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Tbe Banner Will 6ire Ton Ail
The Ifowa.of Conyer* and Rock
dale County.
VOL. XXV.
KRUGER'S PLEA IS REJECTED
England Declares Emphatically That the War
must Go On to the Bitter End.
LORD SALISBURY’S REPLY
Text of Telegram Sent By Presi¬
dents Kruger and Steyn Ask¬
ing For Cessation of War.
A London special says: A parlia¬
mentary paper containing the tele
grams sent to the British government
by the presidents of the South African
republics and the Orange Free State
am l Great Britain’s reply thereto was
issued Tuesday afternoon. The tele
gi'nm of the two presidents was ns
follows: March i. 5.—ine ■- mu
“Bloemfontein, thousands who
blood and the tears of
bare suffered by this war aud the
prospect of all moral and economic
ruin wherewith South Africa is now
threatened make it necessary for both
belligerents to ask themselves dispas¬
sionately and as in the sight of the
tribune of God for what are they fight¬
ing and whether the aim of each jus¬
tifies all this appalling misery and de¬
vastation. and in view of the
“With this object British
assertions of various statesmen
to the effect that this war was begun
nnd is being carried on with the set
purpose of undermining her majesty’s
authority in South Africa aud of set¬
ting up au administration over all of
South Africa independent of her ma
jesty’s government, we consider it our
duly to solenully declare that this war
was undertaken solely as a defensive
measure to maintain the threatened
independence of the South African re¬
public, and is only continued in order
to secure and maintain the incontesta¬
ble independence of both republics as
sovereign international states and to
obtain the assurance that those of her
1 majesty’s subjects who have taken part
l-shk ns inthis war shall suffer no
I barm whatever in person or property.
' “On these conditions, aud these
on
| conditions alone, are we now, as in
I the past, desirous of seeing peace re
[ established in the South Africa; while
if her majesty’s government is deter¬
mined to destroy the independence of
the republics, there is nothing left to
ns and to our people but to persevere
to the end in the course already be¬
gun. In spite of the overwhelming
pre-eminence of British empire, we
are confident that that God who light¬
ed the unextinguishable fire of love of
freedom in tbe hearts of ourselves and
our fathres will not forsake us and
Fill accomplish His work in us and in
our descendants.
“We hesitated to make the declara¬
tion earlier to your excellency, as we
feared that as long ns the advantage
was always on our side and as long as
our forces held defensive positions far
within her majesty’s colonies, such a
declaration might hurt the feelings
and honor of the British people. But
now that the prestige of the British
empire may be considered to be as
Blu 'ed by the capture of one of our
forces by her majesty’s troops, and
that we have thereby been forced to
evacuate other positions which our
forces had occupied, that difficulty is
ever and we can longer hesitate to
clearly inform your government and
people in the sight of the whole civil
ized world > why we are fighting and
°n what conditions we are ready to re¬
store peace.”
lord Salisbury’s answer!
The marquis of Salisbury to the
fe8i,1 ents of the South African repub
the Orange Free State:
“Foreign Office, March 11.—I
eve the honor to acknowledge your
.“Dors’ telegram dated March 5th,
port r °m is Bloemfontein, of which the pur¬
majesty principally to demand that her
s government shall recognize
(! e mcontestable independence’ of the
1 onth African republic and Free State
f ‘0 offer sovereign international states’ aud
on those terms to bring the
w«r to a conclusion.
'In the beginning of October last
Peace existed between her majesty and
republics under conven
had befen Proceeding some
ALABAMIANS ASSIGNED.
fr Henderson, of the House, Makes
Several Committee Changes.
3.veral important committee changes
" tin B Alabama were announced by
(, teaker
‘' Henderson in the house Tues
s«y aft ernoon. Because of his recent
to the always coveted
U’ W A r ae Underwood Wa ^ s and resigned m eans commit
,„ ' from
has held on the judiciary
t d Mr P la Y ton was
Pai “ted totV 0 this a P'
J[. committee in his place.
