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THE BULLOCH TIMES.
YOI, VI. NO. 85
LEGISLATURE BEGINS BALLOTING
FOR VARIOUS CANDIDATES.
GORMAN MAY HAVE A CHANCE.
Present Incumbent Was Lending on First
Bound, But ltepublienns Are Badly
Split as to Choice.
The first ballot iu the Maryland leg¬
islature for a successor to Arthur P.
Gorman in the United States senate
was taken at Annapolis Tuesday, each
^ branch balloting separately with the
following result;
McComas, 34; Shew, 11; Shyrock,
3; Findlay, 2; Parran; C: Mullikeu, 1;
Barber, 0; Urno, 1; Gorman, 43; Lown¬
des, 1; Page, 1, Total, 109. Neces
sary to a choice, 55.
The candidates are Judge Louis E.
McComas, of Waihington county; Ma¬
jor Alexander Shaw, General Thomas
J. Shyrock, ex-Oongressmau V. Find¬
lay, all of Baltimore city; Thomas
Parran, Colonel J. O. Mullikeu, Con¬
gressman Isaac A. Barber and Milton
G. Turner.
But one ballot was taken and this
leaves the situation as much involved
in uncertainly as it was before the
voting began. The preliminary skir¬
mishing has been attended w ith great
bitterness and dissension in the ranks
of the republicans, who have a con¬
siderable majority in both houses.
These dissensions have rendered it
impossible to tiring about a republi¬
can caucus aud there seems to lie lit¬
tle probability that this method of set¬
tling tbo dispute will be resorted to
in the near future.
The first break in the republican
ranks came two weeks ago, when
eleven members of the house delegates
from Baltimore city refused to caucus
on the speakership and by effecting a
coalition with the democrats elected
one of their own mnjiber to that office.
Numerous attempts have since been
ma le to get the seceders back in line,
but they remain in their position.
Without at least tw-o of their number
the republicans are powerless to elect
any one and with the aid of the demo
eratic vote the “faithful eleven, as
they have been nicknamed, may at any
time elect a man of their own choos
jf ing, or cause a deadlock until the end
of the session. With this possibility
in view the democrats are using every
possible means to foment the discord.
Such a situation naturally gives rise
to all manner of conjecture and specu¬
lation aud there are many who believe
that it may yet be possible for Senator
Gorman to succeed himself, i£ he can
carry the next legislature election iu
November, 1899. This possibility is,
however, admitted by the democratic
leaders to be a very remote one.
IMPERSONATED THE DEVIL.
mine Man Causes Stampede of a Church
Congregation.
At Bourbon, Incl,, Rev. Mr. Akin,
pastor of the flock of Bethel church*
took for his theme at an evening ser
vice “His Satanic Majesty. He
painted the arch-fiend in vivid colors,
At the close of tha description, a be
ing dressed to represent a devil with
large head and switching tail ambled
up tbe aisle, blowing smoke from his
.A nostrils and bellowing:
“I am the devil, and I want all of
you!” panic-stricken.
The audience became
Men, women and children were hurled
to the floor and trampled upon in the
mad rush for the door. In the confu¬
sion the stove was overturned and the
building caught fire. Before the hor¬
rified members regained their senses
the fire had made such headway that
ail attempts to save the church were
in vain. George Akin, son of the
pastor, confessed that he, with the
help of other boys, rigged up the
devil suit, knowing the subject of his
father's sermon.
IS JOINT CONVENTION.
Hltuinlnuus Goal Miner* and Operator*
Meet to Settle Wage Scale.
The interstate joint convention of
bituminous coal miners and operators
assembled at Chicago Tuesday pre¬
pared to do business in a methodical
manner. The state delegation had
been thoroughly organized and scale
committees had been named. *
CHARGES AGAINST ZOLA.
He Will Be Prosecuted For Alleged Libel¬
ous Publication.
A Paris special says: The minister
of war, General Billot, has lodged
with the minister of justice a formal
complaint against M. Emile Zola and
the manager of the Aurora.
The Aurora on January 1st publish¬
ed an open letter from M Emile Zola
to President Faure pointing ont irreg¬
ularities in the court martial of Major
Count Esterhazy and formally accus¬
ing the minister for war and the in¬
vestigation officers of conniving with
—AT the irregularities, and alleging that
\iiic of the witnesses was guilty of per¬
jury, and challenging the government
to prosecute him.
RECOMMENDS PAYMENT.
McKinlry Su(or«*t» BZ.OOO Be Paid Heir*
ol Morelia, Who Waa Lynehrd.
President McKinley Tuesday sent
to the senate a message with the re¬
port from the secretary of the treasury
relating the lynching, in 1894. at Yre
ka. Cal., of Louis Morena, a Mexican
citizen, and the demancj of the Mexi¬
can government for indemnity
The president recommends that the
sum of $2,003 to be pa d the govern
of Mexico.
WAR AGAINST TRADING STAMPS.
Chattanooea City Council Favors Imposi¬
tion of License of SSOO on the Business.
The board of mayor and aldermen of
Chattanooga, Tenn., have inaugurated
a vigorous warfare against the trading
stamp business in the city and stale.
An ordinance was introduced and pass
fY* “*■ •*“ A - 1 reading providing for
of an annual city tax
% 1 Imp companies of $500,
Jk \al rbants license doing of business $250 a
V V companies.
