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The State of Dad VOL. IX. HAD HOT TIMES. Men Crowded Around The Ensines Clamoring For Water. BRITISH SUFFER WITH THIST. / Descriptions Shoeing The Fearful Suffering The British Are Undergo ing in the Transvaal. London, by Cable.—“ The men were crowding around the engines in line, offering the drivers fabulous prices for a cup of water," writes the Globe cor respondent, describing the close of the battle at Enslain, “but it was useless The drivers had been threatened with court-martial if they supplied any, as there was. great difficulty in keeping a sufficient supply for the engines. I saw one soldier lying flat on the line under an engine, catching a few' drops in his month from a steam pipe.” Such extracts as this from the mail ed descriptions of the fighting in South Africa give sonie faint idea of the con ditions under which it is being carried on. Belated a.s these letters are, by the time they appear in English papers they throw much-reeded light upon the campaign so barrenly reported over the censored cables. The heat that drove British soldiers to drink gratefully from the exhaust pipe of an engine after seven hours fighting at Enslain, where they lost 179 killed and wounded, has proved a serious fac tor in the care of the wounded. Sur geon Maltins, formerly of St. Thomas Hospital, writes from the field hospital at Orange river: “During an eight days’ stay some 603 wounded men iiave passed through the hands of the Royal Army Medical corps hr e. • In one night alone 300 pa tient? arrived from the fight at Modeler river. Yesterday the thermometer reg istered 125 degrees Fahrenheit in some of the tents. The journey from here to the base hospital takes 28 hours and emphasizes the difficulty due to t*he im mense length of line of communica tion. Tbf doiugs.of the beseiged a. Ladysmith have been fully described by recent letters. If ihe Boers con tinue to so closely hem in and contin uously bombard White's foice, the be seiged promise to become full-fledged cave dwellers, for according to the Daily News correspondent at Lady smith, the prevalent tendency there is to burrow. “Some people,” writes the authority, “having spent much time and patient labor in making burrows for them selves. find life there so intolerably monotonous that th.ev prefer to take the chances above ground. Others pass whole days with wives and fam ilies, or in solitary misery where there is not light enough to read or work, scarcely showing a head outside from sunrise to sunset. They may be se°n trooping away from fragile tin-roofed houses half an hour l>efore daybreak, carrying children in their arms, or a cat, or monkey, or mongoose, or a cage of pet bird?, and they come back sim ilarly laden when the night gets too dim for gunners to go on shooting. There would be. a touch of humor in all this, if it were not so deeply pathetic in its close association witth possible tragedies. One never knows where or at what hour ,a stray shot or splinter will fail, and it is pitiful sometimes to hear cries for “dolly" from a prattling mite who may herself l>e fatherless or motherless tomorrow. We think as little as possible of. such things, put ting them from us with the light com ment that they happen daiJv elsewhere than in beseiged towns, making the best we can of a melancholy situa tion.” Mineral O ltput' For ißoq. New Special.—The United States Engineering and Mining Jour nal, in its annual statistical number, aayri that the prelintinary statement of mineral production in the United States in 1899, shows that the total production of metals in the 1 nited States for that year was valued at the place of production at $419,738,414, as compared with $314,266,620 in 1898. Wants SIOO,OOO. Chicago. Special.