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THE MORGAN MB
MONITOR
VOL. IV. NO 38.
MUST RESTRAIN
ALL COMBINES
Outcome of the Convention Held
Under Sayer’s Call.
STRONG RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED
Capital Invested Legitimately
Should Not Be Interfered
With.
After two day3 of spoech-mnking
at St. Louis, tho governors, attorney
generals and other state representa¬
tives adopted resolutions outlining
the legislation needed to control the
so-called trusts and combinos and ad¬
journed sine die Thursday night.
Tho resolutions embodied were
agreed to after a long session of the
committee on resolutions. So widely
divergent were Ihe views presented
for its consideration that it was after
midnight when the committee was able
to arrive at any conclusion. The whole
matter was then referred to a sub-com¬
mittee, composed of Governor McMil-
lin, of Tennessee, and Attorneys Gen¬
era! Smith, of Texas, and Campbell,
of Colorado, to put, into proper shape.
Governor MeMillin, chairman of the
committee on resolutions, presented
tho report of that committee.
In presenting the report of the com-
mittee on resolution, Govornor Mc-
Miltin said he was aware of the fact
that the trusts and combinations in
restraint of trade are in a de-
groe dependable upon federal, state
and municipal governments for tlieir
continuance. He believed it was in¬
cumbent upon the national, state and
municipal governments to restrain the
operations of these trusts and combi¬
nations.
"The situation and perhaps the ef¬
forts of the conference nre misunder¬
stood,” the speaker contitied. "It is
not tho object of this conference to
crush corporations, nor to interfere
with capital in any legitimate form.
The object of these resolutions is not
to crush either corporations or to de¬
stroy capital, but to regulate them, so
as to meet the fair demands of all tho
people.
"This is the purpose and this is the
object we hope to accomplish. Tho
organization of trusts and combinos
within the last two years is the occa-
sion and authorily for our presence
here. We are seeking to ascertain a
proper power for tho curtailment of
what is apparently menacing evil, and
the accomplishment of this object can
be effected through the independent
action of the citizen. We have the
best land in tho history of man.
“We furnish tho world with thirty-
one per cent of the manufactured ar¬
ticles of the world and thirty-two per
cent of all the banking. In the mat¬
ter of agriculture, notwithstanding
Great Britain, Russia and other CGiin-
tries, we feed the world. This agri¬
cultural class is not organized and
cannot be organized into (rusts or
combines and must bo protected
against other interests which can
combine.
“The industrial and other impor¬
tant interests are combined to con¬
trol the wealth of the country in the
hands of a few and by these means
tho sweat and toil -of the millions is
controlled. Our object is to prevent
this. Corporations nre necessary in a
proper duct degreo to the successful con-
of business, but they should not
he so managed and controlled ns to
destroy business. It is not proper to
place the commerce of this great eoun-
try in the bands of three or four peo¬
ple and thereby control the labor and
destiny of the republic.
“Bhen all these industries are
combined into one Viand for the man¬
ufacture of a given article, they paral¬
yze labor without extending sufficient
protection. It is one of the objects of
this conference to correct this condi¬
tion of affairs.
“Within recent years, I think less
than two years, not less thnn 200
trusts have organized with a capital
of $4,256,000,000. If all the gold
drawn from the earth could bo mar-
shaled into one sum it could not pay
the obligations of these trusts; if all
plied s *. ® r it taken from the earth was ap¬
could not cancel tho obliga¬
tions of these combinations.
1“ concluding, the speaker claimed
that the interests were so vital ns not
0 ^ P R Gisan character, but con¬
* tended j , that prohibitive tariff had
a
much to do with the creation of trusts,
p.sing tion. sugar trust as an illustra¬
Absolutions thanking Governor Say¬
ers for his efforts in behalf of tho con-
ference were adopted before delaring
the conference adjourned.
Miners Raise Cain In Arkansas.
Mail advices show that a reign of
error exists in the coal mining dis-
ric s of Sebastian county, Arkansas,
ere strikes of the miners continue.
OHIO CAMPAIGN OPENED.
Governor Roosevelt and Undue Nash Speak
At Akron.
