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PREDICTION
BY MORGAN
Alabama Senator Declares
Bryan Can Be Elected.
SILVER WILL WIN OUT.
The Senator, In an Interview, Also Ex¬
presses His Opinion In Regard to
Present War In Philippines.
The Weshington Times of Friday’s
issue contained the following author¬
ized interview with Senator Morgan
from its special correspondent in An¬
niston, Ala.:
“I think that the democratic party
in the Chicago platform,” said Senator
Morgan, “gave a free, full and clear
expression of the democratic creed
governing a number of subjects. I
think we ought to abide by that plat¬
form, without any amendment or mod¬
ification. I shall be entirely satisfied
with any nominee who will sincerely
accept that platform as the basis of his
political administration. Mr. Bryan
is the leader of the party on the silver
plank and he will be the* logical leader
on the issue that will be formed, if the
republicans succeed, as I suppose they
will, in passing their currency bill.
“If the republicans insist upon the
legal enactment of the single gold
standard, silver will be the predomi-
Bating issue of the next campaign,
The republicans will attempt to dis-
guise the purpose and effect of their
legislation, but the real question will
be this: Shall the coinage of the silver
dollar be prohibited and the legal ten-
der power limited to $10 in one pay-
menL On that question I have little
doubt that every democrat and every
bimetallist in the United States will
vote for the democratic nominee. I
think a silver man will be elected pres-
ident.
“I think the United ^ States govern-
naent is doing everything that is re-
quisite to crush out Aguiualdo’s in-
surrection. There can be no doubt
that Aguiualdo’s munitions of war are
supplied by some combination some-
where on the coast of Asia. That
combination is fighting the United
States for a mercenary and malignant
purpose. T2ey are counting upon
popular sentiment in the United States
to recall the Ameriean troops and make
terms with Aguinaldo. That expecta¬
tion is utterly vain and without any
foundation, in fact.
“The people in this country are sat-
isfied with the results already accom-
plished, and to be accomplished, by
this war. They are determined to
press it to a successful conclusion. We
deplore the revolting features. We
regret that innocent men are being led
to their death by Aguinaldo and his
selfish advisors, but that is only an
incident in the suppression of any in-
surreeticn.
"I am of the opinion that Mr. Boot
is going to make an admirable secre-
tary of war. He is a very able man
and a very fine lawyer, and he seems
not to be involved in any of the compli-
cations that have caused disturbance
in army circles.
“There will be no difference of
opinion among the American people
in regard to the war. Both leaders of
the two great political parties—-Mr.
McKinley, of the republicans, and
Mr. Bryan, of the democrats—concur
that the war must be prosecuted to a
successful conclusion. No political
party that opposes the United States
government in its earnest attempt to
Suppress the insurrection iu the Phil-
lppiues will he sustained by the Amer-
ican people, and I am satisfied that
the democratic party oannot be led
into that attitude.”
FOR DEFENSE FUND.
Union Printers Increase Monthly As¬
sessment Ten Cents Per Capita.
By an almost unanimous vote the
delegates to the International Typo-
graphical Union convention, in session
at Detroit, adopted a constitutional
amendment increasing the union’s reg-
ular monthly dues 10 cents per capita,
the increase of revenue to go to the
defense fund. The action must be
ratified by the general membership.
DEFEATED CANAL BILLS.
Three Pet measures of Emperor Wil¬
liam Are Turned Down.
The lower house of the Prussian
diet Thursday by a vote of 212 to 209
rejected the second reading of the bill
relating to the Dortmund-Bhine canal
and the completion of the Dortmund-
Ems canal. The lower house also de¬
feated the central canal bill by a vote
of 228 to 126.
Ten Per Cent Raise Refused.
At a meeting of striking coal miners
at Middlesboro, Ky., Thursday after¬
noon, they decided not to accept the
offer of the operators which was a 10
per cent raise. They demand 12J.
PRICE OF COAL ADVANCED.
