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YOU. VI. NO. 1.
MB. ALDRICH OPENS THE BALL
WITH TELLING SPEECH.
AMENDED HOUSE BILL CONSIDERED.
Senate Committee’* BUI Defended—The
House Estimate Declared
Excessive.
The long deferred debate on the
tariff bill was opened in the senate
Tuesday.
Although the announcement of its
coming packed the galleries and
brought the house leaders to the floor
of the senate, the day’s proceedings
were dull enough.
Of course everybody was interested
in Senator Aldrich’s defense of the
senate committee’s bill. His estimate
of the revenues it would produce and
the cold water he threw on the Ding
ley bill were listened to closely, but
the chief interest lay in liis defense of
the much discussed sugar schedule.
In opening his speech, Senator Aid
rich said:
“Mr. President: The business of
the entire country is iu a state of sus¬
pension awaiting the action of the sen¬
ate on the bill under consideration. I
believe the anxiety to secure action
upon this important measure at the
earliest possible day is shared by ev¬
ery member of the senate. I can say
for senators sitting on this side of the
chamber that no time will be spent in
the academic discussion of principles
of protection.
* ‘It is my purpose to keep the bill
continuously before tbo senate to the
exclusiou of all other legislative busi¬
ness nntil it is finally disposed of, and
in this I shall expect the hearty co-op¬
eration of-senators on both sides of
the chamber. ”
After giving in detail the house esti¬
mates of revenue. Mr. Albrich pro¬
ceeded:
“It will be apparent from a critical
examination of the provisions of the
house bill that the estimate of $60,
000,000 increase of revenue, if the bill
should become a law by the 1st of
July, was excessive.
* / “To indicate the grounds upon
’ which this judgment is based, we may
take the wool and woolen schedule,
from which $24,000,000 out of $76,
000,000 increase is expected. The
fact is well known that there have
been unusual importations of wool in
anticipation of the reimposition of a
duty—enough, according to the trade
reports, to supply all the foreign wool
needed by the domestic manufacturers
for more than a year.
“The statistics on this point justify
the belief that there can be no reve¬
nue from the wool duties during the
fiscal year 1898, except third-class possibly a
small amount from wools.
The estimate of $14,000,000 increase
from woolen goods is equally errone¬
ous.
“The same conditions exist, in les¬
ser degrees perhaps, with reference to
other schedules. Instead of an in¬
creased revenue from tobacco, we may
more safely count upon a decrease in
the first year; the increase from sugar
? will be much less than in the ways and
means committee’s estimate, owing to
the fact that one-quarter of the year’s
supplies of raw sugar will probably
be imported before any new rates of
duty can be applied to them.”
Mr. Aldrich closed at 3:10 o’clock
p. m. Pettig then presented
Mr. ew an
amendment that when articles are
manufactured by trust, articles of this
character imported from abroad shall
be free of duty. He soid he would
ask its consideration immediately after
the committee’s amendments.
Mr. Vest declared that the proposi¬
tion to raise $31,000,000 of revenue by
tax on tea and increasing internal rev¬
enue taxes was a “naked and bold”
abandonment of the protective policy
of the republican discussed party. the different
Mr. Vest
schedules and in conclusion said there
was no disposition to delay the consid¬
eration of the bill. There would be
no faction opposition and no unneces¬
sary objection. into
At 5:15 the senate went execu¬
tive session and shortly afterwards
adjourned.
RIO GRANDE LEYEE BREAKS.
Waters Del age the City of El Paso—Many
Houses Swept Away.
At 1 o’clock Tuesday morning the
fire alarm sounded to arouse citizens
in the lower part of El Paso, Texas,
and notify them the levee had broken
and that the flood water of the Rio
Grande was rushing through the city.
The Texas and Pacific railway, real¬
izing that hundreds of families were
being flooded from their homes, back¬
ed in a large number of empty freight
cars for the accommodation of the
homeless.
Not less than 120 homes were swept
away and Reveral hundred men are now
at work on a new levee.