The republican state campaign was
Akron, Ohio, Saturday with
*“ e * ar Sest crowds known in the
Ty of l ,oliUcs in Ohio. Special
ln ’ ,rom Cleveland, Toledo, Colurn-
g8 to,vu nnd Cantor, brought
* people, , and it in estimated that
e *«•« 50.000 Visitors in Akron.
»rl n »f rnor Roosevelt and Judge Nash
e 8 V eak ers of the occasion.
BAY STATE DEMOCRATS
Held Convention In Boston, Name
Ticket cml Endorse Bryan
and Silver.
The Massachusetts Democratic state
convention assembled at Boston Thurs¬
day for the nomination of state officers
and tile election of delegates to the
National Democratic convention.
In less than two hours it was in a
tremendous wrangle, aud the polic e
were called in to restore order.
George Fred Williams was given an
enthusiastic reception as ho mounted
the platform. Christophor T. Cal¬
houn, chairman of the state central
committee, called tho convention to
order, delivering a long address. Com¬
mittees were appointed aud William
S. MejSfary was elected permanent
chairman. In his speech chairman
MoNary said:
"Wo pronounce for bimatallism, for
the money of the constitution, for the
free coinage of both gold and silver,
the policy which was followed by this
country from 1789 to 1873 and under
which wo grew great, happy and pros¬
perous."
Tlia convention nominated the fol¬
lowing ticket:
Governor—Robert Treat Paine, Jr.,
of Boston.
Attorney General—John H. Morri¬
son, of Lowell.
Secretary of State—Harry Lloyd, of
Boston,
State Treasurer—Joseph J. Flynn,
of Lawrence.
Auditor—J. J. Ramsdell, of Lvnn.
The personalties which were in¬
dulged in were directed as much
against Congressman Fitzgerald as
against Mr. Williams, the pan-y lead¬
er, and hard names were called on
both sides. Tho final result of all the
confusion and discord was the over¬
whelming passage of every motion
and report that was made by the state
committee, and the election of na-
tional convention delegates.
The clelegetes at large are: George
Fred Williams,Col. A. C. Drinkwater,
William F. McNary and Christopher
T. Callahan.
The financial plank of tho Chicago
platform is particularly reiterated,and
the financial ills of the five years prior
to 1*97 are ascribed to "a contracted
currency for which republican finan¬
cial legislation has provided no form
of relief.”
Trusts are condemned and the war
in the Philippines is characterized as
criminal aggression, wanton, needless
and wasteful, and incompetently and
corruptly prosecuted.
CHARLESTOX GOT CONTENTION.
Leasne of American Municipalities Close
Th«*lr Work at Syracuse.
At ihe opening of Thursday’s session
of the League of American Municipali¬
ties at Syracuse, N. Y., the question
of the plaoe of holding the next annual
convention of the league was taken up.
Alderman Hammond presented tho
claims of Atlanta, Ga., and Alderman
Gorman those of Peoria, Ill. Mayor
J. E. Smythe, of Charleston, S. C.,
extended tho invitation of his city,
saying in the couiee of bis speech:
“We were the birthplace of secefl-
sion, but we stand today with every
part of the United States. Wo show¬
ed it in the glorious war just closed.”
Mayor George R. Perry, of Grand
Rapids, invited the convention to
Grand Rapids.
Charleston was selected as the place
of the next convention. Atlanta re¬
ceived 11 votes, Grand Rapids 7, Peo¬
ria 3 and Charleston 19.
At the afternoon session certain
amendments to the constitution were
adopted. Mayor Henry V. Johnson,
of Denver, was elected president, re¬
ceiving twenty-one votes to thirteen
for Mayor Marbury, of Detroit.
Mayor J. E. Smythe, of Charleston,
nominated for vice president J. A.
Johnson, of Fargo, N. D., who was
elected unanimously.
Mayor Driscoll, of New Haven, was
elected second vico president and
Mayor Flower of New Orleans, was
elected third vice president. Mayor
Charles Taylor, of Bridgeport, Conn.,
was elected treasurer.
