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VOLUME XVI
JAPS AND COSSACKS
MAY YET CLASH
Mikado Still Engaged In
Preparing For War.
CHINA’S RULER MUST RETURN
Mikado Demands That Chines*
Troops Be Sent Into Hanchu
rian Territory at Once.
A cable dispatch from Pekin says:
Komonrs Yntaro, the Japanese minis
ter, accompanied by General Tina
guchi, the Japanese commander, called
upon Prince Ching Sunday and notified
him that the return of Emperor Knang
Hsu was urgently desired. Prince
Ching was informed that the emperor’a
wishes would be respected by the for
eign troops and that every courtesy
would be shown him.
It was pointed out to the Chinese
plenipotentiary that the emperor’s re
turn was of the highest possible im
portance as affecting the maintenance
of the integrity of the Chinese em
pire, and that he should come accom
panied by every available soldier, by
at least twenty thousand men if possi
ble.
The troops, it was further contended
by the Japanese minister, must be sent
into Manchuria, as the Russians re
ported great disturbances there and it
was not right that the task of quelling
the trouble should be thrown upon one
nation. Finally, Prince Ching was as
sured that if the 20,000 Chinese troopa
eould not suppress the disorders in
Mancharia, other powers would send
an international force to co-operate
with China, which all the powers re
garded aa a friendly power.
No reply having been received to
this communication, Li Hung Chang
was notified to the same effect and
told that Emperor Euang Hsu must
give an immediate answer.
The preparations which the Japan
ese are making here for an early start
indicate that they still expect war be
tween Russia and Japan. Vessels ar
riving at Takn from Nagasaki report
the mobilization of the Japanese fleet
and the continuance of preparations
on board ship for the anticipated
straggle.
Prince Ching says all his reports go
to show that the missionary state
ments regarding a rebellion in Mon
golia are not supported by the facts.
Neither does he believe that the re
bellion of General Tung Hsiang
amounts to much.
“It is the object of certain ele
ments,” he asserts, “to make it seem
that China is in a condition of con
stant broil, rendering it unsafe for the
foreign troops to be withdrawn. Those
who have ibis in view will magnify a
village quarrel into a big rebellion.
The missionaries, naturally timid, take
these reports in good faith.”
MINISTERS ARE CRITICISED.
The conduct of the ministers of the
powers over the negotiations with the
Chinese plenipotentiaries causes much
adverse comment among the military
authorities. Their dilatory tactics have
prevented what might bare been ac
complished two months ago. Even
now the meetings of the ministers are
postponed for the most trivial causes.
For instance, the desire of one minis
ter to go on a picnic to the tombs
of the Ming dynasty prevented the
holding of a meeting for a number of
days. Then M. De Giers and other
ministers insisted upon celebrating
Easter, and thus a week was con
sumed. Iu a third case an unneces
sary visit by one minister to Tien Tsin
held up negotiations for four days.
These are fair illustrations of what has
been almost continuous from the be
ginning.
Memorial services will be held by
order of the court in honor of the
members of the tsung-li-yamen who
were executed last summer because of
their pro-foreign sentiments—Hsu
Ching Chien, Li Sban and Hsu Yung
Yi. The staff of the United States
legation has been invited to attend.
Hsu Ching Chien, who was a man of
considerable wealth, held at various
times the post of Russia, that of di
rector of the Rnsso-Chinese bank and
ihat of president of the Chinese Eas
tern railway.
MANY WILL CJROW CASSAVA.
Coavaatloii At Brunswick Is Showing
Ooid Results.
Tbs recent agricultural convention
held iu Brunswick in the interest of
eager cane and cassava has had most
wonderful results ; and is being talked
about all over sonth Georgia.
A feature of the convention was the
free distribution of a large qnantity
of cassava seed among all who ex
pressed s desire to plsnt the
tant product aDd it is believed that a
very large acreage of cassava will be
planted this year, directly attributable
to the interest aroused by the Bruns
wick convention.
@lje ill out i)o men) ill unit or.
BAD FUTURE FOR NEdRO.
Relations Between White and Black
Races Discussed In Meeting.
