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Wm STATE OF DADE NEWS. VOL. X. ■bland declines. Bhiguan Canal Project May Be Held Up. WWER TO SENATE’S DEMANDS. Spplfiillp' * - ■■■ • , ■Kish Will Submit a Counter Pro- Hposal, Hoping An Entirely New ‘■tgreement flay Be Reached. .jjfcadon. By Cable.—lt has been d by a representative of the As- Pres that a reply will short ■rarbe sent to the'United States in re- to the Nicaragua Canal project. P’it ttll not comply with the Senate's Neither will it be in the Wt re of a flat refusal, though for ■HKosrs of im,mediate construction, it |J he tantamount to such a refusal ■■nil consist, mainly, in a counter* iMßtrosal, or proposals, likely to neces* ■Bto extended negoriations. The na |B of 'the proposal is not yet ascer Pauneefote will probably be medjuin through whom the answer |Bl he sent and by whom the eubse negotiations will chiefly Ire con victed. In British official opinion, it ■ likely that - several months will ■apse before the matter reaches a ■raclusion. by-which time the Hay ■auncefote treaty will have elapsed, the basis of the Senate’s amend-' The British counter-proposals ■re now formulating, and it is hoped ■p entirely new agreement satisfac to both countries, will eventually reached. S Envoys Badly Treated. Bloemfontein, By Cable.—An in ential burgher gives some details raiding the treatment of the peace voys who went to General Dewet a tger. It seems that they were or red to remain with a cart until the fles arrived. As the Boers were faking laager in the expectation of r - British attack one morning, Com mandant Froneman came up and asked ■Perdered to wait tor mules, wnereupen j the lioer commander immediately Ijamboked Moigendael on the head and face, and said he felt inclined to shoot pirn. General Dewet coming up at the moment, said: “Why don't you shoot r im'.''’ and at this Froneman fired at the envoy, who died of the wound. Kueller, another envoy, was jamboked pi so. Great Naptha Fire. A St. Petersburg, By Cable. —Advices j ■rorn Baku Friday evening announce ■that the naptha fire has been extin guished. Ten factories and five de pots were burned, containing alto- Hpther 35,000,000 poods of naptha and ■naptha refuse. The losses will exceed PIOOO,OOQ roubles. Niine charred cor t fees have been recovered. One hun dred and sixty persons were injured l b.v burning, 41 of those severely, and F Six have succumbed to their injuries, f Many victims are still under the ruins, and the search 'is proceeding, A hun dred homeless families are being dis tributed and housed in the neighbor hood; bread is doled to the employes of the factories at the expense of the authorities and the public is sub scribing generously to the relief fund. To Pnrchase Northern Railways. Ixindon, By Cable.—Dr. Morrison, wiring to The, Times, from Pekiin, Thursday, says: “Russia through the Chinese minister in St. Petersburg has offered to purchase the Northern Rail ways from Shan Hai Kwan to New Chwang and SimM)in Ting, the pur chase money to be deducted from the indemnity. Such a transfer would violate the understanding China gave England in October, 1898, ueverto alienate these railways to any power. The 'foreign, envoys are hopeful that China w<ll accept the note regarding punishments.” More Vessels Than Ever Before. I Wash’ngtun, D C., Specal. John W. 1 Rryant testified before the industrial commission upon the commerce of the I Mississippi river. The annual reports! of the United States dupervising in spectors, the witness said, show more steam vessel on the Mtsissippi and its tributaries to-day than ever' before. Tn his opinion the struggle of the] Steamboat is not so much agams. the railroad as against the impediment of navigation. He stated that 11 ere is much business carried Ijy rail which preference and convenience would go by the river but for uncertainties o) navigation. Peaceful in Venezuela. Washington, D. C., Special.—Minister Loomis, at Caracas, has telegraphed] the State Department that It has been reported to him that the government ot Venezuqja has just suppressed a revo lutionary uprising in the island o. Ma.rjarita; that the leader of the rev olution in eastern Venezuela has beer captured and that his follow rs eitbc were taken or dispersed. Tie whole country is reported peaceful. TILLMAN SPEAKS. Grows Vehement While Discussln. Pensions. SENATE. Forty-eighth Day.