B. F. Gilkinson was re-elected sec¬
retary by a unanimous vote. Mayor
Smiths, of Charleston; Councilman J.
Hartley, of Columbus, and Mayor
Chas. J. Ansley, of New Bedford,
were elected trustees.
MRS. HUGHES ON TRIAL.
For Third Time South Carolina Woman I*
Arraigned For Killing Husband.
The third trial of Mrs. Mattie
Hughes, the pretty Greers woman,
charged with the mnrder of her hus¬
band, whom she shot down at their
home last fall because he accused her
of infidelity, began Tuesday afternoon
at Greenville, 8. C.
Up to the adjournment of Wednes¬
day morning’s session seventeen state
witnesses had been examined, and the
evidence was received more rapidly
than at either of the former trials, and
is less full. The theory of the state is
that Mrs. Hughes murdered her hus¬
band because she was tired of him.
WILL BB KENT HOME.
Norwegian Bailor* Who Killed Companion
In Mldooiian Under
Warrants were sworn out at Charles¬
ton, S.C., Friday by Vico Consul Witte,
acting for the government of Norway,
against Andersen and Thomas, the
Norwegian sailors from the bark Drot,
who, according to their own story,
killed and ate a companion while
drifting in midocean on a raft.
The two men will be sent to Norway
as soon as able to travel.
MORGAN, GA„ THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 38, 1899.
READY FOR DEWEY
Bsoeption Arrangements Com¬
pleted at Now York,
demand for tickets enormous
A Hundred Thousand Applicants For a
Twenty Thousand Issue—ICxpenses
More Than lfixpected*
A New York special says: Ail tho
general arrangements for tho recep¬
tion of Admiral Dewey are now com-
pleto aud only a few details are left to
be settled. The majority of these can-
not be attended to until the admiral
has arrived and his wishes have been
consulted.
All the sub-committees have about
finished their work and have presented
their reports to the general committee.
The committee on distribution of
tickets was at work all day in the
mayor’s office until late at night. They
apportioned nearly 20,000 tickets, all
thoro were at their disposal. There
000. wore applications for rnoro than 100,-
Their work did not iuelude the
distribution of tiokets to tho munici¬
pal assembly and the school children’s
stands. These tickets will be at the
disposal of the municipal legislators
and the president of the board of edu¬
cation.
The committee on stauds is yet to
decide exactly what will be the capaci¬
ty of tho new stauds. If the commit¬
tee stands for all the expenditures it
has authorized, it will have spent more
than $15,000 in excess of the first ap¬
propriation made to it of $30,000 and
$1,000 more than it has in sight even
if the municipal assembly votes to give
It the additional $25,000 that is to bo
asked for at the next meeting of the
aldermen and council.
For the seventy odd thousand ex¬
pended, tho committee has furnished
about 20,000 seats to the tiokei com¬
mittee, 1,000 on the city hall stands,
6,000 for the school children, 10,000
for the municipal assembly and 25,000
for the veterans of tho Grand Army of
the Republic, a total of about 40,500
seats for about, $73,000.
Concerning tho committee of seven
that iR to attend Admiral Dewey during
his stay in New York, Mr. Foster said
he had received a reply in writing from
Channeey M. Depow and in p erson
from Richard Croker and Wi illiain
McAdoo. Mr. Croker said the com¬
mittee conld make any use of him
they desired and that he was ready to
do anything in bis power to help along
the success of the celebration. With
the exception of Levi P. Morton and
W. C. Whitney all the members of tho
committee have accepted.
MISTRIAL IN HUGHES CASE.
Jury Announce*! That It Wns Impossible
to Roach Agreement.
Another mistrial has resulted in tho
Mattie A. Hughes murder case at
Greenville, S. C.
The jury retired Friday night shortly
after C o’clock and at 10 o’clock an¬
nounced that it would be impossible
to agree. They were sent back to their
room with instructions to deliberate
further.
At 8 o’clock Saturday morning they
asked that they be discharged, having
reached no verdict.
The jury stood eight for acquittal,
three for manslaughter and one for
oonviction.
