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The hews of Conyers and Bock
dale County.
VOL. XXV.
GAILEY DRY GOODS COMPANY
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.
PEHN WELL GUARDED
Cliinoss to tin Numbir of 380,000
Invest the City.
HEAVILY EQUIPPED WITH ARTILLERY
Krunps and Maxiins Galore and Am
nuxiHlm Is <ln Hand In Inex¬
haustible Quantities.
I I “General Mu’s army,” says a eor
respondent of a London paper at
I I Shan Hai It wan, “consisting of four
thousand men, left a week ago
I [forces, for Pekin, and General Suug Ching’s
numbering 2,500, left for the
Line place on June 15th,
“A careful estimate of the number
[ami |around armament Pekin puts of the the total Chinese at 360,000, troops
[and [possess it is 220 calculated seven-centimeter that these Creusot troops
[gnus, eighteen Krupps and 150 Max
im-i.
‘Their supply of ammunition is
Ipracticrtlly Imaiuly inexhaustible. It bas been
supplied by a Germau firm at
ICnrlowitz. Fully three-fourths of the
■Chinese forces are badly drilled, whol
Ily [with undisciplined aud quite unfamiliar
modern weapons.”
[ | Another ‘‘Li Ping Shanghai Heng, former dispatch says: of
IShan governor
Tung, who is intensely anti-for
leign, Ion has gone to the Kiang Yin forts
the Yang l’se. He has declared his
■intention of resisting the lauding of
■lkiuak forces in that region.”
ffi husotiling to a Hong Kong dispatch,
■(Ink/ Sunday, strong reinforcements
■('/Mian police, witii three Maxims,
■lira been sent to Kow Ij°P n ! on the
■mainland. A Che Foo message of
|ilfouclay | “Four ! s date says: Rave been added to
cannon
■ the west fort here, where there are
■ lenmped, now 1,000 further soldiers force permanently having arrived en
a
I from King Hai Chou, There is ail
[uneasy [attack ig feeling generally prevailing anticipated. here and Chi- an
Inese merchants are closing their offices
| I and business preparing is to standstill, leave tho port, AH
at a
Extensive preparations by the allies
are going forward. The First regi¬
ment of British Indias, 10,000 men,
embarked at Calcutta Sunday and
833 more marines received orders to
go out from English ports,
j The British war office, in anticipa¬
tion of a prolonged campaign, is con¬
tracting for winter clothing and fur
raps.
J by The Russia, Amur army corps, 52,100 ordered with out
number men,
mghty-four land guns. Japan proposes to
"itkin 15,000 men on Chinese territory
j Among a fortnight. the minor military
tions prepara¬
the Portuguese government at
1’iacao, island of Macao, at the south¬
west entrance of Canton river, is send¬
H ing arms to the Portuguese in Can
Hve 011 - The Germans in Hong Hong
qgblpd Emperor William tp ask
| it they may serve in tho local forces in
defense of Hong Kong. A million
rounds left Hong Kong Monday for
; Taku by the British steamer Hai
I Loong, The
Loudon Shanghai correspondent of The
Her Times sends the following un
“A Sunday’s date:
military correspondent at Taku
I s ays that the operations of the allies
a (e suffering from the want of a recog
uized head, defective organization and
fbe lack of transport.”
Mr. Kinder, the noted engineer, has
“Hived at Che Foo.
The British cruiser Terrible bas ar
H^ed at Che Foo from Toku with the
latest news, which is as follows:
*'elsh "Eight hundred Sikhs and 200
Fusiliers have effected a jnne
i°n with the American, German and
by FCeS 1C ^ h ad be C1 t ro°m
the TS CV hlne r? ^ . Tl up S AiT f
Tien »«™“„,t.Vo».r, 0 S d *e°
e B
anv’ been relieved Ie ! ie bv , vi “ another. 8 T e '
Atanyrgte At it 18 apparently certain
ice be&JjiZ SV alh m SLl • "2^ UDdaJ *“ ? t0 aU k
the besieg ing Chinese.
Will Order Troops Home.
As soon as Secretary Root returns
{o e Washington made final arrangements will
tf for the withdrawal of as many
°ops as can be spared from farther
^fvices in Cuba.
The Bockdale Banner.
CONFLICTING REPORTS
Keep the World Guessing As To
True Condition of Affairs In
the Chinese Empire.
The British torpedo Boat destroyer
Whiting, at Chee Foo, China, reports
that nothing has been heard from
Seymour’s force for seven days.
