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About The Ashburn advance. (Ashburn, Ga.) 18??-19?? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 11, 1898)
THE ASHBURN ADVANCE. VOL. Vll. TUESDAY’S I Roosevelt Wins In New York. fl Li SOLID DELEGATION FOR GEORGIA. Result of the Battle of Ballots in Other States—No Serious Trouble Reported From Any Section. The voters of all except threo of the 45 Btates—Maine, Vermont, and Ore¬ gon—went to the polls Tuesday. The 42 states elected congressmen. In Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Ken¬ tucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massa¬ chusetts, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Virginia and West Virginia, only congressmen were chosen. Twenty-three states elected legisla¬ tures which will name United States senators. These are California, Con¬ necticut, Delaware, Florida. Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ne¬ vada, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, Wisconsin and West Virginia. The following states elected a gov¬ ernor and state officers: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, New Hamp¬ shire, Massachusetts, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin and Wyoming. The others—Illinois, Iowa, Florida, Delaware, Missouri, Montana, Ohio, Utah, Indiana and Washington—voted for a treasurer, auditor or other minor state officials. The contests that elicited the great¬ est popular interest were those of New York and North Carolina. IN NEW YORK. Associated Press dispatches state that Theodore Roosevelt, republican, late colonel of the First United States volunteer cavalry, lias been elected governor of New York state by a plu¬ rality of anywhere from 18,000 to 20,- 000. All Colonel Roosevelt’s associ¬ ates on the republican state ticket are probably elected with him. The returns from both Greater New York aud from the counties outside of that municipality are incomplete, but enough have been received to in- dicate a heavy falling off in the vote up the state, while that in the city was well sustained. The consequence is a falling off in the republican plurality in the state from 212,000 to the ap- proximated figures given above. New York In tlte municipality of the old-time democratic majority was approximated, Van Wyck’s vote berng abput 80,000 gveater than that of the republican candidate, This latter re¬ sult was helped in some measure in the borough of Brooklyn (Kings coun¬ ty), which in 1896 gave Black, repub¬ lican, a plurality of 32,832, I ut Tues¬ day gave a democratic plurality of about 16,830. Brooklyn is the home of Judge Van Wyek, the defeated can¬ didate. The soldier vote will not be counted until December 1st, but it is not likely that the ballots from the camps will materially alter the result. There would seem to be the greater proba¬ bility that the majority for Roosevelt will be increased. I.\;N0RTH CAROLINA. A democratic victory is reported for North Carolina in Tuesday’s election. The next house, it is stated, will be democratic by 60 majority and the senate by 30 majority. The democrats elected their entire judiciary ticket and seven congressmen cerrtain, with the other two close. The fusion majority of 40,000 two rears ago has been replaced by a democratic majority of not less than 20,000. * Not a riot has been reported. All the black belt counties send word that the election passed off quietly without ASHBURN. WORTH CO.. GA.. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 11, 1898. excitement The preparations which 'hey made to meet trouble diverted it. In u number of the Muck licit counties aloug the const, tlie negroes either did not go to the polls or voted the white ticket.* This was notable in New Han¬ over, Richmond, Robeson, Edgeeouib nud Halifax counties, where large re¬ publican majorities were reversed. The red shirt demonstration of the past week indicated that a collision between the races at the polls would result mi the extermination of one side or the other. In some counties, Gran- vi'le for instance, the nesrroes voted solidly but quietly. In Craven and other negro counties the fusion maj¬ ority was greatly reduced. Craven, the county seat in which is the quaint and picturesque and old city.Newbnrn, gave a republican majority of 400. Two years ago the republicans carried Craven by 14 majority. GKOUGIA. The next congressional delegation from the state of Georgia will be sol¬ idly democratic. The congressmen elected are as follows: First district, T-Ion. Rufus E. Lester; second district, Hon. James M. Griggs; third dis¬ trict, Hon. E. B. Lewis; fourth dis¬ trict, Hon. W. C. Adamson; fifth district, Hon. L. F. Livingston; Sixth dist., Hon. Charles L. Bart- lett; Seventh dist., Hon. Jno. W. Mad¬ dox; Eighth dist., Hon. W. M. How¬ ard; Ninth dist., Hon. F. C. Tate; Tenth dist., Hon. Wm. H. Fleming; Eleventh dist., Hon. W. G. Brantley. Result In Other States. incomplete returns from the state of Pennsylvania give Stone, republi¬ can, a plurality of nearly 150,000 for governor. The democratic and fu- sionists’ net gain on joint ballot in the legislature is probably between twenty and thirty, but the body which elects a successor to United State Sena¬ tor Quay remains strongly republi- can. The vote polled in South Carolina was exceedingly light. There were no surprises. The democrats won throughout the state, and only one republican, a can¬ didate for the general assembly in one of the black counties, has been elected to office. He bad no democratic op¬ position. The democrats even carried that county with their county ticket. The democratic state ticket, having no opposition whatever, was, of course, elected. In the congressional districts there was a lighter vote polled than was ex¬ pected. It will not reach the vote of 1896. Every democratic candidate for congress was elected. A solid democratic congressional delegation is elected from Alabama. The only two districts in which there were contests were the fourth and seventh, now represented by Aldrich, republican, and Howard, populist, the latter noted as the author of "If Christ Came to Congress.” Robbins, demo¬ crat, defeated Aldrich and is elected by 3,000 majority. Burnett, demo¬ crat, carried the seventh district by 1,800 majority. General Joseph Wheeler was unanimously re-elected in the eigth, not a vote being cast against him. The vote in Florida was from 10 to 20 per cent lighter for both parties than in 1896. The whole democratic ticket is elected. The light vote is due to the feeble resistance offered. The constitutional amendment requir¬ ing that bonds of state officers be in sound surety and guaranty companies was carried overwhelmingly. It is conceded that the republicans aud populists will not elect altogether over five members of the legislature. The legislature elected will choose a suc- cessor to Senator Pasco, The congressional election in Aj- kansas was the quietest held in many years. In Little Rock, out of a voting population of about 7,000, only 300 votes were polled, and that is about the ratio throughout the state. All of the old congressmen were re-elected. FOR TAX EXEMPTIONS, Kepresentative Calvin introduce* mu in * ae ' The question ,. allowing ,, . the cities ... and . counties of Georgia to exempt factories from taxation for a period of ten years after incorporation will be passed on by ,! he P r es ent i® g ls ature j Mr. Galvin, r 1 . of Richmond . , introduced . , t , ,n the house Friday a bill to submit a constitutional amendment to this effect fo tne people. DAMAGE NOT EXTENSIVE. Explosion In Capimi Buii.Hna Not So ii.santriou* as Thought. A Washington dispatch says: As- sistant Architect of the Capitol Wood, after an inspection of the wrecked part of the capitol, expressed the op ini 0 n Mondav afternoon that the damage to the building could be re- paired for $20,000. "It is by no means so serious as it is thought it was,” said Mr. Wood. "I And that the foundations of the building were not damaged in the least and the only damage done to the structure by the explosion was done to the arched floors.” Mr. Wood believes the explosion was caused by gas, but says he has not yet been able, on account of the debris, to make a sufficiently critical examination. TEACENEGOTIATIONS NOT BROKEN OFF, HOWEVER. ANSWER IS POINTED AND EXPLICIT. Spanish CommUaionera Declare They Will Never (Jlvo Up the Philippines. Americans Will Consider Reply. A Paris special says: The Spanish commissioners, in the course of a two hours’ session of the peace ooufereuce Friday, flatly refused to accept the proposition by the Americans to take the entire Philippine group and to re¬ imburse Spain for her "pacific” expen¬ ditures there. This negative decision was expected. The Spanish commissioners had also a number of positive declarations w r hich filled some thirty-seven sheets of a type-written presentment. In this statement the Spaniards held that the United States had not ulti- mate rights in the Philippine islands and could have none save by the con¬ sent of Spain iu these negotiations and upon terms satisfactory to her. According to the Spanish contention in the formal statement, the United States entertained no thought of an¬ nexing tho Philippines when tho pro¬ tocol was signed or it would have been expressed in the protocol as clearly as the conditions regarding the conces¬ sions of territory in the Antilles and the orient. M. Cambon, before the signature of the protocol, received from Madrid—the presentment alleged —a cable message clearly setting forth that the maintenance of Spain’s an- thority over the Philippines should not be affected by the protocol, to which reservation the United States made at that time no protest or objec¬ tion. No Claims on Philippines. This dispatch to M. Cambon, as the Spaniards claimed, embodied also the view that the United States had no valid basis for claims in tho archipel¬ ago. It was further held by Senor Rios and his colleagues that the capitula¬ tion of Manila, which occurred after the signing of the protocol and thus after the disposition of peace, was in¬ valid. On this for a groundwork, the Span¬ iards made