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THE MORGAN MONITOR.
VOL. IV. NO. i.
STOVES AND CROCKERY.
If you need a Stove or Range it will pay you to
come and see us. Also Crockery and China. We
make up sets just as you want them , in plain white ,
embossed or decorated porcelain at very low figures.
W. S. BELL,
THE FILIPINO CONGRESS CONFERS
POWER UPON AGUINALDO.
CIVILE WOMEN WSNT TO ENLIST.
Insurgent Leader Directed to Resist
Americans When He Deems It
Advisable.
Advices of Thursday from Manila,
(Via Hong Kong) state that the Re-
publica, the official organ of the Fili¬
pinos, gives out the information that
the congress at Malolos has adopted
the Philippine constitution, passed a
vote of confidence in Aguinaldo and
empowered him to declara war on the
Americans whenever he may deem it
advisable.
At a mass meeting of women at
Cavite Wednesday, the paper adds, it
was enthusiastically resolved to peti¬
tion Aguinaldo for permission to take
men’s places in defense of independ¬
ence and to bear arms, if necessary.
Paterno has asked for and it appears
has been granted the privilege of
“taking a prominent place in the line
of battle against the Americans.”
Wednesday evening an American
sentry killed a captain of the Filipino
artillery at the Tonto outpost. As a
result the native press is intensely ex¬
cited and denounces it as a “cowardly
assassination.”
On Saturday evening (January 21st)
five Filipinos, determined to have re¬
venge for their captain’s death, at¬
tempted to enter our lines. An Amer¬
ican sentry killed one. After an ex¬
change of shots the others were ar-
rested. The incident has intensified
the excitement in Manila.
The Mahini cabinet insisted upon
the liberation of the Spanish civil
prisoners in commemoration of the
proclamation of the Filipino republic,
and donated money to the native
clergy. A decree to that effect was
signed. The Spanish clergy, how-
ever, remain prisoners.
An elaborate program has been ar¬ I
ranged for the formal ratification of
the constitution.
GENERAL ALGER TESTIFIES.
Secretary of War Declares His “Inno-
eense” Before War Board.
Secretary Alger, in response to an
invitation of the war investigating
comui'ssion, appeared before that
body Thursday.
IVheu askeu in regard to the expen¬
ditures by the department of the war
fund the secretary replied that the
larger part had been devoted’ to
strengthening coast defenses. lii an¬
ticipation of such an inquiry, he had
brought with him memorandums pre¬
pared by heads of bureaus giving de¬
tails of the expenditure of the funds.
During the early days of the war,
with a large body to provide for, some
defects were apparent. It was not be¬
cause of lack of funds, but because it
was impossible to handle properly so
large a body of men on short notice.
Witness did not recall having re¬
ceived during the war complaints in
regard to food furnished the army.
There was a shortage of food at Santi¬
ago, not because there were no sup¬
plies, but because they could not be
landed from the ships. No old soldier,
the secretary believed, would make
harsh criticism of the food furnished
the army under the circumstances.
He had never had any cause during
the war for complaint of any officer.
“Was the head of any bureau guilty
of failure to discharge his duty during
the continuance of the war?” asked
Governor Beaver.
“No, sir,” replied Secretary Alger.
"Did any report come to you of any
irregularity the or of any fraudulent prac¬
tices in contracting for supplies
furnished sir.” to any department?”
“No,
“Did yon, interest directly or indirectly,
have any in the selection of
an y of the camps occupied by any of
the troops?"
“No, sir; I never had any interest
in any camp. I do not know that any
cne connected with me had any such
interest. “DidXOU have
any interest 'in an ^
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EXPANSIONISTS BLUFFED.
Senator ltacon Forces Issue ami Treaty’s
Friends Dodged.
A Washington special says: Sena-
tor Bacon forced the question of ex-
pansion on the senate Monday morn-
ing, and the friends of the treaty re-
fused to meet it. He o died up his anti-
expansion resolutions, saying he
thought a vote would be taken on
them, since the votes of a number ef
senators for the treaty depended on
Senator Chandler, in _ order to side-
tiack Senator Bacon, along with his
resolutions, moved that the resolu-
tions be referred to the committee on
foreign relations.