INACCURATE WAR HISTORY
- Sf jh -*-.
3au*e* Atlanta Confederate V * to
Register an Emphatic , L <p i
Camp 159 of the Confederate Veter¬
ans’ association of Fulton eojCuty.Ga.,
it a recent meeting, donourced in ft
lecided manner a history of the civil
war Andrews, written by Preside?! Benjamin
of Brown university, R. L
Colonel “Tip” Hartison, chief clerk
in the comptroller general’s oftioe,
irose with a book in hand. He re*
(nested the attention of the cftntp ftud
mid that the book lie w*s holding con¬
tained a history of the civil war and
was written by Benjamin Andrews, of
Brown university. He said that somo
time ago a book agent came to him
ind said that he had a history of the
war for sale that would please the
southern people.
Many histories of tlio war had been
written, but they were nearly all col¬
ored with northern sentiments and
prejudices and did not give a fair ac
conut of the war. Inasmuch as the
valor auil achievements of the south¬
ern forces had never beeu given in
their truo light he wanted to put on
the market a book that would do just¬
ice to the confederate soldiers.
After such a statement of the hook
agent Mr. Harrison purchased a vol¬
ume. He naturally began to read the
book with great interest. He got to
the famous battle of Vicksburg, aud
among other things ho read that Grant
had marched 100 miles in an incredi¬
bly short time, whipped the confeder¬
ates in four successive engagements
and swept the field, making a record
brilliant as Napoleau’s. had read this
AVlion Mr. Harrison
description of the fight he saw at once
that the agent had misrepresented the
nature of the hook and that anothor
piece of historical literature bad been
added to the already large list that is
giving an erroneous conception of the
w ar to the younger generation in the
south.
Mr. Harrison rend the account of
the battle of Vicksbnrg to the camp, had
and many of the veterans who
been there during the war at once saw
that the account was grossly inaccu¬ much
rate. The veterans were very
stirred up that such a history should
be foisted on the people of this section
as a fair and impartial account of the
war.
The following resolution was offered
au( j a q op t e j ;
“Resolved, That the camp authorize
r Harrison to vanquish that author
in nn art j e ] e j- e futing his statements,
and to thank him in advance for So
doing.” moved that
Colonel AY. A. Hemphill
Mr. Harrison be authorized to send a
copy of his article to the p ublisher aud
author of the book with the official
endorsement of the camp. This Was
carried.
TELLER RESOLUTION PRESENTED
_
Provides For Payment of Bonds Silver
a» Weil A» Gold,
A Washington dispatch says: The
senate committee on finance voted
Tuesday to report the Teller resolution
declaring for the payment of national
bolK ls ill silver as well as gold. The
vote stood 8 to 5.
Xli e resolution is practically the
same as tbe Stanley Matthews resolu
Fj on a j 0 pte(l some years ago.
In accordance with notice previously
given Mr H ale, Maine, called up the
urgent deficiency bill. The bill as it
passed the house carried $1,741,843;
as it was reported to the senate it car*
lies $1,891,923, an increase of $150,
080.
The bill carrying $1,913,810 was
passed after a few amendments were
made.
The army appropriation bill was
passed by the house, at Tuesday’s
session, and the diplomatic and con¬
sular appropriation bill taken up.
The minority served notice that they
proposed to debate our foreign rela¬
tions exhaustively.
MORGAN TALKS OF HAWAII.
Advises Senators That Annexation Is the
Proper Thing.
A Washington special says: Senator
Morgan occupied the attention of the
senate during the entire time of the
executive session Tuesday in the pre¬
sentation of his views on the subject
of annexation of the Hawaiian islands.
This was the second installment of
tbe senator’s speech, and when he con¬
cluded he had not then reached the
end. His speech was a general pre¬
sentation of the importance of the
islands to the United States.
SQUADRON GOES SOUTH.
Ships Ilouml For Evolution Headquarters
at. I>ry Tortuaas.
A Washington special says: The
North Atlantic squadron is now mov¬
ing towards the gulf waters. The
ships New York, Indiana, Massachu¬
setts and Iowa left Old Point at 10
o’clock Sunday morning and at noon
passed out the cape, south bound.
The fleet is proceeding directly at
ten knots speed to Dry Tortngas, their
headquarters for the gulf evolutions.
The ships are equipped for a long
voyage and their magazines are well
stocked.
It was said at the navy department
Monday morning that the orders to
the North Atlantic squadron to pro¬
ceed to sonthern waters had nothing
whatever to do with the Cuban ques¬
tion and the recent troubles there.
EXPLOSION KILLS FORTY.
Mine of Oonetzear Company Iu Ru««la
Wrecked By Ga*.
Advices received Tuesday from St.
Petersburg, Russia, say that forty
persons were killed outright and eigh¬
teen others injured by an explosion of
gas in one of the mines of the Donet
zcar company, in the Tagenrog dis¬
trict, on the north shore of the sea oi
Azov. The mine was completely
aTcrke'd.
Americans Arrested in Mexico.
Advices from Mexico City state that
four Americans have been arrested and
are rigorously incommunicado, being
suspected of complicity in robberies
of great magnitude.
