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Volume 18.
Waynesboro, Georgia, Saturday, October 14, 1899
Number 26
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rder War Will Coin-
Londom, Oct. 10.—A London news
agencr publishes the following dispatch
front Pretoria, filed there at 7. p. m.
yesterday:
"Au urgout dispatch has been handed
to Con vi: glia m Greene, the British diplo
matic agent, requesting au explicit as
surance of the withdrawal within 48
Lours of the British troops from the
Transvaal borders, as well as the with
drawal of ail the British 1'urces landed
in South Africa since the Bloemfontein
conference. ”
Tne Transvaal ultimatum, which is
signed by P W. Reitz, secretary of
state, begins with the following state
ment:
"Her majesty’s unlawful intervention
in the internal affairs of this republic,
in conflict with the London convention
of 188-1, by the extraordinary strength
ening of her troops in the neighborhood
of the borders of this republic, has
ciussd au intolerable condition of things
to arise, to which this government feels
itself obliged, in the interest not only
of this reuub.ic, but also of all South
Africa, to make an end as soon as possi
ble, and this government feels itself
called upon and obliged to press earn
estly ana with emphasis for au immedi
ate termination ot this state of things
and to request her majesty’s govern
ment to give assurances upon the four
following demands:
1-T Bliat all points of mutual differ
ence be regulated by friendly recourse
to arbitration or by any other amicable
way rltat may be agreed upon by this
government and her majesty’s govern-
meut.
"2. That all troops on the borders of
tbis republic shall be instantly with
drawn.
“•f That all reinforcements of troops
which have arrived in South Africa
since June 1, 1899, shall be removed
from South Africa within a reasonable
time, to be agreed upon with this gov
ernment, and with the mutual as
surances guaranteed on the part of this
government that no attack upon nor
Hostilities against any portion of the
possessions of the British government
shall be made by this republic during
the further negotiations within a period
01 time to be subsequently agreed upon
between the governments; and this gov
ernment will, on compliance therewith,
oe prepared to withdraw the armed
fttrghers of this republic from the bor
ders.
"f That her majesty’s troops which
are now on the high seas shall not be
tauded in any part of South Africa.”
, bo these demauds is appended tki
definition of the time limit for a reply.
'This government presses for an im
mediate and an affirmative answer to
these four questions and earnestly ro-
Qflests her majesty’s government to
Return an answer before or upon
Wednesday, Oct. 11, 1899, not later than
° o’clock p. m.
“It desires further to add that in the
unexpected event of an answer not sao-
Ffacrory being received by it within the
interval it will, with great regret, be
compelled to regard the action of her
majesty’s government as a formal dec
laration of war and will not hold itself
responsible for the correctness thereof,
and that in the event of any further
movement of troops occurring within
the above mentioned time in a nearer
direction to our borders this govern
ment will be compelled to regard that
also as a formal declaration of war.”
Doctor Shoots His Father.
Lydia, S. O,, Oct. 7.—Dr. MaxcyLee,
a prominent physician, 30 years old,
shot and fatally wounded his own
father, Dr. H. J. Lee, at this place. The
shooting seems to have been the result
of the father rebuking the son for some
angry words’spoken to the housekeeper.
Dewey Will Visit Atlanta.
Washington, Oct. 7.—A delegation of
Atlanta citizens called on Admiral
Dew6y today and invited him to become
the guest of that city. The admiral
promised that he would go to Atlanta
at some time not later than Nov. 1, the
date to be arranged later.
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There are now 11 rases of yellow
fever uader treatment in New Orleans.
The Georgia Sawmill association,
which embraces lumbermen of South
Carolina and Florida, is in session at
Savannah.
Macon has presented Lieutenant Em-
orv Wiuship, one of her sons, with a
handsome sword for his gallant services
in the PhiiipDiues.
Exports to foreign ports from Pensa
cola during .September were valued at
$921,058, an increase of $000,000 over
the same mouth last year.