*°mmitL. 0n ° n m mSnlar - tarQ 1 ' esi affairs f? aed froca Mr. th e
'Went '* 8 ® iTea important »s
has strike on HAND.
A Loai,
Transit Company Refuses All
Shorn Demands of Workmen.
a ' ter Saturday the
noon
¥oan eDt St. Louis Transit
Vd 3 ? aVe As answer to the de
‘ j !s employes presented some
s In tlle eIe °rttive committee
Vii i branch of the Interna
Vst ® a lgamated Association of
mwKl Employes. Practically
*as refused.
The Rockdale Banner.
months between her majesty’s govern¬
ment aud the South African republic,
of which the object was to obtain re¬
dress for certain very serious griev¬
ances under which the British resi¬
dents in South Africa were suffering.
In the course of those negotiations
the South African republic had, to the
knowledge of her majesty’s govern¬
ment, made considerable armaments,
and the latter had consequently taken
steps to provide corresponding rein¬
forcements of the British garrisons at
Cape Town and in Natal.
“No infringement of the rights guar¬
anteed by the conventions had, up to
that point, taken place on the British
side. Suddenly, at two days notice,
the South African republic, after
issuing au insultiug ultimatum, de¬
clared war upon her majesty; aud the
Orange Free State, with whom there
had not been any discussion, took a
similar step.
“Her majesly’s dominions were im¬
mediately invaded by the two repub¬
lics. Siege was laid to three towns
within the British frontier, a large
portion of two colonies were overrun
with great destruction of properly and
life, and the republics claimed to treat
the inhabitants of extensive portions
of her majesty’s dominions as if those
dominions bad been annexed to one or
the other of them. In anticipation of
these operations the South African re¬
public bad been accumulating for
many years past military stores on an
enormous scale, which by their charac¬
ter oould only have been intended
for use against Great Britian.
“Your honors make some observa¬
tions of a negative character upon
tho object with which these prepara¬
tions were made. I do not think it
necessary to discuss the questions you
have raised.
“The result of these preparations,
carried on with great secrecy, has
been that the British empire has been
compelled to confront an invasion
which has entailed upon the empire a
costly war and the loss of thousands of
precious lives. This great calamity
has been the penalty Great Britain
has suffered for having, of recent
years, acquiesced to the existence of
the two republics.
“In view of the use to which the
two republics have put the position
which was given them and the calami¬
ties their unprovoked attack have in¬
flicted on her majesty’s dominions, her
majesty's government can only answer
your honor’s telegram by saying that
they are not prepared to assent to the
independence either of the South Af¬
rican republic or the Orange Free
State.”
CURRENCY BILL A LAW.
House Passes fleasu re By Vote of
166 to 120 and It Is Sent to
the President.
A Washington special says: Tues
day’s debate in the house on the con¬
ference report on the Republican cur¬
rency bill brought out able speeches
from two members of the Georgia del¬
egation—Mr. Lewis and Judge Mad¬
dox.
Tbe last step in the enactment of
the bill was taken by the house when
the conference report on the bill was
adopted by a vote of yeas 166, nay*
120, present and not voting, 10. The
senate had already adopted the con¬
ference report, so it remained only for
President McKinley to affix his signa¬
ture to the measures to make it a law.
Arrangements had already been made
for securing the pen with which the
president signed the bill.
TENNESSEE REPUBLICANS
Will Meet In Nashville To Elect Dele¬
gates and Make Nominations.
The Tennessee state republican ex¬
ecutive committee bas called a con¬
vention to meet in Nashville April 19
to send delegates to Philadelphia and
nominate candidates for governor,
railroad commissioner and elector*.
The form of the call will increase the
bitterness of the fight between Con¬
gressman Brownlow and Commissioner
Evans for control of the convention.
EX-SENATOK CALL A CANDIDATE.