For Both Gold and Silvery
Representative Bland, of M,l ssoan,
introduced a free coinage in i eon*
gress Thursday. It makes'gold and
silver tbe standard and /declares all
rules discriminating agai net the leg*.
leader of each coinage ttnlawfuj.
STATESBORO, GA., FRIDAY. JANUARY 21,1898.
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HE ANNOUNCES, XOTWITHSTAND.
ING CONTRARY ASSERTION.
HAS HEADQUARTERS IN NASHVILLE
Other Camlidn’es and Their Friend*
are Indignant, at Tiirn Affairs
liaVe Taken.
A Nashville, Tenn., special soys:
The contest for the United States sen
atorship is overshadowing the other
questions that will come before the
general assembly.
Governor Taylor has at last yielded
to the solicitation of friends who have
been endeavoring to drag him into the
senatorial race, and Saturday after
noou ftnnoun ced openly that he was n
candidate. His friends had already
opened headquarters. his Governor
Before announcement,
Taylor sent a messenger to Senatoi
Turley, asking him that he be released
from the obligation Turley to replied not run against the
him. Senator that
governor was Under no obligation to
him but was bis own free agent.
An effort was made to have Senator
Turley give a written statement that
he, Turley, had voluntarily consented
that Taylor should run, but Senator
Turley declined to do so, stating that
it would be untrue. He would neither
give nor withhold his consent.
The Turley men are indignant at
Taylor’s candidacy.
Senator Turley’s friends still talk
with confidence and Mr.McMiliin says
he sees no change in the situation, as
he realized from the start that Taylor
was a candidate and based bis cam¬
paign plans on this fact.
H0N.“BEN”BUTTERWORTH DEAD.
Public Official Succumbs to Pneumonia
In Thomasvllle* Ga.
Hon. Ben Bntterworth, who has
Been ill at the Plney Woods hotel,
Thomnsville, for some weeks, died at
3 o’clock Sunday afternoon.
The end came peacefully and in his
dying hour he was surrounded by his
wife and children
Benjamin Brttterwol-th was what is
known as a “birthright Quaker.
Those who knew him best during his
busy career ale unanimous in saying
of him “his daily life was an exem¬
plary of the tenets of public that good old
faith as that of any official
could be-”
He was born iu Warren connty, Ohio
October 22, 1837, senate aud was a
member of the state of Ohio from War¬
ren and Butler counties in 1873-’74;
was elected front the first Ohio dis¬
trict to the forty-seventh, forth-ninth
and fiftieth congresses and was re¬
elected to the fifty-first congress as a
republican. attained the
During the war he
rank of major in an Ohio regiment.
He was commissioner of patents first
during the administration of Garfield
aud Arthur and his record made then
and subsequently had great weight
w-ith President McKinley in selecting
him for that position. of the
He was made secretary
World’s fair project early in the in¬
ception of that great enterprise at
Chicago during the early nineties and
worked along in that capacity with
honor to himself and profit to the
company until its close.
In Washington City, no less than in
his native state, Major Butterworth
enjoyed a wide acquaintance and great
popularity, and the news of his death,
while by no means unexpected, caused
general sorrow there. No public man
probably had a larger circle of per¬
sonal friends at the capital. He con¬ the
tracted his fatal illness while on
stump in the late Ohio campaign.
MONTHLY EXPORTS.
Statistical Bureau Give. Flftui-es F<»
December, 1897.
The monthly statement of the ex
ports and imports issued by the bu¬
reau of statistics at Washington shows
that the exports of domestic jnerchan
dise for December last amounted to
$123,181,743, an increase as compared
with December, 1896, of over $7,000,
000. For the twelve months the in¬
crease was over $90,000,000. The
imports of merchandise during Decem¬
ber last amounted to $61,514,733, of
which 824 .184,588 was free of duty.
CARTER TRIAL UNDER WAY.
Captain Gillette Te»tlfle» a* to the Work
Under His Supervision.
Captain Cassius E. Gillette was the
first witness introduced in the Carter
courtmartial at Savannah Friday morn¬
ing. He was on the stand some time
and testified as to the work under his
supervision and relative to the method
by which it was done by the Atlantic
Constructing Co.
He told of the work on Cumberland
sound being taken ont of his jurisdic¬
tion. He recited the fact incident to
his inspection of material for the Cum¬
berland island work and said that it
was not constructed as tightly as it
should have been.
POPULISTS FINISH THEIR WORK.
Tlte Convention Submit* Question* to
Members of the Parly.
The populists concluded their work
in St. Louis Friday by giving out tbe
details for setting in motion their
novel plan of taking a referendum
vote of the rank and file of their party.
The questions submitted are:
-What date is your choice for hold
imr a national convention ior the com
ination of presidenUal Friday, ““^atea, May
Monday, July 4th, 1898,
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TRAMPS AS FIREBUGS.
Bie Lumber Mill In vyt.con.ln Burned
With Heavy Loss.
The lumber mill of the Ingerso!
Land and Lumber company at Eland
Junction, Wia., burned Friday, loss
$70,000. The company is a Henry
Shetry corporation and the mill had
not been run since Mr- Sherry made
an issignment.
It is thought the fire was of incen¬
diary origin, probably the work of
tramp*.
