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Banner Will Give You All Tbe*News of Conyers and Rock dale County. Vcfin'fi—fXx v). ' i AILEY DRY GOODS COMPANY i TV ’ * ... f ■ r • • t Is the place to spend your cash; they believe in small profits and quick sales something all who go there appreciate. Go and see for yourself, then tell your friends and they will tell others, showing each one what our Cash House is doing. Patterns given away for the next thirty days. ...... E1SV VICTORY FOR ROBERTS Jafaanaesburg Occupied By Brit= ish Without Trouble. BOER OFFICIALS NOT OUSTED English Troops Were Escorted liitotheCity and Flag Hoisted With Ceremonials. A cablegram was received in Loudon Saturday from Lord Roberts dated Johannesburg May 31st, but which wa9 not dispatched from there until 8:30 a. m. of Juuo 1st, which says: -•Tho occupation of Johannesburg passed off quite satisfactorily, thank's to tie-excellent arrangements made by Dr. Kraus,’the Transvaal commandant tee, and orfier prevailed throughout the town. “Dr.-Kraus met' me on my entrance [to Johannesburg and rode by my side [to tbe government offices, where he i introduced me to the heads of several Uenartigeiifs, I all of whom acceded to my request that they would continue Itowtij.on their respective duties un I til thercuald be relieved of them. I “Aiaunesbnrg is very empty, but lagooicrowd of people assembled in [ihe British main flag T square by being the hoisted. time th A I was j royal salute was fired and three cheers j f for the the queen were given. the “At end of the ceremonies Seventh and Eleventh divisions marched past with the naval brig¬ ade, th’e heavy" artillery and two brig |lile N dimpas of the foyal field artil-. “Genda#J.Inh IVjsK V. •HaihiWoa's -.H*- > t V column aud the cavalry division and mounted infantry were too far away to taka part, [inthe vtorkmaubke ceremony. The and evidently troops looked took [very keen interest in the proceedings. ” i According to delayed dispatches .teaching'Pretoria, formally Johannesburg was handed over to the British at II o'clock on the morning of May 31st, mau orderly manner. Lord Roberts the *19 accompanied by a small force, banka-are being guarded. There hnnesburg, M9o slight engagement outside Jo [scouts aud some Australian were shot in street fighting. I After this a message was sent to the laearest British general notifying him pt I Lord the Lansdowne, town would not be defended. secretary of state f ot w * r > has received the following |!iom fbove, Lord June Roberts, dated Orange 2d: ple '‘Johannesburg is quiet. Tho peo¬ ply are three surrendering aims and ponies, Boer guns w ere left in the P*. The Queenslanders shipped p«y 30th, a Cruesot, with eleven figons fmumandant of stores and ammunition, P field Botha, of Zoutpanberg, cornet and one hundred pris fwnl ' V0 re taken in the fighting r? to Johannesburg, the some belong* I* Ir ‘sh brigade. foreign contingents and |*aianry The Thirteenth jT*een Kroonstad were attacked May 29th 'ire and Lindley. were some casualties.” FBBXCU-NEAB PRETORIA. London special of June 4 says; jw, re is ■ no direct news from Pretoria terlli ' !. w P J[? at6 nc than V cavalr Thursday evening, ‘hen at B y were eight miles south of Pretoria, ‘ ng Wa8 heard there. Lord oh f H 0 s messages about, secondary Johannesburg, ons elsewhere and the situation dated at Orange b a farm four miles northeast of ‘‘asesburg, show that on Saturday, ,'vJ a Pretoria. 1 - he was twenty-five miles 5itmber _ nFr"-V 01 bensus Enumerators. . *. fc!* «at *, Xac work, * nuni be* of census enume dispatch, according to a Wash is 52,631. Florida ■JV’ Borgia 1,258, South Caro to»L095 th 0arolint 1 226 ’ Vir " > RiKivf-vejt Signs Seely Papers, ka KM Roosevelt of New York Neely extradition pa Uq. q Sunday '"’ere night. forwarderd to WasB- The Eockdale Banner OLD SOLDIERS ADJ3URN. Next Confederate Veteran Re. union Will Be Held in Mem. phis, Tennessee. The Confederate reunion was brought to a eloso at Louisville Friday night. Tho next gathering of the old vete¬ rans will be at ?