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VOL. I. SULTAN IS MAKING ACTIVE PRE¬ PARATIONS FOB WAR. RUSSIA ASKS GREECE TO WITHDRAW An Intimation That King George Is Contemplating the Acceptance of Demands of the Powers. Advices of Friday from the east state that the massing of Turkish troops and munitions of war on the frontier is proceeding with feverish haste. All the soldiers on furlough have been recalled and eleven batteries of artillery, a regiment of cavalry and two battalions of infantry have gone from Salonika, Monastir and elsewhere to Elassona. Two additional battal¬ ions have reached Katrina. The reliefs from Smyana, Brusa, Trebizonde and elsewhere in Anatolia are on their way here and to the fron¬ tier, where a total of six divisions will be formed with headquarters at Elas¬ sona. . It is announced in a special from London that it is learnen there that King George has intimated his inten¬ tion to accept the demands of the pow¬ ers. A St. Petersburg special says: ‘ ‘Rus¬ sia, through the Russian minister at Athens, M- K. Onon, has called upon Greece to withdraw all of her troops and her fleet from Crete within three days. semi-official “The foregoing accompanied by an¬ nouncement was a long and involved statement of the mo¬ tives actuating Russia, namely: of “That to prevent the extension the revolution to other portions of the Turkish empire, imperiling the peace of Europe, a stop must be put to the action of Greece, which is in opposi¬ tion to international law. Before ne ;fore negotiations for a Cretan consti¬ tution can be entered, upon, it is asserted Russia has Then resolved to restore Greek order in Crete. after the evacuation, usder the protection of the powers ai. autonomous government will be installed under the suzerainty of the sultan. In this policy, it is claimed! Russia is supported by France, Germany and Austria. * “Throughout the entire statement neither England nor Italy is mention¬ ed, but Greece is warned that should she, in blind misconception of her own interest, allow herself to be excited by self seeking friends to persist in her present attitude under the false idea that the powers are not united, because at the outset one or another has not concurred in Russia’s proposals, Russia is resolved to take re¬ prisals, the first step being the block¬ ade of Piraeus. The powers consider¬ ed the Greek annexation of Crete out of the question, and it is asserted in the consciousness of their absolute support, Russia will be in a position to prevent the Cretan question from imperiling the peace of Europe, even should any individual power refuse to accede to the proposed measures. ” LEAGUE MAKES SCHEDULES. Big Association Begins the Season On April 22d. The league baseball magnates in session at Baltimore Friday promul¬ gated the schedule for the current year. will the 22d of The season open on April, except in Boston, where there will be one preliminary game April 19th, which is a local holiday. It was determined that the league should undertake the defense of the equity suit brought by Rusie in New Jersey. decided to give Presi¬ The league appoint¬ dent Young absolute power in ment of official scorers, This feature will doubtless affect the averages of some players, as it is intended to stop the playing of favorites by appointing men qualified to score the game with¬ out fear or favor. The champions will have Boston as the attraction, for the opening days, Brooklyn will Philadelphia. play in Washington and New York in In the west St. Louis will have the Pittsburg team for the opening, Lou¬ isville will have Cleveland and Cincin¬ nati will entertain Chicago. WAS HYATT OFFERED BRIBE I North Carolina Senator Make* Sensational Charges at Raleigh. 'A special from Raleigh, N. C., says: In a special interview State Senator Hyatt positively declares that Gov ernor Russell’s private secretary di rectly offered him the position of secretary to the board of agricnlt ure if he would vote for the bill to annul the lease of the North Carolina railway. the private secretary, Hyatt struck Alexander, and denounced him as a contemptible coward, and declared he would rise iu the senate and see wheth¬ er the governor could with impunity offer bribes to legislators. Alexander was offered. County News JESUP. GEORGIA. FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 4 .. PETITION FOR PROTECTION. Sea Island Cotton Growers Demand Belief Through Congress. The special oommittee of eleven, composed of gold democrats, silver