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VOL. VII.
MOB TRICKED THE SHERIFF
Man Accused of Murder Is Riddled With Bul=
lets In His Cell.
THE LYNCHERS ADOPTED A MOST UNIQUE RELE
Victim Was Si Smith Who Was Being MelcK For the
Murder of William Bell In Habersham County, Ga.
In the Hall county jail at Gaines¬
ville, Ga., Friday at midnight, Si
Smith, the farmer who killed Win.
Boll, the commercial traveler from At¬
lanta, several months ago, was shot to
death right under the eyes of
Mundy.
The shooting was done while Smith
■was within the steel cage in the
very heart of the jail, and was wit¬
nessed by every prisoner confined
along with the slayer of Bell.
Munday, Shortly before midnight,
who lives at the jail, was
awakened by a man at his door, who,
when the sheriff had answered the
summons, stated that he was the sher¬
iff of Gilmer county and had a prison¬
er he wanted locked up for the night.
In the dark Sheriff Mundy could see
nothing but three or four men just
outside the building and he admitted
them w ithout hesitation.
“We have had a long chase,” said
the man representing himself as the
sheriff, “and a hard fight to get here.
Now we want you to keep him safe
for us till morning.”
The supposed prisoner stepped for¬
ward. His hands were bound, and in
every way he played well the role as¬
signed him.
Leading the way through the hall
Sheriff Mundy ascended the steps to
the second floor, on which the cells
are located. Just as he reached the
door to the large iron cage in which
the prisoners are kept over night,
Sheriff Mundy found a gun thrown in
his face. It came suddenly, and for
the second threw him off his balance.
“We want the key to that door,”
said one of the men almost before
Sheriff Mundy realized what was go¬
ing on, “and we want it d—n quick.
There’s no use losing any time. We
have come for Si Sy —, and we in¬
tend to have him. So shuck out.”
As he listened to the demand Sheriff
Mundy was glancing about, and much
to his surprise he observed that every
man around him had covered his face.
Looking straight at the man who
had personated the sheriff and who
appeared to be the leader of the gang,
Sheriff Mundy cooly remarked:
“Those keys are downstairs. In
my hurry I didn’t know that I had left
them.”
“Well, go get them quick," replied
the leader of the crowd. “These two
men will go with yon and see that you
don’t get away,” and tho man desig¬
nated two of the crowd by pointing
them out.
Leading the way, he hurried down
the stairway, followed by the two
men. As he v '-nt he was scheming
some plan to e -pe from the men or
get nn alarm out wl'fii would bring
him the assistance needed. Half way
down the steps he was brought to a
sudden stop by the rattle of firearms
in the room he had just left. Wheel¬
ing around, he bounded up the steps
until he reached the big room iu
which the cage was located.
THUEE.CF.NT CAR FARES
Inaugurated In Detroit, Midi., As An
Object Wesson.
Three-cent fares wero announced
Friday on the fronts of Detroit street
cars in the place where amusement
advertisement signs are usually car¬
ried.
This reduction is the result of a de¬
cision of Governor Pingree and Tom
L. Johnson to give the people an ob¬
ject lesson upon wbat they may look
forward to if present plans for tho
sale of all the Detroit street railways
to the “Detroit Municipal Railway
company” in behalf of the city wins
out. sold
The.three-cent tickets are at
five Gr 15 cents and are so worded
that :beir use in full payment can bo
withdrawn at any time.
1AILWAY STATISTICS.
1
Fnrtv-rve Hoads ..... Relieved , of , Keceiver- ,, ,
ships During Past lear.
The eport of railway statistics for
the yef 1898, compiled by the inter-.
state coimerce commission at Wash*
in&ton ad made public Friday, shows
tbat elem roads went into the hands
of Teet ers, against forty-five taken
out wki tho mileage of receivership j
roads vs reduced by 6,166 miles
operatetuid There'S 5,133 decrease miles in owned. the
a
fitock of be roads in receivers’ hands
of 8221,*7,239. The aggregate mile-
age of riways on June 30, 1898, was
247,532.1 increase of 4,088 miles.