>Iemphis, Tenn, The struggle for the reunion by the Ten¬ nessee city was not a very hard one because it had been conceded that the reunion would go there next year if New Orleans did not ask for it. The candidates were Memphis, Jackson¬ ville aud Buffalo. Friday was to have been the biggest day of the reunion, but an almost con¬ tinual downpour of raiu precluded the possibility of tbe grand parade, which caused a feeling of distinct disappoint¬ ment in Louisville. Briscoe Hindman, of Louisville, was elected commauder-in-chief of the United Sons of Veteraus by acclama¬ tion Friday morning after Walter Col¬ quitt, of Atlanta, the retiring com¬ mander, had refused to accept a re ciection. Au interesting incident occurred when the report of the committee on resolutions was read. Among tbe rec¬ ommendations was one that “the Con¬ federate veterans recognize with ap priciation the language of General Daniel Sickles at the recent reunion of the army of tho Potomac at Fredericks¬ burg, and reciprocated the feeling shown; that the reunion of Union soldiers or Confederate soldiers at¬ tended by the president of the United States aud his cabinet showed that that there is no sectionalism in recog¬ nition of valor of the American soldier; that a copy of these resolution be for¬ warded to the Society of tho Army of the Potomac.” When the vote was called on this there were cries of “No." General Gordon declared the resolu¬ tions adopted, but hearing the “noes,” resubmitted the question. W. II. Burgynn, of North Carolina, who presented the resolutions, made a strong, speech urging, the adoptiou of the resolutions. J. H. Shepherd, of Virginia, secured the floor aud an¬ nounced that he was opposed to the resolution and asked that it be voted down. He said. I want no coque mg wi o Yankees who defeated us. For God s lake don’t accept any thing from Union soldiers Vote it down, my comrades, vote It down. The hall , . was ms an y i «P men calling vote, indiscriminately. question, no, “ ,es” and yelling Gordon! There were loud calls of “Gordon ” The commander came to the front and was gree ec y an c cheers that for several minu os pr vented his voice from being heard When silence was pai ia y res he * al “ : f ‘ ‘ 9* , , ... ru8 ; e ev ? r while I stand on southern soil among the chivalrous men of the south when I will refuse to send a message of cor dial greeting to an enemy. (Cheers.) I know the sender of this message. On the heights of Gettysburg he stood gallantly in my front and it was my bullets that sent him to the rear with a leg off, and, for me, I am going to reciprocate - the kindly message of the northern soldiers.” Wild* cheers greeted this speech, and on a vote tho resolution weut through with a rush. ATLANTA CARPENTERS STRIKE. ■They Demand That Kmployers Recognise „ Their Oreanisation. The carpenters and joiners in Allan ta, Ga., went on a strike Friday. hundred men walked away from their jobs to return no more, the y 8a L u ' til their organization is recognized y employers and their demands complied with. These demands are for a day eight hours work; a uniform price 25 cents per hour ^ ‘heir work, as a minimum wage, or $2 per day, witn half price of minimum wage for over time aud double time for legal ho l days and Sundays; recognition of their organization by tbe employment o none but un i 0 n men by contractors, builders aud planing mill managers. Public Debt Greatly Decreased. The monthly statement of the public debt shows that at the close of busi¬ ness, May 30, 1900, the debt less cash in the treasury amounted to $1,122,608,811, a dec. ease for ‘ e _ —» - bonds. CONYERS, GA.. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1900. VETERANS IN PARADE Old Soldiers at Last Given Chance For an “Outing.” THEY LINGERED AT LOUISVILLE. £xcrci$es Commemorating Jefferson Davit*’-Birthday Was Closing IS vent of Confederate Reunion. The last exercises counected with the tenth annual reunion of the United Confederate Veterans occurred at Louisville Sunday when the ninety second anniversary of the birth of Jef¬ ferson Davis was observed at Reuniou hall, with services in memory of Mr. Davis, Winnie Davis, the “Daughter of the Confederacy,” and tho Confed¬ erate dead. Although thousands of the Confed¬ erate reunion visitors had left the city, 5,000 persons attended tho exercises. They wore largely of a religious char¬ acter, hut nevertheless there was ap¬ plause at times from the audience. General Stephen D. Lee, who pre¬ sided, suggested that there be no dem¬ onstrations. The Rev. J. William Jones of Virginia, who delivered the sermon of the occasion, earnestly made the same suggestion, and a few min¬ utes later caused not only loud ap¬ plause, but one cheer, by relating a well known incident of Spottsylvania. Mrs. Hayes, the daughter of Jeffer¬ son Davis, aud her daughter, Miss Variua Hayes, were on the platform, but as the services were concluding, had to hasten to a railroad station to catch a train. After they had left Gen¬ eral Stephen D. Lee held up to the sight of the audience a battleflag bear¬ ing the same crepe it bore