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REVOLUTION STATUS
IS NOT SO GRAYE
South American Racket
May Soon Subside.
REBELS CONTINUE ACTIVITY
Colombians Hold Large Aiea of
Venezuelan Territory—Latest
News of the Situation.
A special from Colon, Colombia
says: Dr. Luis Carlos Rico, Colom-
bian minister to Venezuela, before his
departure for Bogota officially assured
Senor Velez, governor of Cartagena,
that he was going to inform his gov¬
ernment with reference to the situa¬
tion between Venezuela and Colombia.
He expressed the opinion that peace
would be preserved by and between
both nations and that the existing dif¬
ficulties would be overcome.
The Colombian official newspaper in
Cartagena declares that the entire
province of Pachira, Venezuela, touch¬
ing Colombia south of Maracaibo, is
in the power of the Venezuelan insur¬
gent leader, General Rangel Barbiras.
It asserts also that the Colombian gen¬
eral, Gonales Valencia, until recently
Colombian minister of war, is now on
the frontier with no less than 10,000
troops disposed in the province of San¬
tander and maintaining the sovereign¬
ty of Colombia there.
Statement By Colombia.
The Associated Press at New York
bas received the following dispatch,
dated Bogota, August 24, from a Co¬
lombian official of high rank:
“General t-edro D. Ospino, acting
minister of war, who has prepared an
excellent and extensive plan of cam¬
paign, confirms the reports that with¬
in the last fifteen days he has de¬
stroyed nearly all of the Colombian
guerrillas.
“The government of Colombia has
maintained neutrality regarding Ecua¬
dor and Venezuela, notwithstanding
the fact that the governments of the
said countries have upheld and effec¬
tively aided the rebels of Colombia,
thus prolonging the revolution in this
country.
“Recently the revolutionary chiefs
of Colombia have met on the frontier
of Venezuela to organize new invasions
of Colombia, using the munitions of
war accumulated by the government
of Venezuela on her frontiers.
“A party of Venezuelans surrounded
near Cucuta are about to return to
their country. They are commanded
by Pangel Garbiras.
“The position taken by the govern¬
ment of Colombia is one of peace and
neutrality. These are fundamental
canons in her foreign policy. The fron¬
tiers of Colombia are sufficiently de¬
fended. Colombia feels certain that
she can maintain her rights and repel
whatever foreign invasion may offer.”
Peace Is Hoped For.
Mail information received at the Co
lombian legation at Washington con¬
tinues encouraging according to the
officials there and encourages them to
hope that peaceful conditions will ob¬
tain.
A letter bearing date of Quito, Ecua¬
dor, August 7, says there is a general
feeling in that country against any dis¬
ruption of the friendly relations with
Colombia and that strict neutrality
will be observed between the latter
country and Venezuela.
Information received at the legation
by way of Port of Spain. Trinidad, is
to the effect that Dr. Garbiras, the Ven¬
ezuelan revolutionist, who was report¬
ed defeated by the forces of that gov¬
ernment, continues in arms against
the authorities and is a source of con¬
siderable trouble to the officials of
Venezuela.
HOSTS OP SMITH TO MEET.
Convention of (amlly Will Be Held at
Guthrie, Oklahoma.
A call has been issued for a conven¬
tion in Guthrie, October 12, next, of all
persons In Oklahoma named Smith to
effect an organiation for annual re¬
unions. It is estimated that there are
2,000 Smiths in the territory.
RAPIST KOSS HASHED.
Keg.'o Assailant of Mrs. Miller
Penalty at Canton.
At Canton, Ga., Tuesday, surrounded
by a curious crowd of 3*000 spectators
in a shady grove overlooking the Eto¬
wah river, Raymond Ross, the negro
who assaulted Mrs. Harriet Miller on
the night of July 28, this year, paid
the penalty of his atrocious crime.
When asked what he had to say as
to whether or not he was guilty or in¬
nocent, Ross replied that he had noth¬
ing whatever to say about it, neither
admitting it or denying It •
GROWS IN HORROR.
