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VOL. II. ILLS HE RESUMING WORK AN INDICATION OP RETURNING CONFIDENCE AND PROSPERITY. BANKS NTRKE A GOOD. SHOWING One Firm Raise* .Wage*. While Wo.ilen M an u fact Users Restore the HigSter ScaleViYFive Years Ago. A dispatch from Chester, Pa., says: The employes of George C. Haltsol & Co., manufacturers of worsted goods, have been notified that the wages paid in 1892 would be restored on Septem¬ ber 6th next. The notice was a surprise, ns the restoration was granted by the firm without solicitation on the part of the hands. Haltsols & Co. employ sev¬ eral hundred people. Since 1892 two reductions of wages have been made, aggregating about 20 per cent, and until three weeks ago the mill has been running on half time. The firm has of late rr dived many new orders and tbe employees are working full time. Fall Most of the cotton mills at River, Mass., which have been stopped temporarily, started on full time Mon¬ day. The improved condition of the cloth market and the reported ad¬ vancement of the cotton crop served to restore a measuve of confidence among manufacturers. The curtailment has amounted to about a quarter of a million pieces. The Eddy woolen mills opiened its doors after a four months’ curtailment. It is planned to start only the dye house at present, other departments being opened as the work progresses. The factory employs about 300 hands. The Lonsdale Cotton Company’s cotton mill at Providence, It. I., start¬ ed Monday morning after a week’s shut down, giving employment to about 5,000 operatives. It is stated that the demand for woolen and cot¬ ton goods is on the increase. The repairs in progress at the Methuen cotton mills at Methuen, Mass., are being pushed forward rap¬ idly and it is expected operations will resumed in some of the departments next Monday. The mills shut down August 7th, at which time it was stated that they would be idle three weeks. The mills employ about 500 hands. TheNanmekage steam cotton mills at Salem, Mass., resumed operations Monday after a shut down of sixteen days. The mills will run forty-two hours a week for the present, hut will run On full timo schedule before long, if the market is satisfactory. The plant employs 1,400 people. Bank Statement* Favorable. Acting comptroller of the currency, Coffin, says there is much encourage¬ ment to be found in the bank state¬ ments now coming in from the last call. He expects to give a recapitulation of them in a few days, but from those already in, he finds that the deposits throughout the country have greatly increased, indicating thereby that con¬ fidence has been sufficiently restored to induce people to take their money from their hiding places and put it in the keeping of the banks. Loans have not increased so much as be would like to see it. But they have increased, which shows that bus¬ iness plans are being put into opera¬ tion. The rate of interest is low, proving that the banks have confi¬ dence in the reliability of the indica¬ tions that good times are to return and that they are willing to assist reliable enterprises for small compensation. RETURNED HOME TO DIE. Fugitive President Parson* I* Pennile** and Suffering From Fatal Disea*e. A dispatch to The New York Herald from Hartford, Conn., says James S. Parsons, the fugitive president of the Continental Life Insurance Company, has returned, after an absence of ten years, penniless, to pay his debt to nature. He is said to have an incurable dis¬ ease of the stomach and can live but a short time. He has been living in Canada since the wrecking of the company, but for a year or so intimate friends have known that he was in Massachusetts, latterly in a Boston hospital. GEORGIA LUMBER MEN To Devise » Flan Whereby the Cutting of Prices Will he Stopped. The lumber men of Georgia have hit upon a unique plan to maintain and advance prices. They have a device which is intended to minimize compe¬ tition without making the stockhold¬ ers obnoxious to the anti-trust law. The plan is to organize a company with $50,000 capital and ten or fifteen of the largest mills in the state are to take the stock. This company will have offices in Atlanta and Savannah or Brunswick, possibly at both Savan¬ nah and Brunswick. The company is to act as selling agent for the mills in¬ terested. ■e News 4 1 SENATOR GEORGE DEAD. Was Mississippi's Senior Member In Uni¬ ted Stated Senate. Senator J. M. George died at his