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CaHiom County Courier
ARLINGTON, GA.
When n tnan gives advice and It la
acted upon, ho sooner or later linds
himself in hot water.
Automobiles arc now the rage for
advertising purposes and they may
continue to lie popular "publicity
agents” until they lose tliclr novelty.
Ten years hence they " ill he so com-
Hum that their advertising effect will
lie min.
Nearly S,000,000 mo.-ons in Germany
an- Insured against Him Ooe-third
of these reported illness in 1KS3. the
nvyrage duration being 17 days, w^ilch,
taking the average wages at only- ,»0
• eats n day, menus a loss of over $ 22 ,-
500,000 a year.
Loudon is becoming Americanized.
Most of the shops in Oxford street, re¬
turning tourists tell us, display gloves
and other articles in the show' windows
priced In dollars and cents, and notices
nre hanging out announcing that tables
cm l». r,, 1111,1 1 , iti.i, ” N m ,, , " the exact J
equivalent of American money U
pounds, shillings and pence.
I’aiaguuii fruits are among the most
luscious in the world, says the Auieri-
< an consul lit Asuncion, lie suggest*
that a fruit preserving Industry could
be profitably started there. Oranges
cost almost nothing, and since oran¬
ges are exported 'from Paraguay to
London, where they bring the best
price, he sees no reason why they
could not be brought to North Ameri¬
ca u markets.
‘‘Laugh and grow fat” is a good old
adage. In these days of rush and fret
many of us say, ‘‘We don't have time to
be good natured.” Make time than.
Time is money, you argue. 80 It is.
So is good liumor money. So is good
health money. Without your health
of vvlint use Is your money except to
search for good health V Encourage your
good huiuor. It will build up your
good health, and botli will make all
tilings possible.
Maurice Thompson says llmt the
word ‘Tloosicr” comes from “who's
ycr?” and that that was tlu inquiry
of cabin dwellers in lndinmi, put to
those who knocked at their doors,
o’ulghts. lit times of danger. This is
Just ns correct us tjic statement that
Saratoga is composed of the word Sara
aud of Hie Latin word toga, which
means a cloak. Both theories of deriv¬
ation are phonetically fine, linguiUly
grit 111 m.tticn), audibly impressive, typo
graphically taking and amusingly apo¬
cryphal.
The census returns of New York City
show tluit there are 25,01)0 more women
than men. These figures arc not only
startling, they are indicative of the
widening field of woman’s sphere in
various walks of life. Independence
among women is asserting itself; the
reglmeof 50years ago liaspnssed away,
never to return. The past half eeutury
l.us opened many fields to the aspiring
Woman, says Ikizubetl) Cady Stanton.
She Inis had the benefit of lfnvs enact¬
ed for her good, lu the professions we
find thousands of women engaged.
They have entered every department
of business life and are making head¬
way such as their abilities entitles
(Item to.
Argument* tending to show that the
lwreused etfidicuey of the Implements
of war would render warfare In the
near future so disastrous to both 00111 -
Init.iiits as to make a resort to arms
too costly to be practicable have not
received much support from recent
events. The proportion of h sus¬
tained by Boers and British in South
Africa lias not exceeded the percentage
of casualties in the armies of France
and Germany in 1870-71 in spite of the
greater destructiveness of firearms,
which in theory is from live to ten
times greater than it was 30 years ago
in tbe case of rifies and about 15 times
greater in tbe ease of artillery. While
Hie number of missiles that can be
burled at an enemy in a given time and
the roue of fire have incrcasid enor¬
mously, the capacity of each shot to do
iiarm lias been correspondingly dluiiu-
bihod by the Invention of new tactics
'whereby injury can be avoided. The
only noyv facts that have b.vn estab¬
lished by recent experience are that
attack lias been made more difficult
mnl defense more effective by the em¬
ploy Aleut of modern arms of precision.
Large Blaze In Nashville.
Fire, which raged ou the Centennial
grounds at Nashville, Wednesday
night, destroyed the famed club house
visited by thousands during the Cen¬
tennial exposition. Loss 8 HI,000.
