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The Banner Will Give Yoa All The Sews of Conyers and Rock dale County. VO I,. XXV. GAILEY DRY GOODS COMPANY / %f % 1 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. . • KING HUMBERT ASSASSINATED Aoarchist Fires Ballet Through Heart H Of t I* Italy 1 > S D Kulcr. t MURDERER WAS QUICKLY SEIZED King Had Just Entered His Car¬ riage at Monza When Three Revolver Shots Were Fir¬ ed In Quick Succession. According to dispatches, King Hum¬ bert of Italy has been assassinated. He was shot at Monza Sunday even¬ ing at 10:45 o’clock by a man named Angelo Bressi, and died in a few min utes. The king had been attending a dis¬ tribution of prizes in connection with a gymnastic competition which took place about 10 o’clock. He had just entered his carriage with his aide-de-camp, amid tho cheers of tho crowd, when ho was strnck by throe revolver shots fired iu quick suc cession. One pierced the heart of his majesty, who fell back and expired in slew minutes. The assassin was immediately ar rested and was with some difficulty saved fiom the fury of the populace. He gave his name as Angelo Bressi, describing himself as of Prato, in Tus cany. Humbert was the eldest son of Vic tor Emanuel and on the death of his father, in 1878, succeeded to the throne. He was liked by his subjects and was very popular. CABINET SUMMONED. News of the terrible event was not received in Rome until midnight. Signor Saraco, the premier, immedi¬ ately summoned a meeting of tho cab¬ inet and the ministers will start at the earliest possible moment for Monza. BEESSI AN ANARCHIST. Angelo Bressi, tbe assassin of King Humbert, according to a special from Home, is an anarchist. ISLANDS WERE LEFT OUT. United States Arranges to Buy Omlttod Fart of Philippines. Arrangements have practically been completed for the purchase from Spain by the United States of the islands of Cibitu and Cagayen, w hich were left in Spanish possession by the treaty of Paris although part of the Philippines archipelago. said The purchase price is to be 8100,000. Had the peace commissioners at Paris, in arranging for the relinquish¬ ment ippines to the United States of the Phil¬ contented themselves with the phraseology, lago, ” “The Philippine Archipe¬ he ceded as descriptive of the territory to to the United States by Spain, no qnestion, perhaps, would have arises over the possession of Cibitu and Cagayen islands. But to avoid the least chance of loose definition,the Peace commissioners drew a geograph¬ ical boundary line around the islands *° be transferred. The bounds were fixed by meridians of longitude and Parallels of latitude, and in this way the two small islands wero uninten¬ tionally left out. LIVELY IN NORTH STATE. Heels Relegate Everything In the Excitement of Heated Campaign. A special from Raleigh, N. C., says: Ffom one end of the state to the other one theme of conversation with to ® n > women and children is the cam P a ign just closing. It has been the hjeliest, iae history the of most the heated old North campaign State, in ec hpsing by far the struggle of 1898; as the day of election draws near, “ e interest has reached tho fever Point. The Charlotte Observer prints vpecial ^ Patches from in North p ttolina every county ate election, forecasting the result «f the ir** d constitutional showing that the pro amendment and “e Democratic ticket ■will have over “OOO majority. The Rockdale Banner. PEACE IN NEW ORLEANS, j Mayor Takes Charge of Affairs With His Special Force and Works Wonders. Peace aud order reigus in Now Or¬ leans, only one disturbance being re p° rted throughout Saturday. This "-as an °* d ne S r0 woman being pelted by a gang of boys for making incen¬ diary speeches. The courage and con °ke !eS™ hZgulhZ by two rauses—the vigorous and ener¬ getic action of Mayor Capdeville and the killing of the negro desperado, Robert Charles, who caused all the trouble. The mayor increased the number of his special police to ] ,500. This was composed almost entirely of the very best elements in the city—merchants, bankers, business men of all kinds. The special police, with the militia, furnished a force of 3,000 men, all armed with rifles and so distributed iu squads and companies throughout the city as to prevent auy forming of mobs or rioting. The barrooms were required to close at 2 p, in. Saturday and remain closed until Monday. No liquor was sold Sunday for the first time in mauy days. The killing of Charles had a marked effect in restoring