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lUR INTERESTS IN THE ORIENT
WILL HE LOOKED AFTER.
ORDERS BY THE NAVY DEPARTMENT
Vhe Germ nn-Chinese Embrogllo Is An
All Absorbing Topic Among Karth'ft
Diplomat* Just .Vow.
A Washington special says: From
indications around the navy depart¬
ment headquarters, it would seem that
Uncle Ham will have a few of his own
good ships in Chinese waters before
all this talk of trouble boils down.
The Asiatic station has sprung into
the greatest piominence of all the sta¬
tions of American war vessels. The
latest orders of the navy department
indicate the necessity for the strength¬
ening of the Asiatic squadron, al¬
though, as usual, the explanation of
such action is furnished from tlio navy
department in the most conservative
terms.
The cruiser Raleigh has been order¬
ed from Smyrna to the Asiatic station,
which includes Chinese waters and
American interests. The order to Ad¬
miral Selfridge, in command, was to
go at once, and the Raleigh is prob¬
ably now going with a full head of
steam on. The secretary of the navy,
explaining the movement of the Ral¬
eigh, said that it had no significance
other than it was desirable to streng¬
then the squadron in eastern Asiatic
•waters. He-said that the opder had no
reference to the German-Chinese trou¬
ble, but that American interests must
be protected everywhere, and that since
the Chinese-Japauese war it is well un¬
derstood that trouble may arise calling
for the protection of American inter¬
ests at any time.
It was further stated at the navy
department that the Raleigh is going
to China to supply the place of the
Maehias, which is coming home. It
was learned, however, that three other
vessels are to go to China very shortly,
the Concord and Marietta, from San
Francisco, and the Helena, from New
York, and these are not to play in the
role of understudies. When these
arrive there will be on the Asiatic
station the Olympia, the Monocacy,
the Boston, the Petrel, the Helena,
the Concord, the Marietta and the
Raleigh.
Notwithstanding the statement given
out at the navy department,it is widely
believed that the assembling of a re¬
spectable fleet in the neighborhood of
China has a direct bearing on the late
and prospective movements of Ger¬
many with respect to Chinese territo¬
ry. most interesting speculation
of the day is that the European nations
contemplate the carving up of China
into job lots as colonies for themselves;
and it appears that America has not
been consulted at all in the proposi¬
tion. America, it is now said, pro¬
poses to take care of herself and her
own in China, and that this is the
reason for the increase of the fleet off
the Chinese coast.
HOLIDAY TRADE SATISFACTORY,
Dun & Co. Report a Big Business for
the Season.
' R. G. Dun’s weekly review of trade
says that the weekly reports show a
remarkably large holiday trade, at
many points the largest for five years.
Moreover,, at the season when whole-
. rxie business usually shrinks, the pros-
of demands for immediate deliv-
eries, which results from unprece-
dented distribution to customers,
keeps many establishments at work
that usually begin their yearly rest
spell somewhat earlier.
Instead of decreasing, the demand
for products shows an unexpected in-
crease in several important branches,
Foreign tradfe continues satisfactory,
even in comparison with the remark-
able record of a year ago, when ex-
|ports exceeded $il7,000,000 in De-
cember. Commercial failures for the
month have been less than half last
year’s to the same date. The outgoing
flood of grain is not checked by Chi¬
cago speculation, though more corn
than wheat has been moving.
Wheat exports, flour included, have
been 3,698,321 bushels for the week,
against 1,546,443 a year ago, and in
four weeks 15,766,895 bushels, against
9,039,587 last year.
DEATH CLAIMS FAMILY.
Mother and Children Cremated—Father
Dies in Infirmary. #
Advices from London state that a
Mrs. Jarvis and her nine burned’to children, the
youngest a baby, were death
at 5 o’clock Sunday morning in a four-
room cottage occupied by the Jarvis
and two other families, in Dixie street,
Bothnal Green. The family occupied
the tipper floor.
