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OCILLA, GEORGIA.
IRim COUNTY PUBLISHING CO.,
Proprietors.
Religious growth and progress show
themselves iu gentler manners, higher
Ideals, and more sympathy for those
who are on the other side.
American inventive genius has been
at the top for nearly a century, and by
going to tho bottom in the submarine
boat Holland it has extended its
supremacy._
Arnold White, the author, in the
Academy, of London, asks the assist-
ance of “poets, men of imagination
and masters of language” in devising
a term to replace “colonists” as a
description of Canadians, Australians
and South Africians. Mr. White
points out that “colonists” is not
good enough, and is resented. “Brit¬
isher,” Mr. White thinks, might do,
Four years ago, when the Connecti¬
cut Agricultural Experiment Station
first began to make tests of food prod¬
ucts, eighty-nice per cent, of the
coffee examined was found to be
adulterated. Last year, owing pre¬
sumably to the exposures then made,
the proportion of impure coffee was
but niueteen per cent, Of the soda
water syrups analyzed last year fifty-
six out of ninety-two samples were
adulterated.
Mrs. Ballington Booth, in speaking
of her prison work, says: “One of
the things that I have set myself to
fight is the word ‘ex-convict.’ That
is a cruol, unjust, un-American word.
When a man is suffering the penalty
of his crimes he is a convict, but when
he has made his reparation to society
how cruel it is to call him an ex-con¬
vict. Tho moment he has served his
sentence he is a free man, and no one
has the right to attach that stigma to
him.”
1 The extension of the absolute des¬
potism of the “dress suit” in an ago
of ever-widening liberty is one of the
marvelous contradictions of human na¬
ture, exclaims the New York World.
Taken in connection with the stiff
white shirt front, the high collar, tho
precise tie, the enamelled shoes, the
crush hat and the topcoat, it consti¬
tutes a restraint on human freedom
which in many cases amounts to ago¬
nizing torture, and, like other tyrants,
it pushes on its path of conquest,
crushing out all opposition aud disre¬
garding the groans and protests of its
victims.
I)o not permit the children to form
the habit of disputing and quarreling
with each other. It may be prevent¬
ed, like other bad habits, by watch¬
fulness, particularly if the training is
begun when the children are very
young. Separation is the best pun¬
ishment, breaking up the play and
taking away the cause of the dispute.
Children are social beings and do not
like to play alone. They dislike soli¬
tude, and if they find it is invariably
the result of quarreling they will take
pains to be more amiable so as not to
be forced into it, observes a writer in
the Ladies’ Home Journal.
It would be a public misfortune
wero bicycles to disappear. They have
proved themselves agents of health
and innocent pleasure; they have stim¬
ulated love for honest sports; they
have been the means of a large dis¬
tribution of money in the accessible
districts; they have acquainted thou¬
sands with local geography and have
enabled them to discover natural
beauty in regions where they did not
know it to exist; they have created in¬
dustries that employ thousands, and,
above all, they have caused in this
country an interest in good roads,
without which no nation may call it¬
self civilized.
Harper’s Weekly pays the following
tribute to the worth of the dead Boer
leader, General Joubert: Whatever
may be the results of the South Afri¬
can conflict, it has served to bring be¬
fore the public eye a real statesman,
a soldier and a gentleman. It mat¬
ters little what side we may take in
the uphnppy quarrel itself, we are all
of one mind regarding the late General
Joubert; and if it were possible for
him to-day to look into the hearts of
his fellow-men all the world over,
friend and foo alike, ho would see
that which would stir his rugged
and chivalrous soul, for in tho hour
of his death all men lamented his un-
timely end and bowed their heads in
reverence to his memory. To have
produced one citizen like General
Joubert is a finer achievement than
to have won a thousand bloody vic¬
tories unon the field of battle.
THE DAY OF PEACE.
What of tho day, my brother?
What of tho day of peace?