Scarcity of Commodity In Chattanooga
Causes Dealers to Hedge.
Chattanooga coal dealers have or¬
ganized an association in view of the
existing scarcity of coal in all the
mines of the district for the purpose
of regulating the price of coat in that
section. Thursday the association gave
notice of an increase of 10 cents on
the ton and notified customers that
they could take no contracts for future
delivery at present prices.
NOW TEN REGIHENTS.
Otis Will 5oon Have Sufficient
Force to Conquer Fili¬
pino Rebels.
A Washington special says: An order
has been issued directing that ten addi¬
tional regiments of infantry volunteers
he organized for service in the Philip¬
pines. The regiments will be numbered
from thirty-eight to forty-seven and
will be organized at the following
places, in the order named:
Fort Knelling, Minn.; Fort Crook,
Neb.; Fort Riley, Kas.; Camp Meade,
Pa.; Fort Niagara, N. Y. •, Fort Leaven¬
worth, Kas.; Jefferson barracks, Mis¬
souri; South Framingham, Mass.
“Thp policy of the war department,”
said Secretary Boot, ‘‘is to furnish
General Otis with all the troops and
supplies that he can use and which are
necessary to wind up the insurrection
in the Philippines in the shortest pos¬
sible time.”
The secretary in speaking of the call
said that no delay would be allowed in
enlisting, equipping and supplying
the new' regiments nor in transporting
them, as well as the other regiments
already organized, to the Philippines
as soon as they were needed for aotive
operations. If the present number of
transports are insufficient more will
be procured.
The men already enlisted for the
Philippine service will be sent at once
and the new regiments will be for¬
warded as fast as they are organized
and needed. While there has been
some suggestion that the new regi¬
ments will be used as a reserve force,
it may be stated positively that these
regiments, as well as more, if they
can be secured, will be sent to re¬
enforce General Otis.
Secretary Boot sent a copy of the
order to the various departments of
the army and they at once began pre¬
parations for supplying the new or-
ganizations.
Within half an hour the ordnance
bureau had sent orders to the different
arsenals directing that complete outfits
of arms and ordnance supplies for
each regiment be sent to the rendez-
vous where they are to be organized,
The quartermaster’s department gave
orders for supplying tents, clothing
and other equipment’s furnished by
that department, while the commissary
dep«rtmeut ordered a sufficient supply
0 f rations to be on hand to feed the
troops as fast as they arrive. The
medical department was also directed
to see that supplies were sent to the
regiments to be recruited with the
same care exercised in enlisting the
first ten regiments,
FIVE NEGROES JAILED.
Charged With Burning Farmer’s Barn
Near Senoia, Ga.
Coweta county, Ga., officers arrested
three negroes Thursday morning and
carried them to jail at Newnan on the
charge of burning the splendid barn
with all its contents, forty-seven head
0 f fi ne cattle, one horse and mule,
fi ogs> e t c ., belonging to Mr. E. L.
Hardy, ne ar Senoia.
Two negroes were arrested last week
on same charge and subsequent
developments and a strict watch has
linked little by little of important evi-
deuce, so that the whole gang is now
behind the bars,
After the arrest of Andrew Herndon,
oue 0 f the gang, he feared lest the
others might tell the whole story and
put the largest part of the blame on
him, he made a free and voluntary
confession. He states that Lewis
Brandenburg, George Eliot, Lint
Lightner, Simon Jackson and himself
suspected that Mr. Hardy had a large
sum of money, as he was dealing
largely in cattle and selling large
quantities of brick, and between them
fi a( j arranged to rob Mr. Hardy, even
if they hau to kill him to accomplish
their purpose.
They k ae w Mr. Hardy kept a pistol
and winchester close by him at night
and they planned to fire the barn in
order to decoy him from his house,
when they expected to pounce upon
him, kill him and then rob his house.
Evil designs of a more serious nature
may have been seriously contemplated
also by these demons.
