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LONDON PACKED TO THE DOORS IN
HONOR OF THE EVENT.
SPECIAL SERVICES FOR VICTORIA
Her Majesty Attends St. George’s Chapel
Where Only Royalty Was Present and
Impressive Scenes Are Witnessed.
London was iu the midst of jubilee
fever Saturday. The streets were im¬
passable, resembling a mixture of car¬
penters’ shops and country fairs.
They were crowded with excursionists
from all parts of England.
Everything seemed to be half done
and incomplete. Many of the decora¬
tions were already seedy from two
clays’ storm. Nothing, however, seem¬
ed to be lacking in enthusiasm, unless
it was in the case of the syndicates of
speculators in jubilee seats, who, at
all places except St. Paul’s cathedral,
accepted any reasonable offer. The
combined losses of the four largest
speculators exceed $200,000, and on
every hand are inquiries as to “where
are the Americans?”
Queen Victoria began the celebra-
tion of her jubilee, Sunday morning
»s was befitting her entire career, be-
fore the altar of her faith.
mi Throughout , , London, x i .1 the united -ii
kingdom and t ic empire in every
cathedra , church or chapel of the es-
fabhshed church ot England were held
services similar to those at St George s
chapel, W indsor, where her majesty
paid her devotions and offered solemn
thanks to God.
The announcement that the services
at St. George’s chapel would be pri-
vate and for the members of the royal
family prevented the gathering of a
large crowd. The scene was most ini-
pressive and the services very simple,
lief Majesty sat in the chair of state,
immediately in front of the commun¬
ion rail, and just beside the brass
plate whose inscription designates the
spot which was the temporary place of
interment of the prince consort.
All the envoys from Catholic coun¬
tries were present in full uniform, ex¬
cept the prince and princes s of Naples,
who were absent owing to the presence
of the papal envoy. On the arrival of
General Devaust, the French envoy,
the band outside played the “Mar-
ee 1 use.”
In his sermon Cardinal Vaughn
dw r elt upon the glory of the Queen’s
reign as peculiarly grateful to the
Roman Catholics of the empire, be¬
cause it had always been consistent
with the extension of freedom of con-
science of her Roman Catholic sub¬
jects. In tbe afternoon and the even¬
ing there were special accession day
services at Westminster abbey and at
St. Paul’s cathedral.
At St. George’s chapel, Windsor, in
the afternoon a special musical seivice
was held, at which most members of
the royal family, except the queen and
Empress Frederick, who had attended
the morning service, were present.
CUBAN POLICY NOT KNOWN.
Tho President II:is Not Yet Decided Upon
Any Plan of Action.
A Washington special says : It can
be stated on the best authority that all
publications purporting to outline the
Cuban policy of President McKinley
that have been made up to the present
time have been in disregard of the
fact that up to this moment the case of
the United States government has not
yet been made up and that even in
the discussion of the subject of our
.relations to Cuba that have taken
place in the circle the point has not yet
been reached where it can be said that
the executve had finally determined
upon any certain plan of action.
TO BE SOLD AS A WHOLE.
-Jwdge SimonioH Renders a Decision in the
Yadkin Valley Bine.
Judge Simonton, of the United
States circuit court, has reaffirmed his
decree in the case of the Farmers’
Roan and Trust Company of New
York ve. the Cape Fear aud Yadkin
Railway Company rt at. that the rail¬
road should be sold as a whole, not in
divisions, as contemplated by the
plaintiffs.
“ORIGINAL PACKAGED CASE.
A Test to Be Made By* Biasing a Charles¬
ton Agency.
The dispensary law of South Caro-
lina is to he brought before the courts
once more. At Charleston J. S. Piuk-
usschn’s “original package” agency
was seized by the state authorities,
the proprietor taken before a magis¬
trate and his store closed up.
This action is taken under section
22 of the dispensary law, which de¬
clares that any place other than a state
dispensary, in which liquors are sold,
shall be considered a public nuisance.
It, is probable that the case is made to
test the validity of the “original pack¬
age” decision recently issued in the
United States courts.
CONSUL TO ANTWERP.
