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YOL. I.
TiiKA'IY IS SIGNED.
INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES WILL
HEREAFTER BE ARBITRATED.
Articles of Agreement at Bast Effected
and Signed by Olney
and Pauncefote.
The proposition for a general arbi
tration treaty between the United
States and Great Britain is now an ac
complished fact. Lord Salisbury has
assented to the last suggestion made
from this side and. the attachment of
the formal signatures of Secretary 01
ney and Julian Pauncefote, the latter
having been clothed with the necessary
authority by Lord Salisbury, were
made at Washington, Monday at noon,
The treaty must be submitted to the
United States senate for approval.
Ample provision has been made to
guard against a failure of the arbitra
tors to agree through a tie vote. Prop
er provision has been' made in such
ease for reference of the matter to a
deciding authority.
It was Secretary Olney’s insistanee
upon the absolute necessity of guard
ing against a tie vote, \vhirii led to a
delay in the final draft of the treaty
after all the other details had been
adjusted to the common satisfaction of
the representatives of the two na
tions.
The treaty, as drawn and agreed to
by Air. Olney and Ambassador Paun
cefote, covers these points:
1. It establishes a high court of ar
bitration. This commission is com
posed of three members of the supreme
court of the United States, to be
chosen byjhe president, and of three
members of the high court of appeals
of Great Britain, ’ ’ to be elected by the
prime minister. operative -
2. The treaty is to be for
a period of five years ratification^ from tifc date of
the-exchange of
3. The exclusive coupt of arbitration shall
have jurisdiction over all
questions between the two countries
•on which differences are now pending,
or which may arise during the life of
tha treaty, with the exception of the
mil Ki-i
dispute ">
4. No 6,sprite involving national
honor o f sovereignty arbitration is to be submit
ted to the commission.
The Alaska boundary and other boun
da^v questions not otherwise disposed
of be included in the list of
questions to be submitted for final at
bitration. It is proposed that the
tribunal shall also act as a claims com¬
mission.
FOR A CENSUS BUREAU.
Senate Committee Will Prepare a Bill
Thl* Sea*ioii.
The senate committee on the census
had before it Saturday, Carroll 1).
Wright, acting superintendent of the
eleventh census during the close of its
work and the present commissioner
of labor, for the of explaining . .
purpose
his plan lor a permanent census
bureau.
It is the intention of the committee
to frame a bill for action at tins ses
sion uf congress, if possible, providing
for the establishment of a permanent
census bureau. The details °' ™ e
work will be provided for m a bill to
be passed during the next congress.
The committee seeks this early ac
tion so that the preparations for the
twelfth census may be -commenced in
good time and the "work pushed to
completion more speedily than has
heretofore been the. case.
Mammoth M ,, Banking „ , , Concern. „
Articles of incorporation were se
cured a day or two ago at the state
auditor’s office at Springfield, Ill., for
what is designed to be one of the
largest banking institutions west of
of New York city. The concern is
styled the General Trust Company of
Illinois and its capital is named at
$5,000,000. The incorporation fee of
$5,275 is the largest ever paid into the
shite treasury under the new incorpor
ation law.
Cahaba Bridge Nearly Completed.
The bridge of the Cahaba river on
the Southern railway which went
down on December 2fth with a Bir
mingham Mineral train, cousin^ the
death of more than a score of people
will be readv “ for trains within a few
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CHILEAN CLAIMS DISCUSSED.
. Olnev and' Minister Gana Bold
tiorfuearlv tw^TTears a^o ft without corn
pleting its labors, and is understood
that the commission will assemble in
this city next October and consider
the remaining cases, of which seven
teen are American claims against
Chile, and two, including that for the
captuxe Sported and detention of the Ttala, are
by Chile against the United
States.
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JESUP. GEORGIA. FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1897.
YIELDS TO INTERVENTIONS.
Report That Spain Will Allow Complete
Autonomy for Cuba.
The New Lork Journal’s correspond
ent at Madrid telegraphs:
Spain has at last concluded that all
her efforts to suppress, or even to
make any impression upon the Cuban
insurrection, are futile and useless.