—Miss Etta Thomas a niece of General Joe Wheeler, ha- be gun suit in the superior court against Wm. H. Fahrney, a prominent West Side society man. asking SIOO,OOO dam ages for alleged breach of promise to marry. It is alleged that Fahi-ney. who is treasurer of a large patent medicine manufactory, and reputed to be weal thy, has been engaged to Miss Tlhomas for over five years but that recently he brcfke off Hhe engagement on the ground that his parents desired him to marry another woman. GILMORE RESCUED. Exciting Tale of His Experiences Among the Filipinos. Manila, by Cable. —Lieutenant J. C. Gilmore, of the United States gunboat York'town, who was captured by the insurgents last April, near Baler, on the east coast of Luzon, and rescued a few days ago by Col. Luther L. Hare, of the Thirty-third volunteer infantry, sat Sunday in the apartment of his sister, Mrs. Major Price, at the Hotel Oriente, in Manila, and told a remark able story of his eight months captiv ity, ending with his dramatic deliver ance from a death that seemed inevita ble. The steamer Venus came into the harbor Saturday evening from Vigan, province of South Ilocos, with Lieuten ant Gilmore and 19 other American prisoners, including seven of his sail ors from the Yorktown. Lieutenant Gilmore, after reporting came ashore and hobbled along with the aid of a cane, to the Hotel Oriente, where Am erican ladies and officers were waltz ing through the halls to the strains of “Aguinaldo’s March.” Although tanned and ruddy from ex posure, he is weak and nervous, show ing the results of long hardships. He speaks warmly of Aguinaldo and very bitterly against Gen. Tino, declaring that while in the former’s jurisdiction he was treated splendidly but that af ter he fell into Tino’s hands he suffer ed everything. Col. Hare and Lieut. Howze, the lat ter of the Thirty-fourth volunteer. In fantry, rescued Gilmore’s party, on Dec. 18, near the headwaters of the Abulet river, after they had been aban doned by the Filipinos and were ex pecting death from the savage tribes around them. When the rescuing par ty reached them they were nearly star ved, but were building rafts, in the hope of getting down the river to the coast. Lieutenant Gilmore made the follow ing statement to a correspondent of the Associated Press: “The Filipinos abandoned us on the night of December 16. We had reached the Abulet river, near its source that morning, and the Filipinos rafted us over. We then went down the stream, along a rough trail, guard ed by a company of Filipinos. That night we were separated from the guard, and another company armed with Mausers, w,a.-, put in charge of us. I suspected something and questioned the lieutenant in command. He said, “I have orders from Gen. Tino to shoot you all; hut my conscience forbids. I shall leave you here.” ”1 him for two rifles to pro tect us from savages, adding that I would give him letters to the Ameri cans, who would pay him well and keep him from ail harm. He refused this, however, saying that he would not dare to comply. Soon afterward he left with his company. “We had seen some savages in wai paint around us. and we prepaivl to fight them with cobblestones, the t>oly weapons that were available to us. The next morning we followed the trail of the Filipino soldiers, feeling that it was better to stick to them than to h murdered by savages; but we could not catch up with them. Then I order ed the men to build rafts, in the hop; of floating down the river. It was a forlorn hope, but I knew the river must empty into the seas somewhere. I was so weak myself that I did not expect to get out, but 1 thought some of the men could. “On the morning of December 18, while we were working on the rafts, the Americans came toward us, yelling. One of my men shouted, ’they are on us.’ He was lashing a raft of bam boos. I however, knew that it was not the yell of savages, but the yell of Americans. The rescuing troops thought we had Filipino guards, and called to us in English to lie down, so That was the finest body of men and That was the finest body of men and officers I ever saw.” Lieut. Gilmore could not speak en thusiastically enough about the 140 picked men who had rescued him and his party. The command spent the day in making rafts. Col. Hare thought Lieutenant Gilmore too weak to live through the trip, but there was no al ternative. They shot many rapids, the men lasing all their effects and Lieut. Gilmore some valuable papers. Only 14 out of the 37 rafts survived the first night's experiences, and 80 men were practically unable to walk when Vigan was reached. • Telegraphic Briefs. The American Presbyterian mission at Batanga. Camaroons. has sent the German government a letter of tihanks for the efficient protection which the German colonial authorities afforded the mission in 1899. A movement is on foot in Belgium to ask President