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OPINION OF SPENCER
Riilwav President Talks
^istically of Conditions in !
OP*- This Locality.
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a general depression of
Tten' is j
all over • the country, but it is
c
aI1 nr 1 obab!y will be felt less
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-rath than an.. o..,er st t
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the & president of the j
« Sa n:1 , ue l spencer,
1 raw •road system. |
This < 3 inion was expressed by Mr. ,
bearer when he was asked by a J
C .
,presentstx.e ot [hi Auan a
inn tor a n interview concerning t.»e
ailron if situation in the s out is.
volume of business the coun- 1
Th< •reased consider*
over has der to a
n within (he past few
to extent rail
lonths, said Mr. S ponce r, ’‘and
Dads 5C all parts of the United
tales have undergone a correspou ding
grease m in their - business. The rail- j
oads of the east have been retrench
in m operating expenses of late, and
ng of other sections have
te rafiroads
(impelled to adopt similar poli
in rhe south, however. {he
ilitmp has been much smaller than j
(isewhere, though it lias affected I
iouthern interests to some extent,
■•For this reason there are at pre$
mi no great railroad movement going
Ml. No roads are extending, but alt
the larger lines and systems are now
occupied with bringing their equip
h,,.n! and standard to a point "om
aiensurate with the busine ss they are
tailed on 1,o handle.
Roads Wer e Unprepared.
■Tue -immerclal and industrial ac
tivity marking the past several years
was unprecedented, and with l'ew ex
eeptions t.be railroads of the country
were caught, iu a state of unprepared
ness. They did not have the means
of caring for the work laid upon them
-Now there has come a slack In
business, but not enough to prevent
the railroads from increasing their ca
pacity and equipment, though suffi
cient to fort's tall extensions and to
nece- .to some retrenchments in ox
uenses.
K Xo single cause has brought this
condition about. The falling off in
business is attributable to several
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causes. In the first place business
never remains at the high tide of
some lime pa« 1. It cannot do so, the
ebb is bound to come, though ii may
be slight, i don’t, think that the pres
cut depression is a forerunner of any
panic, such as swept the country In
sy:j. nor ’hard times’ and stringent
Snam tal conditions similar to those
f be G future '. Butno will llv,n bring ^ rngu forth. ( ‘ aii *«>' whaf
'In addition to the natural
the (idft lhor *’ another factor
; ,l,8ine5s (, ° uditionK now
and that is the presidential
mo country is a,ways more or less
f state of « nr « s * Immediately
!ufr the ciection of a president,
dus unrest has its effect on
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RUSSIAN GENERAL Oil MANlllVl RID.
stfttkefcerq Intended to Do Great lhi«qt»
Failed Make Good.
Emperor Nicholas, at St.
burg. has received the following
1 >'ratn, dated June 16, front
ft-uropatkin: v
1 have received the following
patch from Lieutenant General
ron Stalkeberg, dated June 16, 1:20
m ;
Yesterday 1 had intended to
tack the enemy’s right: flank, but
M o«r troops had been assigned
Purpose and were beginning
successfully envelope the
r ight flank, the Japanese, in their
Attacked my right flank, with
Drees, and I was compelled to
rear by three roads to the north.”
BfG 0AM CURBS RlVf R.
Uiattahooch?.e Must Till Immense
Built by Eleclric Company.
Hie big- dam of ihe Norlh
Electric Company, of Gainesville,
‘ompieted Thursday after nearly
years of hard work, and at 11
Friday morning the huge water
closed down and the great
flighty ly debarred Chattahoochee was
from making its usual
interrupted run to the sea.
Present dry conditions without
eiderable rainiall it will take
sevei! to ten days for the huge
t0 AH up and ihe water overflow
he, go dam. which is 34 feet high.
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LEE HEADS VETERANS. I
Euctcd at Nashville Reunion, i
Louisville Chosen as the Next
fh.ee of Meeting.
