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■■■Hi WAS BAD EXPLOSION; POSTlt.Cl BIO maqazine at|nbuH HEAD proving GROUND flL£W l)P. Pint Report! Were to ifio Effect that'Great Damaie Had Reiulted, But Later A<(- vlcea Say that No’’Fatalities-Occurred. Cauae ol Exploeion Not Known. ■ ,-•• Woodbrldfee, 1 Va." Oot. 85.—The entire poet at the naval proving ground atation at Indian Head, on the Potomao river, was demolished by an awfnl explosion of the main powder magazine last night, CONSPIRACY UNEARXlifBD , , ' 'QEORGlA' tOD United Statea Grand Jury ’Returns Thirteen Indictments Aialpat Ex-Postmaster* and Carriers In Polk, HatrisoA and Paulding , Counties. ' , • l ' '• VOLUNtEBRS IN ,THE' PHILIPPINES COM- INO HOME. The Plrat Installment to Leave Manila Novem* her 1-The Slclt to Come First-Reglf ments to Be Mustered Out at ’San Pram cisco. , Atlanta, Ga., Oot. 25.—The Unlfrd States grand jury has returned thirteen indictments against ox-postmasters and oarriers in Polk, Harrison and Panlding oonnties, obarging conspiracy to defraud and consequent havoo was caused by J the government. The postoffloe author! other explosions at the station. Twelve men are known to be dead. The list will probably be muoh greater when it beoomes possible to make an investigation. The force of the explos ion was terriflo. Every building within three miles was destroyed. People were thrown to the ground at Quantioo, twelve miles distant The identified dead are Jas. 'Williams, Jno. Scott, Robt. Bailey, foreman and laborers on a new railroad. It is feared many if not all the naval officers and men were killed. THE REPORT GREATLY E.-fACO WAVED. Washington, Oot. 25.—'’’he reports re garding the explosion at Indi ,n Head are greatly exaggerated. Liout. Strauss, in oharge of the proving grounds, left Indian Head early this morning in a tug and reached Washington shortly before 10 o’clock. Prom the Washing ton navy yard he telephoned Admiral O’Neil that the report wu„ greatlv exag gerated and that no one m injured The explosion took place in a house wbioh caught fire from some unexplained cause. A magazine in Which was stored several tons of powder exploded, shak ing the ground for a considerable dis tance and destroying the telephone com munication with Washington. HON. ED. 1. WIGHT . W* Introduce Bill tu Cbasye Manner of-Elect ing Judges asdSsHcltoes. In an artiole with refersnoe to the meeting of the Georgia legislature, in yesterday’s Atlanta Oonstitntion, we find the following: "Representative Ed. L. Wight, of Dougherty, who came np to Atlanta yesterday from his heme in south Geor gia, will introduce at the very first of the session a bill to strike ont the amend ment to the oonstition nnder which judges aud solicitors of the superior courts of the state ate eleoted by the people. Representative Wight as a member of the last senate will be re membered as one of the most prominent figures in that body. It was he who led the fight in the upper house against the Willingham bill, and the defeat of the measnre la the senate was one of the distinct features of the session. “The member from Dougherty is op posed to the election of jndges and solic itors by the people. He does not be lieve the test in the recent Btate eleotion, in which the amendment operated for the first time, was a satisfactory one. He holds that it lowers the dignity of a judge to place himself In the position of a candidate before the'people, asking for their voteB and acquiring the preju dices against his opponents that no judge should be hampered with in the administration of justice. “The amendment, that will be offered by Representative Wight will probably call for the appointment of these offl. oialsiby the governor of the state; the appointment being ratified by the sen-' . ate.” THE MUFFLER. ties assert that thirteen of the defend ants went so far os to give away stamps in order to cancel them and sent bulky packages through their offioes. It Is said that a dog was sent iu this way and that