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VOL. X. TREATY IS RATIFIED Senate Votes Favorably 01 the Uay-Pauocefote Convention. ONLY SIX VOTES IN OPPOSITION Majority In Favor of Ratification Moat Decisive —All Attempts at Amend ment of Treaty Were Futile. Monday the senate ratified the Hay- Pauncefote canal treaty by & decisive vote of 72 to 6. The vote was reached iii a few minutes before 5 o'clock after almost five hours’ 'discussion behind closed doors. There were no sensa tional incidents during this entire time. The debate was confined exclu sively to a discussion of the merits of the agreement and the policy of Its provisions. The principal speech of the day was made by Senator Teller in opposition to the treaty, and he was followed in rapid succession by twelve or fifteen other .senators, who spoke briefly, either for or against the mo tion to ratify. Those voting against ratification are: Bacon, Blackburn, Culberson, Mallory, Teller, Tillman—6. Bailey paired wjth Depew and El kins, Rawlins paired with Hanna and Sewell. -- .; - Those who did not vote and for whom no pairs were announced are Daniel, Jones, of Nevada, Patterson and Quay. Amendments Voted Down. There was an eceptionally full sen ate when the time arrived for a vote, but the certainty of ratification had be come so apparent that there was com parativcly little interest In the pro' ceedings. Jbe votes on the amend ment succeeded each other quickly. Before the vote on, the treaty was taken two amendments were offered and voted down. One was by Senator Culberson and was to insert the Da’ds fortification amendment of the last session. This was defeated, 15 to 62, the affirmative votes being cast by Senators Bacon, Bate, Berry, Black burn, Carmack, Culberson, Dubois, He.itfeld, Me-Laurin cf Mississippi, Mal lory, Money, Simmons, Taliaferro, Till man and Vest. Senator Bacon then offered an amendment striking out the preamble in the reference to the Clayton-Bulwer treaty the words “without impairing the general principle cf neutralization established in article 8 of that conven tion,” also the following words in ar tide 2, relating to the purchase of stock: “Subject to the provisions of the present treaty;” also ail cf article 3, relating to the neutralization, of the canal; also' all of article 4 declaring against change of territorial sovereign ty. All this was embodied in one amendment and defeated, 18 to 60. the affirmative votes being cast by Senators Bacou, Bate, Berry, Black burn, Carmack, Clark of Montana, Clay, Culberson, Dubois, Harris, Halt fe!&. McLaurln of Mississippi, Mallory, Money, Simmons, Taliaferro, Teller and Tillman, CONGRESS TO THANK SCHLEY. Senator Jones Introduces a Bill Irj Senate With That Import. An echo of the verdict of of inquiry in the case of Rear Admiral Schley was heard in the senate Mon day tvhen Mr. Jones, cf Arkansas, in troduced a resolution extending tha thanks of'congress and of the Ameri can' people to Admiral Schley and the officers and men under his command during the battle of July 3, 1898, off the harbor, of Santiago, Cuba. In suumlt ting the resolution, Mr. Jones made no statement and it was referred without comment to the committee on naval affairs. Low Sworn In as Mayor. Seth Low took the oath of office as aiayor of New'York In the supreme court of the state Monday. Mr. Low assume office at noon on Janua ry 1. ~ '• .. E.MJ-Y TRIAL FQ* PATRICK. His Attorneys Appeal to Court and '- 1 1/ ':JHave a Date Sst. _/-AlbertT. Patrick was carried before the New. Yqrk .supreme court Thurs day on a wrlt'-of habeas corpus obtain by his counsel: oh the ground that the district attorney had failed to pros ecute. V The court said he would take th< tapers in the case on the understand ” K the district attorney will mov< case on December 26, and, after a Pause, the justice added, “or on the ' Ui or on the 30th.” Tais closed the hearing and Patrick a? taken back to prison. \ T 0 VOTE ON DISPENSARY. Cll ' Zens c f Wilkes County, Georgia, Will Try For a “Tank.” porernor Candler has approved the ‘thes county, Georgia, dispensary bill c '‘' r which there has been such a *arm fight for several days past. There was a hearing in the 1 gover r‘or s °fflce at Atlanta Monday, the gov ernor spending four hours listening to argument* for and against the meas ure. DADE COUNTY SENTINEL. “MENTAL HEALER” TO ANSWER. Grand Jury of United States Court at Jacksonville, Fia., rind True Bill