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TO SOUND ATTITUDE OF EUROPE
ON CUBAN QUESTION.
UNCLE SAM READY TO INTERVENE.
Government Officials Wish to Know, How
ever, Wliat the Result Would Be
Before Taking Action.
A Washington special says: Officials
•of the state department were very ret¬
icent Friday when asked concerning a
report in circulation that definite in¬
structions have been given all our for¬
eign ambassadors and ministers in
European countries to sound and as¬
certain the attitude of European gov¬
ernments in case the United States
intervene in case of Cuba.
While denials were made by some
of them, others intimated that the
United States was ready to assume
the position taken by President Grant
in 1874, shown by the instructions of
Secretary Fish to Mr. Cushing,
although it never appears that these
instructions were carried out, and
there is no knowledge of what S|)ain
would do in the premises. It is pos¬
sible that Minister Woodford will have
a different report to make.
It can be stated, on information re¬
ceived here, that there is no truth in
the report that Lord Salisbury has
sent an unfavorable answer to a sug¬
gestion that the United States should
interfere, the fact being that he has
not replied at all to the attempt of our
ambassador to sound him ou the sub¬
ject, and that his attitude gives reason
to believe he will not oppose such ac¬
tion as our interests may majio neces¬
sary. Minister Woodford’s instruc¬
tions are to intimate to Spain that the
United States will intervene unless the
situation in Cuba speedily improves.
These wero the instructions which
were given Mr. Cushing by Mr. Fish,
ami it is understood that the attitude
of the United States is almost identi¬
cal with the position taken during
General Grant’s administration. Then,
as now, the good offices of the United
■States bad been tendered to Spain, to
bring about a settlement of the war,
■“but,” said Secretary Fish, “the well
intended proffers of the United States,
were unwisely rejected by Spain.”
The secretary reviewed the situa¬
tion, which presents many similar
phases to that which exists now.
President Grant, said the secretary,
regarded independence as the only so¬
lution to the Cuban question.
AN (HOLLO EXECUTED.
Castillo’s Assassinator Moots Death on
tho Gar rote.
Advices from Sebastain, Spain, says:
Michael Angiollo, who shot and killed
•Seuor Canovas del Castillo, the prime
minister of Spain, at the baths of Santa
Agueda on Sunday, August 8th, was
•executed at 11 o’clock Friday morning,
-according to the sentence ef the court
martial imposed upon him.
Angiollo heard calmly the news that
Hie was to be executed, but he appeared
to be surprised at it, and bitterly com¬
plained of the frequent visits of the
priests, declaring that they would ob¬
tain nothing from him.
He decliued to enter the chapel, say¬
ing he was comfortable enough in his
cell. An executioner from Burges
performed the garroting, just prior to
which Angiollo responded:
“Since you cannot get me out of
prison, leave me in. peace. I myself
will settle with God.”
ONE DOLLAR WHEAT.
Sliort Crops of Foreign Countries Cause
of High Prices Here.
Friday 90J @ 901 c was bid for Sep¬
tember wheat at the opening on change
at Chicago. Even at this price an ad¬
vance of 3$o since Thursday offerings
were few and far between, aud the
market continued to run up to 91|c.
Higher prices at Liverpool, bullish
crop estimates from Minneapolis aud
widespread damage to crops in Hun¬
gary were the main factors when the
regular trading began on ’change.
Dispatches said wheat at Minneapo¬
lis had touched $1. New York wired
that wheat acceptances by cable were
eimply enormous, sixty-two boatloads
being taken for export at New York
and twenty-eight loads at other points,
All for England.
NEW LEASE FOR FLANAGAN.
-Judge Candler Grants a Stay of Execution
For Indefinite Time.
At Decatur, Ga., Saturday, Judge
•Candler signed a stay of execution,
in the case of Edward Flanagan
which means indefinite life for the
i prisoner.
After hearing the reading of several
i affidavits by both sides in the motion
KI for a new trial, the court announced
that it would not be able to take up
■ I the question for consideration for sev
•eral days.
i This means that Flanagan will not
[ be executed trial until been after the question and of
•a new has decided, even
should it be decided against him he
I baa another chance iu supreme court.
ENCOURAGING OUTLOOK.
