Georgia Historic Newspapers

    ABSURD DEMAND
OF GEN. GOMEZ.
Wants Nearly Sixty Million Dol¬
lars For His “Army.”
PRESENT OFFER REFUSED.
Declines to “Disband” Until the
Demand Is'Granted.
A special of Tuesday to The New
York Tribune from AVashington says:
Maximo Gomez, the Cuban com¬
manding general, has demanded near¬
ly $60,000,000 from the United States
and refuses to disband his “army” un¬
til the money is paid. He has repudi¬
ated the arrangement made by Galixto
Garcia, who came to Washington with
authority from Gomez to provide for
the return of the Cubans to their
peaceful pursuits, and whose work was
barely accomplished before his sudden
death on December 11th. It was then
agreed that the United States, in or¬
der to secure the prompt resumption
of labor on the plantations of the
islands, with a yiew to promoting the
speedy revival of prosperity and set¬
tled conditions, should distribute
about $3,000,000 among the 30,000
men said to be still under arms, in the
ratio of $100 n man, the officers in
proportion to their rank to receive a
greater amount, the ordinary enlisted
me,n to be discharged with sums less
than $100, depending on the length of
service and other considerations.
For over a month the pay corps of
the army has been making ready to
carry out this arrangement.
Accurate lists of the Cuban soldiers
entitled to compensation had to be
prepared and other formalities' gone
through. It was intended that the
Cubans at the proper time should
apply at established American garri¬
sons in the various provinces, where,
on throwing down their arms and pre¬
senting the proper credentials they
were to receive their quota of the
allotment from the pay officers at the
stations. In the meantime General
Brooke and his chief subordinates
have been endeavoring to give employ¬
ment, mostly of a permanent charac¬
ter, to large numbers of Cubans, in
order to reduce the number requiring
a bounty.
Gomez has come out against this
scheme, which was operating satis¬
factorily to most Cubans and has
struck for greater stakes.
It is officially known here that he is
endeavoring to dissuade Cubans from
accepting offices under the American
occupation and is urging all the na¬
tives of every grade to stay with him
in the field until the United States is
compelled to accede to his “terms of
disbandment. ”
Gomez alleges that his army con¬
sists of 40,000 men, and he insists
that most of them shall be paid for
three years’ service at the rates which
prevail in the United States army. He
fixes the date of the Cuban declaration
of independence February 24, 1895, as
the beginning of the period for which
himself and his forces are to be re¬
munerated aud for himself, with the
rank of Lieutenant General, he will be
satisfied with $11,000 annually, the
American rate for that grade.
Gomez also has about twenty major
generals, for each of whom he wants
$7,500 annually and his “army” is
equipped with nearly. 200 brigadier
generals, each rated according to the
United States army pay table at $5,500
annually. His aggregate amounts to
the little sum of $3,783,000 for gener¬
als alone; then there are colonels, lieu¬
tenant colonels and majors whose
,
numbers run into the thousands. The
privates do not amount to much, for
they are comparatively few, but each
of them will require $648 and the
army pay masters who figured out the
totai have reported that over $57,000,
000 will be required to gratify all the
demands Gomez has made, which is
an average of $1,425 a man.
It is to meet these demands and to
show Gomez their absurdity that Gon
zalo Quesada, who for the last three
years has been the representative of
the Cubans in Washington, started
for Cuba last week, after reaching a
thorough understanding with the war
department authorities. Robert P.
Porter went along with Mr. Quesada
as the official representative of the
United States in the matter.
DISCUSSED TREATY.
Senators Gray and Money Oive Their
Views In Executive Session.
Senators Gray and Money occupied
the entire executive session of the
senate Tuesday on the speeches of the
peace treatv, Senator Gray advocating
ratification and Money opposing it.
Senator Gray was the third of the
Paris commissioners to speak. He
admitted that in the beginning of the
negotiations he had been opposed tot.he
acquisition of the Philippine archipel-’
ago and said that he had freely and
frankly advised the president and his
fellow commissioners of his belief that
it would* be unwise to attempt to shape
its destiny.
