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The Banner Will Hite You All
The News of Conyers and Rock
dale County.
VOL. XXY.
CARNEGIE MUST
ANSWER FRICK
Charges Are Brought Against Steel
Magnate and Philanthropist.
IE IS ACCUSED OF SCHEMING
Business Partner Alleges He Was
Fraudulently Driven Out of the
Firm-Suit In Equity Filed.
A Pittsburg, Pa., dispatch says:
Henry Clay Frick filed a bill in equity
Tuesday in the court of common
? l eas No. 1 of Allegheny county
,g,; n „t Andrew Carnegie and the Car¬
rie Steel Company, decree limited, that the pray¬
ing first, for a pre¬
tended transfer of his interests in the
company was and is null and void,
ami that he is the owner of all such
interest and is entitled in every law¬
ful way to represent and act for the
E» m *i for an injunction restraining
the defendants from any interference
f ith his interest in the said oompany
and from excluding him from partici
ation in the care aud management of
the assets and business.
The bill in equity is quite lengthy
aB d as summarized by Willis Cook,
£sq,, counsel for Mr. Frick, is as fol
lows: limited part¬
In 1892 there were two
nerships: & Co.,
(1) Called Carnegie Bros.
limited, with a capital of $5,000,000,
which made steel rails and owned only
the Edgar Thompson steel rail iu
Braddock township, and
(2) Called Carnegie, Phipps & Co.,
limited, with a capital of $5,000,000,
which made all kinds of steel plates,
structural material, iron forging-, made
the materia! and built bridges, made
armor plates and made material for
,
i the same.
Carnegie owned over 50 per cent of
[each oi the old and firms, others and owning he, with in
lYhcV Wvpps
■ terestr in each, formed in 1892 what
F(militated a new partnership called
| In (Be this Carnegie Carnegie Steel retained Company, Limited. 50
over per
rent and now has 58$ per cent, while
Frick has 6 per cent.
Both old firms were merged into the
tew, which had a capital of $25,000,-
1 This 000 and operated firm all under the the old immedi¬ works.
new was
ate care and supervision of Frick, as
chairman, from 1892 to December 5,
1899. It greatly enlarged the capacity
of its different works, enlarged their
output and purchased other plants,
ore mines, etc.
THE ESTIMATES DIFFERED.
In November, 1899, Carnegie esti¬
mated the net profits for 1900 at $40,
030,009 aud Frick then estimated them
at $42,000,000.
Carnegie valued the entire property
•101618250,000,009 ability, and avowed his
in ordinarily prosperous times,
tell the property on the Loudon
market for £100,030,000 sterling, or
$500,000,000.
In May, 1899, Carnegie actually re¬
tired iu ca^h, and still keeps, $1,170,
F him as a mere bonus for his
•My days’ option to sell his 58$ per
wt interest in this steel company for
«15i,930.000. Frick’s 6 per cent on
that basis would be worth $16,238,000.
Frick now alleges, right at the head
^hereby •Ohisenormously least successful business,
at in part he made for
Carnegie three enormous profits and
J e8 > that Carnegie suddenly, and
.
’'ta malevolent intent toward him, on
"Member 4, 1899, arbitrarily de
fflanded of him jjj 8 resignition as
pMtfman, and this without any reason
°tept to gratify Carnegie’s malice,
tnek, in the interest of harmony,
w prehisresignation January and subsequently,
M thus 11, 1900, after Carnegie
(Wnegie) deprived him of his office, he
k) demanded of Frick that he
!: tlf should sell to the firm his in
t6st ‘ n it at a figure which would
i °>ttt to less
' than one-half of what
j™ interest is fairly worth.
| ftek refused to sell at that price,
L etTa °“ ere ' d to sell and allow three
L ue the interest sold. Carne
P refused this and left Frick, threat
L, 4 id. ? “ lm i° r Dot yielding to his de
FBADULENT scheme charged.
