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VOLUME XVII
EIGHTEEN LOSE LIFE
In Frightful Rear-End Collision
of Trains in California.
VICTIMS CRUSHED IN DEBRIS
Twenty-Seven Injured Taken to Hos
pital in San Francisco —Cause
of Wreck an Unexplained
i Mystery.
A special from Byron, Cal., says:
Eighteen persons were killed and twen
ty-seven injured in a collision Satur
day night between the southbound Los
Angeles "Owl” train and the Stockton
flyer about 70 miles out from San Fran
cisco. It was a rear-end collision, the
engine of the local plowing its way
into the last coaches of the Owl, which
was filled with Fresno people. The pas
sengers who escaped death were hurl
ed to the fore part of the coach,
crushed In between the mass of de
bris, their sufferings and danger inten
sified a hundred fold by the clouds of
scalding steam that poured out upon
the mfrom the shattered boiled of the
Stockton engine.
After the Owl left the Oakland mole
it was noted that there was a leak in
the flue of the engine. This increased
to such an extent that it was deemed
advisable to stop at Byron to lake up
a freight engine for relief. The train
officials knew that the Stockton local
train was following a half hour behind
and a flagman was sent back to give
warning of the presence of the Owl.
It is said that the Stockton train, in
charge of Engineer McGuire and Fire
man Joyce, got the warning signal in
time, and gave the usual response with
whistle blasts. Why ‘the incoming
train was pot checked, however, has
not thus far been explained, the men
who could give the facts being num
bered among the badly injured. On
came the train, with apparently no
diminution of speed, and the Fresno
coach was completely telescoped.
It seems miraculous that the horror
of fire was not added to the dire
, ful disaster, but the penned up victims
were, with seemingly Providential in- i
tervention, spared from flame, for the ;
oil burners vyere extingushed when the 1
crash came.
Later advices state that there are
fears that the total will reach twenty.
Most of the wounded passengers, who
were too severely injured to be taken
in their homes, were taken to the
Southern Pacific San Fran
cisco Sunday, and on the way to that
place five victims died.
WIZARD MARCONI TRIUMPHANT.
Inventor of Wireless Telegraphy An
nounces His Success to the World.
The following dispatch from Marco
ni. dated Glace Bay, N. S.. December
21. has been received by the Associa
ted Press in New York:
“I beg to inform you for circulation
that I have established wireless tele
graph communication between Cape
Breton, Canada and Cornwall, Eng
land, with complete success. Inaugu- ;
ratory messages, including one from
the governor general of Canada, to
King Edward VII, have already been
transmitted and forwarded to the
kings of England and Italy. A mes
sage to The London Times has also
been transmitted in the presence of
its special correspondent, D. Parkin,
M. P. G. MARCONI.”
CONGRESS TAKES RECESS.
Members Stop Work Until Close of
the Holiday Session.
Congress Saturday adjourned for the
Christmas hohdays and will resume its
labors on January sth.
The only Christmas presents the na
tional assembly presents to the nation •
after three weeks’ work is to be en
joyed solely by the coal strike commis- !
sion. the bill for paying each member ;
15,000 having been finally passed by j
the house and senate.
The chaplains invoked with unusual
fervor divine guidance during the short
period of separation, while the mem
bers are at home for Christmas.
ADJOURNED FOR HOLIDAYS.
Strike Commission Takes Recess.
Meets in Philadelphia Jan. 6.
The anthracite coal commission held
its last session of the year at Scranton i
Saturday and adjourned to meet in
Philadelphia January 6.
In order to permit the commission
ers and others connected with the pro
ceedings to catch trains Saturday's ;
session began at 9 o'clock. The attor- ;
neys fer the non-union men continued I
calling witnesses for the purpose of '
proving that violence, intimidation and
boycotts were resorted to in order to j
prevent the men from continuing work. [
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MX. VERNON. MONTGOMERY COUNTY GA. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 25. 1902.