By a strange coincidence, Mr. Jar¬
vis, the woman’s husband, who had
been suffering from consumption, died
in the workhouse infirmary Sunday
afternoon without having heard of the
disaster.
Mrs. Jarvis earned a scant livelihood
by making matchboxes.
CUBANS WILL NOT SUBMIT.
Weyler Declares the Island Is Lost to
Spain.
General Weyler in an interview pub¬
lished at Madrid is quoted as declar¬
ing formally that there is no hope of
the Success of autonomy in Cuba, ad¬
ding that no insurgent will submit ex¬
cept to the Marquis of Santa Lucia
and another chief, and asserting that
the insurrection will continue.
The general is quoted as saying that
if the Spanish government persists in
autonomy Spain will lose Cuba.
ONLY ONE BILL VETOED.
Georgia's Governor Passes Upon the
Many Legislative Measures.
Governor Atkinson of Georgia has
passed upon all the bills and resold-
tions sent him by the legislature, and
this is the result:
Bills passed........ to v;
Bills approved..... tc w
Bills vetoed........ I
Resolutions adopted 24
Resolutions vetoed. r
The single bill vetoed was that which
prohibited football playing in Geor¬
gia. The veto of a resolution is some¬
thing of a departure in executive ac¬
tion. Resolutions as a rule are not
subject to veto. But in this particular
case the governor holds that the reso-
Intiou ivally enacted law and was,
therefore, subject to the same execu-
five consideration as other ordinances i
classified as bills. It was the
tion declaring in favor of a national j
;
said: I
“This resolution evidently intended
to have the effect of law, because it
was read three times in each house
and proposed to surrender to the na¬
tional government an important power
which is now vested in the state.
Notwithstanding the fact that it pass-
ed the senate unanimously and the
house by a vote of 82 to 20, it could
not be law wwe I to sign it, since it
did not receive the constitutional
majority of 88 votes. Even had it re-
ceived such votes, I should have at-
taehed my veto, as I believe its pas-
sage would have been a great mistake.
“lama believer in the democratic
doctrine of states’ rights and local
self government. This bill is an
abandonment of that creed and is in
conflict with the best teaching of Jef¬
ferson, Madison and ail the great ex¬
pounders of the democratic position
on this question.
FERTILIZER MEN ORGANIZE.
An Important But Secret Meeting: Held
In Atlanta, Ga.
The fertilizer men of the south met
in Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday morning and
organized the Southern Fertilizer As¬
sociation, the purpose of which is to
control the entire guano trade of the
country.
The organization was the most impor¬
tant ever effected in the south, and an
idea of the magnitude of the association
may be gained from the fact that it
will control over 40,000,000 tons of
fertilizers, valued at something like
$700,000,000. The entire fertilizer
trade of the United States will be
affected by this meeting of the manu¬
facturers.
The old fertilizer association was
changed into a new association and
new officers were selected. New reg¬
ulations were adopted and changes
that involve millions in the south were
made. All of the manufacturers stren¬
uously denied that they had formed a
trust of any kind. They simply said
that they had organized for mutual
protection.
The men present at the meeting rep¬
resent the greatest fertilizer manufac¬
tories in the world, and the aggregate
value of the business which they con¬
trol amounts to hundreds of millions
a year. The fact that the fertilizer
Ben have combined is a matter of pe¬
culiar interest to Georgia because of
the fact that the state uses more guano
than any other in the Union.
The meeting was private, and aside
from the names of the officers elected,
the manufacturers would not disclose
any business that transpired.
DISAPPOINTED AT DEFEAT.
Miss Elam Sought Death On Failure To
Got an Appointment,
Miss Adah Elam, who for many
years occupied the position of post-
mistress of the Georgia house of rep-
resentatives, took morphine Wednes-
day morning and was later found in
an unconscious condition in a room
on the third floor of the capitol.
The timely efforts of a physician
from the Grady hospital restored her
to consciousness. Miss Elam begged
those around her to let her alone and
not give any restoratives.