I CUBANS ASSEMBLE.
Hold Convention In Havana to
Formulate a Coi*tilution
For Islanders.
The following cablegram rceeived
a t the war department late Monday
afternoon from General Wood, mili¬
tary governor of Cubs, reports the
j enthusiastic opening < f the
j tioual convention at Havana Monday:
“Havana, November 5.—Adjutant
Oenerul, Washington: Convention
opened promptly at 2 o’clock. Immense
enthusiasm and cheering for the
United Slates. Absolutely harmoni¬
ous. Every evidence thut satisfaction
°* t “ e people was complete.
“Wood, Military Governor.”
j Monday night Gen. Corbin received
the following additional dispatch from
General Wood:
“The following resolutions signed
by a majority of delegates as second¬
ers were presented to the temporary
president of the oouvention just as it
was adjourning and doubtless will be
passed next session: delegates
“ ‘The undersigned pro-
pose that the assembly adopt the fol-
lowing resolutions:
< 4 ( 1. That a committee of assembly
proceed immediately to call on Gen-
' eral Wood and manifest the satisfac-
I tion with which the delegates have
' seen him carry out the delicate mis-
sion entrusted to him.
“ *2. That the same committee re¬
quest General Wood to telegraph to
the president of the United States as
follows:
“ ‘The delegates elected to the oon-
stitutionnl convention assembled at
their inaugural meeting greet with
profound gratitude and affection the
president of the United States of
America, and they are satisfied with
the honesty demonstrated in the ful¬
fillment of thb declarations made in
favor of liberty aud independence of
tbe Cuban people.’
“Wood, Commanding.”
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
The Various Industries Established
During tile Past Week.
Among the moro important of the
new industries for the past week are a
box aud crate factory at Beaumont,
Te,x. ; a box and butter tul) factory in
Chattanooga; a 8100,000 brewing com¬
pany at Clarksburg, W. Va,; a cigar
factory at Tampa, Fla.; cotton mills at
Concord, N. C., and Brooksneal, Va.;
electric light plants at Hertford, N.
C., and Winchester, Teun.; flouring
Til i 11 h at Osage Mills, Ark., and Win¬
chester, Term.; a foundry and machine
shop at New Orleans; a 8100,000 glass
manufacturing plaut at El Paso, Tex,;
a hooping and heading factory at
Florence, Alabama, factories at High
Point, North Carolina, Norfolk, Rich¬
mond and Suffolk, Va., and Sisters-
ville, W. Va.; a laundry at Beau¬
mont, Tex.; a cypress lumber com¬
pany at New Orleans; a 8200,000
coal mining company at Plymouth, W.
Va.; saw mills ut Leesville, La., and
Murlintou, W. Va.; a 8000,000 oil
company at San Antonio, Texas; a
shoe factory at Lynchburg, Va.; a
factory for the manufacture of show
cases at Charlotte, N. C.; a silk mill
at Emporia, Va.; a telephone company
at Georgetown, S. C.; au lumber min¬
ing and crushing plant at Sweetwater,
Tenn.; a company organized for tbe
manufacture of railroad joints at Par¬
kersburg, W. V. Wuter works and
electric light plants are projected at
Tampa and Tallahassee, Fla., George¬
town and Owensboro, Ky., aud Wich¬
ita Falls, Tex.—Tradesman, (Chatta-
uoogu, Teun.)
THIRTEEN KNOWN DEAD.
Coroner’s Jury Investigates West Vir¬
ginia Mine Explosion.
The latest reports from the ill fated
mine at Berrysberg, W. Va., show
that thirteen nre dead, eight of whom
have been recognized, and three are
so seriously injured that they cannot
recover. Coroner W. G. Keys began
an inquest Sunday afternoon at 3
o’clock, which continued without in¬
terruption till 5 o’clock Monday morn¬
ing. Tho jury found the persons
named and others unknown aud uni¬
dentified “came to their dentil by au
explosion caused by the firing of
powder and dynamite in the south en¬
try of tbe south mine, either inten¬
tionally or accidentally, by persons to
tbe jury unknown. z
B R Y ANW IRE SM’KIN LEY,
Nebraskan Congratulates President
On His Second Victory.
