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THE ADVANCE.
.1. B. HORNE, [ Pnblislnrs.
o, B. BEADY,
JUDGE THINKS
POWERS GUILTY
Made Startling Declaration In
Open Court at Frankfort.
PRISONER IS HELD FOR TRIAL
Culton Is Alleged to Have Made
Sensational Confession,
Which Is WitheJd.
There were some startling develop¬
ments in the Goebel assassination at
Frankfort Tuesday. W. H. Culton,
who waved examination and was held
over to tho circuit court, went to
the Capitol hotel, where he was in
conference with the attorneys for the
prosecution for over two hours. He
was accompanied by his brother-in-
law, E. E. Hogg, who is also his attor¬
ney. Culton was reported to have
made a confession, but later it devel¬
oped that the information gained was
not as sweeping as thought. His
friends admit that he gave the prose¬
cution such information as he had and
which had heretofore not come out.
Henry E. Youtsey, Republican Audi¬
tor Sweeny’s clerk, was arrested at
noon and locked up in jail charged
with being an accessory to the assassi¬
nation. He is a half brother of Hon.
L. J. Crawford, a prominent Republi¬
can of Newport, nud detectives arrest¬
ed him as the man with tho black
mustache whom Golden mentioned ns
being given the key to Caleb Power’s
office. Youtsoy complained the prose¬
cution had broken faith in arresting
him, and it is said he is ready to
mako a public statement for which the
prosecution is not anxious at this
time.
TOWERS HELD FOR TRIAL.
At Tuesday’s session of the examin¬
ing trial of the Republican secretary of
state, Caleb Powers, the courtroom
was cleared of all persous except at¬
torneys, newspaper representatives
and court officers. The defense an¬
nounced they would introduce no testi-
monyand tendering Governor Taylor’s
pardon of Powers, asked that the de¬
fendant be dismissed upon the evi¬
dence. The commonwealth disputed
Taylor’s right and the court overruled
the motion. Bail was asked for. Judge
Mooro said:
i, It is not my belief that Powers
fired the shot which killed Gover¬
nor Goebel, but from tbe evidence,
it is my opinion that he was con¬
nected with the conspiracy to kill
him. I shall, therefore, order
that he be held over without bail
to the Franklin county grand jury
that the case may be further in¬
vestigated.” announced
Cnlton’s counsel that
Culton waived his examination trial
and by agreement of the attorneys he
will remain at home with his sick wife
under private guard. Captain John
Davis also waived examination and
was admitted to bail in the sum of
$5,000. He was locked up for the night.
The Democratic militia will be re¬
tained in Fraukfort until after the cir¬
cuit court, which begins Monday, and
at which Secretary Powers and others
are to be tried.
LYNCHING IN MARYLAND.
Negro Charged With the Umml Crime Is
Swung Up By a Mob.
Lewis Harris, the negro who was
arrested at Belair, Md., a few days ago
charged with a criminal assault upon
Miss Anne Mcllvain, was taken from
the jail Monday night and lynched,
after a brief struggle between the
sheriff and the mob, in which two men
wero slightly wounded.
RESULT OF GOEBEL TROUBLE.
Xj. A N. Railroad Shops BpIiir Removed
From Kentucky.
The work of tearing down the Lou¬
isville and Nashville machine shops at
Boiling Green, ICy., was commenced
Tuesday, preparatory to removing
them to Paris, Tenn. The monthly
pay roll to the employes of the com¬
pany is about $30,000. The removal
is said to be duo to the Goebel trouble
in Kentucky.
REFORMATORY FOR ATLANTA.
Election I. Called For Mny 15th To Deter-
mine Wish of the Fcople.
At a meeting held in Atlanta, Ga.,
Tuesday afternoon the board of county
commissioners, in accord with the pre¬
sentments of the grand jury, decided
to hold an election on May loth to de¬
termine the wish of the people of the
county in regard to establishing a re¬
formatory in the Gate City for youth¬
ful criminals.
The matter has been referred to the
public works committee of the county
commissioners and the county attor-
ney, with instructions from the board
to look after the details of the elec¬
tion.