M ATCH FROM DEYVEY.
Admiral jd. Secretary I.on e a menage
From Port Said.
A WavgG> n dispath says: Secre-
tary L 01 as received following cable
raessagelim Admiral Dewey:
Sympiavoluntary quarantine. As
Dz»et.
/
A diatut
I
As ha plunged in the flash of
illuminated the interior and the
of gunporvder almost suffocated him.
Between the discharge of guns
heard groans of agony and appeals
mercy, But all this lasted only a
ond, and then with a rush the
went by him, and before he could
cover from his suprise they had
The discharge of the firearms
not only aroused the prisoners,
every one within the jail.
of the family hurried to the
side, and in a few seconds a light
secured. By the aid of tho light
sickening spectacle was presented
Sheriff Mundy and those about him.
It seems that the conversation
side of the cage when the keys
demanded of Sheriff Mundy awoke
prisoners. None of them were locked
in their eells, as the steel cage
abundant safety against escape. * Nat¬
urally every oue of them came outside.
Smith was among the number, but for
some reason did not apprehend trou¬
ble for himself.
The instant the sheriff started
some one > the crowd called Smith's
name, cafil sc prisoners uoav say, and
he rward. As he stepped
the from a street lamp,
through the window’, revealed him dis¬
tinctly to the crowd. Instantly the
fusillade was opened. The first dis¬
charge frightened the other prisoners
within their cells. Smith turned to flee,
but was too late. Six bullets pierced
his body, and it is not certain
either one c f them alone would not
have produced death.
As soon as Sheriff Mundy could
make certain of the security of his
prisoners, he gave the alarm and iu a
short time a great crow’d had gathered.
As soon as the situation became known
the feeling of the people became in¬
tense. A hurried search for the per¬
petrators of the most unique crime in
the history of Georgia’s criminal an¬
nals was begun. But lha men had
gone like they came. Nothing fore¬
told their coming and nothing was
left behind indicating w'hitlier they
wont. Every effort is being made to
secure a clew- to tho members of the
mob, and with the coming of day an
active and energetic search was made.
Smith the victim of the lynchers,
was one of the most prominent men
in Habersham county. On Sunday,
April 2d, lie killed William D. Bell, a
traveling salesman for an Atlanta drug
house. The killing occurred nenr
Soque postoffice, and the instrument
of death was a heavy club in the hands
of Si Smith, w’ho is recorded in Hab¬
ersham county as J. S. Smith. Smith
was said to have been intoxicated. He
overtook Bell, who was riding in a
buggy, and accused him of having in¬
sulted a member of his family. Bell
denied the charge and attempted to
drive away, when Smith brained him
with the club. Smith was soon ar-
rested and pnt in tho Hall county jail
for safe keeping, so intense w as tho
feeling against him in Habersham.
CASHIER IS JAILED.
Hade Way With Nearly $ 200,000
of the Middlesex County
Hank’s Funds.
A dispatch from York says: George
M. Valentine, cashier of the Middle¬
sex county bank, of Perth Amboy, N.
J., xvhich was closed Friday, has sur¬
rendered himself and is now in jail on
account of a shortage iu the
bank’s funds, which has been vari¬
ously estimated all the way to 8165,-
000. The affair caused consternation
among the business men of Perth Am¬
boy, where the Middlesex bank was
considered as strong as the eternal
hills. So panic stricken did the resi¬
dents become when the bank failed to
open that crowds surrounded the Perth
Amboy Savings institution, which has
the same officers qb the Middlesex.
CAPE COLONY CONGRESS
Assembles At Capetown—Opening Se.slon
Well Attended.
The parliament of Cape Colony was
opened at Cape Town, South Afnca,
Friday. A large crowd of people as-
sembled outside the parliament bui a-
ing, hailed the arrival of Hir Alfred
Milner, the British high commissioner
and governor of Cape Colony, with
cheers, after which “God Save the
Queen” was twice snug by the people
The speech of the governor dul not
refer to the political situation, excep
ing that he said relations between
Cape Colony and the states, colonies
and territories of Africa was friendly.