•ick now alleges that after his res
gf? ^•-friew, n and Carnegie at the time fraudulently of this last
was
- ecretly, without Frick’s knowl
*' H' Cf 8cbe ®° D8 ent, which, attempting to carry
me, if successful,
L„i Ittg enable ocon fiscate Carnegie, Frick’s as Carnegie
c ’ interest in
r m at P r °bably not 33
to . . ' over per
,, rea value; that is, say, not
00.9,000 for what, on the basis
optior , was worth $16,
*11 thi * H 3i Carnegie did
etlv s a e S e<
’ an j 'l purposely to conceal the
‘Ntd • ge thereof from Frick.
Ih ANKS TO OUTSIDERS.
*o Republican Member* Hand
on
fc at Fr »nkfort Meeting.
.
. - i°wer honse of the Republican
^ Iw adopted , m session a resolution at Frankfort, retnrn
rfcfc]; Sn ^ a to the Ohio League of
F 'w‘ can Clubs for sympathy and
■ 4, gemont extended to Governor
the present crisis.
It*; - tw ° members were present,
r 9 Uor nm, and no other bnsi-
48 done.
The Rockdale Banner.
A VlfiOROLS PLATFORM
Adopted By the Anti-Trust League
At Conference Held In
Chicago.
After a heated debate Thursday
night the resolution committee of the
anti-trust conference, in session at
Chicago, decided to report in favor of
government ownership of railroads and
for their seizure on payment of actual
value without payment for “watered
stock or other fictitious values.” The
committee also unanimously favored
direct popular legislation as a means
of obtaining the result.
President Lockwood, of the anti¬
trust league, said that he regretted
that William J. Bryan’s name was
mentioned in the discussions and de¬
clared it was his intention to keep
politics out of the conference.
The platform unanimously adopted
by the committee declares for govern¬
ment ownership of all public utilities
and natural monopolies, government
money, the referendum and direct leg¬
islation and the withdrawal of all pro¬
tective tariffs from all articles con¬
trolled by a trust. Among other things,
after urging the organization to de¬
prive trusts of their power, it says:
We make no assault upon business
combination, for diminishing produc¬
tive cost or augmenting productive effi¬
ciency. What we do ask is combina¬
tions for coercing producers and les¬
sening production. It is such combi¬
nations that constitute the trust evil
and they we would abolish, root
branch.
When oppressive trusts are exam¬
ined they are found to be
tions not for augmenting wealth, but
for hampering its production; not for
making things plentiful and cheap,
but for making them scarce and dear.
Their strength lies iu a more intense
concentration of monopoly privileges.
The platform particularly attacks
the Standard Oil trust to which it says
monopoly engendering laws have com¬
mitted the regulation of the peoples’
needs and rights in one department of
industry. “Their needs and rights in
another have been by similar laws
committed to the beef trust.” A num¬
ber of set speeches were heard at
morning and afternoon sessions of
conference.
The night session was in the form
a mass meeting, which was held in
Auditorium and brought out some
the strongest speakers among the
egates, including John P. Altgeld, F.
S. Monnett, Samnel M, Jones, John
S. Crosby, George Fred Williams
Tom L. Johnson.
Resolutions introduced by
Fleming, of Kentucky, were adopted
by the a rising vote, strongly
currency bill before congress.
A committee to prepare a memorial
to the United States senate against the
bill was provided for and the people of
the country urged to gather at court
houses, school houses and other pub¬
lic places to protest against the meas¬
ure.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
List of New Industries Established Dur¬
ing: the Past Week.
