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OCILLA DISPATCH.
OCILLA, GEORGIA.
IRWIN COUNTY PUBLISHING CO.,
Proprietors.
And now It appears from records
found In Pekin that the Chinese dis¬
covered America. They made about
as much use of it as they did of gun¬
powder or the mariner’s compass.
A Brooklyn woman who was charged
with horsewhipping her husband ad¬
mitted the truth of the accusation In
court, and added: “I only did what any
woman would do.” Docs this explain
the meek air of some Brooklyn hus¬
bands?
The London Daily Mall says that
the days of the banjo are numbered in
England, and that that instrument will
Boon be Included in the same category
with the mouth organ and the accor¬
dion. The zither Is growing in popu¬
larity, and will probably be the favor¬
ite instrument during the winter.
Spectacular science astonishes the
multitude and wins their money. The
philosopher patiently studies the laws
of nature, and modestly announces his
discoveries. Then the scientific pres
tidigitateur goes into partnership with
the promoter. Soon after “the pub¬
lic” acquires some new stocks and
some experience.
Scarcely a day passes during the
hunting season that the news reports
do not tell of one or more persons shot
for game by careless hunters, but sel¬
dom or never is there any mention that
the gunners have been arrested. Is It
not time to make an example of some
of these people, by way of teaching
others to exercise a little prudence?
It seems fair to assume, from recent
reports of wild animal experts, that
the giraffe will before long be known
only in nursery books and dusty rec¬
ords of science, for he seems to be
rapidly approaching extinction. Once
this animal was abundant in South
Africa, but he has been pursued by
hunters until he Is now very rarely
met with.
In one of the school buildings in
Grand Rapids, Mich., there was a plan
proposed, some eight years ago, to
have a savings bank, in which chil¬
dren might deposit their pennies. It
.was a great success, and lately was
introduced into other schools, until at
present there are 500 such banks, with
several thousand depositors, whose
savings amount to over $1700.
Lord Pauncefote in refurnishing and
decorating the interior of the British
Embassy, at Washington, pays Ameri¬
can upholstery and decorative wall¬
papers the compliment of using them
in preference to those of British manu¬
facture. He is reported as saying that
the American goods are better in quali¬
ty and cost less than British goods of
a similar kind. He thinks there is no
doubt that in this line of manufac¬
tures the United States leads the
world. This Is indeed a remarkable
compliment to be paid by the Ambas¬
sador of one great industrial nation to
the manufacturing genius of another.
Miss Alice Frencli-Octave Thanet- j
at a recent meeting of the club women -
at Lincoln, Neb., sounded the praises
of the “modern man,” claiming that
he is generally unappreciated. Miss
French believes that the modern man
Is doing his unobtrusive best in every
walk of life, and that the modern
woman is doing liers. That she is a
good wife, a good mother, a good
friend and neighbor. Again, that “the
modern man” is under fire from his
own familiar friends; li; is attacked
by extremists on both sides, and yet,
harassed, worried, goaded, he doggedly
fights on with a jest instead of a
groan, and never suspects that he is
either a hero or a martyr.
The news from the universities and
colleges all over the United States tells
of an activity in the higher education
most encouraging to every lover of
progress. Our institutions of learning
have made remarkable advances in
this generation, and in faculties, in
students and in every provision for
the purposes for which they were
founded they are going far beyond
their previous achievements, Rich
streams of benefaction have poured
In upon them. The number of new
buildings, the establishment of new
professional chairs, the enlargement
of the legions of tutors and instructors,
the swelling of the classes and other
signs and proofs of an American lib¬
erality toward the upper schools of
culture, give cause for rejoicing to
every intelligent patriot.
BILL ARP’S LETTER
Barlow Man Discourses Upon the
Greatest of holidays.
CELEBRATED IN REMOTE TIMES
Story of That Good Old Soul, St.
Nicholas, Who Is Generally
Known as Santa Claus.
Christmas has come again. It is our
annual milestone and the miles get
shorter and shorter sb anno domini rolls
on. Times keep shrinking and the view
of eternity expands as we draw near the
line. Like the Sabbath, Christmas
was designed, ordained, established
for our good,our rest and pleasure. In
the north temperate zone it comes
about midwinter, when the weather is
hard and cold and summer fruits and
flowers have gone and the birds have
migrated and nature has gone to sleep
and the earth is wrapped in its blank¬
ets of snow and ice. It comes like the
school hoys’ recess and brings good
cheer and brightens up the family
hearthstone.