MEXICO IS SATISFIED.
Financier, of the United State. Take Well
To Her Bond..
The favorable reception given to the
. jcan government bonds in the
United States has created an excellent
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A8BBUKN, GA., SATURDAY; JULY 22. 1809.
As to How He Stands In Regard
to the Philippines
Question. ,
The following telegram from Hon.
W. J, Bryan explaining his views on
the Philippine question was seut to
the Atlanta Constitution and publish¬
ed in Sunday's issue of that paper:
HrsirHREir, Neb., July 15.—Editor
Constitution: My views upon the
Philippine question have been made
publio over and over again. The
treaty should have provided for the
independence of the Philippine
islands, as it did for the independence
of Cuba, but I though* jt better to
ratify the treaty and declare tho na¬
tion’s policy by resolution than reject
the treaty.
I favored the Bacon resolution,
which promised tho Filipinos inde¬
pendence ns soon as a stnble govern¬
ment could he established. I believe,
further, that our nation should pro¬
tect tho Filipino while republic from outside
ihterferoheo it works out its own
destination! iu other words, I believo
We should treat the Filipinos ns wo
have promised to treat the Cubans,
and as wo have treated the people of
Mexico and the people of South and
Central America. Monarchies are
founded upon force, but republics nro
founded upon consent.
The declaration of independence as¬
serts that governments derive their
just powers from the consent of the
governed. If the declaration is sound,
we cannot rightfully acquire title by
conquest or by purchase from an alien
monarch, whose title we disputed when
we furnished arms to the Filipinos.
If the administration had given to
the Filipinos tho assurance of inde¬
pendence which was given to the Cu¬
bans there would have been no blood¬
shed. If that assuraned is given now
hostilities will cense. No one proposes
to withdraw the soldiers until a stable
government is established, but it will
be easy to establish a stnble govern¬
ment when it is known that our occu¬
pation of the Philippine islands is
only temporary.
“Forcible annexation wonld be
criminal and contrary to our code of
morality.” W. J. Bay an.
TROLLEY LINES TIED UI\
Motormen and Conductors Inaugurate
Big Strike In Brooklyn, N. Y.
Another trolley strike is on in Brook¬
lyn, N. Y. So far it has not been as
effective as the strike of 1895, but
there is no telling how long or far-
reaching it may become. For some
weeks past the employes of the several
lines controlled by the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit company have been complain¬
ing that the management did not live
up to the ten-hour law’. The men de¬
mand n revision of the time tables at
the different barns, and also claim that
they should be paid 20 cents an hour
for overtime, which is equivalent to §2
a day, the price which they set for a
working day of ten hours.
General Master Workman' Parsons
and District Master YVorkmnu Pines
had charge of the men’s affairs and a
strike was called at half-past 4 o’clock
Sunday morning. At this hour most
of the motormen and conductors on
the Brooklyn Traction Company’s
lines had completed their night trips,
and the leaders decided that this wns
the most opportune moment to begin
wbat was expected to bo a stillborn
fight with the traction Company.
NEGROES AGAINST NEGROES.
Colored Minoru In Alabama Enjrnge In
Desperate One-Sided Battle.
A special to The Birmingham Age-
IIeraid from Iskkooda, Ala., snys:
Two negroes were killed outright
and another fatally shot in ft terrific
one-sided battle which took place Fri¬
day night at Ishkooda, between the
striking miners and the negroes who
have been imported to take their
places. indications the killing
From all was
the result of a deep-laid plot. For
four weeks the miners, composed in
the main of blacks and belonging to
the Knights of Labor, have been on a
strike. During the past week negroes
have been imported from Georgia and
other southern states to take their
places engendering bad feeling and re¬
sulting in the open conflict.
All was quiet Sunday at the scene of
the tragedy and Coroner Dallas com¬
menced an investigation into the kill-'
ing. The dead negro is Richard Cobb
and he came from Atlanta.
BLAZE IN BAINBRIDGE.