! OFFICIAL NOTICE OF BLOCKADE.
■ Published to the World by England,
Germany and Italy—Text of
Documents.
The official proclamation of the
blockade of Venezuelan ports was ga
zetted at London Saturday morning
and became effective during the day.
The text of the proclamation is as
follows:
"Foreign Office, December 20. 1902.
—lt is hereby notified that as the Uni
ted States of Venezuela have failed to
comply with the demands of his majes
ty's government, a blockade by Ills ma
jesty’s naval forces, Guanta, Cumano
and Carupano and the mouths of the
Orinoco is declared, and such blockade
will be effectively maintained from and
after December 20th, subject to
the allowance of the following
days of grace:
"For vessels sailing before the date
of this notification, from West Indian
ports and ports on the east coast of
the continent of America —ten days
for steamers and twenty days for sail
ing vessels.
“From all other ports—twenty days
for steamers and forty days for sail
ing vessels.
“For vessels now lying in the ports
now declared to be blockaded —fifteen
days.
“Vessels which attempt to violate
the blockade will render themselves
liable to all measures authorized by
the law of nations and by the respec
tive treaties between his majesty and
the different neutral powers.”
The foreign office says the blockade
of the Venezuelan coast will not be re
laxed until the powers enforcing their
claims agree on a method for the arbi
tration of (heir respective cases and
Venezuela shows a disposition to act
sincerely. Stress is laid on the diffi
culty, in view of the diversity of the
claims in deciding on a method of pre
sentation, and on the prolixity of the
negotiations which , will be involved
before a settlement is in sight, ft is
not definitely decided whether separate
cases can be embodied in one doeumnt
should the projected arbitraton take
definite shape.
The German Decree.
The German government also pub
lished at Berlin a decree embodying
the conditions of the blockade of Ger
j many’s portion of the Venezuelan
; coast. It was as follows:
“The government of Venezuela hav-
I ing rejected the demand which the im
perial government communicated to it,
the ports of Cabello and Maracaioo are
hereby declared under blockade, be
ginning December 20. Ships under
other than the Venezuelan flag which
sailed from West Indian or othei east
Americans ports before the publication
of this decree will receive a period of
twenty days for sailing vessels and
ten days for steamers to reach their
destination.
“Sailing vessels from all other ports
are allowed forty days and steamers
twenty days.
“Ships under other flags than Vene
zuelan flags lying in blockaded ports
upon the publication of this decree are
allowed fifteen days to sail.
“Ships which attempt to break the
I blockade will be subject to the provis
| ions which apply to neutrals under in
! ternatlonal law in accordance with
treaties. VON BUELOW.”
The official announcement of Italy’s
participation in the blockade of the
Venezuelan coast was published at
Rome Sunday. It was in line with
those of England and Germany.
INDICTED FOR TREASON.
Colonel Lynch Must Stand Trial for
Aiding the Boer 3.
A London dispatch says: The grand
jury summoned to consider the indict
ment of Colonel Arthur Lynch, mem
ber of parliament for Galway, who was
arrested June 11th on the charge of
high treason in connection with the
| part he took In the South African
: war. where he was alleged to have
• commanded the Irish brigade, returned
a true bill Friday against the defend
ant. Lord Chief Justice Baron Alver
stone, in charging the jury, remarked
that it was sixty-two years since a
grand jury had to deal with such a
j charge, which was the highest crime
| known in law.
First Prize Under Blockade.
A special from Caracas says: The
! British cruiser Indefatigable has made
| the first prize under the blockade, cap
i curing the Venezuelan schooner Julia,
; which was going to Higuerote, a sea
-1 port in the province of Miranda. The
] Julia's cargo, by the irony of fate, be
; longs to the German firm of Blohm.
which has lodged a protest with the
j United States consul.
Peruvians Offer Their Services
A number of officers at Lima. Peril.
| propose cabling their names to the
j president of Venezuela offering their
| services in the case of the situation be-
I coming more complicated.