The cause of her rash act seems to
have been her disappointment at fail¬
ure to receive the position of assistant
state librarian, for which she was an
ajjplicant. Miss Elam is a lady of un¬
blemished reputation, and a very de¬
termined and high-spirted woman, and
she seems not to have been able
to brook defeat in the intense compe¬
tition for the office.
JAPAN AWAITS DEVELOPMENTS.
She Will Not Interfere In China’s Affairs
at the Present Time.
The following Orieutal advices have
just been received at San Francisco
per steamship China from Yokohama,
via Honolulu:
At an extraordinary meeting of the
Japanese cabinet Baron Niski, foreign
minister, laid before the ministers all
the reports he had received from the
Japanese ministers in foreign coun¬
tries relative to the seizure of Kiao
Chou by Germany.
It was decided, after a prolonged
discussion, not to meddle with the af¬
fair at the present time, hut to wait
further development.
INDIA FOR GOLD STANDARD.
Bengal Chamber of Commerce Says Time
Is Propitious For Its Adoption.
The Bengal chamber of commerce
has sent an address to the government
in which it says that the time has ar¬
rived to adopt the gold standard,
pointing out that it is four years since
the mints were closed, leaving India
without a currency system, asserting
that the suspense is harmful to the
trade, and urging the government to
disclose any measure which it may
have in contemplation.
THE CHESTNUT .... STREET NATIONAL
CLOSES ITS DOORS.
SM9LLER CONCERN COES WITH IT.
Liabilities Placed at Over Three million
Dollars-Comptroller .Eckels Talks
Of the Failures.
A sensation was created in Phila-
delphia by the announcement of the
KUR P ensl . °n of - the Chestmit Street , Na- XT
Uonal bank, regarded as one of the
strongest financial institutions in the
city. The suspension carried with it
r Trust an(1 SaTm - .*• S Fund Company,
doing business under the state bank-
ing laws. William M. Singerly, pub-
H sbe r of the Philadelphia Record, is
president of both companies, and the
same men, with one exception, act as
officers and directors,
The Jj r st information the public re¬
ceiyed that the banks were in troub]e
was in the form of a notice posted dur-
the morning on the door of the
building occupied jointly by the
two concerns, signed by National Bank
Examiner William M. Hart, to the
effect that the Chestmit Street National
bank had closed its doors pending an
investigation of its affairs. No state¬
ment of assets and liablilities is avail¬
able, but it is stated the deposits of
the Chestnut street bank amounted to
$1,700,000 and of the trust company
$1,300,000.
President Singerly gave out a brief
statement in which he said:
“We are working to secure the in¬
debtedness of the two banks so they
can go into voluntary liquidation and
thus avoid a receivership. ”
In this connection Deputy Comp¬
troller of the Treasury George M.
Coffin, who was sent on from Washing¬
ton by Comptroller Eckels, said:
“The matter of putting the Chest¬
nut Street National bank into volun¬
tary liquidation has been taken up by
Philadelphia men of great financial
ability. Their first step will be to as¬
certain the value of the assets of the
bank. They must first be satisfied that
they have value sufficient to warrant
them in assuming the indebtedness.”
Mr. Coffin will remain in the city
several days aiding the men who have
taken upon themselves the task of ex¬
tricating Mr. Singerly from his finan¬
cial difficulties. The belief is strong
that they will provide the funds neces¬
sary for a voluntary liquidation of the
two banks.
It was known for some time in
banking circles that Mr. Singerly’s
banks were in trouble, and the na¬
tional bank examiner, it is said, was
aware of the condition of affairs.
It is announced by the state treasu¬
rer that the state has $250,000 on de¬
posit in the Chesnut street bank.
Comptroller Eckels Tallcs.
A Washisgten dispatch says: Mr.
Eckels the comptroller of the currency
is quoted as saying, in regard to the
failure of the Chesnut Street National
bank of Philadelphia, that the suspen¬
sion was primarily due to the’ shrink¬
age in the value of bonds and notes of
the pulp and paper mills located at
Elkton, Md.