T*rentj'-Sev«n Buildings Conxnintfd Before
Fire Wan Checked.
Twenly-seven houses were reduced
to ashes at Bainbridge, Ga., at a late
hour Sunday night. Fire was dis¬
in the rear end of the large
general mercantile establishment of
Bacher Bros., corner of Broad and
streets, and soon afterwards
the whole building was wrapped in
flames.
The brick buildings of M.W. Hubers
Mrs. E. Born—one occupied by
W. H. Morrow, as a saloon, and tho
other by Dr. T. It. Wardell as a drug
Htore—were destroyed, not even a wail
being left standing.
INDIANS"WILL DANCE.
f , overnmeI)t Slop Primitive
Practice of He*l Men.
Advices from Guthrie, O. T., state
that the Indians of the territory are
largely engaged in dancing, in spite of
Fng ‘weVkln Lon-
thtUffr^h mss
nearly 85,000 in presents.
Happenings In the State of Inter¬
esting Import.
tVlII Vnkew Oil Tester*
The oil investigation case is new
practically «t an oudj so far as the state
of Georgia is concerned, and unless
the oil companies doing business in
the state, take exceptions to the rul¬
ings made by tho department of agri¬
culture, the friction recently existing
between tho state and the companies
is a thing of the past.
One of tho results of tho ngitntion
will be tho use of e new tester after
September 15th. it will lie the one
now used in New York state.
Commissioner O. B. Stevens, after
a consultation with Attorney General
J. M. Terrell, issued three separate
and distinct orders to the oil inspec¬
tors throughout the state instructing
them ns to the action to he taken in
the future.
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lElberton’s Carnival.
It has been decided by the people of
El her ton to have n carnival August
21st to 25th. Many attractions have
been determined upon, and it is the
intention of all to see just how well
the Granite City can handle and enter¬
tain those who attend. Distinguished
orators from Georgia and othor states
will be presont. Many of the leading
lecturers of the United States have
already accepted invitations. Music
will lie furnished by half a dozen dif¬
ferent bands. The opening parade
will be all that Ingenuity can make it.
Reunion of Forty-Second Georgia.
The reunion of tho Forty-Second
Georgia regiment, of tho Confederate
army, to he held at Social Circle July
22d, will be one of the largest and
rnoRt interesting reunions the regiment
has ever had. Great preparations nre
being mnde for the event, and the cit¬
izens of the town will receive the vet¬
erans of the gallant regiment and turn
the town over to them for the day.
Injunction Cafte Postponed.
Judge Candler did not hear the
street car injunction suit nt Atlanta
Saturday. The case was set for 9
o’clock ou that day and all the attor¬
neys for the state aud the defense were
present. The state announced ready,
but tho defense moved a continuance
ou the ground's it had not had time to
prepare its case. The state made no
objection to postponement, and Judge
Candler set the hearing for August 2d
Savniiiiuh to Al«l Sufferers.
Savannah is to lend a helping hand
to the sufferers from the terrible floods
in tho Brazos valley of Texas. The
Savannah Benevolent Association has
taken the first step in this direction,
and within a few days it is prob¬
able that a check for a substantial
amount will bo sent to the governor of
the.Lone Star State, to he used ns lie
sees best in provide n for the wants of
those whoso hornet d property have
been swept away by the waters of the
Brazos river.
New Bank For Kllavllle.
The Bank of Southwestern Georgia,
located in Americas, will shortly es¬
tablish ft branch bank at Ellavillc.
Alonzo Walters will be manager of the
branch institution which will do a
large business.
SPECIAL COMMITTEE REPORTS
]Ih Inve.tlantlon On llto 24x54 Standard
Bale of Cotton.
Savannah Cotton Exchanok, j
Savannah, Ga., July 8, 1899. j
Yonr committee, after a caroful in¬
vestigation of tho 24x54 standard bale
movement, beg leave to report:
That we find, by recent practical ex¬
periments, that an alteration of the
cotton press boxes to tho measure¬
ment of 24x54 inches, a degree of
density can be secured in compressing
cotton, which will greatly reduce the
size of the bale for shipment on rail
and ocean carriers.