This could have tested the strength
of the expansionists, tho mam point
for which Senator Bacon was contend-
ing, and so the Georgian agreed to
this if a yea and nay vote could be
taken on it. As soon as the leaders
on the other side saw that tho vote
would be made a test vote on the
treaty, Senator Carter got ' up and
talked at random until he had used
up the morning hour, when the dis¬
cussion came to a close.
The importance of the debate was
fully realized, as all thought a test
vote on the treaty was about to be
taken. At the last moment the repre¬
sentatives of the administration weak¬
ened, which showed that they are still
afraid to let a vote come on the anti¬
expansion resolution. Senator Bacon
believes that if a vote is taken on his
resolution they will pass it, and the
fight now will be to prevent a vote
being reached until after the hour set,
when a vote will be taken on the
treaty.
At the opening of the session of the
house Monday, Mr. Hopkins, republi¬
can, of Illinois, reported the census
bill and gave notice that ho would call
it up next Monday. The house then
resumed the consideration of the army
reorganization hill.
The first amendment offered was
that of which the committee had given
notice authorizing the president to
enlist only sixty men in a cavalry
troop and sixty in an infantry com¬
pany. Mr. Marsh, republican, of Illi¬
nois, who offered the amendment, said
that this would reduce the enlisted
force to 50,000 men if the president
exercised the discretion it conferred
upon him.
Mr. Hay, democrat, of Virginia, of
the minority of the committee, pro¬
tested to the house that, it was impos¬
sible to perfect a bill on the floor of
the house. He would offer an amend¬
ment, he said, to have the bill provide
for only sixty men in an infantry com¬
pany or a cavalry troop, but give the
president discretion to increase the
number to 145 and 100 respectively,
this discretion, however, only to be
exercised in time of war.
GOLD MINERS ORGANIZE.
A Georgia Association Formed At a Meet¬
ing In Gnineaville.
The Southern Gold Minors’Associa¬
tion was organized at Gainesville,Ga.,
Saturday afternoon with great enthus¬
iasm. It is composed of the miners of
the southern states and it is expected
that it will have a very large member¬
ship which will grow from time to
time.
Permanent organization was per¬
fected by the election of Mr. II. D.
Jaquish, of the Chestatee Steam
Dredge Company, as president; Mr.
John Martin, of the White county
mines, vice president; Mr. Walter P.
Andrews, of the Southern railway, sec¬
retary; Mr. Otto C. Scupin, of the
Betz mine, treasurer.
An executive committee was ap¬
pointed consisting of Messrs. George
W. Sciple, of Atlanta; George E. Col¬
lins, of Nacoochee, and George W.
Sheppard, of Tallapoosa, with the
president and secretary as ex-officio
members.
About fifty charter members were
enrolled and many letters were re¬
ceived from those who were absent
signifying their intention to join.
A COSTLY HEADLINE.
A Boston Newspaper rays Dearly For An
Expressed Opinion.
The Boston (Mass.) Herald Com-
pany was fined $500 by Judge Bond,
in the superior court, Monday for pub¬
lishing in a headline, in connection
with an account of the trial of the city
teaming fraud cases on Friday last the
words “Guilt is Evident.”
The publication of the headline was
considered prejudicial dismissal to the of the ease jury and
resulted in tho
and m oftdsr for a new trail.
MORGAN, GA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2. 1890
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EAGAN MAKES STATEMENT.
I’ntlietically Declare* That He Is Un¬
able to Pay Counsel.
A Washington dispatch says: The
feature of the proceedings before the
Eagan courtmartial Thursday was the
testimony, dramatic in many parts in
its quiet intensity, of Commissary
General Eagan himself,
The witnesses for the defense who
preceded General Eagan on the stand
were Colonel W. L. Alexander, United
States army, of the subsistence de-
partment; Colonel George B. Davis,
assistant to Commissary General Ea-
pau; Miss Millard, General Eagan’s
stenographer, and Mr. Rodgers, a
clerk in the office of the commissary
general. They testified that General
Eagan had been laboring under a
great mental strain ever since Gen¬
eral Miles appeared before the war in¬
vestigating commission.
General Eagan stated that during
the war with Spain ho had been in his
office every day with one exception,
and had worked early and late. He
had given his testimony before the
commission under oath—preferably so.
He had held a conversation with the
secretary of war, in the course of
which he told the secretary that he de¬
sired to defend himself by bringing
proceedings against General Miles,
but was told that the immunity grant¬
ed by the president would prevent
any such action.