Christmas never wears out nor be¬
comes old or stale, or as a back num¬
ber. Year after year a new generation
is ready to receive it and herald its
coming with a glad and happy wel¬
come. Blessings on the holy fathers
who established the Christmas holi¬
days and on the good men who for
sixteen centuries have preserved it
for us and our children. All Christian
people have observed it with happy
greetings, except the old Puritans,
and I don’t know whether they were
Christians or not. They condemned
everything that gave pleasure. observed the
Christmas was first by
Boman Catholic church at Jerusalem
and Rome. Later on the Church of
England took it up. and so did the
Protestants of Germany and other
countries, for the birth of the Saviour
was one event that all Christians could
celebrate with gratitude and joy. In
Raphael’? great painting of the na
tivity a shepherd is seen at the door
playing on a bagpipe. The Tyrolese
of Italy come down from the mount¬
ains to the valleys on Christmas eve.
They come caroling sweet songs and
playing on musical instruments, and
can be heard for miles around as the
hills and vales echoed with their har¬
mony, and so music always accompa¬
nies the Christmas festivities. Ever¬
greens, too, must have a part in the
ceremonies, for they have for ages been
used as symbols of immortality. Vic¬
tors returning from the wars were
crowned with them.
The sacred poets write of the green
bay tree and the cedars of Lebanon.
For centuries the churches and tem¬
ples have been decorated with them.
All lovers of nature give welcome to
them in midwinter, for they bring good
cheer when there is no other sign of
living vegetation. The deep green
holly with its red waxen berries, the
rosemary, the laurel, the ivy and the
mistletoe harmonize with the poetic
sentiments of our better nature. lu
the good old English times girls and
boys wore wreaths and chaplets of
evergreen during the Christmas meet¬
ings at night, and a kiss stolen from n
lassie with a rosemary wreath on her
brow was considered innocent, and
was called “a kiss under the rose,”
and love whispered under a mistletoe
crown was too pure to be lost or be¬
trayed.
Afar back in the centuries there was
a good old man named Nicholas. He
lived in the third century and was so
good and kind and generous that when
he died the church sainted him, and
ever since then he has been call
ed St. Nicholas, and he is called the
patron saint of Russia. His German
name is Santa Claus. The Russians
say that St. Nicholas, when he was
only a man, was very rich, and on
cHristmas nights he would disguise
himself and go around among the
poor people and slip in while they
were asleep and put a purse of gold in
every young girl’s stocking, if she was
j n ] ove 01 . engaged to bo married. The
gold was to buy her wedding outfit.
He also left a little present for ev¬
ery little child in the family. Didn’t
he have fun? I think I would like
that. And so it- is said that from him
came the custom of hanging up stock¬
ings and waiting for old Santa Claus
to come down the chimney with
his pretty things lor the children. It
is said that in Bavaria there was an¬
other good man named Knight Ru¬
pert, who, while he lived, did the
same kind of thiugB, for he, too, hunt¬
ed up the poor aud left presents while
they were asleep, but did not leave
an ythiug for bad boys. He was not
their friend, and if he lived over here
now I don’t reckon a cigarette boy
would get anything from him.
We are in the midst of our family
Christmas now. We could not get all
the far away children here at one time,
but we will have them all during the
holidays. New York city and San au
tonio got here together, and we are
daily expecting Florida and Mexico.
What I want now is an addition to
the family mansion. I want a sky
scraper flat for New York, an Alamo
annex for Texas, an adobe cottage for
Mexico, a sanitarium wing for the
Florida doctor, and a few extra apart¬
ments for kindred aud friends. That
is my idea of the paternal mansion of
a numerous and interesting family who
have long been multiplying and re¬
plenishing according to Scripture. We
want plenty of room for children and
grandchildren. It is pleasant to see
them gather here, for they come bring¬
ing love aud finding more, “stealing
and giving sweet odor,” as Shakes¬
peare sayR of the sweet! south wind
that breathes upon a bank of violets.
It is the little things of life that
make it happy—the small, sweet
courtesies. What a sweet, expressive
little poem is that which Miss Julia
Fletcher wrote sixty years ago: “Lit¬
tle drops of water; little grains of
sand.” It will last as loug as our
language and is like a pebble dropped
into a pool. Its influence, like the
circling waves, lias gone out into thou¬
sands of little hearts and reached the
shoro.”