The defendant will be tried again at
the coming spring term of court. She
is charged with the murder of her
husband, George W. Hughes, on No¬
vember 18th, 1898.
FAMOUS ASTROLOGER DEAD.
IIo Predicted Date of Hi* Demise Idke-
wiso That of Ilis Wife and Son.
Dr. Luke D. Broughton, president
of the Astrological Society of America,
died in New York Saturday. Ho cast
his horoscope many years ago and pre¬
dicted that tho critical periods of his
life were tho 15th, 16th and 21st days
of the present month and present
year. His death, he predicted, would
occur on Be; t 'mber 22d.
Dr. Broughton has made many suc¬
cessful predictions. On bis advice
his eldest son did not marry, as his
father had predicted the exact time of
liis death in 1885. Mrs. Broughton
also died as predicted in 1891. He
wrote many many pamphlets aud one
book on astrology.
SIX KILLED OUTRIGHT
In Colllgion Bfttwcen Freight and Pa*-
ganger Train* In Colorado.
A special from Denver nays - Six
passenegers were killed outright and
five injured, one perhaps fatally, in a
collision on the Denver and Rio Grande
railroad at Reno siding, near Florence,
Saturday evening. The trains in col¬
lision were the Phillips-Judson excur¬
sion from the east and the caRt-bonnd
fast freight.
Tho excursion train had run from
Chicago over the Chicago and Alton
and Missouri Pacific railroad and was
turned over to the Denver and Rio
Grande at 2 p, m.
WHEAT CAUSED FAILURE.
!!J g Chicago Firm Forced to tho Wall
With I!«*avy Shortajjp.
The firm of Barrett, Furnum & Co.,
a wealthy and influential hoard of
trade concern at Chicago, failed Thurs¬
day. The firm had sold short for Rev¬
el days, plunging in tho expectation
that the Ne.v Yo'rk stock panic would
end in a break in wheat. The short¬
age of tho firm is variously estimated
at from four to five million bushels of
the December option.
SAYERS’ CONFERENCE
For Discussion of Trusts Held In
St. Louis.
GOVERNORS GALORE WERE ON HAND
Six States Represented In the Gather¬
ing--Promoter of Meeting Is Selected
as President.
The governors of Arkansas, Ten¬
nessee, Miohigan, Missouri, Colorado
aud Iowa, most of them accompanied
by their attorneys general and the at¬
torneys general and other representa¬
tives of Montana, Indiana, Mississippi
and Washington responded to the in¬
vitation of Governor Joseph D. Sayers,
of Texas, to meet in conference for tho
purpose of discussing the trust ques¬
tion, assembled Wednesday at the
Planters’ hotel, in Bt. Louis, whero
three sessions were hold.
Tho conference was called to order
at 11 o’clock by Attorney General
Orow, of Missouri. Governor Sayers
chairman. was unanimously ckoson permanent
Paul B. Moore, private
secretary of Governor Stephens, of
Missouri, was chosen secrotary of the
conference.
Governors McLauriu, of Mississippi;
Foster, of Louisiana, aud Candler, of
Georgia, sent regrets.
Most of the day was spent in speech¬
making, and almost everyone of thoso
present was afforded an opportunity
to air his views on the question. All
the speakers were listened to with
great attention. There were several
tilts between speakers of opposite po¬
litical faith that gave spioe to the
proceedings.
the morning session Governor
Stephens, of Missouri, delivered an
address oritioising the republican ad¬
ministration’s expansion polioy aud
declaring that trusts and imperialism
go hand in band. Governor Shaw, of
Iowa, took up the gantlet thrown
down by Stephens, and at the opening
of the afternoon session answered him
with a speech that brought smiles to
the faoes of most of those present. In
turn Governor Jones, of Arkausas,put
Iowa’s chief magistrate on tho spit
and roasted him for using snch face¬
tious language at snob a gathering.
There seems to be a great difference
of opinion as to the best method of
remedying tho so-called trust evil.
Some of those present thought that
the state laws now in vogue wore
sufficient to control the operations of
the combinations complained of, while
others were of the opinion that uni¬
form laws should be enacted by tho
several states and the complete anni¬
hilation of the trusts, while others ;
favored their regulation.