VICTORIA SENDS THANKS.
The congratulations of the president
Victoria’s 01 birthd“y
acknowledged Queen in the following cable
gram veceived at the white house Tnes
day from Ambassador Hay :
bosDOif, May 26.—To the President: I
have just received the following telegram
from Balmoral:
•<j£av i beg you to convey to tho president
my sincere thanks for his congratulations B. I.”
transmitted through you. Victobia
BULLOCH TIMES.
EARLE’S SUCCESSOR.
Congressman McLaurin Commissioned
United States Senator.
A Columbia, S. C., special says:
Congressman John L. McLaurin will
be commissioned United States sena¬
tor to succeed Joseph H. Earle, de¬
ceased.
The governor’s intentions to ap¬
point McLaurin was anticipated and
the news was published broadcast,
consequently he was angry; so were
the South Carolina correspondents.
His excellency said the man who gave
out the telegrams was a falsifier and
should be drummed out of town. But
the guess was so close that it was no
use delaying the announcement.
Since the first announcement of
Senator Earle’s death the opinion has
prevailed that Governor Ellerbe would
name Mr. McLaurin for the vacancy.
In spite of this, however, there have
been a number of other aspirants for
the place.
So South Carolina’s new' senator will
be John Lowndes McLaurin. Mr.
McLaurin was born in Marlboro coun¬
ty, May 9, 18G0. His father, Philip
13. McLaurin, a law yer of ability, died
from exposure in the Confederate
army in 1864. His mother was a
daughter of Colonel T. C. Weatherly,
a “before the war” politician of note.
To this side of the house McLaurin
attributes his taste for politics and
whatever ability be has in that lino.
In 1867 bis mother married W. S.
Mowry, a woalthy business man of
Charleston, who moved later to Engle¬
wood, N. J.
McLaurin belongs to the youug ele¬
ment in Palmetto state politics,having
come to the front since the advent of
Tillman. He was elected to congress as
a reformer, though he has never been
an extremist, and Las always pursued
a somewhat more conservative course
than Tillman himself. He is an Ocal
aite, believes in government control
of the railroads, the sub-treasury, etc.
In the matter of tariff, he is inclined
to protectionism. He is also a free
silver man.
The appointment of McLaurin is, to
some degree, a blow at the dispensary
system, as he is more unfriendly to
that system than any of the other Till
manite leaders. It is considered likely,
however, that on most questions the
new senator will be thoroughly in ac¬
cord with his colleague, Senator Till¬
man.
DENOUNCED STOCKTON.
Chipley Makes Sensational Charges In
Florida Senate.
A sensational outcome of the bitter
contest over the election of United
States senator appeared in the Florida
senate Tuesday afternoon, when Sena¬
tor W. D. Chipley, of Pensacola, ris¬
ing to a question of personal privilege,
read a statement in which he said,
among other things:
“I am reliably informed that a
member of the legislature of Florida,
of which this senate is a part, and of
which I am a member, holds in his
possession a letter addressed to me,
which. I have never seen or read.
“The letter was written to me by
my friend,placed under the protection
of a United States postage Btamp and
then deposited in the writer’s coat
pocket that he might mail it in the
postal car at the terminal station at
Jacksonville, it being his intention to
depart from that station the next morn¬
ing. During the night the private
home of my friend was invaded by
burglars and be was robhed of money
and clothes, and also of the letter ad¬
dressed to myself, which was in his
pocket.
“In all ages a thief has been de¬
spised and execrated by honest men,
yet there is a lower and viler criminal
than a thief, for a thief at least has the
nerve to risk his life when invading
his sleeping victim’s home, but the
benificiary of theft who securely re¬
ceives the stolen goods to his own
profit, or to further his own interest
and purposes, is recognized by the law
and the judgment of all honest and
brave men as a worse and more dan¬
gerous criminal than the cringing
thief himself.
“I state upon reliable information
and belief that the person who holds
and used the said letter as above set
forth is J. N. C. Stockton, a member
of the house of representatives from
Duval county. I ask to have this
statement and protest spread upon the
minutes of the senate.”