BILLED SWEETHEART AND SELF,
Herbert Seely and His Expected Bride
Found Dead In the Woods.
A special from Pensacola, Fla., says:
Last Friday night Herbert Seely and
Miss Alice Caro, of Warrington, a
town surrounding the navy yard, left
in a buggy to attend a party at Mill
view, about ten miles away.
They arrived safely aud were Dancing among
the gayest of all the gut sta.
was kept up until aftyr midnight and
about 2 a. m. the youug couple left to
return home. Miss Caro and her
escort did not appear at Warrington
Saturday, but no alarm was felt by
her family as it was supposed that she
remained over with a relative who re¬
sides near Millview,
It was learned Sunday evening that
the couple left Millview the night of
the party and the young lady had not
stopped at the home of her relatives.
Monday morning a searching party
was organized and near a bridge, a few
miles from Millview, the horse attach¬
ed to the vehicle was found tied to a
tree.
A few yards farther away in a clump
of trees the bodies of the young peo¬
ple were found, both dead. The young
lady bad been killed by a pistol ball
which entered her head near the ear
and the young man had been killei/
by a pistol ball which had shattered
his skull. His head was lying on thv
young lady’s lap.
TO DEVELOP WATER POWER.
Capitalists Sel l,re Option tin I-ands Along
t’lmtUtlooclirS ItlvUr.
An Atlanta special says: A develop¬
ment of water power for elec'rical
transmission, second only to that at
Niagara Falls, is contemplated by a
company of New York and Pennsyl¬
vania capitalists Chattahoochee who have acquired
control of the river for
sixteen miles, from -tones’ shoals to
Power’s ferry. laud
They have taken options including on
valued at which $175,000, three
shoals, will develop 11,000
horse power.
Tho work of securing options lias fiv
in progress for many months, and
the meantime careful surveys have
been made of the river and an elabo¬
rate report on the water power and the
cost t>f three masonry dams has been
submitted.
The intention of the projectors has
been kept quiet, but they.hate secured
all the optiohs they need tile And under
legislation enacted at recent ses¬
sion of the general assembly are given
poiver to condemn property needed.
INNOCENT INDIAN BURNED!
One Victim of Moil In in-linn Territoi-y
Reported Not Guilty.
A dispatch from Earlboro, I. T.,
says: Excitement is still intense here
over the recent burning at tho stake of
two Seminole Indians and the subse¬
quent fear of an Indian uprising. Pub¬
lic sentiment has favored the lynchers.
At Wcwoka, the capital of tbe Sem¬
inole Nation, the sympathy is alt the
other way, for it is believed that the
lynchers tortured and killed at least
one innocent man.
United States CoThmissioner W’alter
Jones is holding court at Wewoka and
the deputies of the court are bnsy is¬
suing subpoenaes and warrants iu an
endeavor to bring the lynchers to jus¬
tice. As no attempt was made by the
lynchers to hide their identity, it is
probable that the lynchers will be ar¬
rested by the United States authori¬
ties. They can only be tried on the
charge of kidnaping and taking the
murderers by force from the
Nation. The killing of the Indians
comes under Okluhoma jurisdiction.
SILVER LEADERS ACTIVE.
Held Conferences In Washington and
Will Issue Joint Manifesto.
As a result of conferences held in
Washington in the last few days be¬
tween the silver leaders of the various
parties, it is understood Chairman
Jones, of the national democratic
committee; Chairman Butler, of the
populist national committee, and Chair¬
man Towne, of the silver national re¬
publican committee, will issue a joint
manifesto within a few days with a
view to securing common action by
the three organizations in the political
contest of 1898.
The draft of the document is nowin
ihe course of preparation. It will ap
peal to all those interested in the
cause of silver to work in union and
to avoid rival organizations by which
their common strength will be dissi
pated.
FLANAGAN CASE ARGUED.
Georgia Supreme Court Gl*ten» to Appli¬
cation For New Trial.
The bill of exceptions upon which
the motion for a new trial for Flana¬
gan, the DeKalb county murderer, is
based was argued before the Georgia
supreme court Monday. The bill is
a massive document. The alleged
grounds for the new trial are about
forty. of the
The two divisions court sat
together, there being present Chief
Justice Simmons and Justices Lump¬
kin, Cobb, Little and Fish. Justice
Lewis was disqualified.
ALL DIED TOGETHER.
Matthew. Killed Wife and Children then
Suclded.
T „v„ between „ amoor nf N«w
York, some time Saturday and
Monday morning, murdered his wife
and their two children, a boy 10 years
old, and a girl 12, by hacking them to
death with a hatchet. Matthews then
committed suicide by shooting himself
in the head.
Before dying it is believed that he
^ , nn ., with the intention
asphvxiation 6bou , d comp i et e his
mur< j erong WO rk. The crime was com
milted in a small bedroom in the rear
| I 0 wife f ( be and store her kept two by children Matthews. met death The
I while asleep. It is supposed that
MattLews had become despondent
f ro m pe.-Uniai v difficulties.
Dintrfcl Business In fh*» House.
Monday waa Diatriet of Columbia
day in the bouse, and immediately
after the reading of the journal Mr.
Curtis, of the District of Columbia
eommittee, claimed .the day, and the
house proceeded to the consideration
of District business.
The immigration bill was pawed br
*e senate by a vote of 45 to 25.