Governor Bayers and Governor Pin-
gree, in the speeches delivered, show¬
ed themselvey strongly in favor of tho
first idea, as did also Governor Jones,
of Arkansas.
Governors Thomas, of Colorado,and
Shaw, of Iowa, favored the enactment j
of laws to restrict the combines.
There was almost as much difference
of opinion among the attorneys gen¬
eral who were heard.
KICK FHOM G. A. R.
Trouble In Parade Committee of the Dew¬
ey Celebration.
A New York dispatch says: Unless
the plans of General Charles F. Roe,
chairman of the land parade committee
of tho Dewey celebration,are changed,
the Grand Army of the Republic
organization will not be represented in
the parade.
Joseph W. Kay, department com¬
mander of the New York Grand Army
of the Republic, sent a letter to Gen¬
eral Roe Wednesday declining the in¬
vitation for a number of reasons.
These arc, in brief, that the Grand
Army of the Republic forces have been
placed at the end of the procession
instead of at. the head of the oolnmn;
that General Roe has taken no cog¬
nizance of Commnnder-in-Chief Albert
I>. Shaw and has sent him no invita¬
tion to any of the functions; that the
invitation for the Grand Army of tho
Republic organization to participate
in the parade has been extended nt
second-hand through Colonel H. H.
Adams, and that General O. O. How¬
ard has boon placed in command of
the Grand Array of the Republic forces
on the day of the parade, contrary to
the regulations of that organization.
MOSBTLS MEN HONORED.
Monument to Their Memory Unveiled at
Front Royal, Va.
Five thousand Virginians, West
Virginians, old confederates from
nearly every southern state and men
and women from as far north as New
York, witnessed the unveiling nt
Front Royal, Va., Saturday of a mon¬
ument erected by tho survivors of
Colonel John B. Meshy's famous com¬
mand to seven of their comrades shot
and hung at that plaoe during the war
between the states.
Over 200 of Mosby’s men were in
attendance, the largest number of
members of this band which has been
together Bince 1865.
Chicago Mayor For Governor.
The Chicago Times-Hcrald says
Mnyor Harrison will run for governor
of Illinois next year. Ilis decision
was supposed to remain secret until
later in the season.
Two Thousand Miners Ont.
A Charleston, W. Va., dispatch says.
A general strike went into effect in
the New River district, Wednesday,
2,000 miners asked an advance of 5
cents per ton, which was refused.
TURNED DOWN
BY COMMITTEE
G. A. R. Men Must Take the Place
Assigned Them.
GOV. ROOSEVELT IS SCORED.
An Interesting Circumstance In
Connection With the
Dewey Parade
A new York dispatch says: Major
General Roe, who will command the
national guard of New York state in
the Dewey land parade, received a
telegram from Governor Roosevelt,
Friday, directing him to give the
Grand Army of the Republic the
choice of any place in the parade.
Immediately on receiving the tele¬
gram General Roe had a conference
with Mayor VanWyck, and then Chair¬
man Guggonlieimer, of tho plan and
scope committee, was notified of the
governor’s dispatch. After pointing
out that his committee alone had the
right to assign places in the line of
march, Mr. Guggenheimer said of the
governor’s action;
“It is peculiarly Rooseveltian, It is
a most impudent, unjustified and un¬
warranted interference in a matter that
is without his province. Ido not bo-
leive, however, that our committee
will take any notice of it.”
At a meeting of the committee,
Friday morning, General Roe made
the following statement:
"In order that there may be no
misunderstanding, I wish to make this
statement in reference to the deolina-
tion of the Grand Army of the Repub¬
lic to take part in the Admiral Dewey
laud parade:
"On my representation, at my in¬
stigation and on my resolution, I was
authorized by tliis committee to ex¬
tend an invitation to the Grand Army
of the Republic of Greater Now York
to take part in the pnrado by having a
certain number of men selected from
each post, forming a battnllion or reg¬
iment, aeoording to the number. I
put myself in communication with the
state commander as soon as possible.