When tho dripping sword turns the green
award
And the dull, dread noises cease—
Tho clarion call of bugles,
The shriek of the angry shell—
What of battle that shall pierce the night
Of battle—is it well?
What of tho dead, my brother?
What of the dead aud dumb?
Who shall pay at the Judgment day
When the Messenger shall come,
Como in the light and glory,
Come in the lire and flame,
Whose the strain of the blood and pain,
My brother —whose tho blame?
What of tho grief, my brother,
What of the grief and woo?
What of the tears shed o’er these biers
These stricken hearts brought low?
Low in the day of terror,
Low in the night of gloom.
Whose the weight of this curse of Hate?
Whoso the pain of*Doom?
What of tho blood, my brother?
Wkat of the blood that flows
In a crimson stream where the lances gleam
And the bugle blows and blows?
Whose the souls that shudder,
Shudder and start and cry,
When the battles’ cost by God engrossed
In blood on tho brazen sky?
Hasten the day, my brother,
Hasten the day of peace,*
When men not slain for greed of gain
And the dull, dread noises cease!
Whoa shell shall shriek no longer,
When Hatred slink away,
The breath of God the blood-stained sod
Make clean— and Peace shall stay!
—Bismarck Tribune.
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Indiana Ferguson impatiently
awaited the evening. For a week she
had been visiting her cousin, Silas
Beck, aud his wife, and this evening
Robert Scruggs was to come, Had
she known that Mr. Scruggs was ex¬
pected she would not have dared to
visit her cousin just at this time. She
was here, however, and now that he
was coming she did not deceive her¬
self by- saying that she was sorry.
Miss Ferguson felt that she had
been unkind to Mr. Scruggs. He had
offered her his heart, aud he was a
sincere man. She had answered
coldly: “Mr. Scruggs, it is impos¬
sible.” How heartless it seemed to
her now. But. there had been Prof.
Edward Cantwell Reed, aud it seemed
different then.
Miss Fergusou was a mathema¬
tician. Not that she ever did much
in a practical way, but she loved the '
science for its own sake. She aud
Professor Reed bad sat by the hour
discussing problems in whic.. they
were interested. But for these meet¬
ings her answer to Robert Scruggs i
would have been different.
She now sat iu meditation before
the bright fire. How stupid she had
been, she thought, to suppose that
she could enjoy sitting forever drill¬
ing away at her mathematics! Do
people ever marry for that? What had
Professor Reed done? Married that
veritable chatterbox and mischief lov¬
ing Tomboy, Sadie Moore. As for
herself, did she ever really love Pro¬
fessor Reed? Well, perhaps. Any¬
how, she was very stupid —she was
sure she was stupid.
Auduow—certainly fate had thrown
her in the way of the mau whom she
rejected. He believed in woman’s in¬
tuition, and that intuition told her
that this was fortuitous. She was al¬
most happy.
When at last she heard Mr. Scruggs
stamping the wet snow off his boots
outside the door she felt that she
turned a little pale. She was certain¬
ly nervous—au unusual thing for her.
Wheu he addressed her as “Miss
Fergusou” it sounded odd and cold.
He used to call her “India.”
“So you’re acquainted 1” exclaimed
Mrs. Beck, as they sat about the tire,
her face radiant with amiability.
“Now, I’m afraid we’ll have to watch
you two. But then, if you’d a—been
marrying people—too such people as
you—you’d a—been married, both of
you, long ago.”
“You may trust Miss Ferguson,”
answered Mr. Scruggs. “I’m an
audacious scoundrel, you know, but
you will find Miss Ferguson as rigid
as—as the North pole.”
Miss Ferguson could not have felt
more uncomfortable than she did now.
To conceal her confusion she turned
to arrange some grasses in a vase,
which, as soon as she touched it,
tumbled to the floor, breaking into a
dozen pieces. Stooping quickly to
pick these up. now blushing very red,
she awkwardly upset a large easel aud
its painting. Then she rose up very
quickly aud left the room, mortified
to the verge of despair. She wondered
if she would ever dare to see Mr.