It is reported that the Southern Rail
way companv has secured control of the
Cincinnati, New Orleans aud Texas Pa
cific road, running from Cincinnati to
Chattanooga.
William H. Stubbs, a compositor on
the Baltimore Sun, broke the world’s
record for machine typesetting in a con
test with William Duffy of the Phila
delphia Enquirer, setting 66,6i7 erus in
5 hours aud 35 minutes.
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An epidemic of smallpox exists at the
orphan’s home at Dayton, O.
Nicaragua has courrmardaled and
condemned to death several insurgent
officers
Dr. Galvin Eilis, class of ’46, who
died 1883, and whose will has just been
probated, left to Harvard university
$140,000.
Several hundred Filipinos have re-
j ocupied Porac, which was captured by
I General McArthur on Sept. 28 and evac-
j uatea bv the Americans the following
j day -
j The novel experiment of hauling pu-
j pils to public schools has been made
in Surry county, Ya., with perfect suc-
I cess and it is likely to be tried in other
j sections of the state.
The secretary of war has issued an
! order discontinuing the military de-
| partmenc of the gulf aud merging it
into the department of the east, under
command of General Merritt, with
headquarters at New York.
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A modern American fire department
has been organized at Santiago.
The pre-jident has appointed George
B. Pattersc-i postmaster at Key West.
Bishop Henry C. Potter is going to
the Philippines on an ecclesiastical mis
sion.
It is reported that Germany is about
to hand over documents which will
to the quashing of the Dreyfus verdict.
Dr. Vaughan, an American, who has
worked up a large trade among the peo
ple of New Guinea, narrowly escaped
being caught by savage natives a few
weeks ago.
Colonel Henry C. Kessler, First Mon
tana volunteer infantry, has been com
missioned as brevet brigaaier general
of volunteers for distinguished conduct
at Malolos on March 31 last.
The large, oidfashioned dwelling on
the Oak Hill plantation, the property of
the La Bruce family, situated on the
Y/accamaw river, in Georgetown
county, S. C., has been destroyed by fire.
§ § §
S. S. King, three times mayor of
Rome, Ga., is dead.
James J. Evans and his 16-year-old
daughter were killed by a train at Lake
land, Fla.
The French navy is installing wireless
telegraphy between the lighthouses
along the French coast.
The trustees of the University of Ver
mont have voted to confer the degree of
doctor of laws on Admiral Dewey.
Fire on the public square of Smith-
viile, Dekalk county, Term., destroyed
12 business buildings and a number of
offices.
W. J. Bryan sat directly behind Pres
ident McKinley at Canton, Ills., while
the president delivered a brief address
to the citizens of that town.
The American Female Guardian soci
ety has adopted resolutions, which were
read by Miss Helen M. Gould, opposing
the seating of Congressman-Eiect Rob
erts of Utah, and characterizing his
practice of polygamy as an attack on
the sanctity of home life.
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The United States supreme court has
convened for f^e regular October term.
California reports a hot wave, with a
maximum temperature of 115 degrees,
endangering the grape crop.
An attempt will shortly be made to
connect Havana and Kew West by the
Marconi system of wireless telegraphy.
Will McNeal, a negro, wanted at Ab
beville, Ala., for the murder of Albert
Horton, has been arrested at Jackson
ville, Fla.
William Jennings Bryan is very ill in
Iowa, and he may have to abandon his
campaign work planned for that state,
Kentucky and Ohio.
The commercial bodies of Chatta
nooga will join in an invitation to Ad
miral Dewey to visit that city on the oc
casion of his trip to Atlanta about Nov. 1.
For saving the life of an American
soldier General Otis has granted a full
pardon to Domingo Maguo, a Filipino
prisoner, who was sentenced by a fepau-
ish court in 1S97 to penal servitude for
six years for robbery.
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Coal has gone up 50 cents on the ton
at all the coal mines in East Tennessee.
The stock of the $17,00,000 window-
glass trust is 10 per cent oversubscribed
aud the organization will be completed
this weak.
