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THREE SIDES TO IT iio£V£i/r vino* u*a tiuit a Tin % MILL Alt AFFAIR. trust issue before courts. in: II %> TO URAL ONLY WITH THK %t TIOM or I III: MAI OR. (.inrrnor Inn TLp Action With IU. iirfrl lo tlc Mn)or' Vase Whether ihr orporniloii I* n I'riiM or Not Itut He Hue* Not *n> W Itut lie Is t.olitu * Uu—( nurts (Icing I rated ilia* on the Status of the I ork Ice Trout. Ai N. Y Nov 11.-Oov. Hoosc. t..* prepared the following m*moran < f the charge* against Mayor Van V. a< f New York City in Ihe let Tru-. in •ltei Ther* arc three wholly distinct side* to * • l* Truet mutter. In the first pla- <5. there is the g nera. q. t on whether the American Ice Com* ptu *1 ding I* don in a necessjry of j; f mme poor people of New York, waa o into wt•lilt %n i * ihojmt for pub;*. • *.d rrum to enter This I*. of coure**. n< |iieatlon for legal action In any thiii** j: for m Moreover, it la unne<*e*- •ary to point out thu? whether the cor pora •<) i* I' hhi or lileitiil, proper or Ini f.r iin aura :**r. It Is an a*** of utter h>i r* on the part of any publi man to .• i,'* nice trust* in general und this tr i m particular. In the platform, ami on tr. imp. while he. at the same tlm lo t o pr.vate cujM- tty. holds stock or has (he -I * • k In the trust tha he thua de no * * A • ntlou Is called to this feature aim* p,> n a use an effort ha* been made to show that unless legal action against the trust or son** of its stockholder* can be taken, these j>ub|i. men are to be exonerate*!. In the Hands of the f nnrtH. "Second. There Is ihe question whether or not the existence of this so-called Ice trust is m violation of she anti-trust law This, of course. con only be decided by the courts. ‘On May 38. the attorney genernl Instituted proceeding* to annul the cer tificate of the Ice company under this law The corpora non through i* coun sel, ha* fought the achor. at every stag** on technicalities, not on the merits of the case. The tt'-st decision before Judge Cheatei was In favor of the state. An appeal has been taken by the defendants, which was argue*! weeks ago, and the attorney general Is dally expectlng a de cision by the appellate division on this appeal. The defendants obtained a stay *f proceeding* pending the appeal. All possible <l.lap ru e ha* been shown by the attorney general In the effort ro se tir* the annulment of the certificate nd nothing cotlid have been done by the *u* to exiedlte proceedings, which ha* no? lteen done. The delay Is due. of course, to he course of the corporation ‘tself. whoa* stockholder* Include the :• ibll< men übove alluded to. We now come to the third side of th* matter, the only one In which the flo - * rnor. In his official * apa ity, has snr l-.wer whatsoever to .**•. vis: The f nres against Mayor Van Wyrk. .. "nasmuob as the question as to * !her the Ice corporation 1* or Is not • •us? or monop. ly 1- before the court* f decision, until they have acted, ac ?• n by the Governor an only with pr - tv be taken uiuler the Grenier New rk • barter So far as the charge* ar • rough! under this charter It r kes no difference a* regards the v lyor'* conduct, whether th*’ aforesaid . •porati*n Is or I* not n trust within t. e meaning of the law * tIiOHIM TO lIKKOKM FORCKff. V.aahbnrn ( nil* on Them to Form n New Party. Ronton. Nov. IK. —An address headed *o * * •‘Reform forces of the country." ha* V*n Issued by George F. Washburn, resident of the Hryan Club of Massa icetts. and the National Committee of the Peoples Party. In which he says: The campaign of 1900 wa a contest of against capital. It wa* th* t•'* it eat struggle for human rights saice th* days of Jackson or Uncoln. The re * .action of McKinley was u victory for imperialism nn*i the trusts. But our gran 1 inform movement will roll on to ultimate tory. It Is beyond the range of human prob ‘ility that Hryan will again become th.- (sr.dldate of the Democratic party. But in lead to victory anew thirty con and on safe and conservative, vet pro t <-ive lines Therefore, to maintain our present momentum anew par*y must be formed. We must have a complete reun lf-n of reform forces. This can be accom filth* and by uniting the Hryan Democrats, i'V *n Republicans. Populists and other •trial. lK>lies to l>e led by the man of th** ♦tr, whoever he may he. I believe that f ’ l -Hich a party b**en formed four year<4 •so Bryan would have triumphed thla hnv* Accordingly 1 pro|>ose that at an * date we have a conference of the 1 '!• u of the parties referred to In the f *ntra| part of the country for the pur- PS' of effecting an immediate under t *r.ding that we may begn the organi t-i' n of anew party." IT WAI A HRIIXIAKT C LOSE. I of Ihr Con- Krm* m >fntrll. M idr;d Nov. I*.—The cloning seas on j ■ Spunish-Amortcan Congress wa* ; >ri: -ill irly brMllant. Th* president of ' t'ongre#* pointed out the bond* which "Jflit to exht betw.cn |**oplc of the am feci and ciulonu. nor /*M;vr, of Salvador, Invited f .rdc to visit South Africa Ah.mo Ctado, of Montevideo, •iH I-it n race sought not to hate to Saxon. but rather ahould Imitate i " tor Morey prendergast. minister of I -oh.nies. advocated the union of ull II Latin races. , t 'KW HIHKH HOHSE SHOW. *n Bendy for llrral lialhrrlna In Mndlaon Square Garden. ■ York. Nov. II —All Is In readme-.* '■> Hi* opening to-morrow morning of the -.*nlh Annual llorse Show Assoc!