Immediately following the reading
of the document, Senator Hartridge
moved that it be spread upon the
journal of the senate, and the motion
was carried unanimously.
LASCELLES GETS A BRIDE.
Another Event In the Checkered Career
of “Lord” lieresford.
A new chapter has just been added
and another era dawns in the existence
of “Lord” Beresford.
Sidney Lascelles has taken unto
himself a wife, and with the wife cornea
a cool $100,000. The story is told in
the following dispatch from Fitzger¬
ald, Ga.
“The lucky star of Sydney Lacelles,
which has been in the ascendant since
his arrival in Fitzgerald, bringing him
social and financial success, has event¬
ually attained a climax totally unex¬
pected by any but his intimate friends.
Lascelles is now receiying the con¬
gratulations of the whole community."
DEBATED BY CABINET.
The Cuban Situation Discanned at Tuen*
day’s Meeting.
The cabinet again gave most of its
Tuesday to the discussion of
ed Americans in the island, bnt also
the general subject of insurrection.
As to the latter, the proceedings
were confined entirely to discussion
and it was not attempted* to outline
any definite plan of procedure.
STATESBORO, GA., THURSDAY, MAY 27, J897.
FRUIT STEAMER CHASED BY SPAN¬
ISH MAN OF WAR.
CALLED DOWN BY STORM OF SHOT
The Hold-Up Wsi Attempted On the Out¬
bound Trip and the Return.
Captain’s Story.
After being twice chased by Spanish
gnuboats and passing through a per¬
fect storm of shot, which splashed in
the water across the vessel’s bows, the
British fruit steamer, Ethelred arrived
at Philadelphia Sunday night, after a
five days run from Port Antonio, Ja¬
maica.
When the Ethelred left Philadelphia
May 12th, it was the intention of Capt.
J. I>. Hart to accompany her, but hg.
was arrested as he was about to go
aboard. As it was, his invalid daugh¬
ter was a passenger. It is supposed
that the agents of the Spanish govern¬
ment in the city had notified the Span¬
ish authorities in Havana to watch for
the Ethelred in Havana watprs.
The first encounter with the Span¬
ish cruisers occurred off Cape Maisi,
on the trip down. Just after dusk
on Sunday evening. Itlsy 16th, a gun¬
boat without lights shot out from un¬
der the Maisi capes and crowding on
all steam steered directly for the fruit
vessel.
After steaming for an hour without
gaining an inch, the gunboat turned a
search-light on the other vessel.
All steam was crowded on the
Ethelred, which was beginning to show
the Spaniards a clean pair of heels,
when a small white cloud of smoke
belched from the cruiser’s side, and a
second later a solid Bliot cut the water
a half mile ahead of her bows. Then
came a second and third shot, each
nearer than the other.
Captain Israel kept on his course,
and after another honr’s hot chase,the
Spaniards dropped from the race. last
The second chase happened
Thursday in almost the same spot in
which the attempt to hold the vessel
up occurred. Just as the Ethelred
rounded Cape Maisi an immense Span¬
ish gunboat,of the newest type, started
out from under the cape and gave
chase. For two hours the chase was
kept up, enlivened now and then by a
solid shot throwing jip a sheet of white
spray just ahead of the swift vessel’s
bows.
It began to look as if the Spaniard
meant to chase the Ethelred clear to
the Delaware capes, when another
steamship was sighted and the big
gunboat steered off and gave vigorous
chase to the newly discovered vessel.
CROCKETT SOUGHT DEATH.
Placed Muzzle of Gun In Hla Month and
Blew His Head Off.
James P. Crockett, who is said to
be the second wealthiest citizen in De
Kalb county, Ga., and who has always
enjoyed the respect and esteem of that
section, placed the muzzle of a double
barreled shotgun in his mouth Sunday
morning and blew his head almost en¬
tirely from his body.