At Nasi jville, Wednesday, the Cou
veterans elected the follow
officers:
Commander in Chief-^Lieutenaat
Stephen D. Lee, of Columbus.
Commander of the Department cf
Virginia—General C. Irvine
of Greenville, S. C. 1
Commander of the Department of i
^ ennessee—General
Clement A. Ev
Atlanta, Ga.
Commander of the Trans-Mississippi
W. L. Cabell, of
Dallas, Texas.
N ’^ en rhe convention met Bishop O.
o Fitzgerald, of .Nashville, invoked
divine blessing upon the assemblage.
The report of the commission on c^p
cientials showing the representations
from each state was read and adopted,
Chaplain General Jones read the re
l )or t 01 the board of trustees of the
Battle Abbey. 1 he report dealt with
the financial condition of the abbey
and the Underwood suit was substan
tially as given out by the committee
Monday night. General Clement A.
Krans, of Georgia, read the report of
historical committee. The report
***** the south was now assured of
treatment in rhe history and that
youth of the country would not
& T0W »P under a false impression. He
congratulated the people of the south
upon those achievements.
A sweet-voiced young woman of
folk. Va., Miss Mary K. Ewell, maid of
honor for the south, by her singing of
“My Old Kentucky Home,” won for
Loutaville the reunion next year, 't
was after the old veterans had chosen
Lieutenant General Stephen D. Lee as
their commander in chief, and ha.d lis
tened to a stirring speech by Colonel
Bennett H. Young, of Kentucky, ex
ollkig the beauties, capability and bos
pkality of his home city and people,
| and their desire to entertain the fol
lowers of the Stars and Bars, that Miss
Ewell was escorted to the front of
,
i stage. Her voice thrilled the great
J crowd that filled the tabernacle,
| the last note of the famous song
j barely left her lips when the
tion went wild with shouts of
villef” "Louisville! ”
j speeches were unnecessary,
General Lee graciously permitted
from a Virginia delegate, and
from Kentucky before recording
! choice of the veterans as
The dale will be determined later.
The veterans, in addition to
officers, disposed of a vast amonnt
; routine business.
j The report of Adjutant
Mickle, which was adopted, shows
j since the last reunion charters
I been issued to forty new camps,
insr thp ' total 1 562
j When General Mickle took
1 the first of last year, the
j had debts of $2 27.1.
*^ ra , Mickle s predecessor
wed monev to pay most of
on Wg own personal
Th u, indebtedness has been cut
j #T&() 9 durin g the year. The
J f $5,662.
Women>g Monument Assoc
; tion instructed by the veterans
over all ’ un ds to the Sons
j V(rteBang ,’ who w m complete the the
, , t a monument to
| south
myon the regu i ar business of
conventio nwas set aside for the
mortal services, at which Judge
G. Jones, of Montgomery . was
as heroes
orator. All the departed
tbe confederacy were referred to
several speakers, but General John
Gordon, the last great figure to
; into the invisible beyond, was
j tbe occasion of special, tribute.
ilagged BY A RED PETTICOAf.
' legro Saves Southern Train From
inq Onto a Burning Bridge.
The Southern railway's bridge
Broad river, on the Spartanburg
J ^ s heville river, about 70 miles
| G f Columbia. S. C., was partially
ed ;U d o’clock Wednesday
p ass enger train No. 9.
j j ^yed from running onto with
> jr j d g e py a negro who signaled
red 5>et tic«>ftt.
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bAMBLE RS LYNCH COLORED DEACON.
Old Man Threatened to Report Ihem
l Grand Jure and Met Hi* Deafb.