*- *t Madison Square Oarden. ■* Judging will he started at 10:*i * to-morrow morning, when pelan * Kano and Georg* l> Wctmore will ihe.r opinion us Judy. * .m ixty-tw.i 6 JOi#ra. . " *’n C, Whitney and William H. 1 ier will be the judges In the evening MAH, * TKAMI.It FOR COLOX. Ar, 'te* at llrnnawlok for t eal-Mali Will He Eurerarded. - JO*w t k, (In.. Nov. ll.—The American ' "unship Han Anlonlo. Wilder, master, *\' seventvalire, bags of mall iratn 1 ’’on arrived here to-day for real. The ii will he forwarded by rail rued from ***“ point, ’ A I'OLOHABO PIIOTMT. 'ki*i Meeting ConilemnrU I * n*lilng of John Porter. Denver. Col., Nov. IN—Ac a maes meet ing he'd here to-day strong protests were made against the actions of the Umon mob that burned John Toner, the negro rapist and murderer, at the stake The meeting was presided over by C M Hobbs, pn s.dent of the Y M C. A . and speeches V*ce made by Gov. C. R Thomas. Mayor ii. V. Johnson of Den ver. PtetUlent Rio um <*f i'olorado Col 1* ge. Itnbbi Friedman. Rev Coyle. Mrs Huron Platts Decker, prom men in na tional wemen s dubs circles, and others They all qok** In strong terms <on demnlug what was termed the “Ltmon ..troclty ' and also denounc'd the en* tional display of newspaper s orle.- on cerning It The audience wan trrwl at tlm tt.mort to riotous demons it at ions of approval Isotuil< r,.' n<k>pleil admit th* difficulty of adequate y characterixlng the - rime for which Poiter wa punished, but decjire that however much the negto by his crime merited death, no crime can justify re ctairse to such barbarous methods. *nd that while the action of the iet>p.e of Lincoln aunty is attributed to excitement .nl passion, it I* non* tie condemned and dlaroui.tenancy! Hoi*, was rxpte-sed that a law would S|*e#dlly be enacted In Colorad> providing effective punishment for such crimes and providing punishment for any one t iking part in a lynching. Gov. Thomas in the course of his re marks said "I do not believe the people of this state are wore thin the people of any • >ther state This is as rivUlxed r ’''m munl'y s any state in the union and In 11 of them w* hear of oc< ureiices like thin when the people have been sudd* nly aroused :o stane such tenr.bh *o t. w hen some such awful, horrible crime as tins nrnro's. cries to Heaven for vengeance. For the agonised j*ar**t\M *r.d for w'hat- vor they have don*. I have no words of blame or censure. Put ourselves in their places ami can understand their wild desire for vengeance. "My remarks to-day are addressed, not so much to the fact that death been Inflicted, as to the manner in which it has been done. I do n>t by this nvau to justify lynch law No welt-ragulatal ( itlsei: can ever Justify a depnrtuie :r m the law But every state has thee af fairs. and we are not an exception out IIK 1,11 KOH HI nDBR. Jour linn Nnl.l lo limp Killed 0,1 Aeroiin, of Hl* Wife. Orlando. Kla , Nov 1* —An old n-ro namoJ Jourrtan ha l-ei rr>l for Ih# murder of no:her negro nn mol La>ve rt night or two ago Tn-re had been trou ble braiv-en th- iwo oil nceount of Jour dan's wife for Mn* time. No one who kn-w Jour.tan ihooght n.- would resort to suoh means to rid himeelf of his esiemy. He Is upwards of sixty years okl. a steady, Industrious mini, and •ne of the most reliable of hie race. He has been In the employ of Mr. A O. liranham for seven years. Th- colored iwople all say that Jourdan did the shoot ing But ihht Is simply a matter of opinion. s there m no direct evidence igainst him. although circumstances point to him with su h fi>rce as to carry ‘-otivlction to the public mind. Jmirdan Is In Jail ('. K Howard of this place has Just brought out the first edition of the Klo-- Idu Sunshine, a bright and well gotten u. Illustrat'd nionthl>. devoted to the de velopment of the state. It is .rinted at the Sentinel-ileporter ufTW-e. atsl mechat leally a* well as editorially. Is very cred itable. Nearly all of the old city oHtcial* were renominated at the white men's prlmaty J. B. I'arramore for mayor. James K Duke for clerk and assessor. C. H Darter for marshal and tax collector, and R l. Hycr and C. K. Howard for oouncllmen, were all re-nominated A O Hranbam and W F. FlllOUw will he new members of the City Council. MoJ M. K Marks, the llvest latsl man In the South, after four years In Near \ork city, has returned to Orlando. klfonTKH WORK HOI HS. \\ Ul Go Inlo Rgeet To-day for I nlon Maehlnlals. New York. Nov. IS.—Oeorge W. Warner, business agent of the International Asso ciation of Machinists, made n statement In which he said Ihtt the nine and n half hour work day would go Into efTect to-morrow among all of the machinists In the Cnited Stales. On the I*th day of May the nine hour work day. he said, would go Into effect. This was In accord ance with sn agrement with the national trades association composed of employers, and would affect WMWIO machinist*. 28. Pm of wtiom were In New York district "In some of the shops in the New York district." hs continued, "the employers will pay * , b hours' wages for nine and a half hours. In others they have notified the men that they will not pay It There will he strikes In some of the shops, bu* not In a great many 1 expect." mat i aai:ti in i hi hi iiki. Negroes In rhlesso Talked of llurn- Ing of Porter. Chicago. Nov. I*—The burning of Ihe negro. Preston Porter, In Colora'o list Friday wa* a theme for discussion In nearly every colored church In Chicago to-night. Several of ihe churches adorn ed resolutions presented by Ida B. Wells Barnett, chairman of the Aml-Lynchlng Bureau, asking the President, In his nex* message to Congress, to cgll attention to the fact that during the lust ten yea > nearly a.ooo cltlsens have been put to death by mobe and that of the number so Ivnohed fifteen were burned alive, and urging him to commend to Congress leg islation which shall secure to every per son accused of crime irtsl by Jury Hll shall hold criminally liable all | .error- who constitute mobs to torture, murder and burn alive cltlaen* of the Untied States. • •MVS FLOOD IS INNOCENT. Claimed Mayor of Elmira. NT. V„ line liren Slandered. Elmira. N. Y Nov. I*.