The annual convention of the Amer
ican Academy of Political and Social
Science adjourned at Philadelphia
Saturday night. The closing day’s
sessions were devoted to consideration
of the race problem of the south and
our newly acquired West Indian pos
sessions. President George T. Win
ston, of the North Carolina college of
agriculture, and Professor W. E. Burg
hardt Dubois, of the Atlanta univer
sity, discussed the negro question
from opposite points of view at the
afternoon session. At night Senator
Platt, of Connecticut, and Charles M.
Pepper spoke on the Cuban and Porto
Rican phase of the race question.
In his address, Mr. Winston said in
part: “The two races are drifting
apart. They were closer together in
slavery than they have been since.
Old-time sympathies, friendships and
affections created by two centuries of
slavery are rapidly passing away. A
single generation of freedom has pro
duced indifference, mistrust and prej
udices. Unless a change is made the
coming generation will be separated
by active hatred and hostility. The
condition of the negro is indeed piti
ful, nnd his prospects for the future
are dark and gloomy. There is no so
lution for the problem, unless it is
dealt with from the standpoint of rea
son and experience without prejudice
or fanaticism.”
CUBANS RELENT.
Reconsider Action In Turning Down
Platt Amendment.
A special from Havanna says: At
Saturday’s secret session of the con
stitutional convention Senor Nunez
asked that the convention either reject
or accept the Platt amendment as the
resolution adopted Friday was not a
formal declaration and was misleading.
The conservatives considered the reso
lution practically rejected the amend
ment, while the radicals and the radi
cal press maintained that it did not,
and Senor Nunez therefore asked that
a yea and nay vote be taken. This
was opposed by the radicals, who have
aiways avoided taking a decided
stand.
The conservatives were pleased at
the point, and as a split was threatened
among the radicals, a compromise was
offered and agreed to by the terms of
which a resolntion was adopted that
the convention should not express
itself either for or against the amend
ment and that a commission be sent to
Washington to reach the best possible
agreement with the president. This
commission will not be authorized to
settle definitely the question of the
relations between the United States
and Cuba, but will report back to the
convention.
OLD SOLDIERS ANGERED.
Governor Longino, of ITisslsslppl, Is
Scored For Slurring Remarks.
Considerable indignation is being
expressed by confederate veterans
and members of the Daughters of the
Confederacy at Jacksonville, Miss.,
over a remark made by Governor
Longino when the petition asking that
the corner stone of the new statehoune
be laid on the birthday of Jefferson
Davis was in consideration.
The remark in question was made
to one of the prominent ex-confeder
ates who was deeply interested in the
selection of June 3d as the date for
the ceremony, and, according to his
statement, when the petition was pre
sented Governor Longino is reported
to have said:
“I can’t see what Jefterson, Davis
has to do with this statehouso, and
I’m getting tired of this ex-conferate
rot, anyway.”
WANTS MOB PROSECUTED.
Father of Cremated Negro Asks Au
thorities to take action.
A special from Leavenworth, Kan.,
says: Alfred Alexander, father of
Frederick Alexander, the negro who
was burned at the stake for the nlleged
assault and murder of Miss Carrie
Forbes and for the assault of Miss i
Rotb, has filed information with the
county attorney against a number of
those participating iu the burning and
asks for a warrant for their arrest upon
the charge of murder.
Alexander will ask for warrants for
William Forbes, whom he accuses of
setting fire to his son, one of the city
officials and a policeman, who, he, ;
charges, assisted in piling the fuel
around the stake and aided in the
burning.
BIG CASE COnPWOMISED.
Governmmt Will Pay $4,000,000. to
Philadelphia Merchants.
The famous “hat trimmings” cases,
involving abont £20,000,000 and whioh
since 1884 have been the subject of a
bitter legal battle between the govern
ment and a number of Philadelphia
importers, have at last been settled, j
It is stated on high authority that a
compromise has been effected through
which the merchants interested will
receive about $4,000,000 from the
Uuited States treasury in full settle
ment of the much larger amount they
claim to have been forced to pay in ex
cess of legal duties.
MT. VERNON. MONTGOMERY COUNTY. GA.. THURSDAY. APRIL 18. 1301.
THE PORTO RICANS
NOT PROSPEROUS
Says Native Commissioner
From the Island.