Among the new industries reported
the past week, the more important are
an acetylene gas company and an au¬
tomobile manufactory in Virginia;
brick works iu Tennessee; bridge works
in Alabama; a canning factory in North
Carolina; coal mines in Arkansas aud
West Virginia; a cotton gin manufac¬
tory in Texas; cotton mills in Arkan¬
sas, Georgia, Kentucky, North Caro¬
lina, South Carolina, Tennessee; a
Cotton seed oil mill in North Carolina;
two electric light plants in Texas; an
electrical supply company in Tennes¬
see; an electric switching device|manu
factory in Kentucky; engine works in
Virginia; flouring mills in Georgia and
South Carolina; foundry and machine
shop in Texas; two furniture factories
in North Carolina; ice factories in
Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee,
Texas; and irrigation company in
Texas; lumber mills in Florida, Geor¬
gia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas;
Virginia; a natural gas and oil com¬
pany in West Virginia; phosphate
mines in Tennessee; a planing mill in
Mississippi; a shipbuilding and dry
dock company in Virginia; stave fac¬
tory in Georgia and Tennessee; tele¬
phone companies in North Carolina
and Tennessee; a veneering factory in
Alabama; zinc mines in Virginia.—
Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn),
CHANDLER FOR SILVER.
Senator Says He Cannot Consistently Snp
port the Financial Bill.
The financial debate was continned
in the senate Saturday by Mr. Chan
dler, who opposed the gold standard
and’strongly urged liis the speech double he stand- said:
ard. In beginning of the bill without
“The passage desire and
adequate recognition of the
determination of the American people
that silver shall be remonetized is a
defiance of the Republican platform of
1896 and without such recognition in
the bill I cannot give to it my vote,
It would be unqualified gold monomet
allism, and to advocate it is an aban
donment of Republican principles.”
feared assassination.
Texa* Postmaster Secure* Abolishment
HI* Office.
The postoffice at Wilmonth, Tex.,
has been ordered discontinued from
February 14th. This action was taken
bv the postoffice department the as a re¬
sult of representations by post¬
master there that he wished to resign
because of open threats that he would
be assassinated. The postoffice offi¬
cials have no other information in re¬
gard to the case.
CONYERS. GA.. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1900.
ANTI-TRUST
CONFERENCE
Leagne Meets Iu Chicago and Dis¬
cusses Evil and Remedy.
FAVORABLE PROGRESS IS MADE
Congressman Sulzer, of New York,
Makes a Forcible Argument
Against Present Conditions.
A Chicago special says: Monday
night, at tho close of the first day’*
proceedings of tho anti-trust confer¬
ence called by the National Anti-Trust
League, good progress had been mad#
with the set speeches, of which a dozen
or more were delivered.
Mayor Harrison welcomed the dele¬
gates on behalf of the city. Already,
he said, the senate of tho United
States had been reduced to a small
convention of the Owners and repre¬
sentatives of the trusts. A few years
more would see the house and our ju¬
diciary reduced to the same condition,
Former Judge William Prentiss, of
Illinois, was selected temporary chair¬
man, and addressed tho convention.
The resolutions committee mean¬
time was busy and formulated resolu¬
tions covering the following points:
Government ownership of all rail¬
way and telegraph lines-; the abolition
of all special privileges by legislative
enactments; placing on the free list
all trust goods, and direct legislation
from the people.
The discussion in committee was
carried out on those lines. An amend
ment was offered for the taxation of
all franchises, but was voted down on
the gronnd that such action would
simply legalize special privileges. H.
S. Bigelow was the first speaker at
night session.
Congressman W T i!liam Sulzer, of
New York, received a hearty reception
when presented to the audience. Ho
said:
“The law on the statute books
against trusts is clear and plain and
the highest court in the land has pass¬
ed upon its validity aud sustained the
constitutionality of its provision. Th*
anti-trust law of 1890 declares that
every contract or combination in the
nature of a trust in restraint of trade
and commerce among the several states
or with foreign nations is a conspi¬
racy, illegal and void, aud punishable
by fine and imprisonment. Under this
act it seems to me every trust in the
United States can be prosecuted for
violation of the law, the charter an¬
nulled and the men behind it punish¬
ed for conspiracy. Every trust by its
very nature is in restraint of trade and
commerce aud in violation of this
law.