GOOD FOR THE SCHOOLS.
Alabama Legislators Vote to Double
Educational Fund.
4 Montgomery dispatch says : The
Alabama house of representatives has
passed a bill doubling . the general
school fund - an d puts it at $600,000.
This is a great victory for the public
schools of the state and the bill is sure
t0 IS rru 6S honse*alBO Impropriation passed of $15,000 the bill to giv- the
ofrls’ •
school at MontevaUo,
GOMEZ WILL ACCEPT.
Acting For the Cubans, He Agrees to
Take the $3,000,000.
Advices from Cuba state that Gen¬
eral Maximo Gomez, the commander
in-chief of the Cuban army, has placed
himself squarely in position as an ac¬
tive ally of the United States govern¬
ment. in the work of reconstruction of
Cuba.
As a result of the conference which
Robert P. Porter, the special commis¬
sioner of President McKinley, has
had with General Gomez, the latter
cabled afternoon to President assuring McKinlej- him of Thurs¬ his
day disbanding the Cuban co¬
operation in
army and in distributing among the
Cuban soldiers the $3,000,000 appro¬
priated for the purpose of enabling
them to return to their homes.
General Gomez also telegraphed to
Major General Brooke saying he would
accept the latter’s invitation to go to
Havana.
The success of Mr. Porter’s mission
greatly simplifies the returning of the
Cubans to the pursuits of peace.
In view of General Gomez’s sup¬
posed prior attitude of hostility to¬
ward the United States. Mr. Porter
went to Cuba clothed with absolute
authority aud the tender of the $3,
000,000 was practically a verbal ulti¬
matum. Had it not been accepted,
no more u'timatums would have been
made.
Mr. Porter made plain the purpose
of the government, aud was gratified
at the ready response of General
Gomez. The conference took place at
the house occupied by the Cuban
general as his headquarters since
coming to town.
In brief, t e compact is as follows:
First—The Cuban officers in each
province shall assist the American
officers in distributing the funds.
Second—That these officers shall at
once meet at some convenient point
and devise how, when aud where the
payments are to he made, and arrange
any other details.
Third—That the sum paid to each
man shall not be regarded as part pay¬
ment of salaries or wages due for ser¬
vice rendered, but to facilitate the dis¬
bandment of the army, as a relief of
suffering aud as an aid in getting the
people to p'ork.
Fourth—-The Cubans shall *mrren
der their arms to the Cuban assembly
or to its representatives.
Fifth—The committee on distribu¬
tion shall use its best endeavors to dis¬
tribute it among the population so
that all may secure work.
Sixth—That the $3,000,000 shall be
placed subject to the order of General
Brooke and that action in the matter
shall be immediate.
SPOONER SPREADS HIMSELF.
Wisconsin Senator Makes a Great
Speech Favoring Treaty.
A notable speech was made in the
senate Thursday by Mr. Spooner, of
Wisconsin. He took for his text the
anti-expansion resolution offered by
Mr. Vest, but did not confine himself
closely to that proposed declaration of
policy.
Mr. Spooner spoke for three hours
and through his brilliant oratory, flue
ability as a close and astute leasoner,
splendid qualities as an advocate and
adroitness and cleverness at repartee,
held the careful attention of an unus¬
ually large number of senators and a
large audience in the galleries.
At the opening of the session Mr.
Chilton, of Texas, presented the cre¬
dentials of Charles A. Culberson,
electee! senator from Texas.
At the conclusion of the morning
business, Mr. Spooner addressed the
senate. In beginning, after a brief
statement of his reasons for speaking
at all, he said:
“I find no objections constitutional
in nature to the ratification of the
pending treaty. If I held the view
that the United States could not with¬
in its constitutional limitation acquire
territory otherwise not to be erected
into states, I could not give my con¬
sent to the acquisition of the Philip¬
pine islands. This Philippine propo¬
sition is one of the fruits of the war—
to me one of the bitter fruits. I can
conceive of no circumstances under
which I could give my consent to the
admission of that archipelago as a
state, or as more than one state, of the
American union.”