McKinley to mediate between England and the Transvaal. Plans for the Aemriean rthurch in Berlin, which Mr. Lafarge, of New York, drew up after several modifica tions, do not find approval upon the part of the Berlin building authorities, who insist that, to render the building safer, a German architect will have to change the plans accordingly. Admiral Dewey has accepted an in vitation to visit St. Louis early in May. He will be accompanied by Mrs. Dew ey. A plebiscite of the citizens of Mexico regarding candidates for the presiden cy was held Sunday at the suggestion of the Liberal party’s national commit tee and resulted in a general endorse ment of the present President Dtav,. TRENTON, GA., JANUARY U, 1900. 1900 CALENDAR. 1900 \ JANUARY. | S|M T |_W_|_T F S j... 1 2 3 4 5 6 ■7 8 9 10 11 12 13 : 141 15 16 17 18 19 20 • 21 22 23 j 24 25 26 27 ; 28,29 30 I 31 M 1 ' ’ [ FEBRUARY. |.... I|j. 1 2 3 :4567 8 9 10 ■ 11 12 13 14 1 15 10 17 : 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 : 251 26 27 28 ■ MARCH. : I —i - . r 123 ■4 5 1 6 7 8 9 10 | 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 I 18 19 20 21 22 23 i 24 : 25 26 27 28 29 30 | 31 \ii— I— I APRIL. 1 2(3 4 5 6~~ 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 ............... ••••!■■ i.-.-i...i.. MAY. 123 4 5 6 7 8 9■ 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 JUNE. • !•••• j r 2 3456 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 i 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 WHITE MAN PAYS PENALTY. Tied to a Tree and Shot at Newport News, Va. Newport News, Va., Special.—The death of Wm. W. Watts at the hands of a mob between the hours of 4 and 5 o’clock Friday morning marks the first sitting of Judge Lynch in Newport News. His taking off signalizes the in itial execution of a white man for rape in Virginia legally or otherwise. The crime that invoked mob vengeance was peculiarly atrocious, being quick ened by the basest ingratitude. The victim of the wretch upon whom jus tice was so speedily visited was the benefactress of her assailant, having fed him, a stranger at her door, when he first appeared begging for charity three weeks ago. after reaching -here penniless from Lynchburg, where his father is a policeman. Watts was 28 years old, unmarried, a professional gambler and comes of a respectable family with extensive relationship throughout the State. Waiting For Coal. Norfolk Va., Special.—Despite the heavy increase in shipments of Poca hontas coal to this port, consequent upon increased provision af cars by the Norfolk and Western Railroad Company, the demand cannot be sup plied. There are now nearly 75 ves sels here awaiting cargoes, and it will be weeks before their bunkers are all filled. No trouble has been experienc ed in supplying the local demand, but foreign orders have so multiplied, part ly because of a reduction of 25 cents per ton in price of bunker coal, that they cannot be filled promptly. British Gain no Ground. London, by Cable—No decisive op eration is reported from South Africa, military operation being confined to points of subsidiary importance. In the central theater of operations, the. British apparently have secured no substantial gains. The only dispatch of dramatic -interest is the narrativtjj of useless gallantry at the sortie from" Mafeking. where the storm era threw themselves hopelessly against a strong ly defended Boev work. ■— ■ ■■■ - Dr. Hammond Dead. Washington, D. C., Special.—Dr. Wil liam Hammond, former surgeon gen eral af the army, died here Frida? night. Dr. Hammond conducted a sanitarium -he-e for some years. He had a notable and somewhat checkered career. He was on the retired list at the Unie of his death. At one time he lost his position in the army, bat was restored after a hard fight. To Pay in Full. All Depostors wll be paid in Full New York. Special.—The trustees of the New Y'ork Produce Exchange Trust Company have made all arrangements for the resumption of business next Wednesday. General Samuel Thomas, vice president of the reorganized com pany. authorizes Che statement that when the dorrs open again every de positor who may desire his money will be paid in full. He adds that he is unable to say at this time just what nsw r interests will enter the board of trustees at the annual meeting, which will be held the day the company re sumes business. 