Vice Admiral Sir Edward H. Seymour
is the commander of the British squad¬
ron in Chinese waters, and is also in
command of the force of 2,040 marine
guards, representing all the powers,
which started for Pekin June 10, but
has, it is reported, been compelled to
return to Tien Tsin. He is supposed
to be fighting against overwhelming
numbers of Chinese fanatics between
Tien Tsin and Pekiu.
The French consul wires that the
British mission at Tsang Chow has
been looted and the missionaries con¬
veyed to an unknown place by a Chi¬
nese general.
A semi-official dispatch received in
Berlin frdna Tokio, Japan, dated June
21st, says the Japanese consul at
Shanghai confirms the report that
Vice Admiral Seymour has arrived at
Pekin, and that the members of the
diplomatic corps are safe. According
to an official Japanese report from
Che Foo, the foreign settlement at
Tien Tsin was reduced to ashes June
* ,„*■
Ihe ^ Petit Lieu (Brussels , newspaper) ,
slates that a telegram was received
Thursday by an important Brussels
firm from China saying that Admiral
Seymour’s releiving force and the Kgs
sian column entered Pekin simiiltane
ously. The legations were reported
intact and all the Belgian residents are
said to be safe.
Reports have been received . at , „ Hong
•Kong representations from Canton, of the that foreign oivqng consuls, to tjie
Li Hung Chang has consented to re
main in Cautoq.
ALLIES WILL ADVANCE,
Rear Admiral Bruce Insqe* Proclamation
to Chinese Authorities.
The admiralty iu London has re¬
ceived the following dispatch from
Rear Admiral Bruce:
Taku, via Che Foo, June 21.— No
communication from the commander
in-chief (Seymour) iu seven days or
from Tien Tsin in five days. The allies
hold the Taku forts and Tong Ku se¬
curely, and they will advance to the
relief of Tien Tsin when in sufficient
strength. Troops are expected from
Hong Kong and from Wei-Hai-We.
It is believed that fightiug is con¬
stantly proceeding around Tien Tsin.
Onr garrison thero should be about
3,000 men. The following proclama¬
tion is to be issued forthwith:
“The admirals aud senior naval offi¬
cers of the allied powers in China de¬
sire to make known to all vicoroys and
authorities along the coasts aud riyers
and iu the cities and proyinpes pf
China that they intend to usp armed
force only against the Roxers and peo¬
ple that opj pse them on their march to
Pekin fo rescue their fellow country
m«u.”
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able to prkskkye reace.
Minister Wu Till* Fan* Delivers Reassur.
lug Messages at State Department.
Mr. Wu, the Chinese minister, eall
ed on Secretary Hay at the state de
pavtment Thursday and informed him
that he had received a dispatch from
the viceroy’of the three great provinces
of the Tang Tse Kiang, saying that he
felt himself perfectly able to keep the
peace in his provinces and insure the
safety of the foreign missionaries and
that in conjunction with his colleagues
is eble to answer for the preservation
of peace and order in all the great
southern provinces,
RUSSIAN DIPLOMAT DEAD.
Foreign Minister Expired Suddenly Fr«m
While a* Breakfast.
The Russian Minister of Foreign
Affairs, Count Muravieff, died sudden-
8t. Petersburg ™-
1 dS/TS u.2 ,h«
ZwL , j gj- and eX pi re d in a few
between 9 and 10 o’dock.
Count Muravieff was the head of the
Russian diplomatic service which is
admitted on all sides to be the most
aggressive and successful in the world.
Th? marvelous success of Russia’s
Asiatic policy of territorial extension
in connection with the Trans-Siberian
' railway and Pacific ports is largely
j due to him.
CONYERS. GA„ WEDNESDAY, JUNK 27. 1900.
REPUBLICAN PLATFORH.
Salient Features of the Document as Formulated
By the Committee on Resolutions.
Following are the salient features of
the platform presented in the Repub
liean convention by J the committee on
resolutions:
We renew our allegiance to the
principles of the gold standard and de¬
clare our confidence in the wisdom of
the legislation of the fifty-sixth oon
groas by which the parity of all our
money and th<> stability of our cur¬
rency on a gold basis has been se¬
cured.
We declare our steadfast opposition
to the free and unlimited coinage of
silver. No measure to that end could
be considered which was without the
support of the leading commercial
countries of the world.
The Democratic party must be con¬
vinced that the American people will
never tolerate the Chicago platform.
