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.ACCORDING TO MEMBERS OF THE
G. A. R. ENCAMPMENT.
OFFICERS FOR THE COMING YEAR.
The Closing Session Was Fraught With
Intercstr-Next Meeting Will Be Held
at Cincinnati.
The Grand Army elected its officers
at Buffalo, N. Y., Friday, for the er.
suing year and the encampment has
adjourned to meet at Cincinnati next
year. The final session lasted from
9:15 a. rn. until 3:45 p. m., without
intermission. Opening under the or
■der of business, the encampment took
np the election of senior vice com
aiander-in-chisf.
Alfred Lyth, of Bidwell Wilkerson
post, of Buffalo, was placed in nomi¬
nation by Major A. K. Smith, the com¬
mander of his post, aud was olected
unanimously, there being no other
nominations.
The election of a junior vice cora
jnander-in-chief was not accomplished
until after noon, there being four can¬
didates and several interruptions to
the proceedings of the encampment
by speeches and the admission of a
committee from the Woman’s Relief
Corps. F. B. Allen, of Connecticut,
the candidate of the naval veterans,
was chosen on the second ballot.
Among the reports receiving favor¬
able consideration in the executive
aessiou in the encampment was that of
the pension committee. It recom¬
mended a readjustment of a widows’
pensions and presented a form of
proof and application in pension
claims substantially the same as that
•embodied in the Pickier bill, which
has passed the national house of rep¬
resentatives, but has not passed the
senate. The report stated the pres¬
ent commissioner of pensions had con¬
sented to adopt new rules substantial¬
ly the same as those in force during
the Harrison administration, The
report also recommended that con¬
gress pass a service pension law to
apply to all veterans who have reach¬
ed the age of sixtv-two years.
The report of the committee having
in charge the memorializing of con¬
gress to purchase several of the most
important battlefielda about Frede¬
ricksburg, Va., aud to connect them
by government roads was adopted.
The invitation of the Young Men’s
Business Association, of Richmond,
Va., to hold the encampment of 1899
in that city was received and thanks
extended. This association was in¬
formed that the question could only
be considered by the encampment of
1898.
Another committee reported favora¬
bly the proposition to establish na¬
tional parks at the battlefields of
Vicksburg, Stony River and Appo¬
mattox.
Southern Histories Condemned.
The report of the committee on text
Books used in the public schools was
Adopted. The report deals severely
with some of the histories used in the
south, charging that they mistake the
facts as to the cause of the rebellion
and present them from a southern point
of view.
A regret is express that, after an ex¬
amination of all the histories used in
the states that -were loyal to the gov¬
ernment in the opinion,none merits the
qualified endorsement of the organiza¬
tion.
The report closes with the following
recommendation:
“First, That this encampment urge
4he continued agitation of the question
-of improved text books in our schools
that relate to the history of the United
Htates, especially as to the events of
the war of the rebellion.
“Second, That the national encamp¬
ment authorize the appointment of a
permanent committee on the subject
teaching patriotism in our schools,
■which shall make a report each year.
“Third, That it be urged up>on each
department of the Grand Army of the
Republic aud recommended to the
Woman’s Relief Corps, the Sons of
Veterans and all allied organizations
that they give direct and persistent
attention to the selection of proper
text books for use in our schools and
the exclusion therefrom of such as are
Improper. ’*
IRBY ROASTS TILLMAN.
Senatorial Candidate Close* Campaign
With a Hot Tirade.
At the closing South Carolina sena¬
torial campaign meeting in Florenoe
Saturday night Irby threw off restraint
aud attacked Senator Tillman, openly
denouncing him for his part in the
campaign. He declared:
“While Tillman say.s he is ‘handsoff’
lie was ‘mouth on.’ Tillman went to
Abbeville and York and now he has
■been to Union—all my strongholds.
There work was done for McLaurin.
All his utterances mean: “Vote for
McLaurin, he’s as good a tool as I
want.’
“I give him to understand I am
done of hia poodle dog.”
KEYSTONE REPUBLICANS JOYFUL.
In State Convention They Claim Honor of
Bringing Prosperity.
The Pennsylvania state republican
convention met in Harrisburg Thurs¬
day to nominate candidates for state
treasurer and auditor general. The
hall -was -well filled uhen the proceed¬
ings began. organized by the
The convention
election of State Chairman Elkins as
temporary chairman. Chairman El¬
kins congratulated the party on its
victory last November and its pros¬
pects of success in Pennsylvania this
fall.