Captain Chadwick of the cruiser New
York has been presented with a hand
some sword by the citizens of Morgan-
ton, W. Va., his native city.
While under the influence of whisky,
three negro miners laid down on the
railroad track at Winetia, Ala., and
were beheaded by a passing train.
German exports to the United States
for the three months ending Sept. 30
reached, according to official returns,
$22,372,355, au increase of $1,767,084
over the corresponding quarter of last
year.
The roads entering Atlanta cannot
agree on plans for a new union depot,
ami it is said the legislature will be
asked to authorize the state to construct
a station, the railway companies paying
rental.
F. J. Lawrence, of 435 Fourth
Ave., Detroit, Mich., exchange
editor on the Evening News, says:
“I never really broke down while
at this work, but one time I was
in such a condition that my physi
cian said I would have nervous
prostration. I was in a bad way,
my nerves seemed to give out and
I could not sleep. I lost flesh and
had a complication of ailments
which baffled skilful medical treat
ment.
“One of my associates recom
mended Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills
for Pale People and I gave them a
trial. The pills gave me strength
and helped my shattered nerves so
that I could get a full night’s rest.
Soon after I began taking them
regularly, the pain ceased, causing
me to feel like a new man.”
From the Evening News, Detroit, Mich.
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They are an unfailing specific for such dis
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St. Vitus’ dance, sciatica, neuralgia rheu
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la grippe, palpitation of the heart, pale and
sallow complexions, all forms of weakness
either in male or female.
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People are never
sold by the dozen or hundred, but always in pack
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Hostilities Open Before the
Expiration of Limit
Set by Kruger.
LONDON BREATHES FREER
Suspense Has Ueeu Very Trying Din
ing the Past Few Weeks, and There
Is a Keeling of Genuine Relief That
Diplomacy Has Said Its Last Word
and Action Can Now Proceed.
London, Oct. 11.—A dispatch from
Pietermaritzburg, Natal, says intense
excitemeut prevails there owing to per
sistent reports that the Orange Free
State troops have already crossed the
border aud are advancing upon Lady
smith.
A later dispatch from Pietermaritz
burg says the invaders entered Natai by
the important uass of Cundy Clough, 37
miles southwest of New Castle.
If tho latest reports, which are con
firmed from various points in South
Africa, are true, the Boers have not
waited for an expiration of the time
limit, but have already crossed the
border as they would be entitled to
do both in virtue of the notification
contained in the last paragraph of the
ultimatum and also of the British ac
knowledgement, which reached Pre
toria so speedily as to justify a belief,
amounting to almost certainty, that the
war party iu Great Britain, while wel
coming an act which has deprived the
country of ail peaceful alternatives aud
given it- the great superficial advantage
to be derived from the fact that the ad
versary has voluntarily assumed the
stigma of virtually declaring war, was
eagerly awaiting its chance, and despite
newspaper attempts to veil the real feel
ing, is in reaiitv delighted that diplo
macy has said its last word and that
action can now proceed.
Grrat Briluin Unprepared.
There will inevitably be a long period
of suspense, together with a great deal
of chaffing at delay, as all indications
go to show that Great Britain is unpre
pared aud will be compelled to remain
on the defensive for some time. All the
aggressiveness must come from the
t oers. It seems highly probable that the
‘“ongue of Natal,” as far as New Castle,
wiil be iu the hands of the Boers before
many hours. From that poiut, how
ever, in the event of a further advance,
they would probably find British forces
at Ladysmith aud Dundee capable of re
pelling their attacks.
At Ladysmith the garrison which has
to guard against an onslaught from the
Orange Free State was reinforced by
the Gordon Highlanders and a strong
contingent of the Iudan troops aud the
authorities are now confident of their
ability to deal out an unpleasant sur-
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prise to ihe Boers in tne event; 01
attempt to rush the position.
At Dundee there are about 6,000 men.