Mr. Tillman, interrupting Mr.
Spooner, inquired:
“If we accept the Philippines, would
the inhabitants of that territory have
the right to come without hindrance
to this country?”
“Yes. For the purpose of my argu¬
ment I am disposed to admit it, ” re¬
plied Mr. Spooner.
Mr. Tillman inquired whether the
inhabitants of a territory could be
prevented from entering the states.
Mr. Spooner said the senator from
Connecticut (Platt) was inclined to
believe they could be, but h« himself
doubted it.
Mr. Tillman further along pressed
his question as to the right of the Fil¬
ipinos to come here, and declared that
by admitting them by treaty (en mil¬
lion people of that territory could take
the first ship for this country, and
upon arrival here could enter in com¬
petition with American labor. That
was the reason why he would vote
against the treaty.
A FORTUNE FOR SLOAN.
Jockey Makes a Big Pile In Wall
Street Dealings.
The San Francisco Examiner says
that Tod' Sloan has received a telegram
from New York stating that he has
cleaned up $250,000 as the result of
speculation in AVall street.
It is said that before gtfing west,
Tod left several thousand dollars with
a Wall street operator, with general
instructions to invest it as he thought
best. >
BLIZZARDS RAGE
IN NORTHWEST.
Intense Cold and Storms Prevail
In Many States.
MERCURY GOES FAR DOWN
Much Suffering Among Both
Man and Beast Inevitable.
A special dispatch of Wednesday
from St. Paul, Minn., says: The iu
'tensely cold weather still holds on.
Four degrees below in St. Paul and
22 below at Winnipeg indicate the
run of the mercury.
All northwestern weather stations
report below zero weather. It has
been snowing four days in Montana,
and almost every range is covered with
from one to two and a half feet of snow.
Although it has turned colder, being
20 degrees below at Helena, cattlemen
do not anticipate any specially heavy
loss ou account of the storm.
Rauch cattle are in good condition
so far throughout the state, and will
be able to withstand a short season of
severe weather. All sheepgrowers and
many cattlemen in Montana are better
supplied with feed this winter than
usual. Throughout Montana trains
are from five to twelve hours late on
account of the great amount of snow.
Reports from all ovar the state in¬
dicate unprecedented cold weather,
seme places the thermometer register¬
ing as low as 45 degrees'.
Mercury Tumbles at Denver.
The mercury fell 49 degrees between
6 o’clock Tuesday night and 6 o’clock
Wednesday night. At the latter hour
it stood at 4 degrees below zero, aud
was still falling.
It was predicted by officials of the
weather bureau that 20 and possibly
25 degrees below zero would be reach¬
ed. Telegraph advices announce ex¬
treme cold weather throughout the
northwest.
At Buffalo, AVyo., and at points in
Montana 20 degrees below were re¬
ported at 6 o’clock Wednesday even¬
ing. The snow blockade in the moun¬
tains continues.
The coal supply is short in many of
the small towns.
Nebraska Has Cold Wave.
Ar Omaha special says: Another
cold wave struck Nebraska AVedues
day. At midnight the mercury regis¬
tered 4 below at Omaha, with indica¬
tions of going lower.
The temperature fell 10 degrees in
three hours AVednesday afternoon, ac¬
companied by a stiff northwest wind
and snow flurries. Reports from dif¬
ferent parts of the state tell a similar
story.
Blizzard In Wyoming.
A blizzard has prevailed throughout
AA’yoming, the mercury going 20 below
zero,, and eight inches of snow has
fallen, which, with what was on the
ground before, makes an average of
thirty inches. Suffering among stock
is inevitable.
The weather in Portland, Ore., and
vicinity is the coldest of the winter,
the thermometer having reached 10
below zero. In eastern AVashington
and Oregon very cold weather is pre¬
vailing.
GO OUT OF SERVICE.