Fatalities In Steamboat Boiler
Explosion Greater Than Was
at Firs: Thought
A Philadelphia special says: It
developed Thursday that the result
cf the explosion of the boiler on the
steamer City of Trenton, while on the
way up the Delaware river Wednesday
afternoon, was more appalling than
was at first supposed.
In addition to the nine identified
dead there are two charred bodies, be¬
lieved to be those of iemals, in the
morgue. They are beyond recognition
and will be buried in potter’s field.
The list of missing has reached
twenty, and will doubtless add many
to the death roll.
Of the thirty-three persons taken to
the hospital, Mrs. Edna Van Schoick,
Nightstown, N. J., and Miss Fannie
Keen, Philadelphia, will die.
That there are more victims In the
river is the firm belief of the authori¬
ties, and their failure to find any ad¬
ditional dead is supposed to be due to
the strong current in the river at the
point where the explosion occurred.
Never in the history of the Delaware
river has there been such keen rivalry
between the lines of river steamers
as during this season. Between Phil¬
adelphia and Wilmington the steamer
lines for a time virtually advertised
races between their vessels. For near¬
ly a week the City of Chester and
Brandywine, on one line, and the Dia¬
mond State on the other, met and
raced to a finish every day. Public
sentiment, however, caused the pa¬
tronage to fall off, and a rule w'as then
made prohibiting the speed contests.
As to the exact cause of the explo¬
sion nothing is yet known, but an in¬
vestigation is to be conducted at once.
Fire Marsha] Lattimer, Coroner Dugan,
the police department and the United
States boiler inspectors will each carry
on an Independent investigation, but
little can be known until the survivors
have been examined and a careful in¬
spection of the wiecked steamer shall
have been made.
Many of the passengers who escaped
injury maintain that the City of Tren¬
ton, which w’as late when she left her
wharf, was racing at her topmost
speed and that if this had not been the
case the accident would not have hap¬
pened. This is partly borne out by
a statement said to have been made
by Assistant Engineer John Chew.
Cljew told his wife that he expected to
be killed by an explosion on the steam¬
er as the company made the engineers
keep up’ too high a pressure of steam.
CUT BY THE LADIES.
Members of Fair Sex Turn Backs On
speaker Who Praised Negroes.
A Richmond, Va., special says: The
remarkable spectacle of a number of
ladies turning their backs on a pub¬
lic speaker addressing his remarks di¬
rectly to them was witnessed in the
constitutional convention Thursday.
The incident caused quite a sensation.
The speaker was Colonel John C.
Summers, the republican member
from Washington county and the most
unique character in the body. Colonel
Summers was speaking in favor of the
submission of the new constitution to
the entire present electorate of the
state and was very harsh and bitter
in his denunciation of the democratic
methods in Virginia and of the efforts
being made in the framing of the new
constitution to disfranchise the negro.
Colonel Summers expressed his love
for the negro and aroused the negroes
in the west gallery, to whom he ad¬
dressed himself directly, to a high
pitch of enthusiasm.
Turning to the east, or white gal¬
lery, in which there were many ladies,
who sat with hands uplifted, he de¬
clared that the convention, holding it¬
self to be sovereign!, proposed to dis¬
franchise the husbands of some of tffb
fairest women in Virginia.
A number of the ladies turned their
backs to the speaker, and ere Colonel
Summers concluded the sentence, Mr.
Willis, a democrat, with face white
with anger, called him down for ad¬
dressing the galleries instead of the
convention.
Snow Falls In Colorado.
A dispatch from Denver, Col., says:
Snow* fell for an hour in Alpine Pass
Thursday and was followed by a se¬
vere storm.
PAGEANT OF KNIGHTS.
Thirty Thousand Templars Parade the
Mveets of Louisville.
A parade of 80,000 plumed knights,
marching to the music of four brass
bands marked the formal opening of
the 28th triennial conclave of the
Grand Knights Templars at Louisville,
Ky., Tuesday. Railway officials stated
that nearly 100,000 visitors were in
the city.
The parade was a magnificent spec¬
tacle of life and color, with mile after
mile of tossing plumes and fluttering
pennants. The sidewalks were a sol¬
id mass of spectators.
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TURK BROKE WORD;
FRANCE RETALIATES
All Diplomatic Relations
Have Been Severed.