A special from Lincoln, Neb., says:
Mr. Bryan forwarded tbe following
telegram at noon Thursday to President
McKinley:
“Hon. William McKinley, ’the President
of the United States—At close of
another presidential campaign it is my
lot to oongratulate you upon a second
victory. “W. J. Bryan.”
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Bond Juniper Caught.
L. Jndaon Glenn, of Atlanta, under
indictment for forgery, and who jump-
ed a 83b0 bond sigued by his sister in
another case, was arrested in Macon
aud carried back to Atlanta and lodged
iu jail. He registered at a Macon ho¬
tel as W. V. Price and was arrested
later upou request of the Atlanta au-
thorities.
Employes Honor President Smith.
The employes of the Atlanta aud
West Point railroad and the Western
Railway of Alabama are getting up a
purse with which to purchase a mag-
iiificeut silver set for Mr. George
Srnith, the retiriug president of the
roads.
BILL ARP’S LETTER
Takes a Trip Over the Georgia
Road From Atlanta to Augusta.
HE RUMINATES ABOUT OLDEN TIMES
A “SHcIi” Scheme By Which lie Came
Into I*o»»e«*lon of Some Kail rood
Stock In His Young I)»yi.
On the Wins. — Some sad and some
sweet memories came over me as I
journeyed on the old Georgia Railroad
from Atlanta to Augusta. It was the
first railroad I ever saw and traveled
on. My good old father was one of
the original stockholders. He sub¬
scribed 85,000 and paid it as it was
called for. In those days roads were
not built on bonds or questionable,
mysterious schemes. There was no
preferred stock or income bonds or
first and second mortgages, but every-
! thing was simple, plain and honest. I
have great reverence for that road. I
lived in Lawrenceville while it was
being built. Stone Mountain was our
nearest depot, and it was thero I first
ventured to board a train as I jour-
neyed to Athens to enter college,
How solemn, how inspiring was that
ride. I remember that it seemed to
me that the trees and fences and farms
and habitations were all moving swift¬
ly backwards, while the train seemed
to be still aud quivering on its track. I
I bad the same feeling the first time
ever went up in an elevator. It was
at the Gilsey House, in New York,
and I was not conscious of going up,
but thought the hotel was rapidly de¬
scending into some subterranean cav¬
ity. Young people nowadays have no
such experience. They do not re¬
member the time when there were no
railroads or telegraphs, nor sewing
machines or cooking stoves, or match¬
es or steel pens, aud therefore they
caunot appreciate or be grateful for
the blessings they enjoy.
As we neared Stone Mountain and
I looked upon its bald, majestic sum¬
mit I was carried back in memory to
the delightful days of my youth, when
nearly sixty years ago that mountain
was our trysting place, and boys and
girls journeyed there sixteen miles
from Lawrenceville and spent a happy
day and while there and on the way
we reveled in love’s young dream and
eyes looked love to eyes that spoke
again. I remember when there was
a tower on that mountain’s top—a tow¬
er 1 G 0 feet high, whose slender top
did sometimes touch the clouds, and
it was built by Aaron Cloud, whose
very name made him a fitting archi¬
tect. It was the first skyscraper ever
built in Georgia.
I remember the delightful day when
a brunette lassie with hazel eyes and
Indian hair ascended those winding
stairs with me aud as we sat together
on its dizzy pinnacle I thought I was
little nearer heaven than I had ever
been before. Under pretense of shield¬
ing her from harm, I half enclosed
her with my arm and the palpitating
lace upon her bosom told me how fast
her heart was seating, and there al¬
most in the clouds we plighted our
troth. I remember when one winter
night the storm came and the rain de¬
scended and the winds blew, and that
! towel foil aud great was the fall of it.