“How much longer will the people
consent to be robbed and submis¬
sively permit a continuation of this
outrage? The trusts have their being
and grow by special legislation; they
live and wax fat by governmental fa¬
voritism. If the question is ever pre¬
sented whether the trusts shall own
and run the government and enslave
humanity, or whether the people shall
own and run the trusts—not for the
benefit of the few, but for the good of
all—and free the industrial masses,
then I shall vote for the people and in
favor of government ownership of the
trusts.
“To sum it all up, the Republican
party stands for Hanna, and the Re¬
publican party is Hanna.”
“The Democratic party i* the party
of the plain people. It is opposed to
trusts and monopolies—to special
privileges. It stands for the suprema¬
cy of the law. It believes in freedom
of thought, freedom of speech, free¬
dom of action, freedom of trade and
free institutions. It believes in tbe
constitution, in fostering commerce,
enfettering trade, establishing indus¬
try, aiding enterprise, maintaining
equal opportunities, defendirg liberty,
nnsbackeling the mind and the con¬
science and handing down unimpaired
to future generations our free institu
titions.”
RIOTS AT MARTINIQUE.
White Residents of Fort De Francs Ap¬
peal to Island Governor.
Advices from Fort de France, Island
0 f Martinique, state that the white m
habitants of La Francois, being threat
, ened with death by rioting strikers,
I have sought refuge in Fort de France,
the governor having declared it impos
B ible to guarantee their lives,
The managers of the plantations are
j requesting permission to organize
forces of military for the purpose of
protecting the persons who are kept
! R t work, but tbe governor will not ac
cep t the responsibility of authorizing
such a step.
GEORGIA COMMISSIONER.
President McKinley Appoint* Ex-Mayor
Collier, of Atlanta.
A Washington dispatch says: Former
Mayor Charles A. Collier, of Atlanta,
has been appointed a commissioner of
the United States to the International
exposition at Paris.
President McKinley sent in his nom¬
ination, together with a list of com¬
missioners from other states, to the
United States senate.
TAILOR DON’T SION
Peace Negotiations In Kentucky
Are Broken Off.
' 4._
TROOPS WITHDRAWN FROM FRANKFORT
Legislators Are Ordered Back to Capital*
Contest Will Now Go to
th« Courts*
A Frankfort dispatch lays: Nearly
every Republican committeeman was
in the oity Saturday. Several Repub¬
lican members of the legislature were
among the number, including Senator
Kirk and JohnsoH and Representative
Lewis.
Shortly before 11 o’clock the doors
of the cnpitol were opened and the
state delegates went to the assembly
room, the first time it has opened since
the shooting of Governor Goebel.
At 11 o’clock Governor Taylor ac¬
companied by Private Secretary Todd,
Secretary of State Caleb Powers and
Thatcher entered the assembly rooms.
His arrival was tho signal for a wild
outburst of cheering, men standing on
chairs and yelling and doors waving their
hats in greeting. The were then
locked and a guard placed at the door.
After a two hours’ session Governor
Taylor definitely decided that he would
not sign the Louisville agreement, and
decided to allow the matter to be set¬
tled in the courts and will abide by
their decision.
Shortly after the meeting the fol¬
lowing statement was given out:
“After mature deliberation aud con
ference with my friends from every
section of the state, I hay, concluded
to allow this controversy to take its
due course vigorously contesting
every inch of ground and upholding
the rights of the people to the utter¬
most. If those rights be destroyed,
the responsibility for that destruction
must rest with those who sit in judg¬
m ent.
“it is due to say that the eminent
gentlemen, my friends, who secured
the proposition resulting from the
Lousville conference, acted in perfect
good faith, from the highest motives
0 f patriotism and did the very best
they could, W. S. Taylor,
During the conference Governor
Taylor stated to the members that
there were two courses to be pursued.
First; to sign the Louisville agree¬
ment; the second to quietly withdraw
the troops, allow the legislature to re¬
convene in the capitol building in
Frankfort; to call off the session now
being held in London and to ignore
the Louisville agreement entirely.
Several speeches were made and it was
soon apparent that the sentiment of the
gathering was very strongly in favor
of the second course, and this was ad¬
opted.
