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About The Rockdale banner. (Conyers, Ga.) 1888-1900 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1899)
The Banner Will Give You All The News of Conyers- aud Rock dale County. VOL. XXIV. ■4 ttHssnira? on a. M. Labour! Ambushed By Two Men On His Way to the Lycee. MANY MEMBERS OF “LEAGUE OF PATRIOTS” Saturday’s Open Session of the Dreyfus Courtmartia! Was Replete With Exciting Scenes. A cable dispatch received from Rennes, Franoe, early Monday morn¬ ing sliated that two men ambushed Maitre Labori, counsel for Dreyfus, and one shot was fired, hitting Labori in the back. M. Labori fell in the roadway. He was still alive at the time the dispatch was sent, Maitre Labori left his house alone for the court at about 6 o’clock Mon¬ day morning. His residence is situ¬ ation in the suburbs of the town a quar¬ ter of an hour’s walk from the Lycee, the route being along a solitary road beside the river Yilaine. He had reached a point half way on his jour¬ ney when two men, who had evidently been lying in wait for him, rushed out of a narrow lane and one of them fired a single shot from a revolver. The murderers were only a couple of yards behind their victim and the bullet struck Maitre Labori in the back. The wounded man uttered an agonized ory and fell flat on his face. The murderers at once fled through the lane from which they had emerged and both escaped. At 7:80 o’clock it was announced that the bullet had entered the stom¬ ach; that there was no outward bleed¬ ing and that the physicians believed that M. Labori would die from the wound. DREYFUS CREATJSS SCENE IN Ol'EN COURT BY REPLYING TO M. MERCIER. A special ... irom „ Rennes, t-, l ranee, says: Saturday’s scenes in the second courtmartial of Captain Dreyfus were as dramatic ‘! as those of Mondav ’ when the , arraigned. , M. , r Casi- „ . prisoner was mir-Perier recited to the court in an earnest manner his connection with the case, ’ after which General Mercier «as placed , . upon ii tne stand. i i The ine lof ia ' ier a testimony provoked a stirring scene. General Mercier had spoken nearly i ions n i s ( 1 ' Dreyfus, who had listened unmoved until Mercier concluded by saying that if he had not been convinced of the gmlt oniH of tw Dreyfus, and i if iu* the unr'o latter s conviction had not been fortified since 1894, he would admit he had been mistaken. Dreyfus jumped to his feet as though the words had galvan¬ ized him into life, and shouted in a voice which resounded through the Fall like a triumph note: “That is what you ought to say.” The audience burst into a wild cheers, whereupon the ushers called for silence. But when Mercier replied that he would admit Dreyfus was in Docent if there was any doubt, the prisoner shouted again: , “Why, don’t you then? That is ” At this there was another outburst °f applause. As Mercier was leaving the court the audience rose en masse and hissed and cursed him, those at the back of the court standing on chairs and benches In order to better cry him down. The gendarmes placed themselves between ike genera! and the audience, who ®kowed a strong disposition to mal tf cat the former minister of war. Mer- 6 Played the now well-worn war juust care be during the day, but the effect k» verv discouraging to him, as hearers listened without stirring a fcusele to his story of how France was ° a ike threshold of war with Germa a ■ J- ‘wolf” J he anti-Dreyfusites have cried too often. I K KECORIKBKEAXIN'U REDUCTION lrn » Workers’ Wages Cut From Fifteen Hollars a Day To Three. A dispatch from Johnstown, Pa., i?» : big What is probably the record U a reduction of wages has gone effect in the structural department [ JJke jhe straighteners Cambria Steel Company. beams 1 have of the large “ their wages cut from $15 to a day, while the holdups will ’Paid §1.50 on a‘scale that will average ■f, dd per dav against $6 or $7, ■ ^sed rate. A general strike is for. claim that thev were not Unpaid, P as the work is so ‘severe they ena are it f or oaiy a few years. ie Rockdale Banner. A special from Paris says: M. De Roulede, founder of the League of Patriots and a member of the chamber of deputies, for the Angouleme divis¬ ion of Chareute, was arrested at 