Two negroes set the barn on fire
while three were in ..... hiding to waylay
Mr. Hardy and kill him, as he came
to see about the burning barn,
and ^te Mr. decreed Hardy differently, was n&t so however, easy to
wake and the fire was discovered by
the small son of a tenant on the Hardy
farm.and who lived near the residence.
DEWEY CJ1VES DATE
Of His Arrival In N«w York—lt Is
September Twenty-Ninth.
At Thursday’s meeting of the com¬
mittee on plan and scope of th* Dewey
celebration at New York General
Butterfield read a cablegram from Ad¬
miral Dewey which effectually sets at
rest all reports that the admiral would
first go to Washington before the cele¬
bration in his honor in New York.
The message was as follows:
“Leghorn, August 16.—To General
Butterfield, New York: Yours of Au¬
gust 1 st received, Will reach the
lower bay without fail Friday, Septem¬
ber 29th. Beady for parade Saturday
morning. Dewey.”
PRECIPITATED INTO RIVER.
Six Occupants of a Carriage fleet
Death By Drowning.
A carriage containing six persons,
two women and four children, was
precipitated into White river at Wash¬
ington, Ind., Thursday night as it was
being driven aboard a ferryboat and
all were drowned.
The horse had just stepped aboard
the ferryboat when the hawser parted
and the boat swung out, dropping the
carriage into the river.
WHEAT GROWERS
HOLD MEETING!
Palmetto State Farmers In Confer- *
I
fsrence at Greenwood.
ORGANIZATION PERFECTED
Qathering Was Largely Attended
and Program Interesting.
The first wheat growers convention
ever held in South Carolina began at
Greenwood Tuesday morning. Six
hundred farmers were in attendance
and the convention was conducted up¬
on the lines of the recent Macon, Ga.,
meeting. Hon. A. C. Latimer, con¬
gressman from the Greenwood district,
and a wealthy farmer, was elected
president, and N. A. Craig, president
of the Craig Boiler Mill at Greenwood,
was elected president.
Among those in attendance were
some of the most prosperous and suc¬
cessful agriculturists in the state,
while there were others who had never
raised wheat, the latter of whom were
present to learn, and listened intently
to the advice of their more than ex¬
perienced brethren.
Two farmers who farm in that sec¬
tion, gave their experiences at the
morning session. They agreed that
wheat can be raised at no more cost
than cotton and there is good money
in wheat. With land carefully pre¬
pared, twenty-five bushels of wheat is
an average yield and little fertilizer is
necessary to produce a larger yield.
At the afternoon session the address
of the day was delivered by C, H. Jor¬
dan, of Georgia, whose remarks were
well received. He gave valuable in¬
struction* and advice. Short talks
wrnre made by numbers of planters,
detailing their experience with wheat
and the best method of cultivating and
raising the grain.
A permanent organization was form-
ed with Congressman Latimer us pres-
ident and N. A. Craig, secretary. The
committee on constitution consists of
E. M. Seabrook, Charleston; S. H.
McGhee, Greenwood; J. A. Peterkin,
Orangeburg; J. H. Wharton, Laurens;
J. F. Breeden, Marlboro; L. J. Wil-
liams, Edgefield; W. T. J. Cunning-
bam, Chester. This committee will
arrange meetings for next year.
TEROR1ZED BY WHITECAPS.
Negroes In Vicinity of Phoenix, S. C.,
Are Being Nightly Whipped.
For more than a week past a gang
of so-called whitecaps has baen almost
every night whipping negroes in
Greenwood county, S. C. The Bection
between Greenwood and Phoenix is a
fine farming country, and is largely
tenanted by negroes who rent from
white landlords.
It was at Phoenix, in that com¬
munity, thickly settled by negroes,
that the election riot between the
blacks and whites took place last
November. Since then among lower
class of whites there has been an un¬
relenting disposition to drive out the
negroes.