Orders Issued For Mustering Out Fif¬
teen Thousand Volunteers.
The war department AVednesday is¬
sued an order to muster out about 15,
000 volunteer troops. The regiments
are the First Maryland, now at Au¬
gusta, Ga.; Third Mississippi aud Sec¬
ond Missouri, at Albany, Ga.; Eighth
and Thirteenth Pennsylvania, at Au¬
gusta, Ga.; Fourteenth Pennsylvania,
at Somerville, S. C.; Fourth Texas, at
San Antonio, Tex.; Fourth AVisconsin,
at Anniston, Ala.; Seventh volunteer
infantry, at Macon, Ga.; Eighth vol¬
unteer infantry, at Chickamanga, and
the Tenth volunteer infantry, at Ma¬
con, Ga.
This order presages the abolition of
the entire Second army corps now
commanded by Major General Young
and formerly under General Graham’s
command.
All of the regiments mustered out
are attached to that corps, and their
loss will leave only ten regiments.
These will be formed into four inde¬
pendent brigades and placed in camp
I>ermanently at Augusta, Ga., and
Greenville, S. C.
AN EXPLANATION.
President McKinley Set Right In the
Luzon island Matter.
It appears that an erroneous im¬
pression has gone abroad respecting
the American peace commissioners in
Paris touching the limitations of the
claims to be put forward so far»s the
Philippines were concerned to the is¬
land of Luzon,
As a matter of fact, so far from
making that island the maximum claim
of the Americans, the president’s in¬
struction actually placed that island
as the minimum claim to be set out.
The language was “nothing less than
the island of Luzon,” instead of
“nothing more than island ofjJLuzon."
A DIMINUTIVE BABY.
Infant Born In Indiana Weighing Only
One Pound.
There was born to the wife of Noble
Austin, in Meshawaka, Ind., Thurs¬
day morning, the smallest infant ever
reported in northern Indiaua.
The child was about the size of a
round pint bottle, but not so long,
and weighs one pound. The physi¬ will
cian, an old practitioner, says it
live.
HOUSE PASSES ARMY BILL
The Hull Measure Adopted By Vote of
168 to 125.
A Washington special says: The
bill to reorganize nml increase the
standing army to about 100,000 men,
but giving the president authority to
reduce the size of infantry companies
and cavalry troops to sixty men each,
thus fixing a minimum of about 50.
000 enlisted men, passed the house
Tuesday iiy a vote of 168 to 125.
This was the result, of a week of
hard and often picturesque fighting
on the floor, during the.progress of
which the opposition compelled those
in charge of the measure to give this
discretiaucry authority to the presi¬
dent and to make other modifications,
among which were a reduction of 331
in the number of staff officers.
In consequence of these' modifica¬
tions the republican opposition prac¬
tically vanished, and 011 the final vote
but six republicans voted against the
hill—Messrs. Barber, of, Maryland;
Connolly, of Illinois; Loud, of Cali¬
fornia; Johnson, of Indiana; McEwen,
of New Jersey, and Wadsworth, of
New York.
This republican defection was, how¬
ever, almost offset by five members of
the political opposition who voted in
favor of the bill—Messrs. Berry, of
Kentucky; McClelland, of New York;
McAleer, of Pennsylvania; Taylor,
of Alabama, democrats, and Skinnar,
populist, of North Carolina.
The gallaries were crowded through¬
out the day and every member who
could possibly be heard was on the
floor to record his vote on the final
roll call.
The programme of the day included
provision for two hours of general de¬
bate, which was to be occupied by
Messrs. Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, and
Hopkins, of Illinois, in closing for the
majority, and Messrs. Bailey, of Texas,
' and Settle, of Kentucky, for the oppo¬
sition. But this programme was
smashed, owing to the failure to com¬
plete the bill under the five-minute
rule before 3 o’clock, the hour set for
the vote.
Among the important amendments
adopted before the vote was taken was
one to exclude the appointment of
civilians to positions in the engineer
corps, one to abolish canteens and the
sale of liquor in camps and one to
strike out the provision for additional
pay for commands serving in the AVest
Indies, the Philippines and Alaska.