A negro by the name of
; •^- 00 d8» who lived in the county
i ' Texas Court Grounds, in Heard
| Ga., has been lynched by other
ty ,
. i^wLs I w» a deacon It In ia said hie he
i and a pinna old man.
covered a number of negroes
and threatened that, he would
them to the grand jury.
j churc fl W as burned down, and
: the plowing in the
yg later , ‘o a
1. ’ and strung up
! * a „ sf .kzed
SLOCUM VICTIMS
BEGIN TO FLOAT i
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Hast River aid Hell Gate Giving 1
Up Scores of Dead. ^
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HUNDREDS STILL MISSING
Forty-One Bodies Recovered Sunday
Bringing Total Up to 624 of Whom
559 Hive Been Identified.
A New York special says: Sunday's
harvest of dead from the steamer
General Slocum numbered forty-one.
bringing the total number of bodies {
so far recovered up to 624. Of these
559 have been identified,
While the list of missing has been
j cut down somewhat by the identifies- j
I tions made Sunday, eleven new names
were added to that roll, thus leaving
the total of missing almost as it was ,
| i on Saturday, something more than !
j j 300..
Coroners O'Gorman and Berry, with j
expert pilots and others, sailed over
: the course taken by^the General ot Slo- ■
j cum. The first notification fire was
: received in the vicinity of One lain- 1
j dre d and twenty-ninth street, and the
pRot told the chief engineer be would!
have beached the boat at that street.
which could have been reached in a j
few minutes, instead of trying for
North Brothers island. !
“I learned.” said he. "that they ;
j were trying to escape, and I asked the
; police to detail everybody who was
employed on the boat at witnesses. I
Some of them have escaped and we
may never be able to get them . But
we are after them, and will leave no
stone unturned to get them within
our jurisdiction."
Secretary Cortelvou. of the. depart
meat of commerce and labor, visited
the scene of the disaster, and then
went to Washington. The federal gov
eminent will begin its official inquiry
at once.
Three of t.U« bodies recovered Sun
day were floating and it is the general
opinion that many more will come to
the surface during the week.
A life saver, grappling from a raft,
brought up a woman of JO and a girl
of 11 years locked I11 each other r
! arms. A few minutes later he brought
the bodies of a boy 9 years old and a
girl of 6, apparently brother and
,ev. clingine ..ghtl, .o
j Divers who went. lO the wreck
found ihe bodies of a woman , a girl
.
1 and a boy, and brought them to the
! 1 surface Buriace. Thev were burned bevond
recognition, }here
were more bodies in the wreck,
Nineteen were brought up (torn
the bottom along the beach, running
from the island down to the channel
in the river.
j The funerals of nearly a hundred
i victims of the disaster were held dur
ing the day. In many instances
casket« were carried in the same
hearse, aud in some cases two and
\ even three hearses bore away
! dead of a single family.
Larg e Fun for Relief.
Tfae rellef fun ds will have a
additiou from the city treasury, a
oluUon for the issuance of $50,000
j bond3 for tbe 8UCC or of the
victims of the accident having
introduced Saturday.
j w the money, jewelry and
valuab!es taken from the dead in
I G#neral Slocum, aggregating
! $100 000 much has been claimed
| ! the coroner by relatives. There is
package, however, for which no
has yet been established. It
found on the body of a woman at
! supposed to be that, of Eva
j put has not yet been identified.
The property consists of eight,
books, showing deposits of nearly
000; two or three life insurance
c j efi amounting in all to about
: ^55 00O; deeds to property id
j v-ork and elsewhere, and a
b j e amount in bank notes.
The deeds, insurance policie*
| h an t books are all in the name of
; person who, it would seem, was
different from Eva Kruger, bur
a goron er is keeping. t.h« name
for th* present.
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BOOKBINDERS SCORE ROOSEVELE.
to l
Protesl Made Against President’* Action
Reinstating Miller.
At St. Paul. Friday, after
resolutions censuring President
velt in the Miller case in
with the printing office in
and electing officers, the
Brotherhood of Bookbinders
ed after a most interesting annual
sion.
Fran ch women acted so
over Paderewski that they
the* booby .p-riw? from their
W ,.. LL’f 6.
JAP TRANSPORTS SUNK.
of Russian Vladivostok Squadron
Sends Many of Mikado's Men
to the Bottom.
