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Newspaper Page TextWEEKLY HERALD. VOL. 8. ALBANY, GA.. SATURDAY, OCTOBER. 20, 1900. NO 33 TO START OP AS SOON AS PRESIDENT MITCHELL ISSUES NBCBSSARY ORDER. Broken tod Collieries Are Belo* Prepared For the Resumption o( Operations. Norly All the Collieries Will Probably Be la Fall Blast by Atooday. Shamokin, Pa., Oot. 18.— Oflloers of the Philadelphia aud Reading Company posted notices at all the collieries be tween here at Pottaville early this morn ing announcing that the terms of the Soranton convention had been accepted A limited foroe of the company’s hands at each mine Is busy preparing to have the breaker machinery in good order by the time President Mitchell issnes an order for the miners to retnrn to work. Wilkesbarro, Pa., Oct. 18 —Notices have not yet been issued by nuy min ing company here in aooordnnco with the decision of the presidents’ meeting at Philadelphia yesterday, bnt thoy are expected at any time. Work will prob ably be resumed Monday by most of the collieries. Philadelphia, Oct. 18 —The formal calling off of the coal strike now awaits only the aotion of the few remaining operators. President Mitchell has tele graphed that not a man will retnrn to work until every operator has given as sent to the arrangement. MRS. HART SKIPS. Woman on Whom Schrtiber Lavished $100,- 000 Has Disappeared. New York, Oot. 18.—According to The Journal and Advertiser, Mrs Anna Hart, the woman upon whom it is al leged William Schreiber, the missing Ellzabethport Banking company olerk, lavished money from the bank, has eluded the vigilance of the detectives who were watohiog her and gone to parts unknown. She left the flat of Alma Templeton, in West Fifty-first street, in the small honrs of Sunday morning in disgntse, according to this aooonnt. But Miss Templeton who is an intimate friend of Mrs Hart, said that Mrs. Hart had gone to the Tennessee mountains to recover from shock and prostration. When re cuperated, Miss Templeton said, Mrs. Hart would go to a certain wealthy grandfather in Bristol, Oonn. Miss Templeton also said that Mrs. Hart onoe asked Schreiber where he got so muoh money and his answer was that he had inherited $50,000 from his grand father and had doubled that through successful Bpeoulation with a well known Wall street firm, whioh he named. MANY VESSELS DESTROYED NOW CONCENTRATING IN THB CANTON DISTRICT. Stron| Effort to Be Made to Smash the Re bellion, Bui the Result Is la Doubt—Au thorities In Need ol Reinforcements. Christians Fleeing From Disturbed Dis tricts. Paris, 0:t 18.—A dispatch from Hong Kong dated yesterday says that rebels are concentrating in the district sur rounding Oanton. An important move ment is expected within a week whioh will result either in smashing the re bellion or giving it more power. Tho Chinese authorities are in urgent, need of reinforcements. The movement is directed against government officers, bnt Chinese aud native Christians are fleeing from the disturbed districts, where they are being robbed and ill treated by bands of rnffiaus. cantonf.se alarmed. London,,Oot. 18—A dispatch from Hong Kong of yesterday’s date says the capture of Mnchnu on East river by the troops of Sein Vat. Sen has alarmed Can tonese. Admiral TTo has Scinnhnn in pnrsnit of the rebels. NOT IN SIGHT. THE STRIKE SITUATION IS PRACTICALLY UNCHAN0ED. Leaders Who Expected That Today Would See the End of the Orest Strike of Miners Are Disappointed—Strikers Dotog Noth lag and tho Operators Standing First- Wllkesbarre, Pa., Oot 17.—According to the statements of strike leaders here, today was to see the end of the strike, bnt there is not the slightest indication that a settlement is any nearer than it was a weex ago. The strikers have not yet sent committees to the operators to present the propositions from Saturday's meeting, and the operators have not de cided to take any aotion in the matter. At a few Informal meetings they have merelv assured each other of their de termination to stand firmly to the offer of 10 per oent. advance and not grant any forther concessions. One of the local leaders Bald today that the strikers were hopeful and inclined to think the operators would submit to the oonnter proposition. WALDERSEE ARRIVES AT PEKIN, ESCORTED BY (1UARD OP IN TERNATIONAL TROOPS. Pao Ting Fu Expedition Meets With No Oppo. altlon—Finds Heads ol Boxers Displayed on the Wills ol Choo Chose—'Von Wal- deriee at Dowager's Palace. STRIKERS PERSUADED NOT TO MARCH. Mahanoy City, Oot. 17.