The amendment of Air. Cummings,
of New York, to prohibit the use of
troops in the several states to suppress
riots, etc., except upon the application
of the states, was defeated by a large
majority.
Mr. Cummings said there was no
question but that organized labor,
through the American Federation of
Labor and the Knights of Labor, had
condemned this effort to increase the
standing army to 100,009 men. There
was no question that the reason for
their action was the fear that this
standing army must be used uncon¬
stitutionally to oppress them.
A SHORTAGE FOR JANUARY.
Government Expenses Were $9,500,
000 Hore Than Receipts.
A Washington dispatch says: The
forthcoming report of the government
receipts and expenditures for January
will show the receipts have been about
$41,775 000 and the expenditures
about $51,270,000, leaving a deficit for
the mouth of about $9,500,000.
The customs receipts, it will he
shown, were nearly $18,000,000, the
largest for the month of January since
1893, and an increase of about $1,250,
000 over Decemher.
The internal revenue receipts for
January will be approximately $21,
000,000, a slight decrease over De¬
cember, but an increase over January,
1898, of over $8,500,000. The expen
eitures on account of the war and
navy departments during January will
be shown to be about $23,850,000, an
increase over December of about
$1,300,000.
SMALLPOX IN PORTO RICO.
Compulsory Vacillation Ordered In
Ponce By Military Government.
A dispatch from San Juan, Porto
Rico, says: Smallpox is increasing in
Ponce, where 150 .caseB are under
treatment. The military government
will immediately begin compulsory
vaccination.
Chief Surgeon Huft’ cays there is no
occasion for special alarm, as the con¬
ditions are not unusual. Reports
from other points in the island tell of
only scattered cases
EMPEROR “BILL” IS HAPPY.
Issues An Imperial Decree Ex¬
pressing His Thanks.
The Reichsanzeiger, Berlin news¬
publishes an imperial decree,
which the emperor thanks God for
mercy in permitting him to com
the fortieth year of his life and
tenth year of his reign.
His majesty also says he esteems
happy to have been able
his journey to Palestine to
German prestige abroad,
the people for their manifesta¬
of love and devotion and assures
that he will continue to strive
the maintenance of the peace of
fatherland.
FOSTER GETS NOMINATION.
Tacoma Man Named By Republicans
Of Washington For Senator.
A. M. Foster, of Tacoma, was nomi¬
for United.States senator by the
caucus at Olympia Tuesday
night. King county and part of the
Ankeny forces outside of that county
left the caucus, but fifty-eight remain¬
and made the caucus nomination of
unanimous. Fifty-seven voteR
are required to elect in joint session
the legislature.
THE STATE FAIR
FOR GATE CITY.
Arrangpraents Made For an Expo¬
sition of Georgia’s Resources.
LIBERAL FUND IS PLEDGED.
Agricultural Society OfflcersWill
Lend Co-Operation.
The hearty co-operation that has
been promised and the mutual under¬
standings which have been reached
between the Atlanta committee and
State Agricultural society has placed
the state fair to be held in Atlanta be
yond even the possibility of a doubt.
The movement cannot fail, aud there
is promise of Atlanta having a bigger
and better fair than has ever been
held in the state.
The following resolutibn was unani¬
mously adopted at a meeting of the
joint committees held Wednesday
morning at 11 o’clock in the chamber
of commerce:
Besolved, That this meeting of joint
committees pledges itself to an effort
to raise $10,000 in Atlanta for the pur¬
pose of holding a state fair in Atlanta
this fall under the auspices of the
State Agricultural society, the only
condition being that all receipts and
pledges for the payment of the amount
so raised, and also the administration
of the fair be placed in the hands of a
joint committee to consist of twenty
five members from this committee and
thirty-five members of the State Agri¬
cultural society.