Announce* That He Will Make the Fight
For Governorship of Florida.
A Jacksonville special says: Ex
Senator Call will make the race for
governor of Florida. He has finally
decided upon this course, and in an
interview given out Tuesday says he
w ill make the fight for governorship.
Hobson Offers War ltclics.
Governor Johnston of Alabama is im
receipt of a letter from Richmond
Pearson Hobson, at Hong Kong, in
which the young hero expresses the
desire to present his native state with
a Spanish-American war relic, a flag
*nd flag pole.
LILUOKALANI GETS LEFT.
Amendment Pensioning Ex-Qneen of Ha¬
waii Falls Through.
The senate Saturday passed the
diplomatic and consular appropriation
bill with a few minor amendments. A
lively debate was precipitated by an of
amendment proposed by Mr. Hoar,
Massachusetts, proposing to give the
former Queen Liluokalani, of Hawaii.
$20,000 and an annuity of $10,000.
The amendment was laid on the table
and the bill passed.
CONYERS. GA.. FRIDAY, MARCH 2r" 1900.
FOURTEEN LOSE LIFE
Fearful Holocaust In a Newark,
N. J, Tenement House.
WAS THE WORK OF AN INCENDIARY
Nearly AH of the Victims Were Helpless
Children—House Was a Ver¬
itable Heath Trap.
Fourteen persons lost their lives,
two persons were seriously injured
and mauy others slightly burned in a
fire in Newark, N. J., at 5 o’clock
Monday morning. The firemen, after
flames had been subdued, took
thirteen bodies from the ruins and
while they were thus engaged another
victim of the fire died in the city hos¬
pital. One family was wiped out com¬
pletely and of another only the father
lives and he is in the city hospital,
where it is believed he will die.
The building in which the fire broke
out was a veritable fire trap. It was of
frame construction and extended two
stories above the ground floor. Until
three or four years ago the structure
had been used as a church, but it was
converted into a tenement. The lower
floor, fronting on 50, 52 and 54 Four¬
teenth avenue, was occupied by three
stores and the upper portion of the
building was divided into twenty
living rooms. be learned, the
As nearly as can
structure was ocoupied by ten families,
all Italians. Two of the occupants,
Yito Credauza and one other family
kept boarders, aud though the total
population of the rookery could not
be definitely ascertained during the
excitemont attending the firethere wore
said to be forty or fifty persona of
both sexes and all ages in the building
when the fire started.
The police are confident that the
fire was of incendiary origin and they
have arrested Vito Credauza on sus¬
picion. There was a disorderly card
game in one of the rooms that lasted
well into the morning. Credauza was
a participant and is said to have made
violent tharats against his fellow play¬
ers. A few minutes before 5 o’clock
every one in the building was awaken¬
ed by the flames.
They found them burning at the
foot of the stairs leading from the first
to the second stories. The hallway
and the stairs were burning fiercely,
cutting off the only egress from the
upper floor on which six families lived.
It also cut off the escape by the door
for those who lived in the rear
part of the first floor. Those who
could made for the windows. From
these they leaped or dropped.
The whole neighborhood was awake
in an instant and from the burning
building came agonizing screams and
calls for help. From the basement
and ground floor the inmates of the
building poured naked, or almost so.
From the upper story men and wo¬
men leaped to the sidewalk. By the
time the firemen reached the scene
the building was wrapped in flames
aud those who had not escaped were
dead or doomed. They must have
died within a few minutes for the fire
rnshed through every room in the
building within ten minutes.
There was fearful excitement about
the burning building. Men, women
and children who escaped rushed
about almost naked, looking for their
relatives. For a time it was thought
there were many more lost than the
events later proved, because several
naked were picked up by neighbors
and carried indoors. Thus fathers and
mothers missed their children and
rushed screaming about.
The fire lasted only a few minutes.
The search for the dead began within
twenty minutes after the alarm was
sounded, so quickly was the fire con¬
quered.
