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Banner Will Give To. AIL The sews of Conyers and Rock dale County. VOT, XXV. (ACTFUL BOERS ELUDE BRITONS fl* Expected to Make Firm Stand, But Reconsidered. nfflfi FIGHTS ARE IN ORDER (forts to Cut Off the Wily Burgh¬ ers In Their Retreats Always Prove Dismal Failures* L L London special fays: All the in i n the South African war is now Led L in the running fight in pro between the burghers retreating db the southern part of the Orange ..State, of General FreDch’s horse L'aml L, the infantry of Generals Pole Chermside and Rundle. But ieBritish hope of conclusive results slim at present, the Boers escaping Lose beaten and having accomplished an amount of damage. They L f to their position as long as it is safe to do so, and they have slip ■u off to hold the next commanding L through a broken country, ad Ersblv suited for a rear guard de [Dispatches from Aliwalnorth under lie Lrs of Wednesday, April hurriedly 20, say that the left Wepener so left in the by of the dead were inches unburied. [Commander Cronje is reported to |re According been killed. to advices from Bloem fctein, the attempt of the Boers at kndfort to get in touch with the Land Eted at Thaba N’Chu was frus by a force dispatched by Gen¬ ii E Tucker from Glen. L dispatch from Pretoria reports arrival there of Lord Roslyn, as | Ifteanal mounded prisoner. Hamilton is using his nt Lsb fco endeavors to cut off tho Boers Bfiie are reheating from De wet’s dorp. Boer forces at Thabanehu are WlmlMj to make a stand to cover the h escape of the convoys from ■nthward. They have laagers about phi miles apart, stretching from lanffort to Thabanehu with a base Imp at Smalidell station. |A report comes that a small foroe of litish mounted infantry had a brush Ith a party of Boers ten miles east of Iree siding, who were trying to estab Ih a connection between Brandfort lithe Boer forces to the southward. ■General Brabant, in a fight with the lets at Wepener, had a narrow es Ipe. General Pole Carew’s advance Is much hampered by the arrival of lillery, bturing which prevented him from Lecuw kop before darkness P in, and enabled the Boers to secure jeir |s, with retreat. the commands Apparently in Lord the hands Rob Ijonnger generals, now has an ex plingly efficient army. JPEAL TO GEORGIA VOTERS fteBj Women of Che State W C. T. at Augusta Meeting:. F Ihe first day’s session of the an¬ al convention of the Georgia W. C. |I., held iu Augusta, the following ptaiou phereas, was passed: The prohibitionists of the fit have decided not to place candi F in the field for the state and Ny offices for 1900, and, Whereas, The Democratic party in rP a holds a uniform primary Nfthout tho state for the nomina ptf Pefore these officers on May 16 next, be it Pesolved by the Woman’s Christian pfManee Union of Georgia, in con r ltm assembled, that we urge all phibitionists who participate in said r ar yto oast their ballots for eandi F for the offices of senator and pwatative who are avowed Probi ponists, realizing as we do that an F battle will he fought in the next pa.ure for the cause we hold so P' As a nomination by the Demo M party in many counties is equiv P PttaUy to an election, we therefore re urge all Prohibitionists who F -cipate in said primary to vote for ^representing prohibition. Let the them grand principles aud r* “hy traffic do this, P “orders will be driven from of our fair state. ACCIDENT at PRETORIA. 1 Killed * Government and Thirty-two Injured Arsenal Explosion. L prions wor ^ explosion “t Pretoria occurred at the -Juaent s used by the Ihe as walls an arsenal Wednesday k' " fed and the of the structures building in were the . ■ v uood were a mass of flames. 3 workmen killed and 32 were ^ Injured, fie manager including of the Herr Grun- The works. of the machinery was taw. ae eau8e of the explosion is a ' works employed 200 I*,, ViM°o tly French and Cross Italians. ►lin't* Mpi th ambulance did good ng e wounded. lt( KENRIDGE STANDS ALONE. ’General I, Only Official In Ken >Ocky with a Clear Title. f, mkf or t dispatch Attorney & Sreckenridge says: j'Jof t being enjoys the dis the only s"tate officer l LWge V w hose title is not in litiga Clifton J. Pratt, the Re frsrs’stjsxs; N^adispated title parsed to The Eockdale Banner. CANADIAN TOWNS BURN. More Than 2,500 Buildings De¬ stroyed, Entailing An Estima¬ ted Loss of Twenty Millions. A special from Ottawa, Ont., says: Five square miles of territory burned over; more than 2,500 dwellings, fac¬ tories, mills, stores