their first positive move against the Americans and it consti¬ tuted their counter proposition. They charged upon the States a wrongful appropriation of public moneys be- longing to Spain by seizing the tariff duties at Manila and they formally demanded the return of these moneys in the sum of nearly a million dollars. On the same premise, the United States was declared to have held as prisoners the Spanish soldiers at Manila in violation of international law, because done after the suspension of hostilities under . the , protocol. , , A , further charge was made that by the imprisonment of Spanish troops at Manila the United States had pre¬ vented Spain from quelling tho insur¬ rection and had thus contributed to the violence against Spain after the cessation of hostilities. Friday’s Spanish presentment »lso cited the refusal of the Americans to consider the Cuban debt on the ground that it was not sanctioned in the pro- tocol and demanded an adherence to this as a precedent in the discussion of the Philippines, regarding cession of which the Spanish commissioners held the protocol to make no mention, In Hupport of these assertions, ar- guments and demands, the Spanish presentment invokes Spain’s record in the correspondence by mail and tele- graph, though it is not known offl- cially whether the Spaniards produced the message said to have been sent from Madrid to M. Canbon, at the t i me the protocol was signed, in which ; it was affirmed at Friday’s Spain re8e rved her Philippine sover- e ignty. The presentment was read by Interpreter Ferguson, being rendered from the Spanish, in which it was written in English. A t the close of the reading the: Americans said they wished to have the Spanish statement rendered into written English for more careful con- j "MwaHo*. and an adjournment was taken to Tuesday. The Spaniards affect to believe that tbe AEaeElca ™ had planned to develop + \ he S P irl * of tbeir Philippine demands i J efor . ° t be American elections, but tbey , dec . lln ® fl to Ba y whether they ex- ect . terms after the eiectlon> P eaBler Confidence In Wa.hlnsrton. The administration is awaiting re- suits from the peace commission with equanimity, in the realization that the government is perfectly well prepared for any turn the negotiations may take. The navy especially is in a state of preparedness, should it come to a re- j sumption of hostilities, far in advance 0 f its condition at the outbreak of the war. RIG BUILDING IN COURSE ! CONSTRUCTION COLLAPSES. VICTIMS ARE CRUSHED BT DEBRIS. ^Besides Those Killed Eighteen*Employes Were More or Eesa Seriously Injured. The now five-story Wonderland thea- liuilding in course of erection at De- j troit, Mich., collapsed Saturday aud eleven lives were sacrificed. Shortly before 2 o’clock, while some thirty- five men were at work in various parts of the half finished theater, a portion of the structure, the roof, fell iu with- out a second’s warning. Nearly every workman was carried down into tho theater pit. The top gallery was crushed down up¬ on the lower gallery, forming a hill¬ side down which slid tho broken steel girders, planks, timbers, brick and a great, quantity of cement from the roof and carrying along a struggling company of men into the pit. below, very few of whom escaped injury. The front wall of the building remained practically intact, but the side wall bulged threateningly. The work of rescuing the injured and taking out of tho dead was rushed with good progress until 5:15, when the upper portion of the cast wall fell, » shower of bricks striking around the crowd of laborers, officers and news- paper men, extinguishing the tempo- ral T electric lights and causing a stam- pede for the streot. No one of these struck by the second downfall was seriously injured, Mayor Maybury and other city offi- <unls were 011 the scene, and thereupon decided not to further imperil life in order to save dead bodies, and work was suspended until Sunday. When the second crash occurred two more bodies were visible in the debris. Three more victims wore dug from the ruins Sunday morning, making the death list, so far, eleven. All the injured at the hospitals aro reported on the improve excepting Edward Fischer, who is expected to die. A mass meeting of represent¬ ative citizens was held at noon at tho mayor’s office, and over $1,000 was subscribed fer the benefit of the fami¬ lies of those who were killed. The loss of property was estimated for tho first time. It is believed that $20,000 will entirely cover it. The cause of the catastrophe has not yet been settled. It seems to rest, however, between too much weight on the roof and faulty steel bcaniH used in its construction. The workers in the building say that there was no warning given of the collapse, the first thing heard be¬ ing a crash as the roof fell. The lower Imicony held firm, which doubt- less saved the lives of a number of tlio workmen who were under it. The in- stunt the crash occurred the fire bells wero tolled and the firemen rescued a number of those who had fallen on top of the