GEORGIA ENDEAYORERS
Will Hold State Convention In Atlanta
April 19th to 22d.
Atlanta will be besieged from April
19th to 22d by the Georgia 6tate con-
vention of Christian Endeavor. From
the present prospects the convention
will be one of the largest the city will
entertain during the present year. in
Relegates from every city and town
Georgia will attend, and the occasion
will be a notable one for the organi¬
zation.
ALL POWERS AGREE.
The “Open Door” Plan as Petards
China Is Successfully
Initiated.
Secretary of State liny submitted to
congress Tuesday tbo correspondence
had with the governments of Great
Britain, France, Germany, Russia,
Italy and Japan respecting the main¬
tenance of an “open door” in China.
The correspondence extended from
September 6th last to the 20th instant,
the last date making the successful
completion of the undertaking.
On September 6th the state depart¬
ment addressed to our ambassadors at
London, Berlin and St. Petersburg
copies of a “formal declaration, setting
out the desires of onr government in
the matter of the ‘open door.’ ” Italy
and Japan were similarly addressed
about a month later.
While the “formal declarations”
sent to the ambassadors were similar,
yet each of the officers adopted a dif¬
ferent phraseology in addressing
themselves to the governments to
which they are accredited, the domi¬
nant note being best set forth perhaps
in Ambassador Choate’s note to the
British government.
After reciting the importance to both
governments of the matter and the
president’s understanding that the
British settled policy is freedom of
trade in China for all the world alike,
though conceding certain spheres of
influence by formal treaties with Ger¬
many and Russia, Ambassador Choate
points out to Lord Salisbury that main¬
tenance of this policy is alike urgently
demanded by the commercial commu¬
nities of our two nations in order to
improve existing conditions and en¬
able extension of their future opera¬
tions.
PLAN TO PAY TEACHERS.
Attorney General Terrell of Georgia De¬
cides Upon an Entirely New Method.
The teachers in the common schools
of Georgia, under a decision rendered
by Attorney General Terrell, will get
their salaries this year on time. Pay¬
ments will he made from the state
treasury for the two spring months of
the school term, though it looked for
a time as if only the salaries for one
month could be paid on time.
The decision of the attorney general
has pointed a new and, so far as prece¬
dent is concerned, a unique way for
the state to meet its obligation to the
teachers. He has held that the bond¬
ed debt fund of the state may be ap¬
plied to the payment of interest as
well as principal on the debt. The
public debt fund now in the treasury
consists of the proceeds from the sale
of state property, such as the old Cap¬
itol building and the Okefenokee
swamp, and this fund has been banked
up in the treasury and kept out of
circulation.
The sum of $175,000 will be due as
interest on the public debt on July
1st and the sum to pay this interest is
now being held in the treasury. Gov¬
ernor Candler has suggested and At¬
torney General Terrell has sustained
him on the point that the $175,000 due
as interest can be paid out of the $325,-
000 in accordance with law and the
$175,000 which was intended to be
used as payment of the interest due in
Julv can be used in the paymeut of
teachers in the common schools.
The principle is an entirely new one
as advanced Ly the governor and at¬
torney general and it means that the
teachers will get their money at the
same time they did last year.
OLIVIER’S WHEAT FEAT.
Wily Boer Commandant Eludes Robert*
After Being Virtually Trapped.
Advices of Tuesday from Loudon
state that the Boers are having a little
good luck and are showing some bold-
ness again as a raiding party estimated
at 400 is believed by the British
forces at Warrenton to have crossed tho
Kimberley-Bloemfontein wagon road
Monday and have headed for Ja-
cobsdal, with the intention of cut¬
ting the railway ten miles west.
Commandant Olivier appears to have
got his 5,000 men and twenty miles of
wagons into rugged country, where he
can make an easy rear guard defense.
Charles Williams, the military expert,
says: gets through sub¬
“If this column
stantially Commandant Oliver will
have carried out the great feat of the
war, seeing that he ran every chance
of being ground between the upper
millstone of Lord Roberts’ army and
the nether millstone of the broken
Basuto frontier.”
LAND DISPUTE DECIDED.
Georgia Secretary of State IJeelaro. XVayn.