home in Mississippi City Saturday afternoon, and while his death was not unexpected, has saddened the whole commonwealth. Senator Walthall telegraphed the vice president apd sergeant-arms of (lie senate, who will have charge of the funeral, and asked them to com¬ municate witli J. W. George, son of the senator, who was with him when he died at Mississippi City. - The vice president will name the committee of senators and representa¬ tives to attend the funeral. Senator George was not a native of Mississippi, but had resided in that state since his eighth year. He was born in Monroe county, Georgia, on the 26th day of October, 1820. After the death of his father, which occurred in the senator’s early infancy, he removed with his mother in 1834 to Noxnbe county, Mississippi, remaining there for only two years and then going to Carroll county, where he maintained his legal residence until his death. Senator George obtained his educa¬ tion in the common schools and did not begin his professional career until after the close of the Mexican war, during which he served as a private in the regiment commanded by Jefferson Davis. He afterwards took an active part in the civil war, casting his lot with the south. He left the convention hall to be captain in the Twentieth regi¬ ment of the Mississippi volunteers. He rose to the rank of brigadier general of state troops before the close of the war. When the civil war closed Mr. George returned to Carroll county, re¬ suming the practice of his profession, and later entering politics. In 1879 he was appointed to the supreme bench and soon afterwards was elected chief justice, in which capacity he was serving his state when first elected to the United States senate in 1881. Had he been permitted to serve his entire term he would, on the 4th of March, 1899, have completed his eighteenth year in the senate. He declined a re election a year ago on account of his health. LEFT VICTIMS FOR DEAD. Brute Assaults Two Women and Tries to Brain Them. In Catoosa county, in the Chicka maugu National park, Saturday morn¬ ing, in the absence of Mr. Hitchcock, a park laborer, from his house, a white man assaulted Miss Hitchcock, his fifteen year-old daughter. The assail¬ ant also struck the prostrate girl on the head with a bludgeon and left ber for bead. Her mother, a feeble woman fifty years of age, came up6n the scene, when the trespasser, with the same blungeon that he had crushed the skull of his first victim, struck the mother. Both were left for dead, but their cries had reached the ears of a man passing by before the woman became unconscious. The information was wired to Chattanooga and later a posse was organized and started in pursuit. STRIKE SITUATION MUDDLED. West Virginia Miner* Claim That Big Mistaken Have Been Made. A special from Wheeling, W. Va., says: The beginning of another week of the coal strike in the Wheeling and eastern Ohio districts shows a mud¬ dled situation. A vigorous opposition to the course of the United Mine Workers in closing down the mines that supply the sever¬ al iron manufacturing plants has de¬ veloped among the workingmen them selyes, many asserting that a big mis¬ take has been made. The situation at the Laughlin mill mine across the river has been straightened out by the declination of the miners to work as long as the campers are in the vicinity. The Laughlin and other plants are now getting coal from Fairmont. RELIEF FUND KXHASTED. Con mil General Dee Give* an Accounting of the Money Spent. Consul General Lee, in a report to the state department, says that the $10,000 placed to the credit of the re¬ lief fund on May 22d last was equiva¬ lent to $10,975 Spanish dollars. This fund, which he he says was ex¬ pended with the greatest care and economy, is nearly exhausted. WEYLER RESIGNS. Spanish Soldiers In Cuba Are In No Condition To Fight. A cablegram, of Monday from Ha vana to The New York Herald says: Captain General Weyler’s summer campaign came to an inglorious end last Wednesday, when he returned to Havana with rebels firing on his rear guard all the way from Aguacate to Havana. The captain general made a public entry into the capital, but his reception was ehilly. cabled his resigna¬ General Weyler Thursday. In tion to Madrid on re¬ ply he was told to remain in Cuba so long as the present ministry holds power. JESUP. GEORGIA. FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1897. " POPULIST CHAIRMAN, NAMED AT