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VOLUME XVI
FIRE SUFFERERS
SEEK EMPLOYMENT
All Classes In Jacksonville
Anxious to Labor.
NEGROES SEEM THE EXCEPTION
Work of Rebuilding Burnt Dis
trict Is Well Under Way—lnsu
surance Companies Pay ing Up.
A Jack-son vile special says: The
militia guarding the vast amounts of
supplies which are pouring in on every
train fear trouble with the negroes.
Many of the colored people refuse
to do any work for the city and yet
claim they are entitled to their share
of the provisions sent into the city.
The work of clearing up the streets
and reconstructing Jacksonville goes
on under a blistering sun.
The first train from the New York
Evening Journal arrived in the eity
Wednesday in charge of Mr. Williams
and committee. The contents were
immediately turned over to J. K. Par
rott, chairman of the commissary com
mittee. It was made up of two cars
of Irish potatoes and one of general
groceries.
The Journal committee is co-operat
ing actively with the relief commit
tee in every way.
The executive committee of the re
lief association met and decided to put
up at once commodious tents, where
work will be provided for women
and girls who earned their living by
sewing. They will be set to work
making garments for the destitute and
will be paid for the work. Sewing
machines have been ordered by
Chairman Telfair Stockton and the
employment bureau and quarters for
the women will be opened at once.
At the meeting of the relief com
mittee Wednesday morning it was rc
imrted that hundreds of men totally
unused to manual labor were entirely
destitute. The committee will en
deavor to provide for them by estab
lishing clerkships.
It is thought that many bodies are
yet in the river. Captain Spencer, in
spector of steam vessels, is arranging
to make a systematic search for these
bodies. The captains of vessels in the
river during the fire report that many
were rescued while struggling in the
water.
The body of Mrs. Solon Robinson,
who had been missing since the fire,
was found during the day in the ruins
of her home. Nothing was left but
a few bones, fragments of clothing
and bits of the jewelry she was wear
ing. They were found in the hallway,
and it was evident that she endeav
ored to secape, was overcome by
smoke and heat and fell in a faint.
Mrs. Robinson was he widow of Solon
Robinson, for twenty years agricultu
ral editor of The New York Tribune,
was about sixty-five years old and a
native of Indiana.
Masons Respond Liberally.
H. A. Burt, Alabama state organ
izer for the Mason's Annuity, has just
returned from Jaeksonvile, where he
has been since the morning before the
great fire, and he tells of the noble
response that the Masons of the Unit
ed States are making to the call for
help issued by Grand Master James
Carnell, of the grand lodge of Florida.
The full meaning of the wide-spread
suffering in the city was realized Wed
nesday when it was announced in one
of the meetings that a great number
of men who had never been used to
manual labor were clamoring for work.
Among them were clerks, collectors,
bookkeepers and even professional
men, three young physicians especial
ly declaring their condition destitute,
as they had lost their wardrobes, li
braries, oflP.ce fixtures and everything
in the fire. The department of labor
has undertaken to give clerical em
ployment to all of these applicants.
Over |500,000 worth of insurance
has already been paid by the adjusters
and the people are commencing the
erection of temporary places of busi
ness and dwellings. A new Windsor
hold is to be erected at the cost of
$300,000, and work clearing away the
debris for the laying of the founda
tion has already commenced. The
Gardner building, of eight stories, will
also be erected at once on the old site.
PETERMAN SEEKS REFUGE.
His Angered Neighbor# l>rovr Him From
Farm to City.
M. Peterman, a farmer living near
Monck's Corner. S. C., who claims to
have been driven away from home by
whiteeaps, has moved to Charleston.
He has written to Governor McSwee
ney that the man left to attend to his
property has also been warned to
leave. It seems that Peterman had
trouble with his neighbors, the Thorn
leys, and an injunction was issued by-
Judge Aidrich requiring the neighbors
to stop trespassing on his property.
This brought on the first actual clash
cf arms.
@lj e Jllimitiu*.
IN SUPREME; COURT
Mandamus Suit Against Georgia
State Treasurer is Now
Pending.
