai correspondent of Tho London Times, has offered to lend £ 75^00 at per cent to the viceroy of Wu ChwaDgf province of Hu Pee, OQ the Yaug Tee Kiang, for the pay ment of provincial troops.
