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The News of Conyers and Rock
dale County.
VOL. XXIV.
jOUBERT SAID
TO BE DEAD e
It Js Alleged That He Fell In Bat=
tie Over a Week Ago.
OTHER BELATED NEWS.
Genera! Buller’s riovements Are
as Yet Unknown In London.
Ladysmith Bombarded.
A dispatch from Durban under date
of Sunday, November 12, says: “The
Times of Natal publishes a telegram
(tom Lcurenzo Marques saying that
General Joubevt was killed in action
on November 9th.”
London advices of Wednesday state
tint the most interesting, and, in fact,
Hie onlv news of the war now comes
(tom the western frontier, the ac¬
counts of Colonel Baden-Powell’s bril¬
liant exploits at Mafeking forming
quite lively and encouraging reading.
Bench work iB quite novel in Boer
tactics, and some curiosity is evinced
as to who may be directing and as to
what is still to be shown.
Nevertheless, both at Mafeking and
Kimberly, conditions seem altogether
favorable. So far as Natal is concerned
(he British must possess his soul in
patience and trust to General Buller.
A belated dispatch from Ladysmith,
dated Nov.7th, tells of a languid bom¬
bardment and of a native rumor that
tkeBasntos are on the warpath,which
is supposed, according to one corres¬
pondent, to have had the effect of in¬
ducing some of the Orange,Free State
troops to abandon the siege and to re¬
turn to their own territory and also
to be accountable for the slackness of
the attempts of the Ladysmith de¬
fenses, Another correspondent says
(hat it is reported that in the attack
upon the Free States at Dewdrop the
Beers had 300 killed and wounded.
If the reports that the Free State
burgers are tired of the affair and are
going home should prove true, the
fact would be most important, as their
retirement would probably compel
General Joubert to withdraw north¬
ward. The statement that the Boers
are entrenched so closely to Lady¬
smith is held in some quarters to in¬
dicate that they are running short of
ammunition for guns.
All of General Buller’s arrange¬
ments for the advance frofn Durban.it
is Honored, arc practically completed,
mid news of it may be expected in a
few days. Tho war office has received
several dispatches dealiug with mili
Inry details, but it is not likely' that
these will be published. Tho where¬
abouts of General Buller is not pub¬
licly known in London, but he is be¬
lieved to be up country somewhere.
lielated Muwa of lloer Activity.
A dispatch received in Capetown
from Bulawayo, dated Friday, No¬
vember 3d, says an armored train pro¬
ceeded south close to Machudi, where
« culvert was found damaged.
The Basnto police, the dispatch
Uds, report that a party of Boers has
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R. L. WHITE, Special Agent, JAMES O. WYNN, Kaaager Sortkern Department,
Conyers, Georgia. Prudential Bmldiiig, Atlanta, 6a.
The Rockdale Banner.
been looting and damaging property.
A Fort Tuli dispatch, under the
same date says:
“There is great activity in the Boer
camp south of here, A reeonuoiteriug
party sent along the line heard heavy
firing in the distance. The party re¬
turned to Colonel Spreekley’s campon
which the enemy was advancing in
force. It was shelled at noon, stam
peding every horse aud mule, but not
touching a man. The Boers number¬
ed 400. The Boers surrounded Bych
store, where a small party stubbornly
resisted, Cush ultimately retiring to the
and gaining from Tuli. An ofli
cer and five troopers are missing
from Spreekley’s force, which has been
out some days reeonuoiteriug the ene¬
my s lorce, ami which had several
skirmishes on returning to fort Tuli.”
Miami’s Fever Report.
Miami, Fla., reported' eight cases
Tuesday ^ and three Wednesday. Total
cases, 125; total deaths, 7. Neither
Key West or Port Tampa City sent in
reports for Wednesday.
B ILL SUE RAILROAD.
Chattanooga Merchants Want Mnnoy Hack
From Overpaid Frsiulits.
Tho merchants of Chattanooga are
preparing to bring many suits against
the Southern, the \\ estern and Atlan¬
tic, tho Nashville, Chattanooga and
St. Louis railroads to recover from
them money overpaid on freight.
The decision of Justice Harlan
at Cincinnati that these loads Could
not charge Chattanooga more for
freight than they did Nashville
merchants, is the cause of the suits.