ALLEN IS ROUNDLY ROASTED
Statements Made By Governor
Regarding Conditions Are
Branded As False.
A New York dispatch says: Reply
ing to the public utterancea of Gover
nor Allen, of Porto Rico, aince hia ar
rival in Washington, Wenceslao Borda,
Porto Rican commissioner Thursday
made the following statement:
“The question at issue between
Governor Allen and the commission
ers are merely two:
“First, whether his administration
in Porto Rico has been conducive to
the prosperity and welfare of the
island; second, whether the Hollander
revenue law was such a measure as
should have been passsd, and, with
out a hearing, approved by the chief
executive of Porto Rico. Governor
Allen has gone out of his way to attack
personally the commissioners when lie
says that, the members of the so-called
commission are foreigners; one o
Spaniard, one a South American and
one an Englishman. We fail com
pletely to see how this assertion, oven
were it true, could afl'ect the merits of
our case, but we do think that it shows
his arguments must be poor when he
has to vail himself of one of this
nature.
“Governor Allen states that Porto.
Rico has never before, in its history,
been so prosperous; that more persons
are employed today than before; that
the sugar crop will yield 100,000 tons.
He shows, however, no facts or figures
to substantiate these assertions. They
are, therefore, mere statements of an
interested official. There is no more
truth in them than there is to the
statement that we are tax dodgers and
that the rest of the Porto Ricans are
well satisfied with the situation. Now
comes a Porto Rican labor leader,
Santiago Iglesias, with a petition
signed by 6,000 workmen which de
clared that the condition of the Porto
Ricans could not be worse. These
people certainly are not tax dodgers.
“Governor Allen is apt to believe
that everybody who criticises his ad
ministration is bad, but he cannot call
his new crities tax dodgers, whatever
else 113 may call them, since they have
nothing that can be taxed.
“Porto Rico iH not as prosperous as
he would like the people of the Unit
ed States to believe, as is eloquently
and conclusively shown by the cus
toms statistics.
“It is misleading to compare the
exports and imports of this year, that
is to say, the production and consump
tion of the island, with that of the
years of the war and hurricane. The
test contrast should be made, to be
fair, with the fiscal yeur just previous
to our occupation of Porto Rico and
with the present fiscal year, which, ac
cording to Governor Allen, is also a
normal one. The exports during the
former year amounted to about, $19,-
000,000 pesos, or $11,400,000. The
imports to about $18,000,000 pesos, or
about $10,800,000, a balance of trade
in favor of the island of 1,000,000
pesos, or $600,000.
The exports from May 1, 1000, to
February 28, 1901, were $5,814,083,
and the imports $3,100,000, a balance j
of trade against the island of $2,285,-
917, whieh is wholly unsupportable
and spells ruin when it is recalled I
that our circulation is less than j
$2,000,000 and that Porto Rico has j
lust her credit in tho commercial 1
world.
“Governor Allen states that never
has there been the number of laborers j
employed as at present. He fails to
offer the grounds for this belief. The
production of the island does not show
it. The alarming emigration of labor
ers to Ecuador, Cuba, Hawaii and
Santo Domingo, which be admits is
taking place, emphatically belie the
governor’s assertion in this respect.
“Why does not the governor men |
tion the other industries of the island
besides sugar? We answer, because
misgovernment has nearly wiped them
out.”
NEW SOLDIERS DISSATISFIED.
riany Recruits For Fourteenth Caval
ry Regiment have Deserted.
A special to the Chicago Tribune
from Leavenworth, Kas., says:
Many of the aewly enlisted soldiers ,
of the Fourteenth cavalry regiment,
recruiting here, have deserted.
The missing soldiers are nearly all
young recruits and were from com
panies of the new regiment. Friday
was their first pay day and the deser
ters came to the city, many boarding
departing trains. The exact number
of men missing is not known, but it is
said to be in the neighborhood of 160.
“HE 15 THE MAN!”
Mrs, Ward Points Out Her Assail
ant Among Big Crowd of
Negro Prisoners.