The cause is shrouded in deepest
mystery. Some say it was mental
aberration; others believe his poor
state of health had something to do
with it. Crockett had been ill for over
six months, suffering with rheuma¬
tism.
There was no cause for despondency
or discouragement in his business af¬
fairs. Ever since he started his little
grocery store in Decatur, when Atlan¬
ta was flame swept by Sherman’s torch,
his success has been unhindered. He
later speculated in real estate, making
a fortune of nearly $200,000, which he
now leaves to his family.
YOUTHFUL BANK THIEF CAUGHT.
The 830,000 He Had Taken Found on His
Person.
Albert M. King, the Boston bank
messenger, who disappeared from that
city a few days ago with $30,000 of
the bank’s money, was arrested at
Farmington, Me., Sunday.
King reached the place on a train
from the Rangeley lake region and
was taken into custody immediately.
When searched at tho jail all the
money taken from the bank was found
in King’s pockets.
AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY
To Hold Golden June 1st Jubilee to 4th. In Philadelphia
The golden jubilee meeting of the
American Medical association will be
beH in Philadelphia on Jane 1st, 2d,
3d and 4th, and promises to be not
only the most important meeting ever
held by this great organization, but
also the largest gathering of noted
medical men ever before brought to¬
gether in the city.
Apart from the large attendance of
physicians from all parts of the coun¬
try, the numerous able and interest¬
ing papers placed upon the program
insure a meeting of important scien¬
tific results.
DEATH IN FLAMES.
Two People Killed and Three Fire. Seriously
Injured In a New York
Two persons were killed and three
injured in a fire at New York Sunday
morning in the four-story and base¬
ment brownstone building at 149 West
Twenty-third street. Several persons
narrowly escaped death. Mossway, The dead
are: Mrs. Catherine 33
years, died at hospital from suffocation
and burns; Beatrice Mossway, 4 years
old, daughter of the former, suffoca¬
ted in her room.
HISTORIC AL CHl’RCH BURNED.
Was First Edifice For Worship Built In
Savannah By John Wesley.
Christ church, the mother of the
Episcopal union in Savannah, the first
and only church founded and built in
America by John Wesley, the founder
of Methodism, before he left the Epis¬
copal church, the ground for which
was ceded by King George III, has
been destroyed by fire. 12:30 o’clock
Tlie fire broke out at
Saturday night and the church was
soon a mass of ruins, i *
The cause of the fire was the care¬
lessness of the porter who pumps the
organ. He keeps a candle back of his
bellows guage at night so that he can
read the indicator. After the choir
practice Saturday night lie went away
and forgot to put out this candle,
which burned out and started the con¬
flagration. contained
The church the records of
Savannah and much of those of Geor¬
gia from 1810, the time, when it was
destroyed by a hurricane, and all
these were burned. The records be¬
fore that time were destroyed by^the
hurricane.
The original church was founded
soon after the settlement of Savan¬
nah. The first edifice was begun in
1743, but was not completed until
1750.
In 1790 it wae destroyed by fire and
was rebuilt upon an enlarged plan in
1803. The next year it was partly de¬
molished by a hurricane and was not
rebuilt until 1810.
In 1838 the corner-stone of the pres¬
ent edifice was laid, the old church
having been torn down, and the build¬
ing was completed in 1810.
The founder of Christ church was
Rev. Henry Herbert, who came over
from England with Oglethorpe. John
Wesley was its third rector, and on the
site of the present edifice stood the
rude chapel in which he administered
as chaplain to the colonists.
It was in Christ church thnt the first
Sunday school was established by
John Wesley, nearly fifty years before
Robert Roikes, who is honored as the
founder of Sunday schools, originated
the scheme of Sunday instruction in
Gloucester, England, and eighty years
before the first Sunday school in
America on the Raikes plan was es¬
tablished.
PREPARING FOB QUEEN’S JUBILEE
•London is Taking On a “Strictly Busi¬
ness” Aspect.
London, according to advices, is al¬
ready plunged into the queen’s jubilee
preparations and for the next six
weeks it promises to be the most un¬
comfortable city iu Europe.