VAGRANT ACT READ.
Would-Be Negro “Emigrants'' Forced to
Digperse at Athens.
A special from Athens, Ga., says:
The 300 negroes who have been en¬
camped at the Seaboard Air Line de¬
pot since last Saturday waiting for a
train to carry them to Mississippi,
were dispersed Monday morning and
quiet has been restored again.
The vagrant act was read to the
“emigrants” Monday morning, and at
noon there was not a negro to be seen
at the depot.
CIGAR MAKERS STRIKE.
Over Tiro Thousand Employes of the
Krebs Bertlieim & Sell lifer Co. Quit.
About 2,300 cigar makers, of which
number nearly 800 are girls, employed
by the firm of Krebs, Bertheim &
Schiffer at New York are on a strike.
Although the strike was declared to be
the cause of an alleged shortage of
stock, the strikers have asked for an
increase of "wages running from 15 to
20 per cent and that tbe store go un¬
der the control of the union.
Crusier to San Diego.
The United States Crusier Philadel¬
phia has sailed from San Francisco for
San Diego.
CASE OF CARTER CONFEDERATES
Called In the United States District Court
at Savannah.
At Savannah, Ga., Monday morning
in the United States district court the
case of D. B, Greene, E. H., J. F.
and Wm. T. Gaynor, Michael A. Con
nally and Oberlin M. Carter was
called.
These are the men charged with
entering into a conspiracy and cheat¬
ing the government out of something
like a million dollars.
BOBSCHECKED
IN HIS ADVANCE
English Meet Strong Resistance
Near Bloemfontein.
A STUBBORN FIGHT IS GIVEN
Battle Raged All Day and Boers
Were Always Ready—Britons
Finally Win Out.
Advices from Driefonteiu, Orange
Free State, under date of March 11,
state that Broadwood’s cavalry bri¬
gade, advancing on Bloemfontein, un¬
expectedly found the Boers in a strong
position iu the Driefonteiu kopjes on
Saturday. General Iielly-Kenny’s di¬
vision arriving, severe fighting ensued.
The Boers resisted stubbornly, but
were driven from their center position,
leaving a number of dead aud forty
prisoners. which fivo
During tho fighting, in
regiments took part, with artillery, the
Boers, though forced from their center
position, clung tenaciously to the
other kopjes, shelling the British
fiercely with three guns and two Vick¬
ers-Maxims.
The British cavalry began to turn
the Boer position, but night fell be¬
fore the movement was completed.
The Boers retired during the night.
All of the day was occupied in fight
ing. The Boers maintained a stub¬
born rear guard action along a run
ning front of twelve miles on a very
difficult ground. The British were
advancing in three columns. General
Tucker, to the southward, occupied
Petrusberg unopposed; General Ivelly
Kenuy after following the river bank
moved in the direction of Abraham’s
kraal.
At Driefontein, about eight miles
south of Abraham’s kraal, the Boers
were found posted in . considerable
strength on the ridges connecting sev¬
eral kopjes where they had mounted
guns.
The action began at 8 in the morn¬
ing with an artillery duel. General
French’s cavalry and Major Porter’s
brigade supported our guns. The
Boer artillery was accurately handled
and the British cavalry found the task
harder than they had expected. Gen¬
eral Broadwood, with dogged perse¬
verance, moved altogether six miles
southward trying to find a means to
get around, but the Boers followed
behind ground and even attempted to
outflank him.
Meanwhile, the Sixth division of in¬
fantry, advancing on the Boer left
slowly, forced the enemy to retire.
Had the infantry been able to move
faster, the Boers would have been en¬
veloped.
The last shot was fired at 7:30 p. m.
Sunduy morning not a Boer was to be
seen. The prisoners belonged to
President Kruger’s own commando.