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SENATOR ALLEN STRONGLY OP*
POSES HIS CONFIRMATION.
SAYS M'KENNA IS INCOMPETENT,
And That Appointment Is Weakest F.ver
Made—Other Features of the
Day In Congress.
A Washington special says: Almost
the entire four hours of the executive
session of the senate Friday were de¬
voted to the indirect consideration of
the nomination of Hon. Joseph Mc¬
Kenna, now attorney general, to be
associate justice of the supreme court.
•The discussion was the result of an
effort on the part of Senator Allen, ol
Nebraska, populist, to secure a post
potlement for two weeks. In the end
a compromise was reached deferring
consideration for a week on the con¬
dition that the Nebraska senator should
agree to allow a vote to be taken on
that day. The Hawaiian treaty was
not touched upon during the session.
The debate . upon Mr. McKenna’s
nomination was precipitated by Sena¬
tor Hoar, chairman of the committee
on judiciary, who called up the nomi¬
nation in accordance with his notice
of Thursday, and asked for immediate
action. Ill doing this Mr. Hoar spoke
briefly of the opposition of Mr. Mc¬
Kenna, saying that the judiciary com¬
mittee had investigated most of the
charges made and had reached the
cqojdusion that they were without
ToiluTa'ion. He said that the greater
.jjfmbrl* tes had been made by
th- of the American Protect
itjEissoeifttion, aud that ns they had
befch founded solely upon the fact that
Mr. McKenna was a Catholic in reli¬
gion, they had not been deemed worthy
of serious consideration.
Senator White, of California, also
spoke of the efforts of the American
Protective Association to interfere
with the course of the senate in giving
proper attention to ft question, the de¬
termination of which should depend
upon considerations of fitness and jus
tice os between man and mnh father
than appeal to of bigotry, prejudice and
a false claim patriotism.
As for himself, while he did not con
tend tha Mr. McKenna wbr a giant
in his legal attainments, still he be¬
lieved him to he an honorable man, a
competent lawyer and a confirmation. juRt jurist,ami
he should support his
It was here that Mr. Allen inter¬
posed an objection to immediate ac¬
tion, and characterized tho nomina
JfetW'is the weakest ever sent to the
**Se. Fe said -fudge McKenna was
too narrow, had not sufficient legal
training and was in no way qualified
to fill the position. senate;
In the open session of the
Clay, of Georgia, presented petitionft
signed by several hundred Georgians
protesting against the passage of the
so-called anti-scalping bill which were
referred to the committee on interstate
commerce.
The house, on motion of Mr. Cooper,
of Texas, considered the bill to reim¬
burse tbe book agents of the Metho¬
dist Episcopal church, south, in the
sum of $281,000. Mr. Gaines, of
Nashville, and Mr. Cooper, of Texas,
made some arguments asking for the
passage of the hill as reported by the
committee on war claims.
The house managers decided not to
praeeed with the consideration of the
diplomatic and consular appropriation,
but to give the day for the considera¬
tion of private bills.
CUBAN SCARE CALMS DOWN.
Consul Lee Reports That Perfect Quiet
Has Been Restored,
A Washington dispatch states Friday, that
the Cuban scare had subsided
and little interest or anxiety was man¬
ifested in it in official circles. Presi¬
dent McKinley was unusually office- free
from callers, and even the
seekers were not on hand in their
usual numbers.
The first congressional caller was
Senator Sewell, of New Jersey, who
came at half pjst 9 o'clock. Shortly
before 10:30 o’clock Representative Platt,
Grosvenor, of Ohio, and Senator
of Connecticutt, put in an appearance,
but none of these visitors discussed
foreign affairs with Mr. McKinley.
BOOTH-LANDS IN NEW YORK.
The Head of the Salvation Army Comes
To Amerieu.
General William Booth, the head of
tho Salvation Army, reached New York
Saturday morning on hoard the steam¬
er St. Paul from Southampton.
He was met down the bay by Com¬
mander Booth Tucker. On the pier a
large delegation of headquarters Sal¬
vationists were awaiting their chief.
General Booth was given a warm re¬
ception. general will at to Can
The go once
ada to inspect the work of the army
there, and will then return to the
United States. He will begin his
American tour on February 10.
HANNA HURRIES TO CAPITAL.
He Receive* a We**a*e Crgln* Hl. Prea
eBce In Wa.lilnuton.
Senator Hanna left Cleveland, O.,
for Washington at 1:40 o clock Sunday
afternoon very unexpectedly. His
hasty departure is said to have been
brought about by the receipt of a
message urging him to come to the
«apfia' at believed once. the - Hawaiian ' < treaty
^ in
*’iH he taken up this week and that
hi, presence was desired on that ac*
count.
WEALTHY TRAMP DIES.
Had an Income of |#3 a Day and Spent
It Lnvi.hly.
James Berry, the millionaire tramp,
died Monday morning at Fadncah,
Ky., after a two-weeks’ confinement
to his room. He reached the city a
month ago, amusing himself on the
way down on the boat by pitching dol¬
lars to the deck hands, giving a ten
doilar prize to the one picking ap tbe
largest number of coins.
st-.rq.ed off the wharf platform
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CUT WAGES IX EFFECT.