Witness accepted this as a fact, but
he did uot think that this immunity
covered the newspaper interview in
which General Miles had by inference
declared him to be a murderer for
gain. Witness said he became greatly
excited. This statement of General
Miles, in the. opinion of the witness,
had taken array his (Eagan’s) charac¬
ter. He could not proceed against
General Miles in the courts or other¬
wise, and he felt that he might better
be dead in tho gutter.
His honor as a soldier, he contin¬
ued, had been attacked, and a sol¬
dier’s honor should be as sacred as
the honor of a woman. He had kept
his sorrow to himself. He had kept
array from the clubs, and very scon
he found he could not sleep. He felt
that the people of this country had
come to believe that lie was a dishon¬
est man, ,‘buv, I am an honest man,”
said (lie general, with feeling, “and I
believe that no one who knows me will
believe that I am a dishonest man.
My record is clean, my uniform is un¬
sullied, but I have been slandered and
wronged. ”
In answer to a question by his coun¬
sel, as to whether lie had ever re¬
ceived any benefit for any contract he
had made, General Eagan said with
feeling:
“No, on my honor, and before God,
not one cent’s profit or gain did I ever
receive, and yet my office has dis¬
bursed .$19,000,000, and I am now a
poor man, so poor that I have not now
sufficient money with which to piay
your fee.”
As he (Eagan) understood public
sentiment, the public believed him to
be a murderer and for gain, and he
was greatly, racked in body and brain
in consequence. He urns goaded to
death and was very glad of a chance
to appear before the commission, and
through them 70,000,000 people, in the
defense of his honor.
The witness spoke of his mental and
physical condition between the time
General Miles gave his testimony and
the time he himself had appeared. He
could not get rid of the thought that
the country believed him to he a mur-
derer for gain, and it drove him nearly
to distraction.
Mr. Worthington, Eagan’s attorney,
then read from a large number of
newspape.r clippings, many of which
spoke of General Eagan as a scoundrel,
and demanded his dismissal from the
army. At 12 o’clock Mr.Worthington
announced that he was unable to pro¬
ceed with his case, as the secretary of
war, whom he desired to call as a wit¬
ness, was now before the war investi¬
gating committee and could not ap¬
pear. Other witnesses bIro could not
appear until Friday. Thereupon the
court adjourned until 10 o’clock Friday
morning.
JAMACIA TOWN BURNED.
Flam#** Wor* Ilnopponfd ami Heavy Lombr
W ere Sustained.
A dispatch from Kingston, Jamacia,
soys: The town of Porus, the inland
terminus of the Central line of the Ja-
macian railroad, has been almost de¬
stroyed by fire, involving heavy losses.
There was no fatalities, however, The
fire raged uaoppoeed, owing to want
ef weter,
FROM PRESIDENT M’KINLEY SENT
TO TIIE SENATE.
ARE READ IN EXECUTIVE SESSION.
All Telegrams and Fetter* Which Tagged
Between Washington and Pari*
Are Submitted.
President McKinley sent to the sen-
ate Monday the correspondence on file
in the state department bearing upon
the p«ace treaty, and it was read in
executive session.
The correspondence was sent in re¬
sponse to the resolution introduced
by the Senator Hoar and included most of
letters and cablegrams from the
commissioners to the president and
from the president to the commission¬
ers in the way of instruc tions in re¬
turn. The documents are numerous,
as there were telegrams, letters and
reports for almost every day the com¬
mission was iu Paris.
One of the first cablegrams from
the president instructed them to de¬
mand the cession of Luzon island
only of the Philippines and he told
them that full sovereignty should come
with it.
In submitting the papers the presi¬
dent sent a brief message saying that
he transmitted them in accordance
with the resolution.
The reading consumed (he entire
executive session, lasting from 2 to
5:30 o’clock. Much of the matter
covered the same ground as that
already published, but it was pre¬
sented in the form in which the pro¬
ceedings were outlined from day to
day in the cable correspondence be¬
tween Secretary Day as the presi¬
dent’s representative on the one hand
and Commissioner Day as the repre¬
sentative of the American commission¬
ers on the other.
The principal interest among the
senators attached to the president’s in¬
structions to insist upon the cession of
tho island of Luzon, and after that in
the decision to take the entire group of
islands. This latter development ap¬
peared from the correspondence to bo
a growth, and the suggestion was
made by the president as the result of
occurrences at Paris alter the arrival
there of the commissioners. In his
dispatch concerning Luzon ho said
there was but one alternative—the
United States must either take the is¬
land and assume sovereignty or re¬
turn it to Spain, and of the two courses
he preferred the former.