We recognize the necessity and pro¬
priety of the honest co-operation of
capital to meet new business condi¬
tions, and especciallv to extend our
rapidly increasing foreign trade, but
we condemn all conspiracies and com
binations intended to restrict business;
crea p e monopolies; to limit produp
jj on or ^o control prices and favor
such-legislation as will effeptpally re
atrain and prevent all such abuses,
, p ro tect and promote opromercial pom
petitipn and j secure Rie rights of pro
dnpprB a borers an<} all who are pu
gaged in industry and commerce,
renew our faith in the policy of
protection to American labor, In that
po]icy Q)Jr indastrie8 bave been estab
jj^bed, diversified and maintained. By
protecting the homo stimuhfted market the com¬
petition has been and pro¬
duction cheapened,
In the further interest of Amerioau
workmen we favor a more effeotive re¬
striction of the immigration of labor
from foreign lands, the extension of
opportunities of education for working
children, the raising of the age limit
for child labor, the protection of free
labor, as against contract cor»-vict labor
and an effective system of labor insur
anee.
The national defense and naval
efficiency of this country moreover
sujiply a compelling reason for legis¬
lation which will enable us to recover
our former place among the trade
ryiug fleets of the world.
The nation owes a debt of profound
gratitude to the soldiers and sailors
who have fought its battles, and it is
the government’s duty to provide for
the survivors aud widows and orphans
of those who fell in the country’s
wars.
Wp recommend tfie policy of the
Republican party in maintaining the
efficiency of the eivil servioe. The
administration has acted .wise in its
effort to secure for public servioe in
Cubs., Porto Rico, Hawaii and the
Philippine islands only those whose
fitness has been determined by train¬
ing and experience. of the fif¬
It was the plain purpose constitution
teenth amendment to the
to prevent discrimination on account
cf race or color in regulating the elec¬
tive franchise. Devices of state gov¬
ernments, whether by statutory or
constitutional enactment, to avoid the
purpose of the amendment are revolu¬
tionary and should be condemned.
Public movements looking to a per
maDcnt improvement of roads and
highways of the country meet with our
cordial approval, and we recommend
this subject to the earnest considera¬
tion of the people of the legislatures
of the several states.
We faver the extension of the rural
PUGNACIOUS DELEGATES.
A Pair of Texans Have a Lively
and Exciting Fisticuff In Cre¬
dentials Committee Room.
A Philadelphia dispatch says: The
Republican committee on credentials,
after an all night session, adjourned
at 6 a. m. Wednesday, having com¬
pleted all its business.
A lively fist light between two Texas
delegates occurred at 4:30 o’clock,
just after the committee had listened
to arguments from contesting delegates
in that state.
As the delegates were leaving the
ommittee room, W. H. Love, a dele-
free delivery service which may be
justified.
f ? vor boil ? e / or au, J * he
early admission , to statehood . of the
territories of New Mexico, Arizona und
Oklahoma,
The Diugley act amended to provide
sufficient revenue for the conduct of
the war has so well performed its work
that it has been possible to reduce the
war debt in the sum of $40,000,000.
The country is now justified in ex¬
pecting, and it will be the policy of
tie Republican party, to bring about
a reduction of the war taxes.
We favor the construction, owner¬
ship, control and protection of au
Isthmian canal by the government of
the.United States.
In . the interest of our expanding
commerce we recommend that con¬
gress create a department of com¬
merce and industries in charge of a
secretary with state portfolio, If
should be organized under the basis
of appointment and will render it ser¬
viceable to the nation’s increasing
trade.
The American government must
protect the person and property of
every citizen wherever they aro where
they are placed in peril. We congrat¬
ulate the women of America upon the
splendid record of public service iu
the volunteer aid association and as
numerous in camp and hospital during
the recent campaigns of our armies in
the eastern and western Indies, and
we appreciate their faithful work in
education and industry.
President McKinley has conducted
the foreign affairs of the Uuited States
with distinguished credit to the Amer
ienu people.
We oommend the part taken by our
government in the peace conference at
the Hague. While the American gov¬
ernment must continue the policy pre¬
scribed by Washington, affirmed by
every succeeding president, and im¬
posed upon us by the Hague treaty,
of non-intervention iu European con¬
troversies, the American people earn¬
estly hope that a way may be found
honorable alike to both Great Britain
and the South African republics, to
terminate the strife between them.
In accepting by the treaty of Paris
the just responsibilities of our victo¬
ries iu the Spanish war, the president
and the senate won the undoubted ap
proval of the American peoplo. No
other course was possible than to de¬
stroy Spaiu’s sovereignty throughout
the world and in the Philippine
islands.