County the Owner of 25,000 Acre*.
The 25,000 acres of land over which
Charlton and Wayne counties in Geor¬
gia have been fighting during the
greater part of the present century,
have been declared by Secretary of
Stale Philip Cook to belong to the
county of Wayne. Under the act of
the last legislature the decision of the
secretary of state is final, but at the
same time there is a tendency to be¬
lieve that the act of the legit latnre in
conferring on an executive official un-
deniable judicial powers, is unconsti-
tutional.
SEW DEPARTMENTS CREATED.
Secretary Hoot Announce. Four Military
Division. In Philippine..
Secretary Root , has taken . . a step ,
long contemplated in the administra-
tion of the Philippines by directing
the creating of an entirely new mili-
tarv division to be known as the divi-
sion of the Pacific, embracing all the
Philippine archipelago. The division
in turn is to be divided into four mil-
itary departments,
Official Organ of Worth County. Orders for Job Printing Given Prompt Attention.
ASHBURN. GA., SATURDAY, MARCH 31. 1900.
MARSH SCORES LENTZ
Bitter Speoch Made 0a Floor of
House By Illinois Man,
WAS VIRTUALLY A CHALLENGE
Army Appropriation Bill Wan Unilor
Consideration aad Debute Took
a Wide Kongo,
Lively debates covering a wide range
of topics, including Porto Rico, the
Philippines and the Boer war, occu¬
pied the time of the house Tuesday
while the army appropriation bill was
under consideration. At tbo outset
Mr. Talbert, of South Carolina, com-
plained of the measure’s vast extrava-
gance and replied to strictures on his
course as to private pension legisla-
tion. The published interview with
an unnamed Republican represents-
tive charging that the Porto Rico tariff
was the result of a bargain for cam-
paign funds was again brought up by
Mr. Pierce, of Tennessee.
Mr. Steele wanted to know liow the
Porto Rican tariff bill could be used to
raise a campaign fund.
Mr. Pierce replied that he could not
give the exact steps, but that vast
sums of money had been rnised by the
Republican party in 1896 from various
quarters could not bo denied. The
contributors in one instance had even
jogged the memory of the secretary of
the treasury and lie had not dared to
resent the insult. (Democratic ap-
plause.)
Mr. Lentz, of Ohio, a membor of
military alluirs committee, discussed
the evils of militarism. The expeu-
ditures for the army had grown, he
said, until they now absorb one-fifth
of the gross expenditures of the gov¬
ernment. The machinery of the gov¬
ernment costs the peoplo now $10 per
capita against 50 cents in the days of
Thomas Jefferson. The Monroe doc¬
trine under which seventeen republics
had been built up south of us, was uo
longer to be held sacred.
Turning his attention to Philippine
questions, he produced an array of facts
to show that the soldiers in the Phil¬
ippines had no heart in the war against
the insurgents and desired to return
home. He challenged the president’s
statement that the volunteers had
willingly remained after their terms of
enlistment expired.
He read a * e D e f from Assistant . Sec-
retary of \\ar Meiklejohn, in reply
a request for the discharge of a soldier,
denying the request and saying the
war department was “flooded” with
such applications. He read a letter
from one of the medical officers serving
in the I’hilippines calling attention to
the frequency with which
werfe being incapacitated by
flicted wounds and suggested the
ability of boards such as investigate
cases of desertion. Ho also mentioned
the reports concerning the alarming
frequency , of , insanity . among the , sol-
Mr. Marsh, at 1 of t Til- Illinois, • replied , to x
Mr Lentz. He spoke with great
heat. No vituperous enemy of his
country, he said, could havo uttered
more diabolical sentiments.
“I desire,” he continued, with flush-
ed . face , and , emphatic , gestures, “to
characterize his speech, from begin-
mng to end, as a disgrace to the Araer-
ican congress and a violation of all
the decencies of this house. Ho lias
misrepresented his country, misquoted
history and misstated tho position of
this side of the house.