and other buildings destroyed, entailing a loss estimated to reach $20,000,000 and between 12,000 and 15,000 men, women and children homeless, is a summing up of the havoc wrought by a fire which raged at Hull and in Ottawa Thursday Most of the lumber piles in Ottawa and Hull have disappeared and are now mere heaps of charred wood and ashes. Half a dozen churches and schools, a number of mills, the Hull waterworks, the Hull courthouse and jail, the postoffice, the convent—al¬ most every business place, and about 1,000 dwellings and shops in Hull have been destroyed. Indeed, nothing prac¬ tically of Hull is left but a church and a few houses beyond it. The fire originated through a fire in a sooty chimney and the high wind caused the flames to spread rapidly in the direction of the lumber piles and mills on both the Hull and Ottawa shores of the Ottawa river and Claiid iere falls. The total loss is estimated at $15,000,000 and insurance at $2,500,000. INDORSED BRYAN. Alabama Democrats Name Full State Ticket ami Adopt Platform. The Alabama Democratic state con¬ vention adjourned sine die Thursday after nominating the next governor and his cabinet* indorsing,Mr. Bryan and the Chicago platform, indorsing Senator Morgan and his Nicaraguan canal plan, selecting a new state exec¬ utive committee and electing delegates and electors to the national convention at Kansas City. It will go down in history as perhaps the most harmoni¬ ous state convention ever held in Ala¬ bama. There was less trading and trafficking in votes and influence than in any of the conventions held in re¬ cent years. There were no combinations to de¬ feat the strongest man, notwithstand¬ ing there was an a vera £T 0 °f four ° r five candidates for each office. The favorites all won, and it was the evi¬ dent policy of the assembly, repre¬ senting the Democrats of the state, to give the nomination to the man who came to the convention with more votes than any of his opponents, The following is the state ticket in full: Governor—William J. Sanford. Secretary of State—Robert P. Mc David. Treasurer—J. Craig Smith. Auditor—W. H. Mathews. Xttorhey General—Charles G. Brown. Superintendent of Education—-John W. Abercrombie. Commissioner of Agriculture—R. B. Foole. “RELINQUISH” CUBA. Mason Introduce* Resolution to With¬ draw Troops on July 4. In the senate, Thursday, Mr. Mason of Illinois introduced a joint resolu¬ tion requiring the president to with¬ draw the forces of the United States from Cuba so as to turn the govern¬ ment of the island over to the Cubans by the 4th day of next July. The reso¬ lution was as follows: “That the president of the United States is hereby requested to withdraw the forces of the United States as rap¬ idly as may be done with convenience and safety, and that on the fourth day of July, 1900, all civil and military power of the United States he turned over and surreuded to the people of the island of Cuba.” Senator Mason argued that the Cu¬ bans must be turned loose sooner or later to govern themselves, and that the shortest way for them to learn self-government is to begin the prac¬ tice at as early date as possible. “THERE ARE OTHERS.” _ . , . _ w - m ’Z A«e» <ro» C„„,„,,oople .,.t. l.f. asked their tria and Germany have governments for instructions as to their similar claims. HANNA DID IT. Defeat of Mat Quay In Senate Ie Laid at Mark’s Door. A Washington special says: The ef feet of the defeat of Quay promises to be far reaching so far as the Bepubli can party is concerned and it is within the bounds of possibility that this de feat will cut some figure iu the presi dential campaign. difficulty that the It was with great Republican leadersat Harrisburg kept the Republican state convention from denouncing the McKinley administra tion in their platform, owing to the allegation that Mark Hanna was the direct cause of Quay s defeat in the senate. HOWELL TRIAL POSTPONED. Former Union Ticket Agent May Not Be Arr»i*ned For Some Week*. An Atlanta dispatch says: The trial of Colonel Albert Howell, former union ticket agent, will not follow that of ex-Auditor T. J. Hunter ! mediately. The criminal court will be art’ll then he , order and Colonel Howell may CONYERS. GA.. MAY % 1900. FAST IS MAIL SECURE Appropriation Is Eetained In the Postoffice Bill. WAS KEPT IN AFTER A HARD FIGHT Underwood, Livingston nnd Swanson Did "Valiant Service In Favor of The Measure. A Washington special says: By a vote of 90 to 41 the house of represen¬ tatives decided Thursday to retain in