That tho country press boxes, with
the exoeption of a few thut havo been
changed to the 24x54 standard dimen¬
sions, range in measurement ns fol¬
lows: 28x58, 80x66 and 83x72.
• That the average thickness of a 500-
pound uncompressed halo of cotton is
43 inches; the average space occupied
by a bale of cotton based upon these
dimensions would be 85,713 cubic in¬
ches, against 55,728 cubic inches, for
the same amount of cotton packed in a
24x54 standard press box—a saving
in spaco of 35 per cent in favor of the
standard bale, which is an important
item in storage. ,
That the bale, as it leaves the gin,
is a neater package, better covered
with bagging, therefore better pro¬
tected against dnmage by exposure,
and is more easily handled. That two
bales can lie loaded fiat into an ordi¬
nary two-horse wagon body, which
enables the carrying of the cotton to
market without damage by rubbing of
the wheels.
That the ordinary bagging when the
standard bale has been compressed,
entirely covers it, which makes it a
neat and well projected package for
shipment.
That the larger the bale is in excess
of the 24x54 standard dimensions, the
less density per cubic foot can be se¬
cured in compression. Tho least of
the above mentioned three irregular
size bales, namely, 28x58 inches,
averages, after ordinary compression,
38,016 cubic inches, against 20,736
cubic inches, for the same amount of
cotton packed iu a standard press box
of 24x54 inches a saving in space of
45 per cent in favor of the 24x54 stand¬
ard bale of cotton; which reduces
ocean rates proportionately, i
That ocean rates on cotton it“o
i upon the number of pounds that tlid
bale contains to the cubic foot. A
saving in space of 45 per cent, on ac¬
count of increase.! density in compres¬
sion, wbicb can be secured by peeking
the COttotl in stnutlnid press boxes,
will result in a reduction of at least
■10 per cent in the ocean cotton rates.
For example: bales
Take irregular size
1,000 bales, Savannah to Liver¬
pool, 500,000 pounds, at 45c. $2,125(1
Against standard bales
1,000 bales, Savannah to Liver¬
pool, 500,000 pounds at 45c ,
AFFAIRS IN SAMOA
Fully Explained By German Con¬
sul General Rose Now In
Washington.
ConBtil General Bose, the German
official who has been one of Ike fore¬
most figures in they cut events in
BAmoa; and why ' now in Washing¬
ton; has giv^ ' „ the Associated Press
nn interesAig outline of tho conditions
up to the timo he left Samoa.
“Prior to the arrival of tho Samoan
commission,” said he, “nn armistice
had boon arranged with the native
forces. The commissioners first turn¬
ed their attention to disarming tho
native forces. The commission then
gavo a hearing on board tho Badger
to each of the claimants for the king¬
ship, Matnnfa being heard one day and
Tann another. They were addressed,
not ns kings, hut simply body, us ‘Sirs,’ As
senior member of tho the Amer¬
ican commissioner, Mr. Tripp, Matnnfa asked
some Very direct questions of
and Tann. He wanted to know if they
were ready to give their support to the
committee, even if it determined to
deny the right of oue or tho other of
them or decided to abolish tho king-
questions ship entirely. Serious ns were these
to the two claimants to the
throne, they promised to support the
commission in whatever action wits
taken.
“Some days later the Badger wont
along the coast to Malie, where Matnft-
fa’s headquarters wore located. ‘The
native chiefs came alongside and for¬
mal surrender of the guns was made
to the commission.
“Matanftt and chiefs came aboard
the ship and were entertained nt din¬
ner. The Tann party followed with
tho surrender of tlieir arms a few
hours Inter, for while the decision of
the commissioners had uphold Tann,
yet it was felt to lie in the interest of
all concerned that tho native kingship
should bo brought to an end and that
an administration by white men, nt
least over those localities where white
interests are greatest, should ho
brought about. Tauu yielded to this
decision, but for a time there was
some prospect of trouble as tho royal
flags wero kept flying over the Tann had
headquarters, despite the fact, ho
surrendered the kingship. This was
a source of irritation to the Matnnfa
people, who considered it contrary to
tho understanding arrived nt.