“He has exhausted his whole vo¬
cabulary in unjust and false accusa¬
tions against his country. And I
make these statements,” said he, look¬
ing at Mr. Lentz, “upon my responsi¬
bility as a member here and as a gen¬
tleman outside of this house. One of
tbo beautiful things about the consti¬
tution,” he went ou sarcastically, “is
that no man can be xmnished under
the law for words spoken in debate
here. So the gentleman from Ohio
goes scot free, notwithstanding the
false charges he has nude.”
Mr. Lentz interposed at this point
to challenge Mr. Marsh to show the
falsity of the official documents from
which he had quoted.
Mr. Marsh replied that he had gone
as far an ho could in his characteriza¬
tion of Mr. Lentz’s remarks. If he
had any language at his command
more emphe.dc, he would have used
it. Continuing, he denounced tho
course of the Democratic party which,
he said, in time of peace, was “hell
for war,” and in time of war, “was
hell for peace. ” He maintained that
our title to the Philippines was as
complete as our title to Florida, and
it was as much our duty to suppress
rebellion there as in Florida.
The general debate was then closed
and the clerk began to read the bill
for amendment under the five minute
rule.
Paris Show Opens April I 4th.
At a cabinet council in Paris Tues-
day, at which M. Loilhet presided, it
was decided to officially inaugurate the
x-»aris exposition Saturday, April 14th.
EMPLOYES WALK OUT.
Knoxville Wool en Mill* Object Vo Aflir
iation With Labor Union*.
A large number of employes of the
Knoxville, Tenn., Woolen mills went
on strike Tuesday morning. The
cause is the alleged refusal of the com-
pany to allow employes to affiliate
with unions. The strikers are esti-
mated by UDion people at 300, and by
the mill management at 60. The mills
employ 600. Tbe plant is partially
Bhut
FAST TRAIN
LEAVES TRACK
Bad Wreck on the Atlanta and
West PoirZ Railroad.
EXPRESS MESSENGER KILLED
Fifteen Passengers Were Hore
Or Less Seriously Injured
In Sniash-up.
Train No. 35, the Atlanta and West
Point fast mail, which left Atlanta,
Gu., Monday morning at 5:25 o’clock
for Montgomery, Ala., was derailed
eight miles south of Wes'. Point Bhort-
ly before 1() 0 - c i oc k nu fi one mau-
'
Keuben , J. T Oslin, Atlanta, express mes-
senger—was instantly killed, while
fifteen were more or less injured.
The train which moves on one of the
, fastest , , Bchedulep , , , ’ wa8 „ ,lrawU , OUO ° f
0)6 immense locomotives the Atlanta
and West Point is now using and had
just crossed the Ossanippa creek when
for some cause the engine left the
track while it was making a speed of
forty miles an hour. The engine was
being handled by John MeWaters, of
Atlanta, one of the oldest and most
competent men on the road, and to his
fearlessness and ability is duo tho fact
that, more deaths were not quickly
wrought in the samo instant which
snapped off the life of Messenger Os-
Jin.
The track just over the creek has
been under water more or less for
somo time past and the accident may
have been due to a defective condition
caused by that. But the impression
obtaining among tho railroad men is
that an invisible flaw in one of the
trucks under one of the cars caused
the derailment.
When Engineer MeWaters pulled off
the bridge over the creek ho opened
the throttle to pick up his speed. The
great locomotive responded to the mo¬
tion of the lever, and wns just begin¬
ning to settle for quick work when
MeWaters felt that bumping which a
trained engineer knows doesn’t come
from the rails. By it he knew thnt
bis engine had left the track and almost
w] 't b (bat knowledge instantly applied
k j g brakes,
It was all done on the tick of a
wa t c b, but before the ponderous ma-
chine could be stopped the tender had
j orn it, S elf loose from the engine and
bnrieil ils nose deep in the ground
wh j| e the rear end went high np in
the air. The engine moved on a few
feet and then settled itself squarely
across the track, successfully blocking
tbo road.