picoeB of plue bark were stamped and mailed. The defendants who are charged with oonspiraoy are F. O. Deavors, former postmaster at Oabot, Ga.; Butler Davis, former postmaster at Way, Ga ; John G. Dow, former postmaster at Roland, Ga. ;'B. F. Morgan, former postmaster at. Frank, Gs.; Wm. A. Green, former pn-itmaster at Dc-'.r, Ga. i W. 0 Wal-. drop, former poatma-ter at Junior, Go.; J M Rntledge, former postmaster at Lodge, Go. j John R. Bush, former as sistant postmaster at Dic.v, Ga..; T. J. Bell, former assistant postmaster at Besmar Ga.; W M. Waddell, former special carrier; A. 8. Wad dell,' former special carrier; W. T. Head, former speoial carrier; W. J. Harden, former special carrier. The offices In which the alleged fraud was perpetrated were what are known as speoial snpply offices and were estab lished by the government as an experi ment on the petition of residents in the section where the offloe was located These particular offices were in a very sparsely settled loeallty and are. said to hnve been very close together. THE STRIKE. It Has Arrived and Will Soon Be Attached to the Compress. The immense funnel shaped apparatus whioh is to be need to deorease the noise of the exhaust ol the Georgia Ootton Company’s compress has arrived and 1 will soon be attaohed to the press. The people in the vicinity of the press have been awaiting the arrival of this muffler impatiently, and they will re joice when it has been pnt on the press' and the deafening noise of the exhaust' decreased below the annoying point. It is believed that the hew apparatus will prove more successful than the one rued in the early part of the season. As the readers of the .Herald will- re member, the lint muffler was blown off by the exhausting steam. The delightful weather continues. It is not warm enough to be oppressive but is oool enough to bracing and in- vigorating. than fail. more like rammer Settlement Probable If Strlliero WRI Steed by Mitchell. Wilkesbarre, Oot. 28 —Operators here this morning said the statement of Pres ident Mitchell lest night that the strike wotrld end as soon as the offer made by some of the operators last Thurday is made unanimous, may lead to a settle ment. They consider it the test direot statement Mitohell has yet made, and believe him sincere. Tho companies are understood to be willing to d^ what is expected Of”'them as soon as they are sjye the strikers will stand by Mltohell's offer; and it is be lieved thistime has now oome. LORD ROBERTS TO REMAIN - Is South Afrlca-Tllr Middle of Noveniber. . Wolsely to Held Os. ♦ J . " 4 ’l?V v London, Obfc. 25,-VThe war offlobi-an- ■ ■—*-*. . ! noonces today that Lord Roberts hopes to leave South Afrioa for home about Nov. 15th and that Lord Wolselyi has consented to perform the duties of com- mander-in-oh’ief tfntil the end of No vember. V . HARD TJL KILL. .*• . r * ' .. Wsald-be Suicide Survives Five Bullets Aqd Bottle ol Carbolic Add. Buffalo, Oct. 28.—Bout on suicide, Morris PalaSok, thirty years' old, ft five shots into his body last night then drank enough carbolic oc^d to blister his mouth, but still he liyps. He gave him self up to the polioe. - - ■ BATTLESHIP KENTUCKY. ! ‘ She Goes jo £e* .For Another Teet cl tier, Goss. „'•» New York, Oot. 24.—The battleship Kentucky passed out to ge& this dom ing. .Another test will be given her guns offjSandy Hook, and if there is no further trouble she will proceed on her voyage to the China station. GERMANY AGREES. —t— Peace Negotiations With Chios to Be Go- trusted to Porelga Representatives it Pcklo. Berlin, Oot. 25.—Germany has agreed to Japan’s proposal that peaee negotia tions with China shall be entrusted for the present to the foreign representa tives et Pekin. TUB MVRDBRERS OP KENNIB BOSSBHBI&K .. . ’ HELD dflf PATERSON! .’ ' **"' ..." '• - - • <• The Crime a -Most Fiendish One—The Girl Wei Glutted sod Carried Away By Four Yoont Men - Her Oealb Was Caned by Knockout Drops sod Aisault.. • -- "> Sau Fraueisoo, Oot. 23.