NASHVILLE, ISSUES ADDRESS. PLEADS FOR UNITY IN THE PARTY. He Advise* Populists to Sever all Rela¬ tione With Jft. Butler and Work Together In Harmony. Milton Burke, who at the national conference of populists at Nashville, Tenn., July 4th, was appointed chair¬ man of the national organization com¬ mittee, created at the conference, is¬ sues a lengthy address to the of the United States. He reviews the origin and organiza¬ tion of the party, naming the abuses which led dissatisfied elements of the old parties to create a new one and coming to personal conditions, declares that “the trusts, the monopolies, the corporations, the moneyed interests of the country are organized. Their strength is concerted into the action of one man; hence their power, their suc¬ cess. If the people’s party would hope to succeed they must organize, they must unify; they must concen¬ trate their strength. We are confront¬ ed today by obstacles and enemies within and without.” After reviewing the action of the conventions at Omaha and St. Louis and deploring the events of 1896, the ad¬ dress continues: - “As chairman of your organization committee I urge every populist, every¬ where, to avoid, repudiate and reject all fusion or alliance with the demo¬ cratic or the republican party. “J suggest that throughout the en¬ tire eonntry wherever there are two or more populists in a ward, precinct or township they go to work at once,per sistently, to perfect a local populist organization in their midst. Dress the work until you shall have secured a compact organization in every county in your state. “If y ur state chairman is not in sympathy with the pilicy ,, declared at Nashville, ...... you should , selectNme , ^ who , a*, practicable In «iose states where the state chairman ana national executive committeemen are m harmony with the policy declared at Nashville, the national organization committeemen will aid them in every manner possible to strengthen the party organization. In this way an enthusiasm can be developed that will know no defeat, no eurrender. J re serve and perpetuate it by the peace fill meaus of the ballot. TELLER GIVES WARNING. AdviueaFree Colfiugcltepublican* to Hold Aloof From McKInloyltf*. Senator Teller arrived at Denver, Col., Friday. In an interview he ex¬ pressed himself as strongly opposed to a combination of the silver republi¬ cans with McKinley republicans in the state this fall. On the money ques¬ tion ho said: “It is tbe purpose undoubtedly of this administration to retire tbe greenbacks and treasury notes and perfect a system by which tbe national banks will be authorized to issue all paper money. “Their next move will be to retire silver and then bank notes will not be legal tender. “What will be the result: The administra¬ tion will have succeeded in making gold the only money by which debts can be paid. All debts will have to be paid In the yellow metal.” FORGAVE THE ASSASSIN. Touching Scene at the Funeral of Honor Canova* del Castillo. The funeral of Senor Canovas del Castillo, at Madrid Friday, was a touching and solemn ceremony. All the troops of tbe garrison lined the route along which the cortege moved; the flags were lowered and the public buildings, embassies, consulates and clubs were heavily draped with crepe. A peculiarly poignant scene ensued as the duke of Solomayer, Marshal Martinez Campos, Marquis Paso del la Merrzed and'the other pallbearers lifted the coffin. Senora Canovas, in a clear, firm tone, said: “I desire that all should know I for¬ give the assassin. It is tbe greatest sacrifice 1 can make, but I make it for the sake of what I know of my hus¬ band’s great heart.” COLORED GIRL IN VASSAR. Concealed Her Origin Up to the Time of Her Graduation. Society and educational Y., profoundly circles in Poughkeepie, N. are stirred up by thff announcement in a local paper that one of the graduating class at Vassar College this year was a negro girl, who, concealing her raee, entered the college, took the foflr years’ course and, finally, confessed the truth to a professor a few days be¬ fore commencement. The facts were communicated to the faculty, which in secret session decid¬ ed to allow the girl to receive her diploma with her class. A FATHER’S TERRIBLE GRIME. fceft His Poor, Crippled Child To Die In the Woods. Some days ago a crippled child about five years old was left in the woods in the suburbs of Atlanta, Ga., to die. His discovery was due to ac¬ cident and when found