Connecticut Man Succeeds Harvey John-
son, ol' Georgia.
A NVashington special says: A Con-
necticut man is to sup plant Harvey
Johnson as consul at Antwerp. This
io a plum which has been sought by
other Georgians. Dr. Hopkins had it
on his list, but only secondary to the
Greece mission; Alton Angier has
wanted it and so has .Hugh Angier,
who had applied from New York, and
Theo Deeante, of Augusta, who has
£ ee u an applicant.
RAGGING ON FREE LIST.
Di'inocrntH Gel A«Ml«taiice From tho Silver
Republican!).
The silver republicans of tho west
went to the aid of the democrats in
the senate Saturday, and the combina¬
tion was sufficient to make an import¬
ant change iu the tariff bill on soma
features of geuorul interest to tire
south.
The schedules covering jute bagging
were strinken from the bill. The effect
of this, unless it is reversed later, will
lie to give the farmers of the south
cotton bagging free of duty.
The fight for this was based on the
democratic claim that the bill should
give to the farmers of the south equal
consideration with those of the west.
If the western farmer was given free
binding twine for his wheat, the south-
erner should be allowed to buy his
cotton bagging in a market not handi¬
capped by a tariff tax.
The democrats all voted for free
bagging and the silver republicans
voted with them.
When the free list is reached these
items will, therefore, be placed upon
lLaL tion'wheif t m?yT^ab?e\o°re l r ver?e conference e thisac-
it comes to Rie
between luneon the tae two two house House, Imt nut me he ffiU- inai
cations now are favorable for bagging
on the free list.
Another victory over the republicans
was secured oJ in the iMaterial item of mattino-s of
U-aw B imil« The repub-
luains ld n re ponse to Pennsv”a the demands of
he makers of and
e l uole n t ust put a tariff on
these 6 mattffigs The mltings object was oT to
keep Keep the tne Japanese Japanese mattings out out ot the tlie
American market, or at least to keep
them Xrom underselling American car-
ts and ] mo l oulrl . There are no
American mattings to protect. By
practicaI , y the same vote as on the
bnggi paragraph the tariff on mat-
tings was stricken from the bill.
KICK AGAINST TARIFF BILL.
Japan Ken,onstrat.es Now and May Event-
ually Retaliate.
The protest made by the Japanese
government agaiust the pending tariff
bill is formally embodied in a note re¬
ceived from Minister Toru Hoshi.
The note is couched in the most
courteous language, but there is a
firmness of tone observable that indi¬
cates the remonstrance may be fol¬
lowed by acts of retaliation if disre¬
garded.
The note begins with an apology for
expressing an opinion that under ordi¬
nary circumstances might be regarded
as trenching justification upon domestic^ important affairs,
but as that
Japanese interests are involved and in
the opinion of the Japanese minister
the proposed increased duties will
injure the United States no less than
Japan by retarding the growth of
commercial relations.
POPULISTS OPPOSE FUSION.
Maine Committee Declare the Alliance
With Silver Democracy a Failure.
At a meeting of the Maine state pop¬
ulist committee at Augusta Saturday
all present were opposed to fusion aud
in favor of the middle-of-the-road
c oarse. With one exception, the mem-
bers of the committee heard from were
of the same mind. Delegates were ap¬
pointed to the conference at Nashville
July 4th.
Resolutions were adopted declaring
that the late alliance with the silver
democracy has proven a failure and
should no longer be continued, and
condemning in unqualified terms the
“brutal treatment” accorded by the
democratic party to the populists, and
especially to “that great national
leader, Hon. Thomas E. Watson.”
FIVE CHILDREN BURNED.
'MelanskPs Hoinn Destroyed by Fire and
Boss of Life Results.
Fire Saturday night partly destroyed
the home of Joseph Melauski in east
Buffalo, N. Y., and his five children
were frightfully burned.
Sophie, aged ten, died in a hospital
Sunday morning; Mary, aged twelve,
Brownislewa, five years old, Veronica,
three years, and Cecelia, aged eight,
are lying on cots at the hospital, and
the attending physicians say there is
little chance for their recovery. Me-
lanski is also in the hospital. His arms
and face were burned in the attempt
to save his children.