-Attorney J P Eustts. counsel for Mayor Flood of this , M>. who Is under hell of O.OU> on the charge of forgery In the first degree, In connection with Catherine Loor.le. who was on Thursday last taken to Auburn pri-on to serve four yenrs and nine month*, for offering forged deed* for records mokes a statement In behalf of hi* client, who he declare# hag been wick edly slandered and libelled and Is lnmr. nl of compile** ‘n rrtmM * charge.! against Miss LoonW. Thin People should try Huatettera Stomach Bitters Least of dealt mam* that your artomach la pot working propeily The blood become* mpure ami the result l* Indigestion. <or> st(ration. Dv.pepsla, Flatulency. Inactive t tver and Weak Kidney*. The cause Ilea J; , h e .tomaclx Hostetler's Stomach Hitters will reach It and cure It. Be sure "live It a trial. Our Private Revenue Stamp overs the neck of the bottle Ibehmi; Hostetter’s ol all Stomach ikdltb-Reslorers Bitters THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. NOVEMBER 10. 1000. GROWTH OF OUR SHIPPING. IHMIMFNTF.H TONNAGB NOW F\- (i:ti)K fMMNMNNI TON*. lias It•*nchel These t Igurr* for the Flrat Time uiwce the Civil War. Muwfirr, \% e Are Mill Far llehlnd Other Nalioua—Xuierleait Khlpiiins l.ararly Done In Karelin llottouia. I*r>|iaed Meaanre la t*on nltleretl Entirely Inadequate \Y uf ..lngton. Nov li —The rej*ort of r>mmisioner of Navigation Chamberlain made public ty-oay says the past flaca! year list been the most prosperous period knwwn to American sh.pplng for some ytais BetuMNi for the currant fiscal yeui promise an efen more ; atisfactory rccortl For th first ttm since the Cidl War the* documented tonnage of the States exceeds &.00D.0U) gross t*>ns Oil June 30. xx£x, American documented ton nage cvnprlse<l 2.1.333 vessels of gross tons, an increase of 300,000 tons over the previous fiscal year. Our maximum tonnage was &.k3R,fdi tons in lttl. Our ship ping. the report adds in I*6l was largc?r than Great Britain's, ami nearly equalled the British Km pile’s. British shipping now amounts to 14.361,000 gross lone. American vese*s are a I mop: wholly con fined to the coaating trad**, wnich em ployed kamt year 4,331,143 tons, or more than the tal tonnage of Germany and France. Otlr tonnage in the foreign trade was only 114,736 tons, and carried last year tally 9 per cent of our exjwrts t*nl iinfiorts. A can*ary hko American ship ping registered for foreign trade, sal 66J.321 tons, while this tonnage now in tn* thirieet; original esatea amounts to 482.307 tons. The report says that for serious compe tition with fore.gn nations in the ocean carrying trade. %%* are practically restrict ed to 37 registered stcamshiio* over l.Rhh tons, aggregating 2* 22'* tone. Single for eign steamship corporations own greater I tonpage Besides the># stsamehips w. have ltt reflate red square rigged sail ves sels/ over l.Orti tons each for the deep sea trade More than half of three are over twenty years old. and as such vessel*, dle a|>pear their places are not supplied by new construction. • ncrena* for (hr l>rm<lr. inin our hii>|>!nir Iwinir th* <k • <)#• 74" 34.’ ton*. of which M8.&22 toniitnd to th* crvdir of iho *i>t lak*\ Since LH>* the world’* gtfam*hip* h4v in- r<uK\\ from U.Mtfi.Ciin xrmn ions 10 ton* HI OP*. Mil v***l* hove de er raped from 9.188,W> tun* to 41.7.nr ton. and the effective e*rryln|t power of th#* world* merchant flee if hap increased flu per i ant The most notable change In the war Id’s shipping has leen In the *u- of ptram ships In 1D there were 21* ocean attain* Phips of 4.n> tone or over, while now 980 ■uch mearnerk, aggregating s,tfV.t*tf> ion* constitute one-fourth of the world’s steam tonnage The hulls of o per cent of the world s shipping are now made of steel, compared with only 10 per cent In IM* Conoantration of the world’s ehipown ing bus been notable during the decade. The thirty prnctpal steamship compsnlee of the world own 1,800 Meamshlps of tlft.OU) grow* it#n (Including some vessels now buielmg) or one-quarter In tonnage and more than one-quarter in currying power of the world’s ocean steamships Of these only nine of *I.OOO tons owned by the International Navigation Company, are American. On the basis of the gross earnings re port'd by principal foreign steamship oon|wnlet It Is estimated that during IWh the gross earning* of steam and sail vea se U in the foreign carrying trade of all natkms amounted to fTOO.uOO.OOO. The ex port trade of the UnH**! Stales require* about 10 per cent, of the world’s seago ing tonnage hi foreign trade. Including the kirpret fastest and moil expensive •to unship*. Steel Screw Steamship*. The problem of ocean transportation *t this time, the report says, is csnenttally one of transportation by steel screw siwamehli* The purpose* to which wool en fore-and-aft vessels and steel square rigged vessels are are important but restrict**l The Sue* canal reduced opportunities for sail vespels. ,nd the Nicaragua canal. It Is state*), will further reduce them In the past ten year* Great Britain has built 4,01 steel steamship* of 9.7W.000 tons, while the I* nit*! States hue built 4* Pteel steam vessels of 742.000 tons, of which Ift of 450.000 tons were built on the Great I^akes. We have built for the foreign trad* since 1890 only 24 steel steamships of 80.000 ton*, and of this total 11 eteamship* of &g.OOO •on* were built i* mail steamships un*ler the petal subsidy acts. The report says the coasting hw and its recent extensions, our heavy expenditure* for naval con struction. amt the building of vessels to replace those bough* for transport*, and tn* postal subsidy law* have given steel shipbuilding its recent stimulus. Mr. Chamberlain reviews In some de rail the bills reported to the Senate and House of !