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FIVE ARE CREMATED
IN BURNED HOME
A Doctor, Threa Children and
Housekeeo?r Are the Victims.
SPRING PLACE HOLOCAUST
House Contained Seven Inmates,
But Two Made Thair Escape.
Tuesday night at 2 o’clock Dr. H.
C. Bagwell, one of Murray county’s
leading physicians and druggists, was
burned to death, together with three
of his children and their housekeeper,
at his residence in Spring Place, Ga.
Dr. Bagwell returned from a profes¬
sional visit about 11 p. m. and retired.
[It rested is supposed the table that next the lamp, to his which bed,
on
must have been overturned.
There were seven people in the
c -louse at the time and it was first re¬
ported that all had perished. Two of
khe inmates succeeded in escaping,
pinged “from by the flames as they rushed
the burning building.
Those who lost their lives were: Dr.
, [. C. Bagwell, his three children,aged
&ix and three years and four months;
Mrs. Williams, the aged governess.
Those who escaped were Dr. Sam
ear-old sou of Mrs. Williams, the
governess.
At about 2 o’clock Tuesday morning
[Dr.Gilbert,who slept in a room across
the hall from Dr.Bagwell, was awaken¬
ed by the oppressiveness of suffocation.
n ~ le jumped up and found his room in
flames. He slept with Frank Williams,
(who was so hard to arouse that he
dragged him out of bed aud to the
(window, jumping out with him.
korced After reaching the ground they
one of the windows to Dr. Bag-
jwell’sroom, which was a mass of
(seething flames, Gilbert but had were his forced hair singed back
jtJter Dr.
toff and young Williams had both his
(ears nearly burned'off. By this time
ithe people arrived, but too late to do
^anything for the unfortunates. When
|he embers were cool enough to work
v -, «»mong them, the charred trunk of Dr.
as iagwell, his three children and old
Mrs. Williams were found piled up in
a heap near the window.
The theory is that Dr. Bagwell re¬
sisted the effects of smoke and fire
i Jong enough to carry two of his chil¬
dren and Mrs. 'Williams to the window
and while coming to tbe window with
jus baby in bis arms was overcome by
Ithe flames, falling forward on his face
with the baby under him. This
khe ^heory first is supported to arrive by the him fact trying that
man saw
jto get to him the fall window and by with tbe the fact baby that
»nd saw
although the baby had its legs burned
off its body was comparatively but lit¬
tle burned, and its face, which was
buried in its father’s breast, was
“recognizable—the only thing in the
[blackened heap that was recognizable
lexcept by size, one body being entire¬
ly & consumed except a portion of the
head and the spinal column.
NO COLOR LINE HERE.
People of Albany, Ga., Honor a De¬
parted Colored Citizen.
Frank W. McCarthy, one of the
Imost prominent negroes in southwest
(Georgia, died at his home in Albany
[Tuesday night, after an illness of two
months with Bright’s disease.
His funeral occurred from ‘ the
(African Methodist Episcopal church
'Wednesday afternoon and was attend-
‘ed by an immense Concourse of both
whites and blacks. For the first time
in the history of Albany every store
and office in the city was closed in
honor of a negro, no business being
transacted while the funeral was in
progress. dabbled in politics,
McCarthy never
but was probably the most influential
negro in his county. His death is de¬
plored alike by white and colored
STRAWBERRIES BY CARLOAD.
Ninety Cars and Three Trains Were
Necessary to Move Product.
A report made by the Atlantic Coast
Line railway shows that it broke all
records in strawberry shipments be¬
tween Wilmington and Goldsboro, N.
C., Tuesday.
There were ninety car loads, making
three trains, containing 32,500 drates.
ADMIRAL DEWEY
TO COME HOME.
Rear Admiral Watson Is Ordered
to Manila to Relieve Hero,
THE DATE IS NOT NAMED.
Costly Banquet Will Be Given
Great Sailor In New York.
A Washington special says: The
navy department hj>s selected a suc¬
cessor to Admiral Dewey to command
the Asiatic station. Orders were issued
Monday detaching Rear Admiral Wat¬
son from command of the Mare island
navy yard and ordering him to report
to Admiral Dewey at Manila to re¬
lieve that officer when he feels that he
can be spared there.
Rear Admiral Kempt, at present on
waiting orders, has been instructed to
succeed Admiral Watson in command
of the Mare island navy yard.