2>EMOCHA TIC, JULY. S I M i T | W j T- I | P i 5 • 1 8j 3,4 j 5 ! 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ( 16, 17 18 19 20 21 22 231 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 31 1 || | AIWjUSf. —|—j: -- ‘ Ff 2j 3~j 4 51 6 7 8i 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19,20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27, 28 29 30 31 SEPTEMBER. 2345 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14! 15 16 17 18 191 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 1 27 I 28 29 30 OCTOBER. .... 1 i 81 31 4l 5 8 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 .... NOVEMBER. •••• •• • I 1 2 3 | 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 : 11 12 IS 14 15 16 17 ■ 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 = 25 26 27 28 29 30 I J.... . : DECEMBER. 21 3 4 5j6 7 8 = 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 i 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 • 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 = 30 31 S Big Fire in Richmond. Richmond. Va., Special.—Richmond suifered Friday evening the severest i .'lre loss it has known for years. About 3 o’clock fire broke out in the Mer chants and Planters’ Tobacco Ware house, at Fifteenth and Cary streets and which covered about a third of a i block. In it were stored some 3,600 i hogsheads of tobacco, 2.600 of which : belonged to the American Tobacco Company, and the rest to various par ties residing here and elsewhere. In V- lincredibly short spa.ee of Line the j interior of the building was a roaring j furnace, and hope of saving the struts- I ture or any of its contents was idle. jThe destruction was complete. The i flames spread across Fifteenth street tc j Kingan’s cold storage plant, across [Cary to Carter and Hyland’s commis ision house, and rearward to a vacant ! machine shop building. The damage !te*lhe last two was slight, as was that |to Davenport's warehouse, in the vi cinity, but Kingan and Company suf fered a loss of some $30,000, fully in sured. The loss on the tobacco in the Merchants and Planters' Warehouse is 'estimated at $350,000; with insurance I about $300,000. Tlhe building was fully insured. Total estimated loss, $400,- oi|k; insurance, $350,000. * Against Quay. Washington, D. C., Special.—The Senate committee on privileges and ejections has decided to make an ad verse report upon the resolution to seat Senator Quay. The resolution is as follows: “Resolved, that Matthew S. Quay be admitted as a Senator from the State of Pennsylvania in accord ance with his appointment, made on April 21, 1899, by the governor of saia State.” The members of the commit- j tee voting for the resolution were . Senators Chandler, Hoar and McComas and those opposing were Senators ! Burrows, Cafferv. Partus and Harris, i Senators Turley and Pritchard were 1 paired, the latter for and the former against, the resoluton. Briefs T'he French government has cabled j £ie Commandant of the naval squadron j in Hhe Atlantic, to proceed imme difttely to Santo Domingo, to enforce the collection of the Boise Mare-Cacco wili claim of 280,000 francs. Four quarry,men. on, the Tennesset Central Railroad, near Rockwood, at tempted to thaw out a stick of dyna mite. The dynamite exploded and" one man. a negro, named Jos. Gleason, was killed and throe others fatally injured, two of them dying two hours after the accident. The brewerie? of Milwaukee and Chi cago made during the past year 643,80; barrels of beer at a net profit of $73,342, against $199,374 for previous year. The Philadelphia Furnace, at Flo ence, made the first cast of iron. 21 hours after the fires were lighted in the big plant. The Philadelphia has beet idle for seven years and has been re paired at a cost of $50,000. A special dispatch from Rensburt says Major Harvey, of the Hussars, was killed, and Major Alexander woun 'led, while the Hussars were pursuinj | the retreating Boers after the attack ot j the British left on January 4th, neat ! Colosburg. Lieutenant Gibson, of tin | Inniskillings. was among the wounded j There’s too much ice at Stettin ti j permit the launchi-ng of the new Ham ! burg-American lJrve Steamer Deutach ! l>~ad. Tli T'nc clear pan, cottr Judge • S. C., severely duty a jury which remained days in the case of Prof. Meares, elm. ged witli the downfall of a girl. Anew cotton mill, with a capital stock of $300,0000, is to be located at Homea Path, S. C. Councilman H. 1). Darnell introduced a resolution at a meeting of the Roa noke, Va., city council to prohibit the wearing of hats by either sex at thea tres and other places of amusement. 