democrats, republicans and populists, appointed by the sea island cotton growers’ convention reoently in session at Valdosta, Ga., to draw up a peti¬ tion to congress for a duty of 5 cents fin¬ a pound on Egyptian cotton have ished their work. The petition reads as follows: “To Hon. Kelson Dingley, Jr., Chairman Ways and Means Commit¬ tee, Washington, D. C.: At a conven¬ tion of the sea island cotton growers of Georgia and Florida, held in the city of Valdosta, Ga., on the £4th day of February, 1897, the undersigned were directed to submit to your hon¬ orable body the following reasons why they ask congress for a specific duty of five cents a pound on Egyptian cot¬ ton: “The importation of this cotton has increased since 1890 from 10,470 bales to 69,220 bales, weighing 750 pounds each, equal to nearly double the num¬ ber of American bales, which average about 380 pounds each. During the period named the price of sea island cotton has declined about one-half, because, as we believe, of the con¬ stantly increasing importation and consumption in the country of the Egyptian cotton, which is used to take the place of all grades of sea island after a limited amount of the finer staple is consumed for the finer yarns, etc. “This competition has practically driven the Georgia, Florida and Caro¬ lina sea island cotton growers out of the market. Unless a duty, say of 5 cents a pound, to cover the difference in the cost of production, is imposed on tke foreign article the planters in the territory named will be driven to tie wall. They cannot resort to the culture of upland cotton for the reason that the soil in the sea island cotton belt, best adapted to the growth of long staple cotton, is not adapted to the growth of the upland or short staple variety. “If the burden of revenue raising is put upon Egyptian cotton we believe it will greatly stimulate a languishing industry in the territory named above, for the further reason that our entire sea island cotton product can be con¬ sumed in our own country. As it is, k ss than half of our product is taken by our own mills. The balance seeks a market in foreign countries. “The duty asked will entail no hard¬ ship on the masses of the people of our (al¬ country, because it can be shown though we have not the figures at hand) that the price of those article manu¬ factured from long staple cotton have not fallen in price correspondingly with the raw material from which they are made.” M’COOK DECLINES PORTFOLIO. Report That He Only Wanted to Be At¬ torney General, Nothin* less. It was announced in New York City Friday that Colonel John J. McCook has positively declined to enter the cabinet of President McKinley as sec¬ retary of the interior. The announcement is also made that while General Stewart L. Woodford is still a candidate for a cabinet position with the endorsement of the regular republican organization, the chances are that New York will not be rep¬ resented in the cabinet. “When Major McKinley first asked Colonel McCook to become a member of his cabinet no particular portfolio was mentioned. A friend of Colonel McCook said that he expected that he would be asked to serve as attorney general and this place he would have accepted. colonel “But within a day or two the received a letter asking him to accept the post of secretary of the interior. This, it is understood, he promptly and positively declined.” MOTHER KILLED BABY BOY. Tennessee Woman Sentenced to Seven ^ Years In the Penitentiary* At Newburg.in Lewis county,Tenn., Thursday, Mrs. Jane Dabbs was con¬ victed of murdering her two-year-old son and sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary. committed The crime was a year ago. her boy by crush¬ Mrs. Dabbs killed ing his sknll with a hatchet. She then carried his body into the house and set fire to the building. The house was destroyed and the baby’s body burned to a crisp. PICKS UP SLOWLY. Dun & Co In Their Trade Review, Give Some Encouragement. R. G. Dun & Co., in their weekly review of trade, say: “Genuine improvement in business does not come with a n\«h, like the breaking of a great dam. n- ’ growth for some weeks past has been more en¬ couraging, because in nearly all lines it has been gradual and moderate. The rupture of the steel rail and other combinations in the iron business has brought out a vast quantity of trade which had been held back and has set many thousand men at work, while the slow but steady gain in other great industries has giv¬ to many