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VOI. XXV.
GAILEY DRY GOODS COMPANY
Is the plaee 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
Lur Is friends and they will tell others, showing each one what our Cash House
doing. Patterns given away for the next thirty days.
ilOPS FIGHT
THE “BOXERS”
[i Confict la China Begins In
Earnest.
HIE AMERICANS ARE LANDED
Admiral Kernpf and Minister Con
[ ger Both Reiterate the Seri¬
ousness of Situation.
fbe secretary of the navy has re¬
lived Lirsl the following cable from Ad
Kernpf, commanding the United
Lies steamship Newark, lying at the
hta forts at the mouth of Pei He
liver, dated Taku, China, June 5:
"Engagement has commenced.
Have landed force of fifty sea¬
men more—battalion of marines.
“Kempf.”
The cipher message is not entirely
legible, and it is supposed at the navy
irpartment the admiral means that he
ha landed fifty seamen to reinforce
tie band*of marines already ashore.
I Minister Conger, at Pekin, cabled
I Yf edaesday that the situation was
Iwmt Pekin, and this statement,
■ \tta id connection with Admiral
■ Xe/npJ's alarming cablegram, decided
mite stile department to strengthen the
I card forces nearest the scene of trou
I hie. Accordingly cablegram was
I sent to Admiral Rerney, at Manila, di»
I reefing him to dispatch at once to Acl
I iiiral Kempff’s command the gunboat
[Helena, or if that crait is not at Ma¬
nila ami ready for immediate service,
I then some craft of correspondingly
I light draft and power.
Dispatches from Shanghai state that
(lie soldiers dispatched to attack the
I tears have fought an engage incut
quite close to Pekin, Many were
killed ou both sides.
In consequence of the representa¬
tions of Japanese tho landing of a
lurge Russian force to Taku is alleged
to have been stopped.
It is believed in Shanghai that
|should prepondering Russia persist in sending a
j ijtont a collision military with Japan force will to iuev- the
■Wily result.
i lurried Alarming reports are current of the
completion of the mobilization
ptthe News Japanese fleet.
i from Tien Tsic is to the
(feet that the Chinese servants of a
Belgian engineer, who left Pao Ting
l| live !: foreign two days and after two Chinese the Belgians, dead bod- saw
® ia the grand canal, one being the
of a woman. A boxer placard
threatens the extermination of the for¬
mers Violent in Tien Tsin on June 10th.
tfist dissensions are reported to
between the Chinese commander
»i-ehief of the forces, Jung In, and
uince Clung Tuan, who, in aocord
* Bee with the wishes of the dowager
impress, is strongly supporting the
“km of the boxers.
The mobs who murdered the Eng
ls t missionaries, Robiusou and Nor
todies. f 8 ?.’ ustilated and disemboweled the
“HOXERS” ARE SEMI-BARBARIANS.
More or less uncertainty and iguo
^ t! ‘the Dce exists Chinese in the public mind relative
secret society known as
"boxers,” whose present activity
featena to precipitate the iong an
: Fated partition of the celestial em¬
pire. According to The London
j. ai| y Mail the Chinese Society of
r sers constitutes in reality great
a
in murderers, estimated- to con¬
,
i ' 0 nuts ranks over 11,000,000 semi
r'OMiing’ well organized, well arm
L’k as 8av age in their fanaticism
I*itk J? e Soudan dervishes.
L « 'be S ° eiety beneficent was originally formed
. intention of pro
L tla £ honest men in China ftom
j" “ iea hs- It was ealled Ta Tao Hwri, the
* means "The Society of
hi K b WOr ^’” a w hieh seems to
® een changed at comparatively
> a
jj. ; . to the more familiar name
80 often appears in our news
just now. When and where
- c °° originated is not certain.
The Rockdale Banner,
INVESTIGATORS AT WORK.
Atlanta Council Committee Prob¬
ing Chargesof Alleged Hiscon
duct of Mayor Woodward.
The official investigation by the At¬
lanta, Ga., city council’s committee
into the alleged reprehensible acts of
Mayor James G. Woodward com¬
menced Friday.
A number of witnesses, among them
prominent citizens, were called upon
to tell what they knew concerning the
alleged conduct of Atlanta’s chief
executive.