4 o’clock Saturday morning at his estate at Groissey, near Paris. A number of members of the anti semite league and patriotic leagues were also arrested at the same time. M. DeRoulede was taken into custo¬ dy by four gen larmes aud was driven to Paris. On his arrival in the city he was incarcerated in the Concierge rie prison. The police have closed the offices of the patriotic league, which are now guared by gendarmes. When an attempt was made to ar¬ rest M. Guerin, president cf the anti semite league, he refused to surrender and barricaded himself in bis house. He says he is prepared to hold out for three weeks, having a good stock of food and firearms, The doors and windows of his residence are barri¬ caded and M. Guerin announces he will blow up his house before he sur¬ renders. On the application of M. Fabri,fresh searches of various houses were made, including the headquarters of tlieanti semites, where only unimportant pa were seized. Altogether six members of the anti semite and patriotic league and the royalists have been arrested. It appears that the officials unearthed sent to the duke of Orleans Brussels at the time of President funeral, the first saying: “All our men are ready.” The second telegram was dispatched following day, saying: “It’suseless to come.” The attempt at an insurrection the government had iu the failed. Conspiracy Unearthed. A semi-official note issued at Paris as follows . “A certain number of arrests were this morning as the result of a inquiry and hy virtue of 89 of the penal code, regarding conspiracy organized for the purpose 0 f accomplishing a change in the form government. Persons implicated belong to the group of the royalist voutli and the patriotic and auti-semite i ea g Ues . At the trial of the Meuilley h s affair, facts relating to that incident alone were used as the basis of the prosecution; but searches were then made and documents were seized ^ to the digcovery of an org an ization dating back to July, 1898, and 0 f a pi 0 t to seize the government hy * f orce “The documents leave no room for doubt as to existence of a plot or as to the chief actors therein. After very close watch organized proof was ob tained that the same groups were pre p al q n g for a fresh attempt at an early date, the proof being such as to enable the disturbance to be averted by immediate measures. The investiga tion of the affair intrusted to M.Fabre, examining magistrate.” Measures have been taken to pre vent M. Guerin from communicating w ;th members outside his residence, and the water, gas and telephone eon nections have been cut off. TV/O FACTIONS ARRAIGNED. A special of Sunday from v Rennes states that the battle has begun m ear nest. Its poliiimt e suing aie s own in the arrest of Pau e mu er e, e deputy and poet, and twenty-three of his numerous royalist and Bonapartist allies, who have pooled with Dim against the republic. As in the Bou langist conspiracy, the poo vou c of little consequence but for the mili tary caste, which has found repiesen tative men in General De Neguer and some other generals having great com mauds. LAURIER DENIES REPORT. Says Canadians Did Not Refuse To the Chicago Invitation. personal letter to „ , , In a - . • 0 saat, of the Chicago limes- era , Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the Canadian mier, denies the truth of an Intel view given out byE. W rick, of the treasury department Fitzpatrick Washington, m which Mr. asserted that Premier Laurier had stated to him he would not accept an to the Chicago autumn believing the somewhat strained between the two countries result in some unpleasant dent during his visit. CONYERS, GA„ FRIDAY. AUGUST 18 1899. OVER SEVEN MILLIONS. An Estimate of Damage Done By Recent Great Floods In Texas. E. S. Holmes, Jr., an expert of the statistical bureau of the department of agiiculture at Washington, 1ms just completed a report to Chief Statisti cian Hyde of that department, embody¬ ing the results of a tour of ihe flood devastated region of Texas, and mak¬ ing a careful estimate of the damage doue, the aggregate of which lie places at §7,4IT,000. The report states that the greatest damage was in McLennan Falls, Mi lain, Robertson, Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Washington, Waller, Austin, Fort