This iorce oueht to be sufficient to stem
a Boer advance by way of Su In land and
to maintain the line of communication
with 1 he base at Pietermaritzburg, the
headquarters of General Sir George
I Stewart White.
On the Bechaunaland border the sit
uation seems to give the Boers a tem
porary advantage. There is considerable
1 anxiety in the districts of Yryburg and
j Mafeking, although it is hoped that the
reinforcements recently dispatched
there will be sufficient to protect the
! rich town of Kimberly.
No Formal Declaration.
! So far as a declaration of war is con
| cerned, the feeling in London is that
the Transvaal government will merely
j invite the British diplomatic agent,
i Conyngham Greene, to leave Pretoria
on the expiration of the time limit of
the ultimatum. Such an act would
preclude the necessity of any further
declaration. Certainly Great Britain
will not declare war agaiust what she
I considers a dependent state. Active
hostilities, therefore, are expected to
take the place of a formal declaration.
There was a great scene on the floor
of the Stock Exchange at 3:15, the time
of the expiration of the period fixed in
the Boer ultimatum. The members
gathered and began singing “God Save
the Queen” and “Rule Britannia.” A
large crowd outside took up the strains
and singing and cheering spread from
point to point iu the neighborhood un
til the whoie district was alive with
enthusiasm.
Montague White, consul general for
the South African republic iu London,
closed the consulate this afternoon and
immediately left for the continent.
The attitude with which the Cape
Colony minister will adopt in actual
outbreak of hostilities is much discussed
here. Dispatches from Cape Town say
that the cabinet will resign, while there
are persistent reports in London that
Sir Alfred Milner, governor of Cape
Colony, has already dismissed Mr. Wil
liam P. Schreiner aud his colleagues.
It is evident that one or the other of
these contingencies must occur, as the
governor and commander in-chief must
be in a position to carry out defensive
measures without regard to possible ob
struction on the part of an unsympa
thetic cabinet.
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BRITISH NATION IS UNITED.
Kruger Seems to Have Waited Too
Long to Strike.
New York, Oct. 11.—A dispatch to
The Tribune from London says: Presi
dent Kruger, finding it impossible to
bold back his peasant warriors, has de
termined to bring on a war without de-
day. Failure to draw Mr. Chamberlain
into a disclosure of fresh demands
whioh could be denounced as contrary
to the convention of 1884, he has or
dered his secretary of state to send an
ultimatum for the immediate with
drawal of troops and for the suspension
of military preparations. The dispatch
closes with a ciurnsy attempt to construe
a refusal to comply with the demands
as a formal declaration of war by the
British government.
This news is received here with cyni
cal amusement by the imperial officials,
who perceive that Kruger has delivered
himself into their hands, since the re
sponsibility for war must rest with the
government which sends out so peremp
tory a summons to evacuate Sonth Af
rica and then sets its own soldiers in
motion.
This dispatch is well calculated by its
contemptuous terms aud its lack of rea
son to unite the British nation. There
can be no peace talk in any quarter aud
the Liberals will join forces with the
Unionists in supporting active war
measures.
A great stir of military preparation
has already begun. An enormous fleet
of transports is in readiness to sail and
the departure of Sir Redvers Buller with
an army corps will be hastened. The
favorite theory among ajlita^y officers
is that Sir Redvers’ advance will be
through the capital of the Orange Free
State; that the Boer army wiil be ulti
mately drawn into that quarrer and
that the Natal forces will cut off its re
treat.
The ultimate plan of campaign is now
less intDortant than anv other stage of
President King, Farmer’s Bank,
Brooklyn, Mich, has used DeWitt’s
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These famous little pills cure con
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1 nosme operations, wiien the Erltisn
forces will be outnumbered by the Dutch
allies and in danger of meeting with a
serious reverse. Kruger, however, with
his perverse talent for inertia, seems to
have waited too long before striking the
first blow.
KRUGER MAKES A SPEECH.
Tolls Boers L-uving For the Frout to
Trust in God.