House Programme.
The programme in the house for
this week is the same as during past
weeks. Two sessions only will be
held.
STEEL WORKS START UP.
An Industrial Revival Is On In the Mo-
nongaliela Valley.
Advices from Pittsburg, Pa., state
that an industrial revival along the
Monongahela valley has started and
prospects are brighter than for many
months.
Both the Edgar Thompson and the
Homestead steel works have resumed,
all departments running full. The
Duquesne steel works, which has been
making billets, have commenced on
rails, with enough orders to keep the
plants working the greater part of the
year.
At Braddock the Pittsburg and
Rankin wireworks are in full opera¬
tion.
Ten Thousand Blackberry Pickers.
A dispatch from Liberty, Mo., says:
Fully 10,000 blackberry pickers have
already arrived and hundreds of others
are coming in on every train,by wagon
all( j on foot, for the season which will
] ast for a month. The crop is estima-
ted at 60,000 crates and will be the
] argos t ever known here.
Woodford’s Nomination Confirmed,
The senafco Saturday confirmed the
nomination of Stewart L. Woodford,
of New York, as minister to Spain.
SAYS PROPOSED ANNEXATION IS
AN INJUSTICE TO HER.
FILES A PAPER WITH SHERMAN.
Senators Favoring the Treaty Say They
Back Only Three Votes to Secure
Ratification.
Queen Lilioukalani filed a protest
Thursday afternoon in the office of the
secretary of state at Washington.
It was delivered into the bauds of
Secretary Sherman by tL Joseph Jive neIe .
lube representing Ha-
M th^i^ague 0 :^’ WlthtW °
The protest in. part reads: “I Lilio-
ukalani of Hawan, by the will of God
of April,'*A. lb1877, and by the grace
G f> U l( ;e“ Jay of the of Hawaiian January, islands A D.
i *° i he , ? y -1°
. ratification of a certain treaty which,
so I am informed, has been signed at
Washington ° bv Messrs Thurston and
Kinney I’ purporting P g to to cede “ c e those ose is- 13
i ? a -n ? . ^ 'T dom , ! . mo “ of
he tt Gll ltcd f State3 s ' I declare such a trea-
. to ard the
1 f" Wr ° n ? f
P ar » a Hve r people of Hawaii,
“, 'T™* c® ? f the
I* , ? violation , of interna-
tional rights, both toward my people
nT1 Ohom j tnward he^ friendU mtinM »iti
tlm
perpet-.ation of the fraud wherabv
consrit U ’a ; onalgovornnrentwasover ac? of' '
thrown d finaUv an cross ,,
ustice to me ^
Because tne offieial omcml piotests m . otests made mado
Ja ' l uary ’
1893, to the so-called provisiona , gov-
ernment was signed by me and are
received by said government with the
assiiiame a io case was icferred
to the United States of America for
arbitration:
“Because that protest and my com¬
munications to the United States gov¬
ernment immediately thereafter ex¬
pressly declared that I yielded my au¬
thority to the forces of the United
States in order to avoid bloodshed and
because I recognized the futility of a
conflict with so formidable a power.
“Because the president of the United
States, the secretary of state and an en¬
voy commissioned by them reported,
in official documents, that my govern¬
ment was unlawfully coerced by the
forces, diplomatic and naval, of the
United States, that I was at tho date
of their investigations, the constitu¬
tional ruler of my people.
Because said treaty ignores not only
all professions of perpetual amity air cl
good faith made by the United States
in former treaties with the sovereigns
representing the Hawaiin people, but
all treaties made by those sovereigns
with other and friendly powers, and it
is thereby iu violation of international
law.
The protest closes as follows:
‘ ‘Therefore I, Lilioukalani of Hawaii,
do hereby call upon the president of
that nation to whom alone I yielded
my property and my authority to with-
draw said treaty (ceding said islands)
from further consideration. I ask the
honorable senate of the United States
to decline to ratify said treaty and im-
plore the people of this great and good
nation from whom my ancestors learn-
ed the Christian religion, to sustain
their representatives iu such acts of
justice and equity as may be in accord
with the principles of their fathers and
the almighty ruler of the universe, to
him who judges righteously I commit
my cause.