Bend and Brazoria counties. The number of farms submerged is estima¬ ted at 8,100, with a total area of about 1,380.000 acres under cultivation; 339, 000 acres being in cotton, 124,000 acres iu corn, 10,000 acres in sugar cane and 28,600 acres in other crops, with a total production in sight equivalent to about $7,950,000. Although nearly 90 per cent of the total loss occurred in the destruction of or injury to the growing crops, the damage to farm property and the losses of live stock, etc., amount to the large sum of $884,000. The land itself is damaged by washing and gul leying to the extent of over $200,000, but of this loss about oue-half is esti mated as offset by the increased future productiveness resulting from the al¬ luvial deposit left by the flood. A conservative estimate of the actual destruction includes about 227,000 bales of eotton, representing at an average price of 4J cents per pound, about $5,100,000; 4,400,000 bushels of corn, worth at 20 cents per bushel, $880,000; sugar cane to the value of $855,000 aud other crops estimated at $835,000, a total loss to standing crops of $6,570,000. The addition to this amount of the loss to farm property raises the total to $7,414,000, or about $74 per capita of the population of the district, which is estimated at 100,000, negroes largely predominating. Cl FARM AKEltS WIN FIGHT. After a Long; Struggle In Tampa the Manufacturers Concede Demands. After a combined strike aud lockout, lasting live weeks, during which time twenty-two cigar factories in Tampa, Fla., were closed and six hundred cigar makers idle, the differences between employees and employers were finally settled at a conference held Monday. The result is a complete victory for the employees. The manufacturers grant ed every demand made upon them,and the changes made obligatory by these concessions, will amount to virtually a revolution in the methods of pro diming clear Havana cigars in the United States. The cigarmakers demanded the abolition in each factory of the scales for weighing the “fillers” issued to them. This was the main point at is sue. Under the new rule, no check will he kept upon the material issued to the men fox making into cigars, Another demand was that all facto ries adopt a uniform scale of wages, Hitherto each factory had its own scale, and the cost of production of the same grade of cigars varied consider ably in each house. This had its effect on wholesale and retail prices. Here after the workmen who makes one grade in one factory will receive ex actly the same pay as one who makes the same grade in another. There were a dozen minor demands and the workmen return to their places with everything their own way. MAYOR GIVEN ANOi HER E11ANCL, „ Council ( alls ropose a Atlanta City Before the ‘"'fr Atlanta, £,"* Ga., city ■. coun cil Monday afternoon Mayor AW ward made ® statemen in c^ promised positively and a i. that if , he tions should cease, erred again he would resign Acting upon tins promise le coun cil reconsidered its action in appoint ing a committee o inves iga e je charges against the major. ei " was only one vote agains e mo ion to reconsider, and tha was evoeo Alderman Mayson. Mr- j ay son, w o was the chairman o e mves iga mg committee, opposed giving the mayor another chance. by council .. puts The reconsideration a stop to the proposed and inves practically iga ion of the mayor’s conduct ends the entire matter. OLD SUBJECT REVIVED. Question of General Wheeler’s Seat In Congress Is Up Once More. A special to the Chattanooga Times from Birmingham, Ala., says: “Since General Joseph Wheeler has been ordered to the Pffflippine islands a renewal of the discussion about de¬ claring vacant his seat in the house of representatives from the eighth dis¬ trict has begun. The Montgomery Journal, which is looked upon as the organ of the state administration, wss the first to spring the question. Thie leads tf> the suspicion that it is sound¬ ing public opifiion for the governor with a view to his declaring General Wheeler’s seat vacant.” u Says Hon. W. J. Bryan, and Will Not Be Abandoned. GOSPEL OF 16 TO I EXPOUNDED. A Largely Attended Democratic Love Feast Is Held at Des Tloines, Iowa. Des