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REWARD OFFERED
FOR WHITECAPS
Governor Candler Wants Members
of Palmetto Mob Apprehended.
HORROR IS CONDEMNED.
Further Details of the Affair Are
Given By Eyewitnesses.
Governor Candler, of Georgia, took
prompt action in the endeavor to
bring the perpetrators of the Palmetto
lynching to justice by issuing the fol¬
lowing
Proclamation.
Whereas, official information has
been received at this department that
on the night of March 15, 1899, an
unknown mob foully murdered Henry
Bingham, colored, Tip Hudson, col¬
ored, Ed Brown, colored, and Bud
Cotton, colored, while said parties
were incarcerated and well guarded
charge awaiting a committal trial upon the
of arson, in the county of
Campbell.
I have thought proper, therefore, to
issue this my proclamation hereby
offering a reward of five hundred dol¬
lars for the apprehension and delivery
of the first member of said unknown
mob and a further reward of one hun¬
dred dollars for each additional person
so implicated, with evidence sufficient
to convict, to the sheriff’ of said county
and state.
And I do moreover charge and re¬
quire all officers in this state,civil and
military, to be vigilant in endeavoring
to apprehend the said members of the
unknown mob in order that they may
be broughtto trial for the offense with
which they stand charged. Given
under my hand and seal of the state,
this the 16th day of March, 1899.
A. D. Candler, Governor.
By the governor.
Philip Cook, secretary of State.
Governor’s Strong Condemnation.
Governor Candler said in au inter¬
view Thursday morning;
“I regard the outrage as simply in¬
excusable. These men had been ar¬
rested, as I am informed, and proof
was at hand to convict them. They
were in the hands of the law. The
law was amply able to punish them,
and the interposition of this mob of
two hundred disguised men was
entirely unnecessary, since with the
proof in the hands of those who hail
made the arrests conviction and pun¬
ishment were absolutely certain.
“I shall today offer the largest re¬
ward the law will authorize for the
apprehension of auy one or more of
the perpetrators of this dastardly
deed, and I will try to see to it that
they are prosecuted to the limit of the
law. Such outrages most stop in
Georgia.”
Dotalls of Trncoilj.
Further details of the deplorable
affair show that is was one of horror.
The negroes killed were: Tip Hudson,
Bud Cotton,Ed Wynn and Henry Bing¬
ham. John Bigby was fatally shot;
John Jameson, shot, but will recover;
George Tatum, arm broken; Ison
Brown and Clem Watts escaped with-
out injury. guarding the
The men who were
negroes are well known and prorni-
nent citizens of Palmetto, and were
sworn in only Wednesday as special
guard for the night.
Bud Cotton, who was killed, had
confessed to the burning of the stores
in Palmetto and had implicated arrested. all the
others who had been
Eye witnesses state that when the
mob broke into the warehouse the
guards were placed in line, six of
them, and marched around the room
and then marched to the front of the
room, near the door in which the mob
entered.
They were placed in line against the
front wall of the building and ordered
not to move at the cost of thoir lives.
They did not speak, neither did
they move, and not a word was said
by the guard to the mob.
The men then walked around where
they could get a good look at the
trembling, pleading, terror stricken
negroes, begging for life and declaring
thfrt they were innocent.
There was a moment’s pause of
deliberation. The negroes thought it
meant that the assassins hesitated in
their bloody deed, but the men only
hesitated because they wanted deliber¬
ate action and a clear range for their
bullets.
The negroes, helpless, tied together
with ropes, begged for mercy, for they
saw the cold gun barrels, the angry
and determined actions of the men,
and they knew it meant death to
them.
On leaving the horrible scene of
their work the whitecaps turned to
give a word of warning to the guard,
and then disappeared as silently in
the night as they had arrived.
The military sent by Governor Can¬
dler arrived at 10:40 o’clock Thursday
morning on a special train under
command of Co!onel John S. Candler,
and took immediate charge of the
place.