the postoffice hill the appropriation for a fust mail service from Boston and New York to the south. This result was reached after the usual fight, which was led in this instance by Mr. Little of Arkansas, Mr. Williams of Mississippi, aud Mr. Bromwell of Ohio. The fight was, however, less bitter than it it has been in some past con¬ gresses, some men who have been prominent in former fights having ev¬ idently come to realize that the small appropriation necessary to put the mail service into cities in the heart of the south on the same footing with the service in the more densely populated sections of the country ii just and right. Mr. Underwood, of Alabama, led the fight for the appro¬ priation on the floor, and was ably assisted by Colonel Livingston, Mr. Swanson, of Virginia, and the mem¬ bers of the postoffice committee who had reported in favor of the appropri¬ ation. No one demanded a separate vote upon the amendment striking out the pneumatic tube provision aud the house by a large majority stood by the amendment to give extra compensation to letter carriers for work in excess of forty-eight hours a week, although the carriers were said by Mr. Cummings, of New York, to be opposed to it. The bill to increase the salary of the direc¬ tor of the census to $7,500 and the salaries of supervisors of census by 2 per cent of the amount received by their enumerators was passed. Without preliminary business Ihe house resumed consideration of the postoffice bill. moved Mr. Tawney, of Minnesota, to increase the salaries of 479 railway postal clerks class five A from $1,300 to $1,400. Mr. Loud, chairman of the postoffice committee, opposed the amendment. Mr. Loud had read a postal the writer had received from Mr. Tawney urging all rail vay postal clerks to urge their congressmen to vote for the Tawney reclassification bill for the provision in the bill. This, Mr. Loud said, is on¬ ly part of the scheme of concerted at¬ tack being made by congress. The amendment was adopted, 83 to 32. Two hours were devoted to debate of the provisions appropriating $171,283 for special mail facilities from New York to Atlanta and New Orleans and $25,000 from Kansas City, Mo., to Newton, Kan. Mr. Little, of Arkansas, opened the debate in opposition. He declared that they were relies of the most vicious system of legislation that ever invaded congress. Mr. Underwood, of Alabama, favor¬ ed the appropriation for the southern mail subsidy, which, ho said, was nec¬ essary to keep up quick communica¬ tion with the south. The particular train which carried the mail to the south from New York would not be run were the appropriation withdrawn. All the boards of trade in the south, he claimed, had petitioned for a con¬ tinuance of the appropriation. Mr. Williams, of Mississippi, vigor¬ ously oppposed the appropriation. It was no benefit to the people of the south,he said. It went into the pockets of a syndicate that resided partly in New York, partly in England and partly in Germany. He denominated it as a “job,” part of the scheme in which the pneunatic tube people were interested. The people who supported one, he said, as a rule would support the oth¬ er. AH these “jobs,” be declared, should be defeated. Mr. Little, of Ark,,,,,,, to Tb. icotion .trike ott, the .ppro pmtion for special mail facilities from w ,“ (j 35 to 8 ! ’ HOUSE BREAKS RECORD T n pnctinif Private Pension Bills—Otlier Matters Acted Upon. The houge broke a n records Friday ^ passing ninety-one private pension Among them was one granting a mon th to the widow of the late Co]one i j 0 ij n 3£. Stotzenburg, of the p jrS f Nebraska, who was killed in the phiiip p ine8 . qqjg conference report on the Ha wa ;i a n government bill was adopted, j jgg an( j tbe b j(i now g oes to $be president. May 9th, set aside for Saturday, of was General U. 8. rece i v i ng the statue Grant presented by the Grand Army ^ jj, e Republic, ! SUBSIDIARY COIN SHIPPED. first Installment of Money Started For Island of Porto Rieo. The United States transport Me pherson sailed from New York Wed ne8 dgy for Porto Rico with between $400,000 and $500,000 in subsidiary This is the first installment of j distributed among the inhabitants EIGHT DROWN IN CLOUDBURST Deluge of Rain Sweeps Down Upon City of Waco, Texas. NO WARNING TO THE VICTIMS Downpour Was Incessant For Six Hours—Untold Damage Done to Property. A cloudburst, accompanied by a high wiud, descended upon the city of Waco, Texas, at noon Friday and the net result is that eight people are known