PROCLAMATION ISSUED.
The following proclamation was
issued Saturday afternoon:
Frankfort, Ky. , Feb. 10, 191)0.—
The excitement recently prevailing in
this city having to some extent sub¬
sided and there appearing now to be
no necessity for the general assembly
to remain in session in London, I do
hereby by this proclamation reconvene
the same in Frankfort, Ky., February
12, 1900, at 12 o’clock noon.
W. S. Taylor,
Governor of Kentucky
Orders were at once issued to Gen.
Collier to prepare for the departure of
the troops, and in a very short time a
large number of them were ready to
leave. Six companies left Saturday
night; more departed Sunday and only
a small detachment remained by Mon¬
day morning. These, it is said, are
retained only as a peace guard.
Word was at once sent to the mem¬
bers of the Republican legislature, in
session in Loudon, that the next ses¬
sion would be in Frankfort, and a
prompt reply was received to the effect
that they would all leave in a body on
Sunday,and be in Frankfort Monday.
The action of Governor Taylor
now returns the gubernatorial fight to
the exact position it occupied on the
day following the Goebel assassina¬
tion, with the additional complication
that there was then but one legislature
and one governor in fact, whereas
there are now two claimant* for the
position, and two separate bodies,each
claiming to bo the lawmaking power
ui Kentucky.
eight and a h alf cents.
Hard Matter For Columbus Men To Get
Cotton At That Flgnre.
Cotton sold for 8$ cents in Colum¬
bus, Ga., Tuesday, and waa hard to
get at that fancy figure. The big
jump in New York was instantly re¬
sponded to and before night people
with cotton were hesitating befor*
taking 8J and were talking of 8$ cents.
There were but few sales.
Fitz Anxious to Fight.
Bob Fitzsimmons has posted $5,000
with the sporting editor of The New
York Journal as a forfeit to bind an¬
other match with Jim Jeffries, and
issued an open challenge to meet any
fighter in the world.
CAPITAL STOCK INCREASED.
Trust Company of Georgia I* In a Pros¬
perous Condition
The capital stock of the Trust Com¬
pany of Georgia, at Atlanta, has been
increased by $250,000, making the to¬
tal capitalization $500,000. At a
meeting of the director# of the com¬
pany it was reported that a half of
the new stock had already been
spoken for, and it is expected that the
remainder will not be long on the
market.
BAD LEdAL TANfiLE.
Beckham Asks Democrats to Con¬
tinue Legislative Sessions
In Louisville.
A Louisville special says: The col¬
lapse of the peace negotiations through
Governor Taylor’s rejection of tho
Louisville agreement anil the latter’s
sc ion in calling off the London legis¬
lature and partially withdrawing the
troops have left the fight over state
offices divested of many of its warlike
features, but in a worse legal tangle
than ever.
The receipt of the news from Frank¬
fort Saturday afternoon was followed
immediately by a gathering of Demo¬
cratic leaders at the Willard hotel. At
this conference were Senator Black¬
burn, Governor Beckham General
Castleman, President Carter, of the
senate, Speaker Trimble, and others.
At its conclusion Governor Beckham
sent to the legislature a message negotia¬ re¬
citing the failure of the peace
tions and tho conditions existing at
Frankfort as seen by him and recom
mending that the legislature continue
its sessions in Louisville, as he could
not guarantee their personal security
nor protect them from unwarranted
interference at Frankfort.
Acting upon this suggestion, the
legislature docided to remain in Louis¬
ville for tho present, and both houses
adjourned to meet at the court house
Monday at noon. members do not
The Democratic ac¬
cept Governor Taylor’s action in or¬
dering away part of troops as restor¬
ing a condition under which they may
return to the capital. They say they
would fool safer with the militia than
with “the irresponsible armed moun¬
taineers who for weeks have been gath¬
ered about the state buildings” left to
menace them.
The positions of the two governments
are irreconcilable, and while they are
maintained a clash can only bo de¬
ferred.