Along the route* of the procession
the fronts of the buildings are disfig¬
ured by hideous scaffoldings, prepara¬
tory to building seats. Even churches
like St. Martin’s, in the fields, have
been sold to speculators, who have al
•niost completely covered the edifice
mentioned with building preparations,
a little sign reading “Services as
usual” being about the only indication
left of the church proper. St. Paul’s
cathedral is likewise disfigured by
huge stands.
The price of provisions has already
advanced and everything has at least
doubled in cost.
For the jubilee week several of the
large hotels refuse to make any definite
arrangements for rooms, even to old
patrons, until a weef' before the jubi¬
lee. Every person who has been able
to do so has let his or her house for
the celebration and is preparing to flee
to the country. The fact is that every
one in London is, to use a slang ex¬
pression, “on the make.”
ROUSS MONUMENT IS DEDICATED.
Blind Millionaire's Gift to Confederate
Veterans Is Aceepted.
The monument givtfh by Charles
Broadway Rouss, the millionaire New
York merchant, to Confederate Vete¬
rans camp was dedicated Saturday
afternoon in Mt. Hope cemetery, in
West Chester county.
After the dedication the graves of
the veterans of the southern army were
strewn with flowers. After an hour
the visitors returned to the city, where
a reception was given to Mr. Rouss in
the evening. finest in the
The monument is the
cemetery. It cost $5,000. It is New
England granite, sixty feet high on a
base of ten feet. The pedestal is com¬
posed of only three pieces and is nine
feet high. The following inscription
is at the base of the monument:
“Sacred to the memory of the heroic
dead of the Confederate Veteran camp
of New York.”
WILL PARDON REDWINE.
Attorney General Has Ordered His Case
Reopened*
A Washington special of Sunday
says: Lewis Redwine, the wrecker o T
the Gate City National bank at Atlan¬
ta, and who is serving a term in the
Columbus Ohio, penitentiary, will be
pardoned. general has given
The attorney or¬
ders for the reopening of his case,
which was closed when President
Cleveland refused to grant the pardon
upon the former application. This
was done at the* instance of Colonel
Back, who went to Attorney General
McKenna to nrge that action.
LIST OF NEEDY AMERICANS.
Consol Bee Places the Number In Cuba at
1,200 More Than the Estimate.
A telegram was received at the state
department Sunday morning from Con¬
sul General Lee indicating that the
number of Americans in need in Cuba
is much larger than was supposed at
first.
The consul general says that the
number may reach 1,200. The consul
at Matanzas reports 250 there and the
consul at Sagua 450.
HE IS ALLOWED TO RETIRE WITH
OUT DISMISSAL.
PRESIDENT M’KINLEY IS LENIENT.
The Finding of the Conrtmartial Was Dis¬
charge From the Service, But the
President Saves Old Soldier.
President McKinley has remitted
the sentence of dismissal imposed by
conrtmartial on Captain Rorneyn,
Fifth infantry, who, after a sensation¬
al trial, was convicted recently of as¬
sault on Lieutenant O’Brien, of the
same regiment, at Fort McPherson,
Georgia.
In view of the fact that Captain Ro
meyn will retire by operation of law
on June 1, the president believes that
the ends of justice will be served by
his severe reprimand.
The endorsement of President Mc¬
Kinley in the Rorneyn case is as fol¬
lows:
“Executive Mansion, Washington, D. C.,
May 24.—The proceedings, findings and sen¬
tence In the case of Captain Henry Rorneyn,
Fifth Infantry, are approved; but upon the
recommendation of the majority of the mem¬
bers of the courtmartial and In consideration
of his long and honorable services and
wound received In battle, of the modal of
honor held by him for the most distinguish¬
ed gallantry fn action, of the fact that he
will by operation of law be retired for age
(64 years) on the first day of Juno next and
of his appeal to the executive for clemency,
the sentence awarded by the court is re¬
mitted. In doing so, however, I cannot fail
to express my condemnation of the conduct
of which Capt Rorneyn has been found
guilty and regret that he failed upon the oc¬
casion to control his temper In a manner be¬
coming his service and his age. •
(Signed) “William McKinley.”