HACON PREPARING CAMP
For Ray’s Regiment, Which Will
Soon Be Mustered Out.
Work was commenced at Macon,
Ga., Thursday morning on the camp
site formerly occupied by the Second
Ohio regiment in preparation for the
ocoupancy by tbe Third regiment of
immunes, Colonel Ray, which will
soon arrive and occupy the camp. The
regiment will be encamped about a
month before being mustered out.
RIOT IN HOT SPRINGS.
Dire Results Follow In the Wake of a
Street r Duel. . .
A * special . i i? from tt Hot i. a Springs, • Ark., a u
says: Five men are dead as a result of
between some of the most prominent 1
men identified with local politics. The
ing hotter and hotter each day for sev-
eral weeks. The dead are:
Thomas C Toler chief of "police.
Thomas Goslee, sergeant of police;
James E. Hart, city detective; Louis
Hinkle, a delivery driver; John O.
The wounded are: Edward Spears,
deputy sheriff, shot through the neck;
probably fatally.
As a Bequel to a street duel between
Goslee, on one side, and Sheriff R. L.
Williams and his son, John O. Wil-
lianiB, on the other, a bloody riot oc-
cufred. Five men lay dead upon the
sidewalk when the smoke cleared
away. horrible affair in the
It was the most
history of Hot Springs. The memora¬
ble Flyun-Dorau riot of 1884 did not
compare to it in its terrible results.
It was a bloody termination to the
first affray earlier in the evening, in
which Goslee and the Williams par-
ticipated.’ A portion of the police
faction, headed by the chief, and a
portion of the Williams faction met on
the sidewalk in front of Letup's beer
depot and the furious firing began.
Pandemonium reigned for an hour,
and crowds of citizens and visitors
rushed up and down the streets,
When a stir occurred stampedes would
take place at once. Finally Constable
Samuel Tate and Deputy Archer sue-
ceeded in quelling the excitement to
some extent., and cleared the street in
the vicinity of the awful scene. A
big freight wagon was brought up and
the bodies were loaded in it- and taken
to Gross’s undertaking establishment.
Citizens of Hot Springs are terribly
aroused over the affair, and are deter-
mined to maintain the peace. It is
said that the governor will be asked
to remove Sheriff Williams, teuipora-
rily at least, and appoint some other
man to act in that capacity.
Judge Belding was sworn in as
chief of police Thursday night, and
after a citizens’ meeting, appointed
150 special officers, who patrolled all
BRYAN IN ILLINOIS.
Presented to Bloomington Audience
By Vice President Stevenson.
W. J. Bryan addressed a large audi-
ence in Bloomington, Ill., Thursday
night. He had been invited to take
part in the St. Patrick's Day exercises,
but could not be present Friday, so
the celebration was held Thursday
night. Bryan was introduced by ex-
Vice President Stevenson as “the fore-
most statesman of the times.”
“You’ve heard of him before; you
will hear of him again,” said Mr. Ste-
'"'These expressions were received
with great applause which was re-
doubled as Mr. Bryan arose. The
greater portion of hls address was an
argument against imperialism.
MRS. PLACE TO DIE.
Murderess In Sing Sing Prison Will
Be Electrocuted.
A . New York dispatch , , says: Warden ri- j
Sage, of the Sing Sing state prison,
has informed Mrs. Place, the mur-
doress, of Governor Roosevelt s refu-
sal to commute her sentence of death
i is. Place lore e s oc vi on,
sign of emotion, but after the warden
left Mrs. Place wept bitterly.
Governor Roosevelt also sent to
Warden Sage a letter giving directions
as to the details for the execution of
Mrs. Place to make it as unsensational
as possible.
WARNING TO MATAAFAITES. "
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More Trouble Is Expected In tha Sa-
moan Islands.
Advices from Samoa via Auckland
state that owing to threats by the
Mataafa people to burn the Malietoa
villages in the Island of Savaii unless
they sent taxes levied upon them and
a number of soldiers to support Ma-
taafa, the British consul visited Savaii
on the British cruiser Porpoise and
“iwfifil* •‘•jrwfs o, r
MURDERER’S UNIQUE ESCAPE.