IS LADYSMITH DOOMED!
Bi lliili Retirement* Put* Victorious liner*
In the Ascendancy.
A London special says: General Sir
Itedvers Buller’s army is once more
south of the Tugela river; Goneral
MacDonald is back at Modder river,
and, apparently, the Boers have lost
nono of the ascendancy they have hold
so long. end
The third great attempt to the
siege of Ladysmith results in utter
failure, aud even the most optimistio
Britisher fails to hold out any hope
that Ladysmith can now be saved
from the Boevs.
It is regarded as certain that tho
garrison, so long bravely defended by
General White’s forces, must fall into
the hands of General Joubert’s army.
The besieged city has been short of
rations for weeks and it is feared that
the situation there is deaporate in the
extreme. It is now feared that General
Joubert will make another attack on
the garrison, taking advantage of his
rout of the British under Buller, and
forcing the latter back to a position
south of the river, and making it im¬
possible for tho British army to inter¬
fere with the attack on the city.
There is much doubt as to the abil¬
ity of General White to make another
resistance, as his supply of ammuni¬
tion must be nearly exhausted and his
men are no doubt suffering from the
long siege and privation. They will
have no heart to fight the Boers, know¬
ing that if General Buller’s fresh and
strong troops can do nothing with the
enemy their own weak batteries and
depleted stock of ammunition and
cheerless men cannot hope to hold out
long in a battle.
MOLINEAUX GUILTY.
Jury Returns Verdict of Murder In the
First Dejfree.
A New York dispatch says: After
deliberating seven and a half hours the
jury returned a verdict of guiity 'bf
murder in the first degree against
land murder B. of Molineanx, Mrs. Katherine charged J. with Adams tl$e
by poison on December 2S, 1898.
Bartow S. Weeks, counsel for the
defense, made tho usual motion, and
Recorder Goff adjourned court until
February 16, when he said he would
hear the motion aud sentence the de¬
fendant.
The announcement of the verdict of
guilty was received in the uptown dis¬
tricts and about the clubs apparently
with great surprise. Many of the club
men seemed to be staggered by the
announcement and it was the main
topic for discussion.
LEAK IN GAS PIPE
Cause* Death of Engineer, HI* Wife and
Baby at Chicago.
Martin Jordan, an engineer, his
wife, Mary, and their five months’ old
boy, were asphyxiated by gas last Sat
ur<lay night in their home in Chicago.
A leak in a gas pipe in the base¬
ment deluged the honse with gas and
when found by other members of the
family had been dead for several hours.
Han Salvador Flame Swept.
A cablegram from San Salvadqr, ttie
Central America, states that city
bas been visited by a serious fire. Ttie
total loss is estimated at $1,D00,000.
WHEELER HEARD FROM.
Urges House Committee to Aid Tennessee
Blver Improvement*.
General Joe Wheeler, writing the
chairman and members of the rivers
and the harbors committee of the
honse, fromPan.qnem, island of Lu
zon, under date of January 6th, asks
their active efforts in securing an *p
propriation for the Tennessee nver be
* ow Chattanooga. General Vi heeler
says the death of General Lawton has
delayed bis departure for home.
FAMILY IS MURDERED
Aged Mother, Her Son and Daugh¬
ter, the Victims.
HORRIBLE TRAGEDY IN FLORIDA
Ax Was Deadly Instrument Used—No Clew
to Perpetrators of Dastardly Deed
Has Been Discovered.
One of tho most horrible crimes
ever perpetrated in Florida was dis¬
covered Tuesday aiternoon about
seven miles west of Jacksonville, when
tho bodies of Mrs. Rosanna Roberts, a
widow, aged seventy-six; her son, G.
T. Roberts, a bachelor, aged fifty
three, and Miss Jennie Roberts, a
daughter, also unmarried, aged fifty
one years, were found murdered at
their born^ of the old lady dis¬
The body head was split
covered in her bed, her
open with an ax. Tho body of the son
was found half out of the bed, as if he
had attempted to rise, and a shotgun
broken half in two by the side of the
bed, showed that he had attempted to
defend himself.