thousands. PRESIDENT-ELECT BOARDS TRAIN FOR NATIONAL CAPITOL. HIS PARTING SPEECH TO FRIENDS. A Short Address, Full of Patriotic Senti¬ ments—A Great Throng; Bids Him Adieu. President-elect McKinley left Can ton at 7 o’clock Monday evgning for Washington, thousands of his fellow citizens biddig£ him adi 6u in showers of fireworks and ffiJWxihants to the ac companiment of hearty cheers. The citizens, together with business men, had arranged for a public demon stration to bid farewell to their lion ored and beloved citizen and neighbor. The local militia joined in the dem •lustration and at 6:30, headed by the famous Grand Army band, marched to the McKinley home. As they counter marched Major McKinley, escorting the coming first lady of the land, ap peared at his front door. Their appearance was the signal for cheers. As they walked from the fa mous front porch to the coach in wait ing there was a frantic effort to obtain a shake of Major McKinley’s hand. This was impossible, as the pro gramme admitted of not a moment’s' delay. Major McKinley paused but a few seconds ere he entered the cab, to raise his hat to the thousands of people -men, women and cliildren-congre gated there. This was the signal for another out burst of applause. All along the route to the depot, about a mile, the streets were jammed with people, hundreds coming from towns adjacent to Canton to bid the major good-bye. The space about the station was packed for squares by people who struggled ineffectually to get near the train, which was guarded by three companies of militia. As the president-elect and Mrs. Mc¬ Kinley stepped upon the rear platform of their car the shouts and cheers of the people again rose. Major McKin¬ ley seated his wife jqst inside tb# door and stepped upon tfie platform. The cheering was repeated, blit quickly ceased as the president-elect raised his hands. His words were: “My Neighbors and Friends and Fellow Citizens—On the eve of departure to the seat of government, goon to assume duties of an arduous responsibility, as great as can de¬ volve upon any man, nothing could give me greater pleasure than this farewell greeting —this evidence of your friendship and sym¬ pathy; your good will, and I am sure the prayers of all the people with vbom I have lived so long and whose confidence and es¬ teem are clearer to me than any other earthly honors. “To all of us the future is as a sealed book; but if I can, by official act of admin¬ istration or utterance, in any degree add to the prosperity of our beloved country and to the comfort and well-being of our splen¬ did citizenship, I will devote the best and most unselfish efforts of my life. (Loud and continuous applause and cries of “We know you will, Major.”) r “The assumption of the chief magistracy is of such grave Importance that partisan¬ ship cannot blind the judgment or accept¬ ance of other considerations, but for the public good of all to every party and every section. “With this thought uppermost in my mind, I reluctantly take leave of my friends and neighbors, cherishing in my heart the sweetest memories and the tenderest thoughts of my old home—my home now, and I trust my home hereafter, so long as I live. (Tremendous applause,) “I thank you and bid you all good-bye.” RIOT IN KNOXVILLE. On© Man Killed and Another Expected To Die. At Knoxville, Tenn., Monday the Citizens’ Street Railway company com¬ menced tearing up tracks on Depot street, at an early hour 200 negroes being put to work. The city police¬ men arrested the men and the sheriff and his deputies proceeded to arrest the policemen and other officials. This precipitated a riot. One man was killed and a number more or less seriously hurt. Of those hurt one at least, Chief McIntosh, of the fire department, will likely die. The fire companies were called out and dispersed the crowd by throwing water on them. FORTUNE FOR SAVANNAH MAN. He Win* a law Suit Involving a Half Million Dollars. A dispatch was received at Savan¬ nah, Ga., Monday, announcing that Elton A. Smith, a merchant of that city, has just won his suit involv¬ ing the right to his father’s estate in the highest court in New Jersey, and that he will now come into about a half million dollars worth of property. Smith’s father disappeared some years ago and was not heard from un¬ til he was found in New Jersey, where he married again or was said to have married. There were many interest¬ ing features in this connection in the trial of the case. GOVERNMENT RESTRAINED From Interfering ering