Referring to the state issues and the
action of the legislature on the reform
bills presented, he closed by saying:
“With more gold on the Klondike,
gold in the harvest fields, the republi¬
can party directing the administration
of national affairs, the Dingley bill on
our statute books and McKinley hold¬
ing the reins of government, peace
and prosperity shall dwell within our
borders, let us hope, forever.”
The platform adopted ratifies aud
reaffirms the doctrines enunciated in
the national platform adopted at St.
Louis in 1896 and approved by the
people in the last presidential election.
In addition it says:. “We rejoice
with the people of the nation upon the
passage of the Dingley tariff bill. Its
enactment redeems the pledges made
by the republican party to our pros¬ and
trate manufacturing, commercial
business interests and holds out to
them the bright promise of prosperity
and material development, such as
has never attended upon legislation de¬
signed for the protection of home in¬
dustries and the preservation of the
home markets.
“Dollar wheat” has sounded the
death blow of the “free coinage”
heresy. In the late presidential cam¬ the
paign the strongest bid made for
agricultural vote by the democratic
party was the promise that their
success in that election would raise the
market price to one dollar per bushel
—payable in silver. They met over¬
whelming defeat at the polls and the
farmer now receives for his wheat one
dollar a bushel—payable in gold. The
dollar he received will buy in the mar¬
ket two dollars and thirty-five cents
worth of silver, as measured by the
coinage value of that metal. We pledge
ourselves anew to the republican doc¬
trine of sound money aud an honest
dollar.”
AFRIDIS HOLD KHYBER PASS.
Insurgents Capture and Burn a Well Gar¬
risoned Post.
Advices of Thursday state that Fort
Lundikola, situated at the extreme
end of the Khyber Pass, in the north¬
ern part of India, and garrisoned by
300 men of the Khyber Rifles, was at¬
tacked and burned by the Afridis on
Tuesday. leading
The famous Khyber Pass,
from Afghanistan into India, has now
fallen completely into the hands of the
insurgent tribesmen.
The governor general of India, the
earl of Elgin, has telegraphed to the
government at London confirming the
news of the capture of Fort Lundikola,
adding that one native officer was
killed and one wounded.
Continuing the governor general an¬
nounces that nearly all troops at Fort
Ali-Musjid have reached Jamrud. The
soldiers succeeded in retreating with
their arms.
The following message was sent by
the queen to the viceroy stationed at
Simla:
“I am grieved at the loss of my brave
officers ami men. I trust that the wounded
are doing well. It is most gratifying to see
how well my troops have behaved. The
conduct of all of my troops has been ad
mirable. VlCTORIX.”
WHEAT BOUNDS UP.
September Options Reach the High Fig¬
ure of 81.03 at Chicago.
A Chicago dispatch says: Wheat
shot upward again Thursday. Sep¬
tember, which closed Wednesday night
at 96 3-4c, started on the regular board
with rates all the way from 98 l-2c to
$1. Within five minutes it was sell¬
ing at $1.03.
The market was very excited, but
not broad. Before the upward rush
ceased, the quotation was $1,034 for
September. Today was the first time
the bulge had carried the price past
the dollar mark in Chicago, dollar
wheat having only been just touehed
for a moment a few days ago. Liverpool
Opening quotations at 2j(gl3o
showed an advance equal to
per bushel.
AZCARRAGA SPANISH PREMIER.
Queen Regent Name* the General a* Can
ora*’ Successor.
The queen regent of Spain, Friday,
conferred the premiership upon Gen¬
eral Asearraga, who is also minister of
war. The cabinet will not be modi¬
fied, but it is expected that there will
not be instant dissensions.
It is well understood that had Sa
gasta, liberal, been appointed to suc¬
ceed Canovas, there would have been
wholesale resignations. It is said that
General Weyler’s resignation is now
in hand, bearing an “if” in reference
to Sagasta.
The belief is expressed that Sagasta
would have leceived appointment but
for Weyler’s threatened resignation.
M 111 I HI
THIRTEEN MINERS BEING BACK
$575,000 WORTH OF BUST.