Neither Mayor Woodward nor his rep¬
resentatives were present, being barred
from the deliberations of the commit¬
tee. The investigation was conducted
much in the manner of the sessions of
the county grand jury, the object of
the committee being to ascertain if
there is sufficient evidence among the
witnesses for the prosecution to war¬
rant the holding of an impeachment
trial, in which event the mayor -will
have an opportunity to defend him
sel'.
The testimony of tbe witnesses ex¬
amined at the first session of the com¬
mittee was in effect that Mayor James
G. Woodward was so drunk at a recent
meeting of the board of education as
to interfere with the transaction of
business; that it was necessary upon
one occasion to detain the mayor at
the pumping station of the waterworks
because of his intoxicated condition;
that the mayor had telephoned for a
policeman to meet him at the house
of Eva Clark, a white woman, and had
stated to the officer upon his arrival
that Eva Clark had taken $100 from
his clothes while the clothes were
hanging upon the back of a chair j that
the mayor had interfered with the
workings of the police department in
reference to the place of residence of
a house of ill fame; that the mayor
had been seen in au intoxicated condi¬
tion at the city hall.
"WAR OYER,” SAYS OTIS.
General TpuM** For Chicago Papers On Af¬
fairs In Philippines.
Major General E. S. Otis, of the
United States army, arrived iu Chi¬
cago at 7:20 o’clock Friday morning and
from Sau Francisco aud Manila,
left at 1:30 for Washington. Mrs.
Otis and daughter arrived in Chicago
Thursday night from New York, and
the general aud his wife and daughter
spent the hours between trains to¬
gether—the ending of a separation of
two years. General Otis said, among
other things;
"The war is over. The guerrilla
warfare can’t last long. To be sure
we will have to repress those people
for a number of years, but there is no
organized force of Filipinos. The
depredations that are going on are
conducted by robbers and drones.
The United States troops are now en¬
gaged iu defending tho inhabitants of
the Philippines against the robbery
and murder committed by their
own people. But the conditions are
generally improving, and iu some
parts are better than they have ever
been.
"Wo have 55,000 effective troops
under arms in the Philippines. Esti¬
mates regarding the number of inhab¬
itants in the islands are all wild, but
tbe number is between six and seven
millions. Tho great majority of the
people desire peace and wish to again
take up their business pursuits. Busi¬
ness in Manila has again resumed ac¬
tivity and tbe inhabitants are peace¬
fully pursuing their avocations.
"I cannot see that the administra¬
tion of our distinguished secretary of
war has made any mistake in this
campaign. We may have made-a mis¬
take over there, but, if so, they have
been the result of human liability to
commit error.”
VISITED KRUGER’S HOME.
Wife of the President Exchanges Greet¬
ings With British Officers.
A special dispatch from Pretoria
describes the visit made by officers of
Lord Roberts’ staff to the Kruger resi¬
dence in Pretoria. It says:
"We were received by a Dutch pas¬
tor, and shortly joined by Mrs. Kru¬
ger. She composedly exchanged greet¬
ings with her visitors, who notified
her of their intention to replace the
burgher guard by a gmard of British
troops. The burghers thereupon laid
down their arms dn the asphalted
porch of the building.”
CONYERS. OA.. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13. 1900.
KRUGER TALKS
TO REPORTER
Transvaal Capital Now Located
In a Railroad Car.
BOERS NOT YET WHIPPED
Oom Paul Declares That The
South African War Is No¬
where Near an End.
Dispatches reaching London state
that the executive offices of the Trans
vaal government are in a railway car
which is shunted on a switch at
Machadorp station. President Kruger
caused the interior of the coach to be
reconstructed some time ago with a
view to contingencies that now have
arrived.
A correspondent of The Daily Ex¬
press, who went from Lourenzo Mar¬
ques to see President Kruger, was re¬
ceived Thursday. The president sat
smoking a long pipe. He looked wor¬
ried, but his bearing was quiet and
determined. He did not make the
least objection to being interviewed.
The correspondent was equipped for
the interview by cables from London.
"Yes,” said President Kruger, "it
is quite true that the British have
occupied Pretoria. This, however,
does not end the war. The burghers
are fully determined to fight to the
last. They will never surrender so
long »s 500 armed men remain in the
country. I feel deeply encouraged
by the fine work 8teyu and Dewet are
doing in the Free State.”