At the request of a prominent Grand
Army man I wrote and asked General
O. O. Howard to take command of
this body, being assured that this was
agreeablo to the state commander. At
an interview between tho state com-
mnnder, several members of the Grand
Army and myself, I understood that
the selection of General Howard was
agreeablo. At this interview, after
some discussion, I informed them
that the Grand Army would bo IIS'
signed a position in tho lead of the
unarmed organizations.
Demand Mado and Defused.
"At a later interview between the
commander-in-chief of the Grand Army
of the Republic, tho state commander,
Colonel Gonhlen, and myself, practi¬
cally a demand was made that the
Grand Army should have tho right of
tho lino or head of the column, Colo¬
nel Gonhlen stating that at a mooting
held the day before it was the souti-
ment of the Grand Army of the Re¬
public that if they could not have tho
lead they would not parade. I called
their attention to the fact that it was
not a Grand Army affair, that it was
a city affair,and that that position was
not their proper one, and said:
“ ‘Positively and absolutely tho
Grand Army cannot have the head of
the column,’ whereupon they retired.
At another interview the commander-
in-chief, with the stato commander
present, stated that he thought Gen¬
eral Howard should not command the
Grand Army. I informed him that ho
was asked at the request of several
Grand Army men, but I would write
and ask General Howard to withdraw,
whereupon tho commander-in-ohief
said:
“ ‘That is a simple matter and can
be easily arranged—’
"Then he asked if I would allow a
picked body of 300 Grand Army men
and liimself to have the head of the
column. I answerod:
“ ‘I positively and absolutely will
not authorize any portion of the Grand
Army to he at tho head of the column.’
tf "Bubsequently declination. I received tho letter
I have taken the po¬
sition from the beginning that the day
was miral emphatically a navy day, that Ad¬
Olympia Dewey and the sailors on the
should bo in tho lead with
nothing whatever to detract. I have
taken this stand relative to the Grand
Army as I am thoroughly convinced
that I am right. I assume all respon¬
sibility. I do not ask tho committee
to approve my action, but abido by
what I have done. I have the honor
to bo a member of the Grand Army of
tho Republic, George Washington
Post.”
The committee agreed unanimously
upon the motion of Mr. Guggenheimer
to approve the action taken by Gen¬
eral Roe. No mention was made of
tho dispatch of Governor Roosevelt.
NORFOLK WANTS OLYMPIA.
J'roDldent A.keil to Bond Dewey’s Rattle-
•hip t« Virginia State Fair.
A Washington dispatch says: A large
delegation of prominent citizens of
Virginia visited tho president Thursday
and asked for the detail of the Olympia
and other naval vessels to Hampton
Roads during tlie Virginia state fair at
Norfolk, beginning October 2d.
Tire president said he would confer
with the naval officials in regard to the
request.
KERLIN MAKES STATEMENT.
Declares 111* Iiuiooitti«c of tlio Mnrderof
l’ear I Knott.
Groat interest lias been manifested
in the Kerlin o mo, on trial In Fayette¬
ville, Ga., on ad ;onnt of the promi¬
nence of Kerlin, and it being one of
the most, heinous crimes ever commit¬
ted in Fayette county.
Iverlin made his statement in court
Thursday. He said ho was not guilty
of the charge. That on the night of
April 13th ho got his father’s buggy
to go to his son-in law’s, Linsey But-
ler, after his wife; that his mule got
sick on tho Jones hill and ho had to
return homo before ho went to But¬
ler’s; that ho went to Benoia next
m or ning, returning a different route.
He said ho was out buying cows,
and that was tho reason lio wont in the
direction of the river on tho 17th and
18th of April. Ho said he was excited
and did not remember what he told
Miutcr; that tlicro wore threats of
lynching him, and went there to get
his advice about leaving the commun¬
ity-
He told tho jury this was the only
case ho ever had before a jury, and
that lie had often been on the grand
jury in the county, and had never of¬
fended any ono in his life.
Kerliu asserted his innoocent several
times in his statement, and made a
rambling minutes. statement of about thirty
The defonso put up no witnesses,
depending entirely on the weakness
of the state’s case.
mauveauh denies reports.