Scruggs again.
The following morning she had her
breakfast sent to her, complaining of
a headache, aud did not venture down¬
stairs until she heard Mr. Scruggs’,
footsteps going out of the little gate
and down toward a cabin where one
of his queer fancies took him at every
opportunity to converse with an
ignorant but self-important and
garrulous woodman settler. Then she
crept softly down and entered the
parlor—and there sat Mr. Scruggs
looking into the fire.
With an effort Miss Ferguson con¬
trolled herself.
“Good morning, Mr. Scruggs,” she
said. “I thought I heard you going
out this morning.”
“Not I, this day,” he replied, “I
aril disposed to mope. I have sent
Silas dpwn to bring my woodman
friend to see if lie cannot cheer me
up. Are you ill, Miss Ferguson? I
imagine that you used to look
stronger.”
; “I am woll now,” she answered. “I
have changed since yon saw me last.”
| i he “I declared. believe you are more beautiful,”
! “Don’t flntter me,” she protested,
j I will “I, you flatter!” learn, he Miss exclaimed. Ferguson, “Wheu that I
am incapable of the art? You have
not changed so much, then, after all. ”
“Yon are cruel if you contradict
me,” she replied.
“And were you never cruel?” he
asked.
“Perhaps,” she answered, “But 1
repented. ”
“ltopeutanco means sorrow,” lie
said. “Will you he sorry for me now?
I have the blues.”
At this moment Silas Beck came in,
followed by the woodman, and wbea
Mr. Scruggs turned to introduce his
friend to Miss Ferguson she was gone.
On the following day Mr. Scruggs
put ou his overcoat and left the house
as soon as breakfast was over. YVliat
this meant to Miss Ferguson she
would not acknowledge even to her¬
self. It was a lonely day — the loneliest
that she ever passed. Mrs. Beck, to
be sure, uever ceased to chatter, but
what woman’s talk can till the empti¬
ness of a woman’s lonely heart?
W'heu Miss Ferguson put on her arc¬
tics to walk down to the village post-
office Mrs. Beck spoke of Robert
Scruggs, nnd she sat down to listen.
Directly Mrs. Beck’s gossip diverted
itself to a neighbor who claimed to
have a cousin who married a niece of
General Grant, aud Miss Ferguson
rose to go.
“There goes Robert now,” cried
Mrs. Beck, “with Ida Gates. If that
girl don’t talk him to death it won’t
be her fault. She’s a tur’ble gab.”
Miss Ferguson looked out. The
road rau near the house, aud she saw
that Mr. Scruggs looked perfectly
happy. He was leaning back in the
sleigh, and Miss Gates was driving,
chewing gum and talking all at once.
Miss Ferguson did not speak. She
weut to the fire, removed her arctics,
selected a l ook from the table and
read. She read determindely. She
told herself that she was going to
read, aud what Miss Ferguson willed
to do she usually did.
When she had been reading about
half an hour Mr. Scruggs came
hurriedly iu.
“I am sorry,” he said to Mrs.Beck,
“but I have to return to the city. 1
have just now received a dispatch.
Good-by, Mrs. Beck—and Miss Fer¬
guson, I don’t know when I shall see
see you again. Good-by. ”
“Good-by, Mr. Scroggs,” she said
naturally, extending her hand.
He took it, pressed it mechanically,
aud in another moment he was gone.
Miss Ferguson sat down by the lire.
She admitted to herself that she was
disappointed. Mr. Scruggs no lougei
cared for her. He was happy witi
Miss Gates, who chewed gum. Bui
then why should she care? She was
determined not to care. She made it
a practice to take things philosophic¬
ally, and there was little that ever dis¬
turbed her. She liked Mr. Scruggs,
but he was nothing to her. She had
been foolish—stupid—and she would
tvv to forget it. Picking up her bool;
she resumed reading where she had 1
left off and spent the rest of the day
with the novel.