Monday night a week ago the whip¬
ping began. Negro houses were visit¬
ed and the inmates taken out and
beaten. Several nights the past week
this was repeated, and a wide terri¬
tory has been covered by the white-
caps. The negroes are said to be in a
state *f terror, and many spend the
nights in the woods and swamps, while
others seek protection at the houses of
their white landlords.
On last Saturday night 200 negroes
spent the night in Greenwood, and
many of them have never returned to
their homes, fearing to do so.
The better class of white people de¬
plore the state of affairs, and until now
the matter has been kept quiet, but
Tuesday the sheriff appealed to Gov¬
ernor McSweeney for assistance, stat¬
ing that as chief peace officer of the
county, ho was powerless to suppress
the lawlessness. The negroes are
afraid to give information, and certain
white men have been threatened if
they take action against the white-
caps.
^Lieutenant Colonel Is Woodward.
The members of the First battalion
of the Fifth regiment of the Georgia
militia held a battalion drill at Atlanta
Tuesday night and afterwards elected
Park Woodward to the lieutenant col¬
onelcy of the regiment.
TO INVADE SOUTH.
Hiss Jewett May Come to This Sec¬
tion to Fight flob Violence.
A dispatch from Boston, Mass.,
says: Miss Lillian Clay Jewett states
that she expects soon to go south to
carry on her campaign against lynch¬
ing which, she says, has not by any
means ended with her bringing the
Baker family north. She wiil proba¬
bly proceed first to Georgia and de¬
liver addresses in furtherance of her
hobby.
MAY EXTEND LINE.
Rumor That Seaboard Will Build
From Athens to Augusta.
A surveying party of the Seaboard
Air Line corps is in Augusta, Ga., and
it is said will locate a route to Athens.
Rumor has it that the Seaboard Air
Line will build from Athens to Au¬
gusta, This route, it is claimed,
would shorten the distance between
Augusta and Atlanta.
Cigar Combine Probable.
Reports to the effect that a combina¬
tion of the leading cigar manufactur¬
ers in Key West, Tampa and Havana .
is being organized are current in the
tobacco trade in New York.
HEETING CALLED.
Southern Commissioners of Agri¬
culture Will Gather at
New Orleans.
Tko convention of commissioners of
agriculture from the southern states
has been called for September 2l)th at
New Orleans. This date was agreed
upon by Commissioner O. B. Stevens,
of Georgia, Tuesday, after an under¬
standing with the different agricul¬
tural officials of the cotton-producing
states.
The convention has been called by
the agricultural department of Geor¬
gia to consider the cotton outlook and
discuss plans calculated to better the
staple product of the south. It will
be the first meeting of the kind ever
called and the most distinguished
gathering in many respects ever as¬
sembled to undertake the betterment
of agricultural interests.
Not only is it proposed to discuss
the uniform and final classification of
cotton, but to take up all other prop¬
ositions that look to the general good
of the farming element.
The movement to call the convention
was started by Commissioner Stevens
in the past spring. Colonel Stevens
recognized that if anything substan¬
tial was to be done in the way of leg¬
islation for the farmers of the south it
should be started at once.
He communicated in time with the
commissioners of agriculture of all the
southern states and obtained from
each of them an endorsement of his
plan for an interstate cotton conven¬
tion.
The program of the convention has
been practically mapped out for the
first day. Commissioner of Agricul¬
ture Leou Jastremski, of Louisiana,
has been asked to act as temporary
chairman of the convention and will
be called upon for the opening address.
The Governor of Louisiana has been
requested to address the meeting the
fir8t day, and his address will be re¬
sponded to by Governor Candler, of
Georgia.
Governor Candler is ... in hearty sym-
P ath J 71 th the movement that has
prompted and accepted the the call of the convention Tuesday
invitation
fc ° be present and speak in behalf of
visiting commissioners
11 » probable that both Commis-
sioner . Stevens and Assistant Comims-
sioner Wright will be present to rep¬
resent Georgia, and both officials will
go prepared to offer some plan to the
convention that has in view the inter¬
ests of the farmers of the south.