A PRESS REPRESENTATIVE TALKS
Gives Good Advice to People Who Con¬
template a Kush to the Alaskan
Gold Fields.
According to dispatches the steamer
Portland arrived at Seattle, W T ash., at
3 o’clock Sunday morning. She car"
ried thirteen miners, each of whom
brought only a small part of his stake.
The total amount of dust supposed
to be on the vessel is $575,000.
The Portland was delayed by the
failure of the P. B. Weare to arrive at
St. Michaels and by a storm on the
north Pacific coast.
The miners on board with the
amount of their total mining profits,
parts of which were brought with them
were as follows:
J. Rowland, $50,000; Jim Bell, $45
000; Joe Goldsmith, $35,000 N. W.
Powers, $35,000 W.W. Caldwell, $35,
000;W. 01er,$30,000;C. K. Zilly, $25,
000; F. W. Cobb, $25,000; W. Zahn,
$15,0C0;A. Buckley,$10,000 M. S. Lan¬
sing $15,000; B. W. Farnham, $10,000;
M. R. Camlock, $15,000.
Press Representative Talks.
H. N. Stanley, who went to St. Mich¬
aels for the Associated Press, returned
to Seattle on the steamer Portland. He
says:
“I have been seven weeks at the
mouth of the luikon, at St. Michaels,
where I saw all the miners coming out
aud interviewed them. As a result I
feel it my duty to advise everybody to
stay out until next sjiring. Wild and,
in many cases, exaggerated reports
have been circulated since the first
discoveries were made.
“The strike, however, was, and is
one of the greatest, if not the great¬
est, in the world’s history. Probably
$2,000,000 was cleaned up this spring
and next spring I look for from $5,000,
000 to $7,000,000. The fields have
hardly been opened up as yet, but
those going in now must bear in mind
that everything in that region was
staked out long before any reports
reached the outer world, and later
comers must prospect for themselves,
buy claims of the present owners or
work for the owners.
“No new strike had been reported
up to the time of my leaving and an¬
other may not be made from one to
live years, although Alaska is an enor¬
mous country and will yet,’ I believe
produce more gold than we dreamed
of. It is in many ways a bleak, bar¬
ren, desolate country, a country inca¬
pable of supporting any great amount
of animal life and a country of such
rigorous climate, both winter and
spring, that none but the most hardy
can possibly live in it.
“The average man requires about
one ton of carefully selected food and
clothing for a year’s supply. In the
summer of 1896 about 3,500 tons of
supplies went up the river, and the
new population of 1,500 to 2,000 suf¬
fered from want. Of this 3,500 tons
probably 1,500 tons were tools, furni¬
ture and supplies other than provis¬
ions. This season, allowing for the
most favorable estimates, not more
than 4,200 tons of supplies cau be car¬
ried up the river, aud fully one-half
of this is rum and tools, as well as
supplies other than food. There are
more than three times as many people
there as last winter. Figure it out for
yourself.
“Grub was completely out this
spring, and last winter there was such
a scarcity that moose hams sold for $30
each, flour $120 per hundred, bacon
$1 per pound. What w ill happen this
coming winter? Why should not peo¬
ple starve to death?
“As to shelter, 90 per cent of Daw
sou was living in tents in July, labor
is scarce and houses cannot be built.
How are 7,000 people to withstand the
rigors of a nine-months winter of semi¬
darkness, when the mercury goes 70
below zero?
“There are about 340 claims on
Bonanza, Eldorado and Hunker creeks
that will probably be worked this win¬
ter. An average of eight men to each
is, I think, liberal. If but 2,700 men
are employed, and there are 5,000 or
more seekiug work, what must be the
result? Wages must go down.
DENIAL FROM RATCIIFORD.
President of United Mine Worker* De¬
clares Tliat Miner* Favor Arbitration.
President Ratchford, of the United
Mine Workers, has issued a statement
replying to the operators of the Pitts¬
burg district.
He denies that the miners are op¬
posed to arbitration. He says they fa¬
vor it. but not on the basis proposed
by the operators. The operators’
threat about gatling guns and Pinker¬
ton men, he declares, will have no
weight with the strikers.
He declares that if the operators
will meet them on fair terms there can
be no trouble in reaching a settlement.
WOMEN ROUTE FOREIGNERS.
First Attempt to Start mines an Utter
Failure.