Notwithstanding, that night her
pillow was wet with tears. They were
foolish, she said, but they would not
last, and she could put it from her
easier after a little feminine cry. After
that she was determined to have no
regrets, and what Miss Ferguson
whiled to do she nearly always did.
The next day she seemed as fresh as
she had been for a year. %
Two days later she received a letter
from the postoliic-e. It read:
“Dear Miss Ferguson:—I once
asked you to marry ine. What I said
then 1 now repeat with twofold vehe¬
mence. Does the change in you ex¬
tend to your heart or is your answer
the same?
“RoJlEET Sinuous.”
The answer she wrote read simply:
“Dear Robert:—I have changed.
The answer is yes.
India F.”
AN EXTRAORDINARY CRIME.
The Victim Put Where Her Story of It
Wan Taken for Inaane Talk.
In the month of December last an
elegantly dressed man presented him¬
self to the governor of the district in
which the City of Mexico is situated,
and solicited the admittance of his
aunt, a lady whose name he said was
Mrs Aurelia Granados de Jaimes, into
the insane asylum for women in Canoa
street. He said that she had lost her
mind and that, as there was no one at
home to look after her, he was afraid
that some accident might happen to
her. The governor issued the permit
and the lady was admitted into the
hospital.
The lady was not violently crazy,
bnt she complained to the doctors of
a pain iu her head aud she was con¬
stantly saying that a man had driven
a nail into her head. The attendants
of the asylumpaid no attention to this
statement, as it was thought to be a
part of her ravings.
The lady gradually got worse aud
on a recent Sunday she died.
Dr. Alberto Lopez Hermosa, director
of the asylum, nnd Dr. Francisco de
P. Ecbeverria, assistant director, be¬
lieving that the lady’s case had been a
peculiar oue, examined her cranium
after death and made a sort of prelim¬
inary autopsy. To their astonishment
they found in the region of the right
temple the head of a steel wire nail,
which proved to he about eight centi¬
metres in length, The flesh had
almost cicatrized over the nail’s head
and the latter was hardly visible.
The doctors immediately informed
the goveruor and the judicial authori¬
ties. An investigation has been started
of which the immediate object is to
find the man who first brought the lady
to tho governor. The lady apparently
was about 35 years of age.
Mixed Metaphor.
A lecturer before a large audience
at an impressive moment exclaimed:
“All along the untrodden paths of the
future we can see the footprints of an
unseen hand.”—Tit-Bits.
GEORGIA NEWS ITEMS
Brief Summary of Interesting
HappSnings Culled at Random.
> lloers May Conn.
Georgia may get a colony of Boers.
Plans are now being formulated which
may result in the bringing to this
state of a thousand or more followers
of Kruger.
The promoters of the Scheme do
not wish their identity known for the
present. It is said that a railroad
company may take on active part iu
the affair.
The colonization of the Boers in
Georgia is not regarded as a wild
flight of fancy by persons who have
investigated the subject.
Baker Refused New Trial.
James L. Baker’s motion for a new
trial which has been pending for sev¬
eral weeks in the superior court at At¬
lanta, has been overruled by Judge
Candler. Baker was convicted of
killing his wife and the death penalty
was imposed. The ground for the
new trial was insanity. Baker will
now appeal to the supreme court.
Special Train For Maimed Vet*.
That a battalion of maimed veterans
will go from Atlanta to the Confeder¬
ate reunion at Louisville is now an
assured fact. Final arrangements for
their transportation in a special train
over the Southern have been com¬
pleted.
It is expected that the battalion will
number about 128 veterans, making
the total number of those who will go
to Louisville iu this special train
about 215.
New lCnterprise For Iloschton.
Jacks on county has a new enter¬
prise. A complete roller mill is now
being put in at Hoschton, by a well
known firm of that town. The daily
capacity is fifty barrels of flour and
300 bushels of meal.
Colonist Factory Burned.