Tho correspondent suggested that
the war was over, inasmuch as the
capital "The had capital,” been taken. exclaimed President
Kruger, with ene.gy. "What is a
capital? It does not consist of any
particular collection of bricks and mor¬
tar. The capital of the republic, the
seat of government is here in this car.
There is no magic about any special
site. Our country is invaded, it is
true, but it is not conquered. The
government is still effective.”
Referring to the reasons why he left
Pretoria, Mr. Kruger said:
"I was not foolish enough to be
taken prisoner. I provided this the means
of locomotion precisely for them¬ same
reason as our burghers supply
selves with horses when they take the
field.
"There is much surprise at your said
having left Mrs. Kruger behind,”
the correspondent. Kru¬
"But why?” asked President
ger. "Mrs. Kruger is quite safe in
Pretoria. She would only be put to
personal inconvenience here. All
communication between us is stopped,
of course, but she will await my re¬
turn with calmness and courage. She
is a brave woman. I am here await¬
ing further information. Wo are sur¬
rounded by faithful burghers and are
quite safe. ”
"You may depend upon it that the
war is not yet over,” State Secretary
Reitz remarked. "Guerrilla warfaie
will continue over an enormous area.
We intend to fight to the bitter end
and shall probably retire upon Lyden*
burg, where we can hold out for many
montbs.
"Yes," observed President Kruger
"it is only now that the real straggle
has begun. I fear there will ■till be
much bloodshed, but the fault s tb ,■
°f th e British govd-nmeu .
Then raising his voice to an almost
passionate height, Ivruger exclaimed:
The time has passed for us to a k.
We have done plenty of that, but it
has done us no good. The only thing
left for us is to keep on fighting.
EMPRESS GIVES ORDERS.
Chinese General I* Instructed to Protect
Railroad With Pekin.
A special dispatch received in Lon
don horn Shanghai, dated 7:30 p. m. j
Thursday, says the dowager emuress j
has ordered General Neih Si Chong,
with 3,000 men, to protect the railroad
with Pekin. A severe fight, it is add
ed. has occurred with the boxers, j
whose ranks include many soldiers
from other generals’ commands. When ;
the battle ended two hundred dead ;
left tbe field. 1
were on
CONGRESS HAS ENDED
Both Houses Adjourn Sine Die
Amidst Exciting Scenes,
RUSHING WORK AND MUCH MERRIMENT
Speaker Henderson lilvcn An Ovation.
The Members Sing: << I>ixle ,, and
Cheers Break Forth.
The first session Of the 56th Con¬
gress was brought to a close Thurs¬
day, one day later than the date pre¬
viously fixed upon by resolution.
In a marked contrast with the excit
ing incidents attending the bitter
struggles of the closing hours of the
session of the house Speaker Hender¬
son laid down his gavel at 5 o’clock
Thursday afternoon at the conclusion
of one of the most picturesque scenes
which has ever occurred in the house
of representatives. personal
Party passion and rancor
which had brought the house to the
brink of actual riot several times dur
ng the forty-eight hours previously
gave way during the last half hour to
good fellowship, which found vent in
a patriotic outbursts tbnt stirred tbe
crowded galleries to tho highest pitch
of enthusiasm.
During the brief recess taken within
thirty minutes of the time fixed for
the final adjournment to give the presi¬
dent an opportunity to affix his signa¬
ture to the bills that were being rush¬
ed to him for approval, a group of
members led by Meroer, of Nebraska;
Ball, of Texas; Fitzgerald, of Massa¬
chusetts, and Tawney, of Minnesota,
congregated in the arena to the left of
the speaker’s rostrum and began sing¬
ing patriotic airs, The entire mem
bership of the bouse joined in the
choruses. Tho galleries applauded
each song until the strains of "Dixie”
filled the hall.
Then the unbounded enthusiasm
broke out in wild cheers. Rut the en¬
thusiasm "Dixie” evoked was not to
be compared with the remarkable de¬
monstration which followed, when, in
a clear ringing tenor, Mr. Fitzgerald
started the anthem with the inspiring
words "Through the Dawn’s Early
light.” In an instant, all tlie men,
women and children in the galleries
were ou their feet, joining in the sing¬
ing. The speaker, pausing as he en¬
tered the hall, raised his voice also.