CONSTANS LEAVES HIS POST
Turkish Ambassador Notified Not
to Return to Paris—Affairs
At Interesting Stage.
A semi-official note has been issued
at Paris announcing that the porte not
having carried out its undertakings
w’ith regard to the disputed questions
between the French and Ottoman gov¬
ernments, M. Constans, the Freneh
ambassador, acting under instruc¬
tions from the foreign minister of
France, left Constantinople August
26, the date named in his last com¬
munication to the porto on the sub¬
ject.
An arrangement had been effected
August 17, and its terms drafted by
the Ottoman foreign minister, with
the approval of the sultan, who had
promised M. Constans that the text
should be handed to him August 18.
M. Constans telegraphed to Paris Au¬
gust 19 that none of the promises had
been fulfilled, and M. Delcasse, min¬
ister of foreign affairs, August 21 tele¬
graphed M. Constans that In view of
so flagrant a disregard o i the under¬
takings the negotiations could no
longer be continued and requested M.
Constans to inform the porte that he
had received orders to leave Constan¬
tinople.
On August 23, M. Constans commun¬
icated with the porte, fixing August
26 ae the date for his departure, and
ae the engagements were still unkept,
M. Constans left Constantinople Au¬
gust 26.
With the departure of M. Constans
the relations between France and
Turkey may be regarded as broken off.
Munir Bey, the Turkish ambassador
to France, who is at Berne, Switzer¬
land, has been telegraphed not to re¬
turn to Paris.
The correspondent of the Associa¬
ted Press was Informed Tuesday from
the best sources that the departure of
M. Constans from Constantinople, in
the circumstances, is tantamount to a
partial rupture of Franco-Turklsh re¬
lations.
The French government holds that
the sultan has broken his word. He
had promised full payment of the
long standing Indemnities to the
Frenchmen, amounting to 12,000,000
francs, but at the end of last week de¬
clined to pay the full amount and of¬
fered a reduced sum, which was re¬
fused by M. Constans, who waited un¬
til Monday and then departed. The
sultan made a final attempt to induca
him to stay.
Disruption May Follow.
It is feared in official circles at
Washington that the withdrawal of the
French ambassador from Constantino¬
ple marks the dissolution of the con¬
cert of European powers under which
the integrity of Turkey was guaran¬
teed. By the treaty of Berlin all the
great powers of Europe subscribed to
an agreement to refrain from any act
that would tend to the destruction of
the Ottoman empire. This action was
taken to forestall what were common¬
ly believed to be the designs of Rus¬
sia to seize on Turkish territory, and
Russia herself was led to subscribe to
the agreement by force of circum¬
stances. Although several times se¬
verely strained, notably by such events
as the last war between Turkey and
Greece, this pact has so far endured
without amendment, but it is presumed
that now if the action of France is car¬
ried out to the extreme indicated in
Tuesday’s dispatches each of the other
signatory powers will feel obliged in
self-protection to disregard the agree¬
ment and press upon Turkey the vast
financial and other claims thl&t have
accumulated in the past quarter of a
century with a result of disrupting the
present Turkish government.
WARNING FROM TILLMAN.
Cotton Mill Owners Advised Not to
Coerce Vote of Operatives.
A Charleston, S. C., special says:
The statement issued Thursday by
Senator Tillman at Spartangurg, in
which he again warned the cotton mill
presidents of the trouble which would
follow any attempt to coerce the mill
operative vote for Senator McLaurin,
has caused a great deal of feeling
It has been pointed out all along
that the mill vote may be the decid¬
ing ballot in the election of a United
States senator next year. The mill
presidents, as a rule, are in sympathy
with the doctrines of McLaurin.
JUDQE LEMLY’S LIST.
Navy Department Makes Public
Names of Witnesees Who Will
Testify Before Board.
A Washington special says: The list
of witnesses prepared by Captain
Lemly, judge advocate of the Schley
court of inquiry, and transmitted to
Admiral Schley Tuesday, was made
public Wednesday by Captain Lemly.
It does not purport to be a complete
list, but includes the principal wit¬
nesses who will be called by the judge
advocate. The witnesses whom Ad¬
miral Schley has asked to be sum¬
moned are not included in the list.