Appreciating this fact, which has
been patent to all other nations for
nearly six months, Prime Minister
Canovas del Castillo has definitely
accepted Secretary of State Olney’s
proffer of American intervention as
well as the terms which his excellency,
President Cleveland, and Mr. Olney
prescribe as the price for their inter
feren.ee and the use of their preroga
fives in attempting to bring about a
state of peace in-the island of Cuba.
Following the refusal of the Ameri
can secretary of state to accept, so far
as America was concerned, the plan of
the Spanish prime minister for a res
toration of Spanish rule in Cuba, Air.
Olney, through the usual official chan
nels, submitted in full to Senor Cano
vas the terms for a peace w ith Cuba
upon which the administration of Pres
ident Cleveland was prepared to inter
vene and use its efforts to bring aboivt
a settlement between Spain and its
colony. conditions, able to state
The I am
upon the highest authority, mean for Cuba, per
feet and complete autonomy
I am unable to transmit now an
authentic copy of the correspondence
through Secretary Olney and the
Spanish minister, but of my facts I
am certain,
I can state with absolute knowledge
of the facts, however, that they pro
vide for home rule; to disburse all
.public moneys. Spain is to be de
j barred from all share in the revenues
j j elections of the island held and the all island. interference in
on
j In fact, the scheme went to the ex
; treme point of empowering Cuba to
(levy i a tariff from Spain in her sent own to favor the against island,
| exports toward Spain
The Cuban attitude was
j I to except bo entirely the one matter of independence, that, Cuba
on one
) was to remain m name a Spanish
j province
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j | TOM DELK CONFESSES.
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K1*'T*ilher W<3rime; fcfriwltwa,
Killed Sheriff Guinn.
■ Torn Delk, under sentence of death
■ has confessed and told the whole story
of the murder of Sheriff Guinn,of Bike
county. that pierced
Tom says the fatal shot
the heart of the brave officer was tired
j by Tom Lartdf6rd,Delk’s bosom friend
and brother in many crimes. Delk
waa within a few feet of the murderer
when he committed the tragedy, and
heard the cry of agony that fell from
Guinn’s lips as he staggered from the
porch of the Delk cottage at Zebulon
and fell to the ground mortally wound
This is the first time Tom has be
trayed his companion. Innumerable
influences have been brought to bear
on him to extract the truth, but he has
always remained immutably silent.
| jj e ] 1(iS sworJ1 w high heaven never to
; uc ,.j nl j na te Lamlford.
R n t his silence was at last broken,
j Hg is the victim of degpair Having
i p een tried and sentenced twice to die
scaffold for the murder, with not
t | je slightest ray of hope of escaping
j his doom,and with only eighteen more
^ G j jjf e> j ie p aH decided to face
death, having left no deception and no
{ a j se i 10O( p
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j LUMBER YARDS BURN.
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, pj remTO Overcome by smoke and *50,000
Worth of dumber Oestroyed.
The large lumber yards of discovered Haines «c
Co. at Buffalo N Y. were
on fire at 4 o clock Sunday afternoon.
: The flames spread quickly and mi e
j sponse to a second alarm all the tire
apparatus in the southern section of
j tbe city turned out and were re-en
forced by the fire tugs Rotter and
Richardson. Puily 15,000 people
gathered to see the conflagration.
j j While the fire was prevented from
spreading further the utmost efforts of
j the fire department were powerless to
I entirely subdue the blaze, and up to 1
a. m. the firemen were at work on the
place. $150,000 worth of lumber in
There is
| the yard and this is insured for $120,
■ 000.' The present loss is estimated at
; about $50,000.
Three firemen were overcome by
: smoke and had to be taken to the hos
j pital.
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ORDERS TO TENNESSEE
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j ceived by Major J. P. Fyffe to have
these two companies ready to move at
a moment’s notice. As a consequence
i * detail of both companies is on guard
* the armory awaiting orders. -No in¬
formation could be obtained as to
jt ™ C
reply reported that it was at Tracy
City, where the miners have been on a
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OUTLOOK PROMISING.
Bon & Co,, Say 1897 'Begins With a Clear
and Hopeful Advantage .