when it waved over the grave of Winnie Davis, who had always heretofore attended the reunions of tho Confederate vet¬ erans. General Gordon had been ex¬ pected to preside and also to address the audience, but he was oalled away from Louisville and his plaoe was taken by General Stephen D. Lee. OLD VSTS PARADED. Although the reunion proper had adjourned, •> the veterans who had not Saturday. paraded streets of Louisvllle ; There was no forma , p>ra(Je) altl ough flbo ut 5,000 veterans were in line, aud fifteen musi ca | organizations ?. made the air ring uh Dixie> » Evory ^ baud in line Vmselves „ D „ ftnd veterftn8 yelU hoarse. “Dixie” was ^ ^ of th<j duy parade bad been called off, but when tho suu broke through tho dismal cloudiness of the week the old fellows could not resist the temptation aud fell into line, marching through the principal 1 r streets of the city, odd oppicess re-elected. while the exercises of the reunion were in progresg a Il the officers of the United Confederate Veterans were re¬ elected by acclamation. The election was put through iu record time, the whole thing taking less than one minute. The list of officers is as fol¬ lows; General John B, Gordon, general commanding. Lieutenant General Wade Hampton, Army of Northern Virginia depart¬ ment. Lieutenant General S. D. Lee, com manding » army V of Tennessee depart Lieutenant General W. L. Cabell, cotnm#nding Trans-Mississippi depart r3en ^ ^ bg reunion W as one of the most successful from a standpoint of bnsi Ileg8 ever be j d- The work was done ^ ^ mflnaer ent jrely satisfactory, and tbe demonB t ra tions made cause the officers to believe that any feeling of unkindneg8 tbat ba d existed toward t be 8 i x ties has been wiped Deficiency Bill Passes. The last of the appropriation bills, the general deficiency, was passed in the senate Saturday, as was also the emergency river and harbor bill pro¬ viding for numerous surveys and for certain other public works. Mrs. Gladstone Slowly Dying. It is announced in London that Tyj rg Gladstone is in a semi-conscious — *-“■ *’ d “ clining steadily. MAY BE AGUINALDO. Americans Kill Filipino Officer Who Is Thought To Be the Aluchly-Sought Leader. A special from Vigan, Luzon, via Manila, under date of June 3d, says: Maj. March,with his detachment of the 33d Regiment,overtook what is believ ed to have been Agninaldo’s party on May 19, at La Gat, about 100 miles northeast of Vigan. The Americana killed or wounded on officer supposed to bo Aguiualdo, whose body was re¬ moved by his followers. Aguiualdo had 100 men, Maj. March 125. The American commander reached Laboagan, where Aguinaldo had made his headquarters since March 6, on Slay 7th. Aguinaldo had fled seven Honrs before, leaving all tbe beaten trails and traveling through the forest along the beds of streams. Toward evening, May 19th, Major March struck Agninaldo’s outpost about a mile out¬ side of La Gat, killing four of the Filipinos aud capturing two. From the latter he learned that Aguinaldo had camped there for the night. Although exhausted and half starv¬ ed, Major March's men entered La Gat on the run. They saw the insur¬ gents scattering into the bushes or over the plateau. A thousand yards beyond tbe town on the mountain side the figures of twenty-five Filipinos, leader dressed in white, with their on a gray horse, were silhouetted against the sunset. The Americans fired a volley and saw the offiqer drop from his horse. His followers fled, carrying the body. The Americans on reaching the spot caught the horse, which was richly saddled. Blood from a badly wounded man was on the animal aud on the ground. The saddlebags contained Agninaldo’s diary and some private papers, including proclamations. One of these was addressed “To the civil¬ ized nations.” It protests against the American occupation of the Philip¬ pines. There was also found copies of Senator Beveridge's speech trans¬ lated into Spanish aud entitled “The Death Ivnell of the Filipino People.” GROWTH OF THE SOUTH. Many New Industrie** Established During the Past Week. The more important of the new in¬ dustries reported during the past week include brick works in Mississippi; a building and contracting company in North Carolinu; canning factories in Georgia and Virginia; a carriage facto¬ ry and a cigar factory in Alabama; coal mines in Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia; cotton mills in Alabama, North Carolina and Tennessee; a cotton felt manufactory in Tennessee; cotton and oil mills in Alabama, Houth Carolina and Tex¬ as; electric lights in Alabama, Ken¬ tucky aud Louisiana; flouring mills in Georgia, North Carolina, Ten¬ nessee aud Texas; foundry and ma¬ chine shops in Georgia and Texas; a glass factory in West Virginia; a handle factory in Tennessee; a harness factory in Georgia; a hemp factory in Kentucky; iron works in South Caro lina; lumber mills in Florida, Louisi aua, Mississippi, Tennessee and West Virginia; lumber mills in Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and West Virginia; a natural gas and oil company in West Virginia; a plan ing mill in West Virginia; a post dri ver manufactory and a stave factory in Tennessee; steel works in West Vir ginia; a tobacco stemmery in Ken¬ tucky; a telephone exchange in Texas. -—Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.) TEXAS FUEDISTS DIE. Clans Shoot Out quarrel. In tl.e Pobllo square at San Au e .«tine. Three prominent men gave up their live in a shooting affray at tho court house in Snn Augustine, Texas, Mon day. They were Felix Roberts, cor respondent of Tbe Galveston News; Sid Roberts and Sheriff Noel Roberts. A few weeks ago SheriffGeorge Wall was shot to death by Curd Borders, as the result of an old feud. Wall’s nephew, Noel Roberts, was appointed sheriff. Last Saturday the second life was taken in the quarrel, when Eu gene Wall, son of the murdered sheriff, killed Benjamin Brooks, a member of the opposing faction. Monday the contending factions met in San Augustine with the result as above stated. More trouble is fear¬ ed, and telegrams have been ssnt to Governor Sayers requesting him to call out the militia. Official Organ of Rockdale Conn ty. Has Largest Circulation in Ihe County. PARAGRAPH CAUSED ROW. Colored Newspaper Editor at Au¬ gusta, Ga., Narrowly Escapes Rough Handling By Mob. Augusta, Ga., narrowly escaped more ™leace last Saturday night, 8 rowln f? °ut of a pnblieatioaoon oernin 8 tha recent killiu 8 of Alex Whitney and the lynching of his mur¬ derer, William Wilson, Saturday afternoon more than 200 white men marched from an indignation meeting on the river bank a mile across town to The Georgia Baptipt office on Camp 'bell street, near Gwinnett, to demand a retraction from the editor, and at night another party was organized to force Editor White to leave town and to wreck his printing office. The indignation in the community arose over a paragraph published in The Georgia Baptist, a denominational ne¬ gro paper, published for years past by Rev. W. J. White. It purported to have been copied from another paper, “The Bee,” said to tye published Washington city. It was as follows: “The lynching of William Wil¬ son, a popular young mechanic, in Augusta, Ga., a few days ago, is another one of those damnable Bins for which the south must be held responsible. Mr .Wilson died upholding tho virtue of one of Georgia’s most refined and highly respected young ladles. The white wretch who offered the insult fell at the hands of this young martyr and the unpleasant thought that such a brilliant career had to be sacrificed for one portraying the worst type of criminality is not only unfortunate, but sad to the very extreme.” The entire statement was so palpa¬ bly false that it filled the friends of young Whitney with indignation. An indignation meeting was called and the publication denounced and it was proposed to run Editor White out .of town, to wreck his newspaper office, while some even wanted to tar and feather him, or do'him other violence. The meeting deckled upon the appoint¬ ment of a committee to wait upon White and demand that he sign an apology and a repudiation of the arti¬ cle. - * In the meantime White had gone to The Herald and Chronicle offices and stated that ho did not know the para¬ graph was in his paper; that it was published without his knowledge or consent; that it was absolutely false and he was anxious to put a card in both papers repudiating it and apolo giz'ng for its publication in his paper. Tho following is the cord whjcb the committee dictated for Editor White’s signature: “Tho infamous article that appear¬ ed in Tho Georgia Baptist on May 31st as a clipping from The Bee, was inserted without the knowledge or ap¬ proval of tho editor of this paper, who hereby emphatically disclaims connection with its publication. “I cannot sufficiently deplore the fact that this disgraceful articlo ap pcared in our paper, apparently as the expression of the opinion and isenti meut of the editor of this paper. And further I deprecate, repudiate and de nounce the article and all tho senti ments it contains, and further guaran tee to the white people of Augusta