Komeyn Not Pleased.
Capt. Rorneyn did not appear to be
elated when the telegram from Wash¬
ington was shown to him. He was
quite reticent, but intimated that he
was not altogether pleased with the
president’s decision.
He was pleased to learn that the
sentence of the court had been set
aside, but did not look upon the
idea of a severe reprimand with any
favor.
While the decision of the president
was not altogether agreeable to Cap¬
tain Rorneyn it was equally as unsat¬
isfactory to the other faction at the
post.
Captain Rorneyn will be sixty-four
years old on the first day of June, and
will retii e by operation of law. He
will go from the post direct to Nash¬
ville to take charge of the Chilian ex¬
hibit at the Tennessee exposition. His
daughter has been getting along nice¬
ly with the work there, and will re¬
main as his assistant.
What tho Charge Was.
Capt Henry Romeyu was tried be¬
fore a courtmartial at Fort McPherson
during the latter part of April and
first of May. He was charged with
striking Lieutenant O’Brien on the
parade ground and with slandering the
fair name of Mrs. O'Brien.
The trial was one of the most sensa¬
tional that has ever taken place in this
country. The accused officer pleaded
not guilty, ‘but in reality set up
the defense of justification. He
attempted to show that the re¬
marks he had made about Mrs.
O’Brien were justified by the at¬
tentions that lady had received from
Lieutenant Bamford. He claimed that
Lieutenant Bamford had been engaged
to his daughter, Miss Nina Rorneyn,
and that this fact gave him the privi¬
lege of commenting on Mrs. O’Brien’s
conduct.
Many of the ladies and officers of
the post were called on to testify in
regard to the alleged scandal and the
parade ground incident. After going
thoroughly into the case the court
formulated the sentence of dismissal,
which was set aside by the president.
President Accepts Invitation.
The president has accepted the invi¬
tation of the business men of Phila¬
delphia to visit that city on June 2d to
attend the opening of the Commercial
museum and other functions that have
been arranged for that date.
AUTHORITY RESTRICTED.
Interitate Commerce Coimnisiion It Only
An Advisory Body.
The United States supreme court
decided two cases Monday, holding
that the United States interstate com¬
mission has no power to prescribe rates
on railroads which it may control in
the future.
The cases were those of the com¬
mission vs. the Cincinnati and New
Orleans Railroad company and the
Florida and Western company.
The decision of the court is con¬
strued to mean that the interstate com¬
merce commission has no power to
pass upon rates before they are put
into effect.
Sectarian Buildings Not Allowed.
Attorney General McKenna ren¬
dered an opinion Monday to the effect
that the secretary of war has no
authority to authorize the erection of
sectarian buildings on military reserva¬
tions.
_
Sunk in Quicksand.
Four workmen employed by the city
of Fort Wayne, Ind., were engulfed
in quicksand Monday. Three of them
were killed and the fourth was fatally
injured.
RELIEF MONEY AYAILABLE.
President McKinley Sign* Resolution Ap¬
propriating It.
The resolution appropriating $50,
000 for the relief of distressed Ameri¬
can citizens in Cuba, reached the
■white house at half past twelve Mon¬
day, just as soon as it could he sent up
after being signed in both houses
while they were in open session.
The president signed the resolution
immediately. proceed consnlt
He wiH at once to
with the officers of the state depart¬
ment respecting the adoption of meas¬
ures of relief in addition to those
taken last week, when Consul General
Lee was authorized to draw upon the
state department for $10,000 for the
procurement of immediate supplies.
State department officials are of the
opinion that it will not suffice to send
money to Cuba, but believe that in
view of the high prices for provisions be
prevailing on the island, it will
best to procure at least a portion of
the stores in this oountry aqd send
them by freight steamers to Cuba.