Resolved further, That whatever
sum may remain in the treasury after
paying the premium lists and running
expenses of the fair shall be held in¬
tact for the purpose of aiding in the
holding of other fairs under the aus¬
pices of the State Agricultural society^
in Atlanta.
An enthusiastic address was deliv¬
ered by Hon. J. Pope Brown, presi¬
dent of the State Agricultural society,
and the movement to secure the state
fair was thoroughly discussed, organ¬
ized, committees appointed and prom¬
ise of hearty co-operation made by
the officers of the State Agricultural
society.
The members of the eommitte pledge
to raise $10,000 for the fair.
The date selected is October 18th to
November 4th.
It will be a fair that will be an ex¬
position of every resource of the state.
It will not be an agricultural fair alone.
There will be exhibits of agriculture,
but there will also be minerals, for¬
estry exhibits and in fact everything
that is raised in the state will find a
place at the fair grounds.
All of the details have been arrang¬
ed. The citv has pledged a sum of
money that at once struck President
Brown as being very liberal indeed.
Then there will be the free use of the
grounds. The exposition buildings,
which have been kept intact at heavy
expense, will be used aud the wisdom
of their preservation will be apparent
to all now.
The railroads have expressed a de¬
sire to do everything consistent in
their power to aid the fair.
The street car companies will re¬
spond liberally and there is not a citi¬
zen in the big city of Atlanta who will
not give the movement his most cordial
co-operation, and will extend a cordiai
and happy welcome to the farmers of
the state.
The thirty-five members of the State
Agricultural Society who are to be
directors of the fair in co-operation
with the twenty-five members from
the Atlanta committee, are to meet at
the Kimball house February 15th.
The railroads will furnish transpor¬
tation to the members of the society,
and Mr. Joseph Thompson, manager
of the Kimball, has promised » very
low rate to the members.
TO CHANQE DEWEY’S TITLE.
Time of Retirement of Manila Hero
Also to Be Extended.
A Washington dispatch ,. , , says: The
senate committee ou naval affairs has
decided to report favorably the pint
resolution reviving the rank of admiral
in the interest of Rear Admiral Dewy.
The resolution was so amended as to
extend the time of his retirement ten
years.
TREATY WITH INDIANS.
Agreement Between United States
and Creek Tribe Is Perfected.
The treaty between the United States
and the Creek nation was completed
and signed at Muskogee, I. T., AA ed
nesday night. It provides for the
capitalization of all ths assets of the
Creek tribe of Indians and an equal
division of the same.
The Creek freedmen are to recene
only 160 acres of land, without rega. J
to the location or value of same. The
tribal government of the Creek nation
is to be reinstated and continued until
the lands are allotted, but may not try
persons charged with homicide, em¬
bezzlement or bribery.
discharged soldiers return.
The Transport Berlin From Porto Rico
Reaches New York.
The United States transport Berlin,
Captain George Wilson, arrived at
New York Tuesday afternoon from
Sau Juan, Ponce and Santiago. She
brought eighty-eight discharged sol
diers and teamsters. Shortly after
leaving Santiago Lindsay Doherty,
first assistant engineer of the trans
port, died of acute mania.
DREYFUS’ FRIEND 101ELESS.
They Fear That Justice Will Be De¬
nied Noted Prisoner.
Advices from Paris state llml the
! most ardent supporters of the theory
that Dreyfus was unjustly condemned
1 now admit, that there is no longer the
least hope that justice will be-done.
! A prominent member o: the Univer¬
sity of Paris, who, from the firsl has
been militant champion of a revision
of the trial, says:
“For 99 out of every 100 Fr nch
men, the guilt or innocence of Dreyfus
is a matter of sentiment. All the rea¬
soning in the world would not induce
them to change their attitude. There
are millions of Frenchmen who still
insist, upon Dreyfus’ guilt in spite of
any proof to the contrary.
“A terrible feature of the situation
j is that the attitude of this majority is
dictated by motives which they believe
to be deserving of the highest respect.
I admit that some of the Dreyfus ad¬
vocates arc much to blame for 'his.