The cpuyse created our responsi
bility before the world and with the
unorganised population whom Spain our in¬
tervention had freed from to
provide for, the maintenance of law
and order ond for the establishment
of good government and for the per¬
formance of international obligations,
our 1 authority could not be less than
our responsibility; and wherever sov¬
ereign states are extended it is the
high duty of the government to maiu
taiu its authority, to put down armed
insurrection and to confer the blessings
of liberty and civilization upon all the
rescued peoples. The largest meas¬
ures of self-government consistent
with their welfare aud our duties shall
be secured to them by law.
To Cuba independence aud self
government were assurred in the same
voice by which war was declared, and
to the letter thia pledge shall be per-,
formed.
The Republican party, upon its his->
tory and upon this declaration of prin
cipiles and policies, confidently in¬
vokes the considerate and approving
judgment c*f the American people.
gate from MoKinney, Texas, accused
Walter Burns of having made state¬
ments in the committee room which
were not true. Burns denied that he
had made any such statement, and
Love called him a liar. Burns promptly
planted his fist in Love’s face with a
violence that would have laid Love low
on the floor had not some of the by¬
standers caught him. Love was finally
hustled down the stairs and taken
away by his friends.
Immediately after this row two col¬
ored delegates began to make violent
threats and warlike demonstrations at
each other. This trouble also involved
a question of veracity. They were
dragged apart without difficulty.
7 Official Organ of Reekdale Conn*
" ty. Has Largest Cirenlation In
I The County.
OUR MARINES SLAIN
Onslaught of Allied Forces Upon
Tien Tsin Is Disastrous.
CHINESE HANDLE GUNS EFFECTIVELY
Washington Oilleials Alavmed and Decide
To Transfer Asiatic Squadron
To Taku.
The following bulletin was issued
by tho department at Washington
Saturday:
“Acting Secretary Haekett has this
morniug received a dispatch from
Admiral Kernpff, dated Che Foo, Juue
22, to the effect that the marines under
Major Walter, together with 400 Rus¬
sians, have had au engagement with
the Chinese army near Tien Tsin. They
could not break through the line. A
force numbering 2,000, the admiral
roports, is now ready to make another
attempt.”
The main importance of this dis¬
patch is Admiral Kempff’s disclosure
that it is the Chinese army, and not
the Boxers, who are lighting the for¬
eign troops.
A SECOND CABLEGRAM.
The navy department Sunday after¬
noon issued the following bulletin:
“A cablegram from Admiral Kernpff,
dated Che Foo, Juno 24th, says:
“In ambuscade lieuv Tien Tsin, on
the 21st, four of Waller’s command
killed and seven wounded. Names
will be furnished as soon as received.
Force of 2,000 going to relievo Tien
Tsin today. Kempff. ”
The secretary of the navy has order¬
ed Admiral Remey to go with the
Brooklyn to Taku and to tender Gen¬
eral MacArthur conveyance of any
army troops which tho Brooklyn can
Admiral Kempff’s dispatch
hte first definite news of the
of American blood on Chinese soil
came early Sunday morning aud was
turned over to Secretary Long as soon
as be arrived at the department.
With Admiral Crowningshield, the
secretary carried the dispatch to the
white bouxe, where, on the president’s
Return from church, it was laid before
him. The determination thereupon
was reached to order Admiral Remey,
in command of the Asiatic squadron,
from Manila to Taku, on board tho
armored cruiser Brooklyn.
The secretary and Admiral Crowin
shield returned to the navy depart¬
ment, where the necessary orders were
dispatched to Admiral Remey. The
effeot of this transfer is to make Taku
the headquarters of the Asiatic sqnail
rou. The Brooklyn is expected to sail
at once, if possible, as the orders sent
contemplate getting the admiral on
the scene at the earliest moment.
PEKIN WHOLLY ISOLATED.
Advices of Monday from London
state that the position of the interna¬
tional forces in the section of northern
China, where 10,000 men are striving
to keep a footing and succor the lega
tious iu Pekin, appears to increase in
peril with every fresh dispatch. Pekin
has not been heard from direct for
fourteen days.
The last dispatch was one imploriug
aid. Admiral Seymour’s columu of
2,000 was last heard from twelve days
ago. At that time it was surrounded
midway between Pekin aud Tien Tsin.