The first attempt to start any of the
coal mines in the Pittsburg district
was made at the Champion mines of
Robbins & Company, near McDonald,
Pa., on the Panhandle road Friday
morning.
Two car-loads of foreigners, gath¬
ered up from about Pittsburg, were
sent to the Champion mines about
daylight and put to work loading slack
into cars. The miners heard of the
arrival of the new men and with 500
women started to the mine. The new
men were attacked with stones and
clubs and driven from the cars.
The women followed them up and
the foreigners, without resisting, fled
to Noblestown. The -women then re¬
turned to McDonald and dumped the
slack that had been loaded from the
cars.
They were met by 1,000 strikers,
and headed by a band, marched a short
distance from the mine, where they
are now encamped, watching for Hie
return of the non-union miners. The
company say they are determined to
load the slack, and a conflict is ex¬
pected if the new men are brought to
the mine.
UNION PACIFIC’S COMMITTEE
Meet In Washington and Hold Consulta¬
tion with McKenna.
Chauncey M. Depew, General Fitz¬
gerald, W. S. Pierce, J. H. Schaff, of
New York, and Marvin Hughitt, of
Chicago, members of the Union Pacific
reorganization committee, held a con¬
sultation at "Washington with Attor¬
ney General McKenna relative to the
decrees recently rendered in the
United States courts for the foreclos¬
ure sale of the Union Pacific to satisfy
the mortgage and the government’s
second mortgage.
Some portions of the decrees were
not satisfactory to the government,
and the reorganization committee ap¬
peared before the attorney general in
the desire to reach a satisfactory under¬
standing with the government and
thereby obviate further delay.
SATED A FORTUNE,
But Shoemaker Hussey Hived Appsirently
In Abject Poverty.
Thomas Hussey, the aged citizen of
Montgomery, Ala., who was arrested
in New York several days ago in a
dazed condition with $30,000 in money
and securities in his pockets, died
Friday at the home of his niece in
Brooklyn. He was more than eighty
years old.
Mrs. Harriet Mitchell, a great niece
and one great-great nephew, both res¬
idents of Brooklyn, will inherit the
old man’s wealth, whioh is estimated
to be in the neighborhood of a hundred
thousand.
He was formerly a shoemaker and
had lived in Montgomery for thirty
years alone and in abject poverty.
PURE FOOD COMMISSIONERS.
They Meet In Detroit and Perfect Their
Organization.
A Detroit dispatch says: The as¬
sembled pure food commissioners have
at last perfected their organization un¬
der the name of the “National Associ¬
ation of State Dairy and Food Depart¬
ments.” At the last meeting Friday
the following officers were elected:
J. E. Blackburn, of Columbus, O.,
president; G. I. Flanders, of Albany,
N. Y., first vice president; J. A. Law¬
rence, of St. Paul, Minn., second vice
president; John B. Noble, of Hartford,
Conn., third vice president; E. O.
Grosvenor, Michigan, secretary and
treasurer.
Resolutions were adopted urging
congress to pass laws placing manu¬
factured food products in original
packages under state laws wherever
sold.
MILLIONAIRE GOELET DIES.
Wealthy New l'orker Passes Away On
Board His Yacht.
Mr. Ogden Goelet, of New York,
died Friday. He expired on board
his yacht, the Mayflower. The de¬
ceased had been ill for about two
months past.
Ogden Goelet was one of the two
sons of the late Robert Goelet, and a
grandson of the late Peter Goelet, a
very prominent member of society in
New York, Loudon and Paris. The
Goelet estate is one of the most valu¬
able in New York, due to the increased
value of the old-time Goelet farm.
The latter originally ran from the
section of the city whore the Windsor
hotel now stands to the East river.
A nEAD-END COLLISION.
Engineer Fatally and Others Seriously
Hurl—Many Cars Smashed.
A special from Birmingham, Ala.,
says: A head-end collision took place
Thursday morning at 6.15 o’clock on
the Southern railway, three miles west
of Eden, 30 miles from Birmingham,
Freight trail 5fo. 45, bound for Birrn
ingham, from Atlanta, collided with
an extra freight train going east,
Doth engines were badly damaged and
ten cars broken up.
John Cheves, of Atlanta, engineer on
No. 45 was fatally hurt. About a
dozen others of the train crews were
more or less seriously injured.