An Atlanta,G*., dispatch says: With
her young husband by her side, with
the bailiff and the jailer next to her,
Mrs. Joseph Ward, a bride from Rich
mond county, pointed a trembling fin
ger at Emanuel Haygood, a negro
prisoner iu the Tower Thursday morn
ing and exclaimed: “He is the man.”
The woman had come all the way
from Augusta with husband and officer
to identify the negro who had assault
ed her, and she stood in the Tower
and pointed him out among twenty
other prisoners.
Haygood has been in jail for safe
keeping for several mouths, awaiting
trial for his life at Augusta for having
brutally assaulted and outraged Miss
Hattie Hall, the daughter of a promi
nent farmer living six miles from Au
gusta, November 6th last. The negro
escaped after his crime, but was finally
captured and it is thought he only es
caped lynching by being hurried to
the strong jail in Atlanta, remote from
the scene of his crime.
At the time of tbe assault the victim
was unmarried and waa a Miss Hattie
Hall, the daughter of John P. Hall,
who has a country store six miles from
Augusta in Richmond county.
On November 6th of last year tbe
young woman was left alone in the
store. Emanuel Haygood eutered anil
asked for cheese anil crackers. The
woman started after them and she was
seized. There was no one to hear her
cries and no one to help her. •
Before leaving the store the negro
demanded what money there was on
hand and fearing that her life wonlil
be taken the woman gave him all the
cash her father had left in tho store
for change.
The officers of the law got on tho
track of the negro nnd followed him
into South Carolina. At Greenwood
he was arrested and held until Mrs.
W’aril could identify him. She did so
when he was alone.
It was believed that swift jnstice
would be meted ont to the negro by
enraged citizens and he was spirited
away to Atlanta.
Up to March 2d fifty plague cases
had occurred in Cape Town, of which
twelve terminated futally. In Argen
tina five plagne patients were in the
isolation hospital at San Nicholas on
February 7tli and the plague wns sus
pected in the cities of Belleville and
Marios Juarez.
Official notice lias been received
that the government of Hie Danish
West Indies had raised the quarantine
against Port Said and Smyrna and de
clared the port of Brisbnnu, Queens
land, free from plague.
Robert M. MeWade, United Slates
consnl at Canton, Chinn, reports that
10,000 deaths from tbe plague have oc
curred there during the paßt six weeks
and there are thirteen cases of small
pox on board tbe United States moni
tor Monterey. Only one death has re
sulted on tbe Monterey and tbe other
cases of smallpox are progressing fa
vorably.
At the time of tho crime Miss liall,
who was but 18 years of age, was en
gaged to be married to Joseph Ward,
a prosperous young man, a farmer, of
her neighborhood. He did not desert,
her in her trouble, and was ever a
leader iu the pursuit and capture .f
the negro assailant of his sweetheart.
A few weeks after the assuult upon j
Miss Hall, Ward and the young girl
were married and they are now living
near Augusta.
Iu a few duys the trial of Haygood
is to come up at Augusta. Iri order '
that there might not be no doubt, as to ,
tbe identity of tbe negro Solicitor Gen- j
eral Reynolds, of tho Augusta circuit, i
arranged the identification test.
Mrs. Ward, without hesitation, j
pointed out her assailant when he was
lined up with twenty other negro
prisoners in the Tower.
The negro identified by Mrs. Ward
has been long known as a criminal.
He escaped from the Atlanta city court
last summer by biding under a bench,
and was a fugitive from justice when
be assaulted tbe young woman in
Richmond county.
To Raise Rice In Arkansas.
The Arkansas Rice Coropuriy, of
Lonoke, lias been incorporated with
$30,000 capital stock to grow rice iu
Lonoke county. The ground has been
prepared and the promoters are confi
dent that the project will be success
ful.
VERDANT CONSTABLE.
Tramp Going For a Doctor la Arrested
For Kidnaper Fat Crowe.
A Chattanooga dispatch says: A
constable of a very green nature got
excited at .Jamestown Wednesday
night. He saw a tramp going along
tbe road driving a nice looking horse,
and as he was in need of some m~)Uty
be got excited and arrested the man, -
saying that he had captured tbe won- ;
derful I’at Crowe, the Cudahy kidnap- j
er. He put the man in jail and wired
that he had the man, tbe very man J
wanted. Later he wired that the man
was not the one wanted, but a tramp
driving a horse for a farmer to get a
physician.