wreckage. FAVORABLE TO CANAL. Coinini*8l»n«rH Will Kfcoinmimd Its Con- Htructton an Feasible Project. The Nicaragua canal commission appointed by the president under an act of congress directing a complete inquiry into this project, with particu- ] ar reference to its practicability and cost> l ms about completed its work au d the report will be handed to Sec- re tary Hay in about a month. The commission, under the direction of Admiral Walker, ohairman, with a force of thirty-six computers, drafts- mou> engineers, eto., is at work on the report and the mass of technical ma tter which will accompany it, mak- j n g j n a ]j the most elaborate presenta- tion of the subject ever attempted. Admiral Walker has already ex- pressed the opinion before a congres- H j ona l committee that the cost would be within $125,000,000, and this is understood to his opinion still. The report, it is understood, will be unanimous, as the commissioners aro agreed on all the essential features of tost, practicability, route, dams, etc., the only differences being those natural shades of opinion as to the unit of CO st on Home of the branches of the work, FOURTH OHIO IN WASHINGTON. KeeIlnent „ Slewed an.l Given » lie- ception Hy J’renidnnt. The Fourth Ohio infantry, which P assed through Washington Saturday en route from Porto Rico to Col urn- buB > was P al<1 tbo U8aal complimentof a reception at the white House, The r ®f? lment farst passed in review b ® f or e “ e executive “ a » Blon > aft ® E which . t the soldiers filed tfirougfi tfie mai " d °° EB - ln « vefl to the left and en- tere f the east room. Marching in Bin fc! e fiIe > tbe soldiers passed by the president, , who cordially shook hands wlt ! 1 eac “ ? n ®’ At ? ]!‘ e regiment left , for the west over the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. TEXT OF THE PROTOCOL. M»l» n#i>nrtincnt Make* rublln of the pnciinimit. A Washington special says: State department for the first made public a copy of the protocol tween the United States ami Spain the preliminary settlement of the The protocol, textually, is us Protocol of agreement between United States and Spain the terms of a basis for tlm ment of peace betweeu the two tries, signed at Washington, 12, 1898. Protocol: William It. Day, secretary of of the United States, and his lency, Jules Oaml>on, ambassador republic traordinary and plenipotentiary of of France,at Washington, spectively possessing for this all authority for the government of United States and the government Spain, have considered and signed following articles,embodying the on which the two governments agreed in respect to the matters inafter set forth,having in view the tablishment of peace between the countries, that is to say: Article 1.—Spain will relinquish olaim of sovereignty over the title Cuba. Article 2.—Spain will cede to United States the island of Porto and other islands now under sovereignty in the West Indies, also an island in the Ladrones, to selected by the United States, Article 3.—The United States occupy and hold the city, bay and bor of Manila, pending the of a treaty of peace which skull mine the control, disposition and ernment of Hie Philippines. Article 4—Spain will evaeunte Cuba, Porto Rico and other islands now under sovereignty in the West Indies, and this end each government will, ten days nftw tho signing of protocol, appoint commissioners, tho commissioners so appointed shall, within thirty days after tho signing this protocol meet in Havana for purpose of arranging and carrying the details of the aforesaid of Porto Rico and other islands under Spanish sovereignty in West Indies. Article 5—Tho United States Spain will each appoint not more live commissioners to treat of peace, and the commissioners so appointed shall meet at Paris not late* than October 1898, and proceed to the nego¬ tiation and conclusion of a treaty of peace, which treaty shnll he subject to reaffirmation according to the prospec¬ tive constitutional forms of the two countries. Articlo 0—Upon the conclusion and signing of this protocol hostilities be¬ tween the two countries shall be sus- pended, and notice to that effect shall be given as soon as possible by each government to the commanders of its military and naval forces. Done at Washington in duplicate in English and iu French by the under¬ signed, who have hereunto set their hands and souls, this 12th day of Au¬ gust, 1898. W. R. Day, Jules Cambon. RAY FORBIDS AN EXECUTION. Courtinartlul Sentence lly u t'ubmi Gen¬ eral Was Not Carried Out. A Santiago dispatch says: An inci¬ dent has occurred which is causing much talk among the Cubans, and may create ill feeling. The Cuban general, Perez, recently ordered the trial by courtmartial of one of his men on a charge of deserting the army in time of war. The prisoner was sentenced to death, but before the sentence was executed notification was sent to Colonel Ray, of the Third immune regiment, who laid the matter before General Wood, commander of tho military department of Santiago. General Perez was at once informed that if the man was executed he and