that it is not the intention of The Georgia Baptist to offend by upholding any such dastardly acts as that referred to j n (be article in question. I farther guarantee to the white citizens that no such . oftense will ... . the again occur in columns of this paper. I respectfully ask the morning papers to publish this demal and promise to print it in large tjpe in 1 he Georgia Baptist. “Publisher of The Georgia Baptist’ rvnnmsuws KaUKHWAA 1 D1TCa HAifc.i i>em»n<ie<t By Kansas City notois May ,l * r »*>n<>«r»tic Convention. As the time for tbe convention draws near Senator Jones, chairman of the Democratic national committee, is in receipt of a number of vigorous corn plaints from tbe members of the na tional committee throughout the coun try over the action of the hotels in Kansas City in the matter of rates, Many of the committee have written Senator Jones on this subject, re questing that a meeting be called with a view to. reconsidering its action in deciding to hold the convention in that city. Senator Jones has taken the matter under serious considers tion. NO. 21. BOER CAPITAL SURRENDERED Such a Report Is Firmly Believed In London. NO CONFIRMATION IS RECEIVED Latest News From South Africa Indicates That the War Is About At An End. A London special, under date of Juno 1st, says: Belated messagos from Pretoria confirm the report* of the departure of President Kruger with his cabinet and staff officials Tuesday uight, and the selection at a meeting of citizens of a committee to administer tho city provisionally. Wed¬ Siuco those telegrams left on nesday nothing apparently has reached Lourenzo Marquez by telegraph from Pretoria. Possibly the wires have been out. Possibly tho Boer censorship at Borne intermediate point interrupts telegrams. im. So thoroughly is the country bued with the belief that Pretoria lias fallen, that Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, the secretary of state for the colonies, speaking at a meeting of the univer¬ sity of Birmingham, proposed a mes¬ sage to tho queen congratulating her upon the “capture” of Johannesburg aud Pretoria, which was sent to the afternoon newspapers. Although the war office has not re¬ ceived u word about it, no one in Lou¬ don harbors tho idea that the Boer capital is not already in tho hands of the British or about to be there. Tho possession of Johannesburg, at all events, as Lord Roberts has telegraph¬ ed, is a fact. States Attorney Smuts did not deport with President Kruger, but remained in Pretoria. Tho preSbut seat of the Boer government, accord* ing to a .dispatch from Lourenzo Marques, dated May 31st, is Muidle btirg, but it will probably be shifted further east. The Boors lately confronting Roberts \ appear to hove gone eastward, also to¬ ward the Lyndeuburg regiou. The defenders of Laing's nek, when their positions becomos too perilous, will probably trek straight northward to¬ ward Lyndeuburg. When this con¬ centration takes place there will be possibly 20,000 men, who may hold out for a time with scattered bauds of guerrillas elsewhere. A ROAST FOR PECK. Senator Jones, oi Arkansas, Wants Light on Work of Our Paris Commissioner In the senate, Friday, Mr. Jones of Arkansas, made a vigorous attack upon the administration of the Paris exposi¬ tion commision by Commissioner Gen¬ eral Ferd W. Peck. Up to January, 1900, he said Mr. Peck had ac¬ counted for less than $400,000 of tbe $1,400,000 appropriated for expo¬ sition purposes. He demanded to know where the balance of the appro¬ priation had gone. Tbe so-called de tailed statement that had been sub miUc( , contained 8nch item8 as $72,000 for c , erk bi p m for rgona i troTeJi elpe nses of tho commis „ ioner genern |, etc ., wbioh Mr . Jones believed were rediculous as “details." “It is time,” said he, warmly, “that thig gort of tbillg ghouId oeage . These statements ought to be itemized in ac cordance with the mandate of the law.” He then a read s dispatch from p ar j g indicating dissension among the American commission, some of whom bad been charged with endeavor to compel exhibitors to poy for the space allotted to them in the exposition. He believed au investigation necessary. said Mr. Hale, republican, of Maine, he personally inclined to the opinion that the Paris exposition was a bad performance. said that the'. Mr. Jones, continuing, a ir has been full of rumors that there have been most extravagant and un reasonable expenditures of the fund provided for the American eihibit, and we all know there never has been any - satisfactory report as to how this money was used.