1 lie Lake Tracy Drainage and Im provement Company, of Lake Tracy, Lake county, Fla., has been incor porated with a capita) of $50,000. The general objects, are the drainage and improvement of lands in that vicinity and building and operation of rail roads and canals, saw and planing mills. Urey Woodson, Democratic national committeeman from Kentucky, has said in an interview in Chicago that William Goebel will be seated as Gov ernor of Kentucky before February Ist. The Columbus, Ga. Power Company has increased its capital stock from $300,000 to $300,000 and the additional stock has all been taken. The fourth cotton mill to be organ ized in South Carolina this year is the Limestone, at Gaffney, capital $300,000. The North. The Cranston Hotel property at Highland Falls, N. Y., has been se cured by the Missionary Sisters of St. Francis, and will be converted into the Academy of Our Lady of Angels. The manufacturirfg jewellers of New England are using every means to de feat the ratification of the reciprocity treaty between this country and France, which would lower the import duties on jewelry. The trustees of the estate of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt have paid to Yale University the SIOO,OOO bequest left to the institution. | In a quarrel over the ownership of | a knife. Willie Daggs, 8 years old. pro ; cured a shot gun and killed his sister, Lena, aged 12, at Evansville, 111. While eh route to Joliet’Penitentiary I from Chicago, 111., Thomas Downes, a i convict, leaped from a train in the darkness, but was recaptured. Believing that there is discrimina tion against them, the colored business men of Chicago, ill., will incorporate an insurance company exclusively fer their race. The Kentucky Distilling Company, known as the Whisky Trust, has mort gaged its 38 distilleries in Kentucky to the Central Trust Company of New York for $5,000,000, at 5 per cent. The New England Tobacco Growers convention adopted resolutions pro testing against any early admission of Porto Rico as an integral part of the United States, as a forerunner of dis aster to pur leaf tobacco interests and favoring a constitutional amendment providing a colonial system and civil government of all insular possessions separate and distinct from the United States. A Gardner. Me.. Dispatch says ice manufacturers are discussing the pros pects that the American Ice Company, which now controls the natural ice product of New York. Pennsylvania and Maine, may purchase artificial ice plants in Southern cities. An agent has visited the leading plants in the South to ascertain the capacity and value of each. The cities which it is proposed to first bring into the com bine are Atlanta, Memphis, Mont gomery, Birmingham. Chattanooga and Nashville. Foreign. Influenza has caused 193 deaths -in a week in London. The American art Institute has been granted a permanent site for a building in Paris. French soldders’ anti-army newspa pers have now been shut out all troops' < rendezvous. English life insurance companies arc severely criticised for charging an ex tra 5 per cent, war risk. The London Authors’ Society will es tablish an Authors’ Pension Fund to l>e available to applicants 60 years old or over. While walking alone at night. Miss Rachel Ferguson was knocked down and robbed at Toronto, and died soon afterward. Miscellaneous. Captain Eckhoff, of the Dutch oil tank steamer La Hesbaye, in port at Baltimore, reports having sighted an iceberg* on which four polar bears were walking, off the Newfoundland Banks. Private David E. Ferrick, Troop G, Fifth Cavalry, died on Friday of ty phoid fever at San Juan. P. R. General Otis reports that Thomas Stocker. Troop K. Fourth Cavalry, was killed in action near Concepcion, No vember 11. The Comptroller of the Treasury holds that under the personel act naval officers on leave are entitled to one half shore pay. Mr. Bailout uie American Revo lution is the Only War Bnglandhas Lost She Has Suffered Disasters. i ' j London, by Cable.