the body of the child was frightfully lacerated by revolting insects, presenting sight. a horrible and - ‘Tuesday ; “Bud” Fuller, the father of Woodbury, the child, was arrested at his home in placed Merriwether county, and in the Atlanta jail charged with i| Hie crime. Fuller said he had carried the child Seated. ■ Atlanta for the purpose of having it He had been told that it lluld be cured. Said he: A “I went to the Grady hospital to far tly to place it there, hut it was too high me. They said the lowest price was $10 per week. I then went to see Dr. Goldsmith and was going to have him treat the child. They told me t|ere that he was in New York and would not be back for ten days. ! 1 “I then tried to get a nurse to leave sons t%e child with, and asked several per¬ if they knew of anyone. One lady, who gave her name as Mrs. Hfnry said she Willingham, would take of the West child Atlanta, for ten days. I paid her $5 and she took it off in a buggy.” ? ROAST FOR MRS. FELTON. Boston Transcript Attacks Her Recent Addle** as to Byncllings. The Boston Transcript in its issue of address, Tuesday attacks Mrs. Felton’s recent editorially, as follows: ■ “Never was a stranger or more start¬ ling address at an agricultural meeting than that delivered by Mrs. W. H. Felton, of Oavtersville, Ga., before the agricultural society of the state when she said: (( < As long as your politicians take the colored man into their embrace on election day, and make him think that he is a man and brother, so long will lynching prevail, for familiarity breeds contempt.’ “We should be sorry to believe that the women of the south would now he foremost in stimulating and develop uig that tendency to the employment ijf lynch law, which has already reached «ie point where it causes a reproach #11<1 hlight , ifmade n the st feef atfl. If the man to that h*e Is 110 f. a rnan and brother, how can he be b] alJ ]Q d for acting the part assigned hi and sometimes being a brpte? “Perhaps the wonder is that in the mWst of 8Ueh an almost friendless gontiment as wa8 here given voice, the co j ore d element should to so great an extent R(lhere to progressive human atandards, and when it comes to de c!aving who are the wild beasts of Georgia socially, the black man would not get all the votes. ” MARITAL LAW INVOKED To Prevent. Miners From Tresspassing On Alining Property. A dispatch of Tuesday from Pitts¬ burg, Pa., says: Martial law has been declared in Plum, Patton and Wilkin¬ son townships by Sheriff Lowry. The three mines of the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company are in these townships and all roads leading to them will be patrolled by his depu¬ ties. Persons walking or driving along the roads who cannot give a sat¬ isfactory account of themselves will be ordered to leave the neighborhood, and, upon refusal, will be arrested. The sheriff will not attempt to break up the camp of the strikers until the court has passed on the question, but announced that he is determined to stop the marching and trespassing on the company’s property. No one will be allowed on the company’s property, who fails to have a pass signed by Su¬ perintendent De.Vrmitt. WANTED MOTHER’S MONEY. So the Son Deliberately Flannel! anil Ex¬ ecuted FiendUlt Crime. Mrs. Kate Gallagher, for twelve years a school teacher in Galveston, Tex., who lived with her son, Virgil, was found a day or two ago with her throat cut from ear to ear and the body charred beyond recognition, After killing her the murderer set 'fire to the bed. Virgil, the twenty-eight-year-old has been son of the murdered woman, arrested and confesses he committed the crime to get money to spend on a variety actress. The crime was delib¬ erately planned and executed. M’LAURIN IS ILL. South Carolina Senator Will Stop His Campaign Work. A Columbia, S. C., special says: Governor Ellerbe received a dispatch Saturday afternoon from George M. Crosslaud,Senator McLaurin’s private secretary, from the Senator’s home in Bennettsville, stating that Senator McLaurin’s illness is more serious was first supposed, and summon¬ ing the governor, who is a strong per Bonal friend of the senator, to his bed¬ side by the evening train. McLaurin’s physician has absolutely forbidden him from attempting to con¬ tinue his campaign work for the pres¬ ent. This leaves the campaign work open to Evans, Irby and Duncan. GOVERNOR GIVES HIM THREE WEEKS LONGER TO LIVE. HIS CASE DIFFICULT TO DECIDE. A Mmi of