“.Done at Washington, D.C.,United
States of America, this 17th day of
June, in the year 1897.
“Lilioukalaxi. ”
Need Only Three Votes.
It is announced that there are fifty-
seven senators who can be counted for
the ratification of the Hawaiian annex¬
ation treaty—just three less than the
requisite two-thirds.
There are eleven other senators who
are undecided as to how they shall
vote. There are twenty-one senators
opposed to the treaty.
This is the result of a careful can¬
vass of the senate. The advocates of
annexation are confident of their abil¬
ity to secure at least three more vot!es
and thus bring about the ratification of
the treaty.
FRANK BUTLER CONVICTED.
Jury Pronounces Him Guilty of the Mur-
dor of Captain Weller.
The trial of Frank Butler, charged
with the murder of Captain Lee Wel¬
ler, while the two men were on a gold
prospecting trip, was concluded at
Sydney, N. S. W., Wednesday, the jury
renderin' a verdict of guilty.
Butler, after the murder of Captain
Weller, escaped from Australia on the
ship Swanhilda, but upou arrival of
that vessel at San Francisco he was
arrested, afterwards being extradited.
After the verdict was announced
Butler attempted to cut his throat
with a piece of tin, but was seized be-
tore he did himself any serious injury.
ACCEPT S SETTL EMENT.
One or Two Greek Towns Will Be Given
to, Turkey.
The Athens correspondent of The
London Daily Telegraph says:
“It is reported here that the peace
conference and the porte have accepted
a settlement, giving Turkey either the
town of Ligaria, southeast of Milouna,
or Nezeros, north of Larissa.” The
correspondent of The Daily Chronicle
say3 the porte has abandoned the
policy to delay and decided to accept
the advices of the powers.
SHORT ON MELONS.
Only Ono-Tlilrd of a Crop In Georgia—A
Bi^ Loss.
The Georgia watermelon will not be
as much iu evidence as usual this
year. The assistant general Railway, passenger
agent of the Southern has
received from agents throughout the
melon belt reports indicating that the
crop will be very short. The average
production of the state is 6,000 car¬
loads, and it is given out that this
year’s crop will not exceed 2,000 car¬
loads.
This means a loss of about $300,000
in revenue to the railroads and about
the same amout to the melon growers.
The shortage in the peach crop is
e ?* ! e tbe “ ^ Horticultural u assoc g a- ’
Hon and a large fruit grower estimates
the peach crop of the state at 20 per
WOO'O, Xu
hut the greater part of this
^hT VslT ht Sffi and the
prowerfl of fruit and me lons wiI1 be
about S800 - 000 on aocount of short
me i on business five years ago
am()unte(1 to 8 ,000 carloads from the
Nearly * every farmer in South
SX r . • acrelg“ melons for the market
ana tne aciea D e ran lan up up tovery to seiy iai D o
P r0 P 01 ' tl0L ' s - It'was soon found that
the supply exceeded the demand in
some Markets while it fell short in
others . Tbe perishable nature of the
crop ^ made it impossible to protect the
when the fruit reaches a city
where the market was glutted.
To meet this difficulty a melon
giotvers „ rowprs association association was was organized oigamzeci,
aud for ? ne aeas0 “ m08 * of tbe meIous
gl ' 0wn 111 the state 7? re market ed
through that agency. This helped the
powers, but it broke the agency,
Fmally a System devJSed "' bicb
telegrams reporting the price aud sup-
p !y m eacb 0 f the principal markets
were £ posted at the railway stations
from hich melons were shipped.
This aided greatly in distributing
slli p ment8( and reduced to a minimum
the tendency to overstock certain mar-
kets . Nevertheiess, when the crop was
, large, or the weather ,, cool, , prices were
low and unsatisfactory. This tended
to check the increase of the melon
crop, and the rascality of an irre¬
sponsible class of commission met
who managed to secure consignment,
caused the growers to lose heavily.