<*pre*-entatlves. known as the subsidy bills, and give* I lustrations of the difference In cost of building and operat ing American an 1 British steamship* at the present lime He says that the sub sidies propose.) generally equalise those differences. A freight steamship carrying 5.000 tons cargo now coals 872.000 In the tolled fMste*. compared with $214,000 in (•real Britain, though steel Is mu*h cheaper here than abroad. Besides labor <o*t the British advantage ;|r# jn the enormous scale of production. OreOt Brit ain being the world * “department store” of shipping Monthly wage* on the Amer ican vessel are $1,300. against S9OO on the British ship sut.el.lte* Are Not Adequate. The report holds that the subsidies pro posed for American steamships are not more than adequate to secure ocean mall services lo the great continents, equiva lent to those of Great Britain. Germany ur.d France. In the past sixty years Great Britain and her colonies have spent over $2(0.000.001) for Hi lilh ocean mall steam ships. Details and estimates show that the coet during the first year of Ihe pro posed subsidy bill's operation would be ibout H. 500.000. The maximum of ISMW.tiUu. It Is said, pr, tally would be aita.ned dut - Ing 1904-i. when a reduction of subsidy rite# would be necessary. By that time 'he building of over 500.01 k) lon* of ocean steamship*, aid the necessary Increase In numlwr and extent of our ship yard*. (h report declares, would have materially re duced the cost of ship building In the Uultcd Slate*, compared with Great Bri tain and Germany, under the bill In five years American steamships In foreign trade, it Is stand, doubtless would reach 1 pO.uOO ton#, and sail vessel* 65u, 000 ton*, suflh lent to carry about one-third of our clean trade WILLIAM M. WADLDI DEAD. Warn Nephew of lute President of (entral Railroad. Augusta. Nov. 18.—William Morrell Wadley. son of the late Moses Wadley and nephew of the late William M Wad ley, president of the Central Railroad, died suddenly at his farm nine miles from Milien. Saturday evening. He had been having fever, and on Saturday a conges tive chill terminated fatally He was un married. Hi years old. and engaged In farming In Burke county. His body was brought to Augugta to-day. and IMS fun eral will occur to-morrow from the home of hie mother, Mrs Mary Wadley, mm mm m— sample of war- I ii 1 NKIt > SAFE "UK ■ ■ will U* sent vou Bi i ill B i.* - >*f* i*ure r . B Rachester. N. Y . on •* postal card, and mentioning this paper DEATH PENALTY FOR PRINCES. (Continued from First Page.) discusenm of the death (penalty for th** princes and other high wffiriii# It Is evl deni that the tninlstris at* weakening, as they have reduced their proj**sil from *xecut|oti to the severest punishment pro viiied by Chlnaae law. forgetting that Princes lie beyond th* reach of Chines* law “The news from the sou:h rn provlrc** is more reassuring 1-t Hung Chang say** that Prince Tuan has fled for -afM> t • the residence of hi* father-in-law at Nina llai Ilsur, on Uie UcMigoUun frontirr of he province of Kan Bu." PI NI9IIMFNT Or l-KIIMUD. Advice* Received In Paris as in Pro gress of Ncanlirtllntis. Pans. Nov. 13. —The following advices have been received from Pekin. lated N’OV. 17 "II Pichon. i French mm inter In Peklni. visited L.t Hung Chang, who handed him im|>erinl de*rees depriving Prince Tuai. and Prlni'e Chuan of their title* of no hllity, and directing that they be im prisoned until death The decrees assert that Prince Ying has aireadv been *le grade*l and imprisoned, tha Prince L*len has been ortleitd not to 4c.iv** Ills pala * . that Duke Ltn and Ying Nien. president • f the censorase. and others, have been •legraded. and that Yu HWli hae been exited. Another decree say* It la to arre*t Gen. Ting Fu lifting ut jirea nt. because he t* In poesession of tniOiia, hut that he will be punish'd later “ The foregoing and Bpatch. with th* ex ■‘epllon to Gen Ting Fu Hsiang, corrob orate# the text of the liable gram from Director tleneral Hheng to Minister Wu at Waahlng f on communicated to Secre tary Hay last Friday. FPIDCHK FKAHKO IN PEKIN. unnlfar* t omlltlons In Chinese ( npl lal Irr Serious. Pekin. Nov 16, via Shanghai. Nov 18 Santtory conktlons here are becoming se rtoiM. Since the foreign occkpotion mini Chinese have died of smallpox aid other lofedious diseases Fearing that their funerals* would be interfered with, they have kept moat of the coffins containing their dead in their houses and cout* yards The quest ton of removing garbage has become o*i*- of grave Importance Ae th** natives are forbbtden to deposit refuse In the streets, there is now an enormous accumulation In (heir dwellings and yard* which threatena a serious epldeml In view of the large number of troupe in and near the capkal. the consequences of such an outbreak will be frightful. Advance of fork’s ( Alums. Berlin. Nov. IK —A telegram received to-day from the German headquarters In Pekin says “Col York’* column, on Nov. 14. reached Taha Tau on the gr*at wall, northwest of th* c iprta! A large force of Chinese cavalry had just evacuated the place.’