—An ineffectual effort was made in the Senate to se cure an agreement upon a time for a final vote upon the shipping bill. Vig orous protests were made by oppon ents of the measure against any such agreement, even for a date in the in definite future. Mr. Pritchard, of North Carolina, spoke today in sup port of the shipping bill and then the naval appropriation bill was consid ered the rest of the day, the shipping bill being laid aside informally. The naval bill had not been acted on when the Senate adjourned. Forty-ninth Day.—During the en tire session the Senate had under con sideration the naval appropriation bill. Practically the bill was com pleted when it was laid aside for the day, all of the committee amendments being adopted, but as the measure was about to be placed on its passage, Mr. Butler, of North Carolina, precipitated a discussion of the armor plate ques tion, In order to enable some others to speak upon the matter, the bill was laid aside until Monday. Eulogies upon the late Representative Harm -r, of Pennsylvania, concluded the ses sion. The passage at the beginning of the session of the Senate of a bill granting a pension of SSO a month to Stacy H. Cogswell, Company F, Thirteenth In diana Volunteer Infantry, induced Mr. Tillman, of South Carolina, to make some forceful comments upon the House in not taking action upon a bill providing a pension for a Mexican war veteran who had resided in South Carolina during the civil war, and nat-, urally had been in sympathy with the ’ Confederacy. The bill had been passed by the Senate, but the House invalid pension committee 'was delay ing final action upon it. Mr. Tillman urged. He said that there' was so much sectional animosity in the house committee that the members refused to permit action upon the bill for the benefit of this old Mexican veteran. “Is the war over, or is it not?” de manded Mr. Tillman, with vehemence. “Let us find out whether it is or not. I swear by the Almighty Gad that I will not, let another pension bill pass this Senate until this old man gets justice.” Fiftieth Dav,—KUm-ru- .ftor tluF tio\ bill was 'passed. The shipping subsidy bill was then taken up ami kept before the Senate during the ie mainder of the executive day. Mr. Caffery, Democrat, ofLouisiana oc cupied the floor throughout the session Opposition Senators made the pomt or no quorum several times and demand ed a call of the Senate. HOUSE. Forty-eighth Day.—This was prob ably the last day to be devoted to pri vate .pension legislation by the House of Representatives in this Congress, The high water mark, made in the Fifty-first Congress, was almost reach ed today, when 184 bills were passed against 197 passed at a single session 1 in the former Congress. In all, th_ house at this Congress has passed about 900 bills, a number considerab.y exceeded in the Fifty-first. A general pension hill was passed to restore to the pension rolls widows o, soldiers of the civil war who subse quently married and became widows, or divorced. By the terms of the bill, however, its benefits are limited tc , widows of soldiers who were tnarrie before the close of the civil war ana who are now dependent upon the.i own labor for support. own lauor ior Forty-ninth Day.-The considera tion of the diplomatic and consular ap propriation bill in the House developed something of a sensation when Repre sentative Brown, of Ohio, standing m the centre of the Republican side ol the chamber, made a speech strongiy condemning a colonial policy and urg ing that Congress should at °nce gne assurance to the Filipinos that the purpose of the United States was tc give them independence. His an- I nouncement that he would advocate s resolution to this effect *as l°udl> ap plauded, particularly on the Demo ‘ on,! at the close of the planned, panicuwu./ ~ . cratic side, and at the close of the speech many of his Republican asso ciates crowded about him gratuiated him. RepresentaUves Miers of Indiana, and Dmsmore, of Arkansas, also spoke on the Philippines. The consideration of the diplomatic and consular bill went over at - e°clock and Hie rest of the day was give” t'o eulogists ot the lute Repre sentative D*y. of “ Wise, of Virginia. Those who pi nounceti eulogies upon the life and character of-.tlm late Mr. Wise wete Messrs. Lamb. Rrtcey, of