“Mary had a little lamb” is another
that will never die. Wadsworth, the
poet, says: "lhe best portion ot a
good many lives are by little nameless,
unremembered acts of kindness and of
love.” One of the world’s greatest
teachers said:
“May every -oul that touches mine
Got therefrom sore good—
Some little grace, one kindly thought,
Ono hit of courage tor the darkening sky,
One gleam ot faith to bravo the fils ot Life,
One glimpse of brighter skies beyond the
mists.”
About SOO years ago an old poet
wrote:
‘Count that day lost if the descending sun
Sees from thy hand no worthy action done. ”
What a good maxim is that to steer
byl Do some good thing every day or
count the day lost. Cheer somebody,
help somebody, make some child
happy, speak kindly to some poor old
man or woman or negro, cr yet to a
dog, and see how thankfully he wags
his tail.
Christmas is a good time to make
good resolves, and all the next year a
good time to keep them.
Four hundred years ago one Thomas
Tusser wrote:
“Christmas comes but once a year,
Now let us play and have good cheor.”
—Bill Ann in Atlanta Constitution,
Big Newspaper Men Arrive.
Joseph Fulitzer, proprietor of The
New York World, and A. C. Harms
worth, proprietor of The Daily Mail,
of Lomion, were passengers on board
the steamer Teutonio, which arrived at
New York Thursday from Liverpool.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Louisville, Ivy., fins a vice crusade.
An anti-Nancbu rebellion has brok¬
en out in Kwang-Tung, China.
A serious landslide lias occurred in
Heligoland, engulfing thirty houses.
Ail available British mounted infan¬
try has been ordered to South Africa.
A seat on the New York Stock Ex¬
change was sold a few- days ago for
$17,500.
Professor G. W. Tyrrell has discov¬
ered rich forests on the so-called bar¬
ren lands of Northern Canada.
The Freneh Government has ordered
cases of Chinese loot sent to Presi¬
dent Loubet embargoed at Marseilles.
There is a penny famine in *he West,
and the Phila elpliia ) ant is working
overtime in an effort to meet the de¬
mand. , ■"
American competition has forced the
syndicate controlling the gas pipe and
boiler pipe industry in Germany to cut
prices.
a he State Department has been in¬
formed of the death of Henry Morris
Hunt, United States Consul to An¬
tigua, W. I.
The distribution of the surplus ap¬
ples of New England to the people of
Boston w-ho eould not buy them was a
decided success.
Recent sales of real estate in Galves¬
ton, Texas, show that current property
values are held at only about one-half
the figures prevailing prior to the
storm.
General Wilson. Chief of Engineers,
U. S. A., proposes to establish an elab¬
orate system of searchlights as a part
of the defences of Ne- - York Harbor,
costing $150,000 for the purchase and
installation.
Early in the new year competitive
plans will be invited for the physical
design of the new capital of the Aus¬
tralian federation. The intention is
to make it one of the most artistic
cities in the world.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
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The late Sir Arthur Sullivan left an
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widri, \wrM~TMeroln\intil
Geneinl 1 ltiol.i, until rerentlj recently Pres!- Lie
dent of Pern, has form ally retired
from public life because of the result
of tiie Peruvian elections.
Prince Gustavus Adolphus, eldest
son of the Grown Prince of Sweden
and Norway, is ill with dip theria.
The statement that General Horace
Porter, (lie United Slates Ambasr lor
at Paris, intends resigning is an ab¬
solute fabrication.
Ur. Matzon, professor of law of the
University of Copenhagen, las been
appointed to represent Denmark in the
International Court of Arbitrate, at
The Hague.
Major Estcrbazy is a ragged pauper,
living on charity, in a London slum.
His wife is selling her furniture, sil¬
ver and clothes in Pads to feed their
five children.
Thomas A. Edison’s middle name is
Alva people. which is little known to most
He is of Dutch origin and
the founder of the American family, in
John Edison, came to this country
1737, and became a banker in New
York City. '
Thomas B. Reed made his maiden
speech before the United States Su
preme Court, at Washington, a few
days ago, in an admiralty case from
California. He was ooidially wel
corned by the members of the court,
who were his Intimate friends.
WHITE WEDS BLACK
Mulatto Girl and White Man Are
Arrested on Serious Charge.
COUPLE ADMITS BEING MARRIED
Ceremony Is Alleged to Have Been
Performed By a Justice
In Atlanta, Ga.