The mail car snapped the coupler
botwe en it and the tender and with
the baggage car tumbled down tlie
embankment, going over and over in
itH (lesce nt, Tho combination cur, the
fi r8 t , n which there wero pas-
gagers, turned upon its side, mixing
those within in a confused heap, in-
juring quite n number. Tho passen-
Rer eoach> left the trft( . k witb it „ fron t
trucks, hut did not slide down tho em-
bankmeD t, while the Pullman remain-
e(1 alone intact upon tbe roadbed,
Tbe coaches were all well filled and
in a short time people began pouritig
from them down the embankment,
some calling for help, others too badly
frightoned to do anything but limp
away from the broken cars.
A hurried investigation was made
and willing bands hurriedly removed
those who were unable to help them¬
selves to places of better rest. An in¬
ventory showed that only one person
had been killed, but to the eyes of
those who were about, the condition
of the wounded was uncertain.
A wrecking train was hurriedly and
quickly made up and with physicians
went to the scene of the accident.
This is the identical place where a
wreck occurred about four or five
years ago, when several cars fell in
Ossanippi creek and killed and injured
a great many people.
A singular coincidence is that in
both wrecks the engine and sleeping
car remained on the tracks while all
others were thrown over the embank¬
ment.
SHELDON’S VENTURE FAILED.
Editor of Tho Topeka Capital Kxpresneii
HI. Opinion Tornoly.
“The estimate placed on Mr. Shel¬
don’s experiment will generally bo
that it was a failure as a newspaper
and not above the average as a relig¬
ious paper.”
So in one sentence Charles K. Hud¬
son, editor of The Topeka Capital,
sums up his opinion of Rev. Charles
M. Sheldon’s Attempt to run a Chris¬
tian daily. Mr. Hudson marks his
resumption of the paper's management
with ari editorial which indicates that
the stockholders who opposed a con¬
tinuance of Mr. Sheldon’s policy have
won the day.
HEW NATIONAL BANKS.
Comptroller of the Currency Show* That
400 Are In Process of Organization.
A Btatement has been prepared by
, comptroller of . show-
tne me currency
mg the number and location of na-
tional banks in process of organization
under the provisions of the financial
bill approved March 14, 1900. These
banka nurobr about 4 J ) in al ana
with the r turn of ten or twelve
each wd t capital of $2 j, 000,
ARRAIGNED IN COURT
AUegod Assassins of William
Goebel Placed Oil Trial.
GREAT LEGAL BATTLE STARTS OFF
Secretary of State, Caleb rower*, tho Flmt
Put lip Various WltncMo*
Tentlfy In Cane.
The preliminary examination of Sec¬
retary of State Caleb Powers, charged
with abetting tbo assassination of Wil¬
liam Goebel, began at Frankfort Fri¬
day before Judge Mooro. Tho court¬
house was gunrdod inside nud out by
militia and scores of deputy sheriffs,
armed with winchesters, to prevent
possible intorferoneo from mountain¬
eers, who wero reported on their way
to Frankfort, but their presence was
unnecessary, as tho mountaineers fail¬
ed to appear and no disorder occurred.
The commonwealth’s witnesses were
called, numbering forty. F. W. Gol¬
den was not in the list. The witnesses
at Friday’s Liflard, hearing included Warden
Eph Detective Armstrong,
Sheriff Bosworth, of Fayette county,
who arrested Secretary Powers, and
Captain John Davis and Silas Jones,
of Whitelev county, who is now under
bonds charged with complicity in the
murder.
The testimony tended to show that
the shots came from that section of the
executive building in which Secretary
Powers’s office is located, although no
one swore that the shots were from
the secretary’s office.
F. Wharton Golden, who is said to
have made a confession, will be put on
the stand later. Prosecuting Attorney
l’olsgrove said that, sufficient evidence
had already been heard to warraul
holding Powers, hut that tho case
would be much stronger before ho was
through. Governor Brown, for the
defense, said that the evidence was de¬
cidedly weak.
During tho afternoon a soldier in
the rear court yard dropped his re¬
volver on tho stone flagging and it was
accidentally discharged.
In an instant every man in the
crowded courtroom was on his feet,
fully a third of them with their hands
to their hip pockets.
Eph Lillurd, warden of the Frank¬
fort penitentiary, testified that he
walked just a littlo ahead of Senator
Goebel, and when the first shot was
fired ho saw that the second window
in tho office of tho secretary of state
was slightly raised. Tho other shots,
he said, did not come from the samo
place. The first shot was evidently
from a rifle, while the others seemed
to bo from pistols.