Pretoria, Transvaal, Oct. 11.—Presi
dent Kruger’s birthday was announced
yesterday with a salute in camp and a
general display of flags throughout the
town. There was no official reception,
but the foreign representatives called
upon the president. The British diplo
matic agent, Conyngham Greene, was
represented by the secretary of the
agency.
Congratulatory telegrams were re
ceived by the president from all parts of
South Africa and Europe.
In the course of the morning, address
ing a body of burghers who called im
mediately before setting out for tho
frontier, the president impressed upon
them that they must nor, trust m them
selves, but should place all their reliance
upon God, who directs every bullet.
“You must keep up your courage, ” he
said, “and remember that in former
dais that although our enemies were
numerous, comparatively few burghers
fell.”
The burghers departed, singing the
Boer national airs.
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NO ALARM IN MAFEKING.
British Troops Make Livery Prepara
tion For Defense.
Cape Town, Oct. 11.—A dispatch re
ceived from Mafeking, dated noon, says
that no alarm was raised last night, al
though every preparation for defense
was made. Excitement was increased
by news that the telegraph wiree had
been cut. It was found that the break
ing or the wire was due to the fighting
top of the armored train, which had not
been lowered. The telegraph staff, by
hard work, restored communication
early this morning.
The strength of General Cronje’s
Boer force, which threatens Mafeking,
is estimated at 4,000. It appears not to
be the intention of the Boers to attack.
A Buiuwayo dispatch reports that the
town is dnll, owing to the departure of
the troops. Business is at a standstill.
The utmost effort is being made to keep
the mines working. The railway con
tinues uninterrupted. Splendid rains
have again fallen.
State of Ohio. City of iuledoj
Lucas County j ss —
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the
senior partner of the firm of F J. Cheney &
Co., doing: business in the city oi Toledo,
county and state aforesaid, and that said firm
will pay tiie sum of one hundred dollars for
each and every case of catarrh that cannot
lie cured by the use of Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
Frank J. Ciieney.
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SOUTHERN DEVELOPMENT.
Industrial Convention at. Huntsville
to Discuss This Subj ct.
Huntsville, Ala., Oct. J0.—It was
nearly 11 o’clock this morning before
the delegates to the Southern industrial
convention had assembled. When the
Hon. Allie Moore, mayor of the city,
began his address of welcome on be
half of the citizens of Huntsville, the
auditorium of the handsome little opera
house was well filled.
The freedom of the state of Alabama
was tendered the convention by its gov
ernor, Hon. Joseph E. Johnston, and the
response ou behalf of the delegates was
delivered by Major John J. Horner of
Helena, Ark.
Temporary organization was effected
by the election of ex-Governor Mac-
Corkle chairman and N. F. Thompson
of Huntsviile as secretary. A recess
was then taken until 2 o’clock.
The convention has a program extend
ing over five days, the tonics for dis
cussion relating soleiy to the develop
ment of the south and its resources.
merchant Kills an Editor.
West Palm Beach, Fla., Oct. 10.—O.
M. Gardner, editor and publisher of
Our Sunny Land, of Miami, was killed at
this place by Marcus Frank, manager of
a store here. Gardner, who had arrived
on a morning train, became involved in
a quarrel with Frank regarding the pub
lication in Gardner’s paper of an article
which Frank’s mother was men
tioned. The quarrel ended in Frank’s
shooting the editor. The slayer was ar
rested. A coroner’s jury recommened
that he be held for trial.
UNIFORM RATE AGREED ON. LYNCHERS AFTER NEGROES.
Western Union to Charge 2o Cents
For All Messages.
Columbia, S. C., Oct. 7.—After sev
eral months of sparring, the Western
Union aud the state railroad commission
have come to an amicable agreement
about rates. At oue time it seemed that
suits against the company and much
litigation would result from the position
taken by the commission, which was
that the rate on 25-cent messages should
be reduced to 24 cents. This was to go
into effect to make the company pay the
revenue stamp.