Carter’* Attorney Say* ITo I* Not To Kc-
cpIvo Kxorbltant Fee.
Tho following letter from ex-Attov-
ney Geneial Wayne MncVcagh ex¬
plains itself:
To inn Associated Fresh —I hog to
ho permitted to corroct, through the
Associated Press, two now misstate¬
ments which 1 am sorry to find the
enemies of Captain Carter have in¬
vented and put in circulation in differ¬
ent newspapers daring my absence in
Europe. One is that he has paid mo
a retaining fee of $10,000 and tho
other is that he has agreed to pny the
additional sura of $50,000 or more in
case of his acquittal. I only desire to
say that both these statements are
sheer ami abeoluto falsehoods, with¬
out a partielo of foundation or excuso
for either of them. Yours truly,
Wayne MaoVf.aqii.
MOUNT BLAMES BROOKE.
GoYormvr of Indlnnn Scores tho Formor
CommanAor of Chlckumiiugu Park.
Governor Janies A. Mount, of In¬
diana, in an interview at Chattanooga
Thursday John stated that Major GeuernI
R, Brooke was alone responsible
for tlio immonso amount of sickness
in Chickamauga park lust summer
during tho time tho soldiers wero en¬
camped there.
lie soys General Brooke made no
effort to protect his men and that ho
alono is responsible for those horrible
conditions.
Ho says that Tennessee and Georgia
wero roasted all ovor tho Union about
the paik conditions, when they did
everything to remedy them possible,
but were prevented by the tyranny of
the general commanding.
NEBRASKA REPUBLICANS MEET.
Stnto Con vent Inn Hold In Omaha nnd
Harmony Prevailed.
The Nebraska republican state con¬
vention at Oiaalm Thursday was one
of the most harmonious gatherings
ever held by the party in tlie state. M.
B. Reaee, of Lincoln, was nominated
for supreme judge, and E. G. McGil-
ton, of Omaha, and William B. Ely, of
Ainsworth, for regents of the state
university on the first ballot.
Tho platform indorses President
McKinley’s foreign policy, and his ad¬
ministration, and adheres to the gold
standard opposos trusts and com¬
binations having for their purpose tho
stifling of competion nnd arbitrary
controlling production or fixing prices.
RESIGNATION DEMANDED.
Governor of Maryland In After Chairman
Wellington'* Kcalji.
A Baltimoro dispatch states that tho
Maryland republicans are at war and
Governor Lowndes, who is a candi¬
date for re-cleetion on tho republican
state ticket, has demanded the resig¬
nation of United States Senator George
S. Wellington as chairman of tho re¬
publican stato central committee and
it is understood that Senator Welling¬
ton will comply at once with the gov¬
ernor’s request.
VERDICT IX TWO SECTIONS.
Cartorrlllo Jury (Jndecldud a* to I'artiee
Who Shot Nfijroe:.
A Carterville, Ill., special says that
the secret verdict of the coroner’s jury
in the Cartervillo riot case is in two
sections.
The first states that four of the ne¬
groes came to their death by gunshot
wounds inflicted during a riot and
charges a number of white men with
being engaged in tho riot. The jury
states that it is unable to say which
of the accused men killed the negroeH.
In the second section of the verdict
the jury finds that tho fifth negro
killed, Sam Cummings, was shot by
Elmer James and others.
MISH GRANT WEDS RUSSIAN.
Granddausrliter of Fnmoua Ooncral Casts
Her Fortune* With ft Uonnt.
At Now York Sunday night, in ac¬
cordance with the rites of the Russia
orthodox church, Miss Julia Dent
Grant, daughter of Brigadier General
and Mrs. Fred Grant, and grand¬
daughter of General U. S. Grant, was
married to Prince Caufacuzene, Count
Speranzky, of Russia. Simple and
impressive Russian ceremonies were
conducted.
81 PER YEAR.
SHELLS WRECK X
FILIPINO FORT.
The American Warships Entail
Fearful Destruction.