Moines, Iowa, was full of dem¬ ocrats Tuesday night to attend the democratic state convention and listen to W. J. Bryan, General W. B. Weav¬ er and others expound the gospel of JG to 1, anti-imperialism and anti¬ trust views. Two great meetings were he Id during the evening, the main one at the the Auditorium, where W. J. Bryan spoke to 5,000 people, and the other at the tabernacle, where Gen¬ eral Weaver held forth for an hour, until Mr. Bryan came from the first meeting. Some 15,000 persons con¬ gregated at the tabernacle, and the two buildings were not great euough to accommodate the throng. Mr. Bryan, in beginning his ad¬ dress, reviewed the record of the re¬ publican party, accusing it of put ting the dollar above the man. He then took u|) the silver question, saying prosperity did uot set in until six months after the election, when the Klondike gold mines began to increase the supply of the yellow metal. The republicans who claim that times are better because the balance of trado is iu favor ef the United States give away their own position and ad¬ mit that the democratic view of the quantitive character of money is cor¬ rect. The financiers of England con¬ trol the English government, through England tho rest of Europe, and through Europe the United States. He said: «<-phe 6,500,000 democratic voters of tLe democratic party in 189(5 were for 8 ii ve r. The 7,000,000 republican vot ers were fora platform which called f or international bimetallism. Only the Palmer and Buckner voters were f or the gold standard, sny less than 1 per cent, yet the Iowa republican platform goes a step farther and is mainly for gold alone. Moreover, the republicans threaten to retire tho greenbacks, though they have never h ee n before the people on that issue.” Mr. Bryan closed his speech by a lengthy discussion of imperialism. qq ie difference, lie said, between a re public and an empire is this: “A. republic needs au army of 25, 000 for 70,000,000 people; an empire needs four times that large an army, w lien 10,000,000 population is added. T b is suits the young men who get fat jobs in the army, but not the people who pay the $1,500,000 a day needed t Q maintain the soldiers in tho Philip piuGS .” Mr. Bryan gave figures to show that England and other nations do not col onize rapidly and said that with twenty people to the square mile in America, an( q sixty to the mile in the Philip pi ne s, there is no opportunity there, Even if we should succeed in killing 0 ff a u the natives, you cannot get young Americans to go there-—they prefer to live in this country. The profit will not be equal to the cost and p ro fjt will not go to the right peo pie, but to investment syndicates. £ yen jf a)) y man w jHj n g to trade for pottage, £ and does not have a taste irthright) he bad better investi gate tbo pott , ge , If the Tagalos are ] arge iy Christians and our native al lies are largely Mohammedan, we ht t<j ^ th# gnltan to he i p u8 gub . d ue the Christian insurgents. “This government ought to make a ,] ec .] ara tion of good intentions toward t be j’hilippineB, as it did toward Cuba, The president ought to have done so, ^ d j(] not have the power, should ^ave asked congress for it. Now he m - ^ ca j] a special session to ask for p OWe r. Cleveland called a special gcssion to repea ] tlie Sherman act and McKinley called one. A special ses ^ qow would CQst much money> bnt nearly so much as the continuance of tbe GEORGIA’S TAX LEVY. The State Kate Is Fixed By Comptroller General at S3 38 on the Sl.OOO. The tax rate for the state of Geor¬ gia was levied Monday hy Comptroller General Wright, who held a long con¬ ference with Governor Candler. The state tax rate is $5-30 on the $1,000, including the additional tax for raising the $100,000 sinking fund, which is required by law. school Oat of this total sum the fund will receive $2.10 on each $1,000 returned in property valuation ;the gen¬ eral fund for government will receive $3 on each SI,000. and the sinking fund will be allowed 26 cents on each $ 1 , 000 . REBELS ON THE RUN. Twelfth Infantry Drives Filipinos From the Town of Calulet After Sharp Fight. A special from Manila says: The Twelfth infantry left Calulet at sunrise Wednesday