Mercantile Agencies Report Great Im¬
provement In Trade Condition*.
Bradstreet’s summary of business
conditions the past week says:
‘‘Special telegrams from trade cen¬
ters throughout the country emphasize
the growing prosperity of the farmer,
due to higher prices for almost all ag¬
ricultural products still in his hands,
and principally to a continuation of
the demand which has been conspic¬
uous within the past few weeks. The
volume of trade continues to increase
and prices are hardening. No such
volume of business, largely in antici¬
pation of requirements, has been re¬
ported since 1892. Larger transactions
have been had in dry goods, clothing
and shoes with south and west in
wagons and farm implements.
“Another very favorable bank clear¬
ing report is found in the total of SU¬
MO,000,000 for the week, which,while
it is 1 per cent less than last week, is
40 per cent larger than in the third
week of August, 1896; 26 per cent
heavier than in 1895; 40 per cent
larger than in 1891, and fully 55 per
cent larger than in the like week of
1893, when clearings totals were re¬
duced to very low figures, compared
with the like period in 1892, a year of
large volume of business, this week’s
total shows a gain of 13 per cent.
Among 86 of the cities reporting bank
clearings only 17 show decreases this
week compared with the correspond¬
ing period last year. Bank clearings
at other cities than New York are 17
per cent larger this week than in the
like week a year ago. but at New York
the increase is 56 per cent.
“Prices of staples continue the fav¬
orable movement of the past few weeks,
with advances for wheat flour, wheat,
new pork, butter, eggs, cheese, corn
and oats. Hides are also firmer p„nd
higher. (flour
“Exports of* wheat included
as wheat) from both coasts of United
States and Montreal this week are the
largest in any week siuce September
1, 1894, amounting to 5,218,000 bush¬
els this week, as compared 4,460,000
bushels last week. 3,991,000 bushels
three years ago, and 4,960,000 bushels
in 1893.”
TO PENSION DESERTERS.
The fjuestion Has Been Submitted to tile
President and Secretary Bliss.
A Washington dispatch says: It is
not improbable that official announce¬
ment will be made in a few weeks of a
radical change in the present attitude
of the pension bureau toward pension
claimants who had a confederate war
service.
Under the present constructions of
the laws, any service in the confeder¬
ate cause, irrespective of later serwice
for the government, is a bar to pen¬
sion. Commissioner of Pensions Evans
believes that if a claimant served in
any capacity m the confederate service
but later deserted or left its ranks, en¬
listed in the Union army, served there¬
in and was honorably discharged, it
would be an injustice to refuse him a
pension. He believes that having per¬
formed honorable service in the union
army, the past hostile services be
overlooked.
Assistant Secretary Webster Davis,
whose decisions have been in the line
of liberal construction of the pension
laws, is understood to have similar
views.
The question has been referred to
the president and Secretary Bliss for
their approval.
AN ADDRESS BY TILLMAN
Will Be a Feature of a Mass Meeting of
Democrats In Brooklyn, N. Y.
A committee of the “United Demo¬
cratic Organization of Greater New
York” has arranged for a mass meet¬
ing at Ridgewood Park, Brooklyn, on
the evening of August 31. Senator
Tillman, of South Carolina, is sched¬
uled to make au address upon the
“Duty of Democrats.” A circular has
been sent out to labor organizations
urging attendance in order that a de¬
monstration may be made against
“the serious and persistent assault
now being made npon several of the
fudamental rights of labor and of all
honest American citizenship by the
process commonly known as govern¬
ment by injunction.”
Armenians With Bombs.
The police of Constantinople have
arrested two Armenians at whose resi¬
dences they found two bombs. The
prisoners confessed that they intended
to use these bombs at the Russian and
German embassies.
TICKET SCALPERS LOSE.
A Permanent Injunction Against Their
Selling Special Rate Tickets.
In the famous case of the Nashville,
Chattanooga A St. Louis Railway vs.
George E. McConnell, et al, Louisville
& Nashville vs. Duckworth, et al,
and Western A Atlantic Railway vs.
Duckworth et al, Judge Clark handed
down an opinion Thursday morning
favoring the railroads.
This case arose over the handling of
the special rate Tennessee scalpers of Centennial Nashville,
tickets by the
and the above named railroads asked
for an injunction to restrain the scalp¬
ers from handling the tickets. The
court grants a permanent injunction.