Representative McMillin, of Ten¬
nessee, introduced in the house
a resolution providing for the consid¬
eration of the senate resolution recog¬
nizing the belligerency of the Cuban
insurgents “from day to day until dis¬
posed of.”
The resolution was referred to the
committee on rules, but it is not likely
that the oommitteo will consider it.
The majority leaders will decide for
themselves when it is proper to act on
the resolution.
The house adjourned at 12:25 p. m.
on account of the death of Senator
Earle, of South Carolina.
OBSERVED VICTORIA’S BIRTHDAY
Fort Tampa, Floriila, Fays Tribute to
England's Ruler.
A unique and international event
took place at Port Tampa, Fla., Mon¬
day, closing with a banquet in the
Port Tampa inn in honor of the seven¬
ty-eighth birthday of Queen Victoria.
Five thousand citizens and visitors
participated in the programme of the
day and evening. Pallas and
The British ship of war
the United States cruiser Montgomery
lay at anchor off the docks,which were
crowded with people. PresidentMcKinley
By permission of
an armed force of 100 disembarked
from the Pallas and took part in the
procession with a similar force from
the Montgomery and alBO the Port
Tampa naval reserves, fifty-five men,
the first company of this branch to
appear uniformed in Florida.
At the celebration grounds exhibi¬
tion drills and athletic sports consti
failed the .programme.,
At noon the United States national
satute was given by the two ships fir¬
ing alternately.
RIOT IN REICHSRATH.
Austrian Statesmen Involved In a Scan¬
dalous Proceeding.
The London Standard’s correspond
ent at Vienna says; “The obstruction
which characterized the proceedings
in the reiehsrath during the last few
weeks culminated Monday in an un¬
precedented president scene. became excited
“The so
in anticipation of trouble that he
fainted before the session opened snd
the vice president had to take the
chair.
“For hours members of the opposi¬
tion had recourse to every parliament
device for obstructing business and
finally when these . wero exhausted,
overturned desks, smashed inkstands,
flung books in the faces of the speak¬
ers, indulged in coarse invectives and
finally came to blows in a general
riot. ”
INVESTORS MAY RECOVER.
Claims Against the Denn Company May
Be Paid.
It is stated on reliable authority
that every indication at the present
time points to a settlement of a large
part of the claims against the late E.
8. Dean Company, at New York. At
any rate, it is said, the persons who
invested money in the concern, will
recover some of their cash.
This will not be because the men
who were the head and front of that
concern are likely to surrender any
of their receipts, but because of the
pressure which may be brought to
bear on the men who, as members of
the New York stock exchange and the
Chicago board of trade, acted as the
“wash” sales brokers of the defnnet
corporation.
FLANAGAN TRIAL POSTPONED.
The Doable Murderer Gets a New Leal*
On Life.
Edward S. Flanagan, the Decatur
double murderer, secured a new lease
on life Monday morning. The illness
of his leading counsel operated and Judge as a
stay in the trial of his case
Candler postponed the trial for sixty
days on that account. Monday, July
26th, is the date set for the trial.
Flanagan, in the meantime, will be
kept in the Decatur jail, and will
have for companions two other mur¬
derers, H. S. Perry and Terry Hud
son, both of whom have been convict
-
ed of murder. The gallows awaits
each of them.
POSTAL SYSTEM IN HONG KONG.
Li Huns Chan* Offer, a Chicago Man
the Job of Superintendent.
Frederick F. Stoil, formerly general
superintendent of city delivery in the
Chicago postoffice, has been asked,
through a representative of Li Hung
Chang, to take charge of the free de¬
livery postal system which it is pro¬
posed to establish in Hong Kong.
The offer carries a salary of $6,000 a
year for five years.
BY DAVID B. TURNER.
j
DUKE OF TETUAN SENDS IN HIS
RESIGNATION.
A FISTICUFF CREATES EXCITEMENT
Recognition of Insurgent* by American
Senate Wn* Attributed by Tctuan
to Speech of Sngasta.