LOOK TO ROOSEVELT
Powers Now Invite President to
Act as Arbitrator.
VENEZUELA APPROVES MOVE
Roosevelt Suggested Submission of
Trouble to Hague, But Powers
Demurred and Made the
Counter Proposition.
A Washington special says: Presi
dent Roosevelt has proposed to the al
lied powers that the Venezuelan dis
pute be submitted to the arbitration of
The Hague tribunal. The powers have
replied with a counter- proposal that
President Roosevelt himself arbitrate
the issues.
These were the developments of Sat
urday night in the Venezuelan matter
and they seem to justify the prediction
made in prevous dispatches that the
critical point had been passed.
The president was reluctant to ac
cept the proposition, but judging from
private American advices which have
been received In London, President
Roosevelt as arbitrator would be fa
vorably disposed toward the temporary
adoption cf some such method as was
arranged with the Venezuelan secret
mission and communicated to the
state department by Isaac Ligman.
With President Roosevelt acting as ar
bitrator, the serious objections in the
matter of guarantees, which frequent
ly have been mentioned at the foreign
office and in press dispatches, would
disappear.
Castro is Willing.
A special from Caracas says: In the
name of Venezuela President Castro
has signified acceptance of the ap
pointment of President Roosevelt to
arbitrate the Venezuelan difficulty.
Secrecy is Maintained.
A London dispatch under Sunday's
date says: It. is believed that Presi
dent Roosevelt’s answer to the pro
posal made by the allied powers that
he arbitrate the Venezuelan issues has
been received in London. The strict
est secrecy with regard to every phase
of the negotiations is preserved, how
ver, and it is impossible to make a
definite statement, but such indica
tions as are obtainable point to Presi
dent Roosevelt’s acceptance of the of
fice or arbitrator.
DISCREPANCY IN DATES.
Washington Notified that Blockade is
Effective for Christmas Day.
The state department has received
notice from Ambassador White at Lon
don that (he blockade of the Venezue
lan ports was to begin December 25.
Shortly after the receipt of the no
tice a message was received from Con
sul Smith, at Port Spain, Trinidad, as
follows: “Venezuela blockaded.”
This was understood to mean that
the blockade already had begun and
completely mystified the state depart
ment as it showed a conflict In date
with the blockade notice received from
London, namely, December 25. How
ever, the department has resolved to
regard the date given In the London
dispatch as official until further ad
vised.
NOTORIOUS HUMBERTS NABBED.
Perpetrators of Gigantic Frauds in
Paris are Captured in Madrid.
Madame Humbert and uie other
members of her family who became no
torious in connection with the great
safe frauds In Paris, have been arrest
ed In Madrid, Spain. They had been
in Madrid since May 9. The police
made a clean haul of the whole family
—Madame Humbert, her husband, Eva
Humbert and the three D'Atirignacs.
Romain, Ele and Marie.
The prefect of police subsequently
had an audience with King Alfonso
and reported the capture. The king
congratulated the prefect, saying:
“I rejoice that our police have been
able to render service to France."
The Humberts maintain they are in
nocent, saying they are being victim
ized and desire to go to France and de
fend themselves against the charges.
FRANCHISE TAX BILL A LAW.
Governor Terrell, of Georgia, Attaches
His Name to New Measure.
Governor Terrell, of Georgia. Wed
nesday, signed the franchise tax bill
and that measure is now a law. There
never was any doubt that the measure
would be signed, and it was only held
up until the general tax act which had
several conflicting sections could be
signed.
The genera! tax act and the general
appropriation bill were signed by Gov
ernor Terrell Tuesday. Under the
franchLse tax bill all franehies la the
•rate of Georgia are taxable.
MINISTER BOWEN ARBITRATOR.
Castro Puts His Many Troubles Unre
servedly Into the Hands of Our
Representative at Caracas.
A Washington special says: Presi
dent Castro has clothed Minister Bow
en with full powers to effect a settle
ment with Great Britain, Germany and
Italy.