INSURGENTS RESIST FIERCELY
Men From the Charleston and
Concord Land Under
Hot Fire. j
A special from Manila says: The
United States cruiser Charleston, th*
monitor Monterey and the gunboats
Couoord and Zafiro, with marines aad
blue jackets from the cruiser Balti¬
more, left Cavite September 18th and
proceeded to Subig bay to destroy an
insurgent cannon there.
Owing to the bad weather the oper¬
ation was postponed until Batnrday,
when the warships for three hours
bombarded the town of Oiangapo and
the intrenohments where tho gnu was
situated.
Men from tho Charleston, Concord
and Zafiro wero then landed under a
heavy insurgent fire, proceeding to the
cannon, which was utterly destroyed
by gun cotton and then returning to
the warship. The Americans had one
man wounded during tho engagement.
While waiting in Subig bay for bet¬
ter weather, the Americans descried
Filipino re enforcements moving to¬
ward Oiangapo. At 6:40 a. m. Satur¬
day tlie Monterey began the advance
upon the town, which was about three
miles east of tho monitor's anchorage.
The Charleston, Concord and Zafiro
followed.
At 7:25 the Monterey opened firs
with her second artillery and main
batteries, tho Charleston and Concord
joining immediately. At 7:88 the in¬
surgents’ cannon answered, the first
shot passing close to the Monterey’s
smokestack. Tho gun was fired twice
only.
'Jhi American bombarding then be¬
came general. At 9:30 the Monterey
advanced to a range of 600 yards,
using her main battery. Two hun¬
dred and fifty men were landed about
800 yards east, of tho cannon at 11
o’clock under a severe Manser fire.
The men from Iho Charleston were
tho first to ^each iho beach, but the
Concord’s men were the first to the
gun, which they reached nt 11:10.
Tho cannon was found to be a sixteon-
cenlimcter Ivrupp gun, presumably
obtained from the Spaniards.
Meanwhile the warships continued
to shell the shelving beach on the
cast, and west to silence the insurgent
fire upon the sailors from tho trenches
skirting the beach.
Gunner Olsen exploded fifty pounds
of guncotton, in three discharges, in
the cannon, which had suffered from
tho fire of tho warships. Tho Ameri¬
cans then returned to the boats, the
firing inland being kept up to protect
tiie embarkation. The Concord's men
were the last, to leave the shore and
the warships were readied at 12:50
p. m.
Cadet Brinser, with the Concord’s
launch, armed with a galling, did ex¬
cellent work on the left of the
lauding party. Captain Myers, of the
mraines, captured a muzzle-loading
field piece. Lieutenant McDonald was
in command of the landing party and
the movement was splendidly executed
and controlled.
The number of Filipinos there oould
not be ascertained and no dead wer„
seen.
The Monterey fired for four hours—
twenty-ono shots from her ten-inch
guns and seventeen from her twelve-
inch guns.
The town, which was riddled with
shells, took fire at several points.
Fatal Oil Explosion,
While mnking preparations to
"shoot" the Rayi oil well, near Wells-
ville, O., Balurday afternoon, the well
overflowed and the oil ignited from the
fire under the boiler, causing a terrible
explosion. Two men were killed out¬
right and three others injured, two of
them it is thought, fatally.
Returned Seventy Indictments.
A Chattanooga dispatch says: Un¬
der tho charge of Circuit Judge Estill,
the Hamilton county grand jury has
returned seventy indictments against
parties for illegal registration for the
coming city election.
Feud In Mississippi.
Cornelius Triplett, colored,who was
shot and killed at Singleton, Winston
county, Mississippi, Tuesday night,
makes tho fourth victim—two white
nd two colored-—resulting from the
m l raging in that county.
KERLIN ON TRIAL.
Alleged Slayer of Mias Pearl Knott Ar-
.algned In Conrt.
George W. Kerlin was placed on
trial at Fayetteville, Ga., Wednesday
for the murder of Miss Pearl Knott.
The jury was secured without much
trouble. They are all farmers, and
the majority of them populists.
The state is represented by Solicitor
General T. H. Atkinson, W. B. Hillin
worth nnd Colonel Wright, of Newnau
Kerlin by Thomas E.Watson and Bla¬
lock A Wise.