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HON. J. HOUR TYLER IS NOMI¬
NATED FOR GOVERNOR.
PLATFORM IS FOR FREE SILVER.
No Deviation From the Chicago Platform.
Edward Echols Named For Eicu-
tenant Governor.
Tho democratic state convention of
Virginia was called to order at noon
Wednesday in the Academy of Music
at Roanoke.
Nearly, if not quite all, of tho 1,548
members of the body were present or
represented by proxy.
The convention began its operations
at noon, and had an afternoon session,
but nothing was accomplished until
tho night session, because of some
complicated fights before the commit¬
tee on credentials.
Major J. Hoge Tyler, a straight-out
free silver man, was unanimously-
nominated for governor. The contest
over the lieutenant governorship was
a close drawn one but resulted in the
nomination of Edward Echols.
The convention then adjourned until
10 o’clock Thursday morning.
Special emphasis is laid upon the
four great demands of the platform
formulated which are:
For a tariff' for revenue in the lan¬
guage of the Chicago platform.
For an income tax and a constitu¬
tional amendment, if it is necessary,
in the accomplishment of that end.
For the complete regulation of
trusts and combines. For the free
and unlimited coinago of both gold
and silver at the legal ratio of 16 to 1,
without waiting for the aid or consent
of other nations.
On these points the platform reads
as follows:
“We reaffirm the platform of tho demo¬
cratic national convention adopted at Chi¬
cago in July, 1896, and upon which William
Jennings Bryan was nominated for the
presidency of the United States, and we
extend our congratulations to a noble
champion upon the able and brilliant man¬
ner in which he discharged his trust. The
fact that he received more votes than any
previous democratic candidate for the pres¬
idency and more than any candidate of any
par.y, barring alone his successful oppo¬
nent, is evidence that democratic principles
are still dear to a vast mass of the Ameri¬
can people and that democracy is living
in tho hope of an early and complete tri¬
umph. We especially indorse the doctrines
of the national democratic party upon the
Tour groat issues which are before the peo¬
ple ot this country, viz: The tariff, the in¬
come tax, the regulating of trusts and the
currency. Tariff duties should be levied for
revenue purposes, and only for so much
revenue as may be needed for an economic
administration of the government. Upon
the subject of currency, we declare ourselves
unalterably opposed to the British system
of monometallism which has aggrandized
that empire at tho expense of the
nations producing food supplies and raw-
material and its adoption has only aggra¬
vated our financial servitude to London.
It is not only un-American, but anti-Ameri¬
can, and it can be fastened on tho United
States only by the stifling of that spirit and
love of liberty which proclaimed our politi¬
cal independence, in 1776, and caused the
war of the revolution. We demand an un-
limited coinage of both gold and silver at
the ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for the
aid or consent of any other nation.”
The platform calls for the repeal of
the 10 per cent tax on state bank issues,
and then goes at some length into state
affairs.
As a separate plank, by the narrow
margin of 15 votes to 14, the commit¬
tee adopted a resolution providing for
the nomination of United States sena¬
tors in the primaries. Details of the
plan are gone into at some length. It
is an elaboration of the South Carolina
plan.
GIANT POWDER EXPLODES
Resulting In tho Dentil of Two Men and
the Injury of Four Others.
Advices from Bonne Terre, Mo.,
state that about 300 pounds of giant
powder exploded in the St. Joe lead
mine, near that place, Wednesday
night, killing William B. Madden and
Taylor Dodson, seriously wounding
Albert Morris and Joseph Miller and
painfully injuring Cal Gibson and Ed
Forshee.
GEORGIA LUMBER MEN
To Devise a Plan Whereby the Cutting of
Prices Will be Stopped.
The lumber men of Georgia have hit
upon a unique plan to maintain and
advance prices. They have a device
which is intended to minimize compe¬
tition without making the stockhold¬
ers obnoxious to the anti-trust law.