Mr Bowen simply awaits the con
sent of the state department t® as
sume this task, assuming that the na
tions named are willing that he shall
undertake this work. It is believed
that the critical phase of the Venezue
lan situation has passed.
Whether the consent of these gov
ernments can be obtained, will, It is
believed here, depend entirely upon
sufficiency of any guarantee tt*at can
be given for the faithful discharge by
President Castro of any obligations he
may assume as the result, of Mr. Bow
en’s efforts.
The allies feel that they must be
assured against the consequences of
another revolution and the repudiation
by the president who may follow Cas
tro, in his undertakings.
Lopez Baralt, minister of foreign af
fairs at Caracas, transmitted to Min
ister Bowen Thursday morning a doc
' ument signed by President Castro an
constitutional president of the repub
lic, and countersigned by himself as
minister of foreign affairs, In which
Mr. Bowen Is recognized as the only
representative of Venezuela In me mat
ter of effecting a settlement of the
present difficulty. According to the
terms of this document, Mr. Bowen
may act without restriction and he is
to use all means possible io protect the
interests of Venezuela.
United States Won’t Gurantee.
The effort to induce the United
States government to act as guarantor,
It is safe to say, will not succeed, and
it Is beginning to appear that there is
likely to be a mixed commission ap
pointed to receive all Venezuelan
customs and setting apart a certain
portion for the maintenance of the
Venezuelan government, and disburse
the remainder among the powers until
their obligations are met.
The government of France has now
entered the field as an active party
in the trouble. The French govern
ment has, through Its ambassadors
and charges and ministers, served no
tice upon the governments of Great.
Britain, Germany and Italy, and by
way of information, has also told Sec
retary Hay, that any provision made
for the settlement of claims must rec
ognize the pre-eminence of the French
claims. France reclved assurances
from the other governments named
that, any arrangements made would
provide for the security of the French
interests in the Venezuelan customs.
Notice of Blockade.
It has been learned from an official
source at Caracas that the allies will
notify the Venezuelan authorities at
La Guayra of the blockade to become
effective Saturday, Decemoer 20, at 3
p. m.. of tlie ports of La Guayra, Puer
to Cabello, Cora, Maracaibo, Carupano
and Barcelona
INSURED FOR A F RTUNE.
Louisville Business Man, Found Dead,
Had $340,000 on His Life.
It developed in Louisville, Ky.,
Thursday that R. C. Whayne, a busi
ness man,who was found dead Tuesday
night in the vicinity of Jacob park,
with a gunshot wound In the breast,
carried insurance on his life for $340,-
000, and had, applications pending for
$50,000 more. The policies a.ready se
cured were distributed as follows:
Equitable Life Assurance Society of
New York, $200,000; Provident Hav
ings Life Assurance Society of New
York,-$120,000; Union Central Life,
$10,000; New York Life. $5,000; North
western Mutual Life, $5,000.
It was upon the fact that Mr.
Whayne carried such a large life Insur
ance and was said to be suffering from
rheumatism that a theory oi suicide
is based.
Cousin of Kng Alfonso Arrested.
General Bourbon y Castellvi, a cou
sin of King Alfonso, was arrested
Thursday evening In a gambling club
at. Madrid. He was arraigned before
the captain general and subsequently
Imprisoned.
FIVE YEARB FOR BOODLERS.
Quintet of 3t. Louis Ex-Delegates Con
victed by Jury.
The joint trial of five former mem
bers of the house of delegates, which
began at Bt. Louis Tuesday, ended
Friday night, in a verdict of five years
in the penitentiary lor each man. The
defendants, John A. Sheridan, Charles
J. Denny, Charles Outke. Edmund
Bersch and T. K. Albright, were con
victed on charges of bribery In con
nection with the passage of the Subur
ban street car bill, to accomplish
which it was charged $75,000 had been
placed on deposit to be used as re
quired.
BOYCOTT cowardly;
So Declares Chairman Gray of
the Strike Commission.