Comrades Enclosed Him In a Shoe
Box Sent From Penitentiary.
John Ferriter, who murdered Police¬
man Charles Ware in Indianapolis two
yearB ago, made a successful and sen¬
sational escape from the Michigan
City penitentiary Thursday afternoon.
He was in the shoe department, and,
soliciting the aid of some of his fellow
convicts in the shipping department,
they boxed him up in a shoe case. The
box was placed upon the delivery
wagon and carted to the depot.
As soon as the driver was well out¬
side the penitentiary limits, Ferriter
broke out of the box, knocked the
driver off and took to the woods.
STORM DAHAQE IN ALABAflA.
A Suburb of Birmingham Suffers Loss
of About $ 20 , 000 .
A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch says:
Wednesday’s wind and rain storm was
the severest ever known in this sec-
tion outside of death-dealing cyclones,
The record of losses in the little sub-
urb of Avondale, ou the west of the
city, will amount to at least $20,000
and probably a great deal more. Some
of the escapes were simply marvelous,
PRESIDENT ARRIVES
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» “ad Welcome Awaited the
Chi6f Ex6CUtiV8 cHld PlUty,
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with H anna
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Rest and Recreation Is the Only
Object of Vacation.
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a cordial reception awaited Presi-
«*** Vfc.ft-U-.1M~.
and Senator Hanna and their families
at Thomasvilie, Ga., Tuesday, and
when the presidential train reached
th ]ilt] it * at 2; 30 o’clock in the
afternoon there , healty .
were many
shouts of welcome sent up from a
j throng of citizens and tourists which
had already J wended its wav toward
the , depot , so as to be in time to see the
president and party alight from their
train,
Many were on hand to catch a
j „]i mpse 0 f the nation’s ruler or to, per-
I el ' anoe - meet and K ra8 P hls . hand , - aafl ,
others were present because they were
impressed with the advantages of the
pj ace aa a health and pleasure resort
beenuse of the fact that the president
has selected Thomasvilie as the rest-
j mg place after his long and arduous
j i duties in Washington, consequent
the reeent session of congress and the
b P aDIsh , *“•
Preparations Were Complete.
Everything was in readiness for e
rece ption and entertainment of e
distinguished guests. The Hanna
mansion on Dawson street had been
put j n the best of order for the great
event of the president’s visit and
1 Tuesday morning the place looked
, aH bright and cheerful as the heart
; ( . on ld wish for.
Tt may be that for once all politics
an(1 affair8 0 f state will be put aside
and that McKinley’s stay will be purely
a social and health-searching one.
X he president and party upon arri-
pa i immediately repaired to Senator
Hanna’s house. There were no pub-
: sre&sr is lhe ^ 01 * he
Tuesday afternoon a committee of
school children called on the presi-
’ f ent and Mrs McKinley and presented
«^m with a large tray of violets hay-
the word “Welcome” in white
glooms in the midst of the pnrp e pil-
1™ bordered with green Mrs Mc-
| K»>ley entertained the children They
"ere the only callers during the day,
notice having been given that the presi-
(leut de8lred rest ’
I GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
| Th e Various New Industries Reported
F° r the Past Week
The more important of the new in-
(lustries reporte d during the past week
i include a barrel factory in Kentucky;
' boiler works in West Virginia; a $10,-
000 brick works in Texas; by-product
coke plants in Tennessee and West
Virginia; a chair factory in Tennessee;
coal mines in eastern Kentucky; an
/ ootton com £ in Arkansas;
tw( cotton mills in ia and one in
; South Caro]i two cotton seed oil
miHg in T a distillery / in Ken-
} an eleotric Jight pl nt in Te n-
j nessee; electric light and power plants
in Georgia and Virginia; a fertilizer
factory in Florida; a flouring mill in
Arkansas, two in North Carolina and
one each in South Carolina, Tennessee
and Virginia; an iron foundry in
Texas; a furniture factory in North
Carolina; gas works in Kentucky; a
$50,000 gold smelter in Georgia; a
75,000-barrel grain elevator in middle
Tennessee; a $100,000 hardw-are com-
P an y in West Virginia; an ice factory
ia North Carolina; an ice and cold
storage company in Arkansas; a ma-
$ lne * b °P aud ? P?P er ba f m
Virginia; a sash, door and blind fao-
tOTy i,“ rexas | sa ". mllls ln <? eor 8 la
and T ^“^ssee a clay roofing fl tilo eom-
P an J ln West Virginia; telephone
j P| ants J n Florlda - Geor K la and
nSS°”<£S*-tSSS .