CUBANS AGAINST
PLATT AMENDMENT
Constitutional Convention
Goes On Record.
DEFIANCE TO YOUR UNCLE SAM
Puts Commission In Embarrass
ing Attitude—Spooner Talks
Plainly—Other News.
A Havana special says: The Cuban
constitutional convention placed itself
upon record Friday against the Platt
amendment by a voto of 18 to 10 on a
resolution that tho convention should
declare itself opposed to the amend
ment “on account, of the terms of some
the clauses, and the way iu which
they arc drawn, and also on account
of the contents of others, especially
clauses 111, VI and VII.”
The conservatives assert that this
action is embarrassing, inasmuch as
j it practically tics the hands of any
j commission that might be sent to
Washington.
NEWSPAPER MEN SENTENCED.
Henors Torrid nnd Urritis, respeet
; ively tbe editor and director of El Es
| tivador, the organ of the stevedores
! and lightermen, have been sentenced
by the captnin of the port of Havann,
I Lieutenant Commander Lucien Young,
to thirty and sixty days’ imprisonment
respectively. They were charged with
| the publication of libellous articles
j intended to invite trouble among the
dock laborers of Havana.
At a late hour Friday afternoon both
1 men were released. It is admitted
that Lieutenant Commander Young’s
court had jurisdiction in the matter of
j sentence, but he considered that liiH
| object had been attained in making an
j example of two agitators who, it is al
j leged, were at tbe bottom of the re
cent labor troubles, and who bail been
even more recently engaged iu incit
ing another strike.
The former strike was sottled by a
i mutual agreement by all parties to re
gard tbe schedule of wages drawn up
und published in tbe official Gazette,
1 as the law, by El Estivador bad been
attacking the schedule as unjust, and
calling upon workmen to resent it.
NEEDY TO SKTili PROPERTY.
The legal authorities have granted
permission to Charles F. W. Neely to
sell the brick ynril and land in Havana
standing in Jii« name. The money
realized will be turned over to tho
court anil kept in trust until a decision
is reached in connection with his al
leged embezzlement of postal funds
SPOONER IS EMPHATIC.
“Congress has defined the relations
whieh shall exist between the United
Htates and Cuba, anil in my judgment
it will not agree to any modification,"
said Henator Spooner, member of tbe
senate committee on relations with
Culm, after 11 conference at the war de
partment Friday with Secretary Root.
“The terms offered Cuba,” Senator
Spooner continued, “are more in the
interest of the island than that of the
United States. I urn confident that
the muss of the people of the island
appreciate the unselfish attitude of
this government, und if they bad ail
opportunity to declare their views
they would unhesitatingly approve tbe
relations as defined by congress."
The attention of tbe senntor was
nailed to tbe suggestion that General
Wood should dissolve tbe convention
and issue a call for another, the peo
ple at tho time of the election of dele
gates to vote upon the question of the
acceptance of the Platt amendment.
“I have seen that, report,” he said,
“I know nothing about it. f believe,
however, that the convention after
further consideration of the matter
will oorne to the conclusion that the
wise course to pursue is to incorporate
in the constitution thy terms offered
them. ”
Another step toward the establish
ment of full civil government in Cuba
wus taken by the appointment by
General Wood of Ernest Hterling as
deputy auditor of tbe island. Henor
Hterling has been discharging similar
duties for some time pust under Major
Ladd, but is now re-appointed as a
purely civil official.
FEATURE UE REUNION
Will lie Decoration of Giaves By La
ladles’ .Memorial Association.
The Radies’ Confederate Memorial
association of Memphis Friday de
cided to have the annual decoration of
tbe confederate graves in Memphis
during the reunion,and the afternoon of
the second (lay was chosen for the cere
ruoDj. A special feature will be an
impressive ceremony at General For
rest’s grave on tbe first day of the re
union in tho morning. A memorial
exercise in honor of the president will
bo held in Calvary chnrch under tho
auspices of the Confederation of Me
morial associations which will then be
iu session,
CATHOLICS ON RECORD
Church Representatives Are Em*
phatically Opposed to State
Control of School System.