NON-UNION WORKERS TESTIFY
They Tell of the Reign of Terror in
Coal Regions While Strike Was
on, and of Their Own
Maltreatment.
The coal strlko commission at. Scran
ton listened Thursday to further testi
mony tending to show that a reign of
terror existed in the anthracite coal
fields during the live and a half months'
of the mine workers’ strike.
About a score of witnesses were
called during the session by attorneys
of non-union men. They told of no
rious boycotts, brutal attacks by
crowds of men, women and boys ami
an attempt, to burn the hou>se of a non
union man. In most Instances the
witnesses testified that thi alleged of
fenders were members of the miners'
union. The lawyers for the miners ob
jected frequently to the admission of
testimony on hearsay and sometimes
objected because of Irrelevancy of cer
tain other statements. Chairman
Gray said the commission was not
bound bj any strict, rules of ©ivdence,
but. asked counsel to conflnethemselves
In examination as far as possible
to direct, evidence. He said It was too
difficult, In trying to prove that boy
cotts existed, t.o get. information on the
subject. The commission, ho said,
wanted to know whether a reign of
terror existed In the anthracite re
gion and it could not get information
If the strict rules of evidence were ap
plied.
Calls Them Cowards.
“The coward who will go to the
storekeepers,” he said "and tell them
not to sell the necessaries of life to a
poor woman usually seeks the obscur
ity that, the law of evidence throws
around hint. If a girl Is discharged
from her position in a store because
she rode In a street car In inclement
weather while a strike was on, the
coward who discharged her Is coward
enough to refuse to testify.” He rec
ognized, ho said, why some merchants
will not come forward and tell wno
forced him to refuse to sell the nec
essaries of life to certain boycotted
persons, but if he (Chairman Gray)
were a storekeeper, he thoug..<- he
would risk Ills all in order to break
up the cowardly business.
August. Scheush, of Hazleton, who
worked for the Lehigh Valley Compa
ny through tho suspension, testified
that he was attacked by a mob while
he and his son were going to work and
that he was severely Injured by .elng
hit. by rocks; that, he was stabbed
three times and sustained five riba
broken. Ho was acting as coal and
Iron policeman at. the time, but did
not use his revolver, because he was !
afraid of shooting his son, who was be- |
Ing beaten by the crowd at the same j
time.
tives necessaries of life.
John Dorran, manager of the
Wilkosbarre lace mills, testified teat
because he would not discharge two
girls who had relatives working In the
mines the 1,100 employees went on
strike and stayed out eight weeks un
til Ihe matter was fixed up. Another j
witness said he was a member of the
unloif, and while under it physician’s
care during the street car strike here
last, year be rode on a car. His dis
charge was asked for by uie union,
but the mine superintendent refused.
The union men made bis occupation so
unpleasant for him In tho mines that
he bad to quit.
These witnesses and others testified
that, their wives were Insulted on the
streets, that the children were insult
ed on the streets, that, the children
were beaten by other children, and |
could not be sent to schools, .that, local
unions requested storekeepers to re
frain from selling goods to any one
related to a man working In the mines;
that their houses were stoned; that
they were stoned, shot at and hanged
in effigy, and that life was generally
made miserable for them and their
families.
“CHERRY TREE” MEN SENTENCED
ghort Terms and Small Fines Imposed
in Charlotte Cotn-t.
Falling to raise the necessary money
to compromise their cases, some 12
or 15 defendants In the famous Amos
Owen cherry tree cases were given
short terms of Imprisonment by
Judge Boyd In the federal court at
Charlotte, N. C., Wednesday. Rev. T.
Bright wa sentenced to four months’
imprisonment, and fined SI,OOO ; C. D.
Wilkie thru; months, and W. H. Pad
gett one n onth. Wilkie will be re
leased providing he raises $1,500, he
having already paid SSOO of that ;
amount.
[ A NEW CABINET PLACE.