I remember when there was a fine
hotel at the base of that mountain and
ouo night there wus a ball on the spaci¬
ous dining room,and “bright the lights
shone o’er fair women and brave men”
aud for the first time I saw that queen¬
ly girl whom tho boys called Becky
Lattimer, and whose dashing beauty
drew them to her as molasses draws
flies. Her father lived not far away, a
substantial farmer, and a few years
later “our Becky” bocarne Mrs. Rebec-
all Felton, the wife of the learned and
eloquent doctor of Cartersville. I re¬
member when that great solid mount¬
ain of granite seemed larger—yes,
much larger—than it looks to be now,
for I was young then ami nature had
not begun to shrink with me. Every¬
thing is smaller now and every year
gets smaller still. As Pope says of the
dying Christian, “The world recedes
—it disappears,” aud so it will to
those who die of old age. Tom Hood
expressed it beautifully aud patheti¬
cally when he said:
‘‘I remember. I remember the flr trees
dark and high,
I used to think their slender tops were olose
against the sky,
But now I’m growing older and find it
little joy
To know I'm farther off from heaven than
when I was a boy."
I remember that historical town
called Madison, where many of my
college mates lived. They are all
j gone now, not one is left to comfort
mo in my declining years. It was
here I saw this railroad when I was a
boy of fourteen, and it was completed
to Madison. What a seusation of won¬
der and alarm as I looked at the huge
leviathan that came puffing down tbe
track with a train behind it. My
father had to hold my hand, for I
trembled lest it should jump the track
aud kill us all.
My father was proud of that road —
proud because be helped to build it.
He kept that stock for 12 years with-
out receiving a dividend. The stock
went down, down, down, till it reach¬
ed its lowest point in 1849. It was
then worth only 27 cents on the dol-
] ar . but he had' faith and elnng to it
with hope. About that time a com-
mercial revolution—a crisis—-a panic
over the country aud to save
his mercantile credit he was forced to
sell his stock. It distressed Lira and
grieved mj mother, bat he Mid
there was no help for it. The
stock mast go. I remember the
night ho came home and told my
mother that the stock was gone—he
had sold it to Judge Hatching for 27
reuts on the dollar—the stock that he
had paid 100 cents for twelve years be¬
fore. Father was sad and the tears
fell on mother’s cheek and none of us
scared for supper.
When father went back to the store
that night I sat down by mother’s side
and took her hsnd in mine. “Moth¬
er," said I, “you must not feel so bad
about about that that stock. stock, Let me tell you a
secret. secret. Last night I proposed to Oc-
tavia Hutch in 3 ; I asked her to marry
me, and she said she would and we
huve fixed the time—the 7th of March
—and in less than three months I’ll
get that stock back and it will be in
the family again. Now, don’t you tell,
but you mustn’t cry any more,” and I
kissorl her on her cheek and said,
“Mother, Mr. Shakespeare says,
‘All’s well that ends well.’ ” But my
dear mother was a woman, and wo-
manlike, she told an intimate friend
what I (-aid about getting the stock
back, aud that friend told another wo-
man in confidence and the confidence
kept spreading and spreading nntil
the engagement and the stock matter
got all over the village and at last to
Judge Hutchins.
I was mortified and alarmed, but
iny affianced stuck close to me, for she
was dreadfully in love, though she
denies it to this day. lu due time we
were married and were so happy we
didn’t want any stock or anything else
hardly. A few days after our marriage,
as I was passing his office, the stern
old judge called me in. He unlocked
his iron safe, and taking out a paper
said to me, “I heard that you told
your good mother that you were going
to marry Octavia and get that railroad
stock back. Did you tell her that?” I
was intensely alarmed, but, like George
Washington, I would not tell a lie.
“Yes, judge, I did,” said I, “but I
didn’t mean it,” I replied. I saw the
twinkle in his eye. “Well,” said he, “I
thought that if you were determined
to have it I hud just as well give it
to you now,” and he banded me the
certificate with the transfer already
written. I don’t know what I said, but
he enjoyed my embarrassment.
What a considerate man he was. I
remember that a few months after he
sent six of the family negroes up to
our house one morning before we got
up. We heard them talking on the
front steps and my wife asked me to
get up and see what they wanted.