Kill Operative* Will Remain Idle or
Accept Reduction.
Advioes from Boston, Mass., say:
The operatives in over half a hundred
cotton mills in the New England states
ceased to be paid under the old sched¬
ule of prices when they left their work
Saturday. On Monday morning the
general policy of the manufacturers
to reduce wages went into effect in
nearly every mill center in the six
states. The reduction also became
operative in the cotton milis of New
Bedford, Lowell, Pawtucket aud
Blackstone valley in Rhode Island and
iu the states of Maine and New Hamp¬
shire.
The Fall River mills, with the ex¬
ception of three corporations, cut
wages earlier iu the month, as did
also the Amoskeag company, of Man¬
chester, and the mills in Salem aud a
number of smaller places.
New Bedford continues to be the
storm center. The indications are
that all the cotton mills in that city
w ;u be silent for some time to come,
the employees having decided almost
unanimously not to go to work under
lower wage scale. The attempts of
the state hoard of arbitration to bring
about a compromise failed.
The New Bedford will hands will
he supported by other centers. The
operatives in the Biddleford.Me.,mills
voted to stay out, and it is pdasible in
several more strikes will occur
other places. A portion of the Queen
City mill operatives at Burlington, Vt.,
are already out. of 10 cent
Saturday notices posted a the per Atlantic
reduction were at
and Pacific corporations of Lawrence.
A dispatch from that city states that
the other cotton mills will undoubted¬
ly follow. The Lawrence mills are
last to come into line. They employ
about 12,1100 hands. The reduction
in most of the New England mills
amounts either to 10 ro 11 1-9 per
cent.
THE SHROPSHIRE CASE
Ilroufthl to tbe Attention of Co,igress In a
Unique Way.
The Clydo Shropshire case has been
brought to the attention of congress
in a very singular way. The Hon.
John W. Hiuton, of Milwaukee,at the
head of the northwestern tariff bureau,
in a pamphlet of twelve pages reiter¬
ates his charges thatmoney belonging
to bis sou, Francis Hinton, who died
in Paris in 1895, was misappropriated vice-consul
by Clydo Shropshire, the is in tho
i.i Paris. The pamphlet asking
form of a petition passed to congress “To punish
that a law he
American 'consuls for robbing Ameri¬
can citizens dying in foreign coun¬
tries.”
In order to show the necessity of
such a law, ho gives his entire corres¬
pondence with the president aud the
state department concerning the al¬
leged misappropriation of his deceas¬
ed son’s money and points to the fact
Shropshire was not made to answer to
the government. denies tho allega
Mr. Shropshire
tio s in toto.
EULOGIES TO MILL!KEN,
A Quiet Day Was ttottmlajr In the
CongrcMK
A Washington special snys: The
senate and the house Saturday, after
2 o’clock, was devoted to eulogies on
the life and public services of the late
Representative -Seth W. Millikan,
Immediately after tbe reading of
the journal Representative Starr (pop.),
of Nebraska, rose to a question of
privilege to deny a publication in a
local paper stating that he had acted
as attorney iu the pension case of
Jackson \V. CUeuey. said, he had
As a representative, he
interested himself in the case, but he
hail never acted ns a pension attorney
in his life.
The house then wont into coramitte
of the whole, and took up the consid¬
eration of the army appropriation bill.
REPUBLICAN MAYOR ELECTED.
Ke.ult of the Greater Knovvllle, Tenn.,
Campaign.
The most exciting municipal Knoxville, cam¬
paign in the history of
Tenu., closed Friday night and the
votes were cast Saturday. and in¬
The tight between the regular
dependent democrats was a hitter one.
The contest resulted in the election
of Captain Rule. The republicans al¬
so elected the chairmen of the public
works, but lacked one of getting a
majority of the board of aldermen.
COURT GOES TO WITNESS.
Carter Courtmartlal Will Now Hit at Au¬
gusta, Ga.
The courtmartial at Savannah, be¬
fore which Captain Oberlin M. Carter
of the corps of engineers, United States
army, is now being tried, will sit in
Augusta, Ga., as the secretary of war
has been telegraphed for permission
to have the place of holding the court
changed, and it will be granted. of
Paul K. Twiggs, an inspector
work in Savannah river harbor and
Cumberland Sound, is ill in Augusta.
Carter's attorneys would not permit
his deposition taken, and Judge Ad¬
vocate Bar was compelled to ask th,
court to go to Augusta.
HALF .MILLION WANTED.
McKenna Send. Cr*eat Keeommendatlon
to ConcreM.
Attorney General McKenna has sent
to congress through the treasury, a
recommendation for urgent deficiency
appropriations for the United States
court* and involving over a half mil
li on dollars. .
The principal item called for is
$100,000 to establish sites and erect
United States jails in the noribern,
central and sonthern districts of In¬
dian territory.
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MRS. LANE ATTEMPTS SUICIDE.
She 1* the Youqge.t Daughter of **
Senator Blackburn.
Mrs. Lucille Lane, youngest daugh¬
ter of ex-Senator Joe Blackburn, Oi
Kentucky, shot herself in her apart¬
ment at the Wellington hotel in Wa*h
iugton, Saturday night. According to
the statement given out by the family Both
the shooting was accidental.