Charles Johnson, a white man, and
Eleanor Moody, a mulatto girl, were
arrested in Atlanta, Ga., Thursday
morning on the charge of having
violated the state law by getting mar¬
ried.
Johnson admits the charge, and
makes a statement which would indi¬
cate that the man is either a degener¬
ate or a lunatic.^
The woman says she married the
white man because he worried her so,
and that was the only way to get rid of
him.
Johnson and the woman arrived in
Atlanta from Rome. They went at
once to the courthouse, where the man
secured a marriage license. In a cab
they drove to the residences of two
ministers, both of whom refused to
perform any such unlawful ceremony.
The couple finally went to the office
of Justice Oook, so they stated, and
were married. Johnson shows a mar¬
riage certificate issued with Justice
Cook’s signature to it, and the name
of J. M. McAfee as a witness. It is
presumed that Justice Cook, if he per¬
formed the ceremony, supposed John¬
son to be a man with negro blood in
bis veins.
After the marriage the couple rode
to the depot in a cab and it was there
that the officers got wind of the affair
and arrested them.
Johnson’s home is in Rome, Ga.,
and he is said to belong to one of the
best families in that city. He has
traveled a great deal, and is a stock
trader by trade. His last business
venture in Rome was a skating riak.
Johnson is about thirty years of age
and the woman about twenty.
To a reporter of The Constitution
the man stated that he married the
mulatto girl because he loved her, and
it was nobody’s business. He said be
intended to take her to Cuba, where
such marriages are not socially barred.
He claims not to have known that he
had violated the law of Georgia.
The woman says she told Johnson
that he was getting into trouble, but
be vowed that no trouble would come.
Johnson sent for a reporter and
handed him a manuscript which he
said was a sketch of his life which he
wanted published. It was a lot of
allusions to his love for the negro race,
which were unfit for publication.
WOMAN WRECKS SALOON.
Ardent Member of xv. c. T. u. Destroys
Costly I'roi»«rf.y of Grog: Shop.
Miss Carrie Nation, president of the
Barber county W. C. T. IT., entered
a hotel barroom at Wichita, Kan.,
Thursday and with a stone destroyed
a $300 painting of Cleopatra at the
bath and a mirror valued at $100.
She was placed under urrost and
afterward appealed to the governor,
who was in the city, ' but he refused to
act in any way.
She broke mirrors at Kiowa, Kan.,
in two saloons some months ago. She
declares there is no law under which
she can be prosecuted.
Mrs. Nation Thursday night issued
a manifesto “to the friends of temper
ance everywhere ” in which she ao
knowledges there was “method in the
apparent madness.”
“I came to the governor’s home
town,” she continues,, “to destroy the
finest saloon in it, hoping thus to at
tract public attention to the flagrant
violation of a Kansas law under the
very eye of the chief executive of the
The damage to the JniBhed saloon wiSx is hard to
secured from the world’s fair build
. and blocks of it shat
g many are
tered. The painting of “Cleopatra”
cost Mr. Noble, its author,nine months’
painting it rented aud was still saloon! his
property, being by the
« ha8 be f 8eaa ne "Jy alt the
fairs , from Canada to the guff.
EDUCATORS ASSEMBLE.
Delegates of Southern Association Gather
In Force At liiohinoxirl.
The delegates to . llie Southern Edu
catioual Association, which held its
opening session in Richmond, Va.,
Thursday, were slow to assemble.
When the association was called to
order'tliere were about 500 delegates
a!! o£tbe
1 £ ^ ^ ' ' ^ a, .T
Morgan addresses of welcome were
delivered by Governor laylor, Mayor
9- a y lo L State Superintendent of In
struction , outhall aud City Superin
tendent Fox, and several responses
were mane.
HUNTINGTON WILL PROBATED.
Value of Real r.ntate in San Francisco la
placed at sso.ooo.
The will of Collis P. Huntington
was admitted to probate at San Fran
cisco Thursday. The only property
belonging to the estate of the deceased
in that city consisted of a mortgage
interest in real property to the value
0 f $50,000. Aside from this there was
no personal property of any descrip
tfig mansion ou California street
8tandi “ iu the nama of the widow.
OBJECTIONS RAISED.
Chinese Officials Kick on Reduc¬
tion of Forts and Maintaining
of Legation Guards.
Advices from Pekin state that Li
Hung Chang and Prince Ohing, the
Chinese peace commissioners, have
heard from Emperor KwangSu. Prince
Ching called on the former for con¬
sultation, remaining over an hour.