UNFAVORABLE CROP REPORTS
CAUSE A FLURRY,
SHORTS ARE VERT MUCH EXCITED.
The Fleecy Staple Comes In as a Rival for
Wheat In Rapidly Advancing
Prices.
The opening call of the cotton mar¬
ket at New York Monday was attended
with great excitement.
The shorts were panic-stricken by a
large number of bull orders and a
sharp advance in Liverpool. Crop
news was also decidedly bullish, too
much rain in the Atlantic states and
the Mississippi valley, according to
reliable reports, having done exten¬
sive damage, while worms in other
sections were said to be infesting the
staple greatly to its detriment.
The market opened irregular, with
trades in different parts of the ring
showing a range of 2@,3 points. Au¬
gust opened 13 points higher, Septem¬
ber 17, October 22, and November 27.
The rest of the list showed an advance
of 24 to 26 points, the opening range
13 to 17 points above Saturday’s clos¬
ing figure.
The trading was the heaviest in near
months. Over 25,000 bales changed
hands on the call, and at 11:30 tran¬
sactions aggregated 55,000 bales.
New Orleans and Liverpool sent sell¬
ing orders early, but became active
buyers as the market advanced. Com¬
mission houses were heavy purchasers.
Selling for profits by timid bulls
caused a reaction of 6@9 points di¬
rectly following the call, and at 11:30,
after violent fluctuations, the market
was very feverish at a net advance of
20 to 25 points.
World’s visible, September 1, 1895,
was 2,500,000 bales, spinners’ reserves
were estimated as extremely heavy,
having been bought up at low prices.
Cotton was worth here ^c more than it
is now when we don’t expect the visi¬
ble to be over 800,000 and know the
invisible to be decidedly less than in
1895. The long expected speculative
revival in cotton seems to have set in.
PLANS SUBMITTED.
Miners and Operators Make Propositions
For Settlement of Strike.
At a meeting of operators and
miners at Pittsburg, Pa., Monday,
propositions looking to a settlement
of the strike were presented by both
sides. Three propositions were of¬
fered by the operators as follows:
Miners to resume work at the 54
cent rate pending a decision of aboard
of arbitration.
Miners to resume work at an inter¬
mediate rate between the rate demand¬
ed and the one paid prior to the sus¬
pension, pending a decision of a board
of arbitration.
to resume
out price named, pending a decision
of a board of arbitration.
The proposition submitted by the
officers of the miners to the special
committee was as follows:
Miners to resume work at the 69
cent rate pending the decision of a
board of arbitration.
The propositions were talked over
in an informal manner by both sides
when an adjournment was taken until
10 o’clock Tuesday morning.
NORTH CAROLINA MILLS.
State Labor Commissioner Reports on
Splnrlles ami Employees.
State Labor Commissioner Hamrick
of North Carolina has completed his
compilation of mill statistics and says
there are 206 cotton, fifteen woolen
and two silk mills, making a total of
223,with 1,030,000 spindles and 23,000
looms.
Gaston leads in spindles, having
113,000, Mecklenburg has 84,000 and
Rutherford 80,000. There are mills
iu forty-seven of the ninety-six coun¬
ties. In the number of factories Gas¬
ton leads with twenty-three, Alamance
haviug twenty, Eaudolph eighteen and
Mecklenburg sixteen. Rutherford has
the largest mill with 74,000 spindles
and 2,400 looms. Surry county has
one-third of all woolen mills.
The mill employing the most opera¬
tives is Henrietta, in Rutherford,which
has 530 men, 665 women and 345 chil¬
dren.
MORE MILLS RESUME.
New England Factories Start Up Afte^
Idleness—Outlook Encouraging.
Dispatches from different New Eng¬
land manufacturing centers announce
that many cotton mills which have
beeu idle resumed operation Monday.
During a part of July aud August
thousands of spindles were not operat¬
ed in that section owing to unsatisfac¬
tory conditions which prevailed, either
in the finished goods or new cotton
market, or to the need of repairs.
In addition to this several other
mills closed for two weeks in accord¬
ance with their annual midsummer
custom. Many of the Fall River mills
resumed operation last week.