By calling the convention of com¬
missioners it is hoped that whatever
relief measure is indorsed it can be
made uniform throughout the south.
It is realized at the start that any law-
such as the passage of a uniform class¬
ification act by the legislature of any
state would fail of its effect in case the
measure was not adopted uniformly
by the legislatures of all the cotton
producing states.
It is the opinion of Commissioner
Stevens that something will result
from the meeting of permanent good
to the farming element of Georgia and
of the south, and with this belief be
has determined to be present at the
convention and do all in his power to
bring about prosperity in the southern
states.
GUERIN HOLDS THE FORT.
President of Anti-Semite League is
Now Outlawed.
A special from Paris says: The war¬
rant for the arrest of M. Guerin, pres¬
ident of the Anti-Semite League, who
with sympathizers, has been barricaded
since Saturday last in the offices of
the league, has been placed in the
hands of Magistrate Fabre.
Guerin is now regarded as an out¬
law in a state of rebellion since his
uotification of the issue of the warrant.
He cannot claim the right of a citizen
of exemption from arrest from sunset
to sunrise and the persons guarding
the headquarters of the league, num¬
bering about forty, are in the same
box.
Strict orders have been given to ar¬
rest every one attempting to enter or
leave the building.
The prefect of police is still await¬
ing orders from the government in re¬
gard to the action to be taken against
Guerin. The leading Jews of Europe
are arranging for a meeting in Switz¬
erland to form an international associ¬
ation for their defense and to protect
the Jews in France after the Dreyfus
courtmartial is over.
EXCITEilENT IN LITTLE ROCK.
Five Assaults on Women Occur There
In Space of One Day.
Five Brutal assaults by a negro on
white women occurred in Little Rock,
Ark., in twenty-four hours. It is gen¬
erally believed that all these crimes
were committed by the same negro,
but four suspects have been arrested,
and if the right man can be postively
identified he may receive summary
punishment. The four negroes an¬
swer the description given by some
of the viotims. They are Ed Wright,
Joe Gardner, Will Morgan and James
Randle. Wright has been positively
identified by Mrs Kennedy as the man
who assaulted her.
LABORI HAS FEVER.
l Change Takes Place In Condition of
Dreyfus’ Lawyer.
The correspondent at Rennes of the
Associated Press visited M. Labori
Wednesday at the residence of Prof,
Basch, who lives in an old rambling
house, situated in a walled garden on
the outskirts of Rennes. He found,
unfortunately, that the w'ounded law-
was worBe - A sh « ht fever haB »-
tuTned -
ARE COWARDS,
SAYS TILLMAN
South Carolina Senator
Denounces Whitecaps.
TOLBERTS ARE BLAMED
For Persecution of Negroes 1 h Palaeito
State -Fanners’ Institute Meeting
In Greenwood Was Liv«Iy.
Senator Ben Tillman was the speaker
at the farmers’ institute U*ld at Green¬
wood, S. C., Wednesday. At the very
beginning of his talk he pitched into
the whitecappers, wbo hare been ter¬
rorizing a portion of that seetiou for
the past ten days, whipptug inoffen¬
sive negroes.
The senator calls them white cow¬
ards and said they were a disgrace to
the county. He thought if the Tol¬
berts, the republican party leaders,
were 8 till stirring up the negroes they
ought to be dealt with.
If you want to uproot th# evil and
kill the snake, go kill the Tolbers, but
don’t abuse the poor, innocent black
wretches.
“The yankees,” said the senator,
are watching as closely and the eyes of
the whole world are now on the race
problem in the south. They will take
advantage of everything of this kind
to abuse the south. You are just play¬
ing into the yankee’s hands. They
are wanting to cut down our represen¬
tation in congress because of our new
election laws, but otherwise there is
little better feeling now between the
two sections, but this sort of thing
will arouse bad feeling. Why, just
look at that Jewett woman coming
down here and taking away the nigger
postmaster's family. She comes frem
Boston, the head and center of all dev¬
ilment. The yankees are ready to take
up any such deviltry as this whitecap¬
ping business, and yon people ought
to put a stop to this.”