Steamer With Itauntles*. Alleged Filibust¬ In the United States court at Jack¬ sonville, Fla., Mjjnday, Judge Locke made an order Siodifying his previous order i 1 the Uauntless injunction case. The oonrj- had on Saturday made an order suspending the enforcement of the injnhetion restraining the collector of customs and captains of the revenue or* tier Boutwell from interfering with tiie Dauntless, as the attorneys for the government held that their appeal from the decision of the court acted • as a supersedeas. The order of the court Monday was to the effect that the appeal did not ' ac *‘ as a supersedeas and that the »»junction was in full force to restrain *¥ tb defendants from interfering with ? movements of the vessels. The onl y condition required by the court that the owner of the Daunt ess 8b ° u ‘ d bo “ d “ th ?/um of $15, °°° tha * tbe W "'ould not violate navigation or neutrality laws. So “ e of the grounds for the court’s de . ci810n are given: “In considering this . question the court cannot go outside the facts as shown in the sw ° rn bdl and affidavits of complaiu aut and respondent. Other circum ? tances referred to or intimated, can bave no weight with the court, ‘Apprehensions that the complam V1 ° lat ? tblS aW ( 01 SUS ] 11CK,n * tba * h « r nte u ds 80 *? do >. can furmsh no , “The bams rights . or , ] ega of citizens action. to enjoy the nse of thelr own property in a lawful manner 18 incontestable, and the pro vl81 ° n , preventing violations of the neutrality laws are plainly laid dow “ 1U ? tat " eS ’ an ? ca “ f el «\ er be ex ^ en ^ ec i by the courts nor by the execut ive officers, GREEK CONGRESS MEETS. An Address of Prime Minister Elicits Great Applause. After a recess that called forth the protest of the opposition the bonle, the single parliamentary chamber of Greece, assembled at Athens Monday. Nearly all of the members were present and the gallery of the cham¬ ber was filled with visitors, all eager to listen to further authoritative state¬ ments of the government’s position in regard to Crete and the powers. Prime Minister Delyannis announced that he had received positive confirma¬ tion that the bombardment of the Christians’ position by the foreign war¬ ships, was provoked by the Turks. He denounced the bombardment as savage, impious and unjust. He said that the blockade of Crete by the pow¬ ers was inexplicable from the point of international law. In conclusion, M. Delyannis said: “We are a small nation and cannot prevent such acts, but we protest against them with the force of a great nation. We know that all great peoples are with ns.” The prime minister was cheered again and again as he took his seat. rexisT welcomed. Mar ill Gran Carnival Inaugurated At Mew Orleans With Pompon. Ceremonies. The mardi gras carnival opened at New Orleans Monday with great eclat. Rex, the king of the carnival, arrived by river about 3 o’clock in the after¬ noon at the foot of Canal street, and was accorded a right royal welcome from the several thousands assembled. His bodyguard, consisting of all the military organizations of the city, with a full detachment of police and assisted by all the marines from the United States men-of-war and the reg¬ ulars from Jackson barracks, moved in a grand procession to the city hall, where the mayor and city officials were in waiting. his royal Arriving at the city hall, highness was welcomed by Mayor Flower and the keys of the city de¬ livered over to him. For the next forty-eight hours Rex had supreme control of the Crescent City. THE THREE FRIENDS CASE. United States Supreme Court Order* the Vessel Held. A Washington special says: The United States supreme court has re versed the decision of the district court of Florida in the Three Friends case, sustaining the contention of the gov¬ ernment. The court was also ordered to resume custody of the steamer. The court holds that there is war in Cuba and that the carrying of arms and ammunition to the island directly or indirectly is a direct violation of the neutrality laws. THE LEE CORRESPONDENCE As Laid Before the Senate Confirms Story of Threatened Resignation. The correspondence of the depart¬ ment of state with Consul General Lee at Havana in the case of Charles Scott, an American citizen, which was laid before the senate Monday night, confirms the published story that Gen¬ eral Lee threatened to resign unless the department supported his demand that Scott be released from solitary confinement. The telegrams sent to the