The body of the daughter was found
under the house, whore she had run
from her assailants in the house. Evi¬
dences showed that she had been fol¬
lowed and struck two heavy blows
with the ax, which killed her.
The three composed the entire fami¬
ly, which has been wiped out of ex¬
istence, and were well-to-do and high¬
ly respected people. mile and
The nearest house was one
a quarter from their home. The bodies
were discovered by a neighbor wlio
stopped to get a drink of water, and
seeing no life about, made an investi¬
gation with the result of discovering
the horrible crime.
Trunks and drawers were ransacked,
but what was taken has not been dis¬
covered, as money and other valuables
were found where the robbers and
murderers had worked, There is no
trace to the perpetrators of the crime.
BRYAN AT RALEIGH.
Two Addresses Dollveretl to Large Crowd*
In Tarheel Capital*
Bryan arrived in Raleigh, N. C., at
5 o’clock Tuesday afternoon over the
Seaboard Air-Line from Richmond.
He was met by a crowd of 10,000
people, headed by the local military
organizations and cadets and was im¬
mediately driven to a large tent erect¬
ed for the speaking. State Chair¬
He xvas introduced by
man Simmons and spoke for and hour
and a half mostly on familiar lines.
He devoted rather more time than usual
to a discussion of taxation, declaring
that an income tax would be a leading
feature in the campaign this fall. He
discussed trusts, free silver aud im¬
perialism at some length on tho usual
lines.
At night Mr. Bryan spoke in the
Academy of Music. Hundreds were
turned away, being unable to gain ad¬
mittance to the building. He devoted
much more of his time to imperialism
than in his afternoon speech.
Wednesday at noon Mr. Bryan lec¬
tured at the state university on “Pend¬
ing Problems.”
MAY RETURN TO FRANKFORT.
Democrats Consider llesolntion To Meet
At State Capital.
A Louisville dispatch says: The
first sign of a break in the Democratic
lines was noticed Tuesday. It came
in the shape of a resolution offered by
Senator Triplett providing that upon
adjournment Thursday the legislature
name Frankfort as its next meeting
place. resolution
While no action upon the
was taken during the session, it was
believed to foreshadow a return of tho
Democratic legislators to the state
capitol soon.
UXFAVORABLETO EWART.
Sub-Coin mittee On Judiciary Decides
Against North Corollna Man.
A Washington dispatch says: The
sub-eommittee on judiciary which has
been considering the nomination of
Jndge Ewart, of North Carolina, to be
United States district judge in that
state, has made a report to the full
committee adverse to Judge Ewart.
“GO AHEAD,” SAID TAYLOR.
Ramp Legislature Informs Him That It
Is Ready For BuHiness.
Monday was another day of un¬
broken calm in Frankfort. The Re¬
publican members of the legislature
met at noon and appointed committees
to inform Governor Taylor that the
legislature had adjourned at London
and was convened at Frankfort to
transact such business as might come
before them. The governor acknowl¬
edged the message by saying “go
ahead.” Both houses then adjourned
until Tuesday. There were nine mem¬
bers in the senate and twenty-eight in
the honse.
GATE CITY AGROUND.
Sea Grows Rough and Vessel I* In Great
Hanger.
A New York dispatch says: Th#
i e» grows rougher and the Gate City j
is still aground ftruck off East Moriches,
il were considered she Friday. The putlook
bad now Sixteen men
and the crew were brought ashore
Snnday, so as to make tbe work of
taking off the remainder in case of ;
immediate danger as easy as possible. ,
Official Organ of Kockdale Coun
t,y. Has Largest Circulation in
The County.
NO. 5.
HARRASSED
BV FILIPINOS
Insurgents Shoot Flaming Ar¬
rows Into Garrisoned Towns,
ONE TOWN PARTIALLY BURNED
Guerrilla Warfare Continues and
Frequent Attempts at Am¬
bush Are Made.