quiet. Had he es¬ caped the riots and attacks on the Degroes could have been prevented only with difficulty, even by a large forco of military. With a record of having killed eight white men in four days, a hater of the whits race and preaching the doctrine of resistance to the alleged oppression by the whites, Charles would hove been indeed dangerous to the peace and order of the community aud would have instigated and stirred up race troubles. He was of a roving disposi¬ tion, had been a railroad hand, waiter, newspaper carrier, immigration agent, etc., and always a hater of the whites. The police find that he had three or more rooms in the city; that he was an uctive prosolyter among the negroes, endeavoring to persuade them to go to Liberia to escape white oppression. In all of his rooms were found incen¬ diary literature, books and pamphlets on the negro quostion, all taking a radical pro-African view of the ques¬ tion. In the Saratoga street house he bad a large quantity of lead for the manufacture of bullets. The police have entered charges against all the negroes in the Jackson bouse as accessories to the murder of Officers Porteous and Lally. These include Silas Jackson, who rented the house aud subleased rooms to the other negroes; Martha Jackson, his wife, who hid Charles in the closet of the house; George Ford, who was found wounded under a bed; John Willis, who was found masquerading in wo¬ man’s clothing, and John Madison, who was found between two mattresses. The police believe that some of the other negroes took part in the defense of the house against the attacking par¬ ty and say that one man could not have fired all the shojts. This story, however, received little credence, for all the dead aud wounded show that they were shot by Charles’s winches¬ ter. He fired about fifty shots, kill¬ ing four, fatally wounding two, seri¬ ously wounding seven and slightly wounding about twelve—more than half his shots taking effect, white oth¬ ers whizzed by the heads of the attack¬ ing party—wonderful marksmanship for a man with two severe wounds. The grand jury will thoroughly in¬ vestigate the riots. The negroes take the burning of the Thorny Lafon school very bard. It was set fire to by the mob on the ground that the negroes had guns aud ammunition stored in it. There was no insurance on it, but the school will probably be rebuilt. The city will have to make good the loss. It will also have to pay for stores broken into and robbed by the mob, and for the buildings destroyed or in¬ jured in burning Charles out of his citadel. On the other hand, the sup¬ pression of the riots and the restora¬ tion of order will cost it nothing, as the special police are giving their ser¬ vices free and the arms and ammuni¬ tion are furnished free by the dealers. The Geronimo Story Denied. A special has been received at Fort Worth, Texas, denying that Geronimo, star^mad He is is living with his squaw on the Port Sill reservation. CONYERS. G-A„ AUGUST 1, 1900. MORE EDICTS ISSUED Latest Crop Engenders a More Hopeful View Among Skeptics. MR. WU VOLUNTEERS EXPLANATION Rockhill Has Final Conference With Minister Hay and Departs For San Francisco. A Washington special says: Satur¬ day brought forth the usual crop of edicts and reports from various quar¬ ters, and the usual visit from Minister Wu to the state department, all bear, ing directly upon the welfare of tho foreign ministers in Pekin. This constantly growing mass of assertion is beginning to have a cumu¬ lative effect upon the skeptics, and there was a noticeably more hopeful view taken of the state of affairs. Beyond the fact that it is scarcely conceivable that the Chinese authori¬ ties should persist in repeating and strengthening these stories up to the rapidly njiproaching moment when the whole truth must be disclosed by oth¬ er agencies, it appeared upon careful consideration of the reports that there was really little more ground for hopes as to the safety of Mr. Conger and his colleagues at Pekin. Tho depressing fact is always in mind that the Chinese authorities, by their own statements, able to oommu nicate with the legationers, for some mysterious reason do not permit these unfortunates to communicate with their own governments. Mr. Wu’s expla¬ nation of this, namely, that the Chi¬ nese methods are different from our own, is scarcely sufficient for the offi¬ cials here. The minister, however, is houestly trying to get a further com¬ munication through from Mr. Conger, and it may be that success in