Hereafter TlIEOr«Hj^; oi . GL , t>
their Montgomery Columbs
----- ed
|ua,l mtendent regularly. An onler +?
Terrell fumigatT requires bef^ * pSr ‘
thoroughly £•"*
sent out. The mail has been ^
uuthhew 1
» account of tt . s
ery.
of congress Senator Bacon started !
movement which is goiim to rese t'
the establishment of oneM these va'”
uable institutions in Georgia -\ J'
resentative of the r
fish commission^
now on his way to Georgia to select
site, and m this fact a
to be interested. many people on-ht
The official report of Mr. Phil G
"jrd, special inspector of convict
camps, has been attacked by Mr. H
B. Moore, superintendent of J. g
Allison <fc Co.’s Pulaski county camp
at which, according to Mr. Byrd’s re¬
port, a convict was beaten to death
dragged feet forward through the
woods, and buried in stripes and
shackles. Mr. Moore denies that state¬
ment in toto and declares Mr. Byrd's
report on that camp to be false.
The much tallied of Horse-Swappers’
State Convention will meet in Coving¬
ton, on the 21st day of September an I
renaain in session three days. The
object of the convention is to electa
president, vice president and other
officers. Every liorse-swapper is
Georgia lias a special invitation to at¬
tend and those in attendance will be
entitled to a vote at the convention in
any and all matters brought before
the union.
Judge Littlejohn has rendered a de¬
cision in the petition for an injunction
brought by the citizens of Amerieus
to restrain the Georgia and Alabama
railroad from removing the general
offices to Savannah, refusing to grant
the injunction, and the railroad com¬
pany is thereby victorious so far. A
mandamus was granted and the case
will be appealed to the supreme court,
pending -which the general offices will
remain in Amerieus.
The decision in the Flanagan case
has been indefinitely delayed and the
time when it will be decided is a mat¬
ter of conjecture. The attorneys have
placed the papers in the hands of
Judge Candler and he will take ample
time to come to a conclusion. Tha pa¬
pers are so numerous and long that it
■will take much time for their perusal.
Flanagan was condemned to hang on
the 25th of August, but the motion for
the uew trial was filed and has acted
as a supersedeas and stayed the execu¬
tion.
The first prohibition election in the
history of Muscogee county occurred
last Saturday and passed off quietly.
While the day was not altogether de¬
void of unpleasant features, vet, con¬
sidering the issue at stake,the election
was a remarkably quiet one. The
election resulted as follows: Against
prohibition, 1,724; for prohibition,
942; anti majority 782. The comity
precincts gave a slight majority to the
antis. The votes of about 409 negroes
were challenged by the prohibitionist.-,. of the
If all are thrown out the result
election would not be changed.
* * *
Hon. Hewlitt Hall, chairman of ‘he
penitentiary committee of the house o.
representatives, has called a meeting
of that body for the 21st of September
for the purpose of considering t-»
problem which disposition confronts of the the convicts legis^
ture in the wliicn
at the end of the presenf lease,
will expire April 1, 1899. I he com
miitee will also consider the question
of placing the misdemeanor convicts
under the inspection spstem of tae
penitentiary department as reeon;
mended by Governor Atkinson and
Governor Northern.
The county commissioners of Geo
gia are already responding to the c *
sent out for a state convention byw
Fulton commissioners. Many c _
missioned have already replied to tn V
invitation to meet m Atlanta on
tember 16th and the commissions -
are enthusiastic The business about the of the P r0 P mee 0 ^
gathering. the^u^of the convict
^ 8 roads Sn, of the several counties in t
the of providing ^
state, the question rural district. ^
protection in interest ■»
questions and others ot
importance to every county
state.
Solicitor C. D. Atlauta
warrant a few da ? s 1 Bad
a murder agarn^ i t
with intent to ^
leaving Fuller, ^/^qess h.. • child in the been WO' -hI? re
to die. has pending
ques e< ,, *g n d Fuller grand j ar v
an mvest^at . b 7 the bo|V - _
»U «11 go be f 0 re this
Solicitor ^ f«Wr
^ indicted ei d f io assaU lt «ith is very intent P oS £ *
murde^ J ^ toJfe made , tie an m ^ -
has -
char e. H ^ has nia ie
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^'est^ation ^ o ^ deepest m a
eomin itted.