The cereal coffee factory and sus- j
pender factory of Raskin colony, seven j
miles west of Waycross, was destroyed
by fire the past week. Loss estimated
at $5,000; no insurance. A large i
quantity of cereal coffee ready for ship- ;
ment was burned in the building. The
colonists are preparing to rebuild at j
once.
Color Line To Be Drawn. '
The question of separating the ;
races on the street cars is the one in j
which the citizens of Augusta are '
most interested just now. A petition i
has been circulated and numerously
signed requesting that such regula- !
tion be enforced. All this has grown 1
out of the recent street car tragedy.
Taper Mills To Be Sold.
Judge Newnan, of the United States
Court, at Atlanta, granted a decree
foreclosing the mortgage on the Mari-
etta paper mills, and providing for its
sale.
The mortgage is for $75,000. It was
executed to secure the bonded indebt¬
edness of the Marietta Paper Manufac¬
turing Company, David Robinson,
trustee.
The time of the sale will be fixed by
Mr. Sessions, the receiver. The sale
will be at public outcry, but no bid
will be recognized unless accompanied
by a certified check for $5,000.
Crawford County Citizen* Indignant.
Something of a political sensation
was created by the fake report that at
the election in Crawford county 200
persons more than were registered
were allowed to vote. The excite¬
ment, however, subsided when inves¬
tigation showed that the report was
utterly groundless.
It is not known who originated the
fabrication, bnt it would not be good
for him if his identity is revealed, for
the people of Crawford are highly in¬
dignant and severely denounce the
author of the canard. It is charged
that the story was started by parties
who had lost bets on the solicitor
general’s race and hoped that it might
result at least in a recount of votes.
Bank For XVaycroas.*
Secretary of State Phil Cook has re¬
ceived an application for charter of
the Citizens’ Bank of Waycross. The
incorporators ate J. S. Bailey, A. M.
Knight and A. J. Griflin, all of Way-
cross. The capital stock is $75,000.
Agricultural Works Not Insolvent.
The Southern Agricultural works at
Atlanta is not insolvent, according to
a summary of debts and assets filed in
the bankruptcy court by its attorneys.
The summary, which is said to have
been oompiled from the books of the
company and from a report of the re¬
ceiver, shows that the Southern Agri¬
cultural works has $43,000 worth of
property more than is necessary to
discharge all of its liabilities, The
debts amount to $306,927.43, while the
assets are put down at $349,220.83.
President Adolph Landauer, of Mil¬
waukee, is represented as a creditor to
a large amount. According to the re¬
port the company owes him $48,000, of
which sum $37,000 is secured and
$11,000 unsecured.
The secured claims amount to $159,-
601.46, and the unsecured to $147,-
325.97.
Summer Institutes.
> State School Commissioner Glenn is
preparing a schedule of the various
summer institutes that he will have to
visit in the near future. These sum¬
mer institutes are in the nature of
chautauquas and are largely attended
by the general public as well as by
the tesohers.
Tho public schools of the state will
all close by the first or middle ol
June, ami these gatherings of teachers
will all take place during June or
July. Each institute will last a week
and every aouuty is required to hold
one, except where several counties
combine and have a large, general
gathering.
STEVENS’ LIFE THREATENED.
Governor of Missouri Says Law¬
lessness flust Be Stopped at
all Hazzards.
Thursday was the 17th day of the
strike inaugurated by the employes of
the St. Louis Transit Company, with
a settlement apparently further away
than ever, neither side to the contro¬
versy seeming willing to advance any
proposition to end it.
The Transit Company has resumed
service on nearly all of its lines, Non-
union men continue to come in from
other cities, and as they arrive the
company puts them to work. Word
was received from Cleveland that
forty-two ex-employes of the Big
Consolidated street car system had
been sent to take the places of strikers.
Thus far no general sympathy strike
among the labor unions has been call¬
ed, as had been expected there would
be. Different trades and labor organ¬
izations are showing their sympathy
with the strikers by contributing to
their support aud passing rules liuing
members for riding on the street cars.