Tho storming of Alexander kopje
by the Welsh was a particularly fine
piece of work. The mobility of the
Boers in moving their guns was very
remarkable. The New South Wales
mounted infantry made a gallant but
unsuccessful attempt to capture a gun.
A large number of Australians were
engaged in Saturday’s fight. The
First Australian Horse Bridgade, with
the Scots Greys, advanced within 800
yards of the Boers under heavy fire.
The New South Wales mounted in¬
fantry joined in the pursuit of the
Boers northward.
IN LOUISVILLE JAIL.
Whittaker and Conlton Removed From
Frankfort Under Heavy Guard.
Harlan Whittaker and W. H. Coul
ton, who we”e confined in jail at
Frankfort, charged with complicity in
the assassination of Goebel, were re¬
moved from the jail at an early hour
Sunday morning and taken in a hack
to Shelbyville, where they were placed
on a train and sent to Louisville under
a heavy guard. It is understood they
will be kept in the Louisville jail till
the April term of the circuit court,
when they will be returned to Frank¬
fort for trial.
COMMISSION COMING SOUTH.
Industrial Conditions In Tills Section
Will Be Thoroughly Booked Into.
A Washington dispatch says: The
industrial commission will begin hear¬
ings in Atlanta, Ga., Monday, March
19th, aud will oontinue in session in
that city for four days or longer. The
hearings in Georgia will not be con¬
fined alone to au investigation of the
general conditions of agriculture in
the south, as has been stated, but will
embrace investigations of manufact¬
urers, transportation and trusts, only
one day, Monday, being given to hear¬
ings before the sub-committee on ag¬
riculture.
ASYLUM STEWARD ARRESTED.
Official Charged With Complicity In Goe¬
bel’* Assassination.
W. L. Hazelipp was arrested a.
Louisville Monday afternoon at the
Central Asylum for the Insane on a
charge of conspiracy. The charge is
practically the same as that under
which Secretary of State Caleb Powers
and Captain John Davis are now in
custody. Mr. Hazelipp is alleged to
have been implicated in the plot to
assassinate William Goebel.
“PEGLEG” AGAIN ARRESTED.
Alleged Labor Agent Is Having; Plenty
of Trouble On Haiul.
An Atlanta dispatch says: R. A.
Williams, better known as “Peleg”
Williams, the man who has been in so
much trouble about sending negro
emigrants westward, has again been
arrested on the same old charge of
hiring negro labor for emigration with¬
out a state license.
There is also a warrant for Williams
from South Carolina, and still another
warrant which is in the hands of the
sheriff of Fulton county.
Chief Manly, of Atlanta, received a
warrant for Williams several days ago
from South Carolina, but Williams
was not in the city and the warrant
was temporarily pigeon-holed.
Saturday a warrant came to the po¬
lice authorities from Athens, Ga. Sun¬
day morning Officer Hill found Wil¬
liams just as he stepped from a train
at the depot, and the alleged labor
agent was arrested and locked up at
the police barracks.
Later in the day the prisoner was
turned over to the county officials, the
sheriff having a warrant for him.
In the meantime the South Carolina
warrant was brought to light, and
Williams now has three new charges
for labor hiring to answer to.
Williams was arrested on a warrant
in South Carolina last summer, and be
got out of that scrape in some way and
came to Georgia. He was arrested on
the charge of hiring negroes in Morgan
county. The case went against him,
nnd he gave bond and took an appeal.
He was ngaiu arrested in Greene
county and gave bond, the case being
postponed to await a decision by the
supreme court in the Morgan county
case.
The prisoner is charged with em¬
ploying squads of negroes for planta¬
tions iu Mississippi and Arkansas.
There is a state law in Georgia, he
states, which makes it necessary for a
labor agent to have a $500 license for
each county in which he operates.
This ho considers prohibitory and
unconstitutional. He has appealed
his case on the ground that the law
is not constitutional aud that he can
no more bo taxed than any railroad
agent.