—Pally 1,800 strikers were ready for a march to Panther Creek Valley at 3 o'clock this morning, hat labor leader Harris and sevtral foreign orators made speeches and the strikers were induced to stay at home. HERE’S A SURPRISE. Pekin, Oot. 18.—The Pekin column of the Poo Ting Pn expedition arrived at a point six mites south of Ohl Chow yes terday without enoountering opposition. They f onnd the heads of f onrteen Boxers on the walls of Choo Ohoan and killed seven imperial guards. Pield Marshal Von Waldersee arrived here and was acoorded all military honors. He was aooompanted by an escort of international troops to the palace of the empress dowager. Operators Concede to All Demands oi Miners • and Strike Will Bod. Philadelphia, Fa., Oot. 17, 3 p ra.— The oonferenoe at the Reading terminal has just acceded to all the demands of the miners and the Btrlke will uow be declared off. THAT BOUNDARY LINE. Asd Property on Shore Wrecked by the Orest Japanese Typhoon. Victoria, B. 0., Oot. 18.—The Empress of Japan brings news that the typhoon at the close of September was felt over the entire Japanese group. A vast quan tity of property ashore and afloat was destroyed, and there was heavy loss of life. Hundreds of houses were blown down, flooded or otherwise destroyed. At Tokio, three lives were lost. Two hundred Namedsn fishermen were blown oat to sea, and all are believed to have perished. A number of vessels were re ported wrecked, mostly junks and small sohooneis. The steamer Urato Mara was strand ed off Mikoknjima and probably will be a total loss. The Yakoshlma Maru was wreaked in Shimizu bay, and all on board were lost. The two bandied ton schooner Shintoka Maru was wrecked off Kaarura. The steamer Ohina of the Pacific mail steamship company had a very trying time while bound from Yokohama to Kobe. Considerable damage was done, andjsome of her boats were smashed. At Yokohama the wind blewforty miles an hoar, and the new Christ ohnroh was destroyed. Exports May be Rusutned. Pretoria, Oot. 18.—Lard Roberts has issued an order removing restriction on expactrfrom the Transvaal and Orange Blttr oohsiiM'. The order includes bar gold, hat exoepts monitions of war. Canadian Survey of Ihe Line Completed. What It Shows. Vancouver, Oot. 18—The Canadian snrvey of the international boundary at Monnt Baker was completed late Satnr day, and the offloials employed therein arrived at Vancouver yesterday. Sur veyor Deans says that all the valuable mines in the best of the mineral belt are in American territory, bnt Canada iB given abont a mile of extra territory in stead of the two miles originally claimed by the Canadians The gold basin, how ever, haB been fonnd to be in a peouliar position. Its tunnel is said to be ent in half by the boundary line, leaving half of the mine, one of the rlcheBt. in the district, on the American side and the other portion on the Canadian side, bnt whioh is the golden section of the mines is not related. STQNINC OF TEDDY CONTINUES. Rock Tbrswn By Clevelasd Hoodlum Struck the Colonel's Held. Cleveland, O , Oct. 18.—At Newbnrg last night a boy, standing some dlstanoe away, threw a rock at Governor Roose velt as the latter was leaving the tent where the speaking took place in oom pany with National Committeeman Herriok, of Ohio, and others The rock struck the governor on the head. Quick- j ly the governor's companions dosed ' abont him and oarried him to a passing oar on whioh he was borne away. |. “I was not hart at all,” said the gov- : ernor, when he returned to his oar and | disonssed the matter with several of his friends, "The rook was thrown by one | of a number of hoodlums and I saw him | throw it. It struck my head, bnt my | hat prevented it from wonnding me In the light of the splendid reception 1 Cleveland lira given me, the stone- throwing is soarcely worth remembering for a moment. I never saw greater en thusiasm than that at the armory meet ing. Indeed, I have oanse to remember Cleveland with pleasure and|pride ” ENUMERATION COMPLETE. Cost ol Census Enumeration Will Be Abont $4,200,800. Washington, Oct. 18.