After holding consultations with the
commission and the attorney general,
the legal representative of the Western
Union made another proposition which
has been accepted. It does not affect a
large part of the state. The substance
of the agreement is that all messages in
South Carolina wiil be at the uniform
rate of 25 cents.
Heretofore there have been a number
of points between extreme sections
where the charges nave been 40 cents.
The Western Union objected strenu
ously to making a precedent of paying
for revenue stamps.
BILL OF EXCEPTIONS FILED.
Savannah to Invite Dewey.
Savannah, Oct. 10.—Citizens of Sa
vannah who are interested in the visit
of Admiral Dewey to Georgia have taken
hold of the matter and determined to
extend him a pressing invitation to
spend a day in Savannah after his visit
to Atlanta.
Carnival at Slucon Opens.
Macon, Oct. 10.—The third annual
carnival opened this afternoon and will
continue four days. A large number of
visitors are on hand. Governor Candler
and staff arrived tonight.
Schooner John Tingue Lost.
Fernandina, Fla., Oct. 7.—Captain
Taylor and crew of the schooner John
H. Tingne, bound from Philadelphia to
Jacksonville with a cargo of coal, has
arrived here from Dnngeness and re
ported the loss of his vessel on Cumber
land island. The vessel will be a total
loss. No lives lost.
Suit Against tiie Central Goes Before
Supreme Court.
Atlanta, Oct. 7.—A bill of exceptions
in the case of the state against the Cen
tral Railroad of Georgia has been filed
in the Putnam superior court by Judge
Turner of the prison commission.
The bill of excebtions was filed by the
counsel for the state since the judg
ment of the court was rendered in favor
of the Central railroad and agaiust the
contention of the state that the Central
had violated the constitution in defeat
ing or attempting to defeat competition.
The bill, it is understood, does not
allege any specific error in the decision
of Judge Hart of the Ocmulgee circuit,
but is based on the broad ground that
in deciding that the Central railroad
had not violated the constitution by the
purchase of the Middle Georgia and Ea-
tonton branch road, the court was in
the wrong and had committed error.
The effect of this, it is said, will be
that before the supreme court the entire
case will come up for revision and not
any one particular point iu it.
BRUCE NAMES A RECEIVER.
Durlington People Stirred Over the
Crime of Five Blacks.
Columbia, S. C.,Oct. 10.—In Darling
ton county Sunday evening, Miss Jo
sephine Laffady, a respectable young
woman, was going from a neighbor’s
farm to her home. She had to pass
through a little patch of woods and
there was *et upon by Edward Luckie
and Dick Mitchell, negroes, aged 17 and
18 years. She had ou a sun bonnet,
which was closed over her month, aud
she was choked to insensibility.
Jim Washington, Daniel Mack, Ed
Mack, Lucius Smart, in a cotton field
by the edge of the woods, looked on
without protest.
Edward Luckie was captured by
Sheriff Scarborough of Darlington and
Washington was arrested by Policeman
Scarborough. They held their prison
ers in the woods till daylight, avoiding
a crowd of lynchers.
Yesterday morning when they took
the men to the courthouse the temper
of the populace was manifest, so the
sheriff slipped Luckie out of town in a
bnggv, driving to Cartersville, while
Policeman Scarborough took Washing
ton by another away, arresting the other
three witnesses enroute. They met at
Cartersville and arrived in Columbia
at 11 o’clock last night with five negroes.
The other principal has fled, but is
being pursued by a mob.
All five of these negroes would have
been lynched it left in Darlington. This
is the first crime of the kind in that
county and the people are greatly stirred
up.
WHOLE BLOCK IN FLAMES.
Talladega Light and Water Company
Is In Trouble.
Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 7.—A bill has
been filed in the United States court
here by the State Trust company of
New York against the Talladega Light
and Water company, asking for the ap
pointment of a receiver for the defend
ant company. Judge Bruce of the
United States district court, who is in
Montgomery, was apprised of the na
ture of the bill and appointed T. L. Bil-
lingrath receiver of the company.