The court objects strenuously to re¬
ducing the forts, and also to allowing
permanent legation guards, which it
seems to think could he made suffi¬
ciently large, at any time, it was de¬
sired to menace the court itself.
After the conference it was decided
to hold further communication with
the court before seeing the ministers.
The Chinese newspapers in Shang¬
hai object to the proposed peace
treaty. The Universal Gazette con¬
siders that the princes and officials
who are to be punished should be
named.
It is questionable whether General
Tuug Fu Hsiang is included among
those punishable, and so far as Prince
Tuan is concerned, it is well known
that the Chinese peace commissioners
have been instructed not to consent to
any punishment of any person of royal
blood exceeding imprisonment.
The officials of the state department
at Washington are unwilling to ven¬
ture a guess as to the length of time
that will be consumed by the Chinese
government in consideration of the
note.
The last article of the noto notified
the Chinese government that the oc¬
cupation of Chi Li and Pekin may
continue until the Chinese govern¬
ment has complied with the terms of
the noto.
It may be stated, however, that the
United States is not bound or affeoted
by this condition. Our occupancy
from a military point of view has
terminated, and there is no disposition
to renew it. As for the other powers,
it is expeoted that the main obstacle
they will encounter in withdrawing
under this condition will be found in
the difficulty in obtaining satisfactory
guarantees upon the Chinese promise
to pay indemnities.
Some of the native journals hold
ihat the presence of permanent lega¬
tion guards will render the emperor’s
return impossible, because those would
be a menace to the court.
“China,” says one of them, “would
be powerless to suppress risings, be¬
cause she is prohibited from increasing
her military strength, and the powers,
therefore, would lenew hostilities
again and the people would be mowed
dn*Ti like hemr> " *
SHORT ON MILLS.
Textile Factory Construction be
creased Considerably During
the Past Year.
The American Wool and Cotton
Reporter _ (Boston), m its issue of ,
Thursday reviews textile mill construe
tiou in the present year, saying that
returns for the last six months do not
show up as large as in the last six
mon - hs o£ , the ,, year. Th The depression , •
that was felt in the manufacturing
business during the summer and fall
months acted as a damper to the rush
to build mills, particularly cotton
mills that was noticed the first half of
the year, when all records in mill
building were broken. During the
first half of the year the number of
new mills entered upon was 307, and
during the last six months the number
was 224, a loss of over 25 P er ceut -
over '-be firBt balf y ear -
H the 221 projected 144 are devoted
to the manufacture of cotton, 14 to
wool, 51 to knit goons, 16 miscellane
ous purposes, such as silk and linen
manufacturing, and for bleaching and
dyeing. During the year 531 mills
kave passed under the review of The
Reporter, an increase of 232 over the
2 «9 reported for the year 1899, and an
increase of 209 over the 262 recorded
for the year 1898. This shows the
fact that the United States is becora
ing the largest producer of textile fab
rics m the world. Very noticeable is
the great increase in the number of
mills making fine goods, especially in
the cotton manufacturing business,
partially caused on/the by the situation in
China, cutting demand from
%Vo°n£mber of knitting mills con
tlle l»W»t 011 record ‘ Near, y » U of
these mills are <1 evoted , tp cotton ho
siery and underwear.
Compilation of returns on new en
terprises shows Georgia leads, with 43
mills. North Carolina comes seoond
with 41, although the latter has al¬
ways been in the lead in the construc¬
tion of new mills, it being the largest
cotton manufacturing state in the
south. South Carolina reports 33;
Alabama 16; Virginia 12; Pennsylva
nia 11; Tennessee 10; Mississippi and
Xexas g each; Massachusetts 7; New
York 6; New Jersey 4; Louisiana 3;
California, Maine, New Hampshire 2
eac h and Arkansas, Florida, Marv
land Missouri, Ohio and Oregon one
each _
Turks Assault British Diplomat.
„ Some Turkish soldiers nave ___ grossly ,
assaulted and maltreated the British
charge d’affaires. Mr. DeBunsen, and
other members of the embassy, in the
vicinity of the powder magazine at
Makrikin.
Martial Law Proclaimed,
Advices from Capetown, South Afri¬
ca, state that martial law has been
proclaimed in the districts of Beau
tort, west and Carnarvon,
A HORRIBLE STORY
Forty-Nine School Children Re¬
ported Drowned In Inwa.
