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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“to make it seem that China is in a condition of con stant broil, rendering it unsafe for the foreign troops to be withdrawn.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. NO. 2