Against Helen Wilmans. The grand Jury in the Uni ed States court at Jacksonville, Fla., has return ed a true bill against Helen Post, alias Helen Wilmans, of Sea Breeze. The Indictment charges that the defendant violated section 543 jof the revised statutes by devising schemes and arti fices to defraud persons under false and fradulent pretenses on her part, by representing that she posessed the power of mental science or mind cure to cure all forms of disease and weak ness, for which she received money that was converted to her own use. The case prlmises to become celebrated, as the mental sscientlsts at their recent national conventional Seabreeze voted to participate in the defense of the ac cused woman and her assoeiate-s. Mrs Post was arrested In August last and has been under $5,000 bail. Her husband, Colonel C. C. Post, and her son la law, S. F. Burgman, were indicted in Macon, Ga., last month. Mrs. Post’s operations have been ex tensive and she is alleged to have made large sums of money by the prac tice of "mental science.” Her Instructions to patients are very interesting. They read In part as fol lows: "I wish you to go alone fifteen min utes each day and hold yourself recep tive to my thought, as. if you were quietly expecting something pleasant to come to you." “Do not make any great effort to fix your thoughts on me, but trust me to draw'your- thoughts to me; I can do it for yen better than you can do it for yourself. If your"mind do not try to forefe It back; leave It free. If you become drowsy, give way to the feeling; do not antagonize It. I will take care of your condition, whatever It Is. “The first requirement during the time you sit for treatment is that you relax yourself; take the .nerve tension off your muscles and your mind, and let yourself down into an attitude of perfect ease and carelessness, as if you did not care how things went; did not even care whether you are sick or not. This attitude releases your thoughts from your disease, and gives my thoughts a chance to come In and cure you.” GEORGIA BOY WINS RACF. First to Cress Tape in Six-Day Bicycle Race at Madison Square Garden. Anew York dispatch says: Bobby Walthour, of Atlanta, Ga., of the bicy clo team of McEachern and Walthour, won the six-day race at the Madison Square Garden Saturday night He crossed the tape two yards ahead of his nearest competitor. The prizes the men contended foi were seven in number, as follows: First prize, $1,500; second, $1,000; third, $750; fourth, $500; fifth, $350; sixth, $250, and seventh prize, $l5O. In addition the management agreed to pay the training expenses of the men remaining In the race during the six days. “ENDLESS CfkAIN A FRAUD.” -In 8o Declare* U. 8. arutjtf) Jury In In dicting PMrrv-^J^pipany. The Uni .auft !, at Charlf-* a iV"*lfnnii| iiir|TllTli '< i . ‘ulg’ht after a five days’ session. Among other Indictments returned by the grand jury was one against the Amos Owen Cherry Tree Company, doing business at Henrietta. Ruther ford county. Under the indictment the defend ants, when brought Into court, will-be tried for fraud and for improper use of the United States mail. The grand jury discovered the fact that the cherry tree company has been operating very extensively and that many persons have been caught by the tempting offers held out by this scheme. Bchley Willing to Contest. A Baltimore dispatch says: Rear Ad miral W. 3. Schley has notified Attor ney General Raynor that he is ready to take any action with reference to hi* case that Mr. Raynor may advise. POST AND BURGMAN INDICTED. Partner* of Helen Wilmans WU! Also Stand Trial In the United States court Monday at Jacksonville, Fia., the grand jury re turned true bills in the c-ase of the LTnited States against 0. C. Post and Charles F. Burgman, who. with the. former’s wife, Helen Wilmans-Post, are charged with defrauding persons by representing to cure ail kinds of dis ease by mental science, or mind cure. Fifteen Indictments In all have been filed against the defendants, affil the ease is now ready for trial, whenever Judge Locke shall set a date for the same to be called. COURT VERDICT AWAITED. Country Will Soon Know Decision In Admiral Schley Case. A Washington dispatch says: The Schley court of Inquiry is nearing th< end of its labors, and while it is Im possible to secure from the members or from the navy department a state ment as to when the report will be sub mitted, it is believed that it cannot be ‘delayed much more than twenty-four hours. TRENTON. GA. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 20.1901. THREE BAD WRECKS Seventeen People Lose Lives and Scores are Injured. A FRIGHTFUL SUNDAY RECORD In One Smash-Up Fire Adds Horror. An Engine Goes Through Bridge. Third Disaster Caused By Spreading Rails. A special from Rockford, 111., says: Failure on the part of a conductor to obey orders is supposed to have been the cause of a head-end collision on the Illinois Central between Irene and Perryville early Sunday morning which resulted in six dead, two missing and eleven hurt. The two trains were the eastbound pasenger No. 4 and a through freight from Chicago going west. The trains met in a short bend in the track, both running at full speed. The smoking, express and baggage cars were piled on the locomotives, pinning in the occupants of the smoker, which took fire. Only three of the half dozen in that car escaped. The others, if not instantly killed, were roasted to death and their bodies, along with those of the engine crew, were consumed. All efforts cf -the survivors to reach the victims were unavailing. The flames drove them back at every point. The temperature was 20 degrees below zero and an icy wind was blowing across the prairie, the point where the wreck occurred being in a shallow cut, affording no protection. The injured were without hats and wraps and suf fered terribly. By the united efforts of the urvivors one car was pushed back from the wreckage to escape the flames and the wounded were placed on the bunks Inside. Two hours elapsed before any relief was at hand- Through a Bridge. A freight train on the Philadelphia and Erie division of the Pennsylvania railroad went through the bridge span ning Lycoming creek. .u liamsport, Pa., and Newberry,' at 6 o’clock Sunday morning. Three lives were lost —John Martz, engineer; Fred erick Giatss, fliemau; George Harley, brakeman, all of Sunbury. The train was known as fast freight No. £3, and was running three hours late owing to the derangement of schedule in consequence of the storm. The bridge spanning the- creek was a two-span iron structure, the first span of which gave way beneath the train. The engine and nine cars were engulf ed in the icy waters.. The creek was greatly swollen as a result of heavy rains, and it is presumed the middle pier had been weakened. Eight Killed on Great Northern, A special from Kaiispeil, Montana, say a wreck occurred on the Great Northern railroad near Essex, in the Rocky mountains, soon after midnight Sunday. Engine, mall car and smok er remained on the track, but all the other cars were wrecked. The acci dent was due to rails spreading. Among the killed was Otto E. Dickson, going from Sweden to California. Seven others were killed, but their names hsve not been learned. They were voung girl and three men. 'itvo otnc, areuun. internally and neither is expecetd to survive. Fourteen other passengers were more or less seriously hurt. The largest number of injured was ' the day coach. All were asleep * time of the accident. CONGrttoo MAY INVESTIGATE. jr Verdict In Schley Case -LVcussed By National Law tyt/ers. A Washington Specjr “says: Among members of the ho j of representa tives the finding i the Schley case were discussedAV-m great Interest and considerable was indulged in as to the.spfospect of a congression al Investigation of the subject. The prevailing view appeared to be that much will depend upon the wishes of Admiral Schley and his friends in the gLaryland delegation. CANNOT ACCEPT BONDS. President Roosevelt Definitely Decides to Refuse Carnegie Offer. It is said to be definitely decided that President- Roosevelt will not ac cept the offer of Andrew Carnegie of $10,000,000 of bonds of the United States Steel Corporation for the pur pose of founding an institution in Washington for higher education. The views of prominent senators and representatives, as they have been given to the president, are practically unanimous against the acceptance of the offer- in its present shape. ASSAULTER GETS RESPITE. Hanging cf Bill Collier at Dalton, Ga. ( Was Postponed. Counsel for Bill Collier, the negro sentenced to die on the gallows in Dal ton, Ga., last Friday for an assault on Mrs. McPherson, succeeded in get ting a stay of execution by an amend ment to the motion for new trial and Judge Fite granted a rule nisi and jet the hearing for next week. Official Organ of Dade County LEGISLATORS FINALLY REi ENT. i Georgia Solone Finally Open Way For State to Avoid a Serious Financial Tangle. The Georgia hoiue of representa tives, Thursday, by a vote of 99 to 44, passed by substitute the Howell resolu tion, providing for the payment of the | interest on the bonded debt for l‘J ,; 2 1 out of the public property fund, if the courts say this can be done. The substitute for Senator Howell’s resolution was trasmltted immediately to the senate and passed by that body . by a unanimous vote* of those present. I The resolution was at once enrolled and made ready to go to the governor for his signature. I After signing the resolution Gover nor Candler will at once notify State Treasurer Park to transfer $ 325, SCO from the public property fund to inter est account. Treasurer Park will re fuse to do this, and Governor Candler will then instruct the attorney general to bring mandamus proceedings against the treasurer and the matter ! will go through the eourts. It Is expected the,supreme court will render a decisionn' within a week or ten days. Governor Candler Is anxious to have a decision in the matter before January 1, as the interest on the bond ! ed d’ebt must be paid at that time. Governor Candler will be represent ed In the matter by -Attorney General J. M. Terrell and the state treasurer | will have as his counsel former Chief Justice Logan E. Bleckley, who has taken a great interest in this matter, and Orville A. Park, of Macon. |* The deplorable into which , the state’s finances have fallen will thus be saved by the action of the sen ate in passing the Howell resolution in the event the supreme court nolds that the money can be used as desired. The general belief is expresed that the de cision will be favorable. COLORED LEGISLATOR DEAD. Representative Crawford, of Mclntosh County, Dies In Altanta. Representative Lectured Crawford, a negro representative from Mclntosh c/ v *Bty in the Georgia general assem my, died in Atlanta early Thursday morning. j Crawford was seiving his fourth term in the state leg) iature. He lived in Oar Sec. !tt had-hi* n ;tck during "V i most the whole of the present legisla . tive session and had only been present twice. About two weeks ago he re turned to Atlanta from Darien, where he’ had been to regain his health, but was not able to go to the capitol aftkr r . Jlis return. Crawford was about 56 years old. He •was a preacher in the African Metho dlst church, and attended faithfully to his duty. He leaves a wife and one daughter. | In the house Representative McKay, j the negro member from Liberty, in a 1 resolution put the house cn notice of ( the death of Representative Craw ford. Resolutions of regret were adopt ed and the member from Liberty was appointed a committee of one to ac | company the body back to Mclntosh county. Later a resolution was unani mously adopted granting the per diem and mileage accruing to the dead rep resentatlve to his widow, “HARD LUCK” HOWARD. Swindle- Released From P : r\ Only to ~er Another lnd| '.ent. X ooard of manageif Ohio pe> entiary at Columb’>J[ Thursday, ased Rev. G. F. B. HiWard, a feder prisoner from Tenn<*see, that he might be taken -to Dejjoit, Mich., tc answer to an indictiralt there. He had served six years. **ist before the expiration of his gorSftime, Howard escaped, and W-tuJp ej Jackson, M'ch.j. resumed ht’ > ‘ -jkaf J of swii. After ( t> duu japf Me d and retard to the Ohi* i-a /ry he was hy ed in lending let*' persodfe-l* represen*-'* they wei' -'large e/ .4e and I offering*- ■ r Wer the*' uterests in the for Cnpuhd fees. Argentina are strained and there iq fear of war. In both countries there is activity In army circles. GALVESTON IN BAD PLIGHT. Storm Wrecked City Fails to Meet Im portant Financial Obligation*. A conference will be held in New York on December 17 of Galveston’s bondholders to discuss what steps are necessary to meet that city’s financial difficulties. Galveston has failed to pay Interest on some of Its bonds and the default was made on December 1 when the city was unable to meet the interest on the forty-year bonds of 1881. A committee representing the city of Galveston will be present at tie conference. ANTICIPATED THE TRUSTS. Independent Steel Concerns Buy Up Big Supply of Material. A Cleveland, 0., special says: Fear ing that the iron and steel trust wouljl gobble the supply of Iron ores and leave the Independent companies in r helpless