to have perished iu the city limits, and property valued at several thousand dollars has been destroyed or injured. The known dead are: Mrs.Naney Caudle, Miss Clara Cau¬ dle, Rosa Chapman, Emma Decker, Thomas Capps, Frank Walker. Two negro men, names unknown. The downpour of rain commenced about noon and was incessaut until dark. It was in the shape of a water¬ spout nnd the rise in the creeks and branches was so rapid that it did not give the inhabitants time to flee. Three persons, two women aud a man, all colored, were drowned within a hun¬ dred yards of the city hall. Their bodies were washed into the Brazos river and at last accounts had not been recovered. There were several people, mostly negroes, standing on a bridge watch¬ ing the rapid rise of Barron’s branch, when the bridge, a thick structure, gave way without warning, precipita¬ ting them into the water. The number positively known to have been drown¬ ed in the city limits is eight. Numer¬ ous reports of other losses come in, but owing to the high water they can not be verified. It is almost cerain, however, that several more lives were lost. Searching parties started out looking for the drowned and helping to move those who were in danger or distress. Chief Prescott, of the lire department, with his entire force, extended all'the aid possible. Iu the southern part of the city, where the two white women, Mrs. Candle and her daughter, lost their lives, the rise was the highest ever known, exceeding by several feet the high water mark of 1885. It is impossible to estimate the damage done by the storm, but it will he iu the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Incoming reports indicate that one of the heaviest rainfalls experienced in years visited many sections of the state ?tnd rivers and smaller streams are again rising rapidly. All points along the Brazos and Colorado rivers have been notified, and while much damage may result from another rifle, yet it is believed that the timely warning will enable those who live in the valleys to fully protect themselves. Reports from Belton nnd Rockport state that the storm was especially se¬ vere in those sectious, but no loss of life is so far reported. CARTER IN STRIPES. Former Doughty Captain Will He Known an Prisoner No. 2,094. Oberlin M. Carter, late captain Unit¬ ed States army, arrived at the federal prison in Leavenworth, Kas., Friday under guard of Lieutenant Thomas llarker, Fifteenth infantry, a corporal and three soldiers. By special orders issued from the department of justice, newspaper men were not permitted to interview the prisoner, who was immediately dressed in tho pris on garb and assigned to a cell His prison number is 2,094 and lie is the occupant of cell No. 425. Carter will he a prison bookkeeper in the harness, broom, shoe repairing and carpet-weaving shops, which are in the third story of the big East building. Queen at Windsor. Queen Victoria is now back at Wind¬ sor castle, where she arrived at 5:25 o’clock Friday evening. Thou¬ sands of spectators watched the royal party’s landing at Holly Head and her special train was greeted at various points by cheering and singing of the national anthem. Minority Report in Clark Case. Wednesday tho minority of the members of the senate committee on privileges and elections, consisting of Senators Pettus and Harris, who do not accept all the views of the majori ty committee in the ease of Senatoi Clark, of Montana, presented tlxeir dissenting report in the case. Hawaiian Rill Amended. After a brief debate Wednesday tho senate agreed to the conference report on the Hawaiian civil government bill, the provisions relating to the right oi franchise and imprisonment for debt having been amended. VICTIM OF ASSASSIN. Farmer Bramlett Shot Down While Plow¬ ing; Hi* Field*. Harris Bramlett, a well known citi¬ zen of Murray county, Ga., who was accused of being an informer in recent whitecap cases, was brutally shot down while plowing in his field Wednesday afternoon. An unknown maD, with a black, beard, appeared from ambush and fired both barrels of his gun, the con¬ tents of which lodged in the stomach of Mr. Bramlett, killing him in¬ stantly. NINE VICTIMS HERE Bad Accident Occurs on Grounds of the Paris Exposition, A BIG BRIDGE TUMBLES DOWN. Structure Had Been Condemned* But Vast Crowd Was Under It at the Time. An accident that threw a pall over the happiness of an immense throng who had profited by the magnificent weather to visit the exposition, occur¬ red within the