Possibly now internationals it has reached Tien Pekin. Tsin
The 3,000 at
were hard pressed aud fightiug for
tlieir lives on Thursday and a relieving
force of less than a thousand had been
beaten back to Taku Friday. Observ¬
ers on the spot think that 100,000 men
would not be too many to grasp China
firmly.
A message from Shanghai dated
Sunday at 4 p. m. embodies some later
information. It says:
“Official Japanese telegrams con¬
firm the reports of a defeat of the al¬
lied forces at Tien Tsin. The foreign¬
ers there are placed in a most desper¬
ate situation.
“Among those killed of the relief
force Friday was the commander of her
majesty’s ship Barfleur. The foreign
casualities were 300.
Captain Beatty and Lieutenant
"Wright, British, have been severely
wounded at Tien Tsin, according to a
Shanghai dispatch to The London
Daily Express, dated Saturday.
NO. 24.
JENNINGS IS NAMED
By D3mocrats of Florida as Can¬
didate For Governor.
F0RTY F0UR BALLOTS WERE TAKEN.
List of Other State OOicer. Nominated
at the State Convention Held
In Jacksonville.
The Florida state Democratic con¬
vention nominated Hon. William 8.
Jennings as candidate for governor.
On tho thirtieth ballot a stampede
was attempted for Mays, his vote be¬
ing jumped up from 38 to 122$. His
strength was drawn from Beggs, My¬
ers and Milton, only 14 votes leaving
Jennings in tho stampede. Myers
dropped out of the raco after the
thirtieth ballot, though no formal
withdrawal was made.
On the forty-first ballot Mays with¬
drew in favor of Milton; on tho forty
third ballot Beggs withdrew, and on
the forty-fourth ballot William 8. Jen¬
nings receivod the required two-thirds
vote and his nomination was made
unanimous amid a scene of wild en¬
thusiasm.
The nominee is a first cousin of Wil¬
liam Jennings Bryan of Nebraska.
He is a native of Illinois, but removed
to Florida in 1886. He is thirty-seven
years old.
The following state officers were
nominated: Francis Bicar, justice of
the supreme court; John L. Crawford,
secretary of state; W. H. Reynolds,
comptroller; W. B. Lamar, attorney
general. superintendent of
W. N. Sheats,
public instruction.
lion. B. E. MeLin, commissioner
of agriculture.
John L. Morgan, railroad commis¬
sioner.
The governor and state officials hold
office for four years.
Judge George P. Raney, of Talla¬
hassee, was chosen the Florida mem¬
ber of the national Democratic corn
tee.
This is the last state Democratic
convention that will be held in Flor¬
ida for many years, probably, as the
platform adopted provides for prima¬
ries for United States senator down.
BRYAN Oi PLATFORM.
Nebraskan Gives HI* Opinion mt the Re¬
publican Document.
When asked his opinion of the Phil¬
adelphia platform, Colonel Bryan saidr
“The Philadelphia platform is the
best evidence thus far given of the de¬
ception attempted by the Republican
party. Taking in connection with the
speeches made at the convention, it
shows that the Republican party’s
platform of 1896 was a deliberate
fraud as far as the promises concerned; of inter¬
national bimettalism was
that the party's attitude on the trust
question is insincere and that the
party is not willing to state its atti¬
tude on the Philippine question and
invite the judgment of the people.”
FILIPINOS WIN YICTOItY.
An American I>etacli*nent Is Forced flack
liy ttie liebeli.
A Manila special says: A detach¬
ment of forty men of the Fortieth regi¬
ment, Captain Thomas Miller com¬
manding, left Cagayan de Misamis, is¬
land of Mindanao, scouting, June 13tb.
During the morning of June 14th they
encountered a strongly ambushed and
entrenched force of the enemy.
The Americans’ attempts to charge
were frustrated by the Filipinos’ pit
falls and troops. The advance line
consequently was under a heavy fire
in front and on its flanks, and fell
back on Cagayan. The American loss
was nine men killed and two officers
and ten men wounded.
CUBAN TEACHERS COMING.
Bound For Boston, “Where They Will Be
Given Instruction.
Quartermaster General Ludington
received word Saturday of the depart¬
ure of the transport McPherson from
Manzanillo, Cuba, with 250 Cuban
teachers bound for Boston by way of
the eastern porta of Cuba. This move¬
ment makes the beginning of the gen¬
eral movement of about 2,500 teachers
from Cuban ports to Boston, where
they are to receive a general course of
instruction during the summer under
the auspices of ths Harvard university.