The best cause may he ruined by dis¬
reputable adherents, and there are men
ou the Dreyfus side of whom every pa¬
triotic Frenchman is the natural ene¬
my. While the majority of us have
merely demanded that justice should
be done, a pestilent minority has made
this demand an excuse for virulent on ¬
slaughts on institutions we hold in
great esteem.”
In conclusion the member of the
university the predicted that the result of
agitation will be “an onslaught of
unparalleled violence on^heJew", as
the masses are convinced that they are
at the bottom of the whole trouble.”
CONSOLIDATED LOSES AGAIN
Injunction Against Atlanta Slrect
Railway Is Denied.
At Atlanta, Ga., Wednesday after¬
noon Judge John S. Candler decided
the injunction snit instituted against
the Atlanta Railway Company by the
Consolidated.
The restraining order which pre¬
vented the condemnation of the Mitch¬
ell street tracks of the Consolidated
was dissolved and the arbitrators who
have already been appointed by the
two companies will now be directed to
proceed with their work.
In his decision the judge took the
position that the right of the city to
the use of its streets was supreme,and
that the municipality had the right to
give another railway company the
privilege to take the Consolidated’s
tracks for the distance stipulated in
the ordinance.
The counsel for the Consolidated
announced that they would appeal to
the supreme court, aud twenty days
were allowed them in which to prepare
a bill of exceptions.
BIG WHISKY COMBINE.
Several Extensive Manufacturing Con¬
cerns Will Form a Trust.
The largest combination of whisky
and distilling interests yet attempted
j has been concluded in New York un¬
der the title of the Kentucky Distillers
and Warehouse Company.
Fifty-seven firms making Kentucky
whisky have eutered into the agiee
ment. The new company will be cap¬
italized for $32,000,000. Incorpora¬
tion papers will shortly be filed.
The companies already in the new
agreement have already more than
one million barrels of whisky in bond¬
ed warehouses. The new company is
expected to produce 15,000,000 gal¬
lons of whisky annually at an average
net profit of $1,500,000. The total net
revenue of the new company is placed
$-,310,000.
TWO SENTENCED TO DIE.
Slayers of Convict Guard Dennard
Will Hang Feb. 24 .
Will Taylor and Fred Perry, two of
the convicts who attacked and killed
Jep Dennard, the guard at Adam’s
camp, on December 30, last, were con¬
victed of the murder and sentenced by
Judge Seabord Beese to be hanged on
February 24, at a special term of the
Wilkes county, Ga., superior court,
held in Wasbingtom Wednesday,
It will be remembered that while
eating a lunch at the Adams camp,
eight miles from Washington, on the
date stated, Guard Dennard was sud¬
denly attacked from the rear by six
desperate men, who beat the guard
j n f 0 insensibility and left him dying,
Xke convicts then made a break fur
liberty an(1 they were cha8ecl through
the county by a posse. Taylor and
Perry were captured the next day and
lodged in jail. Another of the convict
murderers resisted arrest and he was
shot to death by the posse.
A STRONG ENDORSEMENT.
Qenera | whee |er Working For Shel
by’s Appointment to Judgeship.
a Washington dispatch of Wednes
,j a y sa y S . There is no change in the
new judgeship matter. Both the
friends of Mr. Glenn and Judge Shel
by are hopeful. The latter has been
strengthened by the active endorse
meut of General Wheeler. It is said
there would be no question whatever
0 f a pp 0 i n tment. of Mr. Glenn if
there were not rival claimants from
Georgia. The Alabama delegation are
making the most of this point.
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THE PHILADELPHIA SAILS.
Big Cruiser Leaves San Diego For
Samoan Islands.
The cruiser Philadelphia sailed
Tuesday from Sau Diego, bound, ac¬
cording to the official announcement
for Samoa, though she will touch
Honolulu,
She should, according to all calcu
lations. arrive at Apia about the Ist'of
March.
The Philadelphia is fully equal in
offensive power to the combined force
of the two warships now in the harbor
of Apia.