position, the later have con tracted for upwards of 20,000,000 tom of raw material under contracts run ning for several years. Millions of dollars are involved in the deal. SCHLEY TO APPEAL Friends Will Ask Congress For Vindication and Justice. LONG IS SERYID WITH NOTICE Head of Navy Asked by Attorneys tc Withold Approval of Findings of Inquiry Court, Pending Further Action. The Maryland friends in congress cf Rear Admiral W. S. Schley have deter mined to bring his case to the attention of congress and seek there the vindica tion they claim is aue him. This ac tion was determined upon Monday night at a dinner given by General Felix Agnus and attended by Senator McComas, the Maryland members of the house and a few other friends. A resolution will be prepared extending to the admiral the thanks of congress for his services in the battle of San tiago and conferring on him the rank, pay and emoluments of a rear admiral on the active list of the navy. A pre amble to the resolution will recite Ad miral Dewey’s conclusions of the court of inquiry giving Admiral Schley the credit for the victory of the battle of Santiago. Senator McComas will in troduce the resolution in the senate, and probably Mr. Mudd a similar one in the house. If deemed expedient, an effort will be made to give Admiral Schley the rank of vice admiral. The resolutions will be prepared promptly and introduced in both houses and an attempt will be made to have early ac ‘ tion on them. Retrial of Case Not Wanted. M. A. Teague, one of Admiral Schley’s counsel before the court of in quiry, and who was also a guest at the dinner, said that the admiral would not seek a retrial cf the case under any circumstances. His desire and that of his friends was that to be relieved of the censure imposed upon him by the report of the majority of the court of inquiry. Nor, he added, would there be any suits instituted having in view the obtaining of money for li belous publications affecting him. Mr Teague saia that a vigorous bill cf ex : ceptions to the conclusions of the court will be filed with the secretary of the navy. Senator McComas said: “I believe an Investigation by con gress would not have decisive results It is not advisable. In some fashion this congress should have a chance to vote Admiral Dewey’s finding to he in the judgment of congress right or -wrong. I want to see such a vote, and I hope to see it before the session ends. I will Introduce a practical proposition tending to bring such vote in the senate at least. The details I ao not now desire to elaborate.” Request Made of Long. Admiral Schley was in consultation Monday with his counsel, Hon. Isldor Raynor and M. A. Teague, also Gen eral Felix Agnus, of Baltimore, and Congressman Schirm, of Maryland. Af ter the conference Admiral Schley au thorized Mr. Teague to make the fol lowing statement: "We have been in consultation as to what further proceedings shall be ta ken. Nothing definite has been deter mined upon so far as civil or criminal action against Maclay and his sponsors is concerned. Maclay’s claim that the findings of the court are a vindication for himself''•qd his book is absolutely epurious. T. -e are no less than half a dozen instan sin the book in which, even if he weri a accept the findings of the court ana ncorporate them in ♦he volume and ch- ige it to suit the ’dings, the book wt, >d still be crim -1 libel." V> Teague, during r ‘ afternoon, the to Sec iVcAry Long: “ 0* “Washington, D. C., December 16. Sir: I have the honor to most respect fully request that you withhold your approval from the findings of the court of inquiry recently held at the navy yard in the city of Washington, of which Admiral George Dewey was president, until such time as I may have an opportunity to file a statement of objection thereto and I therefore request that you do not dissolve the court- until action shall have been ta ken on such objections." Very respect fully, W. S. SCHLEY, “Rear Admiral United States Navy.” Later in the day Secretary Long ac knowledged. in a formal letter, the re ceipt of the request from Admira' Schley for permission to file a bill o objections. The secretary’s response was brief and partly formal ;it grant ed the request and. allowed until' Fri. day next in which to snbmit'.the bill. Admiral Schley, has been relieved from further duty in connection with the court of inquiry, ~ . * l—:i . 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