Williams does not admit that he is
working for the owners of the western
farms, where the negro labor is want¬
ed, but states that he is employed by
the railroads, on a salary, to induce
emigrants to travel over certain routes.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
Tho Various Now Industries Established
the Past week.
The more important of new enter
prises reported during the past week
include brick works in Tennessee aud
Texas; a bridge construction company
in West Virginia; coal mines in Texas;
two cotton mills in Georgia, one in
North Carolina, three in South Caro¬
lina, two in Tennessee and one in
Texas; one cotton seed oil mill each in
Alabama and Texas, and two esch in
Georgia and Mississippi; a cracker
factory in Alabama; a $300,000 electric
light and power plant in Virginia; an
engine and machine works in West
Virginia; flouring mills in Georgia and
Tennessee; two furniture factories in
North Carolina and one in South
Carolina; a grain elevator in Ken¬
tucky; hardware companies in Louis
ana and Tennessee; ice and cold stor¬
age companies in Kentucky and North
Carolina; iron ore mines in Alabama
and Georgia; an irrigation company in
east Texas; lumber mills in Alabama,
Florida and Tennessee; planing mills
in Alabama and North Carolina; a
plaster company in West Virginia;
sandstone quarries in Texas; a stave
factory in West Virginia; telephone
companies in Alabama and the Caro
linas; a tobacco factory in North Car¬
olina; a$100,000waterpower company
in Georgia; zinc mines in Arkansas.—
Tradesman (Chattanooga, Teun.)
FROM CHAPEL TO GRAVE.
Goebel’s Body In Consigned to Earth In
Frankfort Cemetery,
Monday evening the remains of
Governor William Goebel were taken
from the chapel at Frankfort, where
they have been under guard since
February 8th, and buried in the plot
of ground west of the chapel on the
hill overlooking the Kentucky river.
The services were brief, consisting
simply of prayer aud singing. Mem¬
bers of the legislature attended in a
body. Memorial services were held
in both houses of the legislature dur¬
ing the day.
TYSON CONSPIRACY CASE
Taken Up For Trial By United States
Court In Savannah.
The case of D. A. Tyson and others,
charged with conspiracy in using the
mails in pursuance of a scheme to de¬
fraud, was taken up in the United
States court in Savannah, Ga., Mon
dav morning. Almost as soon as it
was called attorneys filed a demurrer
to the indictment, claiming that it was
not sufficient in law and that no evi¬
dence had been produced to show that
the mails had been used for fraudulent
purposes. After listening to argu
ment, Judge Emory Speer overruled
the demurrer and ordered the case to
trial.
NEGROES KILL NEGRO,
Brute Quickly Disposed of By Members of
His Otrn Race.
A dispatch from Hernando, Miss.,
says: Thomas Clayton, a negro, was
shot to death Friday night by mem
bers of bis own race because of a crim
inal assault on a ten-year-old girl. He
was called to his cabin door and bul
lets from a dozen winchesters were
fired into his body. The negroes re
fuse to bury the corpse.
Official Organ of Rockdale Coun
ty. Has Largest Circulation in
The County.
THE SITUATION DESPERATE
Both Taylor and Beckham Have Armed Forces
and Complications Reach Critical Stage.
POWERS AND DAVIS ESCAPE
They Are Intercepted, However, At
Lexington By Sheriff and
Police and Jailed.
Almost without warning the storm
center of excitemont iu tho Kentucky
gubernatorial struggle shifted to Lex
ington Saturday night.
Secretary of State Caleb Powers and
Captain DaviSj for whom warrants
were issued charging complicity in the
murder of Governor Goebel, after
spending the day in the statehouse at
Frankfort, to which the civil officers
bearing the warrants were refused ad¬
mittance by the soldiers on duty, left
town in disguise. Powers and Davis
were slipped aboard a Chesapeak and
Ohio train at 8 o’clock Saturday night
and speeded toward Lexington. A
squad of soldiers, coming from the
governor’s mansion at double quick,
caught the train just before it pulled
out.