Spain was from the first unwilling to
cede any of the Philippines and she
made objection to letting go of Luzon
alone. The commissioners, with the
exception of Senator Gray, urged that
to take Luzon and leave the other
islands of the.archipelago in the hands
of the Spaniards would be to invito
innumerable complications with other
nations and especially with Europe
and with Spain.
Much stress was laid upon the
probability of future trouble with
Spain. With Luzon under American
administration, there would soon bo
such a vast improvement, they wrote,
that the other islanders would soon
grow more and more rebellious, and
with Spain’s oppressive methods of
government we would soon again find
that we bad another Cuba at another
door.
The president does not appear to
have at any time given explicit in¬
structions to consummate the bar¬
gain by taking all the Philippines hut
rather after hearing a full explana
tion to bavo left the matter to the dis¬
cretion of the commissioners.
The entire controversy was practi¬
cally over the Philippines and the
question of assuming responsibility
for tho payment of tho Spanish bonds
{or which the Cuban revenues were
pledged.
The American commissioners appear
to have been of one mind as to the
wisdom of taking over all the Philip¬
pines with the exception of Senator
Gray, who, notwithstanding he signed
the treaty, held oat to the last against
the policy of accepting these islands.
In one notable dispatch he pleaded
zealously against the policy as un¬
patriotic, un-American and inconsist¬
ent with probity and good statesman¬
ship.
After a brief debate the senate re¬
fused to print the oorretpondenoe.
SHOT fins # BICYCLES.
If you want a Bicycle or Shot Gun call on us. We
can certainly interest you. We can sell you a first-
class Shot Gun at a very low price * Don’t fail to
call on us when you come to Albany and see our ex¬
tensive line of goods.
W. S. BELL
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BRYAN AND HOAR
Would Be a Ticket Favorable to New
England Anti-Expansionists.
A Washington dispntch says: The
war with Spain produced surprises,
but none greater than a report which
comes from New England to the effect
that the democrats can carry Massa-
chusets if they place on their ticket
with Bryan the name of Senator Hoar.
This proposition, astounding ns it
seems at first, is not based on mere
idle political gossip, but is put forth
with sincerity and earnestness by the
friends of the vonernblo senator from
Massachusetts.
However far their chambers may
have been separated in the past. Sena¬
tor Hoar and Colonel Byran are now
occupying the same political bed. In
fact, the senator has taken most of the
cover inasmuch as he does not advise
the ratification of ihe treaty, which
Mr. Bryan does. Senator Hoar has
declared that the questian of expan¬
sion is the most important which has
appeared in the history of this coun-
try since the declaration of indepen¬
dence and equal, in his opinion, to
that act. Mr. Bryan has uttered al¬
most the identical expression, but at
the same time he has withdrawn noth¬
ing (hat he has uttered in the past
about free silver, in fact he has reit¬
erated his convictions on that subject.
New England, or more accurately
Massachusetts, is in full sympathy, it
is said, with its senior senator on the
subject of expansion and hns learned
to be more tolerant of Mr. Bryan since
the latter agrees with him. Those
friends of the venerable senator see
their only hope of defeating expansion
or more rightly the policy of imperial¬
ism, in joining issues with Bryan and
shattering party lines on this issue.
They realize that with the senate
composed as it will bo for the next six
years, there is no danger of any free
silver legislation, especially with Sen¬
ator Hoar occupying the president’s
chair in tho senate. With the fangs
of free silver drawn these New Eng¬
land men propose and predict that all
anti-imperialists can unite on Hoar
and Bryan and make the question of
imperialism tho paramount issue of
the campaign.
THE SAMOAN TROUBLE
Will He Speedily Settled, Save Our Am-
lmssador To Germany.
A cable dispatch from Berlin, Ger¬
many, states that public opinion was
focused on the Samoan question the
past week. The United States ambas¬
sador, Andrew D. White, lias informed
tho correspondent of the Associated
Press in Berlin that he has had sever¬
al meetings with the minister of for¬
eign affairs, Baron von Billow, and
that assurances were given on both
sides of a nature calculated to promote
a speedy and successful solution of
the question. Baron von Billow’s
whole attitude tended to show that
the German government means to do
its full share in settling the matter
fairly and amicably.