Weeks, of Michigan: Lanney. ot North Carolina; Aldrich, o! Alabama, and DaiT-Thla was held da. being bv tar- the-Uvelieht L a,irine the present session. A very interesting debate/ryer th? con “gitfa-u* b>- the mg Jg™; ? the a>m- I brought subst fete mittee to dL aQ amend pr°rfthe war reTenue reduction act r “t'iwn'r f *o7,nn r oK I and its paramount ngh.s . ■ - . | legislation. TRENTON, GA.. JV.BRUAIU Va 101. HARBOR ICE LOCKED^ New York Suffering rrom the Intense Cold. FERRY BOATS HAVING HARD TIME. A Heavy Snow Storm Adds to the Difficulties of the Situation—The Worst Blockade in Yea a. New York, Special—New York har bor was still ice locked and all traffic afloat in bay and rivers was crippled by the floes. Not in many years, say the shipping men has commerce on the harbor been so impeded by the ice. Even the Atlantic liners are delayed and bothered by the packs which for days have hung persistently along the water fronts everywhere, filling up the slips and causing delay and vexation to thousands who travel on ferry boats. Increasing the trouble a hundred fold, came the storm Sunday morning and for several hours ice and snow placed an embargo on the port. No' vessel dared to navigate the Narrows, or Hell Gate, until the snow had stopped falling. Many tug boats have been called into service to break the way for clogged vessels. Where one tug is usually enough to tow a whole fleet of canal boats around the battery, two or three are now required for the work. The resources of the tug owntrs have been taxed to the limit. Last Wedne-day night it was impossible to charter a tug for any pree. Every one was busy. One of the largest owners of these boats in the city said that the ice had probably disabled a hundred tugs by breaking their propellors. The dry docks are full of boats, having broken wheels replaced. The ferry boats continue to fight their way from slip ti slip. It has been impossible for there boats to run on schedule time for several iiavs - r - Government of Cuba. ' Washington. D. C.. Special—lt is now apparent to-the officials of the adminis tration that it will scarcely be possible for the United States to withdraw en tirely frem the government of Cuba, under the most favorable circum stance.'. before next fall at the earliest. This is conceding the possibility thab the Cuban convention may adopt a constitution entirely acceptable to this government on or before April 1 next. It is recognized on all sides that it will require several months after the adop tion of the constitution to complete the organization of the Cuban government, and have it in successful operation. All the national officers must be chosen laws enacted for the collection of the revenues anl the establishment of a stable government, a police force 01 constabulary organized to take ‘th< place of the United States military force for the preservation of peace am I the maintenance of order, and th ! municipal governments organized. Scale Re- Adopted. Columbus, 0., Special. After struggle over the wage scale for tl. next year, lasting ten days, the joii conference of coal miners and oper: tors Saturday adopted the sale of tl year preceding. Indianapolis was s leoted as the place for the next confe ence, which will meet January 30, 19( Both sides expressed satisfaction wi the outcome of .the session. This < ternoon the scale was signed by t officers of the United Mine Workers America and committees of operate representing the block fields of In ana and the mines of Illinois, Ohio a Pennsylvania. Cork Factory Burned. Pittsburg, Special.—The five-st brick building at Twenty-third st: and Alleghany Valley Railroad, factory, was completely destroyed fire Saturday, together with the ft dry and machine shop of the Tot Hogg Iron aaiW Steel Foundry, Twenty-fourth street, adjoining Armstrongs. The los6 will react most $50,000, with insurance cove the amount fully. The Armst cork factory was the largest plai the kind in the country and the pany has offices In most of the pi pal cities of the country. The p in the office was saved. A Bill to Legalize Joint Smashi Topeka, Kan . Special.