While there were many good commis¬
sion houses in the business, there w r ere
unfortunately a great many who took
advantage of the perishable nature of
the fruit to squeeze the shipper. .
All these influences combined have
curtailed the crop during the past few
years from an average of .8,000 car-
loads to about' 6,000. This year the
small yield has cut this dow r n to 2,001
about one-fourth the number formerly
raised iu Georgia.
It is probable that the small crop ii
the state will increase the price, f<£
almost the whole marketable mele'
crop comes from Georgia,
INVITED THE PRESIDENT.
League of Ex-Confetlerates Want Him To
Attend a Reunion.
A delegation of the Southern Patriotic
Legion of the Shenandoah Valley of
Virginia called on the president Tliurs-
day to invite him to attend a reunion
0 f their organization at Harrisonburg,
Va., next fall.
This is the league of ex-confeder-
a tes which visited President McKinley
a t Canton before the election, aud af-
terwards on their last trip he promised
to honor them with a visit. He told
them that he would be glad to attend
if they could postpone the reunion to
next year. If thev insisted, he said,
he would go this fall, but thought it
best, as he had just been down that
way to put off the visit until next year.
The committee agreed to postpone¬
ment of the reunion.
DISCUSSED COTTON DUTIES.
Senators Contend That We Can Meet Com¬
petition Without High Duties.
The senate completed the wine
schedule of the tariff bill in a littl«
over an hour Thursday and then toot
up the cotton schedule.
The debate on the first paragraph til
the cotton schedule took a wide ranges
the democrats generally contending
that America could compete againsl
the world without high duties.
A test amendment on the entiTf
schedule proposing the Wilson scaleo
on cotton threads and yarns were of¬
fered by Mr. Jones, of Arkansas, and
defeated by 20 to 30.
CYCLONE IN FRANCE
Causes the Death of Twenty People and
Boss of Much Property.
A cyclone struck Asnieres, France,
Friday while a fair was in progress.
Two hundred trees were uprooted, the
roof of Coignet fire works factory was
blown down and the boiler exploded,
killing several persons and injuring
fifteen.
It is reported that five persons were
killed in a cafe. In every direction
houses and other buildings were more
or less seriously damaged.
It is estimated that throughout the
district over which the cyclone moved
at least twenty persons were killed and
ninety injured.
SUBURBAN STARTERS.
Coney Island Jockey Club Announces the
Jockeys In the Handicap.
The starters in the Suburban handi¬
cap, as far as jockeys have been en¬
gaged, were announced by the Coney
Island Jockey Club as fol-lows:
Havre, Lewis; Flying Dutchman,
Taral; Dutch Skater, Martin; First
Mate, Scherrer; Peep o’ Day, Hamil¬
ton; Sir Walter, Doggett; Volley,
Hewitt; Ben Brush or Ben Eder, Sims;
The Winner, Belmar or Howard Maun,
Sloan.
DOCUMENT SENT TO SENATE HUT
MEETS OPPOSITION.
PRESIDENT SENDS SHORT MESSAGE
Giving His Hensons For Favoring Annexa¬
tion—Secretary Sherman Signed
For Uncle Sam.
In the great diplomatic room of the
state department the representatives
of the governments of the United
States and Hawaii gathered Wednes¬
day morning and signed a treaty by
the terms of which, if ratified, the lit¬
tle island republic will become part of
the territory of the United States.
For the United States, there were
Secretary Serman, Assistant Secreta¬
ries Day, Adee and Cridler, Private
Secretary Babcock and Assistant Pri¬
vate Secretary Gahtree. On the
Hawaiian side were Minister Hatch,
Lorin A. Thurston and W. A. Kinney,
all for this particular occasion accred¬
ited as to negotiate a treaty of annex¬
ation.
Sent to Senate.
The treaty reached the senate cham¬
ber at 5 o’clock, p. m., and the senate
at once went into executive session,
and as soon ns the doors were closed
the message of President McKinley,
accompanying the treaty, and the
treaty itself, were read to the senate.