exposition grounds at Paris Sunday afternoon. A temporary bridge, unable to withstand the im¬ mense strain, broke. It was soon known that nine persons were killed and nine others injured. The day’s attendance was the largest since the opening. Not merely the interior of the grounds, but the pre¬ cincts also were crowded aud the con¬ course was particularly great along the Avenue tie Sufreu, which forms the northern boundary to the grounds. Here is situated a big sideshow, the Celestial Globe. A foot bridge, on which the finishing touches were be¬ ing put, crosses the Avenue de Sufreu, connecting the sideshow with the ex¬ hibition. It was constructed of wood with a stucco facade and with a plaster made tower at eao.li end. Strangely enough the bridge had been condemned only Sunday morning as unsafe by the exposition authori¬ ties. The public was, therefore, not allowed to go on the structure, and in this way a disaster even more terrible than that which occurred was averted. The gay crowd was passing along the avenue, and some hundred or more persons were walking beneath the bridge, when suddenly an ominous crash was heard. Before those under¬ neath could turn aside the structure fell with a fearful crash, nearly fifty. A shout of horror rose from spectators, mingled with the cries the victims. For a moment could be distinguished but a cloud dust and plaster. A scene of greatest excitement and confusion lowed. But this was only for a seconds. Almost immediately crowd attacked the debris in an to release those lying beneath. workmen within the grounds who witnessed the accident, the police the republican guards, together quite a number of soldiers, joined the rescue work. The promenaders forget their day attire aud covered themselves dirt nnd grime in tearing away rubbish with their hands. beams and poles w’ero brought the half-finished buildings near and were used as levers to raise fallen mass. The victims first discovered mostly only the injured, the dead ing found later beneath the center the structure. STEPPED ON A MATCH. Wife of An Army Officer Burned to Death In Havana. A Havana dispatch says: The wife of Major General James H. Wilson, military governor of the department of Matanzas, Santa Clara, died Satur¬ day afternoon from the effects of the burns accidentally received while driv¬ ing with her daughter. While alighting from her carriage Mrs. Wison stepped on a match, which ignited her dress. She was terribly burned, and although everything was done to relieve her sufferings, she died iu a few hours. Mrs. Wilson was the daughter of Colonel John Andrews, of Wilming¬ ton, Del , who commanded the First Delaware regiment during the civil war. She was married to General Wilson in 1866 and is survived by three daughters, two of whom wero with her in Cuba. She left the Wilson homo in Wilmington in November last to join her husband on his station and has been with him sine,e. Rivera’s Successor. Senor Perfeeto La Costa has accept¬ ed the office of secretary of agriculture, made racant by the resignation of Gen¬ eral Kuis Rivera. Senor Estrada Mora, acting mayor of Havana, will he offerod the mayoralty for the re¬ mainder of the term, which will ex¬ pire some time after the elections are held. STATES SHOULD CONTROL The Employment, Care and Piiniehmenl of All Convict I.aborers. The interstate industrial commission sent to congress Wednesday its results on prison labor. The commission after a careful consideration of the subjects concludes that provision should he mode in the laws of each state for the employment of all prisoners on pro¬ ductive labor: that the state should have absolute control of the care, pun ishment, reformation and employment of the prisoners, as well as the dispo sition of the products of their indus try, and that the employment of pris-; oners in the production of supplies for the maintenance of state, county and municipal institutions. STAMPS WERE DEFICIENT. PackagfR of North Carolina Tobacco Seis¬ ed In San Fr»nci*co. _ ^ t. te Saturday, a . i ££?