* Ma> B- More Delay. Pekin. Baturdsy. Nov 17- The prelimi nary note has not yet been presented Its tfiTMi are not completed, and there will probably be a further delay. T 4 I.K OF MC I4MCM. The Weakness of Ills Heart i atases lonif I neaslnes*. Ig>ndon. Nov If.—According to the Mos cow cotr#s|iondent of the Express, the wsaklwss of the t'xar'a heart c.iuisi s-me apprehension. The 8t Petersburg correspondent of the I tally Mall says that the Bmperor’s Mine** arose fnm lack of caution In drinking Itesh water while suffcrti g fr >m influenza, and he add* that “the Illness has not made ns yet a deep inipr -*loti upon the Husslan people, many of whom seem never to have heard of it.” There eeems to is* no doubt that the royal castles st UvldU are In a bad hy gienic condition. There have been numerous Infectious outbreaks 4n that district during the au tumn an<i much anxleiy ha* been felt r gardlng the Imperial children The season ha* lec*n exceptionally dry. and the water supply at Llvadia enor mously reduced The Csr t*ok a number of k>ng walks to visit hls slstec. Orand Duchesa Xenia, anti it Is po*tb|e that on one of these excursion* he drank Kid wa ter. , . , NKTEIIR PCU I' III# YARD. I .nnrr'a Ron I’leked II I p uni! Xim Trmwrf. It. Ptoaon, til.. Nov It.—Mr. Jonathan Bridge*. ona of Terrell county'* heat farmer*. u In Pwn ye.teri.ty morn ing While here he told of the falling of a Mar In the yard of hU home on l*t Wednesday evening at an early hour. Hl aon. Dtnnlt. wit tn the yard, and no ticed the glare of a light, and on turn |ng around. saw a hell of fire coming to the ground near him. A* noon a- it fell It went out. and he went and picked uj> the mineral formation, which waa tot warm for him to carry In hi* hand He managed to get It Into the house how ever and gave It to hi* mother, who row keepe It aa a treasure. The l.et at Tallahaaser. Tallahassee. Fl* . Nov. U —The < Iran I United B*>n* end Daughter* of I*rar| will publicly install their grand offl era <u lh opera house on the night of the Krt I) ir- Ing the afternoon the lodge will tirade with ntual'- Among thbre who will de liver adrtre.*e are J 8. William*. 8. O. M. of the United State*. Rev K. P. Neal, B. O C.. nd Hon. Joeeph E. Ij'< of Jacksonville. Nuprrinr Coarl Proeeedloas. Hanford tnd St. Petersburg Railroad Company, plaintiffs In error, v*. J. A Moon, defendant In error—Grange coun ty Motion for leave lo amend assign ment* In error granted. Jacksonville Street Railroad Company, plaintiff In error, vs. R. J. Walton, et ux.. defendants In error-Duval county Motion for leave to amend assignment* of error granted Engetkn ft Fclner Milling Com any plaintiff In error, vs Isi-lor Oruntha!. de fendant In error. Duval county Mtion to strike certain part* of the iranscr pt of record and to strike certain assign ment* of error continued until final hear ing of cause on ll* merit*, and thirty detya allowed counsel for defendant In error In which to file brief*. The Jacksonville Terminal f'ompiny, plaintiff In error, vs, rh” state of Flo Id i ex rel . attorney general, et ah, el-., de fendant In error. Duval county It Is ordered that the matter* herein be con Untied until Ihe second Tuesday In De cember. prox Charles H. Summers of Jacksonville, Fla-, wa* admitted to practice. Another Treasarer Short. Chicago. Nov. I*.—Robert J. Stell. city treasurer of the Monadnock Loan and Investin' nt Company, ha* dlsappered It Is said hi* books show a shortage of W,- 000. OBJECTIONS TO THE PRIMARY. \*T.%I m:f*u IXI HAVE honked Blind IN FLORIDA. C*wdides Herr Kept Out by High %se ••nirnt* I tmteats In the Fourth and Aeirath JudlelaA Dls- I riels— I hese Hill Hr Taken Before the llair Detnoeratie 4 ontmlitee. Flesi laenernl lleiMoerufle Primary Hill Me lle|.| In |HoJ. T.tahafee Fla Not’ 18 The plan of selecting ih* i.*>mlnes of the Lamo. rate party for .**u*’ and county ffi ■* otn el ti\- and apj intlve. b> p.lmary cl* c t*‘> ‘ 1“ ocpig put to a sevaic te#t In this 8(Ml J’b** p* smart on the 6th Inst. genet'- ah) admitt 1 to have been go*wl deal putting an end t th* talk of removing the .*to *a pita l from Txlaihassee. and slso in kll.n g the i iuj.vt of i;o *)ing a Con stitutional lotumtiur Th? i limari a\at am was* |.-.troiluc*d by the |)er*yicra?|. But** (Naiventton hell a t Jtin*- Tile Drill- * ratio fkate I‘xe- utlve touimitu oixi**red that a|ifd.antA for th offic*-!i of st e neniist adjutant general and state attorney lit the Second, Third Fouiih and Seventh judicial clr ult>. all being Mp|>tnm office.-, to in* til ed by the ir omitig Governor with'n the next tew n on tbs. knould tunmlt their . iaims to the votris at this p.imary. ant this was done. Ill*- Hi.nc Kxe uitve t’oiitmltiee tna*)* >uch high assessment.- a entrance fees to the primary that om> one candidate c.ualttlrd to run for state chemist. Cant. B K Bose uf Kie-ltnrn.- aid only one. • en. Patrick lluustuun . f Tallahassee, foi adjutant general, in the Second ihl Third roult the present siat** attorneys. Meesrs Ualktr and B*d*erson. went t.Mrougli the pi.mw.ry without opposition his sparsity of can| <l it* s has furnisned -he objectlun to the sysiem that It Is un iitmocraii In ttiat It prevents poor men from seeking office In Fourth and Bventh Judicial ctr > ults. ihe present slat* attorneys. Messrs A ii Hariridge and James D Beg gw car h had one qfsn* nt In bo*h cases th* primary failed to le * Me between the contestants, and appeals have been taken to the Hta'e Executlv * Committee, which meets In Jacksonville Tuesday. Ndv 2u The first general Democratic primary under this provision will oe held In 1307 v hen a United Htates senator to succeed H* n H ephen B Mallory. tw. c**ngie*s men -three congressmen, if Florida gets * not her one under the new ap|MrtlMtnent s I* Is l*e.