Tho plan escape was so
laid and executed that it took the
police and big force of deputy sheriffs
appointed to guard the eutranoe to
the capitol grounds and prevent their
escapo, oil their feet when they real¬
ized what had occurred. It was sev¬
eral minutes before the truth of the
escape of tho men was definitely
known.
Chief of Police Williams immedi¬
ately sent telegrams to Lexington,
Midway and all stations along the
road, notifying officers of the escape
and ordering them to be on the look¬
out.
On the arrival of the train in Lex
idgton at 8:40 Secretary of State Pow¬
ers and Capitol Policeman Davis aud
Lieutenant Peak were arrested by the
Lexington police and the sheriff and
deputies. There was a large forco of
officers awaiting thefugitives. Powers
and Davis still wore the uniforms of
soldiers and Davis had on false whisk
era.
There was a wild scone when the
offioers broke into the ear and revol¬
vers were drawn by all, but the small
squad of soldiers were greatly out¬
numbered by the police force of Lex¬
ington and the large force of deputies
with the sheriff, and the arrest was ef¬
fected without difficulty.
A local attorney recognized Powers
and also pointed out Davis. They
were seized nnd hurried to the jail. As
the procession swept toward the jail
some people started the report that
there was to be a lynching, and soon
the streets were packed with people,
an enormous crowd gathering about
the jail. Davis, Powers and Peake
were hurried to the upper celis, but
Peake was later released on bond on a
common warrant charge of resisting
arrost.
Davis had $125 in money on his
person ant! a revolver.
There was found on Powers $1,300.
In the iuBide pocket of each man was
found a pardon from Governor W. S.
Taylor, duly signed and sealed. Pow¬
ers made the statement to an Asso¬
ciated Press representative that ho was
not fleeing from arrest. He was sim¬
ply getting away from Frankfort to
avoid lying in jail as Whitaker had
been forced to do; that he had nothing
to fear from arrest, as he was not
guilty of the charge.
Sheriff Bosworth applied at once to
the armory for a special detail of sol¬
diers under Captain Longmire and
they responded, arriving at the jail a
few moments later, prepared to resist
the rumored prospective attack. The
sheriff then designated a posse to sup¬
plement a squad of soldiers provided
trouble might come and declared that
any attempt to take either of the
prisoners from the jail would be re¬
sisted to a finish.
The Sabbath day brought a hopeful
and encouraging calm to the storm.
Judge George Denny, a prominent Re¬
publican attorney, called on tlie pris¬
oners during the day and was closeted
with them several hours. He will rep¬
resent them in whatever legal steps
are taken.
SNUFF TRUST UNDER WAY.
All of the Biff Companies Are Organising
In the East.
The New York Journal of Commerce
says:
The recent negotiations of the Amer¬
ican and Continental Tobacco compa¬
nies to arrange for a consolidation of
the leading snuff interests of the coun¬
try are said to have been practically
completed and a new $25,000,000 com¬
pany will, it is stated, be organized to
take over all the snuff business of both
the Continental Tobacco and American
Tobacco companies as well as the At¬
lantic Snuff company and Helme Snuff
company.
AVENGERS APPLY TORCH.
Fath.r of Goosby Boys, Charged With
Murder, Burned Oat of Home.
The residence of Lewis Goosby,
father of the two Goosby boys who are
charged with the murder of Dan
jji ms an d bis baby, was destroyed by
fi re a few nights ago. It is generally
believed that Lewis Goosby and his
wife were parties to tho awful crime,
an) j that the avengers of Mr. Mims’
murder applied the torch,
NO 9
BOTH SIDES ARE FIRM.
Report Is Given Out That Taylor
Would Attempt to Arrest
Beckham.
Sunday morning the Democrats and
the Republicans in Kentucky were for
the first time since the present politi¬
cal complications assumed acute form,
divided into two armed aud organized
factions.