—The mi itary that had quarters here and started ti the first installment of the vnlnnteei army now in the Philippines, will leave Manila Nov. 1st. From that time till next Jnne transports will bring home about twenty-five thousand men at the rate of fonr to five thousand men a month. The siok will, if possible,' be shipped on the earlier transports, that they may travel without crowding. The varionB regiments will he mustered ont and paid as soon as possible, after their arrival here. By this arrangement, the camps now established at Presidio will be snffioieht to accommodate the entire army. TERROR AMONG. NEGROES. Two Have Beeo Lynched In Pike Cbonty For Shooting at s Farmer’s Home. Atlanta, Go., Oot. 26.—There is ter ror among the negroes in Pike connty, Owing to a sensational lynohing whioh has just taken place near the village of Liberty Hill. Jas. Grier and James Calloway were hanged for frightening the daughter .of a prominent farmer. The negroes were hnnting, and while passing the farmer's house wantonly fired their guns at It. The daughter was alone and was thrown into a state of terror. The family found her In hys- terios when they returned. ‘ - ANOTHER REPORT OF THE AFFAIR Maoon, Pa., Oot. 26,—Near the village of Liberty Hill in Pike county Monday James Greer and James Callaway, two negro men, while eat on zy hnnting ex pedition passed a farm honse, and Wan tonly, fired their gans into it, to the groat fright of a young woman, the daughter of the honse, who was there alone, her parents having been called away from the plaoe. She was so terror ized that when her parents returned they thought she had been wounded, for she was in a condition of partial faint and could not fully explain what had happened. A physician was summoned and the neighbors. were alarmed. The young woman, it was ascertained,, had' not been injured by the shots, bat the men of (he. neighborhood undertook a search and found jihe misoreants. Oneof them, nnder pressnro, said that they had a grudge against,the farmer and had fired into the house -hoping to kill him. The negroes were, during the early hours of, the night, carried into the "woods. They were then placed on horseback, ropes tied about-their necks and fastened to the limb of a tree. The horse* were started and the negroes left dangling. ON WAY TO PEKIN. Uosldrstooil .That Gen. Yud SbaagHas Been Samatoaed by Wetdenee. Tien Xsin, Oct.’ 25.—General Yun Shang has atrfved hero on his way to Pekin nn.dpc American escort. It iannderstoo’d that tits presence is due to Count von, Waldersee’s request. The OhinSse imperial troops 'are operating .unmolested against the Boxers south ward, of Tien Tein.' .ThejOermans are sending supplies to Pao Ting Fu for a wintqr garrison. , ., Changed His Mind. From the Memphis Scimitar. Mistah Jonsing confided to a friend that he was "tia’d votin’ the Publican tioket. Publicans had nevahdone noth, in’fo’him." Bat a day or two later he reported that he had "done change" his mind and would be true to his anofent “princ’ples.” In explanation, he said: “Hit’s this away. I done tole my wife I was gwine to be a Democrat this yeah. Well, aah, yon know mah wife. She jus’ naoheliy stood np her proudes’ an’ give me one look. Then she said in a pow’fnl, convincin’ way: *Ef yon gwine be a Democrat, yon oain’t rooet hyaht’ So I’s gwine stay Publican, IU." There are people in Albany who don’t know yet when the Hay Day Carnival rad Street Fair is to be. Fact. Patterson, N J., Oot. 28.