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About The Rockdale banner. (Conyers, Ga.) 1888-1900 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 2, 1897)
I .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 He :id ^ 9 ^'est^ation ^ o ^ deepest m a eomin itted.