Mrs. Latte’s physicians refueed to
Of
IN REWARD TO THE WORK OF
BIMETALLIC COMMISSION.
MARK HANNA FORMALLY SWORN IN
Now Senator I* Cordially Deceived By
His Colleagues—Many Witness the
Day's Doings.
A Washington special says: In an
ticipation of an interesting session of
—<• *»«"*• *'■ •'
were well filled some time before the
senate convened. Hie long-looked-for
speech of Senator Wolcott was the
drawing card.
Mr. Hanna, who has just been elect
ed senator from Ohio, made his first
appearance on the floor since his elec
tion. Ho was cordially greeted by
his colleagues on both sides.
Mr. Foraker presented the creden
tials of Mr. Hanna for the remainder
of Mr. Sherman’s term of six years,
ending March 4, 1889, They were
read. As there was no objection to
the administration of the oath of office
Mr. Foraker escorted Mr. Hanna to
the vice president’s desk and the oath
was administered.
Senator Wolcott Speaks,
Mr. Wolcott summarized the work
of the bimetallic commission and the
present situation liv saying that it is
apparent that for the time being it is
useless to count on any co-operation
from Great Britain towards a bimetal
lie agreement, and that while France
actively desires to see silver restored
to its old position as a standard of
value equally with gold, she insists
that the problem is one which demands
international action and the co-opera
tion to some adequate extent of other
leading commercial nations of the
world.
Questions of possible future negoti
aliens between France, the United
States and other countries and the
question of change of ratio, are for the
moment hold iu abeyance. While we
hope ’01; continued joint action, France
owes no further duty to us.
“It is my sincere conviction,” lie
said, "tliut an international bimetallic
agreement is still feasible, by the
terms of which certain countries
will join us and open their mints
to the unlimited coinage of silver, aud
others will contribute to the plan an
enlarged use of that metal as money;
and I say this the more freely commission because
I shall give way upon the
to somebody more fitted for such ne
gotiatious and better able to give them
his constant time. This result cannot
be brought about without tbo expendi¬
ture of both time and patieuce, and
the persons entrusted With the duty
of negotiation must have back of them
the hearty support of the president
aud of congress.’’ to
He thought it might lie necessary
change the ratio to something like 20
to 1,
Kef erring to the attitude of Hecreta
ry Gage on the financial question,con
trusting it with the president’s posi
tion, he said of Secretary Gago’s re
marks upon his currency bill.
“The two statements are utterly at
variance, and contradictory to each
other. They cannot be reconciled.
This is not the proper occasion t"
analyze the bill of the secretary. It
will reach limbo long before it reaches
tbe senate. But I do not intend to
discuss the bill which the president s
message specifically does not indorse;
and it is premature to criticise the sec
retary’s republicanism, for his advent
into the party and the cabinet were
practically contemporaneous. We must
accept the situation. In my opinion,
the great majority of the members of
the republican party are bimetallists,
and the fact that they are misrepro
senfed by n cabinet officer is not
pleasing, but it is endurable.
“The selection of the members of
his official household is the president’s stands
own affairs, and so long ™ he
upon the question of bimetallism where
he has ever stood, there is no serious
ground for apprehension. But even
in the inconceivable event that the
chief magistrate of this people should
in the excercise of his judgment deter¬
mine to countenance the final fasten¬
ing upon this country of burdens of
the gold standard, I trust we way still
find warrant for faith and hope in the
pledges of the party and the wisdom
of its counsels.”
IMMIGRATION BILL PASSER.
Oom Through By * Vote of 45 to 28—It’s
Provision*.
The senate Monday passed the
Lodge bill restricting immigration in¬
to the United States.
The bill provides that all immi
grants physically capable and over
sixteen years of age shall ho able to
read or write tbe English language or
some other language; but a person
not able to read or mite who is
over fifty years of age and is the par¬
ent or grandparent of a qualified immi¬
grant over twenty-one years of age
and capable of supporting such a pa¬
rent or grandparent, may accompany
the immigrant,
A COLLIERY DISASTER.
Seven Miners Dead and Twenty-Five
Others May Not Escape.
A dispatch from Gleiwitiz, Prussian
Silesia, announces a terrific colliery
disaster at Zaboreo. The Koenigen
Linz colliery caught fire Sunday and
of the 15 men brought to the surface
seven died. It is feared that 25 oth
ere, whose escape was cut off, nav*
perished.
RIGID CENSHORSHIP ENFORCED.
Blanco Is*u« . Decree* For Olwervaaee By
New.paper).
Decrees were published in Havana
Friday prohibiting the publication in
daily newspapers ol cable dispatches
withont previous censorship and with
out twelve hour*' notice of their re¬
ceipt. addition, in future the postoffice _
In national and
in Havi will detain
BY THOS, A. MCGREGOR.
WBPIHnH SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
The New Industries Established Doling
'
the Past Week. ■ /■
Southern correspondents report en
oottraging prospects in all lines of
trade for the new year. A feature of
the week is the increased number of
new industrial enterprises, prominent
among them being tbe organization
of companies with large capital to
develop valuable water power in Geor
gia and Tennessee.
Furnace operators in the south re¬
port inquiries for iron mors and orders numerous
than for a long time are ;;
booked ahead for several months.