They will sue for all amounts ovev
paid si dee the first decision in favor of
Chattanooga was given about six
veavs ago.
HENDERSON NAMES ASSISTANTS.
Si>e}ik«v Hrpo’it Suuuussor ArrangeB Llgfc
of Ills Clerk*.
Congressman Henderson, .who will
be the next speaker of the house, an¬
nounces the appointment of .Tides C.
Richards, of Waterloo, la., as private
secretary, to succeed Amos L. Allen,
who was Speaker Reed’s secretary,
and who ha3 just been elected to con¬
gress. Also that Asher 0. Hinds will
continue as clerk at tho speaker’s
table, and tHat LeKoy Neeley, for
many years Congressman Heuderson’s
private secretary, will be clerk.
CRANDALL OUT OF PEN.
rresUIent McKinley Cut* Mown III* Sen¬
tence ami Releases II m.
J. E. Crandall, for years president
of the First National bank, of Johnson
City, Tenn., who was sent to Brook¬
lyn penitentiary in 1S96 for eight
years on a charge of embezzlement,,
has been released. President McKin¬
ley cut down his sentence on petition
of congressmen and citizens of Kn'ox
villo. Crandall will goto California
to locate.
PltOCTOK MAKES MESIAL*
8 a>s He I* Not Trying To Draw Dewey
Into Politics.
Senator Proctor, of Vermont, in
an interview with a Washington Post
reporter, -is.quoted as saying:
“It is not true that I am trying to
start a Dewey boom for the presi¬
dency. generally understood that
“It was
before Dewey left Manila he was averse
to being drawn into politics, and I r m
in a position to know that since his
arrival in this country his antagonism
has been confirmed.”
INCOME FOR 1898, . - $ 17,481,875.00
NEW BUSINESS 1898, - ■ $164,65)4,784.00
TOTAL PAYMENTS TO POLICY-HOLDERS TO DATE,
$ 39 , 333 , 060 . 09 .
CONYERS, GA.. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17 1899.
MAGAZINE BLOWS UP.
M«„. Wagon and Hotm. Reduced
to Atoms, While People a Mile
Off Were Knocked Down.
A magazine used by the Bradford
uitro-glyceriu factory to store the ex
plosive, located two aud a half miles
east of Oibsonburg, Ohio, exploded
Mouday afternoon. The shock was
heard in towns within a radius of forty
miles and the effects of the explosiou
in the immediate neighborhood were
terrific.
The magazine was located in the
woods a quarter of a mile from any
dwelling, and this alone prevented
greater loss of life.
Beniamin Card, driver of a stock
wagon, had brought a load of 720
quarts of nitro-giyeerin from the fac¬
tory at Bradford and was unloading it
when the explosion occurred. Just
how it happened will uever be learned.
Card and the two horses driven by him
received the full force of the oxplosion.
He was blown almost to atoms, only a
few shreds of his body being found
and pieces of horse flesh were hurled
several miles. '
It is supposed that Card had a com¬
panion, but this is not positively
known. The explosion made a hole
seven feet deep iu the solid rock and
trees in the vicinity were torn to
splinters. People within a mile of the
place were knocked down-, pictures
torn from the walls, dishes thrown out
of cupboards, windows shattered and
houses moved from their foundations.
All the windows in Gibsonburg were
broken. There were about 1,500
quarts of glycerin on the wagon and
iri the magazine. Card lived in Brad¬
ford, O., and left a family. The shock
was distinctly felt at Tifliu, forty miles
away.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
List of New Industrie* Established tho
Past Week.
The new industries reported during
the past week include, among the
more important, 200-ton blast furnace
in Tennessee; a carriage factory in
North Carolina; coal mines and coke
ovens in "West Virginia; a construction
company in Arkansas; a $200,000
cotton mill in Mississippi; cotton
seed oil mills in Alabama, Missis¬
sippi and Texas; a creamery aud
cold storage plant iu Arkansas; an
electric light plant in Mississippi;
flouring mills in Tennessee, Texas
and Virginia; foundries and machine
shops in Alabama, Tennessee and Vir¬
ginia; a gas retort manufacturing com¬
pany in Alabama; a harness factory in
Tennesseeja handle factory in Alabama;
an ice factory in Florida; an ice and
cold storage plant in Arkansas;’lum¬
ber mills in Alabama, Arkansas, Mis¬
sissippi, Tennessee and Virginia; lig¬
nite mines in Texas; phosphate plants
in Alabama and Florida; a planing
mill in Tenner see; a shingle mill in
Alabama; a stave factory in Georgia..—
Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
BARKED FROM MAILS.