At. Atlanta, Ca.. Thursday the hill
of exceptions in the mandamus suit
of Governor Candler on behalf of th*
state and State Treasurer Park to en
force the payment of the salaries of
the state school teachers was signed
by Judge Candler before whom the
case was heard several days ago, and
filed in the clerk's office of the su
preme court, and the case stands
ready now to be heard by that tri
bunal. which will render the decision
of highest authority and will be final,
it is the purpose of the parties to
the suit to have the supreme court
push the hearing forward flfi the dock
et and in this secure an early disposi
tion of the case, since more than $250,-
000 due the state teachers depends on
the decision.
It is expected that at least 20 days
will elapse before the first possible
place on the calendar can be found for
the hearing. In this event the decision
will be rendered by between June 1
and June 15.
Much interest attaches to the result
of the case. It has now been pending
in the courts several weeks or since
the presentation of the warrants for
the school teachers’ salaries and the
failure to pay them on the part of
State Treasurer Park.
The bill of exceptions attacks the
grounds on which Judge t'andier based
his decision which was to the effect
that State Treasurer Park should hon
or the warrants from that portion of
the public property fund derived from
the sale of the Northeastern railroad
and also on the ground that a ministe
rial officer cannot raise a constitution
al question.
Judge Candler in his decision did
not take under consideration the ques
tion of the former public property
fund other than that derived from the
sale of the Northeastern. Treasurer
Park in the hul of exceptions asks that
this question, as well as every other
one in the suit., be decided by the
court.
The bill of exceptions goes into the
case at length, and deals minutely
with the reasons for the decision from
the highest court.
NEWSPAPER THANKED.
Comity School Coium loner* Comment!
Courae of Atlanl>« Journal
The county school commissioners of
Georgia in convention at Athens
passed a resolution thanking The At
lanta Journal and endorsing its fight
for the public school interests of Geor
gia.
The resolution in question was in
troduced by Hon. M.L. Duggan, of Han
cock county, secretary of the County
School Commissioners Association,
and was unanimously passed by a ris
ing vote amid great enthusiasm. It
was as follows:
Resolved, That we, the county
school commissioners, representing
the cause of common school education
in Georgia, desire on behalf of the
teachers and children, and ourselves,
to express due appreciation of the
live and effective interest recently
manifested in this, the most important
of the state’s interests, by The At
lanta Journal; and that we appreciate
this all the more because we recognize
the value of the iniiuence of such an
able agency.
GEN. H AMPTON HONORED.
Confederate Veteran* Call Upon Him uiid
Present a Southern Cir.ll,
The Confederate veterans of South
Carolina assembled in reunion at Co
lumbia Thursday morning.
In the afternoon the veterans and
Sons of Veterans adjourned and
marched nearly a mile to Genera!
Hampton’s house. Here a number of
speeches were made and then General
Hampton was introduced. He spoke
in a feeling manner of the men who
wore the grey and the cause for which
they fought.
A laurel wreath was presented the
old chief, and then Clark Waring made
an address and pinned on his breast
in behalf of Camp Hampton, United
Daughters of the Confederacy, the
southern cross of honor. A beautiful
young lady next presented a coral
cross and asked for and received a
soldiers came up and introduced them
selves and shook Hampton's hand.
Jacksonville Nhort on ( tirrencjr.
The treasury department has or
dered an increase in the amount of
shipments of currency from New York
to New Orleans from $250,000 a day
to $500,000. This is on account of the
demand for currency by Jacksonville,
Fla., made necessary on account of
the fire.
Indemnity Amount Verified.
Information has been received at
Washington confirming the dispatch
fro?.: Pekin regarding the amount of
indemnity to be demanded. The total
has now been reduced from something
like half a billion dollars to $337,000,-
000.
Ml’. VERNON. MONTGOMERY COUNTY. GA*. THURSDAY. MAY in. IJMH.
EDWARD IS FLAYED
BY IRISH EDITOR
his Nibs the Subject of
Choice Expressions.