Conflicting Affidavit* Decide* the Governor to Take More Time For Investigation. H. S. Perry, the condemned mur¬ derer of Bely Lanier, at Decatur, Ga., and who was to have been hung last Wednesday, has been respited by Governor Atkinson until the 8th of September in order that he may have time to consider the application for clemency. The executive order is as follows: “To the Sheriff of DeKalb county: “Whereas, H. S. Perry was convicted in the superior court of DeKalb county, of the crime of murder, and was sentenced there¬ for to be executed on the 18th day of Au¬ gust, and, “Whereas, Further time Is needed by me for the consideration of the case, and in or¬ der that other evidence may be submitted which it Is represented to me can be had. “You are, therefore, hereby directed to postpone the execution of said sentence of death upon the said II. 8. Perry until Wed¬ nesday, the 8th Of September, 1897, when, in the absenoe of any legal order otherwise directing, you will proceed to execute the final judgment of the court in said case. Herein fall not. W. Y. Atkinson, Governor.” In the conflict of evidence Governor Atkinson finds it hard to determine what is the truth about the killing of N. B. Lanier by Berry. time The governor has spent some in considering Mrs. Perry’s affidavit, and other evidence bearing on the statement she made. He considered the dying statement of Lanier, and sent for Judge Ragsdale, who made. was present when the statement was The two statements of the eaWe of the killing, that by Mrs. Perry and that by Lanier, are in conflict. Mrs, Perry says Lanier outraged her; Lanier says he did not, -hut that at Mrs. ferry’s request located he went him to in find house her husband, and a this he of ill repute, and because of There are witnesses in corrohora tion of Mrs. Perry’s statement to the extent of testifying that Perry said immediately after the killing that he did it because Lanier outraged his wife. Lanier in his dying statement says that Perry, in the act of shooting him, declared that Lanier had out¬ raged Mrs. Perry. Lanier denied On the other hand that he was guilty of any improper conduct toward her, and reproduced by a letter which he said was written Perry and delivered to him by Ike Shepherd, in which Perry said Lanier bad come between himself and wife and must leave Atlauta or take the consequences. presents Altogether the case some knotty points which the governor must decide for himself, and his de¬ cision is looked forward to with great interest. ECKELS’ NEW JOB. Comptroller Has Been Kleeted President of Insurance Company. A Washington dispatch says: Secre¬ tary Gage understands that Comp¬ troller Eckels, who is away on his vacation, has accepted the presidency of the Metropolitan Trust company, of New York, at a salary of $15,000 a year, but that he will not enter upon the duties of that office before next April, when his term as comptroller of the currency will expire. formed This company was recently and Roswell P. Flower is the acting president. Charles E. Dawes, of Evanston, Ill., a member of the republican executive committee of that state and a close personal friend of President McKin¬ ley will succeed Mr. Eckles as comp¬ troller of the curi ency. Confirmed Death Sentence. Advices from Madrid state that the supreme council of w r ar has confirmed the sentence of death by courtmartial at Vergare, on Michael Angiolo alias “Golli,” the assassin of Premier Can¬ ovas, and the murderer will be exe¬ cuted. OUR RIGHTS IN MOROCCO. United State. Vice Consul Chrleton W'lll Conclude Settlement. The special commission, headed by United States Vice Consul Carietoa, has returned to Tangier from the city f Morocco with the answer of the sultan to the demands of tbe United States relative to the rights of Ameri¬ can citizens in Morocco. The answer is satisfactory and Americans will henceforth enjoy the same rights as the citizens of other countries. The foreign minister of Morocco and Vice Consul Carleton will now conclude the settlement of the matter in dispute. NO. 6. SUSPENSE AMONG STRIKERS. A Day Fraught With Important Motmi C ourt Hear* Injunction*. A Pittsburg special says: Monday was fraught with exciting instances in matters pertaining to the miners’, strike. Mutiny in the strikers’ camp, a mur¬ of der in the deputies’ ranks, filing criminal and civil sttits against the PeAmitts and the hearing in the in¬ junction case against President Dolan and others