R. G. Dun & Co. in their weekly
j j eview of trade say that the year 1897
j begins with one clear advantage—the
j p as t year has swept out of the way a
j gr ea t number of unsound concern's
which, in any time of activity, business. would Of.
have been a danger to
the 15,286 commercial and banking
failures in 1896, with liabilities of
$276,815,749, a large share vepresent
j U g crippling losses in previous years,
or the violence of sptymlative l.ftlf of Storms while
j n 1395 , or the first 1896,
thousands more resulted from the fury
of the political tornado last fall. Bank
j n g failures, amounting to $5(L718,915<i
during the year, averaged $156,156
each, and were 145 per cent larger
than in 1S95.
ceased While at the banking apprehension failures have about not
west,
them has alnabst wholly subsided) and
no serious influence upon general
trade up-now expected. Alany sound
' concepts doubtless caught by
were
the epidemic, but practically all the
j important failures are traced to
disregard of law and of banking
sense at periods somewhat distant,
ft is felt at tho west that all bus
iness will be the sounder of its
purging, and the return of money
to New York has exceeded slop¬
ments to the interior by $ 2 , 000,000 for
the week. Heavy disbursements by
the treasury and by great corporations
make money abundant, and banks and
savings banks are seeking good paper,
taking some formerly sold at Chicago.
Foreign exchange has risen a trifle, as
large bills are about to mature. Aler
chandise exports were 11 per cent over
last year, while imports were 27 per
ce nt less than for the same week,
• Commercial failures amounted to
$226,096,834, a little over $1,000,000
having been added by the last day of
the year, but the average of liabilities,
$14,992, was smaller than in some
years of great prosperity. The failures
of brokerage and “other” commercial
concerns averaged $58,418 each, in
creasing over 183 per cent over 1895,
while manufacturing failures averaged
$ 28,808 each and increased 34 per cent
and trading failures increased 18 per
cent and averaged only $9,606 each.
! TRUSTS SURitENPLR.
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Georgia** Ni w Law cause* Them to
Throw up the Sponge.
Every trust operating in the state of
Georgia has succumbed to the Calvin
act.
As the climax of the effective opera
tion of that measure, the American
Tobacco Company,’ that monster mo
nopoly that so despotically ruled all
commerce in the divine weed, follow
ing suit after the potash trust, the
snuff trust, the coffee trust, the match
trust and all the other trusts, ad iufln
itum, that have been gouging Georgia
along with the rest of the union, noti
fled those jobbers and merchants
throughout the state handling their
goods that the now famous anti-trust
bill made their contracts unlawful, and
they would, therefore, no longer be
considered by either party.
This throws the long closed market
wide open to competition, and certain
reduction in the price of various com
modities—though maybe at the ex
pense of the jobbers. It solves at
last the problem of dealing with trusts
by legislation. It means the death
knell of all such monopolies.
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j The bill which directly accomplished
j this is already famous and is entitled
“an act to declare unlawful and void
a ll arrangements, contracts, agree
ments, trusts, or combinations made
with a view to lessen, or which tend to
lessen, free competition in the impor
tation or sale of articles of domestic
growth or of domestic raw material; to
dec]are unlawful and void all arrange
ments> coutract8) agreements, trusts
or combinations between persons or
corporations designed, or which tend,
to advan0 e, reduce or control the price
0 f 8UC p productor article to producer or
congT nner of any such product or arti
cle , to prov ; ( i e for forfeiture of the
barter and franchise of any corpora
tion violating provisions of this act.
Ex-Governor of Maine Dead.
Daniel Franklin Davis, ex-go.vernor
of Alaine, died at Bangor early Satur
day morning rather suddenly.
He was governor in 1880, being
elected by the legislature after an ex
citing count-out contest, in which
armed men and cannon played a part.
He had for some years been engaged
in the lumber and law business in
Bangor. Governor Davis was fifty
four years of age. I
DEMAXD TH ° CE>T CAR FARE
BonU.llle Bal.or Union* Sne to .3 Stree
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8tre et ear company’s franchise and !
{orce the reduction of fare to 2 cents, j
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Walling Asks for New Trial.
The attorney for Alonzo Walling, ;
sentenced to be hanged at Covington,
Ky., for complicity in the Pearl Bryan
murder, has filed a petition with the
court of appeals asking for a new trial.
WASHBURN WRITES.
HE ISSUES AN APPEAL TO POPU¬
LISTS OF UNITED STATES.