“Sinco arriving in this country, I
understand that, this source of difficulty
hns been removed, and that the Tanu
flag is withdrawn and tho Tanu forces
dispersed. The Matnnfa people have
also gone hack to the interior. With
natives disarmed and both factors
back to their homes, there is every
reason to believe that no further trou¬
ble will arise, and that tho commis¬
sion will be free to work out a satis¬
factory plan for the futlire government
of tho islands.
“Tn determining upon the abolition
of the kingship the commission ex¬
amined tho question with great care.
The opinion of nil of the leading bus¬
iness interests in Bamon was secured,
and this was almost uanimous in favor
of abolishing tho kingship. Tho man¬
ager of tho German company, which
is the most extensive business concern
on the islands, strongly approves the
plan of having white administration..”
MUDDLE OVER STREET PREACHING
Atlanta MlnUtem HiiccePd In Killing I*ro~
pofteri ObnoxioiiM Ordinance.
The tempest which has raged in re¬
ligious circles in Atlanta, Ga.,the past
week over an attempt to regulate street
preaching was stilled Monday night by
tho city council refusing to paws an or¬
dinance restricting tho spreading of
tho gospel to those who secure per¬
mission from the mayor.
Marietta street, oue of the principal
thoroughfares of the city, is nightly
tho rendezvous of preachers explaining and
their creeds, and on Saturdays
Sundays the pastors of several of tho
churches have addressed the people
from gospel wagons.
The police commission several days
ago decided that street preaching is a
nuisance.
There wero complaints filed with
the chief of police, and after a confer¬
ence between the chief aud the police
board, it was decided that in future
street preaching would be regulated
by tho police, a permit being first would se¬
cured from tho mayor as to who
preach and where they wonld talk.
This the Baptist preachers, who con¬
ducted six meetings every Saturday
night, decided was a blow at religious
liberty. Under the leadership of Dr.
Broughton, the ministers of this de¬
nomination appeared before tlie city
council Monday evening and succeed¬
ed in having killed the newly-formed
ordinauie regulating street preaching.
Ohioans Hear Bryan.
A special from Columbus, O., says:
A meeting began at this place hav¬
ing f^ir its object oLdemocratic (lie formation of a
state league clubs. Tbo
gathering was addressed Friday \ night
l»y YV. J. Bryan,
ENGLISH PRESS COMMENT
lit Regard to’ Censorship Against
American Correspondents
at Manila.
The afternoon papers of London
generally, In commenting on the pro¬
test of the American correspondents in
Manila against the censorship, de¬
nounce the conduct of the Amrrica-
i’hilipplnes campaign as it Is managed
by Secretary Algor and Major General
Otis.
The St. ,lames Gazette 3ftjsl “The
great American people have been
hoodwinked by its general and its ad¬
ministration, who have kept up a and se¬
ries of suppressions of the truth
suggestions of the facts of Russian
ingenuity and thoroughness.” ‘‘The
The Fall Mall Gazette says:
correspondents havo done their duty
to the public as journalists and gentle¬
men should."
The Times in its lending editorinl
article says: “Alger has run the war
office ns rt political machine. Military
posts ham been bestowed regard Upon political
friends without to fitness or
the intotests of the country. Dishon¬
esty ami corruption havo been ram-
pant wherever there was public Soldiers money
to be handled. Araerioaii
wore killed by thousands on American
soil by such agencies ns embalmed
beef and scandalous neglect of ele¬
mentary sanitation. As the bend is,
so wo expect subordinates to he. They
were chosen without regard to fitness,
but with every regard to political pol¬ ser¬
vice. Naturally they act as the
iticians they are, rathor than as sol¬
diers and administrators, which they
are not. The new imperial discredited policy of
the United .States is thus
by association with a system of moro
than common corruptness. McKinley,
for some reason, is incapable of rid¬
ding himself of the incubus of his sec¬
retary, who, evidently regarding him¬
self as having the president in his
pocket, serenely denes the public in¬
dignation that has been aroused by
his mismanagement."