Four Pension Organizations Are Depriv¬
ed of the Kijfht* of the Malls.
Officials of southern first-class post
offices have received a statement from
the postoffice department in regard to
the organization of associations for
the purpose of agitating the question
of pensions for the ex-slaves aud their
deeendants.
The department investigated the
“ex-Slave Petitioaere’ Assembly.” of
Madison, Ark.; the “ex-Slave Mutual
^
Slava Pension Club Association,” of
Nashville. The report made on these
investigations is that the three organi¬
zations uamed were operating through
the mails systematic schemes to de¬
fraud. The department prohibits the
delivery of all mail addressed to these
concerns.
BRITISH RK-EXF0 RCEMEXTS
Arrive At Cape Town On Troop Ships
Armenian and Nubia.
A dispatch from Cape Town to the
wav office in Loudon announces the
arrival there Mouday of the troop ship
Armenian,with three batteries of artil¬
lery and ammunition column, and the
troop ship Nubia, with Scots Guards
and half a battalion of the Northamp¬
tonshire regiment. This brings the
total number of re-enforcements to 12,-
80'2, of which about 6,d00 are already
on the way to Durban.
EX-MAYOR PLEADS GUILTY.
Former Chief Executive of Pennacoljft,
Flu., Receive* Heavy Sentence.
A Pensacola, Fla., dispatch says:
Ex-Mayor Fat McHugh,against whom
several charges were pending in tho
criminal court for malfeasance in, office
in 1897, and who returned home a few
lays ago and gave bond, appeared be¬
fore the court .Monday morning and
pleaded guilty. maliciously threat¬
Iu one case for
ening to accuse, he was sentenced to
qay a fine of $500, but this sentence
was suspended.
On the charge of conspiracy ho was
sentenced to one year in the comity
jail or to pay a line of $500 and costs.
The third case was nol pressed.
AUGUSTA HONORED RIDGELEY.
Returning Hero Accorded a Kouslnff IVcl
come by HU Homo People
Augusta honored Lieutenant Bulge
ley Wednesday in royal southern
style. The city was decorated \vith
flags and bunting and thousands of
people from city and country rounda
bout thronged tho streets to honor
and welcome the distinguished fellow
citizen and guest.
Captain Hollis Dead.
A dispatch received at Washington
Wednesday from Manila announces
the death of Captain Magnus C. Hollis,
Fourth infantry, who died of dysen¬
tery in the hospital. He was appoint
ed to West Point from Newnau, Gn.
SAYS LADYSMITH CAPITULATED.
_
Pad. Newspaper Announce* Fall „t the
n..i. K .d Town.
A Paris ,T paper gleefully announces
tlie fall , and , capture of ct Ladysmith, i ni,. but
reports horn us souiee m> o gn
onuse a ripple of excitement in Lou
don. Nevertheless, there will bo con
siderable anxiety, however, until the
war office or some independent version
of the latest developments at Lady
smith is known.
PERKY TO HANG,
IVhile Tiiylor Get. I.tle Uent.nca For Mur.
tier of Dennard.
At Washington, Go., Saturday, Will
Taylor was found guilty of the mur
der of Jep Dennard aud sentenced to
ninety-nine years in the penitentiary.
This is the second time Taylor has
been convicted of this crime.
Tho judge sentenced Fred Perry to
be hanged Friday, December 8th.
LEGISLATIVE LABORS
The House Adopts ’Some Highly
Important Measures.
INSURANCE BILL PASSES THE SENATE
New Plan of Inspecting Illuminating Oils
Approved-Central OH Inspector
Provided For.
The session of the legislature last
Monday was a busy one, both houses
acting favorably on measures of the
greatest importance, aud in both
branches a large number of new bills
wore read for the first time.
In the senate the house bill by Mr.