—Reproj tive Lawrence introduced a bill House to legalise joint—sma it a sufficient defense in an act law to show* that the property d€ ed was used in the operation of s The bill was advanced to seconc ing. A motion to rush it to reading was defeated by a vote c 26. I'emAhatic. RIOT IN ST. LOUIS. . • - -■ —— Scrtous Conflict Occurs at a Local l Election. —,— POLICEMAN AND NEGROES SHOT. Ihere Were 200 of the Latter in the j Crowd and They Figured Most 5 Prominently in the Affray. St Louis, Special.—More than 150 shots were fired, a sergeant of police and two negroes were wounded and a •ballot lsox was stolen in the course of ji riot about the second precinct poll ing place of the fourth ward, early Monday evening. It was only after a . lot call had brought Lapt. Kiely with forty policemen and riot guns to the scene that a semblance of order was restored. Even then the streets were riiled.A'ith negroes and some white men, all of whom were armed, many of them intoxicated and booking'for trouble. Not a ballot was cSst there during th#day. The wounded were: S-ergeant Qulnlivan of the fourth dis trict, shot in the right leg; Monroe, shot in the right arm* Fred Jones, shot in left leg. The trouble had been brewing all afternoon. When It came time to open the polls the Tinker judges had not yet arrived. Later the Tinker men disagreed with the Wells men as to the advisability of opening the back door of the polling place. The Noon alt ertnwd claimed that the other fac tions were jockeying to prevent any voting whatever, because, they said, the ward was overwhelmingly .for Noonan. The judges, being unable to agree, no voting was done. Rumor has ! it that the first man to draw a revol ! ver was a negro named Arthur Gardi ner. immediately the street became the scene of a fusilade. Every man drew on*e or two revolvers. w,, ~* Judge John J. Ryan..rail out from I his desk to the street and shot square ly at a negro advancing upon the Ujooth, gun in hand. There was no j time to make arrests', but the police, undeg .Sergeant Quinlivan, rushed j Munroe, who had resisted the tempt j to disarm him, that Sergeant Quinli van was shot. Detective McGrath at tempted to disarm the negro and in the midst of a scattering fire wrapped a handkerchief about the sergeant’s wounded leg to stop the flow of blood from a severed artery. The policemen were on the spot within a few moments and succeeded in quelling the riot and dispersing- the 200 negroes who had figured most prominently in the affray. After order I had been restored it was found that the ballot box had been stolen. Russia’s Claims. Berlin. By Cable. —The Berlin Tage blatt publishes a dispatch from a cor espondent in Siberia, who cites evi dence going to show that Russia con siders that her recent acts have an nexed Manchuria and Mongolia. For instance, the new Russian governor, Lieutenant General Maihsyessky, passed through Kiahita, on the Mono golian frontier, for Urga, in Monogolia, December 2 last, to assume the ad ministration, and the Russo-Chinese Bank and its branches have been of ficially notified that from January 1, the Russian protectorate has been in force. Naval Officers Exonerated Washington, D. C., Special.—The Navy Department has received from Commander Richard Wainwright, su perintendent of the Naval Academy, at Annapolis, the report on the case of Hobart Green, a young marine officer of Virginia, aboard the Santee, whose death was charged to have resulted from neglect of pr|per attention dur ing his illness. The report complete ly exonerates the officials. It say3 that young Green had every care; that there was no exposure to wet or colds: and that he was buried with the usual ceremonies. Washington Items. Senator Morgan has given notice ot an amendment he will offer to thg sundry civil, or river and harbor bill, authorizing the acquirement of suffi cient territory from Costa Rica and Nicaragua, for the construction of the Nicaragua Canal. Senator Warren reported from the committee on claims, an omnibus claims bill. It aggregates $2,989,008 for which there are 77 claimants.' The claims include: Under the Rowman act $902.‘59; French spoliation claims, 5479,718; El fridge board findings. $809,- 133; State claims, $477,894. The mem bership of the Court of Claims is in creased from five to nine. Troops to Stop Prize Fight. Columbus, 0., Special.