—Tho enumera tion of the twelfth censnB is completed and the enumerators are practically all paid. There were 58 enumerators and 397 supervisors. The oost of the enum eration will be abont $43,000,000. The whole foroe of the oensns bureau is be ing conoentrated on the work of tabu lating the statistics already gathered. The report of the oensns bureau when complete will occupy eight volumes of 1,000 pages. The work of the present oensns Is heavier by several million in- habitants than ever before, bnt Director Merriam thinks it wilt be ready for the publio six weeks earlier than heretofore. WM. L. WILSON DEAD. The Bx-Poilmaster General Succumbs to Con sumption. New York, Oot. 17.—News of the death of Hon. William L. Wilson, ex- postmaster general, was received here this morning. The cause of his death waa consumption. DRYAN IN NEW YORK. Democracy’s Leader Given Magnificent Ova tion In the Metropolis. New York, Oot. 17.—Wm. J. Bryan received a magnificent ovation at the hands of the people of Greater New York on his arrival here yesterday. Thousands oheeied the NebraBkan as he drove from the Grand Central station to tho Hoffman House, and his entire stay in the city was marked by unpre cedented enthusiasm. The oheers were load and prolonged whenever the dem ocratic leader appeared. Madison Sqnare was paoked last night when Mr. Bryan delivered his address, which was of snch character as to keep the great audience on its feet muoh of the time. Mr. Bryan is still in the oity, and thousands crowd aronnd him wher ever he appears. TOOK HER OWN LIFE Within in Hoar Alter Her Husband Died el Yellow Pever. Washington, Oot. 18.—The ohief sani tary offioerof Havana cables the surgeon general that Major Peterson, U. 8. V., died of yellow fever at Los Animas yes terday. His wife killed herself an hoar later. Peterson was a graduate of West Point, and was appointed from North Carolina. FRANCE IS MOVING TO HASTEN PBACB NEGOTIATIONS IN CHINA. Her Plan Having Been Accepted by the Powere, I Instructions Are Now Being Sent to Ministers end Ambessedori to Placn Themselves In Touch With Chinese Emteurtee. Paris, Oot. 18.— Russia, Austria, Ger many and Great Britain having already replied affirmatively to Minister of Foreign Affairs Delcasee’s note, he is notifying the powers of the acceptance of the Brat note and is asking all of them toinstrnot their Pekin ministers to be gin peace negotiations. Favorable re plies are expeoted from all. M. Piohon, the Frenoh minister to Ohina, haa there fore been lnstrnoted to place himself in touch with the ambassadors and Chinese emissaries tor the purpose of opening negotiations at the earliest moment. A MILLION AN HOUR. John D. Rockefeller's Profits Today Amounted to Six Mllllooi. New York, Oot 18.—Without effort, John D. Uookefeller today made six millions in six hoars by the advance in standard oil sunk. IMPERIAL EDICT ORDERING THB PUNISH MENT OP HIQH OFFICIALS Was Not Qennlne, Assert LI Huog Chang and Prince Chlog—Wae Circulated to Pre vent Allies From Advenclng on Pao Ting Fu—Boxers Active Above Pekin. INTERESTING PARADE WITNESSED IN AL BANY’S STREETS TODAY. BIG LOT OF COTTON. MATTERS MUNICIPAL Thirty-Five Wagons, Bearing 10$ Belts ol Cot ton, Rolled Into Albany Today Prom the Roylslon Place—Wae ■ Novel Sight end Attracted s Greet Deal ol Attention. ADJOURNED RB0ULAR MBNTING OP TUB CITY COUNCIL LAST NIGHT. From Thursday's Dally Herald, A splendid parade was witnessed in Albany this morning about half past eleven o’olook. It passed through some of the principal thoronghfaros of the oity, Inolndlug Broad and Washington streets, and attracted a great deal of at tention. It was neither a circus, a minstrel nor an indostnal parade. It was a parade of ootton from a big Donghcrty county plantation, and the sight was "good for sore eyes.” Tho ootton canto in from Mr D Greenfield's Roylston plaoe, five miles southwest of Albauy. It was headed by a big alx-mnle team with ten bales of ootton on the wagon, and there were thirty-five wagons in the parade. One wagon carried 10 baled, one oarried 8, one 8, one 3, two 4, eight 1 bale and twenty-one 3 bales, making a total' of 105 bales. Many of the wagons were deoorated with flags, and there were, probably, a hundred darkies on the thirty-live wagons. The big lot of ootton, worth some thing like $4,000. was oarried to A. O. Plousky's warehonse, on Pine street, where it was unloaded, weighed and marked. The wagons almost blooked the street in front cf tho wnrohoase as they waited to be unloaded Mr. Greenfield had already brought Pekin, Oot. 17.