A special from Tokio ays: \:i
as to the staking of the trans
por;s Hiatcbi and Sado by the Ru.1
have been removed. Three hun
and fifty-three survivors of the
have arried ai Kol nr*
Details of the destruction of the
two transports and the lull extent
of the casualties are not obtainable.
It is reported thai the transports
Hiaehi and Sado carried only 1.400
men. If this is true the !o.;s of lives
probably is less t ban one thousand,
The transport however, had many
horse: and lar quantifies ot sup
plies on board.
The survive: report that the Sad*
and Hitachi were sunk by torpedoes,
Details obtainable from the surviv
ors of 1 he Ill-fated Japanese transports
show that the Hitachi and Sado met
three Russian warships near Olii is
puid at 10 o’clock Wednesday morii
ing. The Russians fired on the Jap
aneae ships and stopped them an<i
soon afterward they torpedoed and
simk the helpless transports. The
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captain of the Sado and several other
men W ere captured. One hundred
men escaped in the boats and landed
al Kokura. The transport Isnmi is
st jR missing.
The transport Hino. which has re
turnf> du , Moji. reports that she en
countered ihe Russian Yladivostock
squadron at 11:20 a. m. Wednesday
m0 rning twenty miles west of of the
| S j ani } 0 f shiro, of the Oki group. The
transports Hitachi and Sado wen seen
two m a eti to the westward. The
weat her was foggy and the sea < m.
when the HI no sighted the Russian
fleet she turned, ran and signaled a
warning to the Kanazawa and they
| K)1 jj took refuge inside tue island
C fl{ yt> noth signaled anger to the
1 which also escaped, The Hino
gaw Hitachi and the Sado sur
roim( } et i by Russian vessels. j
STORM SWEEPS OVIK OSA.
f orty-live People are known to Be Dead
and Many Others Are Missing.
A dispatch from Santiago, Juba,
says: The worst storm of a decade be
| gan Friday and < nlit . , . d . j_ vumdnv • .
i nlg ^ hurri
m <- * '• mnanied by a
^ ... f El p Q bre
nas
sons are known to be dead and scores
j ■ are missing. Bodies are floating in
the Cobre river.
1 Twenty bodies have.been recovered
} by. boats patrolling the bay. All the
| bridges on bridges the Cobre have railway been are lent out, on
j and many
j ’lie Cuba rail way
raisuli increases his demand.
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j g and j( *sks further Concessions Which
Will Probably Be Granted.
The state department has “received
I the following under date of Wednes
day by (‘able froiS Mr. Gunmere, the
American consul general at Tangier:
j "As reported his demands. yesterday, 1 Raisuli inform- has.
- increased am
ed today by the minister of foreign
| affairs that one of the sheiks and
j of his brothers, whose apprehension
! were, demanded by Raisuli, has
1 arrested: also that a courier has
despatched this morning to Hawaii
j say that his further demands will veo
i probably be granted by the
S government if the captives are
leased.
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tJNEEDERAll VEIERANS IN PARADt.
A« Enthusiastic feature of (losing Day
the Reunion in Nashville.
A x a3 h V ili e dispach says: The
nantH ()f th(? south’s once great
honored ttie p e()p i(. „f Nashville
i their thousands of guests
! by parade through the principal
a
1 - streets.
! j negs
j, was the feature of the
j ! day ot the reunion, and the
which g ree ted the heroes as
; raarc fled through streets dense
j {,. ulnBn i t y plainly told of the
! tj, ey still hold ir. ifc* hearts of
southern people.
GOVIKNOR PEABODY SUMMON'D)
Must Answer in St. Louis Court to
j laken bv Imprisoned Miner.
j united States Circuit Judge A.
Thayer. fitting in chambers ar
lxmis, has granted a writ of
extrpus to have Charles H.
president of the Western Federation
1 Miners, brought before him on July
, writ is directed against
The
nor J*. H. Poabody, of Colorado;
jutant General iell and Buckley
another Colorado official. The
have been cited to appear with
and show cause why Moyer is
rc» trained from his Mberiy.