They were attentively listened to.
The president called attention to the
fact that a^ legitimate and existing go V-
ernment of Hawaii offered to annex
the islands to the United States in
1851, but on account of what was
deemed best policy the annexation was
not accepted by this country.
He stated that the United States
virtually exercised a protectorate over
the islands since the first American
mission and guaranteed the autonomy
of the governments of the group.
The islands had been largely settled
by our own people and our people
were now interested in them. Ameri¬
can interests predominated and we had
grown to consider them under our own
protection. The present treaty was in
the light of a consummation of what
had practically been in existence for
years.
Referring to the treaty negotiated
under the Harrison administration,
President McKinley said that the fail¬
ure to accept the proffer of annexation
in 1893, while not a subject of con¬
gratulation, was not wholly without
its value, as it had demonstrated that
tbe existing government could main¬
tain itself and no question could be
raised of the authority of the present
government to negotiate the present
treaty or its right to yield the sover¬
eignty of the islands.
In one part of the chamber there was
a group of senators who would bitterly
oppose the ratification of the treaty.
Among them were Senators Gray,
Mills, Pasco, White, Caffery, Petti¬
grew and McEnery. As soon as the
reading of the document was com¬
pleted, Senator Davis, chairman of the
committee on foreign relation, moved
that the message and the treaty be
made public. Senator Gray objected
to a vote on the motion, and under the
rules, a single objection carried the
motion over until Thursday.
Senator Davis gave notice that at the
next executive session he would pre¬
sent the motion for publication, as all
the essential facts and almost verbatim
copy of the treaty had been published
in the press of the country.
There was some discussion as to
when the treaty might be considered,
and Senator White asked if it was the
intention to push it at this session,and
upon the reply being made that it was
possible, the California senator said:
“I desire to announce that I am j,re-
pared to stay here all summer to pre¬
vent the ratification of the treaty,
which I consider a veiy bad proposi¬
tion. ”
“I’ll join you,” said Senator Petti¬
grew, of South Dakota.
The message was not a very long
document. It dealt with historical
facts concerning the islands and show¬
ed that the United Stales and Hawii
yearly grew more closely bound to
each other. This was not really an¬
nexation, he said, but a continuation
of existing relations with closer bonds
between people closely related ^y
blood and kindred tiesi
TO SUPPRESS LYNCHING
An Association Has Been Incorporated at
Columbus, Ohio.
The National Anti-mob and Lynch
Law Association has been incorporated
at Columbus, O. Tbe purposes of the
organization are declared to be to dis¬
courage mob and lynch law within the
United States and to agitate public
sentiment with a view to securing such
legislation as will suppress such prac¬
tice by providing adequate punishment
for violators. It is proposed to form
branch associations all over the Union.
This organization has been in con-
temptation for several months but re¬
cent outbreaks served to precipitate
hasty action.
COMPROMISE ON WRAPPERS.
The controversy over the rate of
duty on wrapper tobacco, which has
been in progress ever since the tariff
bill was taken up in the senate, was
settled Friday, so far as the republi¬
can members of the finance commit¬
tee could settle it, they agreeing upon
the rate of $1.75 per pound.
This is a compromise rate. The
growers of wrapper leaf wanted a rate
of $2, while the manufacturers asked
that the rate should not exc.ed .$1.50.
THE PETITION WITHDRAWN.
Macon's Caae ylgnlnit the Ilailroiid. Will
Now Oo To the Courts.
The Macon petition against railroad
consolidation in Georgia has been
withdrawn by the attorneys who tiled
it with Governor Atkinson.
The question involved was such a
large one that the governor was look¬
ing into it thoroughly, and he had an-
nounced that he would give a decision
at an early day. In making his investi¬
gation Governor Atkinson proceeded
just as he would had he been consider¬
ing a petition of any other character.
He looked at both sides. He heard
from the attorneys who represented
the Macon petitioners, and also heard
what the railroads had to say on their
side of the case. There was no formal
hearing or argument, however, but in¬
formal talks.