Union labor has brought the World’s
Fair question into the strike question.
At a mass meeting held Wednesday
night a resolution was passed to the
effect that all union labor throughout
the United States be asked to instruct
their representatives to oppose the
passage of the World’s Fair appropria¬
tion bill unless the St. Louis Transit
company settles the strike satisfacto¬
rily to its former employes.
Since the strike began 200 arrests of
persons alleged to have violated the law
in its connection have been made, 25
warrants have been issued, ten indict¬
ments reported by the grand jury and
the remainder of the cases have been
taken to the police and United States
courts, where many of them are still
pending.
Goveruor Stephens was in the city
Thursday for a coufereuce with the po-
lice authorities on the strike situation,
To a reporter tho Governor said:
“I am satisfied that the trouble
along the street car lines and the
whole spirit of anarchy which is pre-
vailing in the city cf St. Louis at
present is being fomented and extend-
ed by the machinations of a certain co-
terie of Democratic politicians who
hope by their course to in some mail-
ner make gains in the approaching
party primaries. This element is se-
curing speakers to meetings held to
express sympathy for the strikers all
over the city and materially encourage
disorder.
“These persons are responsible for
many of the outrages of the past few
days. It is as a result of their move-
ments that I have received many let¬
ters threatening my life should I con¬
tinue to do my duty and provide offi¬
cers to keep the peace.
“I desire to say further that if as
governor of Missouri with all the
power vested in that office I cannot put
an end to the disgraceful condition
that has prevailed in St. Louis I shall
employ every iota of that power.
“Theriot and disorder of every un-
awful kind must cease.”
A statement compiled Thursday
shows that since the strike began three
persons have been sho* and killed, 1G
wounded by bullets and 13 otherwise
injured.
MRS. DAVIS DECLINES.
Cannot Be With Confederate Veteran*
Owing: to Uncertain Health.
A Louisville dispatch says: Judge
H. W. Bruce, the chairman of the con¬
vention committee of the confederate
reunion, has received the following
letter from Mrs. Davie, widow of Jef¬
ferson Davis:
Your kind invitation on the part of
the United Confederate Veterans has
been received, and I regret to say that
my health is so uncertain that I can
not possibly have the pleasure of be¬
ing with you, great as it would be to
me. However, the date set for it has
given me comfort, in the assur¬
ance it conveys that my hus¬
band’s friends and comrades desire to
hold him in affectionate and reverend
memory. I wish with all my heart I
could go to meet our friends, but iu
all events I send my loving sympathy,
and our two children will be present
with you—my daughter, Mrs. I. A.
Hayes, and my grand-daughter, Miss
Varina Hayes. With affectionate mes¬
sages to our veterans, I am very cor¬
dially yours, Davis.
Mrs. V. Jeffeson
SOUTHERN WILL BUILD.
Contracts (Siren Out For Construction of
lfinsloy, Ala., Branch.
The Southern railway has decided
to forthwith commence the work of
construction of the Ensley Southern,
a branch railroad to run between
Ensley, near Birmingham, and Parrish
Junction, iu Walker county.
The new road will penetrate a coun¬
try rich in cool and iron ore and will
bring it into close contact with the
blast furnaces of the Birmingham
district.
Jeffries and Sharkey Matched.
Jim Jeffries and Tom Sharkey were
matched at a meeting in New York
Thursday to fight on August 25th be¬
fore the oiub offering the best purse.
TWENTY “TWO DEAD
Was the Result of Explosion In
the Cumnock Mines.
HORROR NOT AT ALL EXAGGERATED
Additional Particular* Only Add To tho
FoarfulnoBH of the Catastrophe In
North Carolina.
Further particulars of the catastro¬
phe which occurred in the Cumnock
coal mines in Chatham county, North
Carolina, Tuesday afternoon show
that at least twenty-two miners lost
their lives. «
The explosion of fire damp occurred
at 4:30 o’clock aud is supposed to have
been caused by a broken gauze in a
safety lamp.