A declaration of the Catholic posh
: lion on education in the United State*
*»» adopted Frida; nt the closing
1 session of the national conference of
the Association of Catholic Colleges.
The resolutions comprising tho do
duration received the unanimous as
sent of tho representative* of seventy
! different colleges, the entire collegial*
I system of the Catholic, church in Ainer
! ica. The delegates on adjourning
were enthusiastic ovci tho lesnlts of
their labors, feeling confident that th«
conference has been a marked success.
The declaration adopted was as fob
| lows:
I “1. That this Association of Cath
olic Colleges request its president,
i lit. Rev. Thomas Conatv, to lespeet
fully call the attention of the bishop*
of the United States, at their annual
mooting, to the work of this confer
ence in regard to our colleginto condi
tions, and especially to the import
ance of the high school movement.
"2. That the tendency of educational
legislation forces us to w arn our Cath
lie people of tho systematic and well
defined effort in certain quarters to-"
ward absolute state control in educa
tion, thereby threatening and orippling
all private educational effort, thus de
priving a large proportion of the citi
zens of the liberty of innintaing schools
in which their religion aliall be made
an essential dement.
“it. That we remind legislators of
the rights of conscience guaranteed to
lis by our American citizenship, and
call their attention to the system of
schools which our people huve main
tained lit great, expense and sacrifice.
“•1. That wo protest against the un
fair and unjust discriminations result
ing from much of tho educational
legislation, and we appeal to the fair
iniiidediiCHS and sense of justice of the
American people to protect us from
such illiberality.
“5. That this conference of Catho
lic colleges convincuH us that we ars
justified in asserting tliut our College
system deserves the generous co-oper
ation of all interests in higher Catho
lic education; and we pledge our
selves to use every effort to perfect still
more our collegiate education.
“ft. Flint we call upon all Catholics
to recognize the imperative need of a
more perfect organization of our edu
cational system, and we assure them
tliut with a fuller development of tho
Catholic high school we shall have a
complete system, with its headship in
the university, and thus we shall con
tinue to muintain a high collegiate
standard."
INVII A I ION TO KRUdRR.
Illinois Legislators Ask Boer Leader
To Address Them.
'Die following resolutions were unan
imously adopted in the Illinois home
of representatives Friday:
“Whereas, It is reported in the
public press that Oom Paul Kruger,
the sturdy leader of the Boer people
of the .South African republic, is ex
pected to arrive in the United States
on or about the 2!Jd day of the present
month; mid,
“Whereas, His services as the lead
er in the patriotic cause of his in re
sisting British oppression and preserv
ing to ills people the inalienable rights
of home rule arid self-government him
re enacted the Magna Charta in the
hearts of freemen and added*luster to
Hie cardinal principles of American
institutions for which our forefathers
fought and died, therefore be it
Resolved, That this house extends
to .Mr. Kruger a cordial welcome to
our shores and to the state of Illinois,
and asks him, if permissible with Ins
plans, to address this InniHe prior to
the day of adjournment."
LOOMIS TOO OARkULOUS.
Washington Officials Think Venezu
elan Minister lalks Too finch
The interviews ascribed to Minister
Loomis at Kan Juan huve attracted
much attention in Washington and tlm
minister probably will be invited to
explain some of his utterances, if he is
not able to enter a broad dcuiul of tho
accuracy of the interviews. Reflec
tions upon the personal character ol
the president of Venezuela are not re
garded as proper, according to official
etiquette, and it is confidently hoped
that the minister will be abl* to re
pudiate these.
HRS. HALL HOLS TQ COURT.
Pile* Suit For Alleged Share of tho
Gilman batate.
Action was, pegnu in the United
States circuit court at Hartford, Conn.,
Wednesday by Mrs. Hellen Potts Ball,
of New York, for the recovery of her
alleged share in the millions of tlm
late George F. Gilman, of Bridgeport.
Mrs. Hall declares that she is tho
adopted daughter of Mr. Gilman and
brings her action through her next
friend, her brother, Frank CL Potts,
against the Bridgeport Trust Com
pany, as administrator of the Oilman
estate, and against George W. Hmith,
of Bridgeport, as receiver. The value
of the estate is placed at $1,500,000.
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