COPIES OF PAPER ARE SEIZED
England's King Is Characterized
as Bald-headed Roue, Genteel
Perjurer, Etc.
Advices from Dublin state that th«
police of Cork, Limerick and otliei
towns of Ireland seized all the copies
of William O’Brien’s weekly paper
"The Irish People,” found at the news
dealers Friday. The offending article,
it now appears, was an abusive attack
on King Edward. It was as follows:
"Down upon ilia knees before an old
and baldheaded roue, lover of every
woman of fair features who has ap
peared in English society for forty
years, including titled dames and as
yet untitled actresses —tho English
gentleman perjurer of a historic di
vorce case, the polluted hero of one
of the malodorous scenes in Zola's
rotten novel, ‘Nana,’ the center of a
score of the most disgraceful scandals
of the most contemptible typo, down
in front of this English king, whose
latest .public performance was to stig
matize on his solemn oath the whole
Catholic world as superstitious idola
tors, knelt the English-born cardinal
prince of the church with a document
that, might have been presented to a
l/Ogree in a southern plantation fifty
years ago, but not by an Uncle Toni,
poor but contented, of Harriet Beech
er Stowe’s great story, would have
seen bis black skin stripped off inch
by inch rather than put his mark to
a document like that signed and pre
sented by Cardinal Vaughan and the
duke of Norfolk on his solemn oath.
“We do not believe he attached the
slightest solemnity to the perform
ance. But the fact remains—this old
and worn out descendant of a race of
scoundrels and practical professors of
hideous immorality asseverated that
the most of the sacred doctrines of the
Catholic faith were idolatrous and su
perstitious. He lias not yet recanted.
He has not said a word to indicate he
did not thoroughly approve of the
terms of the oath framed in the days
of Titus. The oath of a perjurer is no
less vile than that of the reigning
king; but, on bended knees, tho prince
of ttie church knelt, before this unut
terably abominable person. Let us
console ourselves with the fact that
tho presentees were English Catholics,
who are repudiated by tho only really
Catholic nation now in existence. The
loyalists represented England only,
and if the English Catholics choose
to acknowledge themselves supersti
tious idolators, it is no fault of ours.”
The police of London are suppress
ing copies of the paper forwarded be
fore the office in Dublin was seized.
Dillon Denounces Seizure.
A London special says: At. the con
clusion of the questions in the house
of commons John Dillon (nation
alist), moved adjournment of the
house in order to call attention to *he
seizure of The Irish People.
Mr. Dillon complained that the nr
tion of the authorities was grossly ille
gal. Ho said he was not concerned to
defend the violence of the attack, but
any seizure should have been done
through the courts. Far more violent
attacks on Queen Victoria had been
made in the English papers without
being seized. The present action was
a blow at the liberty of the press.
The motion for an adjournment was
defeated by a vote of 252 to fit.
The morning papers of London are
unanimous in denouncing the scanda
lous attack of The Irish People upon
the king; but serious doubts are rais
ed as to the wisdom of Mr. Wynd
ham’s action in seizing the paper—
first, because the seizure was illegal,
it being a case for prosecution; sec
ond, because to the delight of the
Irish members :t has given world
wide publicity to Mi. O’Brien’s hither
to little known paper and will be, the
nationalists claim, worth thousands of
dollars to them from American sym
pathizers.
TELLER “>WIPED” CASH.
New Orleani* Hunt: OBlelal (aught In
Crook«*fl Work.
Samuel Flower, paying teller of the
ix.uernia National hank, was arrested
in New Orleans Saturday by United
States Marshal Fontell and charged
with a shortage of $38,000. The Fidel
ity and Depof. Company, of Balti
more, is on Mower’s bond for $25,000.
Flower is a cousin of the late May
or Flower and comes from one of the
most prominent families in the state.
He is a son of the late ex-Unlted
States sub-Treasurer Samuel Flower,
of New Orleans. His bond for SIO,OOO
was promptly signed when he was ar
raigned in the United States court.
WARM WRANGLE
OYER PRECEDENCE
Ohio Junketers Are Angry
Over Alleged Slight.