He Advises Believers to Maintain Solidified
Banks and Move Forward—The
Bate Campaign Reviewed.
George F. Washburn, member of the
people’s party national executive com¬
mittee and chairman of the western
headquarters during the late campaign,
has issued an appeal to the populists
of the United States. Among other
f things he says:
We are to be congratulated upon the
growth of our party aud the fact that
in the recent election nearly half the
> voters of the Union indorsed much of
four platform. Our party alone has a
voting force larger than that which
elected Lincoln and an able, effective
reform press of nearly 2,000 papers.
,\Ve hold the balance of power in the
'United States senate and have four
times as many congressmen as ever
before;
“We united with the silver forces
in the recent campaign, not because
wo believe free coinage of silver is the
solution of the financial problem, but
because it would better existing con¬
ditions, would meet with the least re
sistence and become the entering wedge
for our main issue, viz: full legal ten
, der paper money, issued and regulated
by tha government alone, Hay
ing proved our loyalty at the polls, we
are free to act separately on advanced
-lines and to emphasize the real issues
our party was born to advocate. We
cannot lay down our arms and cease
our activity until the war for which we
•enlisted has ended in victory for our
cause.
’ “The democratic party proposes to
continue the silver fight. Two parties
cannot exist on the same issue. The
greater absorbs the smaller There¬
fore, if we remain mere camp follow
of another party, disintegration
[will forced result. the democrats Our party to success adopt alone the
Chicago platform and nominate a
.popoerat made by for president, regularity Converts
party cannot be
with the reform*.o f the future.
WO a&e.UOt ik-t&OCiatse, aft Cl •
be classed as STXch. W© Simply UDlteft
for a single campaign. The demo
crats are but the rear guard of our
party. We do not stand upon redemp
tion money, but for a scientific dollar,
kept invariable by proper regulation
of the money volume,
“The millions of converts to silver
during the recent campaign must ad
vance. They will remain where they
are. We must educate them up to tho
main issue, and the time to do it is
now, not just before a presidential
election. We must also hold the dem¬
oeratic party to its present position or
compel it to advance.
“I also suggest that a national con
ference of party leaders and work
ers be held as soon as practicable,
tbat we may have a full and free
expression of opinion regarding
our future work. We hope, there
fore, that the reform press will give
the fullest possible exposition of the
views on this important subject; and
our friends are invited to write me or
our national chairman expressing their
ideas on the independent party action
herein proposed.
“Shall we march to victory under
our own banner, or continue as strag
glers under another?
RACERS CREMATED.
String-of Fine and Valuable Horse* Burn*
ed at Norfolk, Va.
A fire occurred Sunday morning at
3:30 o’clock in the stable at the park
of the Norfolk Driving Club and Fair
Association, one mile from Norfolk,
Va., resulting in the cremation of
thirteen fine horses and probably the
fatal burning of Tony Brown, a colored
hostler.
Among the horses burned was Tid
dley-Winks, John Mariner’s $10,000
trotter, one of the fastest horses in the
south. Two were fine Kentucky ra
eers owned in Georgia. The loss will
foot up at least $30,000.
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Nebraska Bank a Succumbs.
The First National bank, of Alma,
Neb., has been closed by Examiner
Whitmore. Liabilities are $134,000
which includes$46,000 deposits,$4,500
belonging to the state and county. The
assets are reported at about the same
amount.
ANOTHER DEATH AT CAHABA.
Workman on Wrecked Bridge FaU. and U
hoisting heavy timbers s iii to the top of
and fell fifty feet. Death resulted resulted.
Dividend for Cotton Factory.
The Augusta, Ga., cotton factory
has declared a semi-annual dividend
of 3j per cent on the capital stock of
tbe company of $600,000. This is one
of the oldest mills in Georgia.
WATSON VS. BLACK.
Argument* Boeun in the Contest Before
House Elections Committee,
The arguments in the election con¬
test of Thomas F. Watson, late candi¬
date for vice-president, against James
0. Black, of the tenth congressional
district of Georgia, were begun at
Washington Friday before the house
elections conimitteee, No. 1.