They informed me that “old master
told them he had given them to me
and Miss Octavia aud to come up
here.” They were all servants who
had long said that when Miss Octavia
got married they were gwine to live
with her. That was the usual patri¬
mony of slave owners to their children.
We had no use for them, and sent
tliem back with a kind note begging
the judge to keep them for us a while
longer. Some years after that Mr.
Lincoln set them free, and to tell the
truth, I am glad of it, for they were
always a care and an expense.
Now, while I write our train has
reached Union Point and I remember
when we college boys used to take the
tandem mule traiu from here to
Athens. It was an all day journey,
for it took us eight hours to make the
forty miles, but we rode on top and
had lots of fun and plenty of good
things to eat that our mothers had
provided. Yes, I love to ruminate
about those good old times vheu
everything had a roseate hue and we
wrote love letters to our sweethearts
and reveled in love’s young dream.—
Bii.l Akp in Atlanta Constitution.
M’KINLEY CONGRATULATED.
He Leaves Canton For Washington
Amidst Great Jubilation.
A Canton special says: President
McKinley was up early Wednesday,
and was soon the recipient of congrat¬
ulatory telegrams by the thousand.
The president breakfasted at 8 o’clock
with Mrs. McKiu ey and Secretary
Cortelyou aud then glanced over the
morning papers and listened to the
reading of the dispatches. They came
from all quarters, many being cable¬
grams from ambassadors and ministers
abroad. Secretary Hay, Secretary
Boot, and, in fact, all of the members
of the cabinet, bad been beard from.
Following are the messages ex¬
changed by tbe president aud vice-
president-elect, Roosevelt:
“Oyster Bay, N. Y r ., November 6 —
To President McKinley, Canton, O.—
I congratulate you, and I congratulate
far more the nation. I feel the most
heartfelt gratitude over the result.
“ThEOI>ORE RoOSEVKLTr”
“Canton,O., November 6. —To Hon.
Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y".
—I heartily appreciate your kind ex¬
pressions and congratulate you upou
concluding in health one of the most
memorable campaigns in our political
history. William McKinley.”
Hundreds of friends called to con-
gratulate tbe president for which they
received his thanks. He looked ex-
tremely happy, but his replies avoided
any reference to the personal triumph
involved.
President McKinley _ started back to
Washington amid the booming of can-
non aud the cheers of his townsmen.
His trip all along the route was a con-
tinuous ovation.
PLAGUE CASE IN BREMEN.
Case of a Sailor From South Africa Is
Under Investigation.
A plague case has apparently devel¬
oped in Germany. A sailor named
Knnz, who arrived at Bremen October
27th on board the German steamer
! Marionburg, from South Africa, has
i shown suspicious symtoms and tbe
! authorities have notified the bacterio-
j logical experts to determine whether
it i s a case plague.
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' ! \ Legislative Melange \
4 4
j Wright’s Dispensary Bill.
Mr. Wright of Floyd introduced his
dispensary bill Monday morning and
it was referred to the temperance com¬
mittee.
It is an amendment to the local op-
* lon law *. antl . 4 ° thos ® countle *
having cities of 5,000 population and
upwards the right to vote on the ques-
nsffthlishing a dispensary, if
*key fio ( i e8 ' re -
To call such au election it would re¬
< l uire one-tenth of the qualified voters
of the county, as now provided in the
option law, and the ordinary is
: to determine such qualifications.
In tUe eveut “ For dispensary” car-
. and council of such
r ’ es > ma y° r
cl *T> s hall, within thirty days, elect
three P^^us to serve as dispensary
commissioners, one for one year, one
^ or * w ? ant ^ ^e other for three.
Their successors are to hold for
three years, and the two hold over
commissioners are to nominate a suc-
cessor to the one retiring, their selec¬
tion to be confirmed or rejected by
the mayor and council.
The dispensary shall be maintained
only in the fire limits of such city, in
the central portion, and a manager is
to be appointed who shall give a
82,000 bond, the commissioners to fix
his compensation.