SHERMAN MAKES ANSWER
To Japan's Note Regarding the Annexa¬
tion of Hawaii.
A Washington dispatch says: Secre¬
tary Sherman has submitted to the
Japanese government an answer to
Japan’s late note relating to the an¬
nexation of Hawaii.
The answer was delivered to Mr.
Hoshi, the Japanese minister, last
Saturday. It is his reply to Japan’s
note of July 5th, which up to that
time had not been acknowledged.
Mr. Sherman’s answer is marked by
a friendly expression toward Japan,
which gives special satisfaction in
view of the somewhat strained rela¬
tions resulting from the previous cor¬
respondence. It reiterates the posi¬
tion heretofore taken by the secretary
of state as to the right and propriety
of annexing Hawaii to the United
States. With this, however, is coupled
an assurance that the interests of Ja¬
pan in Hawaii will be safeguarded. It
also expresses satisfaction at the plan
of arbitration between Japan and Ha¬
waii on the question of Japanese im¬
migration to Hawaii.
Minister Hoshi has cabled the sub¬
stance of the answer to the Tokio gov¬
ernment and the full text of the an¬
swer has been forwarded. It will not
reach Japan until September 7th, and
no action may be taken until the text
is before the Japanese foreign officer.
The Japanese legation is reticent
over the dispatch, although there is no
effort to conceal the satisfaction felt
over the friendly spirit displayed
throughout Mr., Sherman’s answer.
The attention of the Tokio government
has been particularly directed toward
these expressions of good will.
NO SCHOOL BOOK UNIFORMITY.
Committee Authorized by the Georgia
legislature Make Recommendations.
The special committee appointed by
Governor Atkinson, of Georgia, in
in compliance with a resolution of the
legislature, to investigate the matter
of purchasing schoolbooks in the state
and to recommend a plan for securing
cheaper books, held a meeting in the
state capitol Thursday and mapped
out its report. They have recom¬
mended a plan which they think will
reduce the cost of books, but it is not
the governor’s plan. The governor
has been writing and talking in favor
of uniformity in school books ever
since the question was first agitated
and the committee has gone against
uniformity.
The plan recommended by them is a
much simpler one, and will not in any
way involve the state in the book pub¬
lishing busiusss or commit the state to
the exclusive use of any particular line
of books. It declares in favor of en
largingthe power of the county boards
of education, of incorporating those
bodies, and authorizing them to pur¬
chase books direct from the manufac¬
turers and sell them to the children at
first cost price. This is known as the
Ohio plan, because it w'as adopted in
that state some years ago, and has
been in successful operation ever
since.
The main object of the commission
was to do away with the heavy profits
of the middle man, without in any
way revolutionizing the present course
of study. To do this the county
boards are instructed to do their own
buying in the future, except in such
cases where the retail dealer will sell
at the list price. Iu either case the
county is to become responsible for
the book bill, and, therefore, will be
able to secure a larger discount from
the publishers. The present discount
is from 20 to 25 per cent.
This report was agreed upon unan¬
imously by the commission after a
lengthy session and a full discussion
of the matter.
OFFICE-SEEKERS IN WAIT.
President Will Be Greeted By Them On
His Return to Washington.
A Washington dispatch says: Presi¬
dent McKinley is storing up a large¬
sized disappointment for himself. He
will find it on his return to the white
house. And it will be in the shape of
the old guard of office-seekers whom
he left behind. There may not be quite
as many of the old ones, but what the
old guard lacks iu identity it will
more than make up in numbers.
When the president left for his va¬
cation he conceived the delusion that
during his absince the old guard which
had clamor ad unsuccessfully for spoils
would be, not exactly frozen ou*, but
melted out, and report from Platts
burg has it that he has been hugging
that fond delusion to his breast.
KILLED IN DUST EXPLOSION.
Fire Breaks Ont and Cuts Off Escape of
Four Men.
The elevator of the Davenport glu¬
cose works at Davenport, la., was the
scene of two terrific dust explosions
Thursday morning, as a result of
which four lives were lost and two
persons seriously i^mred.
The killed art I * Raap, fell
from top of buildin ■■l&eet; John
Haam, fell from to> vator; Wil¬
liam Woifte, eaught-Tiy falling wail;
Paul Wolffe, caught by falling wall.