SOUTHERN PROG HERS.
I.lnl of Now Industries K.trtltll.hfid tile
Paul Wool*.
Tile more important of the new in¬
dustries reported during the past, week
include a clay pipe works in Teuues-
SCO rebuilt; coal mines in Arkansas
and Virginia; two cotton mills iu Ala¬
bama, two in Georgia, and a cotton
and woolen mill in the latter state; a
cotton-seed oil mill in North Carolina;
electric light plants in Mississippi and
West Virginia; an electric power plant
iu Virginia; a furniture factory re¬
built, and a heading factory in Ten¬
nessee; a hydrant and valve manufac¬
tory in Virginia; lumber mills in Ar¬
kansas; a mantel and grate manufac¬
tory in Kentucky; a meat packing supply os
tablishnunt in Texas; a mill
manufacturing company in South Car¬
olina; n planing mill, two phosphate
companies and a soap factory in Ten¬
nessee; two soap factories in Texas; a
soil pipe foundry in Alabama; a stave
factory in Mississippi; a teb phone ex¬
change in Kentucky; a tobacco ma¬
chinery plant in Virginia.-—Trades¬
man (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
UNDER FALLING WALLS.
Tweniy-Flv« Firpimin CriiNhod Ky Ilobrln.
Hovornl May Die.
Fire at Milwaukee Tuesday night
destroyed the Grace Hotel, a four-
story brick structure at the corner of
Park and Reed streets. About twen¬
five ty-live firemen wore injured, of whom
may die. The property loss was
small.
At a timo when the flro seemed to
ho under control and while several
firemen were in the structure to sub¬
due what little (lames were left, with
Ion others on the roof, the structure
collapsed and nothing but a mass of
debris was left. The flroman on the
roof and thosu on the ladders and
witbfu went down with the ruins. The
work of rescue began at onoe, and as
quickly as the injured could bo got
out, ambulances and other convey¬
ances hurried them to the hospital.
TO SHIELD DREYFUS.
A Pns.Hge Hein* Constructed From Pris¬
oner’ll Cell To Conrtmartlal Hooin.
Work was begun at ltennes, Franco,
Tuesday morning on the construction
of a passage from the cell of Captuin
Dreyfus to the hall in which the court-
martial before which he is to be tried
will sit. This will enable the prisoner
to esenpo Hie annoyance of observation
by the cnrioiis.
WHOLE FAMILY EXTERMINATED.
Clou fib 11 rut Away Man, Wife and
Bight Children Iu Iowa.
A special to The Omaha Bee from
Tekamab, Neb , says word has been
received of the drowning in north¬
western Iowa, near the Minnesota line,
Monday night, of A. W. Blades, his
wife and eight children while en route
to Minnesota in nn immigrant wagon.
The family were encamped for the
night on a creek, when a cloudburst
raised the creek twelve or fifteen feet,
and the family, team and wagon wore
swept away, No trace of them has
been found, save parts of the wagon
which wero found in trees some dis¬
tance down the creek.
INCREASES CAPITAL STOCK.
Bugle and Phenlx Cotton Mill# Adds
#130,000 to It* Valuation.
The directors of the Eagle and
Phenix cotton mills, at Columbus, one
of the largest in Georgia, have de¬
cided to increase tho capital stock
from 8600,000 to 8750,000.
The present stockholders will be
alloted 25 per cent of their present
holdings, thus being given the first
opportunity to buy the new stock.
The mills will purchase300 new looms.
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NO. 50.
JOURNALISTS j
ARE IGNORED
President Will Take No Notice of
Tlieir Protest.
DECIDED AT CABINET MEETIN0
Creelman, the Famous War Cor¬
respondent, Unmercifully
Roasts Gen. Otis.