depart¬ ment by General Lee only are trans¬ mitted, the department’s end of the interchange being omitted. PRESIDENT RETURNS THE MEAS¬ URE WITHOUT HIS SIGNATURE. EVERY SECTION OF BILL ATTACKED The Principal Objection Is To the Educa¬ tional Clause—Declares tile Measure a Radical Departure From Our Policy. President Cleveland sent to the house Tuesday a message vetoing the immigratibn bill, entitled, “An act to amend the immigration laws of the United States,” upon the general ground that its provisions are unnecessarily harsh and oppressive, and its defects in construction would cause vexation and its operation would result in harm to our citizens. The message is the longest of the kind that President Cleveland has written. He takes up the different provisions of the bill in detail, finds objections to each of them and refutes the arguments that have been advanced from time to time by the advocates of the bill. He gives greater space to ob¬ jections to the educational clause than to any other part of it He says: “In my opinion it is infinitely more safe to admit a hundred thousand im¬ migrants who, though unable to read I and write, seek among us only a home and opportunity to work than to admit one of those unruly agitators and enemies of governmental control who cannot only read and write, but delights in arousing, by inflam¬ matory speech, the illiterate and peacefully inclined to discontent and tumult. Violence and disorder do not originate with illiterate la¬ borers. They are rather the victims of educated agitators. The ability to read and write as required in this hill in and of itself afford, in my opinion, a misleading test of contented indus¬ try and supplies unsatisfactory evi¬ dence of desirable citizenship or a proper appreciation of the benefits of our institutions. If any particular ele¬ ment of our illiterate immigration is to be feared, for other causes than illiter acy, these causes should be dealt with daily instead of making illiteracy the pretext for exclusion to the detriment of other illiterate immigrants against whom the real cause of complaint can¬ not be alleged.” The president does not find merit in any feature of the bill, and character¬ izes it as a whole as a radical depart¬ ure from our national policy relating to immigration. SMITH WAS INDICTED. Though His Embezzlement Was Compro¬ mised The Law Is After Him. Otis O. Smith has been indicted Dy the Fulton county grand jury at At¬ lanta for the embezzlement of $2,250 of the funds of the Georgia Security and Banking Company. The indictment charges that on the 20th day of February, 1897, “Otis O. Smith, cashier of the Georgia Security and Banking company, did embezzle, steal, secrete and fraudulently take and carry away a large sum of money, to-wit, $2,250, as funds of said bank.” A bench warrant will be issued on the indictment at once, and Sheriff Nelms will make an effort to appre¬ hend Smith, who, no doubt, is beyond the limits of the state. GEORGIA LUMBER TO EUROPE. First Shipment of a Great quantity From Near Savannah. The Southern Lumber Company has made contracts for the shipment of one million feet of Georgia pine lumber through adjacent ports to European points, most of which are on the con¬ tinent. The shipments of lumber will be made by tramp steamers and will be among the first that have been made in this manner in such quantities from the south. COLLECTOR FOUND SHORT. Richard Cabell Used Uncle Sam’s Money In Speculation. Richard H. Cabell, United States in¬ ternal revenue collector at Salt Lake, Utah, has been discovered short in his accounts with the government to the extent of over $10,000. He has been removed from office, and as soon as the exact amount of the defalcation is known, his bondsmen will be required to make it good. A SYMPATHETIC STRIKE. Skilled Workmen Take Up “Helpers ” Cause and Walk Out. Four hundred skilled workmen in the Globe Ship-building Company s yards at Cleveland, O., Tuesday went out on a sympathy strike. Monday 300 helpers struck and they induced the skilled workmen to aid them. The only men left in the big yards now are the caulkers. The only de toand made by the skilled workmen is that the company accept the terms of settlement offered by the helpers. These terms include a year s con tract for a minimum of $1.60 per day; the reinstatement of all union men discharged without cause and an agree ment to hire no more non-union men. NO. 34. ARRIVE AT WASHINGTON. McKinley and Hobart Reacb the Scene of Action, and Beady for