The plan is to organize a company
with $50,000 capital and ten or fifteen
of the largest mills in the state are to
take the stock. This company will
have offices in Atlanta and Savannah
or Brunswick, possibly at both Savan¬
nah and Brunswick. The company is
to act as selling agent for the mills in;
terested.
ROAD TO BE EXTENDED.
Committee on Extension of Birmingham,
Selma and New Orleans Report.
A meeting was held at Selma, Ala.,
Friday evening looking to the exten¬
sion of the Birmingham, Selma and
New Orleans road to Linden, in Ma-
Tengo county. line
The delegation favorable sent over the and re¬
cently made a report a
committee, composed of leading busi¬
ness men, was appointed to confer
with the owners of the road.
SENATOR GEORGE DEAD.
Wn.^ Mississippi'^ Senior Member in Uni¬
ted Staten Senate.
Senator J. M. George died at his
home in Mississippi City Saturday
afternoon, and white his death was not
unexpected, has saddened the whole
commonwealth.
Senator Walthall telegraphed the
vice president and sergeant-arms of
the senate, who will have charge of
tho funeral, and asked them to com¬
municate with J. W. George, son of
the senator, who was with him when
he died at Mississippi City.
The vice president will name the
committee of senators and representa¬
tives to attend the funeral.
Senator George was not a native of
Mississippi, but had resided in that
state since his eighth year. He was
born in Monroe county, Georgia, on
the 26th day of October, 1826. After
the death of his father, which occurred
in the senator’s early infancy, he
removed with his mother in 1834 to
Noxube county, Mississippi, remaining
there for only two years and then
going to Carroll county, where he
maintained his legal residence until
his death.
Senator George obtained his educa¬
tion in the common schools and did
not begin his professional career until
after the close of the Mexican war,
during which he served as a private in
the regiment commanded by Jefferson
Davis.
He afterwards took an active part
in the civil war, casting his lot with
the south. He left the convention hall
to be captain in the Twentieth regi-
nient of the Mississippi volunteers. He
rose to the rank of brigadier general
of state troops before the close of the
war.
When the civil war closed Mr.
George returned to Carroll county, re¬
suming the pi-actice of his profession,
and later entering politics. In 1879
he was appointed to the supreme
bench and soon afterwards was elected
chief justice, in which capacity he was
serving his state when first elected to
the United States senate in 1881. Had
he been permitted to serve his entire
term he would, on the 4th of March,
1899, have completed his eighteenth
year in the senate. He declined a re-
election a year ago on account of his
health.
LEFT VICTIMS FOR DEAD.
Itrute Assaults Two Women and Trios to
Brain Them.
In Catoosa county, in the Chicka-
mauga National park, Saturday morn¬
ing, in the absence of Mr. Hitchcock,
a park laborer, from his house, a white
man assaulted Miss Hitchcock, his
fifteen year-old daughter. The assail¬
ant also Struck the prostrate girl on
the head with a bludgeon and left her
for head.
Her mother, a feeble woman fifty
years of age, came upon the scene,
when the trespasser, with the same
blungeon that he had crushed the
skull of his first victim, struck the
mother.
Both were left for dead, but then-
cries had reached the ears of a man
passing by before the woman became
unconscious. The information was
wired to Chattanooga and later a posse
was organized and started in pursuit.
STRIKE SITUATION MUDDLED.
West Virginia Miners Claim That 131"
Mistakes Have T3een Made.
A special from Wheeling, W. Va.,
says: Tho beginning of another week
of the coal strike in the Wheeling and
eastern Ohio districts shows a mud¬
dled situation.
A vigorous opposition to the course
of the United Mine Workers in closing
down the mines that supply the sever¬
al iron manufacturing plants has de¬
veloped among the workingmen them¬
selves, many asserting that a big mis¬
take has been made.
The situation at the Laughlin mill
mine across the river has been
straightened ont by the declination of
the miners to work as long as the
campers are in the vicinity. The
Laughlin and other plants are now
getting coal from Fairmont.
RELIEF FUND EXHASTED.
Consul General Bee Gives an Accounting:
of the Money Spent.