—The mys tery of tlip murder ol Keunie Bosso- heifer Thursday night aleored np today. Four young, men have been arrested, oharged with the crime. Their names are George Kerr, Walter MoAUlater, William Death and Audrew Campbell. The polioe say the men dragged-the girl and took her hi a cab to a lqnely part of Paterson. By that time she was dying, and they drove to the honse of a physloian. He Bald: “You’ve oome too late; sheU dead. Then the men ban died &S lifeless form into-.a cab and drove to Vfag{irow bridge, where,they tossed the body where it was found. The gfrl’s skull was smashed by the fall. The polioe say,, death yfa* paused by knockout drops and assault. PREMIUMS FOR FLOATS. V \r<■ - ■ "‘i ' \ Por the Opening Parade of ibe Hay Day Carnival and Street Pair. » v . ■ From Tuesdays Dfilly. Herald., At the directors' .meeting hold last night it was decided that, for the pur pose of giving zest to the preparations that are being made for theopeping feat ure of the Hay Day Carnival and Street Fair, three premiums would be offered aud awarded for floats participating jin the grand oarnival parade on Wednes day, November 21. The premiums authorized are as fol: lows: ’ " . For best Mercantile or Indnstrial Float.'.. .*20.00 For best Agricultural Float 20.00 For best dooorated vehicle........ 20.00 It U proposed' to open-the-carnival with a grand parade at It o'olock on Nov. 81. and it is ddsired’to make it "at imposing as possible. Everybody Irltf- vited to enter the lists etrld contest for the premiums offered. Mr. T. M. Ttcknorhas been appointed as a speoial oommlttee to call on the bostness mien of the ^oity and . Work np an,interest in floats. The-appointment of a committee to pereonhily solicit the busiriiiBa men of the olty, to get npfibats should not have been necessary, bnt it was learned that some were already com plaining because nobody had called on them personally and- officially to ask' .- ' • «Vl'l fi ! .'"’i' ■*.. them to get np floats, and, in order that .J - '. a •»> *'• if V , none might have any excuse for pouting or staying out of the big pyooesBion/ a special committee to solicit entrances was apjKnnted. , *Z. t . Don't ask ns for names or particulars, but the Herald knows of some elabor ate preparation, that are being made for floats.' The opening carnival parade is gbing to be something grand. . AN ALBANY YOUNG ORATOR. PbWDEIt Makes I| biscuits,^'! Makes hot are qualit flaky, delicious hot jls,’ niuflins and, crusts, iread wholesome. These peculiar to it alone. Y™ have found the Royal Baking Powder superior ‘ -.* * imo ell others.—C, Gonju, late Chef, Delmonlco’s, -. . fiovAt Wetmo’iiovyDEB m.'io6 wilUam st./ new yobk. a •• it , - 2, - . . *vfi REBELS ATTACK 4.M0 ,VILLAGERS IN SAN ’ CHUN PHOVlNCfil . , 2,004 of the Latter and 400. of the Former Slain—3,000 HooseV Giis'troyed—Detach ment of Imperial'Yreope Goes Aialnel Rebels—Rceull of ConllTcl Not Known Master-John H. Heeler, to Contepl for the . fltlze la Declnmnttbn at the Atlanta Fair,, Master John H. Hester, (he bright and manly fonrfipew-year-old. son- of Oapt. and Mrsr- J. T. Hester, of thiaoity, left.tqday for>Atlanta to enter the con test fpr the Prize to Jig awarded,, by the Southern Inter-State Fair Association to the hfisj hoy oratpr., a The.contest in deqUerngtion is. to take place one day fihis xyeek, and .faster John Hestpr. will represent Dougherty cqunly., So far as wq knpw, he will, he the only contestant from this port of the state. . i -r , r . John Hester is a bright boy and will refleot credit npon,his qonnty whether he wins the prize,or not., He speaks well, and the other boys will not have a walk-over. Hong Kong, Oot i >25,—The governor of HongKnng has been informed that 4,000 villagers at Sah 'Ohun, !n the Kwalehln district,,,were attacked bv rebels at jPohohok., .-The villagers were defeated and 2,000, were killed. The rebels, who lost 40Q killed, bi rn d two villages containing 8,000 ..hon e.-. A force of 2,000 troops went '"tp"»lfs aesiat: anoe.of, the villagers and engaged the rebels on the 12th>’,' details of the re. snlt have been received. GERMAN MARINES Have s Battle With Boxers ted KOI 240 of » • Them. >. Kira Oban, Oct., 25.