| (Chattanooga, Too,.)
APPEAL FROM DECISION.
Georgia Railroad Commission Will
Test Judge Speer’s Ruling.
The decision of Judge Emory Speer,
of Macon, to the effect that the Geor¬
gia railroad commission had no author¬
ity to require the Southern Express
company to pay the cost of the revenue
stamps and enjoining the commission
from applying any fine if the company
refuses to pay the stamps, will be ap¬
pealed. known definitely whether
It is not
the appeal will be made to the circuit
court of appeals at New Orleans or
whether it will go to the supreme
court of the United States at Wash¬
ington.
LEWIS PAYS PENALTY
For the Foul Murder of Charles
i Haynes at Atlanta, Ga.
With a cry for a few more moments
of life, for a drink of cold water and
! f or his wife to come to him with her
; prayers, Robert Lewis fell through the
death-trap in the Tower at Atlan-
ta, Ga., Tuesday morning, in expia-
tion of the murder of Charles Haynes,
aud eighteen minutes afterwards
bj s body was out down and turned
over to the undertaker.
REBELS WERE SLAUGHTERED.
Wheat Wheaton o«’s s Troops I roops Paralyze Paralyze a a force Force of or
2,000 Filipinos.
_ Manila _ special . . says: (ton. ~ t Liloycl i i
Wheaton, commanding the United
States liying column, attacked and de-
heavy loss upon them. The American
loss was slight. The Americans cap-
floating down the river.
rr Twentieth 1 ' n J at , < ! logiiuont, ^\as °[ a °y^PT7 killed, .1 r I-' ri-
vates Newman, Carroll, Marshall,
Combs and Rogers were wounded.
About 350 Fihpinos surrendered at
!
j ment. tnred at p asig by the Twentieth regi
Our troops found 100 dead bilipinos
and 100 new graves near Paalg ’,
The prisoners were unarmed and, .
therefore, it is presumed they executed
their threat of throwing their arms
into the river.
A Iater dis P atch ptates that the
strongly fortified village of Cnitai,
northwest of Pa8igj was captured
Wednesday after a desperate fight by
the Twentieth regular infantry.
The Americans lost seventeen
wounded, while the rebels’ loss was
heavy.
WILL RUSH THF.n HOflE.
| Troops In Cuba Are Menaced By
Quarantine Laws.
; A Washington dispatch says: Sa-
j ^Xeit thiu“w?n pJobaSj Inforce
: tbe quarantine laws after April first,
As the war department is especially
1 anxious to muster out troops in the
; j south, it will rush as many regiments
to Savannah ns possible between now
j and the first of April.
General Corbin said Wednesday
morning that the department had se-
cure d two extra transports from the
Ward lino and that they hoped to get
a n the volunteers out of Cuba by the
10th of April at least.
General Corbin also stated that the
department is as anxious to prevent-
any transportation of disease into the
south as the south’s quarantine offi-
cer8 but that it will be very danger-
one to be forced to carry troops to
Camp l Meade either during this month
or th e month of April.
Besides, if mustered out at Camp
Meade blankets and overcoats will be
Si-ssJS jktssjs s
un teers brought back by April 1st.
MAY DISSOLVE “ASSEMBLY.”
Generals Brooke and Gomez Hold '
Conference in Havana.