The excitement produced by the scene
overcame a white haired old man in
the gallery, and when the song ceased,
be jumped upon his seat and shouted:
"That is the song of the angels of
heaven.”
He was plainly a crank, but as ho
showed a disposition to harraugue the
house, ho was quickly ejected.
After Speaker Henderson had made
a graceful farewell speech, thanking
the members for their courtesy, and
had declared the house adjourned, the
members testified to his popularity by
singing, "For He is a Jolly Good
Fellow,” and the newspaper corres¬ cele¬
pondents in the press gallery
brated their emancipation from the
burdens of congress by singing tbe
"Doxology. ”
IN THE SENATE.
For the senate it was a day of wait
jug. The naval appropriation bill—
stumbling block to final adjourn-
1Eent _ coul(1 not be agreed to by the
conferees of the two houses and the
di oment was report ed to tbe sen
ate ear , in the d There was au
evi(]ent di8p08ition on the part of the
genate to make trouble if the conferees
should recede from the senate amend
as to the ocean surveys and it
wag deemed ^ wiaer policy to afford
^ bouse an opportunity again to pass
^ the que8 tffin.
concluding hour of the session
waa purely social 8e8S i on . No busi¬
ness beyond the adoption of the cus¬
tomary resolution of thanks to the
chair, Mr. Frye, was accomplished.
Mr. Frye acknowledged the compli
ment gracefully,
Fifty-eight house pension bills were
passed. An ineffectual attempt was
made by Mr. Chandler, of New Hamp
shire, to obtain consideration for hia
resolution instructing the committee
on privileges constitutionality and elections of to the inquire elec
into the
toral laws of certain states,
Precisely at 5 o’clock the gavel fell
and the session was at an end.
ferri
OFFICIAL RECEPTION
Is Given Boer Peace Envoys At
Omaha, Nebraska—All Par¬
ties Are Represented.
Envoy Weasels, of the Orange Free
State, was given a big official recep¬
tion by Omaha, Neb., Saturday. It
was marked as being of n wholly non¬
partisan cbaraoter. Governor Poyti¬
ter, Populist, presided over the mass
meeting; Mayor Moores, Republican,
welcomed the euvoy for the city; Cap¬
tain H. E. Palmer, chairman of .the
Republican state central committee,
was secretary of the meeting and read
a number of communications; T. J.
Mahoney, a Cleveland gold Democrat,
made a stirring speech, and William
J. Bryan was present and on call from
the audience expressed bis sympathy
for the struggling republics. At the
Creighton theater a crowd oi several
thousand greeted Mr. Weasels.
"You don’t hear the truth about
tb,” said ho. "England has all the
cables ard holds the oar of the world.
You know the history of the Boers,
for the Americans, I find, have read
more than any other people on earth.
You know bow Kruger went, to Europe
twico and begged and entreated for
liberty; you have read how Steyn has
studied about the free nations of the
wbrld; he knows all about the Ameri¬
can government, and when the English
people say that we were the aggressors
and threatened to drive the English
people into the sea, do you think that
those two men would think for a mo¬
ment that they could do such a thing?
Why, there are only 250,000 people in
both our republics, from the smallest
infant to the men bigger than I am.”
Calls Were heard for Mr. Bryan and
he finally responded in an impassion¬
ed address, fle spoke in part as fol¬
lows:
“I came as a citizen, an American
citizen, to be present with other Amer¬
ican citizens to meet the representa¬
tives of the Boer republics; to join
with you in expressing to them our
sympathy for their cause and, as I
earnestly believe, the sympathy of a
great majority of the American people.
I trust that the day will never come
when a nation fighting for liberty will
look in vain to the American people
for_sympathy and aid.”
AUDITOR’S REPORT
In the Southern Mutual Building
and Loan Case—Papers Con¬
stitute Four Volumes.
An Atlanta dispatch says: Four
large volumes of closely printed type
written pages constituted the report
in the Southern Mutual Building and
Loan Association, which was filed by
Auditor T. A. Hammond in the su¬
perior court Friday.
As there are several hundred per¬
sons directly and others indirectly af¬
fected by the finding of the auditor,
the report is more than ordinary in¬
terest.