It was stated at the navy depart¬
ment that Admiral Dewey will come
from Manila direct to New York when
he returns to the United States. How¬
ever, it is added the admiral will not
start until the commission of which he
is a member has completed the work
it has undertaken, at least so far as it
relates to the restoration of peace to
the islands.
The reason for bringing the flag¬
ship Olympia to New York instead of
having her come to San Francisco,
where she was built, is said to be pri¬
marily because Admiral Dewey desires
to make the passage on his own flag¬
ship, but also for the reason that the
Mare islaud yard threatens to be over¬
whelmed with repair work as soon as t
the numerous vessels of Dewey’s fleet
begin to return to tbe United States.
The Olympia is in need of over¬
hauling, being away from her home
station longer than any of the vessels
in the Asiatic fleet and has suffered
more than usual hardship during her
absence.
Costly Bsnqu' ' Proposed.
Admiral Dewey has^cabled to New
York bis acceptance of an invitation
to a banquet to be given in his honor
by 100 prominent citizens.
Thirty-seven citizens already have
announced their intention of subscrib¬
ing $100 for a banquet in honor of tbe
great admiral, and there is no doubt
that the list will be filled by the other
03 necessary to make tho 100 men and
the $10,000 planned for. arrive,
When Admiral Dewey does
which it is believed will not be until
late in August or early September,
there will await him, in addition to
the civil celebration which will be
most elaborate, a banquet, the most
splendid ever prepared for an officer.
President McKinley and Secretary
of the Navy Long will be invited to
the banquet. Whether or not they
will attend is another matter.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
List of New Industries Established
the Past Week.
The more important of the new in¬
dustries reported during the past week
include a box factory in West Vir¬
ginia; brick and tile works in North
Carolina; coal mines in Arkansas; a
round bale cotton gin in Texas; a
large cotton mill in Virginia; a cotton¬
seed oil mill in North Carolina; two
flouring mills, a furniture factory, a
50,000 hardware company in Tennes¬
see; lumber mills in Kentucky, North
Carolina and Virginia; two natural
gas aud oil companies in West Vir¬
ginia; a $10,000 ochre mill in Geor¬
gia; a $40,000 rice mill in Louisiana;
a salt works in West Virginia; a sin¬
gletree factory in West Tennessee; a
woodworking plant for electrical sup¬
plies in North Carolina; telephone
companies in Texas, North Carolina
and West Virginia, and a windmill
company in Texas. —Tradesman (Chat¬
tanooga, Tenn.)
BASIS OF DIVISION.
Forty-Eight Thousand Cubans Will
- Get Their Pro Rata.
A special from Havana says: Forty-
eight thousand will be used as the
division in fixing the shares of the
soldiers in the $3,000,000 allotted by
the United States government to ha
divided among the Cuban troop3.
NEW FILIPINO TROOPS
.Brought Out to Face Americans In
Philippines.
A special from Manila under date of
May 7th, stated that to clear tho Fil¬
ipinos of Bacolor would be tbe next
task of the Americans.
The rebel general, Mascardo has a
force of 7,000 men there, well armed
and possessed of plenty of ammuni¬
tion. His troops have never met
American soldiers, and they tlriuk, ac¬
cording toi epoVts carried to Sau Fer¬
nando, that they can whip the whole
lot. •
Bacolor is well intrenched and thou¬
sands of natives are working like
beavers digging trenches and carrying
the dirt in baskets. Tha enemy uses
his rifiemen for fighting only, but
compels the Bolo men and Chinese to
labor incessantly. about
The rebels have an outpost a
mile beyond San Fernando, with a
trench that holds between two and
three hundred men. From that point
several volleys were fired Saturday
night upon the camp of the Twentieth
Kansas regiment. ,
Neither Major General MacArthur
nor Major General Lawtou moffid
Sunday, although each reconnoitered
the country in his own vicinity for
some miles from headquarters, devel¬
oping the presenoe of small forces of
the enemy.
In* the vicinity of La Guna de Bay
tho rebels are extremely active, but
the lines of General Oveushiue and
Colonel Wholley, who is commanding
General King’s brigade during the
latter’s illness, have been materially
strengthened, and there is no danger
in that direction.
The armed steamers La Guna de
Bay and Cavadonga, under Captain
Grant, have gone to Guagua, about
five miles southwest of Bacolor, pre¬
sumably to establish a base of supplies
for the troops engaged on the northern
campaign.