All bills for liquor are to be paid by
the city treasurer on vouchers from
the commissioners, and the revenue is
to be turned into the city treasury
daily. The stock is‘ to be analyzed
from time to time by a competent
chemist and not sold in quantities less
than a pint, nor to be drunk on the
premises. The dispensary is to re¬
main open from sunrise to sunset.
The manager shall sell only for cash.
Payment by the city shall be refused
for impure or unwholesome liquors
sold the dispensary commissioners.
No liquor shall be sold to persons to
sell again, either lawfully or unlawfully
and the profits on any liquors are not
to exceed 50 per cent. No loitering
around the premises is allowed.
The dispensary commissioners shall
make au annual report to the mayor
and council of such city on or before
the first day of February in each year,
showing the receipts and expenses of
the dispensary for the calendar year
preceding and the amount of the net
profits, if any. Such net profits, if
any, shall go to paying the expenses
of the city, then to the establishment
of homes for dependent children, and
the remainder thereof be divided be¬
tween the city and county in propor¬
tion to the population of eaeb. The
part awarded to the county shall be
paid over by tbe city treasurer to the
jounty treasurer and may be appopri-
ated to any purposes that tbe county
authorities may lawfully appropriate
money for.
No person holding any office or po¬
sition of any kind under the charter
or ordinances of such city or county
shall be eligible to be chosen as a dis¬
pensary commissioner or manager of
dispensary during the time for which
he was elected to such office or posi¬
tion, and all persons chosen as dis¬
pensary commissioners or as managers
of dispensaries shall for the time for
which they are chosen and* for the
term of one year thereafter be inelig¬
ible to election to any office or posi¬
tion under tbe charter or ordinances
of such city or iu said county; pro¬
vided, that dispensary commission¬
ers aud the managers of dispensa¬
ries may be always re-elected commis¬
sioners or managers, respectively.
The dispensary commissioners shall
be paid for their services such sums
as the mayor and council shall deter¬
mine, which shall not be less than
8100 per annum each.
The bill is not to operate in coun¬
ties where prohibition now obtains
either by high license or local option.
To Balk Pension Schemefs.
Mr, Harvard, of Dooly, changed his
mind about introducing his pension
bill until it was seen T.hether a consti-
tutional convention would be called or
not, as he sent it forward when his
county was called.
Mr. Harvard’s measure seeks to
weed out frauds' in the pension lists,
especially in the indigent class. He
says there are instances where pen¬
sioners have deeded their prope.ty to
their wives and daughters in order
that they might *oe put on tne indigent
pension list. the grand juries
His remedy is for
to recommend such claims from their
several counties and that they be not
allowed by tbe pension commission
unless so recommended,
1 Wants Registered Bonds.
instead of the coupon bonds now
deposited in the treasury by insur-
ancej fi( j e ii ty an d other companies,
Senator Ellis wants registered bonds
j in order that the treasurer may be
more completely protected from any
chanc( , G f i oss by theft,
0 f these coupon ‘bonds there are
a bout 890,000 worth now on deposit,
if they were stolen they could be used
armost as readily as cash by the thief
who stole them. Registered bonds
could only be disposed of after a record
i of the transaction had been duly made.
It was on this account that Mr. El¬
lis on Monday morning introduced his
bill requiring the substitution.
Will Benefit Teachers.
Mr. Gresham, of Burke, wants to
enlarge the powers of county school
commissioners Id granting extensions
of first grade licenses toschool teach-
era, and haa drawn a billfor that pur¬
pose.
Under the present law first grade
teachers are licensed for three years,
Mr. Gresham wants to make it discre¬
tionary with the commissioners about
extending such licenses, where the
teacher has given satisfaction and
shown much aptitude for his work.
It is known that in some instances
some of the very best of teachers have
been graded low in certain branches—
geography, for instance—where the
teachers’ merit did not come into con¬
sideration at all, but it was simply
dependent on the memory to recall
geographical names and places.
The Gresham bill is intended to
obviate this necessity.
Objects to Fence Law.