The auditor decides that stockhold¬
ers who had filed notices of withdrawal
should not be allowed any preference
over other stockholders.
Another interesting point decided
was that the withdrawing members
were not entitled to be classed as
creditors. He held further that if
directors and officers of the association
were receiving salaries from the asso¬
ciation not warranted by its assets, the
conduct of these directors in receiving
the salaries was not such a wrong to
the stockholder as would warrant a
judgment being entered against the
various directors to recover back the
salaries paid. also
In his report Auditor Hammond
makes an important decision in fixing
the liability of the borrowers. He re¬
ports $16,000 against the Bates-Farley
Savings bank in favor of the associa¬
tion.
The Southern Mutual case is one of
considerable magnitude. It is be¬
lieved to be the largest of its kind in
the country, and has attracted more
than local attention ever since the col¬
lapse of the association several years
ago. The amount of money that the
stockholders will get will depend
largely upon the sum collected by the
receivers. Auditor Hammond has
listed the amounts standing to the
credit of all.
According to tho report, between
the time of its organization and until
the appointment of receivers some
three years ago, the association lost
about $350,000.
NO. 22.
POSSE SHOOTS
INTO STRIKERS
rhree Killed and Several Others
Wounded In St. Louis Streets.
DEPUTIES »« BLOODY WORK
Slrikers Were Returning From
Picnic When the Unlooked
For Trouble Occurred.
Last Sunday, in St. Lous, was ono
of the most eventful and bloody since
the gieat strike of the Transit com¬
pany began, more than one month
ago. There^wero numerous encount¬
ers between strikers and other riotous
persons and the constituted authori¬
ties, resulting in three deaths and
wounding of five or more persons,
mostly strikers. One of .the latter will
die.
■ The day was quiet until the after¬
noon, when the polioe were taken off
a number of street car lines for the
purpose of giving them a rest, and to
test the ability of the Transit company
to operate without friction. Oars were
in operation during tho daytime on all
the lines of the Transit company ex¬
cept the southwestern. At night cars
wore run under polioe protection until
midnight on the Park avenue, Olivo
street, Lindell division and La Clede
avenue line.
The most serious trouble broke out
at 7 o’clock p. m. in front of the six
story store building on Washington
aveuue occupied by the sheriff’s posse
comitatus as a barracks and headquar¬
ters. Several hundred striking street
car men bad gone to EaBt 8t. Louis
earlier in the day to attend a picuic
given for their benefit at Wolff’s
grove. Toward evening they began
returning borne singly, in groups of
two or three, or in companies of a
hundred or more.
No serious trouble occurred until
one of these companies, composed of
nearly 150 street car men in uniform
and headed by a drum eorpB, came west
on Washington avenue. In their caps
some of them had cards bearing these
words:
"Union or nothing; liberty or
death.”
The men were marching along the
sidewalk on the south side of Wash¬
ington avenue opposite the posse bar¬
racks. They were in a jocular mood,
and as near as can be learned, had no
intention of making any trouble.
Just as they were passing the bar¬
racks a car at the Park avenue divis¬
ion was going west. A number of the
men broko from the line and rushed
toward the car, with the intention, il
is said, of boarding it and taking a
ride. Another statement was made
that it was the intention of the strik¬
ers to assault the motorrnan and con¬
ductor, whose car was without the
usual police guard, A brick wat
thrown through tho car window and s
shot was fired, Members of the
sheriff’s posse swarmed from the build¬
ing and surrounded the crowd of strik¬
ers about the car, calling upon them
to disperse.
Other shots were fired and then
some of the deputies turned loose
their repeating shotguns loaded with
buckshot. As far as can be learned
only four of the men in the strikers'
ranks were hit. Not a deputy wae
wounded.
Under the command of Colonel
Cavender tho deputies arrested twenty
of the strikers and took them into the
barracks, where they were searched.
Three revolvers and a number ol
pocket knives were secured and the
prisoners were locked up. The other
strikers tied.
DEATII IN EXPLOSION.
Three People Killed end More fatally
Hurt In West Annlaton, Ala.
Fearful havoc was wrought Saturday
morning by the explosion of a huge
boiler at the Duke brick works West
Anniston, Ala Two persons were
killed instantly by tbe explosion; one
died a few hours afterwards, two others
are expected to die, and six others are
injured more or less severely.