A dispatch from Havana says: Gen-
eral Gomez has decided to proceed
with the plans agreed upon for dis-
tributing the $3,000,000 to the Cuban
troops, on disbanding, as though the
military assembly did not exist. He
| I conferred with Governor for two General hours Brooke Wednesday regard-
ing the details.
General Brooke asked the Washing-
ton officials several days ago whether in
case he dissolved the assembly his
action would be approved. The cabled
reply authorized him to dissolve that
body, if, in his judgment, such an Ret
was necessary. He hopes the assem-
bly will soon cease of its own accord
to hold its sessions, but should ses-
sions disquieting to the public mind
continue, he will intervene.
DELIBERATIONS OF WOODMEN
Interesting Reports Regarding Condi¬
tion of the Order Are Made.
Wednesday afternoon’s session of
the Woodmen of the World at Mem-
phis, Tenn., was one of especial inter-
e st, but little business was transacted
except in the way of receiving and re-
ferring. resolutions.
The report of Sovereign Clerk Yates
shows that during the year 1898 the
death rate was about seven in every
thousand, and this is a small decrease
over the records of theprevious twelve
months.
COLORADO DESPERADOES
j Cause the Peo P le ot Lake City io Ap ’
peal For Hllitary Protection.
A dispatch was received by Gover-
nor Thomas at Denver, Col., Wednes-
day morning from Sheriff J. W. Deck,
of Hinsdale county, asking for troops
to aid him in enforcing the law at Lake
City. It says a hundred armed men,
mostly Italians, are defying the law.
WOODMEN IN SESSION.
Biennial Meeting of the Sovereign
Camp In Memphis, Tenn.
The sovereign camp, Woodmen of
the World, the fifth ’argest fraternal
and beneficial order in the United
States, met in biennial session Tues¬
day morning at Goyoso hotel, at Mem¬
phis, with 60 delegates in attendance.
The sovereign camp is composed of
delegates from all of the states in the
United States with the exception of
the Pacific jurisdiction, which has a
separate head camp, but is represented
at this convention by fraternal dele¬
gates as is also the Canadian jurisdic¬
tion. The deliberations of the body
were held behind closed doors.
HARRISON’S RENOMINATION
For Mayor of Chicago Decided In
Democratic Primaries.
The result of the democratic prima¬
ries held in Chicago Wednesday in¬
sures the renomination of Carter H.
Harrison for mayor.
No opposition to the Harrison ticket
was made at the polls by the adherents
of ex-Governor Altgeld, who will run
as an independent candidate, and, in
consequence, a light vote was polled.
PRISONERS SHOT
BY WHITECAPPERS
Hte. Negroee Killed By a Mob at
Palmetto, Ga.
WERE HELD FOR ARSON.
Citizens Ask Governor Candler
to Send Troops at Once.
Nine negroes were the victims of a
pnrty of masked wliitecaps in Pal-
metto, Ga., at about 1 o . clock i .mi. Ihurs-
day morning.
While the people of the little town
were sleeping quietly a gang of fully
two hundred men entered the place,
rode up to an outhouse wuere tne ne-
groes were imprisoned and called on
the guard, with threats and ourses, to
turn over the nine prisoners who were
there for trial on the charge of arson.
Owing to superior numbers of the
mob the guards were overpowered
without difficulty, and with a rush the
wliitecaps made for the negroes, who
had been awakened by tbe noise on
the outside. The nine negroes were
shot down while they were calling for
mercy. Six of them were killed out-
right; the others were fatally wound¬
ed.
„ rpn i os i pypitfiment orevailed in
the town Everybody was soon awake
and armed, fearing an outbreak ou tlie
part of the negroes of the communiv,
' vh ° were threatening to avenge the
blood of their race.
The nine negroes were held for the .
burning of the town, which took place
' afd January,
Governor Candler was called on a,
4 o’clock a. m., for troops to be sem
to tlie town at once ’
NO Nlrk POLITI CAL miM rnW r-KKCiyv-ca, pp B pv rF S>
wm Be He | d at Thomasvilie, Says
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A Thomasvilie, r ia., , P eo _„.