this un¬ dertaking will afford h>m a brilliant vindication. There was nothing of interest from China respecting the military or naval forces there. The war department officials now calculate that General Chaffee with bis troops on the Grant has arrived at Taku, though it may be several days before his leport of the fact can reach the department. The Chinese minister visited the state department early to deliver an edict received by him to Secretary Hay. It is similar in form to the edict publishod in London. The minister says that the only differences are those involved in separate translations. Mr. Wu’s translation of Sbeug’s dispatch is as follows: “Edict of 28th of tho sixth moon (corresponding to July 24th) states that fortunately all ministers, except Baron von Ketteler, are alive and un¬ harmed. They are now being sup¬ plied with vegetables, fruit aud pro¬ visions by the government to show’ its sympathy for them.” Special Commissioner Rockhill call¬ ed at the state department Saturday morniug and had a final conference with Secretary Hay respecting his mission to China. It was not deemed proper to make public the exact in¬ structions given to Mr. Rockhill, but it is stated generally that he is being sent out to ascertain the condition in China for the guidance of the state de¬ partment and to serve as its direct representative in that country in case it should be necessary hereafter to con¬ duct negotiations there instead of in Washington. Washington Satur¬ Mr. Rockhill left day afternoon for the Pacific coast. The secretary of state has received a dispatch fiom Mr. Fowler, the Amer iban consul at Che Foo, dated at mid¬ night on the 2Cth. It follows: “This morning by request of the allied admirals I wired to the gover nor (supposed to be governor of Shan Tung) their wish to get news from them.elves. TLe g o,e„„r now it l ^P“ e8 rece . ve(] toJ edict from emperor saving that the provisions ministers are j welh They are sending to the legations. Am confident ministers out of distress and request you (Fow ler) transmit this preliminary an nouncement DO to admirals. * 4 ( Yuan Governor’” Secretary Hay alao received a cable from United States Consul Me flt Canton> 8ta ting that the ^Sswtre ri XTandXeU on 12th , 01 , JU T , y ‘ EPWORTH LEAGUERS Assemble In Convention at Atlan¬ ta With Large Attendance. GREAT MEETING OPENED AUSPICIOUSLY Agricultural Building at Piedmont Park Taxed To Its Capacity With the Great Throngs. The first annual southern conference of the Epworth League opened its five days’ session in tho auditorium at Ex¬ position park, Atlanta, Go., at 8 o’clock Thursday night. The 3ceno presented in the vast building, with its innumerable electric lights gleaming upon the attractive decorations of white and yellow on pillar, rafter and wall, and illumining the expectant faces of the great assem¬ blage, was beautiful aud inspiring. Half of the audience wore the ribbon and monogram badge of the southern leaguers, and the majority of those in attendance were young people. The addresses which followed the de¬ votional service wero notable, and twro of the speakers wore among tho most distinguished men of the south— Bishop Warren A. Candler, ef Geor¬ gia and Governor-elect W, J. Samford, of Alabama. Both of the gentlemen spoke in their happiest vein, and they made a fine impression on their audi¬ tors. A good many Atlantians wont expressly to hoar tho next governor of Alabama, attracted by his reputa¬ tion as a leader and orator. Bishop Candler extended the wel¬ come of the Empire State of the South to the leaguers, and Governor-elect Samford responded on behalf of the visiting delegates to all of the ad¬ dresses of welcome. James L. May sou of the Atlanta city council spoke for the municipality, welcoming tho conference to tho Gate City in an ap¬ propriate aud pleasing manner. Rev. J. E. Dickey, pastor of Grace church, voiced the welcome of Atlanta Meth¬ odism and the local Epworth Leaguers. After tho speech-making, a half hour was spent in making the delegates ac¬ quainted with each other and social intercourse. TELEGRAPHERS AT OUTS. President Powell and Secretary Perham Indulge In Some Salty Correspondence. A serious dissension has arisen in the ranks of the Order of Railway Telegraphers growing out of the late strike on the Southern railway. H. B. Perham, secretary and treasurer of the grand division, with headquarters at St. Louis, is engaged in a contro¬ versy with President W. Y. Powell. The two grand officers are having a de¬ cidedly