Surrounding the capitol and the
state executive building and camped
in the grounds around Governor Tay¬
lor's home were nearly 200 state mili¬
tia, well provided with ammunition,
while in the oorridors of tho hotel in
which tli e Democratic state executive
officers are located, and in the streets
adjacent to that qttilding were sixty
special officers and the men and boys
of a militia company that was organ¬
ized in Frankfort during the day, as
the nucleus of Governor Beckham’s
state guard, besides scores or more of
heavily armed citizens, partisans of
the Democratic element.
Within au hour
leaders heard a rumor that au attempt
was to be made by tho state militia to
take Gov. Beekam into custody a pe¬
tition had been circulated and signed
by tho requisite number of men neces
sary to form a militia company.
The men guarded the Capitol hotel
all night against any possible attempt
to arrest Governor Beckham.
The Democratio partisans say that
should tho militia attempt to interfere
with the session of the legislature, per¬ in
sistent rumors of which had been
circulation all day, it would be next to
impossible to avert bloodshed.
The republican officials, however,
dony that such action has been ever
contemplated, and that the legislature
would not be molested in any way.
Tbe formation of the state guard in
Frankfort to support Governor Beck¬
ham was undertaken by City Clerk
Beu Marshall, who circulated a paper
and enlisted the requisite number of
men who are to compose tho new com¬
pany. The guns for this company
have been provided by citizens, most
of them being either needle guns or
winchesters.
Sunday afternoon a report gained
currency that Governor Taylor had
given his soldiers orders to nrrest
Governor Beckham and other officers
of the Democratic state government.
On account of this report the men
enlisted by Captain Marshall were
assembled at the city hall, armed and
sworn in as special police for the pur¬
pose of protecting the Democrrtio offi¬
cers who are still quartered at the
Capitol hotel. A large number of cit¬
izens also volunteered and were as¬
signed to various posts in tho vicinity
of the hotel to offer a resistance in
case the talked-of arrests were at
tempted. Sunday after¬
Governor Beckham
noon appointed Colonel David R. Mur¬
ry, of Clover Point, assistant adjutant
general, with the rank of colonel, and
he was sworn in.
The official announcement was made
that this appointment is only tempor¬
ary. This was regarded as significant,
it being understood that Colonel Mur¬
ray accepted tbe appointment on ac
count of the gravity of the present
situation, and with the when understanding the condi¬
that he could resign
tions in the stato become more quiet.
According to a statement made by
Governor Taylor to a representative of
the Louisville Commercial, he has
granted a pardon to each of the per
sons for whom warrants have been is¬
sued charging them with beiug acces¬
sories to the assassination of Governor
Goebel, including Secretary of State
Caleb Powers and ex-Secretcry of State
Charles Finley. In his statement Gov
ernor Taylor recites the conditions
under which he claims to have been
elected, and charges the Democratio
contestants for state offices with con¬
spiracy to secure control of the gov¬
ernment.
BRITISH CASUALTIES TO BATE.
Up te Monday Morning Total Fosse* In
War Footed Up 15,071.
The war office in London post* a
bulletin announcing the casualties of
the South African war up to Monday
morning as follows: Killed, 2,418;
wounded, 8,747; died of disease, 1,029;
missing, 3,483; total, 15,677.
Fatal Fire In Boston.
Fire early Sunday morning in the
building of the Massachusetts Macorini
Company, on North street, Boston,
caused a loss estimated from $75,000
to $150,000. One man was killed and
four seriously injured.
OTIS APPOINTS A GOVERNOR.
General Kobbe Will Kule Over Provinca
of Albay In Island of Euzon.
General Otis has notified the war
department that he has appointed
Brigadier General William A. Kobbe,
United States volunteers, military
governor of the province of Albay,
Luzon, and of the island of Catadua
nese, and temporarily, to subserve
immediate purpose, of the islands of
Samar and Leyte.