—It is regarded as oer- j„ f rom the Roylston plaoe ninety-one The Usual Amount ot Routine Business—The Question of Ibo City's Future Water Supply—Carnival Aesodillon to Have Pres Use of Ihe Street! Dnrlng the Ptk. bales of ootton, and expeots to run the total np to 800 bales boforo the olose of the season. This year's crop has been Estray Mule. tain that the alleged imperial decree or- dering the punishment of high offloials was forged, and waseonoooted with the Aibteot-of preventing the advance of the mode with twenty-seven plows, allies on Pao Ting Fa Both Priuoe Ohing and Li Hnug Onang deny its au thenticity. Count von Waldersee is ex peoted to arrive here today Small marauding bands have become troublesome in the violnity of the sum mer palace, and an expedition is being organized to proceed against them. There is renewed aotlvlty among the Boxer* north of Pekin. The imperial troops assert that they can suppress the Bovers, bnt the allies may send an expedition against them. The United States Minister and Gen erals Chaffee and Wilson returned Li Hong Chang’s oall this afternoon. Frlnoe Obing and Li Hang Chang are conferring for the purpose ot fixing a date for the first meeting with the min isters. EIGHT MET DEATH Is New York Tesement Plre—One Woman Perished oo Fire Escape. New' York, Oot. 17.—A three-story, doable frame tenement house was burn ed early this morning. Eight inmates perished, some being smothered in bed. Mrs. Anna Moronitz's night robe oanght fire and she burned to death on a fire escape in sight of an Immense throng. The firemen and police made frantlo efforts to resono her. 13 NEGRO SOLDIERS 01 the 24th Infantry Captured Near Cabana- tuan—Seven Escaped. Manila, Oot, 18.—A detachment of twenty men of Company I, Twenty- fourth infantry, colored, while repair ing a telegraph line near Oabanatnan, was attacked and overwhemed by 300 rebels. Seven men sneoeeded in reach ing camp and reporting the matter. The remainder were probably oaptnred. Episcopal Dinner Saturday. Saturday’s visitors to the city and busy merchants who oan not spare time to go to their homes for dinner will find the dinner, whioh will be served by the ladles of the Episcopal ohnroh down town, most convenient. The dinner will bs served in the vacant store on Brood street formerly oooupled by Mr. S. Silversteln. The ladles will serve oypters, tnrkey, ohioken salad, eto. The dinner will be a good one and will, no donbt, reoelve a large d patronage. Strayed from onr plaoe one and a half -miles north of Newton, on ,8nndav, ' October 14th, one black horse mule with white month Hnd a fetv gray hairs under right eye Five years old, and in good condition. When last seen was passing F A Billingslea's plaoe, five miles south of Albanv. A liberal re ward will be paid for retnrn to the un dersigned, or for in formation whioh may lead to male's recovery. McOhanib & McConnell, 18-dftWlt Newton, Un. BOSTOCK MIDWAY For the Hsy Day Csrslvtl sod Street Pair. From Thursday's Daily Herald. Mr. F. O. Hoffman, representing the Frank O. Bostock Midway Company, of New York, is in the city today, and the management of the Southwest Georgia Hay Day Carnival and Street Fair As sociation closed a contract with him for the best animal and midway show in America for the Hay Day Carnival and Street Fair in Albany on the Slat, 33nd and 38rd of November. Bostock stands at the head of the pro' oession when it oomes to midway attrac tions, and is the only man in the busi ness who carries a comploto menagerie and an arena of trained animate. And this is the midway that we are to have In Albany. The policy of the management of onr Hay Day Carnival and Street Fair la to get the beet of every thing and to have only genuine, first-olass attractions, and if we were to have nothing else here during the three days of the oarnival and fair ex cept the Bostock Midway, the show would be one well worth coming to see. Besides the animals, the midway whioh Mr. Bostock brings to Albany perries one hundred people. This onght to give some idea of what an extensive affair it is. The management of onr ci.ulval and fair Is fortunate in having scoured snoh an attraction. Lost Dog. I have lost a bluish brindle pointer dog. Has large black spot on right shoulder, and scar on the left bind quarter. Answers to the name “Maok.” Liberal reward will be paid for bis re tnrn or information leading to his re oovery, J. B. Gilbert. 