The senator talked largely about
agricultural affairs, but later got into
national politics and denounced the
Philippine war, sarcastically scorning
McKinley's benevolent assimulation.
“I have not asked for any army ap¬
pointment,” said he, “because I don’t
think any decent man ought to engage
in this outrageous war.”
The senator bragged about his part
in the armor plate hold-up, and be¬
fore he closed he made his usual at¬
tack upon the newspapers.
Congressman A. C. Latimer, who
represents the Greenwood district,
was the other speaker. It was the
contest of Latimer’s seat bp R, R.
Tolbert, that caused the eleetiee riots at
Phoenix last November, tte did not
refer to the present race tregble, al¬
though he took occasion to attack the
Philippine policy.
For Vindication of Law.
In the afternoon a mass meeting
was held to denounce th* whitecap¬
ping. The prosecuting attorney of the
circuit made the opening speech and
the sheriff followed. They begged for
the vindication of the law and the
sheriff said he would arrest auybody if
he only knew who to arrest, but he
declared his inability to find out who
was at the bottom of the trouble.
Others spoke on the same line, but
Bob Cheatham, who was one of the
election managers at the Phoenix box
last November, when Ethridge was
killed by the negroes, exploded a
bombshell. He cried excitedly:
“I’ve got a remedy for the trouble.
Drive out the Tolberts and whites and
negroes -will live together peacea¬
bly. Kid the country of the Tolberts
and you’ll stop the trouble. I’ll lead
the crowd to rid the country of even
the name or leave my wif* a widow.”
Cheatham’s fire-brand talk was ap¬
plauded, but it was evident that the
majority were against him, not believ¬
ing that politics is the cause of this
disturbance.
A man in shirt sleeves arose, and
vehemently begged his neighbors to
help him. Hie farm had been visited
and all the negroes driven off by the
whitecappers. His wife is sick from
th* excitement caused by the raids.
He has 175 acres of land in cotton and
can’t get a negro to pick it. Even a
well-digger he had temporarily em¬
ployed had been warned not to work
for him.
The speaker was P. B. Brooks, who
is an industrious farmer living not
three miles from the courthouse.
Resolutions denouncing the white¬
cappers were adopted and a committee
was appointed to investigate the trou¬
ble and report to another mass meet¬
ing to be held in the disturbed sec¬
tion.
The negroes are still taking to the
woods at night *ndmany of them have
left their homes for good.
It is believed that political troubles
have caused the disturbance, as th*
negroes have been quiet sine* the No¬
vember riots.
PLOTTERS CLOSE PUSHBD.
Antl-Dreyfusards Have a General Plan
and Premeditate Assassinations.
Joseph Beinach cables the follow¬
ing statement to The New York Journ¬
al and Advertiser from Rennes,France:
“The shooting of Labori will warm
up the atmosphere of the court, as it
has disgusted honest men.
“The attempted assassination is not
the outcome of a weak mind; it is
part of a general plan, is cold-blooded,
premeditated amd paid for.”
FIGHT AT CALULET.
Twelfth Infantry Drives Rebels From
Ano'her Philippine Town.
A special from Manila says: The
Twelfth infantry left Calulet at sunrise
Wednesday and advanced up the rail¬
way, Captaiu Evans’,battalion deployed
to the right of the truck ami Captain
Wood’s to the left. Two companies
remained on the track with the artil¬
lery. The insurgents were found well
intrenched in front of the town, the
trenches having been dug within a few
days and since the occupation of Calu¬
let.
At a distauce of 1,500 yards the
Filipinos opened fire. Their force was
estimated by Colonel Smith at 1,500,
although the residents afterwards said
it exceeded these figures by a thou¬
sand.
The enemy sent heat y volleys against
the whole American line. Moat of
their shooting, as usual, w as high, but
they concentrated their heaviest fire
down the track upon the artillery.