and advanced up the rail¬ way, Captain Evans’ battalion deployed to the right of the track ami Captain Wood’s to the left. Two companies remained on the track with the artil¬ lery. The insurgents were found well intrenched in front of the town, the trenches having been dug within a few days and since the occupation of Calu let. At a distance of 1,500 yards the Filipinos opened fire. Their force was estimated by Colonel Smith at 1,500, although the residents afterwards said it exceeded these figures by a thou¬ sand. The enemy sent heavy volleys against the whole American line. Most of their shooting, as usual, was high, but they concentrated tlioir heaviest fire down the track upon the artillery. Colonel Smith kept the whole line moving rapidly, with frequent rushes. The insurgents attempted to flank Cap¬ tain Evans and therefore two compa¬ nies were sent to the right and drove them back. Unable to stand our continuous vol leys, the Filipinos abandoned the trenches and retreated through the town northward. It appears that they had only received their supply of am¬ munition Wednesday morning. Had they been attacked sooner they could ^ lave made litt le resistance. The intense heat caused much suf fering among the Americans. SOUTH LUX PROGRESS. List, of New Industries KsOilillshed the l»H8t Week. Among the more important of the now industries reported during the past week are a $50,001) steam bakery in Middle Tennessee; a 100-ton cast iron pipe foundry in Alabama; coal mines in Arkansas and West Virginia; a $250,000 cordage factory in Louisi¬ ana; cotton mills in Alabama and North Carolina; a cotton seed oil mill in Mississippi; an electric light and power plant, in South Carolina; a fer¬ tilizer factory and tallow refinery in Georgia; flouring mills in Georgia and Tennessee; foundry and machine shops in South Carolina aud Texas; a furni¬ ture factory in North Carolina; gas works in West Virginia; a knitting mill in Georgia; lumber mills in North Carolina, Texas and Virginia; a $100, 000 lumber and shingle mill in Louis¬ iana; a natural gas urnl oil company in West Virginia; a shoe factory in Geor¬ gia; a starch factory in Florida; a tan¬ nery in Georgia; a tannery acid plant in North Carolina; tobacco factories in Kentucky and North Carolina; zinc and lead mines in Arkansas.—Trades¬ man, (Chattanooga, Tenu.) INDEBTEDNESS HE! NO SCHEDULED Creditor* of tl»« Boone-Black Diamond Railroad ArraiiifiiiK Their Claim* Knoxville stockholders and direc¬ tors of tho Boone-Black Diamond rail¬ road are making out a schedule of in¬ debtedness, which is claimed is due them by the railroad, and an effort is being made to have this amount, which will aggregate obout $125,000, paid of the funds expected from Eng¬ land. The claim is for directors’ salaries, for four years’ office expense, etc. One item is for $50,000 in favor of Knox county. This is claimed on a contract by which the Boone pro¬ moters secured Knox county’s $100, 000 Knoxville and Ohio railroad bonds aud sold them for $40,000. jit was under¬ stood that the road should pay back $50,000 and this is the claim now be¬ ing made. The local directors have charge of the road in East Tennessee and it is understood they will retain a lien on all rights of way in this section until the claims referred to are paid. RIVER NILE IS LOW. The Egyptian Cotton Crop In Endangered a* a Consequence. Advices from G’airo, Egypt, state that the extreme lowness of the Nile threatens the cotton crop and the na¬ tives have been warned to sow early. The upper highlands will suffer the most, and it is feared that the loss of revenue will be considerable. FIVE ASSAULTS IN ONE DAY. Rrutiil Crime* Kxcite Uttle Kouk to Wild Pitch of Excitement. Five Brutal assaults by a negro on white women occurred in Little Rock, Ark., in twenty-four hours. It is gen¬ erally believed that all these crimes were committed by the same negro, but four suspects have been arrested, and if the right man can be postlvely identified he may receive summary punishment. The four negroes an¬ swer the description given by some of the victims. They are Ed Wright, Joe Gardner, Will Morgan and James Randle. Wright has been positively identified by Mrs Kennedy as the man who assaulted her. Official