The preliminary negotiations thus
far have not gone beyond mutual
assurance of a desire for a friendly
and equitable arrangement, and the
negotiations will not take a more
tangible shape until full, detailed
mail reports are received from the
agents of the three powers at Samoa.
This will involve a delay of a month
in the case of Germany, though the
reports will reach the United States
and Great Britain earlier. Until then
no decisive steps or negotiations can
be undertaken.
RESTLESS I’ORTO RICANS.
Inhabitant* of Island Are All Anxloun For
a Civil Government.
An Associated Press dispatch from
San Juan says: While the Porto Ric¬
ans do not offer tho least resistance to
the military administration, they make
no secret of the fact that they do not
desire its continuance. It is not that
they object to the Americanization of
tho island, hut they merely wish a
civil government in some reasonable
and practical form.
WYOMING PUTS IN BID.
Sune of #20,000 Is Offered for the Sliar-
key and Fitzsimmons Miii.
The Fremont Hot Springs Com¬
pany, ol Alcove, Wyo., have forwarded
an offer to the managers of both Shar¬
key and Fitzsimmons of a purse of
$20,000 for a fight to take place any
time in June, July or August.
The only condition to the offer is
the which training is shall bo done at Alcova,
a health re»ort in Wyoming.
GARLAND DIES SUDDENLY.
Ex-Attorney General Stricken With Appo-
ploxy In Supreme Court Room.
A Washington dispatch says: Former
Attorney General Augustus H. Gar¬
land was stricked with apoplexy while
addressing tho United States supreme
court within Thursday afternoon, and died
ten minutes.
The occurrence came with startling
and tragic unexpectedness, changing
the usual calm and dignified aspect of
tho court into temporary confusion.
Word of the tragedy was soon
noised through tho eapitol, and sena¬
tors and representatives hurried to the
courtroom followed by a long line of
persons high in legislative and legal
circles who had been associated with
Mr. Garland at various times in his
long and notable public service.
Augustus Hill Garland was born in
Tipton county, Tenu., June 11, 1832.
Before be was a year old his parents
removed to Arkansas. He was edu¬
cated at St. Mary’s college, Lebanon,
Ky., and St. Joseph’s college, Bards-
town, Ky. He read law there and in
Arkansas and was admitted to the bar
in 1853. After practicing at that place
for three years he removed to Little
Rock. He was a whig in politics and
in I860 was an elector on the Bell and
Everett ticket. He was an opponent
of the secession ordinance in the state
convention but after its passage ho
eapon-od the southern cause and was
a member of the provisional congress
that met in Montgomery, Ala., in
May, 18(iJ.
He was chosen a delegate to tho
first Confederate congress and after¬
ward served in the senate, in which
he had a seat when the Confederacy
fell. In 18(15 he petitioned (he United
States supreme court for the right
practice without taking the “iron¬
clad” oath, presenting an argument on
which tho question was decided in hiB
favor. He was elected a United States
senator for tho term beginning March
4, 1807, hut was not permitted to take
his seat.
In 1874, after serving a short time
as acting secretary of state, he wsa
elected governor of Arkansas under
tho new state constitution. In Janu¬
ary, 1870, he was sent, to the United
States senate and was re-elected in
1885, when he took his seat as attor¬
ney general in President Cleveland’s
cabinet. He was offered and declined
a supreme court judgeship. At the
close of the Cleveland administration
he retired from politics
TO DISTINGUISH RACES.
A Unique JUcholutl on Introduced In AJa-
bnina Di'kImI iiture.
In the Alabama legislature, Thurs¬
day, Representative Jones introduced
an unique resolution to the effect that
in nil transactions in tho state of a ju¬
dicial, educational or business charac¬
ter, and in all matters, public or pri¬
vate, where it is necessary or desirable
to distinguish between the Anglo-
Saxon and black rtices the word “col¬
ored” as now applied to the black
race shall be eliminated and the word
“negro” substituted therefor, arid that
in writting or printing the word the
initial letter shall ho a capital, as is
the custom in respect to other distinc¬
tive races.
ROWDY SOLDIERS IN HAVANA.
Sovcral Cases Reported Wherein Citizen*
Were Abutted and Insulted.