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Cream of News. t
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Summary of Most
Important Events
of Each Bay.
—According to Chinese reports at
the Japanese have stormed
Arthur and captured one of the
Torts, though with the terrible
*>t one thousand men.
—(Survivors tram the transports
by the Russian VEadivostock
continue to reach Japanese
—A ferocious hog at tempi.* to tits
a young child near Ty Ty, Ga.,
is prevented only after a Strug
—Georgia Educational Association
its thirty-eighth annual session
morning at Warm Springs.
—Governor Jennings, of Florida,
other trustees are sued by the
Coast Line Company to pre
the disposal of vast amount of
lands to which the canal com
claims Title.
—W. H. Miller and Mrs. M. Mitchell,
Mary Bingham, both said to be
Georgia, are held at Nashville,
on the charge of forgery, lar
ceny and false pretenses.
—New Iron ore mines at Fort Payne,
Ala., are being developed by northern
capitalists, and experts pronounce the
ore the finest in the Birmingham dis
trict.
Auditor Sewell, of Alabama, rules
that election tor school trustees are
not general elections, and that regia
trars cannot register voters under
age.
j. B. Mills, treasurer of Summitt,
Miss., kills himself at Jackson, giv
Ing as reason for the act that his
death would benefit his creditors.
—Alabama favors local taxation for
SI ■hools. and will make efforts to build
better school houses.
—At Manchester there was no lack
the past week in the demand for cloth
at figures that kenerally were unfa
vevable. though there were isolated
instances of moderate lines being
sold.
—A lake in Irwin county, Ga., runs
dry and many fish are caught by peo
ple who come from 20 miles aroind.
—Insurance companies name ar>
praisers U) determine .Macon’s loss on
l )ark buildings recently burned,
—The Chinamen tried at Macon. Ga..
viototio.. o f ,he .« an.
sentenced to be deported.
—Broward for governor; Taliaferro
for senator, and Clark for representa
tive from the second district, are an
| nounced as winners in the last Florida
| primary,
—Charles B. McCoy, of Chicago.
1 kills himself at Jacksonville, F>a.. on
I account of alleged losses on the stock
market. The amount of bis losses is
said to be $10,000.
—Alabama mine workers west long
er contracts and may again adopt the
sliding scale.
—The petition of attorneys for Nan
Patterson for an Inspection of the
minutes of the grand jury that iudict
ed her wag refused by New Y'ork
court. This means that tbe actress
must face court for the murder of
Bookmaker Caesar Young .
—The “stalwart” faction in Wis
consin won out before the republican
national committee. TuTs will give
Senators Spooner and Quarles seats
in the convention.
—Only estimates can yet be made as
to the number who lost their lives in
the burning of the excursion steamer
| General Slocum in East river.
‘ —The train robbers who held up
j the North Coast Pacific Umited Express in Montana Com
' dynamited the
I pany's safe and secured $65,000.
) —Over two hundred persons lost
| the rise of the river above Santiago
j de Cuba. Fourteen inches of rat*-, fell
| and the river rose instantly. to Raisuli,
—News lias been sent
| through the Shereef of Bazzan. that
j all his demands have been complied
■ with
VOTE Of FLORIDA CANVASSED.
Result of Last Primary Made known by
J State and Congressional Committees.
The Florida state and congressional
\ committees met separately in Jack
sonville Friday to canvass and re
port the vote in th<* last primary. The
vote was officially announced as foi
lows:
For senate—J. P. Taliaferro, 24JJ56.
J. N. C. Stockton. 20,695; Taliaferros
majority 3,361.
For governor—N. B. Broward, 22.
973; ll. \V. Davis, 22,265; Broward’s
majority 714.
For Represent afive in Co it'•re.-.;,
Second DS; vict—Frank Clark, •j.
T. M. B :rr.s, 7>S6. ( ; s TU2U 7.