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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.