A special from Havana says: There
were three cases last week of the
abuse of citizens on the part of tho
American soldiers. Upon two occa¬
sions soldiors took eatables from street
venders, refused to pay for them and
struck the venders and citizons who
took their part. Upon one occasion
two drunken soldiers upon penetrat¬
ing into private houses, insulted the
women of the household and only de¬
sisted upon the approach of a patrol.
The local comment upon these inci¬
dents is severe.
THIRTY-FIVE FOR QUAY.
Pennsylvania Joint, Assembly Vote* With¬
out h Quorum.
A dispatch from Harrisburg, I’a.,
says: There were only 39 votes cast
at Monday’s joint assembly for United
States senator.
Mr. Quay received 35 votes and Mr.
bulks 4. Less than a quorum voting
here was no election.
Not a single vote wos cast for the
anti-Quay republican candidates.
The leaders of this faction were ab¬
sent from the city and did not return
before evening,
$1 ni 33 P3 wr-J >
THE VERDICT CONTAINS A RECOM¬
MENDATION FOR CLEMENCY.
GENERAL MILES MAY BE NEXT.
It 1* Report (Ml On Good Authority That
Tho Commanding Goiioral Will Bo
Culled to Account*
A Washington special saya: Gen¬
eral Eagan, commissary general of sub¬
sistence, has been found guilty of the
charges of conduct unbecoming an of¬
ficer and a gentleman, and of conduct
to the prejudice of good order aud dis¬
cipline, and of the specifications there¬
to and has been sentenced to dismissal
from tho United States army, but with
a recommendation from the court for
the exercise of executive clemency.
Under the regulations, the court
having reached the conclusion that
the accused was guilty, had no choice
in selecting a penalty, the regulations
prescribing tho one punishment—dis-
missal—for the offense. Tberefore,
the only hope for General Eugon is in
the direction of commutation, mitiga¬
tion or disapproval.
Colonel Davis, the judge advocate
of the courtmartial, finished his revis¬
ion of the record of the court’s pro¬
ceeding Saturday afternoon and at
once placed the papers in the hands of
Secretary Algor.
This action settled at once any
doubt that may have existed as to the
routine to he pursued in the treat¬
ment of the case. As for Secretary
Alger, as soon ns ho has read the re¬
cord, he will place it at, once with the
president, who, under the law, is the
final reviewing authority. It is his
privilege to add to or take from the
strength of the court’s recommenda¬
tion that clemency be shown.
The court surprised everybody by
its recommendation of clemency. This
is understood to have been done be¬
cause of the testimony of some of Ea¬
gan’s relatives and close friends indi¬
cating ihat his mind has become un¬
balanced. In view of the recommen¬
dation, the extreme penalty will doubt¬
less be mitigated by the president
when the cat e reaches him.
Mile* May Ho Next.
It is rumored in Washington that
the president Inis under consideration
a courtmartial for Major General Miles.
How far tho preparations to that end
have gone it i» impossible to say, but
it conies from the highest authority
that a courtmartial iR imminent. This
is to he based on the general's charges
in the matter of the beef furnished the
army and upon certain other matters
for which lie will be Btronglv criticised
in the report of the war investigation
committee to he handed to the presi¬
dent within the next few days.
It has been evidont flirougout the
hearings that the committee was bring¬
ing out a good deal of testimony
agaiiiRt General Miles, and a report
throwing blame on him for the selec¬
tion of had camps, for uncalled for
statements about the beef furnished
the army, and for other sins of com¬
mission and omission, is confidently
expected.
It comes from high officials of the
war department that the determina¬
tion has been reached to orderaeonrt-
martial of the major general conrmind-
ing the army, if the sommission’s re¬
port furnishes the ground for a court-
martial, and they believe it will.
ELEVATOR COMPANY FAILS.
Concern In St. Louis Fe.ced to Make an
Assignment.
Henry William Sebastian, president
of the 8t. Louis Bridge and Iron com¬
pany, has been appointed receiver of
the Farmers’ Elevator company, of
that city, which made an assignment
Saturday. The elevator, which is one
of the largest and best in the city, has
a capacity of a million and a half bush¬
els. No figures are given to Bhow the
extent of the liabilities and assets.
The Farmers’ Elevator company has
a capital stock of $350,000 with a
bonded indebtedness of $300,000 and a
floating debt of $75,000. For some
time past a heavy judgment has been
hanging with over the company and this
some other troubles caused the
action taken,