#& t S ha Z t e citv bv t P he Airy! in Spa°rUr Bro The" 0 s 8 Com N C. pack ages have, it is claimed, not the full amount of stamps on them and con ain a qnarter of an ounce more tobacco than the stamps call for. A similar seizure was made a few weeks age of teheeeo from a SC Louis factory, Official Organ of Rockdale Conn ty. Has Largest Circulation in The County. ROBERTS CRITICISED British General Comes In For Some Severe Boasting. BOTHA WEARS HIS HONORS WELL Successor of General Joubert Seems to Bo Equal to Every Emergency That Present* Itself. A London special says: In Com¬ mandant Genoral Louis Botha the Boers appear to have fouud a capable successor to Joubert. As the result of his insight and quiek decision, it may be assumed now that the re¬ treating commandoes have gotten away with the transport. dis¬ It is true that Lord BohertB’s patch leaves much unsaid as to the whereabouts of other forces than those of General French aud General Run die. Nothing is said about the troops of General Brabant, Pole-Carew, Hart and Chermside, but the indications from Aliwalnorth show that several commandoes are still hovering in the vicinity of Springfield, causing a cer¬ tain amount of danger, aud the ad¬ vices from Dewets dorp, outlining the duties of General Chermside, justify the conclusion that it will be still nec¬ essary to employ a considerable body of troops to keep the Free State clear of Boers. The position is that the Boers, who began their raid a month ago by com¬ pelling Colonel Broadwood to retire on Bloemfontein, have got safely away to the northward, practically without loss, but with advantage of seven Brit¬ ish guns, togothor with a hundred prisoners captured. Meanwhile the advance to Pretoria has not begun. Small wonder is it that muffled complaints and criticisms are beginning to he heard here and there against Lord Eoberts. Two thirds of his entire force have heon employed in effecting this small satis¬ faction, nnd the probability is that the whole force must he again concen¬ trated on Bloemfonteiu before the main nilvanee begins. As similar raids are likely to be repented, it is evi¬ dently still a far cry to Pretoria. The significance of General Hunter’s division going to Kimberley, where mounted troops are alsonrriving daily, is now said to ho a serious attempt to deal with the stroug Boer forces on the Vaal river, now threatening to re¬ take Barkly, and then an endeavor to relieve Mafeking. It will be borne in mind that General Hunter paid a hurried visit to Lord Roberts at Bloemfontein. A temporary railway bridge has just, been completed at Betliulie, where hitherto railway trucks had been trans¬ ferred over the wagon bridge. This greatly facilitates getting stores up to Bloemfontein. Mr. Poultney Bigelow, disscussing the treatment of South Afrioau rebels, says that the wisdom of the United States government in not punishing the confederates after the war of se¬ cession has borne good fruit, and lie suggests that a similar result would follow a similarly liberal policy in South Africa. GKISCOM IS UNHAMPERED. Our Representative Need* No IiiHtruction* In Dealing; With 8uitun. A Washington dispatch sayB: Be¬ yond the statement thnt Mr. Grisoom, tho United State charge d’affaires at Constantinople, has been instructed to press vigorously for indemnity, tho Washington officials decline to divulge the nature of his instructions. They say that Mr. Griscom does not need express instructions to forward the claims, for he has of his own volition taken a rather advanced nttitude in this matter. FIVE MILLIONS WANTED. Delegation Ask* For An Appropriation For the 8t. Doul* Fair. A big delegation representing the states in tho Louisiana purchase ter¬ ritory and including Governor Jones, of Arkansas, ex-Governor Francis, of missouri, and other influential men, reached Washington Friday and formal¬ ly asked the house special committee on tho Louisiana purchase centennial to urge at this session the hills appro¬ priating $5,000,000 for the interna¬ tional exposition at 8t. Louis in 1903. TANNER A SICK MAN. Illinois Governor’s Condition I* Consid¬ ered Alarming. The condition of Governor Tanner, of Illinois, is now considered by his physicians as alarming. The state’s executive arrived in Chicago Saturday morning a critically sick man, and is now confined to his bed at the Great Northern hotel. Bryan Initiated By Elks, A lodge of the Elks was instituted Lincoln, Neb., Saturday evening, Among the new members was William j R ryani Good for “Colony” City. Barnuel M. Inman, W. G. Raoul, , George Dole Wadley and other prom ! meut men from Douglas, were u j | Fitzgerald, of the Ga., Waycross Thursday Air-Line in the Rail- in terest road, which is graded to within fif , , een miles of Fitzgerald. The pres ' eliCe of ‘ Le8e K entlemen is re 8 t * r ^ d “j™"™"* 80 “ etLln « . for the “ J _ Postoffice Safe Robbed, Robbers broke in the postoffice at Mooresville, N. C., Wednesday night, blew open the safe and stole $1,000 in mosey and stamp*. MORE