MRS. M’KINLEY ILL IN FRISCO
The President’s Itinerary Will Be
Changed In Some Respects
as a Consequence.
The sudden illness of Mrs. McKinley
has caused an unexpected change in
the itinerary of President McKinley,
lie arrived in San Francisco Sunday
afternoon sovei-al hours ahead of (lie
time scheduled. The state of Mrs. Mc-
Kinley's health was such that the
president decided to leave Deitnorite
with his wife for the home of Henry
T. Seott, in San Franciseo. where she
could have complete rest and where a
specialist could lie consulted, if neces
sary.
Ohio Party Discomfitted.
The Ohio party en route to San
Francisco to see (he launching of the
battleship Ohio, enjoyed a sojourn at
Del Monte, Cal., Saturday. The Ohio
party and Governor Nash's party
clashed over a question of precedence,
and harmony is wanting. The people
of California have been very cordial,
but naturally President McKinley lias
received the most attention, and Gov
ernor Nash and party, who arc travel
ing on a separate train, have been a
little in the background. At I -os An
geles it was all McKinley, and (lie
Ohio senatorial party felt slighted.
Tin- chagrin of the party experienc
ed over its alleged mistreatment at
Tjos Angeles became more intense as
the time passed and broke out into
open revolt at conferences in the I lo
ir 1 IJelmonte. The special ears bear
ing tlie Ohio congressmen were at
tached to the Ohio special at l.os An
geles. This seemed to add to tho ill
feeling of the governor’s party, who
complained tnat they had been an an
! nexed section to the president’s party.
I and now were given third place.
The congressmen seemed equally
dissatisfied with the new arrangement,
and finally it was decided that the
congressmen should travel as they
had done before reaching Los Angeles,
j The cars of the congressmen were ac
j cordingly taken off the Ohio special at
' Delmonte, and they left for San Fran
! cisco at noon Saturday, while Gover
| nor Nash and party left at 2 p. m. for
San Francisco. Then Colonel J. 11. El
j lison and Willis G. Howland, who have
charge of all arrangements for Gover
nor Nash and the Ohio special, met a
committee from San Jose and notified
Chairman Minor that they would not
visit San Jose as an annex of any
other party.
It. was then decided that the special
would go from San Francisco to San
Jose Sunday night. It, was also speci
fied that the Ohio special would leave
| San Jose before the presidential train
! arrived.
ASK FOR DOLE’S REMOVAL.
Hawaiian Upjfluliitor* »n<l Hnvoriior f ail
to C'o-Lahor II *ti inontouftly.
Advices irom Honolulu state that,
the first territorial legislature of Ha
waii came to an end on the evening
of April 30th, according to Governor
Dole, and on the next night, according
to the majority of both houses. The
; legislature ended its existence at log
gerheads with the governor and with
out having passed a single important
measure to which the home rulers
| were committed except the county
government act, which the governor
! killed by a pocket veto.
The last, act, of the house on the
; evening of the 30th was to pass a
| concurrent resolution containing a me
! morial to President McKinley asking
: for the removal of Governor Dole.
He is charged with having hindered
j the work of the session by his hostility
I toward the legislature, withholding in
! formation ana reports mat were called
for, and refusing to co-op< rate with the
! law makers. President McKinley is
1 asked in the resolution to use his in
! iiuence in behalf o. an extra session of
! the legislature to transact general leg
■ lalatlon which General Dole refuses to
I grant.
WALL GETS LIFE SENTENCE.
Thr«?«? Wltne***** In lll#* Trial Are Art erteil
For Perjury,
i At Tallulah Falls, Ga., Friday morn
ing Chubb Wall was convicted in the
Rabun superior court of the murder
of Christopher O’Byrne, with a ree
! ommendatlon to mercy. Judge Estes
sentenced him to life imprisonment.
After the examination of six Atlanta
1 witnesses had been delivered James
; O’Byrne, brother of the murdered
: man, swore out warrants against ex
\ Detective Mahaffey, G. W. Crussellc
1 and E. W. E. Williams, charging them
I with perjury. All three of them were
arrested and jailed.