Duncan, of Houston, providing for
tho reduction of tho deposit of insur¬
ance companies from $25,000 to $5,000
was passed with an amendment by
Senator Clifton, of the second, includ¬
ing in tho reduction all fidelity and
surety companies. Before going to
the governor the Duncan bill must go
back to the house for its action on the
amendment.
The house discussed freely tho bill
by Dr. Watkins, of Gilmer, asking
that solicitors general iu the state bo
paid a fixed salary of $2 000 out of tho
treasury of the state, but with the re¬
port of the committee against it tho
measure failed to receive the constitu¬
tional two-thirds vote, and was lost.
Dr. Watkins strongly urged his bill
on the ground that the present meth¬
od of paying solicitors was in niauy
instances undignified and unpleasant
to tho official himself. The point was
raised in the debate that the passage
of the hill would increase the rate of
taxation, ns it provided for an annual
expenditure of something like $48,000.
wWch the state had no means of get
tinf , bllck from tbe .
Mr. Brandon, of Fulton, introduced
a 1^)] 0 f great interest to Atlanta, as it
authorizes the cit}' to issue and sell
j )0n( ] 8 to tll0 ext ent of $350,000 to bo
use{ ] j n f] le extension of water mains
and tho .erection of a lighting plant
under municipal control. The bill
was referred to a committee aud Mr.
Brandon hopes to get it before the
house favorably recommended iu the
next few days.
The house indorsed the temporary
rules established by the commissioner
of agriculture for the bettor inspection
of illuminating oils and adopted the
New York state test in the place of
the old Tagliabue tester. Under this
»«W method, which tho commissioner
f *>™ly on, ! (1 daring himself he forced past to summer adopt teuta- every
sample £ of oil that flashes at lOOdo
gre{ p nhreDheit is to be condemned
p,y ^ the inspector J who makes the test.
bM the rigid ruIeB tho
houge S8ed the bill b J M r. Park, of
Gfee * idj ? for th e appointmeut i,ith
of gtB a iuB or of oi! „ a sal
flry ()f mo a „ lonth . There was op
position m the house to the measure
from those members who thought the
state had enough inspectors already,
but the leading members of the body
urged its passage iuw as an absolute neoes
sity unnir the now in force.
The senate passed tho Duncan house
bill reduoing tlie state deposits of in
surance companies from $25,000 to
$5,000, and investing authority in the
comptroller general of the state to de
termine,without recourse to the courts,
the solvency of companies seeking to
enter the insurance field in Georgia.
Official Organ of Rockdale Conn*
ty. Has Largest Circulation in
The County.
The bill, as originally passed in the
house, affected only insurance compa
nies, but by an amendment offered by
Senator Clifton,of the second district,
and adopted by the senate, fidelit >>
surety companies will hereaft*. *
only bo required to make the same do
posit as is demanded of iusnranee
companies.
T \ ie appropriations committee of
tho , house recommended an added ap
propriation of $30,000 above the sum
nlrendy allowed to moot the increns
^J&£STJ?SZZS£ The ,
of invalid confederate soldiers.
report of the retiring commissioner of
Bho ' Ve<l th * t 10 -T 1 °
$238,000 appropriatedfor , the indigent
hst for 1900, winch was based on tho
number of pensioners of that claw ui
1M18 would fail by 8.10,000 to pay al
lm claims an iu the past year the hat
has increased 800 The report showed
that the appropriation for the invalid
hst for 1900 would also be too short
aud the report of the commisBioner
suggested that J2 f 500additional would
whereas, nearly one-half the session
men tar v rules, and whereas, no reason
exists for obstructing tne public busi
ness of the atate except to prevent ac
t.on on what is known as the temper
nnce bit!.
"Be it therefore resolved, That tho
names of those who are obstructing
the public business ho published that
tho people may know who are respon¬
sible for the waste of time and money
of tho state.”
be necessary to meet all the claims
under this head.
A RED HOT RESOLUTION
[nlroducnil In (lia Cloorifla Home of Ilep.
resen(at(ves.