— At Governor Nash’s request the State emergency board authorized him to incur any ex pense necessary, not exceeding $50,000. In the use of State militia if necessary to prevent the proposed Jeffries-Ruhlin contest at Cincinnati. It is believed that he has arranged with Sheriff Tay lor, of Hamilton couptv, to call for ti oops if necessary to stop the fight. THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. The South. There is a strong movement dfoflt Against the removal of the Port Royal naval station to Charleston, S. C. The fight at first will be alcing the for the improvement of the designated site at Charleston. A Tampa, Fla., despatch says that the schooner Lilly White and Dr. Lyke3 bound over in $2,000 each until the opening of the United States Court in May. The crews of the schooner have been.placed under S3OO bonds. The Tallapoosa Gold Mining Com pany. with a capital of $3,000,000, is empowered to operate gold mines in Haralson county. Georgia. The in corporators are .1. A. Kitchorn, Charles Y. Flanders and Walter A. Rlgg, of Camden. Jeffersdn Imng, a negro, who thirty years ago represented the Macon, Ga., district in congress, died Monday at Macon. He stood well with the white people of the community. At Montgomery. Ala., Monday, in tin United States Court, an eulogy 0:1 Johi Marshall was read and the court ad journed. Two young men, George and Tobe Stroud, have been ’murdered at Sabin river, near Many, La. It is not known who did the killing. A decree was eiftered in the United States court at Harrisonburg, Va., ap pointing Cornelius Shields, of Bristol, and Henry K. McHorg, of New York, receivers for the Virginia Iron, Coal and Cc*Ke Company, with headquarters at Bristol. Wright Harbor and Wallace Reed, brothers-in-law. became engaged in a difficulty ait Collinsville, Ala., over per sonal matters. Nick Petty, an on looker, interferred. Harbor turned on Petty and asked what business it was of hfs, pulled his pistol and shot Petty, killing him instantly. No arrests have been made. Two hundred leather workers in the Bona Allen factory, at Buford, Ga., struck Saturday. They a.sk a recogni tion of tlie Leather Workers Union'. M — • The North. Typographical Union No. it has de , edei by a formal vote to wiu.uraw ' the boycott against the New York Sun 1 ani 'to take no further hostile steps against that paper. and her husband?Boni vlkA 0 ;'* 1 lel lane, for $10,296, in a suit brolifn? against them by Eugene Fischef. Tha suit was brought to recover on three notes which were executed yb the de fendant jointly on February 6. 1900, | G. E. Jones, until last Wednesday 1 member of the Chicago Stock Ex change, failed Friday, with l'&bilitiei somewhere between $50,000 and SIOO,- 000. The losers are people who trade in the so-called bucket shops. Chas. B. Powers, of Pittsburg, Pa., has accepted the presidency of the American Association of Base Ball Clubs. Major General Otis was the guest of honor at the annual dinner of the So ciety or ; the Genesee, at the Waldorf- Astoria, in New York. A Pittsburg dispatch says that an official of the National Tube Company has received a telegram from President E. C. Converse, which stated that th papers for the purchase of stock of Andrew Carnegie had been signed, but the deal was not closed. The Denver, Col.. News has a special from Chihuahua, Mexico, which sayf that several tons of dynamite store* in an underground chamber of th San Andres mine exploded. Eighty seven men, women and children wer killed and many others badly injured. At St. Cloud, Minn., fire desstroyed the West Hotel and several smaller buildings adjoining. Total lass $130,- 000, partially insured. The Guggenheim block, in Pueblo, Col., a two-story building, occupied by the Crws-Bcggs Dry Goods Company’! department store, was gutted by lire Saturday. Estimated loss $130,000; in surance SIOO,OOO. The Bath, M*., Iron Works has re ceived the contricc for the construction of a United States battleship to b named the Georgia, from the Navy Do partmcnt at Washington. Foreign. The Copenhagen correspondent o! The London Daily Telegraph, say® the Crown Prince k>f Sweden and Norway learned whllv Copenhagen the grav est news regai g his mother, the Queen, and tha, is feared her early death is inevitab. Emperor William ias bestowed oj Dr. Von Holleben, i. Glrman ambas sador at Washingtoi ®Erown Order o fthc first class. Prince Carlos De j w V! |i will w and the princess of was pro 'aimed a son of * - the con Si ’itir.Tioi im* v Emp Ehil Re Eagle, ■* Tim sv r „g from a danger, t, . throat and her con*L serious. “Plague pre-ails in *>' dia,” says the Bor' of the London , r t*. the central prcvinces. In weekly mortality is 2,500.' At Friday's session of th tionaJ convention in Havan Ri'era tendered his res'gnatio it on the demands of his privi * A BIG COMBINATION Tremendous Welding of Steel Inter ests. HARMONY BETWEEN BIG CONCERNS rhe Sale cf Carnegie’s Interests to theJ. P. riorgon Syndicate Con firmed. New York, Special.