the Oath. Without any ostentatious display, President-elect McKinley was met on his arrival at Washington by members of the inauguration committee and was escorted to his quarters at the Ebbitt. He kept closely to those quarters during the day — none but a few chosen leaders having access to him. Soon after the arrival at the Ebbitt, Mr. and Mrs. McKinley were figura¬ tively snowed under by slips of white pasteboard, but they received intimate friends only. General Alger was among the callers. The suite of the president-elect and his party was fairly overflowing with flowers, much to the delight of Mrs. McKinley, who expressed her appre¬ ciation of the floral tributes. Major McKinley, who had been somewhat de¬ pressed Monday over the prospects for good weather inauguration day on ac¬ count of the disagreeable condition in Canton, became cheerful because of the bright sunshine which greeted his arrival at the capitol. The special train bearing Vice Pres¬ ident-elect Hobart and party arrived at the Baltimore and Ohio station at 3:30 o’clock Tuesday afternoon. There were no special demonstra¬ tions attending Mr. Hobart’s recep¬ tion. Governor Griggs and staff ac¬ companied the party and were the first to alight from the train. The party were met by the district recep¬ tion committee. The vice president’s appearance was the signal for an outburst of enthusi¬ asm from the little party fortunate enough to get through the gates. A like demons) ; ation met them as they came from the building and started for the Arlington hotel. LIGHT ON RUIZ AFFAIR. Only an Abstract of tlie Case Is Fnrnlsli eel by Mr. Olney. Secretary Olney Tuesday responded to the senate resolution calling for the correspondence in the Ruiz case by sending an abstract of the matter, de¬ clining to send the full correspond¬ ence, on the ground that it would not seem to be “in the public interest.” The abstract furnished by the state department shows that Ricardo Ruiz was a native born Cuban and came to this country during the progress of the Cuban insurrection which termina¬ ted in 1878. He received his final papers as a naturalized citizen in Jan¬ uary, 1880, in Philadelphia. Imme¬ diately after he returned to Cuba, en¬ tered upon the practice of dentistry, married and reared a family and has resided there permanently and contin¬ uously ever since. He was arrested February 4th and thrown into prison on the charge of participation in the capture and rob¬ bery of a railroad train. His arrest was reported to this government by telegraph on the same day, and until the 17th nothing more was heard of the case by the department, which as¬ sumed that it was being attended to by the consulate in the regular course; . that at the end of seventy-two hours the prisoner would either be put com mnnicado, or if not that a proper de¬ mand for such relief would be made, and that if such demand were made and were not successful, the depart¬ ment would at once he notified. No measures of the sort were taken, however, though the prisoner remain¬ ed incommunicado, and on the 17th the consulate reported to the depart¬ ment that Ruiz had been found dead in his cell under circumstances which led to a demand for an immediate in¬ vestigation. PAYMASTER ABSCONDS. Lieutenant Corwfne, of the Navy, Diseov ered to Be a Defaulter. Paymaster John Corwine, U. S. N., stationed at Newport, R. I., has ab¬ sconded, taking his checkbook with him. This statement is made on the authority of the navy department. Tuesday afternoon Paymaster Cor¬ wine cashed a check for $5,000 and then left Newport. An investigation of his accounts shows that he is be¬ tween $5,000 and $10,000 short, ex¬ clusive of the amount of the check above mentioned. The accounts of the paymaster came under suspicion recently, and Pay Director Casper Scbenck, general in¬ spector of the pay corps, was sent to Newport to investigate. His inquiry shows a shortage between the amounts given. FOR MILITARY PURPOSES. Secretary of War Defines Defense cf Inside Route to Key West. B auttlority 0 f the president, mili- the Becretary 0 f war has set apart for ^ p Ur p 0ges in connection with the ’' the ins jd route to Key def ense of e Weftt an<1 the gene ral defease of the coast in that section and proclaimed mi]it reservations: p art 0 f Virginia key (unreserved), Dade countyj Florida, the unsurveyed land on Key W est, Monroe county, Florida. These reservations have been select ^ ^ army and navy officers on account * strategical value in time , eat * of war.