Organ of Rockdale Coun ty. Has Largest Circulation in The Comity. NO. 82. TILLMAN AFTER THE WHITECAPS Carolina Senator Says They Are Rankest Cowards. “TOLBERTS THE ROOT OF EVIL.” Fiery Speeches at Farmers’ Insti¬ tute Meeeting In Green¬ wood, S. C. Senator Ben Tillman was the speaker at the farmers’ institute held at Green¬ wood, S. C., Wednesday. At the very beginning of his talk he pitched into the whiteeuppers, who have been ter¬ rorizing a portion of that section for the past ten days, whipping inoffen¬ sive negroes. The senator calls them white cow¬ ards and said they were a disgrace to the county. He thought if the Tol¬ berts, the republican party leaders, were still stirring up the negroes they ought to bo dealt with. If you want to uproot the evil and kill the snake, go kill theTolbers, but don’t abuse the poor, innocent black wretches. “The yankees,” said the senator, are watching as closely and the eyes of the whole world are now on the race problem in the south. They will take advantage of everything of this kind to abuse the south. You are just play¬ ing into the yankee’s hands. They are wanting to cut down our represen¬ tation iu congress because of our new election laws, but otherwise there is little better feeling now between the two sections, but this sort of thiug will arouse had feeling. Why, just look at that Jewett woman coming down here and taking away the nigger postmaster’s family. She comes from Boston, the head and center of all dev¬ ilment, The yankees are ready to take up any such deviltry as this whitecap¬ ping business, and you people ought to put a stop to this.’’ The senator talked largely about agricultural affairs, but later got into national politics and denounced the Philippine war, sarcastically scorning McKinley’s benevolent assimulation. “I have not asked for any army ap¬ pointment,” said he, “because I don’t think any decent man ought to engage in this outrageous war.” The senator bragged about his part in the armor plate hold-up, and be¬ fore he closed he made his usual at¬ tack upon the newspapers. Congressman A. C. Latimer, who represents the Greenwood district, was the other speaker. It was the contest of Latimer’s seat by R. R. Tolbert that caused the election riots at Phoenix last November. He did not refer to the presont race trouble, al¬ though he took occasion to attack the Philippine policy. Kecked For Vindication of Law. In the afternoon a mass meeting was held to denounce the whitecap ping. The prosecuting attorney of the circuit made the opening speech and the sheriff followed. They begged for the vindication of the law and the sheriff said he would arrest anybody if be only knew who to arrest, but he declared his inability to find out who was at the bottom of the trouble. Others spoke on the same line, but Boh Cheatham, who was one of the election managers at the Phoenix box last November, when Ethridge was killed by the negroes, exploded a bombshell. He cried excitedly: “I’ve got a remedy for the trouble. Drive out the Tolberts and whites and negroes will live together peacea¬ bly. Rid the country of the Tolberts aud you’ll stop the trouble. I’ll lead the crowd to rid the country of even the name or leave my wife a widow.” Cheatham’s fire-brand talk was ap¬ plauded, but it was evident that the majority were against him, not believ¬ ing that politics is the cause of this disturbance. A man in shirt sleeves arose, and vehemently begged his neighbors to help him. His farm had been visited and all the negroes driven off by the whitecappers. His wife is sick from the excitement caused by the raids. He has 175 acres of land in cotton and can’t get a negro to pick it. Even a well-digger he had temporarily em¬ ployed had been warned not to work for him. The speaker was P. B. Brooks, who is an industrious farmer living not miles from the courthouse. Resolutions denouncing the white were adopted and a committee appointed to investigate the trou¬ and report to another mass meet¬ to be held in the disturbed sec¬ The negroes are still taking to the woods at night and many of them have left their homes for good. It is believed that political troubles caused the disturbance, as the negroes have been quiet since the No¬ vember riots.