—The '.Vlafl at Express and The Evening Post ' nounced the sale of the Carnegie Stiwljr to the J. P. Morgan syndicate an an cOmplished fact. The Mail end Ex-N pres® says: “The only hitch that occurred in the negotiations leading up to the transfer of the control of the Carnegie Com pany was in relation to the control of the bonds held by Mr. Carnegie The Morgan syndicate agreed yesterday to take the $86,379,000 stock at something above its market value, but Mr. Car negie held out his usual tenacity of purpccsei for a guarantee of thoAn per tent, income on his $-86,000,(w# of 50*ypdf bonds. .This was also corrod ed at a meeting ftkdto-day, it i‘ V derstcod. There wiP® tion, but harmony elf inter eats and ownership plied 1 in the manufacture of duces of all kinds. “The Carnegie Company, with its vast supplies of coal anu hand, will be the parent company produce the raw material for the rar rious corporations manufacturing fin ished products, u.nd the economies can be introduced through tion and harmony will make it pos-. sible for the corporations to manufac ture so cheap as' to drive small petitors out cf business and to give the American manufacturers a very large place in 'the market© of the world. The companies included in this system of harmonious steel industries, besides the Carnegie Company, are the ft>U, low*ng: i- “Federal Steel Company, $-UWLflsHLr* '-rttfefr mr-TTTTK un 4 * 1-.., e 553,260,900 preferred stock are out standing); American Steel and Wire Company, $50,000,000 common and $40,000,000 preferred stock, all out standing; National Tube Company $40,000,000 each of common and pre ferred stock, all issued and ihe Ameri can Bridge Company $35,000,000 each of common and preferred stock, which $30,527,800 of each has been iesued. “The Moore group includes the Na-. tional Steel Company, with $32,000,000 of common eitock and $27,000,000 pre ferred, all issued; the American Tin Plate Company $30,000,000 common and $20,000,000 preferred stock, with $28,000,000 common and $18,325,000 preferred stock issued; the American Steel Hoop Company, $19,000,000 cam men and $14,000,000 preferred stock, all issued, and the American Sheet Steel Company, $26,000,000 common and $26,000,000 preferred Stock, with $24,500,000 o*f each issued.” Philippine Bill Passed Manila, By •Cable.—'The amended pro visional government bill has been passed and the commission will leave here Tuesday to organize governments in the provinces of Pampanga, Pan gas.inan and Tarlac. 'After the cim missioners -return from their tour they will organize Ztkrabales, Bataan, Bula can, Nueva Ecijas and Cagayan. The latter, a northern province, is added by General MacArthur to the list of those regarded as ready for provincial government. The commission has been visited by six head-hunting Igor rotes from the province of Kontoo. They were immensely entertained by the sights of Manila and expressed a liking for Americans. The generals have been much congratulated on President McKinley’s nominations. Three Ho re Submarine Boats. Washington, D. C„ Special.—The Senate commi fitted on naval affairs has concluded its consideration of the naval appropriation bill. The ' com mittee amends the bill so as to pro vide for the purchase of three Holland rorpedo boats and instead of authariz v the Secretary of the Navy to con- Mct for the new vessels as provided i™Uie bill a it passed the house, he is to furniish plans for four vedKs, the plans to be completed by theMginning of the first session of the %xt Congress. The committee reccnsider its former d°- the Port Royal na<J S. C. ■ the Philippines. * ' —Natives,have re ' the . ..—aUiy, l-- jd nts and killed the o . The Federal party of Bata*. -nee. including the pres- , ident ofte pueblo, held a big meet ing at Oram yesterday, and resolved to notify the insurgents of Bcatan that ♦hey must cease eperari-ons within a in', cleans to cap tin o them. NO. 15