Consul General Lee, in a report to
the state department, says that the
$10,000 placed to the credit of the re¬
lief fund on May 2-2d last was equiva¬
lent to $10,975 Spanish dollars.
This fund, which he he says was ex¬
pended with the greatest care and
economy, is nearly exhausted.
DAUNTLESS UNDER SURVEILANCE.
Government Officials are Keeping Close
Watch On the Uittle Tag.
Information has reached the secre¬
tary of the treasury through the state
department that the steamer Daunt¬
less is about to take on ammunition
and men at Tampa for the insurgents
in Cuba.
The collector of customs at Tampa
has been directed to exercise vigilance
to prevent infractions of the naviga¬
tion and neutrality acts and to com¬
municate with the United States attor¬
ney.
Captain Shoemaker has also in-
strncted the commanders of the reve¬
nue cutter fleet to be on the lookout
for the Dauntless.
CHECK FOR TWO MILLION
Used Id Transfer of Glucose Company at
Peoria, Illinois.
The injunction which stood in the
way of the new glucose combination
by restraining the sale of the American
Glucose Company, of Peoria, Ill., was
dissolved Wednesday afternoon, and
the transfer took place immediately, a
certified check for over two million
dollars being passed in order to fore¬
stall any similar attempts at complica¬
tion.
MINERS ARE RESTRAINED FROM
MARCHING AND CAMPING.
BLOODSHED MAY BE THE RESULT.
Strikers Will Defy Orders of Court and
Arrests Will Follow, Causing: Serious
Complications.
A Pittsburg special says: Sweeping
a:ul far-reaching injunctions now fig¬
ure in the coni miners’ strike in the
Pittsburg district. The developments
of Thursday tended to make the situ¬
ation a strained one and it appeared
that a crisis was near at hand.
The strikers have demonstrated that
their assemblages, marches and mis¬
sionary work have materially affected
the output of the Now York and Cleve¬
land Gas Coal company, while at the
fame time public sympathy has been
enlisted in their cause.
The sheriff’s proclamation, issued
two weeks ago restraining the men
from assembling and marching, has
been a dead letter and the inarches
have been continued daily. No dis¬
turbance of any kind has occurred,the
'officials of the miners contriving
through the n hole time to keep their
men within peaceful bounds.
A preliminary injunction was issued
Thursday by Judges Collier and
Stowe, which now brings the matter
to the county courts for settlement.
The order includes President Ratch-
ford and Lee Pierce, of the United
Mine Workers of America, and Presi¬
dents Dolan and Warner, of the Pitts¬
burg District Mine Workers.
The hearing of the case and the de¬
cision is looked forward to with much
interest. The miners and their offi¬
cials claim that they are keeping
within the law and have the right to
assemble in peace and demonstrate to
the world that they are being wronged
by a rate of wages that keeps them
constantly at the point of starvation;
also that they have a right to use their
presence and influence among men
who are militating against their in¬
terests by continuing at work.
The New York and Cleveland Gas
Coal Company, on the other hand, as¬
sert that the marches and assemblages
are unlawful and a menace to their
employes, many of whom, they say,
are willing to work provided the strik¬
ers remain away. Looking at the
matter from this standpoint, the com¬
pany made its radical move in the
courts to bring about a condition un¬
der which the company can operate its
mines. '
The bill for an injunction against
the United Mine Workers’ was filed in
the county courts about noon by coun¬
sel for the New York and Cleveland
Gas Coal Company. The defendants
named are the United Mine Workers
of America, Patrick Dolan, president;
Edward McKay, vice president; NVil-
liam Warner, secretary and treasurer,
and others.
Judge Collier granted a preliminary
injunction restraining order and en¬
joining the defendants from assem¬
bling or marching or encamping in
proximity to the mines and houses of
the miners for the purpose by intimida¬
tion, menaces, threats and approbious
words, of preventing the miners of the
plaintiff from working.
It further restrains the defendants
from inducing or compelling any em¬
ploye or miner to quit work.