A special from Atlanta says: Tho
following resolution, proposed to cen¬
sure the minority, which was blocking
action on the prohibition bill, was
offered in the Georgia legislature
Tuesday: essential to the best
“Whereas, It is
interest of tho state that important
measures now before the house he dis¬
posed of; and whereas
“The tax bill reported by special
commission at tho expense of the
people has not yet been acted on, and
ALL MUST RESIGN.
Utiiiujfcn In Fourth (ioorjrl# Ilujlmiml
ItoI«»«Ha Nt»fT Olllcnrit.
All the staff officers in Brunswick of
tho Fourth Georgia regiment received
a letter Wednesday from Colonel
Wooten, asking them to resign their
respective offices. Colonel
This was done on the part of
Wooten on account of the Brunswick
Riflemen being transferred to the
First Georgia regiment.
The colonel said in his letter thnt it
was with much regret thnt he had to
ask them to resign, but ns Brunswick
was no longer in his regiment, ho
would bo comrelled to appoint staff
officers in Hie cities of which bis regi¬
ment is made up.
HOI1ART EATS HEARTILY.
i'Ico Pro»I<Icnt Pnunml Gooil Day Timiday
n ii< 1 Aid Tlireo MigiIn.
A special from Patterson, N. J.,
states that Vice President Hobart had
afairly good day Tuesday and is resting
easily. He ato three meals during
the day and sat up in his easy chair
most of tho afternoon. He retired
early at night and immediately fell
asleep.
TIE PRUDENTIAL
Offers all That Is Good
IN LIFE INSURANCE
And Undar the Best Conditions.
NO. 45.
tiOV. JOHNS! ON ANNOUNCES.
Notifies the Public That He Is In
the Alabama Senatorial
Race.
Joseph E. Johnston, governor of
Alabama, has formally announced
that ho iB si candidate for the United
States senate,
The annoucement of bis candidacy
appeared in the Montgomery Journal,
■>"“ printed
While the story lias been
throughout ... , . ilia ... southern press that
Governor Johnston would be a camli
date, tho official announcement did
; ulltil the Journal printed
Qn aufborizod cage the statement that the
J J to make tho an
lo in0ement of 0ovcrno r Johnston for
Uuite(1 StfttcR senate,
other cnu did«te» are Hon. John
T M tbo present senator, and
f Congressman Oates and Hon.
T . ^ 0( l u emoro
The grant battle has already begun
»»—»»»>» wiH started at »-? Florence,
n <“ v pnp«P be
^ will support Governor Jolm-
governor * seems to have incurred
^ . ]( wftQy polifcicianfI in the
state through his stand in the last leg¬
islature and his killing the constitu¬
tional convention. He lias done other
things for which lie has been con¬
demned, but ht^ goes on and his sup¬
porters express the belief that he will
be successful in his contest with Sen¬
ator Morgan and ex-Governor Oates
for the United States senatorship.
Tammany Saves Parnell Homestead.
Tho Pnrnell homestead in Wicklow
county, Ireland, now advertised under
foreclosure proceedings, will not bo
sold. Tammany Hall, at a meeting of
the executive committee held Satur¬
day, guaranteed the $10,000 needed
to pay off the claims against the home¬
stead.
Jail ns Hospital.
Twenty-five of the men injured in
the wreck on the Omaha and Fort
Dodge road Friday aro being eared
for at Dennison, la. Accommoda¬
tions were so limited that a number of
tho least, injured have been lodged in
tbo county jail, which has been fitted
np as an emergency hospital.
WORK OF CENSOR.
0(1* Would not, Allow Now* of I.oean’a
Dentil Sent Out.
It is reported from Manila that ow¬
ing to the censorship there, General
Otis not permitting the sending of the
names of the killed and wounded, a
full account of tho engagement near
Ran Fabiau was cabled, but the cor¬
respondents were not permitted to
send the name of Maj. John A.Logan,
killed in notion, or those of tlio others
killed or wounded.
ELEVEN MILLIONS AVAILABLE.
Stanford Univorult-y Will lie Insti¬
tution In the World.
A Han Francisco dispatch says: It
is understood that the money obtained
by Mrs. Jane Stanford, said to $11,-
400,000, for her stock in the (Southern
Pacific to the Huntingtou-Speyer available syn¬
dicate, will at once be made
for the use of tho Stanford university,
which is now one of the wealthiest in¬
stitutions of learning in tho world.