I
WALL STREET QUIET.
.Stock Hurry Subsides and the
Commercial Atmosphere Is
Clarified.
A New York special says: Wall
street emerged from its gloom Friday
mi.icing, and, with growing confidence
in the day. manifested something like
buoyant elation. Prices of stock went
up with a rush at the last, closing at
about the top. and with the net losses
left after Thursday's session pretty
largely recovered.
There were some clouds remaining
on tlie situation and some natural tre
pidation lest tho violent collapse
should have loft some casualties
which would not be disclosed until
the clearing house sheets of the stock
exchange had been made up. Early in
the day (lie official announcement was
made that the sheets of all tho mem
bers of the exchange had been cleared
perfectly, and that, all their checks
had been honored. This relieved the
last feeling of apprehension and
things quited down into a steady con
dition of business such as has not
been witnessed in Wall street for
many weeks.
There is no doubt that among those
wlto were heavy losers ill Tnursday's
slump were many of ample resources
who viewed the situation with a sport
ing instinct and a determination to re
coup losses by following the market.
It was the popular belief that some of
the western potentates who were ad
mittedly forced “to walk sideways”
during a portion of the day’s events
were again in the market in a bold
attempt to retrieve their losses.
One commercial paper places the
losses in the bucket simps throughout
the country Thursday at $30,000,000.
BLOODY RIOT IN DETROIT.
City OttlciaU Speech” mill »
ClltNlt Follow*.
Kor nion* than thr<*»* hours F rid ay
night fully JO.OOO men ami hoys ran
riot in the main streets of Detroit
Mich., and kept a continual running
tight with the police, both mounted
a,ui and foot. The net result so fai
ns known is twelve citizens and live
policemen injured. The names of but
two of tlie citizens are known at pres
ent.. They an- Mike Waldin and Louis
Caplin. Both men had their heads
crushed by being trampled on by
horses ridden by the mounted police
in a charge on the crowd.
Tho officers injured arc: James
Tourney, scalp cut by brick; Henry
Scott, hit, on head with cobblestone;
Thomas Murphy, check cut open with
brick; George Moore, badly cut about
the head by brick and taken borne in
ambulance; Harney Roonan, hit with
a brick.
The beginning of the riot was
Thursday night when Director of tho
Police Frank T. Andrews, wlm recent
ly superseded the old police board
through the passage of the Ripper Dill
by the legislature, issued an order to
the police to allow no one to stand
about the wagon of one "Tom” Itaw
don. a local single tax exhorter who
had Incurred the ill will of the police
director by the extraordinary nature
of his remarks on so-called wealthy
tax dodgers.
When Kawdon began bin exhorta
tions a crowd quickly gathered. Di
rector Andrews supervised the work
of the police in keeping the people
moving, 'i no crowd good naturedly
hooted at, the police and no violence
was done.
Friday night, however, the tempei
of the crowd changed when it, was an
notineed that Director Andrews had
called on reserve officers to assist in
keeping the Campus Martins clear.
The single tax ezhorter <amc with his
wagon and found the campus jammed
with people. The police refused to al
low him to locate at any particular
point, and he drove from one street to
another, the crowd following. The
mob frequently blocked traffic and the
police attempted to disperse them. It
was but a moment before stones be
gan to fly through the air and a gen
era! mix up followed in which the foot
police used their clnlis and the mount
ed men charged. The result was the
casualties above enumerated.
At 1J o'clock the mob had gradually :
dwindled to a mere handful and the
city is quiet.
engine boiler explodes.
I our of lll** Crew Are fiiHfuofly Hurled
lido l.fcrolly.
The boiler of an engine on the Hunt
ington and Broad Top railroad at
Mount Dallas. W. Va., the southern
terminus of the Broad Top railroad,
exploded Friday morning, instantly
lulling four members of the local
freight crew. The dead are: A. S.
Bcrkstresses, engineer; Charles Hol-
Hngshcad, conductor; John Richie,
Thomas Edwards, fireman.
The bodies of Conductor Holiings
head and Engineer Ilerkrtresser were
blown four hundred yards a< ross the
river.