A hearing was fixed for August 16th.
The injunction is regarded as the most
sweeping yet issued. President Dolan
expressed surprise when informed that
it had been granted, and aided:
“It will make no difference to ns.
We will not break camp and will go
right along as usual until the matter
is tested in the courts. We will stay
there regardless of every judge in Al¬
legheny county, and if they try to en¬
force the injunction they will have to
build more jails to accommodate the
men.”
If the strikers continue their marches
in the morning, as they now say they
will, in defiance of the injunction,
capiases will be issued for the offend¬
ers on the charge of contempt of court.
Should the injunction be enforced, the
strikers’ camps around the DeArmitt
mines will soon be extinct.
The strikers, though excited over
the turn of events, are in no wise dis¬
heartened. Developments at Cannons-
burg are being watched closely.
MAIL QUARANTINED.
Pouches from Alabama Towns Withcld
from Columbus, Ga.
Until further developments no mail
will be forwarded from Montgomery
or Birmingham, Ala., to Columbus,
Ga., on account of the smallpox scare.
The Columbus authorities recently
quarantined against the two Alabama
cities, and gave orders that no mail,
should be received at the Columbus
postoffice from either of the places
until it had been fumigated.
It developed that that the postoffice
department has no funds available to
meet the fumigating expenses and the
superintendent of mails has given or¬
ders that no mails shall be forwarded.
CANOVAS’ REMAINS AT MADRID.
Received By Ministers, Diplomats and
Civil Authorities.
The remains of the late premier of
Spain, Senor Canovas del Castillo, ar¬
rived at Madrid Wendesday from
Santa Agueda.
They were met at the railroad sta-
tion by the ministers, members of the
diplomatic corps and civil and mill-
tary authorities of Madrid and its
vicinity.
MAYFIELD OF ITS RACE.
mil Not Further Contest fur South Car¬
olina Senatorial Honor.
The incident of the South Carolina
senatorial campaign meeting at Y’ork-
viile Thursday was the withdrawal of
Candidate Mayfield. Mayfield attacking had
made his customary speech
the tariff views of MoLaurin and in¬
sisting that he was not now nor had
ever been in a combination. He then
said that on Wednesday and on previ¬
ous occasions he had charged MoLau¬
rin with having written the populist
platform and attempting to organize
that- party in South Carolina.
At Spartanburg McLaurin had de¬
nied the charges; but after getting
what he regarded as further evidence,
he offered McLaurin that if he did not
prove the charges he had made he
would withdraw from the race, and if
he proved them, McLaurin himself
should withdraw. Mayfield said he
had made the charges in good faith,
and that he never misrepresented any¬
one. He was now satisfied from what
he had heard and from conclusive
proof shown him by MoLaurin, that
lie did not dictate the populist plat¬
form and that McLaurin did succeed
in striking out that portion relating to
organization in the state, and to Me-
Laurm more than any one else was
due the credit that there was no popu¬
list fight made in South Carolina.
BROCKS AND REYNOLDS GUILTY.
Murderers of M. C. Hunt Are Both Sen¬
tenced to Hang;.
Bud Brooks and Grady Reynolds,
the murderers of M. C. Hunt, were
both found guilty hang at Jefferson, Ga.,
and sentenced to for their crime.
Neither of the juries recommended
the prisoners to the mercy of the
court and the gallows will avenge the
death of the peaceful old merchant of
Bellton, who was murdered by the
conspirators.
The argument in the case of Bud
Brooks, the first- of the murderers
placed on trial, was finished Tuesday
night. Wednesday morning Judge
Hutchins delivered his charge to the
jury and in twenty minutes the jurors
filed out of their room with the ver¬
dict in the hands of the foreman.
Ten minutes elapsed and Judge
Hutchins called the case of the state
against Grady Reynolds, charged with
murder. In little more than five
hours after he was placed on trial the
second jury brought in the verdict
that made Reynolds a victim of the
gallows. The jury was out only sev¬
enteen minutes.