the firing party would he hanged as soon as the courts could legally sen¬ tence them. He was instructed that if a roan committed a crime punish¬ able under the civil laws ho should he turned over to the proper authorities, who would look into the case. TROUBLE FEARED IN PARIS Should ('attftatlon Court of Inquiry Trove Favorable to Captain Dreyfus. The London Daily Chronicle pub¬ lished the following iu its issue of Monday morning: "We have received information from a reliable quarter of a well organized plot in Paris in the event of the in¬ quiry of the court of cassation proving favorable to Dreyfus to foment a riot¬ ous outburst in the French capital, to attempt to overthrow the civil power and to assassinate the leading cham¬ pions of Dreyfus. "These reports are confirmed by interviews with M. Trarienx, former minister of justice, and M. DePresHio- so, former editor of The Temps, as well as others. The police have warn¬ ed those friends of Dreyfus to change their residence temporarily or at least to carry revolvers.” N<>. H. MORE SENSATIONAL TESTIMONY nilOUUHT OUT IIV WITNESSES. BSD FOOD AND BAD WATER. Kanftfii* City Doctor Severely KoamIh Army .Siirg-comi—IVN.i n Highly lntor- CMting; Story. General Dodge, Colonel Sexton aud Dr. Conner, of the war investigating commission, arrived iu Chicago Mon¬ day and immediately began the exami¬ nation of witnessos at the Auditorium hotel. A large number of witnesses were on the list. Dr. Lewis Schooler, of Des Moines, la., was the first witness to testify. From June 7th to July 17tli Dr. Schooler was stationed at Camp Thomas us chief surgeon of the Second divis¬ ion, Third corps. Questioned by Dr. Conner, be said that during tho time ho was there the sanitary condition in tie hospitals was not very good; that tho sinks in the whole division were bad, owing principally to tho character of the ground, aud tho discipline was rather lax "At the opening," said Dr. Shoolor, "there were practically no facilities for the care of tho sick; wo were short of medicines and had no apparatus by which the stewards oould prepare the medicines that wo had. "The regimental hospitals, all but one or two, were poorly supplied with medicines as division hospitals. Re¬ quisitions were made for more, but they were generally disapproved at tho camp headquarters.” Asked to give, in as few words as possible, bis opinion about the gen¬ eral condition at Oamp Thomas dur¬ ing the time he was stationed there. Dr. Holiooler said: Colonel Leo Censured. "In the first place, the quartermas¬ ter and surgeons eould not agree as to the number of tents that wo should have. Colonel Lee contended that wo were limited to a certain number of tents, seventeen, I think it was, in the beginning. We afterwards prevailed upon him to give us twenty-one. His contention was that he could not issue fonts beyond the prescribed number. 1 think the quartermaster’s depart¬ ment was largely responsible for the great sickness; the medical department (that is, the supply department) was also responsible for some tilings. Then we lacked facilities to make Reports on—did not even have stationery.” Water Not. Fit. to Drink. In regard to tho water supply at the camp, Dr. Schooler stated that lie did not think any of the surgeons in his division considered the water fit to drink. And, again, there was not enough teams at the disposal of the officers to enable them to bring suffi¬ cient, water. He gave as his Opinion that tho medical officers wero hampered too much by officers of higher rank, but who had no medical training. When questioned as to the lack of nurses, the doctor said that ho thought that both the nurses as well as tho officers were overworked. Foot! Wns find. Dr. Milo B. Ward, of Kansas City, who was a brigade surgeon at Camp Thomas from July 12th to September 10th, when asked as to the condition of the hospitals, said that there was a great lack of medicines, only some of the very simplest medicines being on hand. "The food which was furnished the men,” said he, “I would not want to. give to my pet dog." He said that tho food would have been all rigid, had it been properly cooked, but in the shape in which it was brought to the men, it was enough to make anybody sick. The doctor was then questioned as to the lack of attention shown patients just coming down with disease. The doctor stated that lie knew of several eases where the patients wftr» allowed to lie out on the ground th« whole day and also during tlu> night before being taken to the hospital. ANTI-TELLER FACTION FA YOKED. Tlio Culartido Rtiprom« Court Hand* Down Duel«1 on In a Political Cane. The supremo court of the state of Colorado rendered a decision Wednes¬ day in the case involving the right to name an emblem of the silver repub¬ lican party iu the state. This decision is in fuvor of the auti- Teller faction of the party, who de¬ clined to fuse with the democrats and populists and nominated a straight ticket, with Simon Guggeuheimer at its head. The decision is understood to deny the right of National Chairman Towno to remove the state chairman.