—The War Office j has neither contributed any light on | the situation in Natal since Sunday noi allowed the dispatches of corres pondents to get through. Consequently the public impatience finds vent in a discussion of the conduct of the war. ; The Morning Post demands that the forces afield, afloat and in preparation shall be increased by 65,000 men. To this end it urges that all the trained men the country possesses, militia and volunteers shall be called out, assert ing incidentally that although the atti tude of the other powers is correct in the diplomatic sense of the word, an invasion, if attempted, would be sud den, and that now is the time to appre hend contingencies. The Daily Mail says it understands that the suppression of another general commanding in South Africa will shortly lie announced. This may have relation to General Buller’s hasty sum mons from Davenport. It is reported ; that he came by special train to Lon don yesterday and held a long eonsui , tation with the headquarters • .staff. This seems to indicate that his advice which only recently was in extreme, disfavor, is about to be utilized. The critics range up and down the entire field of war transactions, finding fault especially with the lack of trans ports for the troops who are ready to depart, and with the concealment of news, averring that the censorship in South Africa embraces the mails; that the reports of correspondents are be ing mutilated and entire letters sup- pressed. The admiralty is seeking transports and is reported to have char toyed the American' liner At. Paul, which was inspected previous to the I chartering, and three Liverpool steam [ ersl The government's defense, as put forth by Mr. Balfour, at Manchester.' has produced a disagreeable impress- , ion upon the country. The Standard. ' the Times, and The St. James Gazette join in the almost unaimous metropol itan and provincial disapproval of the government’s explanations. Great Britain's losses since the war began are fast approaching 8,000. A War Office compilation of casualties, issued last evening, shows a total of 7.213—1,027 killed, 3.675 wounded and 2.511 missing. These do not include 140 who have succumbed to disease, nor the casualties at Ladysmith last Saturday. The Daily .Mail says: “With charac teristic bad manner?, the Transvaal authorities have refused to allow Mr. Hollis, the American representative at Pretoria, to care for British interests. This is unprecedented in modern dip lomatic history.” S. A. L.’s Liberal Offer. The industrial Department of the S; A. L. announces that they have the following breeds of fullblooded roos ters: Light Brahmas. Black Lang shans. and Black Monorcas. which they urouose to loan to those who ave located on the line of the S. A. L. sys tem. for the purpose of improving their breed of chickens. These roosters will be loaned to parties for a term of nine ty days, which time will be ample to get the breed of same. It is important in order to get a good pure breed of chickens to let the roosters above men tioned exclusively run in a pen with not more than fifteen hens. Those de siring the- service of any one of the above named roosters should apply to J. Strang. Assistant Chief ln'd Agent. Portsmouth. Va. Applications will be ’ recorded and served as come na turn. Pulitzer’s House Burned. New Y'ork. Special.—The handsome residence of Joseph Pullitzer. publisher of The New Y'ork World, at 10-12 East Fifty-fifth street, was -destroyed by fire Tuesday and two women servants were suffocated or burned to death. The total loss Is estimated at about $300,000. 1 he insurance is $250,000. The victims of 1 the fire were Mrs. Morgan Jellett, the housekeeper, and Miss E}izal>eth Mont gomery, a governess. 20,000 Witnesses. Frankfort. Kv., Special.—The ses sions of both houses of the legislature - were uneventful. Former Governor Bradley, chief counsel for u-overno. Taylor, denied stories that troops had been brought here in citizen’s clothes and that Republicans had arranged 10 -import here large bodies of men from over the State to intimidate the legis lature. He said: “We will summon 20,000 witnesses. whose evi ence is to be taken for use before the state contest board, and many of t m ’ suppose, will come, but theie wi. effort at intimidation. I take no stock in the talk about bloodshed.