personal correspondence, cop¬ ies of which have been sent to all the members of the brotherhood in the United States. A special session of the grand divis¬ ion of the order will be held in St. Louis October 1st for the purpose of settling these differences, and to enact such legislation as may be required by the growth and changes in the order since its last convention. Secretary Perham charges that the Southern railway strike was badly mismanaged and the order suffered greatly in prestige because of the re¬ sult. He says that the president caused to be withdrawn from the treasury practically all the funds which it had, and he says that the withdrawal was contrary to the constitution of the or¬ der. that S 35 “ 868 etary .fT (h « bars ed ,* .^ 7 - the president s orders and that . the protective fund, instead of having goO - %£ Sn Secretary Port am issued his first call \ or tbe special aessionof the grand °nly . *>66 h m . e 8 . tated tbat tba ord J °* ^f. should have had $o0 ,000 at least, Mr. Perham states that the relations between bim8elf a “ d th « President are very much strained and tho president corroborates this statement The sec retary accounts for it by the fact that he declined to loan the president 81,- 100 of the order’s money in 1898, de¬ daring that things have been made unpleasant for him ever since. Official Organ of Rockdale Coun ty. Has Largest Clrcalatfon in The County. FEARFUL CARNAfiE WROUGHT. Dead Bodies Strewn In Heaps Over Battlefield at Panama. Peace Treaty Signed. A dispatch to The Now York Herald from Panama says: A treaty of peace between the gov¬ ernment and the revolutionists has been signed. This action followed directly after the most desperate battle of the entire revolution, iu which the losses on each side were very heavy. Owing, it Is believed, to some misunderstanding as to the armistice brought about by the American, English and French con¬ suls, the insurgents suddenly renewed thoir attacks on the suburbs of Pana¬ ma. The fighting lasted eleven hours with the exception of only a few min¬ utes interval, and was very heavy from start to finish. The rebel troops made charge after charge upon the trenches of the gov¬ ernment forces, pushing forward with remarkable bravery and with a reck¬ lessness approaching closely to mad mess. Every nssault was repulsed with a terrible loss of life, but. the rebels were undaunted, and with extraordi¬ nary courage and renewed vigor re¬ peated the attacks agaiu aud again. These desperate assaults wero kept up all night long, and were met with equally bravo resistance by tbe regu¬ lars. It was G o’clock Thursday morning when the revolutionists were finally compelled to give up the attacks aud forced to retreat to tho positions they held when the armistice was declared. The tide of battle was turned against them by the arrival of an express train from Colon with 800 fresh troops to reinforce the government. These gave the regulars tho advantage and the rebels retired after eleven hours of such fierce fighting as tho isthmus never saw before. The appearance of the battleground after the cessation of hostilities can better be imagined than described. The dead and dying were lying all along the Caledonia road, beyond the railroad bridge, for half a mile, some¬ times scattered a few feet apart and more often in heaps, packed closely together. How many were killed during tho night is not yet known, but tbe num¬ ber will reach into the hundreds. The exact loss may never be known for many of the wounded men crawled into out of tho way thickets and those died in the bushes may not all be found, being recorded simply as “missing.” NEGRO SCHOOL BURNED. Mol) In Now Orleans Vent Their Fury Against Blacks By Using Torch. The splendid Thorny Lafon school, on Sixth and Franklin streets, New Orleans, was burned to the ground at midnight Friday, having been set fire to by the mob in the fury against the negroes. The school was the finest negro school in New Orleans, and was erected with money left by tbe negro philanthropist, Thorny Lafon, who be¬ queathed a fortuno of 8G00,000,divided equally between charities for the whites and negroes. The school was erected by the city three years ago out of the funds left by Lafon, aud a bust of the negro was placed in the Louisiana statehouse at Baton Rouge. The school accommodated 800 colored children. At an early hour Saturday morning a mob set fire to thirty tenement houses occupied by negroes at Tchoup itoulas and Amelia streets. The flames were