Iu the Spanish senate at Madrid,
Friday, there was a heated and tumul¬
tuous debate regarding the resolution
passed by the United States senate to
recognize the Cuban belligerents.
The debate was followed by an ex¬
cited discussion in the lobbies.
This led to a dispute between the
Duke of Tetuan, the minister of foreign
affairs, and a liberal senator, which
ended in the duke boxing the senator’s
ears.
A great commotion ensued and the
sitting of the senate was suspended.
The liberal minority afterwards held
a meeting to consider the situation,
and ex-Premier Sagas ta, the liberal
leader, was summoned to confer with
his followers.
An urgent message was also sent to
the premier, Senor Canovas del Cas¬
tillo, by the ministerialists.
The duke of Tetuan later in the day
resigned as a result of the incident.
Senor Canovas, the premier, will
take the the portfolio ad interim.
The liberal senators have decided to
attend no more sessions of the senate
until full satisfaction has been accord¬
ed to Senator Comas and the liberal
party by the duke of Tetuan.
The duke of Tetuan and Senator
Comas selected seconds as preliminary
to a duel.
Later the seconds of the duko of
Tetuan and of Senator Comas de¬
cided that as the aggressions are recip¬
rocal, a duel is not necessary.
Senor Comas is probably Professor
Comas, who in June last, in the Span¬
ish senate, supported the amendment
to the address asking that treaties with
the United States might be canceled
on the ground that endangered they were the a source
of conflict and peace
of Spain and the United States.
He made a speech bitterly assailing
the United States and welcoming the
conflict, which he looked on as inevit¬
able.
CONDUCTORS ADJOURN.
Officers Elected By the Convention For the
Next Vear.
The twenty-sixth session of the
grand division of the Order of Rail
way Conductors was brought to a
cloRe at Los Angeles, Cal.
The election of officers for the ensu¬
ing year resulted in the choice of the
following: conductor, F. E. Clarke,
Grand chief
re-elected. H.
Assistant grand conductor, C.
Wilkins, re-elected.
Grand secretary and treasurer, Mar¬
tin Clancy, re-elected.
Grand senior conductor, A. B. Gar
retson, re-elected.
Grand junior conductor, W. B. l’er
kins, of Los Angeles.
ARRANGE TERMS OF PEACE.
Annexation of Thessaly Denied; Indem¬
nity Will Be Fixed.
A dispatch to Tho London Daily
Mail from Constantinople says:
“The ambassadors will present a
note to the porte embodying the terms
of peace to which they will agree.
The note will refuse to permit the
abolition of the capitulations in the
cases of Greek subjects or the annexa¬
tion of Thessaly, but will consent to a
strategic rectification of the frontier
and to an indemnity not exceeding
115,000,000 francs.”
MUST WORK HARD.
Governor Filigree Exacts Great Things of
the Michigan Legislature.
Governor Pingree, of Michigan, has
volunteered the information that if the
members of the state legislature want
to get through and go home the last of
May, as contemplated, they muBt first
pass a law to get at least a millon of
dollars more out of corporations. Oth¬
erwise he will call an extra session.
SUBTERRANEAN FIRES
Threaten the Town of Newbnrf in West
Virginia.
The mines on the upper level of the
old Scotch hill are on fire and tffrenten
the existence of the town of Newburg,
W. Va., which is bniit over the mines.
The fire was started years ago by
malicious persons, and has recently
grown so large that the residents have
become alarmed.
Armistice for Seventeen Days.
An armistice between the Turkish
and Greek trttops in Thessaly, to ex¬
tend over a period of seventeen days,
was formally concluded at Athens
Thursday.
GOVERNOR ONLY CAN SATE.
A Washington dispatch says: The
fate of Henry White is in the hands of
Governor Atkinson, of Georgia.
Unless the governor grants a com¬
mutation of sentence White will hang
at Columbus on the 4th of Juno.
The writ of error sought at the
hands of the United States supreme
court has been denied, and now the
young man’s fate is in the governor’s
hands.
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