18-dlt-wlt • There’s plenty of room in Albany’s ootton warehonse*, and the farmers who bring their ootton to this market oan hold it for better prioeeas long as they eeeQfc-' ' From Wednesday's Herald. The adjourned regular meeting of the Oity Ooenoll was held last night Present, Mayor Brown, Aldermen Whitehead, Jones, Weldon and Tarver. Tho nsnal amonnt of routine work, whioh inolndedtho approval of-acoouata, examination of city oflloers' reports, eto , was rap dly disposed oi before new business was taken up. The olerk was instructed to remit te Prof. H O. White, of the State Univer sity, $30, that being the amount charnel by him lor making a chemical aud bat* teriologioal analysis of the Commerce street well water. Mayor Brown stated, nnder the order of ooramltteo reports, that he had ex perienced considerable difficulty in ar riving at the true status of the book tax matter as between tho oity on the on* hand and the telephone, telegraph and express companies on the other. H* was waiting for this year's returns to In made, and expressed the opinion that the matter wonld soon be amicably ad justed. He requested and was grants* further time. The mayor fur'her stated that he wo* devoting a good deal of time and atten tion to the city water supply question placed in his heads by council. He ha* been asking dUurent artesian well ex-i ports for estimates on the oost of siuh- 1 iug snoh a well os tho oity, It appear*,. * mnst have, bnt has, as yet, only on* bid. Tula bid estimates the oost of an 8% inch well at $4 per foot and of a Wff inoh well at $5 per (oot, the oity to tar nish all oOalng and material. Mayor Brown stated that he confidently ex pected to be able to get bids at mnoh bet ter figures than those quoted. It is a* admitted foot that arrangements mn*t be made, in the near fatnre, for an In creased water supply for the oity, an* the simplest eolation of the problem seems to he in the sinking ot a large , boro well to a depth of abont 850 left; The report of tho oity physician for-- the month of September showed the-. treatment ot thirty-two patients an*' one death. The quarterly report of tim- snperlntendent of waterworks and eteo- trlo lignts was referred to the .11 nance oommitteo for examination. The olerk read a petition from tbfc Sale-Davls Drag Co., praying OounoS ( to pass an ordinance prohibiting smok ing in the opera honse, either in the lobbys or behind tho eoenes. The ohidt of the fire department stated that it wonld be wise to make snoh a law, an* the oity attorney was, accordingly,. directed to draw up au ordinance.cover ing the ground. Mr. H. M. McIntosh, representing the Southwest Georgia Hay Day Carnival and Street Fair Association, appease* before counoil and requested that the Association be given the free nse of the streets of the citv daring the three days of the'carnival and fair next month, and he permitted to levy and collect for its own benefit, lioense taxes on itin erant traders, peddlers and showman. The request was granted, and the Id- lowing resolution adopted -, Resolved, That the free use of thx streets be granted to the Southwest Georgia Hay Day Carnival and Stew® Fair Association for its oarnival an* fair November 31st, 33nd and 33rd, with privilege of ereoting tents, booths, eto, in the same, subject to the approval «C the mayor as to the location and chaun ter of suoh tents, booths, eto., andthdt the city lioense ordinance be suspends* in favor of the said association so for as relates to shows, peddlers, lenda stands and itenerant traders, so that sen* association may have the right to eon- trot and let all snoh privileges and ap propriate the prooeeda to its own uaa in defraying the general expenses incident to the oarnival and fair; provided, hew- - ever, that nothing in this resolution shs* be so construed as to in any way 1 the oity’s oontrol and police of the street*, and that all the privileges hereby granted to association be exercised under cretioa and snbject to the a] the Mayor. There was no fnrther bnsine** «m hand, and the meeting then adj’

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Albany weekly herald. (Albany, Ga.) 1892-19??, October 20, 1900, Image 1