It is rumored that Mabini,president
of the cabinet, and minister of foreign
affairs in the so-called Filippino gov¬
ernment, who is a radical, is to be suc¬
ceeded by Paterno, tbe framer of tbe
Spanish treaty of 189G. This change
is regarded as significant at the pres¬
ent
. DEHOCRAtIc COHMITTEE
To Meet In St. Louis to Outline the
Next Campaign.
The preliminary plans for the cam¬
paign of 1900 are to be outliued at a
conference f the members of the
democratic national committee to be
held at St. Louis on the 25th of this
month. The conference is expected
to be of more thau ordinary impor¬
tance because of the circumstances
surrounding the gathering and is nat¬
urally creating a good deal of discus¬
sion in democratic circles at the
national capital.
The call for the conference has been
issued by ex-Governor Stone, of Mis¬
souri, who, in the absence of Senator
Jones in Europe, is acting as chair¬
man of what is known as the commit¬
tee on ways and means.
SPONSOR FOR THE SOUTH.
Miss Heth Is Honored By Confederate
Veterans’ Association,
Goneral John B. Gordon, command¬
er-in-chief of the United Confederate
Veterans,appointed Miss Nannie Ran¬
dolph Heth, of Washington city, and
daughter of General Heury Heth,
sponsor for the entire south at the an¬
nual reunion in Charleston. Miss
Heth gracefully accepted the designa¬
tion.
This most honored sponsorship at
these annual reunions to which the
heart of the confederacy gathers has
been filled on former occasions by Miss
Winnie Davis, the always cherished
“Daughter of the Confederacy.” Miss
Heth does not, however, by this ap¬
pointment, succeed Miss Davis as
daughter of the Confederacy. After
much controversy following the death
of Miss Davis, it was decided that she
should have no successor in this re¬
gard. _ ,
flONEY FOR NAVAL fllLITIA.
The Amount Allotted to Several
Southern States.
The navy departmant has just made
an allottpu*.t of $00,000, appropriated
for the assistance of the naval militia
of the states supporting such organi¬
zations. Among the states receiving
appropriations are the following:
Florida, $23,45,81; Georgia, $1,503.95;
Lousiana, $5,003.49; North Carolina,
$2,328.15; South Carolina, $2,310.38;
Virginia, $1,848.40.
GOV. JOHNSTON -
HAS HIS WAY.
He Is Sustained By Both Houses
of the General Assembly.
REPEAL BILL SUCCESSFUL.
Those Who Wanted Convention
Made Vigorous Fight.
A Montgomery special says: The
bill repealing the act which provided
for tho holding of a constitutional
convention in Alabama, after hnviug
passed the house last week, passed
the senate Monday evening by a vote
of 19 to 12, every member of the senate
being in his scat and voting.
For several days it was a foregone
conclusion that the repeal bill would
become a law, but tbe opposition to it
was so determined and so aggrossive
that the tension of popular auxiety did
not relax until the vote was taken
Monday night. The actual vote on
the passage of the bill was 18 to 13, but
one senator changed his vote from no
to aye in order to move a reconsidera¬
tion.
The anti-repeal majority of the demo¬
cratic state executive committoo met
during the day, in obedience to the
call of Chairman Lowe and made one
final effort to defeat the repeal by pro¬
posing the following to the advocates
of repeal: democratic
“1. Tbnt the state execu¬
tive committee submit to the qualified
white voters of the state the question
of convention or no convention, to be
voted in a primary held by said com¬
mittee, the majority vote of the white
voters in the regular election in July.
“2. That the said committee shall
invite all white voters to participate
in said primary who will agree to
abide the result of the primary.
“3. That said committee shall pro¬
vide representation at the ballot box
for supporters and opponents of the
convention.”
Several objections to this proposi¬
tion were found. If the white people
voted against the convention in the
primaries as the repealists insisted
they would another special session of
the legislature would be necessary to
repeal the act on the statute books
providing for the holding of the July
election.
The senate was in continuous ses¬
sion from noon until after (5 o’clock.
More than half the senators spoke,
several of the speeches being exceed¬
ingly able ones.
The result is a great winning for
Governor Johnston, Both of the fed-
eral senators, most of the congress-
men and the state committee united
in a vigorous fight against the execu¬
tive on account of his open advocacy
of repeal. Johnston is charged with
being a candidate for the United States
senate. If he is he has undoubtedly
made a great winning,.,as he has con¬
trived to line all of his opponents, or
probable opponents, up together and
win out over the combined lot of them.
ALMOSI PRE . 1PITATED PANIC.