The capital of the bank is $500,000,
and at the present time its deposits
aggregate about $1,700,000, and its
surplus about $150,000. Mr. Eckels
has been in Philadelphia several times
recently trying to make arrangements
by which the pulp and paper mills
securities could be taken out of the
assets of the bank and preferred stock
of the Philadelphia Record company
substituted. By this and other
changes Mr. Eckles hoped to put the
bank in first-class condition.
EIGHT DEAD; FIVE MISSING.
Fearful Disaster In a Mine at Dortmund,
Prussia.
An explosion of fire damp took place
Wednesday at the Kaiser Stuhlzwei
pit at Dortmund, Prussia, with terri¬
ble results- Eight corpses have been
brought to the surface and seven men
living, but severely injured. There
are five still missing,
EASTERN COMPLICATIONS
Are Being Investigated By the Authorities
at Washington.
It is understood that the authorities
at Washington have been unofficially
sounded as to the attitude of the United
States toward the complications in the
far east with a view to learning whether
American interests in China were re¬
garded as sufficient to warrant any ac¬
tive step by this government.
From what spurces the inquiries
have come is not disclosed. If from
Great Britain, it must have come
through Colonel Hay. the American
ambassador at London, as the British
officials here have received no instruc¬
tions as to the Chinese situation.
ANDERSON WILL HANG.
Convicted of Murdering Mate Saunders
of the Oliver Pecker.
At Norfolk, Ya,, Thursday, Join
Anderson was convicted of the mir¬
ier of William Wallace Saundcls, Peckfjr,
nate of the schooner Oliver
>n the high seas, on the 6th of August,
ast, and under the sentence of the
court must be hanged on the. 18th day
of March next, unless the supreme
court of the Unitefl States in tlie
meantime interposes. j
TENNESSEE ROADS WIN.
State Doubled Tax Assessments But Is
Knjolned From Collecting.
A Nashville special says: The rail-
roads of Tennessee have won their
case against the board of railway com-
missioners. The latter assessed the
railroads at more ban $60,000,-
!i„ “L
half that sum. They protested and
the commissioners reduced the valua¬
tion about $3,000,000.
Still, as the increase had been in the
neighborhood of $30,000,000, the
roads went to the court and asked for
an injunction. They showed that the
new ™ lu “ tion P ut on tb « ir properties
waB * ar beyond what it should be.
There wns one instance of a road
which sold not long ago for about
$6,000, which was assessed at $14,000.
Tbe board took the Louisville and
XT “ . r isss’irtss
amount per mile and doubled the
amount on the Tennessee side. The
roads showed what taxes they paid in
other states and Tennessee’s valuation's
were more than twice as large. The
commissioners had manifestly attempt¬
ed to impose a great burden on the
railroads and it was fortunate for them
that the increase was so large as to be
plainly unjust.
Judge Clarke, of the United States
court, rendered his decision Thursday,
granting straining the a temporary board equalizers injection re¬
of from
certifying to the comptroller the ap¬
proved assessments. It is provived,
however, that the railroads shall pay
taxes on the basis of taxation for 1896-
97. This is perfectly satisfactory to
the companies.
GAS EXPLOSION DOES DAMAGE.
A Building: Badley Wrecked and Many
People Injured.
Fire broke out shortly after 4 o’clock
Thursday afternoon in the basement of
a five-story building at Chicago, the
first floor and basement of which were
occupied by the Tosetti Cafe and Res¬
taurant Company and the second floor
by the billiard parlors of Frank Mus-
sey.
The blaze was insignificant at first
and a crowd of people gathered on the
sidewalk in front of the building to
watch the work of the firemen.
About a dozen policemen were busi¬
ly engaged in pushing back the throng
when a terrific explosion of natural
gas took place.
The building was badly wrecked and
the windows, grating, sidewalk lights
and manhole covers were hurled into
the air and fell among the crowd.
Dozens of people were thrown from
their feet and twenty-three were more
or less injured, only one of them be¬
ing serioqsly hurt.