LABOR CONFLICTS
TO BE ELIMINATED
Big fleeting of Unionist
Leaders In New York.
PEACE METHODS IT) BE PISHED
j Plans Tor Arbitration and Concil
iation Between Capital and
l.abor to Be Prospected.
A mass meeting under the auspices
of tho committee on conciliation of
the National Civic I * iteration was
held at Cooper Dnion New York, Wed
nesday night (o furtliei the movement
inaugurated at the conference en
Tuesday to form national hoard of
arbitration.
John Mitchell, the first, speaker, was
greeted with appliuiM and cheers, tie
said:
"The impression may have gone
forth that I stand foi turmoil and war
rather than peace, hut knowing the
sufferings and horrors of turmoil and
war, I stand for peace if it can he an
honorable peace. I do not presume
that this confereni < lias solved the
labor problem, but I believe that the
plan agreed upon today will do much
j to prevent strikes and lockouts.
"Nearly all the strikes which have
occurred could have been avoided if
| the employers and flic representatives
of labor organizations had conferred.
We have learned in tho bituminous
j coal regions to get together In annual
j convention and talk out. onr dlff< r
; cnees instead of lighting them out.
| Twelve men on each side met last
I year, and in eleven days fixed 1 tie
wages of 200,000 men, and the yV sir
before the same nvmhcr raised tho
wages of the miners to the extent of
$20,000,000.
"I know there are those who believe
there inn tie nothing in common be
tween capital and labor. To those 1
say that the work of this conciliation
committee will show that there is
much in common between them for
the good of both."
Samuel Compere, president of the
Federation of l.abor, prefaced his io
inarks by staling that those who are
braggarts, continusMy declaring war,
are usually cowards in tho actual
struggle.
"The strong man.” said ho, "does
not boast of his powers because tie
knows that with power comes respon
sibility. There was a time when the
organization of labor was tabooed and
the doors were shut in tho face of tho
men who held a card in a union. That
day is past. If wi entertain a hopo
for ourselves, our children, or our
country, we must organize. At otto
time (lie idea was held that all wealth
must, lie extinguished. There is no ac
counting for taste. Some have so far
hidden good by to 1 licit* reason as to
applaud the idea that wealth should
be extinguished."
“It will lie a choice,” said he, "be
tween voluntary arbitration and i mu
pulsory arbitration, where the Jail will
await those who will not work uml* r
a settlement ordered by the courts.
Our experience of courts lias not b< • n
such as to warrant iih in placing our
industrial interests In the hands of
the gentlemen who preside on the
bench.”
After the meeting the national com
mittee on conciliation and arbitration
gave out its report. Tho report says
that the purpose of tho organization is
to enter into active service in Ho
cause of peace and harmony in tho
Industrial world for tho purpose < f
preventing strikes and lockouts Tho
report advocates full and frank 'in
ferences bet wi i-n employers and work
men with the avowed purport of
reaching an agreement as to tho
terms of employment. It further says
the aim Is to establish and maintain a
hoard or commission composed of
the most competent persons available
selected from the employers ami cm
ployecs of judgment, experience and
reliability which shall bo i hargeij with
carrying out the objects aimed id. end
shall also tie expei ted to make known
to workmen and their employers that
their counsel and aid will he available,
if desired, in securing "that coopera
tion, mutual unilon- landing and ngn
inent already indicated as tho ginerel
purpose of the national committee.
Ijl'KK OKA 111 KOJI TWO.
Planing Mill Holler Hlnivii Up With Hire
It»«nll«.
The boiler of Mi Duffle ti. Welli a
planing mill, near Georgetown, S.
exploded Saturday morning, demolish
ing toe building and killing It H.
lirunson and Thomas Heott, fatally
wounding Kllerbe McDuffie and se
riously injuring three other men.
DcWet Again On tile Stove.
General DeWet, according to a dis
patch to The i.ondon Dally Mall from
I’retoria, has resumed operations and
is reported to have crossed into the
Transvaal wim 2,000 men
NO.