Policeman Wingate Thompson testi¬
fied that ns the crowd was carrying
Senator Goebel out of the yard, be
saw armed men at tho entrance to the
executive building and recognized
John Davis and Berry Howard among
them.
Detective Armstrong of Louisvillo
said that Beerotary Powers refused
any information whutover at the time
of the shooting as to who was in the
building.
Captain John F. Hawn, of Barbotirs-
ville, testified that Powers had asked
him to turn over his ammunition and
company to Lieutenant Gibson pre¬
vious to the shooting.
Governor Brown mado tho point
that a mail cannot ho convicted us an
aider of a crime unless some jirinoipnl
is convicted of tho crime. As tho act¬
ual murderer of Goebel has not yet
been named, tbo point possibly in¬
volved the liberty of Secretary Pow¬
ers. Judge Mooro ruled against the
defense.
Silas Jones, of Whitley county, tes¬
tified he thought the shots were
fired from the corner of tho building
in located. which Secretary He I’owors’s office is
immediately walked into
the ante-room, where he saw Captain
Davis and Governor Taylor among tho
others. There was considerable ex¬
citement, the governor came to the
door and wanted to know who was
shot.
“Did you see any one try to open
Caleb Powers’ door?” asked Attorney
Polsgrove.”
“Yes, I saw a man with sandy whis¬
kers trying to open the door. He
struck it with a hatchet,” replied Mr.
Jones.
Jones said there waB much noise,
but he could not say he heard any
from Secretary Powers' office.
DEWEY ABANDONS TRIP.
Hurries Ua<k to Wanlilnitton to Meet A<>
treHH ami Fill Ollier Kiii£»k«»i«ii , “-
On account of pressing engagements
Admiral and Mrs. Dewey will havo
to abandon their trip down the
Florida coast and return to Wash¬
ington where the admiral had
arranged to meet Mine. Emma Nevada
and to be tbe guest of honor at a ban¬
quet to be given by General Schofield.
Burghers Mass at Itlggnrsberg.
It is reported from Ladysmith that
the Boers are massing in their in¬
trenched positions at Biggarsberg.
TWO WHITE MEN IMPLICATED.
Allen Fuller Talk* Home More About tho
Bottle Murder.
Allen Fuller, in jail at Macon, Ga.,
under sentence of death, stated Mon¬
day morning that he did not go to tbe
scene of tbe Pottle murder with Al-
fred Redd alone, but that he was eom-
p e jj e< x by two white men—one armed
wi{h ft wincbe ster rifle and the other a
ifitol __ to be lp Redd in tbe crime,
Tbp Btatement by Fu , ler ba „ created
Ue a sensation, and his tale u be-
n e ved by many, who have always con-
tended tLat Kaller did not kjll Mrs.
Pottle without assistance.
VOL. VIII. NO. 34.
FIRST EXCITEMENT
Occurs !n Frankfort Courtroom
During the Preliminary Trial
of Caleb Powers.
A Frankfort dispatch says: The most
thrilling event of the examining trial
of Republican Secretary of State Caleb
Powers occurred Monday afternoon
shortly after 8 o’clock, and for a few
minutes it looked as if sorious trouble
could not bo prevented.
Ex-Governor Campbell, who was
conducting the examination of Whar¬
ton Golden, asked the witness to state
if Powers had said anything to him
about killing Breok llill, the Demo¬
cratic secretary of state.
Colonel George Denny, for the de¬
fendant, in an argument upon the com¬
petency of a question, said:
“It is perfectly lawful for people to
come here, and to come armed. I
came here several times myself.”
Colonel Denny was referring to the
crowd of armed mountain men who
assembled at tho capital and camped
in tho statehoiiHO yard just prior to
Governor Goebel's assassination.
Colonel Campbell, for the prosecu¬
tion, replied that he did not consider
it lawful and was surprised to know
that Colonel Denny had come there
armed.