It was expected Mr. Watson would
be present, but he did not put
in au appearance. The sitting
member, Judge Black, was among
those who heard the arguments
of a formidable array of counsel,
Messrs. Gross, West, Glenn & Roun¬
tree, appearing for Watsos, and
Messrs. Cummings, Lamar, Cohen and
Ivright for Black. Mr.Glenn, in behalf
of Watson, argued that the entire vote
of the city of Augusta should be thrown
out because of a number of alleged ir¬
regularities in registration and of bal¬
lot boxes, lack of representation on
the boards, etc.
On behalf of Black the entire regu¬
larity of the election was argued by
Mr. Cummings, who maintained that
the entire theory of Air. Watson’s case
that a widespread conspiracy of fraud
existed, was not justified by the facts,
Contrary to the usual routine of
election cases, the argument, while
following the lines of the printed
briefs and the 1 general statements
heretofore published, were neither
dull nor dry. They were marked by
spirited tilts between the counsel for
Air. Watson and for Alajor Black, and
tho committee gave unflagging atten¬
tion.
BLOCKADE CHARLESTON.
Many of Uncle Sam's Powerful Battle¬
ships Will Environ the C’ily.
Admiral Bunce’s squadron of evolu¬
tion is to blockade Charleston, S. C.,
early in February.
The admiral had a long conference
with Secretary Herbert and other
naval officers at Washington Friday,
and as a result'his plans for drills and
maneuvers, of which the rigid block¬
ade of Charleston is the chief feature,
were thoroughly approved and all
necessary arrangements for carrying
out the proposed operations will at
once be inaugurated.
The scheme involves the mainte¬
nance of a strong blockading , fleet off
Charlesto.i bjp-.bor and the assignment
of one or moi% fast vessels, including
the Vesuvius, to duty as blockade run¬
ners. Stores and coal will be massed
at Pqrt Llqyitl as a base for the smaller
blockade cruisers, but the battleships
and perhaps the big cruisers will have
to take turns going to Hampton Roads
for supplies unless it proves feasible
to serve them on tlie high sens.
The fleet will be the most powerful
gathered in recent years, including the
battleships Massachusetts, Indiana,
Alaine and Texas, the cruisers New
York, Brooklyn, Columbia, Newark,
Ealeigb, Alontgomery, Marblehead and
Castine, the ram Katahdin, the moni¬
tors Puritan and Amphitrite, the tor¬
pedo boats Cushing and Ericson, the
dispatch vessels Vesuvius and Dolphin
and the transport Fern.
BLAZE IN SYLYANIA.
The Court. House and a Number of Store*
Swept Away by Flames.
The business portion of Sylvania,
Ga., was fire swept Friday night. The
loss is estimated at $50,000.
The fire started about 10 o’clock in
M. C. Well’s livery stable. Hilton’s
cash store caught next and his other
store on the opposite side of the stable
caught about the same time.
P. A. Alock’s store was next in line
and it was soon a burning mass. A. J.
Larieey & Co.’s drug store, next door,
went down in very quick order, fol¬
lowed by M. T. Wells’ large store on
the corner.
The flames then leaped -across the
street to J. F. Loveless’s store and
from there to the courthouse square.
The Telephone building,Pfieffer’s store
and a dwelling house also caught and
were quickly burned. T. G. Smith’s
small paint shop next to The Telephone
building was swallowed up in a few
minutes,
The loss is covered by $8,000 insur
.ance
Judge Speer Confirms Sale.
Judge Speer has confirmed the sale
of the electric railway property at Sa
vannah to Herman Alyers and J. II.
Fale, representing the majority of the
bondholders, for $211,000 and directed
that the receivers turn the property
over to the purchasers on the preseuta
tion of the deed from the master eom
missioners.
Whisky Trust Leases.
The United States court of appeals
Ml years and involving something like
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Georgians Off to Cuba.
A party of 18 Savannah, Ga., young
men have left that city for Cu l ‘a to
j 0 i n the insurgents. Among them was
Clifford W. Anderson, Jr., son of Col
one! Clifford W r . Anderson, of Sevan
nah.
NO. 27.
KILLED BY A POSSE.
SIMON COOPER’S CAREER ENDED
BY WINCHESTER BULLETS.
Ills Bloody Kecord Stamps Him as South
Carolina’s Star Crlmlnal-A Week
of Horrible Crimes.
Simon Cooper, the red-handed South
Carolina desperado was killed by a
sheriff’s posse near Sumter, Friday at
uoou.