Alabama iron shows especial activity,
and among the large orders being filled
at Birmingham is one for 10,000 tons
clifton £T oKTSJKffiJK
wi „ bo pnt in blast Feb. 1, and the
n 0 . 3 f uniflco D f the Sheffield Coal,
Iron an<1 stae i Co wiU be blown iu
about Feb. 10. The Rome, Ga., Fur
lla( , 0 Co bas received an order for
g QQQ tons of high grade product, busy
wbicb w jp ke6p the furnace
nearly four mont hs.
Consumers of steel billets are ask
jng for figllres covering the year, but
the mi!lg are not selling that way.
Tll e demand for billets, pipe and
structural material is liavy and prices
ara stiffening. Heavy orders are
boo k e d from the railroads for spring
and Bummer delivery, dis
Tbe coal tra(le in the mining
trictB o{ tbe south is still active. Coal
j a moving out rapidly, taxing the out
pu t of the mines at many points and
some operators are compelled to run
ex tra time to supply the demand,
Among the most prominent new in¬
dnstries reported for the week are
the following: The American Dynamo
Engine and Motor Lamp Co., capital
1150,000, Memphis, Tenu.; a 100-bar
rel flouring mill at Brownwood, Tex.;
furnace works to cost $100,000 at At
lanta, Ga.; the Pyrites Mining Co.,
capital $250,000, at Alexandria, Va.;
the Mooseland & Kootenai Mining Co.,
capital $10,000, at Louisville, Ky.; the
Isbell Corundum Co., capital $250,000,
Shooting Creek, N. C.; the Water Gas
Heating Co., capital $25,000, Norfolk,
y a ,; the Atlanta (Ga.) Water Power
Q 0 | to represent a probable Mnscle invest
me nt of $1,000,000, and the
Bhoals Power Co ., Sheffield, Ala., to
erect a $500,000 plant. erected Cnero,
A hosiery mill be at
Tex. i the Enterprise Manufacturing
Co., capital $10,000, has been char
tered at Mobile, Ala., and the Harlow
Lumber Co., capital $15,000, at Har
j 0W) Ark.
a $25,000 sash and door mill will be
established at Valdosta, Ga., and
other woodworking plants at Bolling
alM ( Mobile, Ala.; Cordele, Ga.; Nash
v il| e> Tenn.Cleveland, Tex., and
Norfolk, Va.—Tradesman, (Chattanoo
ga, Tenn.)
WAGE BATTLE BEGINS.
NlB# New Bedford
Forced to ».
A gpecia( of fluffy—'
Mass., says: The 80,000 or al>ou7j* ,
! Bki n u j operatives employed in
o{ tbe cb j e{ co tk,n mills of the *•
New England states have come
under the sweeping order of a new
wage sea i e This reduction brings on
j n New Bedford, Lewiston and Bidde
for( j ; Maine, labor strikes which may
prove the beginning of an industrial
batt i„ greB ter in extent and more dis
agtrmis in fleet than any in the pro
v i 0UH history of cotton manr.incturing
j n the United States,
Tbe batt i e against the corporations
emdonbtedly would have been fought
everywhere bad not the voice of tbe
meJ i an( ] Women who are ill prepared
at thjs tjme of the ycar to g0 i n t 0 idle
negg been bee( j e( i by the conservatives,
As it igj great majority of per
Bons employed in nine corporations in
| Ne , y Bedford and one corporation each
jn two Maine cities will take upon
tbe ms e l V ea the task of forcible resist
auce to tll0 re d n otion.
In New Bedford the nine corpora
tiong repreBe nt 22 mills, with over
770,000 spindles, or 21,000 looms,
giving means of livelihood to nearly
ten thousand.
The strikes will be directed by the
labor union, the lead being taken by
the Mule Spinners union, the natioual
executive committee of which has
sanctioned the strike of opposition and
promised financial aid.
Gen. Longrtreet’s B<M»kk*ep#Y.
A Washington diapatch says: Gen¬
eral Longs treet, United States railroad
commissioner, has appointed Mr. Al¬
ton Angier, of Georgia, as his book¬
keeper.
MORE TIME GRANTED.
Taylor Men Were Not Beady To Proceed
With Nomination.
A Nashville dispatch says: The
democratic canons of members of tha
legislature met Monday night. Rep¬
resentative Fitzpatrick, a McMillin
man, urged immediate nomination of
a United States senator. Mr. Parker,
supporter of Governor Taylor, pleaded
for delay. McMillin, said
Mr. Brandon, for a
short delay would be fair and could
hurt no one of the candidates. The
caucus thereupon adjourned until
Wednesday night without voting on
tho senatorial nomination.
TWO CONSULS DROWNED.
Soatlng Party Mart. With a Dl»»*trou.
Catastrophe.
Advices received Monday from Co¬
lon, Colombia, state that a boating
party consisting of the United States
consul, W. W. Ashby, Dr. Hafemann,
the German consul, Master Mechanic
Mott and four others, are supposed of ihe to
have been drowned. The recovered. body
boatman has already been
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SUPPLIES FOB CUBA. .! 6
Various State. Bwpo.41*! to Rrtiuert oi
Belief Committee.
A Washington dispatch s»ye: A
ietter {rom Stephen E. Barton, of tbo
Centrai Cuban relief committee, to
the state department, says that
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