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resident McKinley rested \\ ed •_ es
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dny ; enjoyed h .
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bc the fatl f , tra . ' el , tUat f , 116
ha8 ' e ? ba<1 r . P ues °. s
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P° 1 lciau ( ? mt
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i the few things of
I ers or functions, and
j a personal nature which it was neces-
! ! S ary he should attend to were quickly
dispatched through Assistant Secretary
I j. Cortelyou. government’s bus-
All details of the
j iness are being attended to in Wash-
j ! policy ington that and possibly only nrgent develop matters will of
| may
be laid before the president here.
: No political conferences have been
j held or are in contemplation in
j Thomasvilie. telegraphed from Reports Washington having that been
: a
! conference would be held here to de-
aide whether Vice President Hobart
: j wfHikl be again the party’s Associated
f 0 r the vice presidency, the
j j ator Press Hanna’s correspondent house went during out the to after- Sen-
; U oon to inquire about them.
He passed Senator Hanna going
j down president town for a shave, asleep lenrned and met that the
| Hie was
j vice president in the library. Mr.
i Hobart said:
“I don’t care to talk about the re-
port, it is too ridiculous, I don’t ex-
peel any politicians to come here. As
to conferring with the president and
Senator Hanna, I would not come all
the way to Thomasvilie for that. I
can see them three times a day in
Washington.”
SHERMAN SERIOUSLY ILL.
Is Laid Up With a Bad Case of Pneu¬
monia at Martinique.
A dispatch from Fort De France,
Martinique, says: John Sherman, who
is a passenger on board the American
line steamer Paris, which arrived Wed¬
nesday from Trinidad with the party
of excursionists who are making a
tour of the West Indian islands, is
suffering from pneumonia.
While at San Juan de Porto Rico a
week ago Mr. Sherman was entertain¬
ed by Brigadier General Fred Grant,
commander of the military depart¬
ment of San Juan, and caught cold.
The malady w-as not considered seri¬
ous until Tuesday night.
SECURES DIRECT LINE.
The L.. & N. Will Build From Selma,
Ala., to Pensacola, Fla.
A Birmingham dispatch says: Re¬
cently the Louisville and Nashville
railroad began the construction of a
foriy-mile gap of road between Pine
Apple and Repton, Ala., which, when
completed, will give ; t a direct line
from Selma to Pensacola, Fla.
It is learned that the same company
has just put surveyors in the field be¬
tween Selma and Yolande with a view
of completing the new line to Birming¬
ham, thus giving it a straight route
from Birmingham to Pensacola via
Selma and Repton.
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SAMPSON MAKES REQUEST
That His Name Be Omitted From List
of Promotions.
Secretary Long of the Navy, Admiral lias re-
ceived a letter from Rear
Sampson in which tbe admiral, after
referring to the allegations that lists of
officers recommended for promotion
for gallantry off Santiago has failed of
confirmation because it included his
name, asked the secretary to immedi-
ately reappoint these officers, omitting
his own name.
STATEMENT OF OOMEZ
Accepting His Summary “Dismissal”
From the Cuban Army.
A special from Havana says: Gen¬
eral Maximo Gomez has issued the
following statement to the Cuban peo¬
ple and army:
t < By the use of the supreme facili¬
ties with which it is endowed, the as¬
sembly, representing the army only,
has dei osed me ascommauder-in-chief
of the Cuban army, which grade it con-
ferred on me during the last war. As
commander-in-chief I always followed
the dictates of my best conscience and
the call of great national needs. 1 en¬
deavored in all circumstances to fulfill
my duty. considers the fact
“The assembly raise
tliat I do not aid it in efforts to
loans, which latter would compromise
the greatest financial and political in¬
terests of Cuba, to be an act of i» so fi¬
ll ordination and want of respect. The
primary cause for the action taken
against mo is my conviction that Cuba
should begin the exercise of its own
sovereignty, as a republic of union and
concord, proclaimed it Monte Cristo
and sustained unimpaired on the field
of battle, free from all compromise,
keeping the nation's honor spotless.