WERE SKATING AND ICE BROKE
Details are Lacking, But Con¬
firmation Is Received From
Various Sources.
A telephone message received in
DesMoines from Washington, Iowa,
says that fifty-one school children
were skating on the river near Foster,
Iowa, near White Cheer, when the ice
gave way and forty-nine were drowned.
No confirmation of the story or details
could bo obtained.
Telephone messages by wav of Os
kaloosa and Ottumwa say the report of
the drowning of forty-nine school chil¬
dren at What Cheer is true. The chil¬
dren were skating on a pond near the
fair grounds and the accident occurred
about 9 o’clock in the evening.
It was stated that the children had
been skating on a pond near the fair
grounds. There were only a few es¬
capes. The tragedy occurred at about
9 o’clock Thursday night. Beyond
this no particulars were known in Os
kaloosa.
Through the office of a telephone
company at Iudianapolis it was learn¬
ed from the Oskaloosa office thni the
Ottawa olfice had learned of the ru¬
mor of the drowning of forty-nine
children as true. No particulars could
be got.
WOMAN FOULLY MURDERED.
Wife of Bibb County, Ga., Farmer
Found With Her Head Split
Open and Crushed.
Mr. Dave Birdsong, living in Rut¬
land district, Bibb county, Ga., be¬
tween Sofkee and Rutland station, re¬
turned home from a bird hunt Wednes¬
day morning, and found his wife lying
on her bed, her head split and crush¬
ed with an axe.
From her dress pocket was missing
a purse, in which she had $22. From.
a chair in the room was missing a nice
s a.ck coat, sometimes worn by Mr.
Birdsong.
A negro boy who had worked for
Mr. Birdsong for about two weeks was
also missing.
He had on the night before told Mr.
Birdsong a falsehood to decoy him
uwa y from tbe ilouae '
Posses are scouring the country in
search of the boy, who gave his name
as John Battle and said his home was
on the Georgia road.
The coroner’s inquest g developed no
factsthat would aut orjz ea conviction,
unless the strange conduct of the negro
should perchance fix the guilt on him.
T be verdict did not state who was-
8U ^ Mr. e °^? Birdsong - , , is a prominent . , farmer .
and is a brother of Messrs. Merritt
and Nat Birdsong of Macon. He has
several neighbors within a few hundred
yards of him.
The body of his wife was cold when
he found it. The feet were resting on
the floor and the head was on the bed.
She bad just returned from a neigh
bor’s, where she carried some Christ
mas delicacies. The glass dish and
plate were in her cold hand when she
was found. Neither had fallen.
On the window were blood stains
and ou the mantel were several bloody
finger print. Behind the dooi sat the
axe, which usually was kept at the
woodpile in the back yard. The back
door was open. From this leads a
skirt of woods, and it is thougnt that
the woods furnished the avenue of es
cape of the assassin.
Mrs. Birdsong was known to have
received $75 in money Saturday night
and she always carried a purse. It is
thought that to get this was the motive
for the murder. When her body was
raised the brains poured out of a big
gash in the back of her head,
j Mrs. Birdsong was fifty-two years of
age. She was a Miss Leweliyn Cane
and was reared within a short distance
of where she was slain. Her father
^ * ml “ U ' ter - Sh ° ^ tW °
ren.
HAWAIIAN'S WANT DAMAGES.
Will Aslc Fay For Property Destroyed
During Flagrue Outbreak.
It is expected that Governor Dole of
Hawaii will make a recommendation
to the Hawaiian legislature, which
meets in February, for the settlement
of claims of Chinese and Japane e,
growing out of the destruction of their
property at Honolulu at the time of
the bubonic plague outbreak.
Jlow Doers Celebrated Christmas.
According to advices the Boers cele¬
brated Christmas in the district be¬
tween Standerton and Iugogo by more
or less determined attacks upon every
British garrison along the lines of
communication.
TRAGEDY AT A DANCE.
Kentuckians ICnjCaee In Brawl and Unn»
Are Used 1‘romlicmiugly,
Frank Davis, “Buck” Chadwell, Es
tepp Morgan and Richard Davis quar¬
relled at a dance at Walnut Hills, fif¬
teen miles from Middlesburg, Ky.,
and a pitched battle ensued. Fifty
shots were fired. Frank’ Davis was
killed. Morgan aud Dick Davis were
woundeu mortally and Chadwell was.
wounded slightly.