This suit is upon certain bonds issued
by the defendant company, and it prom
ises to prove an extensive and impor
tant piece of litigation. The complain
ant is represented by Root, Howard,
Winthrop & Stinson of New York. The
Root at the head of this firm is no other
than Secretary Elihu Root. About $60,-
000 in bonds is involved in this suit.
Huntsville Hus a Seventy-Five Thou
sand Dollar Fire.
Huntsville, Ala., Oct. 9.—Fire here
last night destroyed property worth
$75,000. The blaze was discovered in
A. J. Bennent & Co. *s livery stable and
it almost instantly spread throughout
the entire building. The fire was com
municated to adjoining buildings, aud
within 40 minutes the whole block,
bounded by Wasiiington, Clinton, Green
and Randolph streets, was in flames.
Requests were telegraphed to Nash
ville, Chattanooga and Decatur for en
gines, but later in the night, after the
several engines had started, they were
stopped, the lire being under control.
The First Methodist church and the
Struve building, in the same block with
the fire, were severely damaged by
water. All of the pews, the organ and
other portable articles were taken from
the church, and the damage was $2,000.
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Negro BIlirderers Escape.
Marion, Ala., Oct. 7.—Wiley Wyatt,
charged with the murder of a man at
Uniontown, and Jeff Allen, convicted
of murdering Pete Mundin, and sen
tenced to hang at the recent term of the
circuit court, have escaped from the jail
at this place. The prisoners, both of
whom are negroes, sawed out of the
cages and escaped through a hole in the
floor for a stove flue 7x14 inches. The
sheriff is following them with dogs.
Time Limit Stops Yachts.
New York, Oct 7.—Today, for the
third time, the international yacht race
between the Shamrock, the British chal
lenger, and the Columbia, defender of
America’s cap, was stopped near the
finish by the expiration of the time
limit. As in the previous trials, the
vessels were almost abreast when the
contest was called off, first one and then
the other having been in the lead up to
that time.
Story of a Slave,
To be bound hand and foot for
years by the chains of disease i9 the
worst form of slavery. George D.
Williams, of Manchester, Mich , tells
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DOUTHIT
Writ of Certiorari Issued by Judge
Aldrich at Columbia.
Columbia, S. C., Oct. 9.—A writ of
certiorari has been issued by Judge
James Aldrich in the case of ex-Com-
missioner Donthit, and today week the
state board of control is required to pre
sent a return to the writ in this city,
certifying the entire proceedings.
The whole dispensary sensation thus
gets into court and Mr. Donthit will
have his side of the case heard.
Mr. Douthit’s attorneys say that it is
still the sole purpose of that official to
get a hearing and a vindication; that he
does not desire to remain in the office of
commissioner persona non grata to the
members of the board.
The board refused him a hearing. He
admits the charges, but denies inten
tional criminality.
The charges were that he marked low-
grade whisKy with highgrade brands.
He was also found short more than
$1,000.
COURT OF INQUIRY NAMED.
Georgia Soldiers Who Raided Stores
to Be Dismissed.
Atlanta, Oct. 10.—As a resnlt of an
interview between Governor Candler
and the officers of the local militia at
the executive office Saturday afternoon,
a court of inquiry has been named to
investigate the raiding of two stores by
some of the men of the Atlanta battal
ion at Hamlet, N. C., while the troops
were enronte home.
The court consists of a detail of three
members—Colonel W. G. Obear, Cap
tain Charles A. Sheldon and First Lieu
tenant Henry L. Harrison of the Fifth
infantry.
It will hold its first session in the
office of the adjutant general tomorrow
evening at 8:30 o’clock and a diligent
effort will be made from the testimony
of officers and men to locate the parties
guilty of the outrage at Hamlet.
Bad Weather For Yachts.
New York, Oct. 11.—The local weather
bureau has received the following from
Washington: “Unsettled weather to-
night and Thursday, with no present
indication of brisk winds.”
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from whooping cough, our
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