“As for the rest, as a sincere man,
I confess I thank them because they
relieve me of great political obliga¬
tions and also leave me free to return
to my abandoned home, which, during
thirty years of continifal slrife for the
good of this country that T love
much, has been my one aspiration.
Foreigner as I am, I did not come to
serve this country by helping it to
defend its just cause as a mercenary
soldier, and consequently, since the
oppressive power of Spain has with¬
drawn from this land and left Cuba in
freedom, I have sheathed my sword,
thinking I had finished my mission
which I had voluntarially imposed
upon myself. I am owed nothing. I
retire contented and satisfied at hav¬
ing done all I could for the benefit of
my brothers. Wherever destiny rules
that I make my home, there can the
Cubans depend upon a friend.”
PROTECTION GUARANTEED.
Citizens Forced To Leave South Caro¬
lina Can Now Return.
A response" Columbia, S. C., dispatch says:
In to letters received by him
from various persons, who, as a result
of warnings received are afraid to re¬
turn to their homes in Abbeville and
Greenwood counties, the neighbor¬
hood of the Phoenix troubles, Gover-
nor Ellerbe has issued a proclamation
calling upon the sheriffs, deputy sher-
iffs, magistrates, constables and all
other peace officers in Greenwood and
Abbeville counties, under the pains
and penalties of law, to protect such
wronged and persecuted persons in
their lives, property and liberties and
in their performance of their duties, driven
| from He then extends homes, to all citizens aforesaid, u ho
j as
| desire to return to their homes, suuh
j full protection as ail the power of
the state can give as long as t icy
, pursue their lawful business, and the
good people in the said counties are
earnestly urged to assist in upholding
J the law and in saving the good names
of the respective counties,
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PRESIDENT TAKES VACATION,
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Party Leaves Washington For An
Outing In Thomasvilie, Ga.
President and Mrs. McKinley and a
party of friends left Washington at
g;lo o’clock Monday night for a vaca-
Hon of ten days or two weeks at Thom¬
asvilie, Ga.
The trip) was made via the Atlantic
Coast Lino and the Plant system,
aboard a splendid train of Pullman
cars, perfect in equipment with every
provision for the comfort and safety of
the party. (rain time the
Ten minutes before
president and Mrs. McKinley reached
the station, where a number of people
had assembled, and went on board the
train and greeted those who accompa¬
nied them on the trip. These included
the vice president and Mrs. Hobart
and Master Hobart, Senator and Mrs.
Hanna, Miss Hanna and Miss Phelps,
Dr. J. N. Rixey and Mr, George B.
Cortelyou, assistant secretary to the
president, and B. S. Barnes, one of
the executive clerks.
Secretary Alger, Postmaster General
Emory Smith, Secretary to the Presi¬
dent Porter, General Corbin and oth¬
ers were at the station to bid the party
farewell.
CASTELLANOS HUNTING TROUBLE
Former Governor General of Cuba
Slanders Spanish Officers.
A Madrid dispatch says: An extra¬
ordinary speech made by General
Castellanos, the Spanish governor gen¬
eral of Cuba, who was recently ap¬
pointed captain general of Madrid, to
the soldiers during an inspection
which he made at the barracks Wed¬
nesday has caused intense anger in
military circles.
The captain general said: “There is
only one thing good in the army and
it is the soldier himself. As to tlie
offi-ers, if they are derelict in their
duty I am accustomed to send them to
the galleys.”
EXAMINATION NECESSARY.
Second Lieutenants’ Commissions
Will Depend on Herits.
a. Washington dispatch says: All
tlie men recently appointed second
lieutenants in the anny will have to
pa88 examinations before they are com-
missioned,
They will take rank according to
the examinations which they pass, the
meu f rom the regular army taking
precedence over those appointed from
civil life.