It is thought around the capitol
that tke.governor was not disposed to
direct the attorney general to institute
such a sweeping suit against the roads
as was contemplated by the petition¬
ers, but was more inclined to let the
investigation proceed, if at all, against
only one road. This would have in¬
volved less indirect materia! results,
but tbe principle would have been the
same in the end. That is, if it were
shown that the Southern held one
railroad in violation of the constitu¬
tion, it would probably have followed
that it held others, but if it did not
control the Central or the Georgia
Southern and Florida or some other
one road illegally, it probably held
none in the state unconstitutionally.
This, it is understood, did not meet
the wish of the attorneys for the peti¬
tioners, and they withdrew their peti¬
tion,announcing that they had decided
to institute proceedings in the courts.
This is the right which any party at
interest has. There are two methods
of procedure against railroad monopo¬
lies in Georgia. One method is for
the governor to direct the attorney
general to bring suit against the of¬
fending company, while the other is
is for any party at interest to proceed.
This latter recourse was provided
for by an act which Senator A. O.
Bacon had passed when he was in the
house five years ago. The senator is
one of the counsel for the petitioners
from Macon, and his law firm, Bacon,
Miller & Brunson, and the /fiber firm,
Dessau, Bartlett & Tillis, decided to
let their clients proceed under the
Bacon act.
TO THY DR. RYDER.
A Special Term of Talbot Superior Court
Will Re Called.
It is learned that a special term of
the Talbot superior court will be
called to try Dr. W. L. Ryder, now
confined in Muscogee jail, at Colum¬
bus, Ga., for the murder of Miss Bailie
Emma Owens.
The regular term of the Talbot court
will not be held before September.
.Tudge Butt has just forwarded to Tal-
botton an order calling a special term
of the Talbot court for Monday, July
19tb, for tbe purpose of trying crim¬
inal business. At this special term
the case of W. L. Ryder will come up
and once more he will be put on trial
for his life for the crime for which he
wa§ convicted last fall.
SC’HRIVER WAS NOT GUILTY.
Case Against Correspondent of Mail and
Kxpress, Newspaper, Is Dismissed.
At Washington, Friday, John S.
Sehriver, the correspondent of The
New York Mail and Express, was
declared not guilty of contempt in
refusing to answer questions of the
senate committee in return to the
sugar trust investigation.
Mr. Sehriver was the fourth of the
alleged recalcitrant witnesses, Messrs.
Havemeyer and Searles, president and
secretary of the American Sugar Re¬
fining Company, both having been
discharged, while Broker Elverton R.
Chapman was convicted and served
one month in jail.
SUIT TO COLLECT POLICIES.
Seven Prominent Insurance Companies
Asked to Pay Up.
In the superior court at Savannah,
Ga., Friday, the Mutual Grocery Com¬
pany filed suits against seven well-
known insurance companies for vari¬
ous amounts. The store of the plaint¬
iffs was burned November 10th, 1896.
and the company has not been able to
collect the policies. sued for the full
Each defendant is
amount of the policy. Agents state
that the companies refuse to pay
claims, and will make a showing in
court.
BURNED NEARLY A BLOCK.
Big Blaze In Atlanta, Ga., Does Consider¬
able Damage.
Two-thirds of the block situated at
the corner of Alabama and Forsyth
streets, Atlanta, Ga., owned by Mahew
Cunningham, of Savanhah, was com¬
pletely gutted by fire Thursday night,
after burning for about four hours.
The flames were not subdued until
3 o’clock Friday morning.
The loss to Mr. Cunningham, the
owner of the building,- will amount to
about $10,000. Over half the building
seems to be almost totally ruined and
the damage will probably necessitate
a rebuilding of the entire burned part
of the structure.
RUSHING TARIFF WORK.
Thirteen Pages of the Bill Gone Through
With Wednesday.
The senate made rapid work on the
tariff bill Wednesday. There were no of
long speeches, and the debate was
a snappy character, which at times in¬
tervened, but did not delay tbe seri¬
ous work on the bill. Thirteen pages
were disposed of. At 5 o’clock the
Hawaiian treaty and the president’s
message were received and the senate
went into executive session.