The accident was in what is known as
the east heading and between forty
and fifty men were in the mine at the
time. Five were brought out alive
from the east heading, while none of
the men in the other parts of the mine
were injured.
About fifty people from Sanford, a
town six miles from the town, went
out immediately the news of the dis¬
aster was received, to assist in the
work of rescuing tho dead nnd lending
assistance to the injured.
Within an hour after the explosion
the work of rescue began, and within
a short time all the bodies except one
had been brought to the top.
This is the second explosion this
mine has had within the past four
years, the former one having occurred
on December 28th, 1895, where forty-
three men lost their lives.
The bodies were prepared for burial
Tuesday night and the funeral took
place Wednesday.
The mines are situated at Cnmnoek,
in Chatham county, about six miles
from Sanford. The mine has been
long used in a desultory fashion, but in
1888 Samuel A. Henzy, of Philadel¬
phia, organized a company'aud put in
modern machinery.
There are two shafts, one a small
affair for ventilation, and the other the
main working shaft, is 8x12 feet, and
is considerably more than five hun¬
dred feet in depth.
It is said that an explosion of this
same sort occurred just before the civil
war, and many lives were lost.
The disaster that occurred Tuesday
is the fourth that has occurred at this
mine, and in the four disasters that
have occurred, about eigbty-iive men
have lost their lives, and many others
have been injured.
ROBERTS NEARING FRONTIER,
British Troops Will Soon Swarm Upon
Transvaal Territory.
A Londo special under date of May
24 states that Lord Roberts was draw-
ing near to the frontier of the Trans¬
vaal. His infantry masses were thirty-
three miles north of Kvoonstad, at the
Ithenoster river. Some thousands of
cavalry are already across the river.
The Boers are retiring toward the
Vaal with their heavy baggage. They
are reported fr.om Pretoria as already
across that river. Twelve thousand
men and fourteen guns compose the
retreating army. Trains continue to
run from Yeronniging at the Vaal to
Pretoria.
Foreign engineers assert that Pre¬
toria is able to stand a year’s siege.
According to advices from Lourenzo
Marques the Pretoria fortifications are
described as complete, but Johannes¬
burg has not yet been placed entirely
in a state of defense. The Transvaal
government papers and the war chest
have been removed to Lydenburg.
PRESIDENT MAY ARBITRATE.
McKinley Has Been Asked To Decide
Merit of Strike In Tennessee.
President McKinley has been called
npon to arbitrate the strike at the
Coal Creek Coal Company’s mines.
April 10th about 450 meu struck be¬
cause four union men were discharged.
Last Tuesday the manager of the com¬
pany and the director of the striko en¬
tered into an agreement that President
McKinley would b« asked to say
whether the four union men should or
should not have been discharged, and
in any event each side is to submit.
With this understanding all the
strikers returned to work and the
trouble is apparently at an end.
CASHIER CAPTURED ROBBER.
Desperado Was In Hiding and Ready to
.Begin Business.
Will Adams, a desperado, attempted
to rob the Tracy City, Tens., bank,
which has a vault enclosed in armor
plate a quarter of an inch thick.
He entered the bank building and
concealed himself, awaiting the arrival
of the cashier, with the intention of
holding him up when the safe was
opened. He was surprised nnd cap¬
tured by the cashier and constable.
BOERS EVACUATE NATAL.
General BuIIer I. Belt Free to Advance on
the Transvaal.
A dispatch received in London from
Pitermaritzburg, dated May 21st, says
the Boers are reported to have entirely
left Natal, leaving Laing’s Nek free.
This leaves General Buller free to ad-
vanee into the Transvaal when the
railroads are repaired.
Plague Increases at Manila.
Mail reports from the Philippines
show there has been a steady increase
in the numbers of bubonic plague.
There were thirty-one cases in Manila
during January, forty-eight during
February and fifty-six during March.