EVIDENCE IN CARTER CASE Convicted Captain’s Father-in Law Unbosoms Himself. BIS STATEMENTS SENSATIONAL Denies That he Furnished Any Money to His Son-in-Law and Throws Light on Conspiracy. The Atlanta Constitution iu last Monday morning’s issue presented the additional evidence in the Oberlin M. Carter case aud the latest facts found that connect indisputably with the gignntio swindle B. I). Greene and John F. Gaynor, the contractors in¬ dicted in Savannah, Ga., and who have since found refuge iu the decision of a New York judge. The tremendous import of the new evidence may he slightly estimated when it is stated that there is now in progress in congress a hill the result of which, if passed, would bo to put Greeno and Gaynor within tho pale of the proceedings instituted against them in Savannah. The additional evidence in tho case of Carter, who is now serving his sentence, is the statement of his father-in-law, Mr. Westcott, now made public for the first time. Mr. Wost cott says positively ho never gave one cent of money to Carter. The new evidence in the Greene and Gaynor case is the result of the splen¬ did work of the oxport hank examiner and accountant, Edward I. Johnson, who was detailed by Attorney General Griggs to assist United States District Attorney Erwin in developing the ex¬ tent of the frauds charged to have been perpetrated upon tho government by Oberlin M. Onrter, captain of en¬ gineers, in charge of tlio government river and harbor improvomonts is Georgia. Mr. Johnson made his report to the United Statos attorney giving in full detail the facts brought out by the in¬ vestigation carried on by him. The evidence thus brought out since the courtmartial trial of Captain Car¬ ter shows beyond a doubt the correct¬ ness of the conclusions reached in that case. The following extracts taken from tho compilation of evidence submitted by the experts, indicating that the pro¬ fits of tho government contracts, after payment of expensos of the work and salaries of $12,000 to the younger Gay nors, were divided botweon the thre* principal contractors in thirds, are most significant: dis¬ August 7, 1893—Carter issued bursing cheek to tho contractors, which was deposited by them, for $39,075, of which one-third, less $75 allowed for Carter’s expenses to New York, is withdrawn by them, and two days later Carter invests $13,000 in bonds. November 6, 1893—Carter issued disbursing check to the contractors for $18,000, of which one-third was with¬ drawn from deposit, and the same day Carter invested $11,000 in bonds. December 4, 1893—Carter issued disbursing checks to the contractors, which wero deposited by them, for $63,076, of which one-third, less $75 allowed for Carter’s expenses to New York, is withdrawn by them, nnd on the same day Carter invested $21,000 in securities. January 8, 1894—Carter issued dis¬ bursing check to the contractors, which was deposited by them, for $49,575, of which one-third, less $75 allowed for Carter’s expenses to Now York, is withdrawn by them, and on the same day Carter invests $16,500 in securi¬ ties. February 5, 1894—Carter issued disbursing check to tho contractors, which was deposited by them, for $54,000, of which one-third was with¬ drawn in cash by them, and on the same day Carter invests $18,000 in se¬ curities. September 8, 1894—Carter issued disbursing check to tho contractors for $461,075. .September 11,1894, cashed by them $152,510.15. Deposited by Carter on same date $103,022.78, and subsequently invested by him, includ¬ ing another collection December 4, 1894, $63,000. divi¬ Tho foregoing are some of tho sions shown iu the report, made be¬ tween the contractors and Carter in the earlier operations between them, at random to show how the spoils were divided. It will be recalled that Westcott was in Europe when the courtmartial of Carter was in progress and declined to return and testify in the case. It was on the refusal of Westcott to appear and substantiate this statement that Attorney General Griggs largely based his decision affirming the judg¬ ment of the courtmartial on the refer¬ ence of the case to him by the presi¬ dent. 1 l0 Return. Governor Taylor telegraphed , , Friday Commonwealth’s Attorney Franklin ^, )h . be j n Washington on business, 1,1 ret nrn to Frankfort and ap fhe pear in court if officially informed that report that he has been indicted is true. ___ President Hack In Washington. President and Mrs. McKinley ar¬ rived in Washington at 8 o’clock Friday morning from .Canton, NO. 16.