It was officially announced at the
war department Tuesday by General
Corbin that no notice would he taken
of the “round robin” of the newspaper
correspondents nt Manila; that tho
president would not consent to make
martyrs of them nor would ho place
confidence in them over iiis trusted
generals in the I’hilippines. “round
General Corbin said that tho
tohiu" was already discredited at- tho
department and that General Otis
would neither bo transferred or dis¬
placed. tho of confidence
In spite of tone
expressed by the officials nt the war
department thoro is considerable
alarm felt throughout the administra¬
tion over the expose of the corre¬
spondents. held at
At nn informal conference
the white Iioiiho Monday night and the
subject was thoroughly discussed
a policy to ignore was agreed upon.
This, it is officially stated, was de¬
cided at Tuesday’s cabinet meeting.
Officially the matter will he ignored,
and General Otis will be allowed to
treat it as lie may deem best.
!(<»(. Shot, From <!r««!man»
Appearing simultaneously with tho
“round robin” of tho correspondents
iitManila, James Creelman, the famous
war correspondent of Tho Now York
Joiirnnl, caldps from London his ob¬
servations during a recent two months'
stay in Manila ami on tho tiring lines
in the archipelago. with in-
Ho charges General Gtis
competence and with “doctoring”
press dispatches to paiut tho condi¬
tions as optimistic, w lion in reality
they are and have been just the re¬
verse, and with reporting “imminent
success,” when in reality, caused by
his own mismanagement, "imminent
failure" him been tbo result. Mr.
Crcelman’s letter goes into detail, but
only a fow extracts are here presented:
Mr. Creelman says:
“After having spent several months
with our troops in tho I’hilippines, t
am firmly convinced that unless Gen¬
eral Olis iH removed and a competent
general put iu command tho whole
campaign will ho a failure.
“To lie plain, General Otis is a
fussy old man, unaccustomed eammaml, to any¬ and
thing Imt regimental
saturated with tho ideas and methods
of a routine clerk, lloisu man who
lias grown old serving in a regiment,
and his experience and abilities do
not go outside of regimental lines.
“When I reached Manila a few days
after tho bloody outbreak the whole
army was lying in trenches, being
fired at night and day, whilo General
Otis was absorbed iu routine details
that an army clerk could have done ns
well. Ho refused to allow the army
to make any advance. Ho insistent
was General Anderson that the only
way to destroy the enemy was to fight
thorn that General Otis treated him
with open hostility and finally had
lliis splendid soldier return to the
United Stnies.
“General Otis’ principal thought
seemed to bo to prevent real facts
being telegraphed to tho United States,
and his abuse of censorship iias iioeu
almost incredible. His conditions for
press dispatches were so outrageously
dishonest that I refused to send any
dispatches, preferring to lot The Jour¬
nal lie beaten rathor than to telegraph
official lies.
“The most extraordinary thing is
that up to the time I left Munila,which
was nfter the capture of Manolos by
McArthur and Santa Cruz by Lawton,
General Otis bad never been at the
front.
“Imagine this jealous clerk, who
never went outside tho city, directing
with absolutely tyrannical exactitude
the operations of divisions commanded
by soldiers like Lawton and McArthur.
“When I complained to General
Otis that he was striking out of my
dispatches things I had witnessed with
my own eyes and which the American
people had a right to know, ho said:
“ ‘I don’t propose to allow the
American public to know anything
about this campaign that will agitate
or excite it. So long as \ am in com¬
mand here tho people of the United
States will know only such facts as I
deem advisable to allow to bo known.’
“ ‘Any man who writes anything
about the campaign contrary to my
wishes will be expelled from the
Philippines. YVe are not going to
have any public agitations about this
campaign if I can prevent it.’ ”
MAY VISIT CARLSBAD;
KeportThat Admiral Dewey and Several
Officers Will Ho Inilor Treatment.
A special from Vienna, Austria,
says: Baron Von Spann, the Austrian
chief admiral, lias gone to Trieste to
meet Admiral Dewey upon the latter’s
arrival.
Dispatches received in ViennA^.-
nounce thut Admiral Dewey CariWf^ amSgy
of his officers will go to
take the cure. V J ’ K