Cooper’s record of crime was inau¬
gurated on Emancipation Day. He
w as a crack shot, and so he proved
himself when he attended the celebra¬
tion at Alagnolia, in Sumter county.
He fancied that some one was trying
to drive over him, and started a row.
The negro in the buggy finally
shot him inflicting a slight wound in
the neck. Other negroes tried to
seize Cooper, and Grant Davis, one of
them, was shot dead by Cooper. After
emptying his pistol, Cooper retired
under a culvert and quietly reloaded
his pistol. Then he came out and
deliberately shot down five men, among
those who had troubled him.
In the meantime a party of white
men had collected and deeided to at¬
tempt his arrest. The negro cursed
them and dared them to come on, but
upon their approach he tied, after fif¬
ing several shots.
His whereabouts for a time was un~
known.
Just after daylight Friday morning
lie started out, but soon stopped at
the house of Thomas Boyle, colored,
and demanded that he let him have
his horse. He also, at the point of a
pistol, forced Boyle’s son, Isaac, to go
with him, saying he would send the
horse back by the boy. He rode the
horse and made the boy walk.
Thomas Boyle then hurried to Lynch¬
burg to tell tlie white people of Coop¬
er’s whereabouts. A party was soon
on horseback and when they arrived
about two miles from Lynchburg, at
the home of Air. West Wilson, they
beheld a truly fearful picture.
Cooper had murdered Mr. West
Wilson, his wife, father and a colored
man, Preston Smith. Mr. Wilson,
Hr., was shot three times in the breast
and in each side. Air. Wilson, Jr.,
was shot in the temple and in one side
of the heart and his head split open
with an ax. Airs. Wilson was shot
once with a pistol ball in the back of
the head.
Since Thursday night sheriff’s pos¬
ses had been scouring the country,
using special trains where necessary,
in search of the desperado.
Leaving a trail of blood in his wake,
the negro defied arrest and kept on his
career of crime until surrounded in a
house near Sumter, shortly before
noon Friday, -where he kept the pos
see at bay with his Winchester. Af¬
ter a terrible battle, lasting an hour,
the bloodthirsty desperado, embolden¬
ed by the success of daring, issued
from the house and was shot down,
Blst of Cooxjer’s Victims.
Killed—
HENBY DAVIS, colored.
JAMES ADAMS, colored.
WESLEY WILSON, white.
MBS. WESLEY WILSON, white.
BENJAMIN WILSON, white.
PRESTON SMITH, colored.
Wounded—
THOMAS ANDERSON.
WILLIAM ANDEESON.
JERRY STEWART.
HENRY ANCRUM and
JOHN DARGAN, all colored.
Henry Davis was killed Emancipa¬
tion day and James Adams was wound¬
ed then, dyiDg later, The other
wounded were shot on Emancipation
day. John Cooper states that Simon
also assaulted and killed a young wo¬
man named Mary Howell.
With the death of Simon Cooper
ends the career of the bloodiest des¬
perado in the criminal annals of South
Carolina, and probably of the entire
south. The record of his week of
crime defies comparison and is almost
beyond human comprehension. The
entire section in which the tragedies
were committed is convulsed with hor¬
ror, and men shudder at the name of
Simon Cooper.
CHARGED WITH THE WRECK.
Seven Negrroe* .Failed for the Caliaba
ltlver Wreck.
A charge of trainwrecking has been
formally made against Andrew Fagan,
Lucy Fagan, Emanuel Billings, Tom
Parker, Tom Ingram, Rome Scales and
Nat Tranum, the negroes held in jail
at Birmingham, Ala., under suspicion
of having caused the Cahaba river
wreck.
WILLIS IS IMPROVING.
Advices From Honolulu Are Favorable to
His Ultimate Recovery.
The steamer Coptic, which arrived
at San Francisco Friday from China
via Honolulu, brings advices from the
latter point up to January 1st. United
States Minister Willis, whose condi¬
tion was reported hopeless a few days
ago, is greatly improved and his com¬
plete recovery is now looked for.
Two-Cent Rate Refused.
The Georgia railroad commission
has refused to grant the petition of
the business men to make the railroads
sell mileage books at a rate of 2 cents
per mile.