Evangelist Jones Caused Exciting
Exciting Time at Revival rieeting.
Sam Jones, in his revival meeting
at Louisville, Ky., Monday night, be¬
came very drastic. After relating
several instances of sudden deaths in
towns in which he had preached, he
said:
“There will be deaths in Louisville
within thirty days that will startle the
town from center to circumference.
God will punish you, and the awful
words I now speak will come back to
you with shocking vividness.”
The audience sat spellbound when,
at the close of the statement, a woman
near the platform fell headlong to tbe
ground in a dead faint. She was taken
home in an ambulence.
Many thought the woman had fallen
dead and a panic was narrowly averted.
CHINESE MAKE PROTEST
Against Rigid Immigration Laws En¬
forced In Cuba.
The Chinese legation at Washington
has made a strong protest to the state
department against the extension of
the Chinese exclusion act to Cuba,
this having been one result of a recent
executive order extending the immi¬
gration laws of the United States to
Cuba and Porto Rico.
IMPOSING STATUE
TO GENERAL LEE
To Be Erected On Banks of tho
Historic Potomac River,
A GENEROUS NORTHERNER
Pennsylvania Man Donates the
Ground For the Monument.
A Washington dispatch says: Defi¬
nite steps were taken Tuesday by per¬
sons interested in the project for the
erection on a site near the old home¬
stead of General Robert E. Lee, at
Arlington, of an equestriau statue of
the great confederate leader.
The matter has been under consid¬
eration for some time and Tuesday a
company composed largely of southern¬
ers visited the proposed site, which will
be transferred to a monument associa-
tion, which was organized Monday
afternoon.
The site, which is about 100 feet
square, is on Fort Meyer heights, just
east of the new courthouse of Alexan¬
dria county, and commands a tine
view of the national capitol, while the
historic Potomac river, which divided
north and south nearly forty the year#
ago, can be seen far below long
bridge. It was donated by D. K.
Trimmer, of Pennsylvania.
The military road to the national
cemetery at Arlington passes along
just at the base of the hill on which
the site is located.
The oflicers of the association are a3
follows:
President, Mrs. Zebulon Vance.
Vice presidents, Mrs. S. B. Stephen¬
son, Mrs. Russ Smith, Mrs. Albert
Ackers, Miss Miller and Miss Virginia
Miller.
Secretary, Miss Nina Stephenson.
Treasurer, Mrs. Edward M. Gada-
dens.
Steps will now be taken toward se¬
curing a charter in the District of Co¬
lumbia. It was decided to send a tel¬
egram regarding the proceedings to
the confederate veterans’ reunion at
Charleston. This telegram was as fol¬
lows:
General John B. Gordon and Com¬
rades—Our heartfelt congratulations
to convention of veterans. We an¬
nounce the organization of the Robert
E. Lee Monument Association of the
District of Columbia, the purpose of
which is to erect an equestrian statue
of our chieftain at Fort Myer heights,
Alexandria county, Virginia.
Robert E. Lee Monument Association.
Mrs. Florence Vance, President.
Miss Nina Stephenson, Secretary.
It is expected that confederate asso¬
ciations throughout the country will
come to the aid of the local body, as it
is intended to make the erection of the
monument a national affair.
Mr. Trimmer, in replying to words
of thanks from those interested in the
project, stated that, although a north¬
ern man, he had come to admire Gen¬
eral Lee and was willing to contribute
to his memory as to that of any other
American.
COMPRO/USE SUGGESTED.
New Plans Proposed In Regard to
/"loving Florida Capital.
A Tallahassee special says: The
proposition to move the state capital
from Tallahassee to Jacksonville seems
to be losing ground daily. For a
month past it has been tbe subject of
•comment by four-fifths of all the pa¬
pers in the state and the prevailing
opinion seems to be that Jacksonville’s
offer of a suitable site and $100,000
should not prove sufficient to tempt
the legislature into favorable action
thereupon.
A compromise has been suggested
by which the supreme court and the
railroad commission shall be trans¬
ferred to Jacksonville and the other
departments remain in Tallahassee.
COL. RAY GOES TO ALASKA.
Well Known Officer Will Take Charge
Of Military District.
Assistant Secretary Meiklejohn, in
charge (A Alaskan affairs, has issued
an order creating the military district
of north Alaska, which is to include all
that portion of the territory north of
the sixty-first parallel.
This district is placed in command
of Captain P. H. Ray, wljo has had
much experience in Alaskan affairs.