|eved s ie will-one Justice of the Hup • me t’ourt to succeed Jusilcs e-u --ton H Mabry, one member of the Hail oad Commission, anew legislature, and ’.oesibly some other officials, besides coun ty officers, will be selected in thla man *ar inn ii \ n* a iHiVKMVtiKVT. He I* I'avlna I'lahlliis Harsher* a t row* Per llat. Pretoria Nov 1* - The Boer* ra active It le alleged that f'omm*n.lant Doul* Motha has ertabd*hel * government at Heaendal, North M.ddlei-urg. and that with the fl.V>,(rot> which he ha* available he. I* 'paying (he lighting burgher* a room per day. Commandant Abel F.remu* le **ld to he et Otlchhanl* liver with Ino men. and 1.0,0 wagon* ar.,l 12. 0n cattle. From H-hle|herK It I* reported that the Peers are compelling the burghers who had surrendered to take up arm* again tinder pain of death w ii.i. at < t m;t MiMtor. I.ondon Pastor Will Take I’aetoratr nt Yurt lllteld, Mass. I-ondcn. Nov. If.—The ftev. Q. Cantt*- liell Morgan, minister of Newcourt Con grrgatl.mal Church. Telllnaton Park. la>n lon. announced from hi* pulpit yesterday that h< had accepted the pastorate at Northfleld. Mas* . In succession lo the late Dwight 1. Mow.lv Her 11 ,i*l,ii n,l Skipped. Itetrolt. Nov. 11-Mr* Ma th- E Nor ton of Detroit was married <o Charier Ft Holmes of San Fram lsco In Windsor. Ont Haturday evening latte I hie after noon Mrs llolme* raised an alarm In the Manning Hotel saving her hu<hand wa* gone and she had missed Rtn Mr* llolme* s.ild .lie had known her husband but two weeks, having become acquainted with him through a matrimonial paper. ttleanier lladly Damaged. Philadelphia. Nov. !.- The Belgian steamer Waestand which trail'd front here yesterday for I.tverpool with passengers ,nd a full cargo, returned 10-nlght with a ten-foot hole In her port how The \\ aeeland. while slraming down the Del aware llay last night wa* run Into by the schooner Kim City The schooner also Irad a hole stove In her Itow. A Triple llroeuln*. Braille. * Wash.. Nov II -A triple drowning from a rowboat I* reported from lietta l.ake at the head of Hunter's hay. Alaska The dead ale Mr* Jame* Tay lor. Ban Francisco; Mis* Baker, of Table Rock. Neb.. a missionary; Foreman Karly of the Hunter's flay cannery. BOYN WHIPPEO I WILDCAT. \\ in, Slones They Hammered the Idle Ont of the Ynlmal. From the Philadelphia Record Bellefonte. Pw . Nov IS—Pierce Wag ner and Arthur E. Robert*, two H-ymr old lad* of this place, are being lionised for a thrilling encounter they had with a big wildcat. In which the boys cam* off victorious. Wagner and Roberta, with a beagle hound, went out after rabbits, and were sitting on n old log. with the dog by their side when, suddenly, a wildcat land ed at their feet. Finally the cat gave fight, and while clawing the dog the boy* go' close enough to kill It Wtlh Slones They brought the ranus* Into town ami secured 12 bounty for the scalp from the County Controls .toner.. The cat measured three feet fl* In he* had claws two Inch** In lenegth and Whisker* like Bengal tiger The Hatnfat lemlnl*eeaee*. From the ]ndlnna|>oll* Hun. At Brighton Beach t hit Mo** Rosen Ueln. who wa* organising a on*-ntght "Kauttt" company, for * Job "What part ,v> you wish to take’ ' h* inquired ahorl •iy. ”1 wish to take the part of Mephl*- tophele*. of course " I answered drawing myself up proudly, for I had on anew am of clothe., and could afford to look him In the face "And why do you wish to take .hat particular pari’" he Inquired 1 was amused at hi* dullneea. hut conceal- Ing my disgust a* far a* possible, I ex plained that It was because the devil al ways get* hi* due*. He seemed pleased i; my repartee wrote me out a sc tn per week contract, and paid me my first week's sal ary of r .V> In advance. 1 played the devil In "Faust" until nearly the end of the sea non. after which 1 wa* eaat In "The Foundry." a workingman * play. g i GELA SAL" JhU b w urn Rico It is a pood soap. It is kept by all the leading grocers. Florida Work*, Jacksonville. I*"*^ l N£.W EDITIOM JVBT 13CUZD 159 RMC.muty NtW PI/LT A THKOV oU** ■ i ?* j^j No- AJ-rJ JOG NEW W OKUS. t f"i, E:, ruch Hindinfo # 6•; JCOO !!!u:ra:.):tj |)9 888 Prepared under the tu;>-rvi; .on o.'A Hirjil.Pti D II D , t-'nit.d it.tr, NM Comm—tlortt .M.ttc J l>> o.rrgeior*'. ut co tiprt..t ,i,. lIIHI Kl| BI2TTr.IV THAN EVER FOR USE. |iKk - :iS ./ tl. UI m ,c-c. e. -v.v< m| , > . ANCESTRY OF THE HORSE 1118 UlAF.il.Olil IK lONf.llt THAN TH IT OF NFU lORHN 4011. \\ mm O Wee a Llffl* Xulitial Had Kunr Toes and H ae lint *lllifly llliigrr Than a Fox—Direct Evidence of Descent. Frederick A Ducas In M Uiure w Mi presents In a popular way the aclen tlfl*. ex blende going to show tfw decent of the horse from a little animal with four toes and lltlle bigger than a fox The family records of the horse reach back wards for something llk* 3.406.006 years. The early hore- we may call him so by courtesy, although he was then far from b !ng a true horse—was an Insignifi cant IMtb creature, apiwrently far less likely to succeed in life * race than hi* bulky competifois and vet. by making the most of their opportunities, his descend, ants have survived, while, m->' of thslrs have dropped by the wayside and fin. ally, by the aid of man. the hore has be come spread over the length and breadth of the habitable globe Now right hera It may he asked How do we know that Iha little hy tarot here was the progenitor of the iv*r#, and how on !t be shown that there Is any bond of kinship l*etweer him and. for example, the great French Percheron? There is only one way In which we can obtain this knowledge, and but one method by which the relationship can he shown. ifH that la by collecting the fraud! remains of animals long extinct and r*mfuirlng them with the bone* of the recent horse, a branch of o< I#nee known as Paleontology It has taken a vary long time to gather the nec essary evidence, and It has tak*n a vast amount of hard work in our Western ter ritories. for the country ttiat I* as hot as ilad* a. watered by stagnant alkali pools la almost Invariably the richest In fo* alls.’' Dike wise It has cslkd for the ex penditure of much time and more pa Hence to put together some of the |wtrifled evl <4cnt***. fragmentary In every sense *>f the word, and get It into such hape that it could be handled by the anatomist Htlll. the work has been We. and, link by ll* k the chain has been const rue tad that unite* the horn* of to-day with the Ivor se of very many yesterdays. Hrmalna In Remote Ages. The first links In this chain are the re mains of the brnnxe age and those found among the rulna of the ancient Hwls* lake dw Kings; hut earlier at 111 than the** arc the lames of horsce found ithtinda Hy in Northern Europe, Ala and Amerl-w. The Individual lon#e and teeih of eom* of three horse* are scarcely dhtlnrul'h able from thoae of to-day a fact noted In th* name Kquus fraDmu*. apfdl*d to one spe*'|es, and when the te*lh abet* are found It Is at times practl ally lnip>- slble to say whether they tie long to a fos sil horse or to a modern animal. Bui when enough scattered bones are rathe ad to make a fairly complete skeleton It be comes evident that the fossil horse had a proportionately larger head and sm tiler feet than his existing relative and that be was a little more like an as# or sebra for the latter, spit* his gay coot. Is a near relaflv* of th* lowly turn Moreover, primitive man mad* Sketches of th* prim Itlv* horse, just as be did o' the mam moth, and these Indicate that the hors** of those dsys was something like an over grown Bhetland pony, low and heavily built. large-headed and rough-coated Fo~ the old cave-dwellers of Europe were in timately acquainted with the pre hbto ic horses using them for food, as they did almost every animal that f*ll beneath their flint arrows and atone axes And If one may Judge from the abundance r,f bones, the horses must have roam and shod In hands. Just as the horse> **<-up*d from civilisation roam, or have roamed, ov-r the pampas of Bouth America and the prairies of th* West The horse was Just as abundant In North America in Pleistocene time as In Europe, hut there Is no evidence to show that It was contemporary with e*rly m *n In North America, and even we e this *h* case, it Is generally believed that Ion? before the discovery of America tha home had disappeared. Domes lira ted la Europe. Icng before the dawn of btstorv the horse was domesticated In Europe aid Caesar found ths Oermans. and even the old Briton*, using war chariots drawn by horaes-for th* first us* man seems to have mad* of th* horses was to sid him In killing off his fellow man. ami not until cotnparat.vely modem lime# was Ihe animal employed In the peaceful arts of agriculture The Immediate predecessors of them, horrna were considerably smaller, being about the sisa and built of a pony, tsui they were very much like a horse In structure, aave that the teeth were shorter. A* they lived during Dlocene • Im*s. they have been named "Pllohlp pus." Going hack into th# paat a step fur ther. though a pretty long step. If we reckon by year*, we come upon a num ber of animals very much like horse*, save for certain cranial peculiarities, and the fact that they bad three toe* on each foot, while the home, as everyone knows has but one toe Now If we glance at the skeleton of a home we will aee on either skis of the common bone. In the same situation aa the upper part of the little toe* of the hlppotherium as these three-toed horses are called, a Iqng slender bone, termed by veterinarian* fh spNnl bone: and it require* no ana'omlca) training lo see that the bones In the two animal# are the same The horse lack* th* lower pan of his tide toe*, that la all. Just *s man will vary prob ably some day lack th* last bones of Ola little to*. W* find an approach to title condition In some of the hlppotherea even, known as Protohtppu*. In which th* aid* toe* are quit* smalt, foreshadow ing She lime when they shall hev* dis appear'd entirely ft may also he noted here that Ihe apllnt hone* of the horses of the hroute *g are a little longer than those of existing home*, and that they ore never untied with the large central *>e. vxhil** nowadays there Is something •fa tendency for the three bon** •*> fuse into nn ul hough (Kiri of this tendency the writer be).eves to la due to inflam mation set up by the strain of the pullmg and hauling the animal is now called upon to d* S**n* of these three-toed hlppotherea ar* no - In th*- d.rect lira* of ancestry of th* horse, but are side branches on th* family tree, having be come so highly spec a ls*l In certain dV reotlona thxt no further progress horaa wnrd was possible Hickwar I still, and th* bones we And in th* Mioc#ne strata of the West, be longing to ihse