House Committee, by Decisive Vote,
Favors Creating Department
of Commerce.
The house committee on interstate
commerce Friday ordered a favorable
report on the department of commerce
bill. The vote on reporting it stood
5 to 3. The provision for including
the bureau of labor in the new depart
ment was retained on a tie vote. .
The bill as it will come from the
house committee will embrace within
the proposed department of commerce
the light house hoard, the light house
service, national bureau of standards,
coast and geodetic survey, bureau of
Immigration, lish commission, bureau
of statistics of the treasury depart
ment, bureau of foreign commerce of
■ the slate department, for seal and sal
mon fisheries, bureau of labor and cen
sus and three new bureaus —insurance,
manufactures and corporations.
The province and duty of the pro
posed bureau of corporations Is, under
tho direction of the secretary of com
merce, to gather, compile publish and
supply useful Information concerning
corporations engaged In Interstate or
foreign commerce.
A section added to the senate bill
gives the president authority to trans
fer at any time statistical or scientific
branch of the government to tho de
partment of commerce.
PURE FOOD BILL PASSED.
Measure Adopted In House by Vote of
72 to 21.
The house at Friday's session passed
the pure lood bill by a voto of 72 to
21. There was not a quorum present,
but the point was not raised by the
opponents of the measure.
The speakers were Messrs. Richard
son of Alabama; Hepburn, of Iowa;
Gaines, of Tennessee, and Sehirm, of
Maryland, for the measure, and Mr.
Candler, of Mississippi, against it.
The bill inhibits the Introduction
Into any state or territory or the Dis
trict of Colombula from any other
state, territory or foreign country or
to the shipment to tiny foreign coun
try. of any article or food or drug
which Is adulterated or misbranded.
The above inhibition is made to apply
to any one shipping, delivering or re
ceiving within tho regions named any
such goods so adulterated. Adultera
tions In the bill are defined in part as
follows:
In the case of drugs, If sold under a
name recognized in tho United Stales
pharmacopoeia at the time of investi
gation, so that its strength or purity
falls below the professional standard
under which it Is sold; If it bo an imi
tation of, or offered for sate under the
name of another article, and in the
ease of a confectionery, if it contains
terra alba, barytes, .talc, chrome yellow
or other mineral substances, or pois
onous colors or flavors. In the case or
foods, when any substance ip mixed
with it so as to lower or (r viotisly
affect its quality or strong o. so that
i such product when ottered for sale
I shall tend to deceive the purchaser.
If any substance or substances lias
been substituted so that the product
when sold shall tend to deceive the
purchaser, If any valuable constituent
of an article has been wholly or in
part abstracted if It be an Imitation
; offered for sale under the distinctive
name of another article.
If it be mixed, colored, powdered or
stained In a manner whereby damage
or Inferiority is concealed. If It con
tain any added or poisonous ingredient
which may render such article Inju
rious to health.
If it Is falsely labeled as a foreign
product or Imitation of another sub
stance of a previously established
name, which has been trade marked or
patented. If It consists In whole or In
part of a filthy, decomposed or putrid
animal or vegetable substance or any
portion of animal unfit for lood, or If
It. is the product of a diseased animal
or one that has died otherwise than by
slaughter.
The last section of tho bill provides
that, any article of food or drug that is
adulterated or misbranded shall be lia
ble to confiscation.
Italian Claims Against Castro.
A semi official announcement now
places the Italian claims against Ven
ezuela at 12,000,000.
BECKHAM ASKS RE-ELECTION.
Governor Issues an Address to Demo
crats of Kentucky.
Governor J. C. VV. Beckham In an
addm-ss ‘‘to the democrats of Ken
tucky,” annnounces himself a candi
date for re-election for the full term
to the office of chief executive. His
present term, that of filling out the
unexplred term of the late William
Goebel, will expire on December 12.
1903. The election is to be held in
November next year, and the demo
i cratic pary Is to nominate by the pri-
I mary election method on May 9, 1903.
NO. 40.