kept both sides to the struggle busy and on the qni vive all day long. injunction The hearing in the case before Judges Stowe and Collier wits perhaps one of the most important and' interesting ever held in a Pennsyl¬ vania court. It was a hearing in which both capi- ‘ tal and the rights of labor were inter-» ested, and the decision is expected to have a decisive effect on the conduct 1 of the great coal miners’ strike, which has been on since July 5th. , Prom the «*. testimony adduced and from the ex-,, pressions of the court it can safely bo said that there will he some surprise. * That the injunction will be materially modified there can be no doubt. This, % on its face, would iudicate a victory for the strikers. Judge Collier said in court that the strike would go down in history as one of the wonders of the century and remarkable on account of utter lack of disorder, for which the strikers, are commended. He said: “There can be no question as to what our duty is nn- * der all the testimony, but J am some¬ what in doubt as to whether, or not the order should bo modified. We cannot determine -this without a sulfation.” Judge Stowe said: “Tins injunction alt will not justify the issuing of at¬ tachment against any marchers- who are not found in company with the men named in the injunction.” in¬ He let it be understood that the junction is not -so sweeping as has been thought; that only the five men named in the writ, Patrick Dolan, William Warner, Cameron Miller, Uriah Bollingham and Edward Me-. Kay, are restrained from marching or trespassing on the company’s proper¬ ty. The others mentioned can be only 1 those found in the company of the-rive * named in the. injunction.. As near as , can he learned, the strikers under the’ injunction can march, but not’at ‘ stated times, as long as they are not*, iii company with apy of defendants. Threatened suits against the New York and Cleveland company for re¬ taining the wages.- of their striking, miners have beep icommepced. . It i*„ anticipated that about 150 suits will result. Each will be for salaries rang¬ ing from $15 to $‘20,- which represents two week’s pay, S4 > . 4 » In addition to the civil suits entered against W. P. DeArinitf byhis former employes for wages, thru© criminal suits have been brought against Sgjp nel PeArmitt. SOUTHERN PROGRESS. New Industrie* K*tab|liUied In the South . During the Past Week. Reports from special correspondents at prominent business centers of the south continue enpoqsaging and look: both, merchants and manufacturers are iug forward to a large volitme -of trade” in the fall. -•» - -s >... < • - As to iron and steel, prices are,ling, with some advances, and inquiries afe increasing. The demand is active arid idle furnaces are being repaired and blown in. Lumber is moving freely and south¬ ern cottton mills are well supplied* with orders and for the most part .run¬ ning on full time. Among the most Important new in¬ dustries reported for the past week are the following: Flouring mills at New Decatur, Ala., and Francisco, N. C,; the Cold Storage, Ice, Power wnd Water company, capital, $75,000, at Ennis, Tex.; railroad shops at Mont¬ gomery, Ala.; an extensive rolling mill and spike factory at Sheffield, Ala.; the Economic Medicine eldest company, capital $25,000, . Paris, Tenn.; and the Oil City company, capital $10,000, to develop oil prop¬ erty at Corsicana, Tex.; the Southern Cotton Seed company, limited, capital $100,000, has been chartered at New Orleans, La., to erect an oil mill and other oil mills will be located at Mem¬ phis, Tenn., and Wills. Point, Tex. A knitting mill will be built at Macon, Ga.; a $50,000 cooperage plant at Lit¬ tle Rock, Ark., and a $200,000 com¬ pany has been organized to operate saw and planing mills at Cameron,'*N. C.—Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.) DAUNTLESS UNDER 8URYEILANGE. Goverument Official* are Keeping Close Watch On the JLitUe Tug. Information has reached the secre¬ tary of the treasury through the state department that the steamer Daunt- * less is about to take on ammunition and men at Tampa for the insurgents in Cuba. The collector of eustoms at Tampa has been directed to exercise vigilance to prevent infractions of the naviga¬ tion and neutrality acts and to com¬ municate with the United States attor ney. Shoemaker has * also iff-' Captain commanders'of the strncted the theldokofft' reve-^ nue cutter fleet to be-on for the Dauntless.