m •tor* of th* hors# to win h the ntm* of Meei.htppu* has h<*n given because they ate ml 1 way In tim- and etrti* ttir* between th* hor*e of the past and pretuMP. tell us that then ell fioi •••■ w*-r* uni a i and that all htd three toes on a foot while the f..r*f*et bore even the suggestion of a fourth toe Fretm this to our Eocene hyracotheie with feg pies Is onl> another long-t Im* step Wa rosy g*> even beyond this In time ird structure nd carry hack the line of the horse to animals which only remotely re in bled him and had five good toes to a fKt but while these contained th* pos sibility of a hors**, they made no show of It Direct Falitrsrr of (*• im-l*s * . IVe have. then, this direct evidence aa to the geneilcg.v of th* hnr** that be tween the little Eocene hyracohere and the modern horse we can pan a **ra of uninwile by which we can (• by grad ual stages from one to the other and that as we com* upward the e la an in erras* In stature, in the complexity of the teeth and in the sis* of the brain At ti>* same tim* the number of to*s d cre a are. which Hiht that th* animals wara •le\ *dd*ing more and more -peed, for It Is a rule that the fewer the toes tha faster th* anlms, the fastest of birds, the tourich, has but two too*, and <ns of the** l* mostly ornamental; and the fasteet of foiminats, th* horse, ha* but on* The collateral evidence, though scanty, hears oui the clrcumsianllal proof, de rived from fossil lame*, that the hora* ha* dev*iop*d from a many-toed ances tor. and the evidence point* toward tha little hyracothere ..* being that ancestor Ii remain* only to show some good rea son why thi* development should hava taken place or lo Indicate the force* by which It was to.-ugh! about We have heard much about “the survival of the lltte*t," a phrac which simply mean* that those animals best sdaptsd te thslr surrounding, will survive, while those 111 adapted will perish But It sh.ofld he add ed that It mean* also that the animate must he aide to adapt themselves to change* in their environment, or to change with It Diving beings cannot ftaml atlll indefinitely. they ritual pro gress or perish. Ami I hls seems to have been the cause for the extinction of the huge quadruped* that nourished at the lime of the three-toed Miocene horse They were adapted, to their environment as It was. hut when the Western mountains were thrust upward, cutting off tha motat wind* from tho Pacific, making great < hanges In the talnfull and climate to the eastward of the Rocky mountains, these hi* hraste. alow of foot and dull of brain, rouhl not keep pace with the change and ihelr race vanished Irom the face Of the earth. The day of the little hyracothere waa at the beginning of the great series of change* by which the l*ka country of the Weal, with ll* ni*rahy hat* and rank vegetation, became tratta formed Into dry uplands *parc*|y clad with fln* graaae* On these dry plain* the more nimble-footed animal* would have the advantage In the struggle for existence; and while the four-lowl foot would keep Its owner from sinking In soft ground, he wa* handicapped when It became a question of speed, for not only la a fleet animal better able to llee from danger than hi* tdower fellow*, but In time of drouth he can cover the greater eatent of territory In search Of food or water 80. too, aw the rank rushes gave place to fine grasses, often browned and withered beneath the summer's sun. tha complsx tooth had an advaniatb- aver that of simpler structure, while #ie cut- Itng-leeih. so completely developed In the her** fam.ly, enabled their posaeanora to . rop the grass a* closely a* on# eoutd do It with *cl*or Likewise, up to a certain point, the largest, moat powerful animal will not only conquer, or escape from ht* eriemle*. hut prevail over rivals of hls own kind a* well, and thus U came to pus* that those early member* of the horse family who were pre-emi nent In tqw-ed snd stature and harmonla cd het wlih their surrounding*, out stripped Ihelr fellow* and transmuted the*. quatPte* to their progency. until a* s result of long ages of natural seleetton there was developed the modem hor*e. The rest man ha* done; the heavy, alow- I* ed drwy horse, the fleet trotter, tha huge Pereheroo and the dlmlnullv# pony are one and all the recent product* of artificial selection 0r \% i*r rmldmt, MaJ. On. Jo* Whidltr li wropgr he eay* that all of our war President* have been re-elected lie overlook# Polk, who wa* In the Whit* House durtna ths M>xlcar War hut wa* not even renomi nated At: told We have hd only fiv> war President. munci>. Washington In the lb volu lon, Mudlscn hi th# War <f Mil wPh Great Britain Polk In the war ap h Mexico. Lincoln 1n the Civil #■ and McKinley In th# war with Spain. If w* call the difficulty with Franca In 1?‘ a "war' w<- shall hav* to exea t th* first Adams. Who was not re-elected WltK th* exemption of Grover Cleveland no President ha* been r#-*l#et-d url s* h, was hlm**lf * soldier or held a chief eviuthe file* during a war peri and f guess this *t dement will (tml Acne Ira Is a nation of flgh'er*. and we rever*-*-* nMnlnx so much as the uniform and tha flag unless M I* <>ur prosperity. We want that Is! alone. Look at the list: Watn- Inglon. soldier at the Hsvolutlon: Jetf*r son Governor of Vlrslnl# durleg the Revolution. Madison. Pres deu* during th< War of 1X13; Monroe, a Re olmonary officer; Jackson S'tdler o' the War f 1112: Lincoln, soldier and Pre Me t in ihe Civil War; Gram. #d*!*r In the Mexican and civil Wars; McKinley soldier and President In tba war with Spain. 5