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' m ■/,>: I 7 ayne \ County News 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 ‘ ( -j 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. ** 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 I ’ j | TOM DELK CONFESSES. -- 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 : -___ j LUMBER YARDS BURN. - - , 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. . ORDERS TO TENNESSEE - 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 , 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. ! ^ 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. . 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 ‘ 8tre et ear company’s franchise and ! {orce the reduction of fare to 2 cents, j - 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. T ~~ 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 $100 ’ 000 - 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.