Denny denied having mndo such a
statement and said that he did not
come armed. Campbell insisted that
he had made the statement. Roth men
wore very much excited and spoke
with vehemence and with arms shak¬
ing commenced to advauoo toward each
other. The courtroom was crowded,
and the audience evidonfly thought a
fight wan on and mado a mad rush for
the doors and windows, people falling
over each other in their wild efforts to
get out of tho room.
After five or ten minutes of tho most
exciting scenes since tho assassination
quiet was restored and ex-Governor
Brown, one of the attorneys for tho
defense, whisporc-d to Colonel Camp¬
bell, who promptly arose and apolo¬
gized to Denny and to tho court, Col¬
onel Denny replying in a very happy
speech. record it
On an inspection of the
was found that Colonel Campbell bad
misconstrued Colonel Denny’s state¬
ment.
Golden, as tho prosecution’s star
witness, again created great interest.
When placed on tho stand for cross-
examination he said he learnod about
two weeks ago that he would be ar¬
rested if lie did not toll what he knew
nkout the assassination, and that if he
did tell tho attorneys for tho common¬
wealth would try and savo him from
prosecution.
A ROUT MONEY ORDERS.
Transmission of Money I* Made Much
Easier By FoMofflce Department.
Tho United States postoffice depart¬
ment has onlarged its operations, and
by a method which lias recently been
authorized in first and second-class
officos, tho transmission of money is to
bo mado much easier and more con¬
venient. Tho following is tho sub¬
stance of a circular which has boon is¬
sued:
“First, to cash all money orders,
irrespective of tho placo of payment
named in such order, ii being under¬
stood, of course, that the identity of
the owner shall ho established, as in
all other cases; and,
“Second, to cash any money order
drawn upon such office, irrespective of
tho fact that the corresponding advice
may not havo reached tho office upon
which drawn.”
GIIEAT TfJNNEL COMMENCED.
Naw Yorker* Begin O instruction of Their
1/m! erg rod ml ItnllwHy.
With a silver spado and in tho pres¬
ence of thousands of persons, Mayor
Van Wyck of Now York lifted from an
opening in the city hall square a few
pounds of earth which formally began
work on the underground rapid tran¬
sit railway system. The ceremonies
which marked the beginning of this
great engineering undertaking were
befitting an event of such great im¬
portance. tablet
A handsomo memorial boar¬
ing a suitable inscription was fitted
into tbo opening.
The underground railroad tunnel
will he twenty-one miles in length and
will involve the expenditure by the
city of New York of more than $36,-
000,000. The contract time for com¬
pletion is unlimited and about 10,000
men will be employed. Work will bo
begun simultaneously at several points.
THREE FIREMEN LOSE LIFE.
Floor Given Way and Five Ar* Thrown
Into a Basement.
Through the breaking down ol the
first floor in a factory building at New
York, which was totally destroyed by
tiro Saturday, three firemen were kill¬
ed and two injured. The men were
precipitated into the basement in
which were about six feet of water, and
pinned under the debris. It is sup¬
posed they were drowned.
Coal Miners (let Higher Wages.
Tho Berwind-White Coal Mining
company at Philadelphia notified its
miners of a general average advance
of 20 per cent.
CALL TO SILVER REPUBLICANS.
Chairman Town® Say* Meeting Will Be
Held In Kansas City July 4th.
Chairman Charles A. Towne, of the
National Committee of the Silver Re¬
publican party, has issued a call for a
national convention of the party
meet in the Coates opera house at
Kansas City, Mo., at 12 o’clock noon,
on Thursday, July 4, 1900, to place in
nomination candidates for president
of the United Btates and for
other businesp as may come tip.
NEGRO
SHOT GOEBEL”
Such Is the Deduction Drawn
From Golden’s Testimony.
HIS STATEMENT CREATES STIR
According to Golden,Caleb Powers
Was One of the Prime Mov¬
ers In the Plot,
F. Wharton Golden, of Barbours-
villo, was put ou the witness stand
Saturday at Frankfort, Ky., in tho
examination of Secretary of State
Caleb Powers, charged with con¬
spiracy to murder Sountor Goebel,
and gave somo sensational testimo¬
ny. Golden was rather nervous,
but did not hesitate in bis replies to
questions, ami his testimony made a
deep impression.