A Manila special says: Of late the
insurgents in Albay province, Luzon,
have adopted harrassing tactics against
towns which the Americans have gar¬
risoned. They camp iu tho hills and
mountains and constantly fire upon the
American outposts. When tho troops
sally against them they scatter, re¬
turning when tho Americans retire.
They shoot burning arrows, and
have thus burned a large part of tho
town of Albay. Indeed, most of tho
larger towns in the province are prac¬
tically deserted, except by the garri¬
sons. Scarcely any of the inhabitants
return to their homes. They are camp¬
ing in the interior, and it is supposed
armed insurgents prevent them going
back. It is reported that there is much
suffering among them owing to lack
of food. As a result of these condi¬
tions the hemp business in that sec¬
tion is seriously hindered and ships
going for cargoes are compelled to
take gangs of coolies to do their land¬
ing. Hemp held in the interior is
quite inaccessible.
General Bell will take two regiments
and a battory through the provinces
of North Camariues and South Oamnr
ines, going there on transports. Many
insurgents retreated to that, part of
the island from Cavite and Bntangas
provinces. expedition will start
Another soon
to garrison towns along the north coast
of the island of Mindanao.
Guerrilla warfare continues south of
Manila. Two attempts have been made
to ambush the Americans. Colonel
Schwan, while returning to Manila
with his start’ and an escort of 100
from Batanges, was attacked by the
insurgents. The latter were dis¬
persed, but the Americans had seven
men wounded.
Lieutenant Colonel Beacoai, with
six companies of the Forty-second in¬
fantry, had a two hours’ fight with
General Pio del Pilar’s ‘command,
which attempted to ambush the Amer¬
icans along the trail through Morong
province near tho lake, Here also
the insurgents were dispersed, but tho
Americans had sevoral wounded,
among them a captain. southward
General Bell is operating with
through Zambales province a
small force.
Another expedition is proceeding
northward from Subig. It is roported
that tbe insnrgent general, Alejandro,
has recovered from his wound and
has assembled a large force in that
district.
The bubonic plague continues. Eight
cases were reported last week among
the natives and Chinese. There is no
excitement, however, and business and
social life in Manila are undisturbed.
Smallpox is prevalent among the
natives along the railroad, and in tho
towns on the northern coast. Two
officers of tho Thirty-sixth infantry
have died of the disease and another
officer and several soldiers have been
stricken.
LEGAL BARRIER REMOVED.
i'&ekboard Air 1,1 ne Can Now Proceed With
Consolidation.
What is claimed to be the last legal
hairier to the consolidation of the va¬
rious lines composing the Seaboard
Air Line system was removed Satur¬
day by Judge Waddill, sitting in the
United States circuit court at Rich¬
mond -when he delivered his opinion
refusing Ryan’s application for in¬
junction. committee at Rich¬
The state senate
mond has, by a vote of 10 to 20, de¬
cided to report favorably the bill to
incorporate the proposed new line
from Richmond to Washington.
English Agents Killed.
Advices from Rangoon, British Bur
mab, state that British Commissioners
Kiddle and Sutherland, who had been
engaged in the demarkation of the
Burmo-Chinese boundary, have been
murdered in the Monghem district.
Consul Lifton was wounded, but es¬
caped. ___ •
Railroad Bridge Damaged.
Three spans of the Tallassee and
Montgomery railroad bridge, across
the Alabama river, were washed away
Tuesday night, The river was in a
frightfully swollen condition by the
heavy rains and considerable damage
is the result.
GEORGIA SOLDIERS INVITED
Attend Carnival to Be Held In Chat¬
To
tanooga Next May.
The Fifth Regiment, of Atlanta,
wilt be invited to attend the Chatta¬
nooga, Tenn., Spring Festival m May.
It is the intention of the committee in
charge of the affair to get a number of
regiments to have their annual en¬
campment at Chickamauga Park dur¬
ing the first week in May, when the
Festival will be held.