SECURES HER PROPERTY.
Mrg. Laseelles Is In Possession of Her
Father’s Estate.
Fitzgerald, Jfrs. Sidney Ga., Laseelles Wednesday arrived night ia
fro 1 ,ii Mexico, it is alleged, though sh|
declines! to. state where she has been
living, or the present whereabouts of
her husband. She stated that she had
come in full possession of her father’s
estate, to which she is the only heir.
It will be remembered that Colonel
Pelky, her father, willed this property
to his brother in Rhode Island,'but
died before he signed the will. It is
understood that Mrs. Laseelles is
completely in the power of her hus¬
band, and that as soon as she
can collect together the proceeds from
her property, which she intends to
convert into cash, she will return to
her husband.
REPORT ON THE WRECK.
Commissioners Investigate Accident of
Last October On New York Central.
The board of railroad commissioners,
of New York state handed down a re¬
port Friday of its investigations into
the cause of the accident on the New
York Central railroad at Garrisons, on
October 24th last.
The commissioners arrived at the
conclusion that the train was wrecked
either by derailment, which destroyed
the embankment, or that the embank¬
ment gave way and threw the train
into the river.
The board recommends that the
force of track walkers on the Hudson
river division of the New York Cen¬
tral be increased to as to provide a
constant and sufficient system of watch¬
ing and warning along the line at all
times.
HISTORIC COLISEUM BURNED.
Democratic Convention Was Held In It
Last Year.
Fire Friday night Sixty-third destroyed the
Coliseum building at street
and Stoney Island Avenue, Chicago,
in which the democratic national con¬
vention was held last year. The time
from when the fire was originated by
the crosing of two trolley wires until
the Coliseum was a pit of twisted iron
and hot bricks, was not over twenty
minutes.
It was supposed that a number of
people were lost in the flames, but it
developed that only one man, the
fireman of the building, lost his life.
RAILROAD MEN INDICTED.
Grand Jury of United States Court at
Jacksonville Finds True Bills.
At Jacksonville, Fla., the grand
jury of the United States court has re¬
turned two indictments directed joint¬
ly against N. S. Bennington, traffic
manager, and W. H. Pleasants, gen¬
eral freight agent of the Florida Gen¬
eral and Peninsular railroad, in which
are alleged violations of sections 2 and
6 of the interstate commerce law, re¬
lating to the granting of rebates.
MISS LEILA HERBERT LEAPS TO
DEATH IN WASHINGTON CITY.
A daughter of ex-secretary.
Prominent as Cabinet. Lady During 1 Cleve¬
land Administration—Melancholia
Leads to Hash Act.
Miss Leila Herbert, daughter of ex -
Secretary of the Navy Herbert, of
Alabama, committed suicide Tuesday
morning by throwing herself from the
third story of her home on New
Hampshire j venue, in the most fash¬
ionable cl?Wb. puLof Washington, just off
Dupont
The sudden death and tragic feat¬
ures surrounding it were a great shook
to the great circle of friends she had
made in the course of her life in
Washington as the daughter of a pop¬
ular representative from the south,
and later as one of the cabinet circle
of ladies when she presided over her
father’s household during the four
years he was secretary of the navy un¬
der the last Cleveland administration.
The following authorized statement
was made by a gentleman familiar with
all of the facts of the incident:
“Miss Herbort, at the time of the
occurrenoe, was suffering from an
acute melancholia. It developed sev¬
eral weeks ago as the final result of
injuries received by being thrown from
her horse last spring.
“The melancholia Jof was not insanity
in the sense being accompanied by
delusions. At the same time there
was profound depression, and as is al¬
ways the case in this type of diseases, suicidal
there was great danger that
tendencies would develop. Por this
reason nurses were provided to main¬
tain the closest watchfulness.