According to Golden, Caleb Powers
was one of the prime movers in tho
bringing to .Frankfort of tho mount¬
aineers just before the assassination
of Goebel, and that although Secre¬
tary Powers simply instructed him to
bring “witnesses” who were mountain
feudists, yet Golden understood that
they wero to come to Frankfort for a
possible more sinister purpose, that
of "cleaning out” the Democratic ma¬
jority in the legislature. the of
Golden also brought in name
Governor Taylor in an incidental way,
also tho names of Oulton, John Pow¬
ers, Captain Davis, Charles Finley,
Judge Bingham and others, tho plan
to bring the mountaineers to Frank¬
fort lmviug taken ou a wider scope
than wns expected. hem¬
Golden was seized with a slight
orrhage during the morning and ad¬
journment was taken earlier than tho
usual hour.
Golden began his testimony by sny-
ing that he had known Secretary
Powers for seventeen or eighteen
years, also knew Colton. Ho was also
acquainted with Governor Taylor and
Captain John Powers. Ho said he
was a good friend to all of tho defend¬
ants. lie was in Frankfort in January
and February and saw Secretary Pow¬
ers and John Powers nearly every
day. Ho wits in Frankfort on January
11th, and went to Harlem county for
two or three days, from thore return¬
ing to Frankfort.
Golden resumed liis testimony ut tho
afternoon session. He said he saw
John Powers and a red black-irus-
tuched man talking concerning tho
closing of Secretary Powers’s office
during the latter’s absence.
“I hud my back turned,” said Gold¬
en, “but when I turned I saw John
Powers give the key to tho man.
John Powers said to me:
< ( ‘Goebel is going to be killed thin
morning.’ 1 said: ‘This must not be
done.’
“Do you know a man named Dies
Coombs?” asked Attorney Campbell.
‘1 do. He is colored and lives in
Beatty villi*, lie came down with tho
Leo county contingent.”
“Did you luivo any talk with Caleb
or John Powers about Dick Coombs?”
“No; but they hud two niggers thore
to lull Gobel, John Powers told me
so. They were Hooker Smith and
Dick Coombs. I saw Coombs at the
drug store near tho depot every morn¬
ing for a week or so previous to the
shooting. Coombs, talking to a man
named Wallace in my presence, said:
“ ‘D—n him, I know him as far as I
can seo him, and T can kill him as fur
as 7 can seo him.” Ho was talking of
Goebel.
“This conversation was in the ad¬
jutant general’s otfico.
Golden told a story of tho evonts
leading up to tho murder, which, if
substantiated, will in the minds of
those connected with tho prosecution
at least, probably go fur toward prov¬
ing tho contentions of the common¬
wealth that tho murder wns tho result
of a plun in which sevorul prominent
men were involved.
Tho testimony did not show that the
alleged plot to kill Goebel was part of
tho-original plan, nor did it contain
the names of those who conceived the
idea, except so far ns Golden’s remarks
about John Powers gave the impres¬
sion that tlie latter was one of the
movers. The commonwealth sought
to show by Golden’s conversation with
various peoplo that not only John and
Caleb Powers, but others as well, had
full knowledge of the ulleged plan of
assassination.
Whether tho defense will seek to
impeach Golden's testimony in this
preliminary examination is not known,
as the attorneys for tho defense will
not talk ou the subject, but unless
such attempt is made the common¬
wealth will rest its case, both County
Attorney Polsgrove and Attorney
Campbell being satisfied that enough
evidence has boen presented to hold
the defendant on tho charges.
EDITOR SEEKS DAMAGES.
File. Suit For SOO.OOO Against a Number
of Hl» Fellow Townsmen.
EditorW.T. Wear,of the Opelika, (Ala.)
News, has brought suit against Messrs.
George E. Driver, H. F. Lowe, R. M.
Greene, Jr., H. C. Jernigan, T. D.
Power, Wiley Ross, C. P. D. Taylor
and J. W. Williams, Jr., for $50,000
damages for an article which they pub¬
lished denouncing him for charges /
made in his paper,