Colonel Smith kept the whole line
moving rapidly, with frequent rushes.
The insurgents attempted to dank Cap¬
tain Evans and therefore two compa¬
nies were sent to the right and drove
them back.
Unable to stand our continuous vol¬
leys, the Filipinos abandoned the
trenches and retreated through the
town northward. It appears that they
had only received their supply of am¬
munition Wednesday morning, Had
they been attacked sooner they could
have made little resistance.
The intense heat caused much suf¬
fering among the Americans.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
Various New Industries Established
During the Past Week.
Among the more important of the
new industries reported duriug the
past week are a $50,000 steam bakery
in Middle Tennessee; a 100-ton cast,
iron pipe foundry in Alabama; coal
mines in Arkansas and West Virginia;
a $250,000 cordage factory in Louisi-
ana; cotton mills in Alabama and
North Carolina; a cotton seed oil mill
in Mississippi; an electric light and
power plant in South Carolina; a fer¬
tilizer factory and tallow refinery in
Georgia; flouring mills in Georgia and
Tennessee; foundry and machine shops
in South Cat-oliua and Texas; a furni¬
ture factory in North Carolina; gas
works in West Virginia; a knitting
mill in Georgia; lumber mills iu North
Carolina, Texas and Virginia; a $100,-
000 lumber and shingle mill in Louis¬
iana; a natural gas and oil company in
West Virginia; a shoe factory in Geor¬
gia; a starch factory in Florida; a tan¬
nery in Georgia; a tannery acid plant
in North Carolina; tobacco factories in
Kentucky and North Carolina; zinc
and lead mines in Arkansas.—Tradee-
man, (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
SCHEDULE OF DEBTS
Being Arrangned By Creditors of the
Black Diamond Railroad.
Knoxville stockholders and direc¬
tors of the Boone-Black Diamond rail¬
road are making out a schedule of in¬
debtedness, which is claimed is due
them by the railroad, and an effort is
being made to have this amount,
which will aggregate obout $125,000,
.paid of the funds expected from Eng¬
land.
The claim is for directors’ salaries,
for four years’ office expense, etc.
One item is for $50,000 in favor
of Knox county. This is claimed on
a contract by which the Boone pro¬
moters secured Knox county’s $100,-
000 Knoxville and Ohio railroad bonds
and sold them for $40,000.|It was under¬
stood that the road should pay back
$50,000 and this is the claim now be¬
ing made.
The local directors have charge of
the road in East Tennessee and it is
understood they will retain a lien on
all rights of way in this section until
the claims referred to are paid.
NILE IS VERY LOW.
Apprehension Is Felt at Cairo Regard¬
ing Egyptian Cotton Crop.
Advices from Cairo, Egypt, state
that the extreme lowness of the Nile
threatens the cotton crop and the na¬
tives have been warned to sow early.
The upper highlands will suffer the
most, and it is feared that the loss of
revenue will be considerable.
ANOTHER FOROERY UNEARTHED
In Secret Dossier, According to the
Assertion of M. Labor!.
Advices of Tuesday from Rennes,
Rrance, state that M. Labori is now
doing so well that the doctors consider
him out of danger. He lies on his
back unable to move. He has no fever
and continues to discuss the trial.
The Matin, a Paris newspaper,
makes the announcement that Labori,
after he was shot, declared that, as
the outcome of his injury appeared
doubtful, he wished to make known
the fact that M. Uhamoin, who has
charge of the secret documents in the
Dreyfus case, has discovered a new
forgery in the dossier.
WILL INVESTIGATE PLAGUE.
Washington Officials Send Surgeon
Irwin to the Orient.
A Washington dispatch says: Sur¬
geon Fairfax Irwin, of the marine
hospital service, now in Europe, has
been ordered by Surgeon General
Wyman to proceed to Oporto and
Lisbon and make a report on the sit¬
uation regarding the bubonic plague
which has made its appearance in
Portugal.