—A detachment of German marines have had a battle near Kanmi with the Boxen and killed 200of them. Peace and qoiet reigns again in Sandy Bottom. If yon don’t know why, just m Sown there and Mk the grateful peo ple of that neighborhood. The Price, of Cotton/ Dear Herald : Just a thought from a remark I hoard on the street ■‘today, i. a, McKinley's eleotion will cause cotton to go up. A few years ago 'ihe democrats broke through the republican lines and eleoted Olevulaud. Cotton went np tp 10 cents a pound. A few years ago MoKiniey was made president. Ootton’ went to 4$4 cents. A mdnth ago there w.as a good ehanoe for'jjld’ demooraoy, and ootton went to’lO*^ 1 cents. ' Now some'‘think the repnbllfsfns 1 will hold over, and' eot- ton is ednts. ' Judging from past events, if itcKtnley gets in we may look for4i^ o0n^s ootton, and It the demo-" orats get tn''we may look for lO ce’nt ootton. ' V t’ > . Ohoose foft between the two. ‘ *' " ' Old John. , She*Was in a Big Hurry. Bowling. Green, O., Oot. 28.—While the court Wn^ gran ting a decree of di vorce yeetfcMagr afternoon to Mrs. John Loren Fetors,'of North Baltimore, she secured, possession of a draft for fl.GOQ'that had been made ont to her in 'payment of alimony whioh the cony, was expected to decree and fled fjjpm the oonrtroom. The draft was cashed at a nearby bank. Later Mrs. Feints and her father, John Bart*, who hjbb assisted her In getting the drafVha^d, were arrested on a war rant sworn ont by 8.P. Harrison, the woman's Attorney, who olainu part of themoimy belongs to him. The entry of the ctrart’i decree hoe not yet been'’ Ttta la regular rammer weather, ' WIGHT A WINNER. Belmont Parm Captures Prizes st the S>u:b- era Inter-State Fair, Oar esteemed .fellow-townsmen a td Dougherty oonnty’sahle rnprcHdnt-itlvo in the legislstoro, Col. Ed. L. Wight, has .been a winner Jn the ponltrv show ' 1 at tbe Southern Inter-State Fair at At- - lanta. ' His fowls from Belmont Farm , appear to have oarrled Off most of the ,- prizes. The Atlanta Coustltntion. of yester’- day has this to say of the Belmont Farm ' 1 exhibit: ■ ■ ' " One of the most attraotW.e, ai well as one of the most successful exhibits in the poultry show at the present fair was 1 that of the Belmont ' Fafin, of Smyrna, Ga., owned and operated by Hon. Ed. Wight. 1 1 * The remarkable manner in'whioh the fowls frhm.thls farm captured thema- . jorltyofblue ribbons ,and tho largoat , part of the money offered'a* J2uh prizes oansed comment among those interested in the poultry show, autl ’ . laurels for Mr. Wight and his. form..,,- - » , The exhibit from the Belmont Farnt , at the poultry show wbioh has just closed was one that has never 'been equaled in this seation ofi the oountry,' and despite the hot .competition thqflsl. mont Farm Won ninety-eight of the first >, prizes, ninety-one of the seoond and in numerable thirds, fourths and fifths.'' , In oash premiums' It carried away . , *478 50. This remarkable reoord snr- prised-the other exhibitors and won ap- ' plause for the Belmunt owners. • Vvlua. i The’record of the Belmont Farm has' been unusual from the start. 'It was " started just one year ago - by Ed, Is. .Wjght, who saw great opportunities, It .• was pnrely an experiment, .as no one else in this seotion has a farm cxuotljr, on - tho order of hie. From present in'di- ’ cations there is no donbt that It will prove profitable, 'although a | great sum .of money has been expended-on iV Ten carloads of briok and 600,000.,, feet of, , lumber have been need in the ereotion of the buildings on the farm. , , , The herd of Jersey oattle is headed by a Golden Lad hull, bought of the Blit- more Farm. There is a herd of Jersey swine, one of the sows of whioh won the first prize and bine ribbon at the present fair. There are several thous and of the finest ohlokons, dnoks, geese and turkeys. The Belmont farm has a huge num ber of Belgian hares, several of them costing os muoh as $100. In addition to this there ore eight varieties of pheas ants whioh attracted considerable at tention at the fair. Among the exhibitors who competed with Mr. Wight were the Biltmore form and a number of weU-known northern breeders. The Belmont Farm is super intended by Loyd Brown, to whom oredlt for the magnlfloent display and the raooeea os the form is largely due. Fish frys ore giving way to rapper*. iWAw^SraMBIl