Mr. Harkins, of Gordon, is seeking
to repeal the stock law act passed by
Walker of Union, at the last session.
This was on amendment to sections
1778 and 1781 of the code and provided
that where a militia district Should
vote for the stock law that such dis¬
trict should be fenced off from adjoin¬
ing districts that did not have the
stock law.
Mr. Harkins says that thi.j would
inflict a iiarctslnp on a district if car¬
ried out. Furthermore, the operation
of the act is hampered by the fact that
in the question carried with no pro¬
vision as to who should do the fencing
and hence is, to all intents aud pur¬
poses, a dead letter.
Mr. Harkins says the people in his,
section are opposed to the law and
therefore he has introduced his meas¬
ure to repeal it.
ELECTION R10T5.
Some of the Casualties Resulting
From the Hotly Contested
Battle of Ballots.
At Denver, Col., two men were kill¬
ed aud four wounded at the polling
places at Twenty-second and Larimer
streets. The polling place is in a
tough section of the city. At an early
hour a crowd of toughs attempted to
get beyond the limit line. Officer
Carpenter ordered them away, and
with other officers, began to push the
men back, whereupon John Brand-
ford, colored, shot Carpenter, killing
him instantly. Detective Carberry,
seeing his brother officer fall, shot
Brandford. Immediately a fusilade
began, and before the battle was over
four men had been shot.
Intense excitement prevailed in the
neighborhood of the shooting and it
was feared a general riot would follow.
The riot call was sent to police head¬
quarters and in a few minutes fifty
policemen were ou guard around the
polling places.
Judge Hallett, in the United States
district court at Denver Monday, is¬
sued an order forbidding United
States Marshal Bailey to appoint dep¬
uties to serve at the polls ou election
day. Judge Hallett is a Democrat
and an ardent anti-imperialist. Mar¬
shal Bailey, a Republican, refused to
obey tbe order of the court.
Sheriff Jones swore in 200 Republi¬
cans as deputies to serve at tbe polls,
and tbe Democratic fire and police
boaid appointed 500 special policemen.
A race riot is reported as having oc¬
curred at, the little town of Caseyville,
Ind., Monday night, between -Aus¬
trians and Americans, in which an
American named Grover was shot and
killed and an Austrian saloon wrecked.
Several hundred shots were fired.
A big political row occurred at Dia¬
mond, Ind. Over 200 shots were
fired. One man was instantly killed
and three were badly wounded.
The vote in St. Louis was heavy and
early. In the twelve congressional
districts in which tho Republicans
caused 1,200 warrants to be issued for
alleged fraudulent registrations, as
expected, trouble came early. War¬
rants were to be served by the Repub¬
lican deputy sheriffs, while tbe Dem¬
ocratic police guarded the polls. The
first deputy sheriff who ventured in¬
side the prescribed limits of a down¬
town polling place was arrested by a
policeman and taken to St. Louis
headquarters. The city warrants he
had were taken from him.
At Savannah, Ga., L. M. Pleasants,
James Whitman and King CallaU,
prominent Republican workers, were
arrested and put iD jail, charged with
buying votes.
CZAR MAKES REPLY.
Russia Fully Favors Two Clauses in
the Anglo-German Agreement.
The text of the Russian reply to the
ADglo-German agreement note is pub¬
lished. *
The first point providing for open
ports on the rivers of the Chinese lat-
teral is favorably received as it does
not alter existing treaties.
The second point is all the more iu
harmony with Russia’s intention as
the integrity of celestial empire is the
fundamental principle of the Russian
policy.
As regards the possibility of a vio¬
lation of those principles in the third
article, Russia refers to her note of
the 28th, and repeats her declaration
that such violation would compel Rus¬
sia to modify as circumstances might
require the attitude she has taken.
STANDARD OIL PROSPERS.
Dividends Declared This Year Have
Been Forty-Eight PerCent.
A New York special says: The di¬
rectors of the Standard Oil Company
have declared a dividend of 10 per
cent, payable to stockholder^ *tliis of re¬
cord on November 15th. makes
48 per cent. paid out by
Oil