Early Tuesday morning the nurse
oh duty noticed a small spot she of blood
on the bed coverings; inquired
what it meail., but the invalid endeav¬
ored to pass if; by lightly. On making
an investigation, this however, the nurso
found that under-bed clothes were
saturated with blood and that Miss
Herbert had severed the artery of her
wrists with a pair of scissors. Feeling
that the emergency was great, the
nurse hastened to the door and called
an alarm. In this momentary with¬
drawal from the bedside Miss Herbert
leaped cut and sprang from the win¬
dow. The plunge was made head
foremost so that she struck on her
head on the asphalt pavement.
The fall crushed the skull and Miss
Herbert died within an hour.
Her father was not at home at the
time, being on liis way to the city from
Alabama.
Miss Leila Herbert was the eldest
of ex-Secretary Herbert’s three child¬
ren, and was a charming figure in
Washington society. She went with
her father to Washington when he was
elected to congress find at once took
charge of his household affairs, mak¬
ing the Herbert home one of the most
attractive and comfortable in Washing¬
ton from the spirit of true hospitality
which gave it an atmosphere of its
own among fashionable homes.
PACKAGE OF MONEY GONE.
Express Office at Columbia, S. C., Robbed
of 58*10,000 in a Lump.
A package containing $10,000 in
cash was stolen from the express office
in Columbia, S. C., some time be¬
tween last Sunday morning and Mon¬
day morning, and the city is now full
of the best secret service men on the
pay rolls of the express company and
of Pinkerton detectives.
The first intimation that anything
was crooked was given by the arrival
on a special train of O. M. Sadler, di¬
vision superintendent, quickly follow¬
ed by J. W. Croswell, another super¬
intendent, but these officials refused
to talk.
The package containing $10,000 was
sent a bank in Newberry Sunday. It
could not be delivered that day and
was returned to Columbia.
The money was put in a safe in the
office which was left unlocked all
night. It was missing Monday morn¬
ing.
A story is told about a stranger hav¬
ing entered the office and hurried out,
qut the belief is that one or more of
the office force is suspected and the
men are being watched.
A DAMAGING FIRE.
Blaze Entails Boss of Nearly a Million
At Cleveland.
Fire broke out in the business center
of Cleveland, O., Thursday afternoon,
and fanned by a high wind, destroyed
property worth close to a million dol¬
lars. The Power block on Frankfort
street, owned by J. B. Perkihs, six
stories high was consumed.
The principal losers are Johns' &
Co., lithographers: Power block, $225,-
000; J. L. Hudson, clothier, on stock
by fire and watei, $100,900; B. B.
Perkins, on Power block, $100,000;
J. B. Perkins, on Blackstone build¬
ing, $40,000; J. D. Perkins, on Wil-
sliire building, $20,000.
RUNAWAY TRAIN
Causes Death of Tliree Employes and
Heavy Damage to Rolling Stock.
A special from Altoona, Pa., says:
As a result of Monday night’s freight
wreck, which was caused by a runaway
train on the Pennsylvania railroad,
three men lost their lives and damage
to the extent of $75,000 was done to
rolling stock of the Pennsylvania com¬
pany. The dead are: S. Kuster, Ha¬
gerstown, Ind.; Charles J. Numer,
brakeman and S. C. Corbin,brakeman.
NEW PRISON COM MISS RS.
fceorsla's Governor Name. fen ta
Operate New Convict S !m.
Governor Atkinson, Tue ray morn-
ing, appointed the three j ison com-
missioners of Geo'rgia /under the
provision of the new /convict law.
They are: Joe S, Turpfer, of Putnam
county; Clement A. E/ans, of Fulton;
Jacob L. Beach, of tilynn.
These three mea will put into oper¬
ation the new corivict system provided
for by the recent legislature.
The appointments were formally
tendered Tuesday morning and accept¬
ed. A meeting of the commissioners
was elected afterwards chairman. held and Douglass Mr. Turner Gless-
was
ner, of Spalding, was elected secretary,
and Jake C. Moore, of Floyd, in¬
spector. The commissioners were
sworn in by Governor Atkinson just
after he signed the bill abolishing the
offices of principal and assistant keeper
apd creating the prison commission.
