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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.