The first explosion threw down the
south wall of the building aud a por¬
tion of the side wall. The second
threw down the fire escape.
THE EXECUTIONERS °F THE
GRO OSCAR WILLIAMS 5E.
WASTED.
THE SPALDING GRAND JURY
And Now the Governor of Georgia
Cognizance Tak e*
of Their p resentments
and Offers Rewards.
Governor Atkinson, of Georgia, R
offered large rewards a3
for the men who
i lynched , i Oscar „ Williams,
the Clayton
county negro, in Griffin, on the morn
mg of July 22d. The offer is based
on the same plan as that of the Rvder
reward and contemplates hot only thl
punishment of those actually in the
mob which did the bloodly work but
also all those who aid in preventing
the detection of the guilty
The governor delayed his proclama
tion because he wanted to let the
Spalding county grand jury investigate
the case.
As soon as he read the presentment
of the grand jury, he and Attorney
General Terrell got together and drew
tip a paper, wherein the secretary of
state was directed to Issue a proclama¬
tion offering a reward of $500 each f or
the arrest and delivery to the sheriff
of Spalding county, or to any jailer in
the state, with proof to convict, of the
first two men concerned therein who
are guilty of a felony, and $100 each
for the arrest and delivery, with proof
to convict, of each subsequent party
guilty of a felony; also that the secre¬
tary of state issue a proclamation of¬
fering a reward of $250 each for such
parties as feloniously conspire or aid
in preventing the detection or arrest
of the parties guilty of the murder of
said Oscar Williams; said reward to be,
paid on the arrest and delivery of such
person or persons, with proof to con¬
vict, to the sheriff of Spalding county
or to any jailer in the state.
The lynching of Williams was on«
of the most remarkable that Iifs ever
occurred in Georgia. On July 17th
he attempted an assault on the six
year-old daughter of J. C. Campbell,
a farmer near Lovejoy, and escaped.
He was pursued for three days by a
large mob of men and was caught at
Barnesville, where a company of mili¬
tia protected him in the jail there.
Later he was taken to Macon under
heavy military escort and lodged in
the Bibb county jail.
The news that a mob was forming
in Macon to lynch him reached the
ears of the sheriff and he promptly
made arrangements for a secret trans¬
fer of the prisoner to Atlanta. While
en route to the latter city a mob took
Williams from the train and put him
to death.
NEW MODEL FARM.
Georgia Wants Band That Will Produce
All Kinds of Vegetation.
The prudential committee of the
Georgia State University, at Athens,
has purchased a lot of land to be used
by the department of agriculture for
a model farm.
The present model farm, adjoining
Rock college, will now be put on the
market and the trustees hope to be
able to dispose of it for a good sum.
The purchase of a place for a new
model farm, while quite a surprise,has
been contemplated by the trustees for
a number of years. Up to this time
they have always been pursuaded from
buving other property because of the
old farm. The Rock college property
was practically valueless as a moctel
farm, and the "trustees have been de¬
siring to get land that will At produce their
all vegetation abundantly. sell the
last meeting it was decided to
Rock college farm and buy better and
more fertile land.
violated^sundaylaw.
Railway Officers Inti feted For
Georgia tin* Sabbath.
Moving Freight on
The grand jury of DeKalb county,
Ga., has found six true bills against
the Georgia railroad for running
freight trains on Sunday after
hours prescribed by law.
The charges against the company are
plain, and the witnesses exam¬
verv
ined by the grand jury gave operate^
testimony that the company 8 clock
their through freights after o
in the morning on the -th, lit
21st days of February last.
TOBAGCO~FAlR~ABRiN(}Ilb
Organization Formed at a
Florida State
Meeting In Lake City
At mass meeting held by citizens
a Florida Tobacco
of Lake City, the organized to ho
Fair association was that city Octo
a state tobacco fair in
ber 27-28. The NIoodi re¬ P>
elected: Professor F. B. .
ident; H. J. Paimer, W. Perry, second first vice vice pw*g P re ent;
B. S. " B !er
T. S. Chalker, treasurer; A
Thompson, secretary; J. E. 18 d
other B. Hart, wellknown D. L. Geer, citizen., J. O jBarn^ ^
directors. to work hard to
The citizens intend
make the fair a great success.