The men drew lots for terms of
office. Mr. Beach drew the five-year
card; Mr. Evans the three and Turner
the one-year term.
These appointments are the most
important and significant of the year,
and the selection of General Evans
amounts to almost a sensation.
The governor and the general are
eld political opponents. In the cam¬
paign for governor three years ago
they were pitted against each other.
The latter has been regarded as a
possibility in the next campaign,
and his following among the vet¬
erans of the state made him a dan¬
gerous opponent for any other candi¬
date seeking the soldier vote. His ac¬
ceptance of the post will give the po¬
litical prophets something to think
about. As far as the appointment is
concerned, however, it is nothing more
than the recognition of his worth and
fitness for one of the most important
positions in the gift of the state at this
or any other time. The governor,
who is a student of men, has settled
upon him as a man in every way capac¬
itated for the work.
ANDREWS CRITICISED.
President of Brown University Again In
Controversy.
A dispatch from Providence, R. I.,
says: President Benjamin Andrews,
of Brown university, whose freedom
of utterance on the money question
led to a hitter contest between him
and (he trustees of the university last
spring, is again in controversy. This
time it is with the G. A. R. and the
churchly admirers of the Armenian,
both of which bodies declare that he
has been unjust and unwise, while
some of the latter insist that he has
been talking on a matter of which he
knows nothing.
Recently Dr. Andrews went to
Chicago to lecture on the “Generals
of the Confederacy,” and in the course
of his remarks he praised General
Robert E. Lee at the expense of some
of the general’s Union adversaries.
The second instance in which Dr.
Andrews has gown the seeds of trouble
for himself was in the statement that
the Turks are a “nobler and more
moral race than the Armenians.” This
has roused the indignation of Christian
people in all parts of the country, and
local papers have- helped spread the
feeling by a charge that P;% Andrews’
personal acquaintance with the Turks
was limited to a thirty-six hours’ visit
to Constantinople.
The result is that many who sym¬
pathized with Dr. Andrews in his for¬
mer trouble have been among the first
to condemn his latest utterances.
GORDON SHOWN LENIENCY.
Judge Speer Reprimanded Him, But Dis¬
missed Contempt Proceedings.
In the United States court at Macon,
Ga., Tuesday morning Judge A. L.
Miller, in behalf of W. M. Gordon,
argued against the infliction of a pen¬
alty by the court for not producing the
books of the Progress Loan and Im¬
provement company when called on
by the receiver.
Complete restitution was made by
Gordon, and the fact that he has been
humiliated by issuing the attach¬
ment against him were the chief
points of the argument.
Judge Speer said he was not inclin¬
ed to further punish Gordon, and af¬
ter some rather pointed remarks di¬
rected at Gordon, he dismissed the
contempt proceedings. This is the
last of the case which has aroused so
much interest. It is understood that
under provisions of the judge’s decree
payments will be divided over a period
of six months, with a total of $62,000
to be paid out by Gordon.
MRS. NACK’S PLEA.
Guilty of Manslaughter in the First De¬
cree Will Be Allowed.
A New York dispatch says: While
District Attorney Youngs, of Queens
county, is non-committal upon the
matter, it is understood that he has
finally deoided to allow Mrs. Nack to
plead guilty to manslaughter in the
first degree.
It is asserted that the carefully prosecuting
officers have gone over the
evidence against the woman and have
reached the conclusion that it would
be impossible to convict her either of
murder in the first or second degree.
Her confession made on the Thorn
trial could not be used against her.
M0NE[Y PROMPTLY PAID.
y, --
Southern Ex tores* Company Makes Resti-
tuti <im of Stolen Funds.
The Southern Express Company has
paid to the National Park bank of
New York, f HO, 000 in settlement of
the loss of (that amount of money by
the robbery bf the express company’s
safe at Columbia, S. C., last Monday.
The National Park bank was the ship¬
per of the stolen package, which was
for a bank /it Newberry, S. C.