extinguished before much damage was done. ENVOYS IN TRANSIT. Chinese Allege That Surviving IMploinats Are Heins; Escorted to Tien T»ln. Friday morning’s reports received in London from Shanghai reiterate the allegation that the surviving mem¬ bers of the diplomatic corps have al¬ ready left Pekin on their way to Tien Tsin, and added that the foreigners are being escorted by troops of Jung Lu, commander-in-chief of the Chi¬ nese forces. This move is stated to have been taken in the hope of abating the wrath of the powers and delaying the ad¬ vance of the allies toward Pekin. A dispatch received from the same sources state that half the foreigners iu Pekin have been killed or wounded or have died from the privations they have undergone. NO. 28. WIFE HAS CONFESSED Mrs. Dixon and Jerry Weldon Tell Tlieir Ghastly Stories. nUSBAND DELIBERATELY MURDERED Prisoners Are Hurried to Uibb Couniy Jail to Escape Probable Lynching at AVriglitsville. As a startling sequel to the mid¬ night murder of George Dickson, the Crawford county, Ga., farmer, Jerry Walden, the young white man com¬ mitted to jail in Wrightsville under suspicion, made a confession Wednes¬ day. So did the wife of the murdered man. When it became known that such was the case it was evident that both would ho lynched, so John Anthony, clerk of the superior court of Johnson county, owing to tho illness of Sheriff Rowland, removed the prisoners to Tennillo and took a train for Macon. The guilty parties are now in Bibb county jail. She Mrs. Dickson confessed first. sent for Anthony, who with two re¬ sponsible gentlemen of Wrightsville, wrote out her confession. It showed her to be a woman of an abandoned heart. While returning from the home of a sick friend late Sunday night the plot was made, she says, to kill the husband. Walden had been intimate with her. The husband had quarreled about it. Waldou worked on the farm for Dickson and all lived in one house, which consisted of a large room in which all slept. The children slept in a bed next to the one occupied by the father. He was asleep when Walden stood over and dealt him a blow on tho side of the head with an ax. The groans of Dick¬ son aroused temporarily one of the children, who soon fell asleep again. Tho woman says she kept watch while Walden struck her husband two other blows—one on the forehead, which paralyzed his brain; anothor one on tho back of his head. While she wept to her brother’s, who resides half'a mile away, Walden washed the blood from his hands, and going across the road which leads from the house, threw tho bloody hatchet into the woods, where it was found by her brother, who at once accused the pair of the murder. Walden, however, says she dealt the second blow; that she suggested the murder, got the ax and told him whore to hit her hus¬ band. The woman is rough looking and dissipated, to all appearance, and told the story of the murder of the father of her children in a most indifferent manner. Walden is but a boy about twenty-two years of age, a farm hand without education or intelligence. His father and two brothers went to Macon with him. KEMPFF SENDS REPORT. American Admiral Explains Why HI* Oddi Were Silent at Takn. The navy department Wednesday made public the mall report of Rear Admiral Kempff explaining with bis rea¬ sons for refusing to join the ships of the other powers in tho attack on the Taku forts. Rear Admiral Kempff’a explanation for refusing to participate in the attack on the fortifications of a power with which we were at peace is warmly commended by Secretary Long. Admiral Kempffi’s first report says: “On Thursday, June 14th, Rear Ad¬ miral Bruce called and asked what I thought of the matter, and I informed him that I was not authorised to ini¬ tiate any act of war with a country with whom my country was at peace; that my limit was to protect American interests, both ftty regulations and un¬ der recent instructions from both the navy department and from the com¬ mander-in-chief of the United States naval force on the Asiatic station. “On the 15th, at a consultation of the other foreign naval officers, it was agreed that the railroad station at Tong Kn should be taken (the railway is under government control) and in case any Chinese government force acted against the force involved of any foreign nation all should be and act unitedly. Under my instructions I could not join in taking possession of of Chinese government property and did not care to become a party to such an agreement without speoial authori¬