CONVICTS HIRED OUT.
State of Alabama Makes a Good Bargain
Financially.
A Montgomery, Ala., dispatch says:
An exceedingly important contract,
involving the settlement of a very
vexed question, for a term of years at
least, was entered into by the state
Thursday night.
The state convicts were leased and
all of those now in the mines in the
Birmingham district will remain there.
The terms of the lease are as follows:
General Charles M. Shelley takes
150 first, second and third-class men
at $16, $12 and $8 per month, respect¬
ively. He will work them in ore mines
and rock quarries in the Birmingham
district.
The Sloss Steel and Iron Company,
of Jefferson county, Alabama, the sec¬
ond mining and manufactiag company
in importance in the state, takes 250
first, second and third-class men at
$14, $10 and $7, respectively.
The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail¬
way Company takes the balance, about
650, at same rates the Sloss company
pays.
It is estimated that the contracts
made will net the state a profit of
$500,000 per year.
RESTORES FORFEITED LANDS.
Interior Department Reaffirms Action in
Grants in Alabama.
Acting Secretary Ryan, of the inte¬
rior department, lias reaffirmed a for¬
mer action of the department in the
matter of forfeited lands of the Mobile
and Girard land grants in Alabama, in¬
volving about 20,000 acres.
The lauds of the contemplated road
were forfeited under the general for¬
feiture railroad lands, but the law
contained a provision protecting bona
fide purchases of lands which had
been patented to the company.
Through several alleged sales and pur¬
chases the Perdido Land Company
claimed to have purchased the right in
the forfeited lands.
CAUGHT ON TRESTLE.
Motlicr and Daughter Crushed to Dsath
By a Train.
Mrs. Tolar and her twelve-year-old
daughter were run over and killed on
a trestle at Red Springs, N. C., Wed¬
nesday, by the train from Fayetteville.
They were walking on a trestle aud
the mother was trying to rescue the
girl, who got her feet hung as she was
about to jump off. The mother was
on the point of jumping, but stopped
and remained with the child.
The train knocked the mother oft
the trestle, while the little girl’s bodV
was cut up into fragments, half the
body dropping through the crossties
into the stream below.
THE INDIANA DOCKED.
Uncle Sam’s Great Battlealiip Will Be Put
In Good Order.
The United States battleship Indi¬
ana was successfully placed in dry
dock at Halifax, N. S., Thursday
morning. Although the hour was
early, hundreds witnessed the docking.
Two hundred of thfe ship’s crew
were placed at the disposal of Con-
tractor Bowles and the manager of the
dock. In addition to these, 100 men
had been engaged by the dry dock
company to assist in the work.
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POPULIST CHAIRMAN, NAMED AT
NASHVILLE, ISSUES ADDRESS.
PLEADS FOR UNITY IN THE PARTY.
He Advises Populists to Sever all Dela¬
tions With Mr. Butler and Work
Tog-ether In Harmony.
Milton Burke, who at the national
conference of populists at Nashville,
_ Tenn., July 4th, appointed .... chair-
was
man of the national organization com-
Diittee, created at the conference, is-
sues a lengthy address to the populists
of the United States.
He reviews the origin and organiza-
tion of the party, naming the abuses
which led dissatisfied elements of the
ohl parties to create a new one and
coming to personal conditions, declares
that “the trusts, the monopolies, the
corporations, tho moneyed interests of
the country are organized. Their
strength is concerted into the action of
one man; hence their power, their
cess. If the people’s party would
hope to succeed they must organize,
they must unify; they must eoncen-
trate their strength. We are confront-
ed today by obstacles and enemies
within and without,”
After reviewing the action of the
conventions at Omaha and St. Louis and
deploring the events of 1896, the ad¬
dress continues:
“As chairman of your organization
committee I urge everypopulist,every¬
where, to avoid,, repudiate and reject
all fusion or alliance with the derno-
eratic or the republican party.
“I suggest that throughout the en¬
tire country wherever there are two or
more populists in a ward, precinct or
township they go to work at once,per¬
sistently-, to perfect a local populist
organization in their midst. Press the
work until you shall have secured a
compact organization in every county
in your state.
“If y nr state chairman-is not in
sympathy with the policy declared at
Nashville, you should select one who
is as soon as practicable. In those
states where the state chairman and
national executive committeemen are
in harmony with the policy declared
at Nashville, the national organization
committeemen will aid them in every
manner possible to strengthen the
party organization. In this way an
enthusiasm can be developed that will
know no defeat, no surrender. Pre¬
serve and perpetuate it by the peace¬
ful means of the ballot.”
TELLER GIVES WARNING.
Advises Free Coinage Republicans to Hold
Aloof From Mi’Kliileyifces.
Senator Teller arrived at Denver,
Col., Friday. In an interview he ex¬
pressed himself as strongly opposed to
a combination of the silver republi¬
cans vith McKinley republicans in the
state this fall. On the money ques¬
tion he said:
“It is the purpose undoubtedly of this
administration to retire the greenbacks and
treasury notes and perfect a systefh by
which the national banks will be authorized
to issue all paper money.
“Their next move will be to retire silver
and then bank notes will not be legal
tender.
“What will be the result: The administra¬
tion will have succeeded In making gold the
only money by which debts can be paid.
All debts will have to be paid in the yellow
metal.”
FORGAVE THE ASSASSIN.
Touching- Scene at the Funeral of Senor
Canovas (lei Castillo.
The funeral of Senor Canovas del
Castillo, at Madrid Friday, was a
touching and solemn ceremony. All
the troops of the garrison lined the
route along which the cortege moved;
the flags were lowered ami the public
buildings, embassies, consulates aud
clubs were heavily draped with crepe.
A peculiarly poignant scene ensued
as the duke of Solomayer, Marshal
Martinez Campos, Marquis Paso del
la Merrzed and the other pallbearers
lifted the coffin. Senora Canovas, in
a clear, firm tone, said:
“I desire that all should know I for¬
give the assassin. It is the greatest
sacrifice I can make, but I make it for
the sake of what I know of my hus¬
band’s great heart.”
OUR RIGHTS IN MOROCCO.
United States Vico Consul Carle ton Will
Conclude Settlement.
The special commission, headed by
United States Vice Consul Carletou,
has returned to Tangier from the city
f Morocco with the answer of the
sultan to the demands of the United
States relative to the rights of Ameri¬
can citizens in Morocco.
The answer is satisfactory and
Americans will henceforth enjoy the
same rights as the citizens of other
countries. The foreign minister of
Morocco and Vice Consul Carleton
will now conclude the settlement of
the matter in dispute.
AMBASSADORS AWAIT REPLIES.
The Peace Arrangements Between Greece
and Turkey About Consummated.
Advices of Friday from Constanti¬
nople are to the effect that some of the
ambassadors have not yet received the
replies of their government in regard
to the evacuation compromise propos¬
ed by the Turkish minister for foreign
affairs, Tewfik Pasha, but it is expect¬
ed the compromise will be accepted
aud that the peace preliminaries may
be signed at ouce.
| PRINCES J O CROSS SWORDS.
: Duel Arrang'd Between Henry of Orlenna
mill Prince Victor.
A special from Paris says: The sec¬
onds of Brinco of Orleans and General
Albertone had a brief conference Fri¬
day and, it is said, postponed the dis¬
cussion of the proposed prince, duel between
the general and the in conse¬
quence of the intervention of Prince
Victor Emmanuel, count of Turjn, the
second nephew of the King of Italy,
who claims precedence over all others
in the matter. The count is a major
of cavalry in the Italian service.
A local newspaper of Rome says
that the Count of Turin, who is under-
stood to have challenged Prince Henry
of Orleans to fight a duel, left Italy
secretly for the purpose, his departure
(, e j n g unknown even to the commis-
sioner of police. It is added that the
count was accompanied by the Mar-
ques di Ginori and uu aide-de-camp,
Swords are reported to have been
selected as the weapons to be used.
The causes which have led to the
challenging of Prince Henry by Ital-
iau officers are of unusual interest and
sufficient in themselves to make this
the most famous duel of the century,
aside from the prominence of those in-
volved.
The tronble all arose over the
prince’s comments published in the
Paris Figaro on the conduct of
the Italian prisoners at the
Court of Menelik. The Italians were
furious, and every officer who survived
the terrible battle at Abbey Abeba an-
nouneed bis determination to fight the
young explorer upon his return from
Abysinnia.
Prince Heury, who is persoml y
very brave, immediately signified his
willingness to sustain his position in
the matter, and offered to meet the
chief in rank among his challengers.
This man was General Albertone.
Many other challenges, however, were
hurled at the young prince, and al¬
most the entire Italian army wanted
to fight him.
Prince Henry returned to Paris a
few days ago from his expedition and
immediately took np the matter of the
challenges. Preliminaries and ar¬
rangements for the meeting with Gen¬
eral Albertone were commenced and
the duel between the two was regard¬
ed as inevitable, when another, and
even higher, personage, appeared on
the scene and demanded the right, by .
reason of rank, of crossing swords
with the scion of the house of Orleans.
If the princes are brought together
on the field of honor it will be the
most remarkable and important duel
of the present century.
GEORGIA PENSION MIX-UP.
The Appropriation Was Not Quite Suffi¬
cient to Go Bound.
There is a curious complication in
the Georgia pension fund this year.
The legislature appropriated $150,000
for invalid pensions, thinking there
would be 2,500 applications.
There were 2,000 on the rolls last
year, and it was estimated that there
would be 500 more. Instead of that
there would be by the time the origi¬
nal 2,000 were paid that there would
be 1,000 more.
There was full pay for only half
that number, so, after a consultation
between the governor and the pension
commissioner it was decided to divide
the remaining $30,000 among the
applicants whose claims had been ap¬
proved. These applicants got $30
each.
Now it is said that these $30 men
having received pensions under the
same law as that which gave $60 each
to the first 2,000 have a claim on the
state for $30 each to put them on the
same basis with the others.
SHERMAN CAUSES WORRY.
His Utterances ami Actions a Tliom In the
President’s Side.
A Washington special says; That
something serious is pending in the
state department no one at the capital
denies, but just what turn things are
going to take is problematical. The
foreign diplomats in Washington all
notified their governments the condi¬
tion of the secretary of state, but it is
none the less embarassing for the ad¬
ministration to read nearly every
morning some undiplomatic expression
from the head of the cabinet.
It is injustice, not only to this coun¬
try and its public men, but to the
aged Sherman himself, for papers to
print interviews with him at all.
Everything he snvs is promptly tele¬
graphed abroad and public sentiment
here is judged by these interviews.
M’LAURIN IS ILL.
South Carolina Senator Will Stop Hi^
Campaign Work.
A Columbia, S. C., special says:
Governor Elierbe received a dispatch
Saturday afternoon from George M.
Crossland, Senator McLaurin’s private
secretary, from the Senator’s home in
Bennettsville, stating that Senator
McLaurin’s illness is more serious
than was first supposed, and summon¬
ing the governor, who is a strong per¬
sonal friend of the senator, to his bed¬
side by the evening train.
McLaurin’s physician has absolutely
forbidden him from attempting to con¬
tinue his campaign work for the pres-
ent. This leaves the campaign work
open to Evans, Irby and Duncan.
CANOVAS’ WIDOW OBJECTS.
Premier’s Remain* Not To Be Gazed Upon
By the Public.
A Madrid dispatch states that Senora
Canovas del Castillo, widow of the dead
premier, objected to his remains lying
in state and the admission of the public*
to the mortuary chamber at the family’s
residence was stopped. government
It is the intention of the
to confer upon the widow the dignity
of a standee of the first class and a
pension of 30,000 pesetas.