The list is as follows:
Rear Admirals—William T. Samp¬
son Robley D. Evans, Francis J. Hig-
ginson, Charles S. Cotton and Henry
C. Taylor.
Captains—French E. Chadwdck, Cas¬
per F. Goodrich, Charles D. Sigsbee,
William C. Wise, Francis A. Cook,
Bowman H. McCalla, Theodore F. Jew¬
ell, William M. Folger, Robert M. Ber¬
ry and John L. Hannum, retired.
Commanders—William P. Potter,
Richard Wainwrlght, Joseph G. Eaton,
Newton E. Mason, Seaton Schroeder,
Giles B. Harber, James M. Miller, Lew¬
is C. Heilner and Alexander B. Bates.
Lieutenant Commanders—Sidney A.
Staunton, Nathanial R. Usher, Albert
W. Grant, Albion C. Hodgson, William
H. Southerland, William H. Scheutze,
Templin M. Potts and Alexander
Sharp, junior.
Captain—•William C. Dawson, U. S.
M. C.
Lieutenants—Charles C. March,
Spencer S. Wood, Victor Blue, James
G. Doyle, Charles Webster, John Hood,
Charles H. Harlow, Charles W Dyson
and Kenneth McAlplne.
Lieutenant—Junior grade: Ernest
L. Bennett.
Ensign—Henry G. Mustin.
Acting Boatswain—Dennis J. O’Con¬
nell.
Chief Quartermaster—Niels Ander¬
son and others.
The list, it will be observed, throws
considerable light upon the lines of
testimony which he will seek to ad¬
duce before the court. Admiral Samp¬
son, as commander in chief of the
fleet, of course, heads the list. Then
follows the captains of all the ships
engaged in the Santiago campaign,
with the exception of Captain Clark,
of the Oregon, and Captain Phillips, of
the Texas, the latter having died since
the war.
TAX RATE FOR GEORGIA.
Governor and Comptroller Places the
Figures at $5.44 On the Thousand.
The new tax rate for the state of
Georgia for 1901 was fixed at $5.44 on
the $1,000 by Governor Candler and
Comptroller General Wright Wednes-
day.
The new tax rate is 24 cents on the
$1,000 higher than that of last year.
The tax rate for 1900 was $5.20 on the
$1,000, and for 1900 it was $5.36 on the
$ 1 , 000 .
There is this year an increase of
approximately $22,000,000 in the state’s
taxable property values. Based upon
this estimate, the aggregate valuation
of Georgia’s taxable property will be
about $404,848,946, including real es¬
tate, corporation property and person¬
al property subject to taxation.
The amount that will find Its way to
the treasury through the medinm of
the new $5.44 tax rate will be $2,202,-
878.26, minus 7 per cent for collec¬
tion fees, errors and sundry expenses,
which will give the state in reality $2,-
048,211.80.
From special taxes the amount to
be received is $275,097.12. The amount
from poll tax^s received will be about
$225,000 and from the rental of the
Western and Atlantic railroad $400,-
000 will accrue.
Including professional taxes and
others from minor sources, the state’s
income for the twelve months will be
$3,566,494. The aggregate expendi¬
tures of the state in 1902, if all pay¬
ments are made when due, will be $3,-
922,494. This statement Is based on
the provision that no further loans are
made.
From these figures it will be seen
that a deficit of $356,000 is staring
the state in the face and which the
legislature will be called upon to pro¬
vide for at the next session.
NO MONEY FOR WINTERS.
Reward of $25,000 Will Not Be Paid
Convicted Bullion Thief.
President Ralston, of the Selby
Smelting works, announces that the
reward of $25,000 which was offered
for the arrest and conviction of the
thief or thieves who stole over $300,000
worth of gold bullion on the night of
August 5th, will not be paid as such,
though the detectives and others who
were instrumental in recovering the
treasure and sending the robber, John
"Winters to jail, will be liberally com¬
pensated for their services.
Winters was under arrest when the
reward offer was made.
M
ADMIRAL SAMPSON
m WITNESS LIST
Ills Name Will Head the
Document.
HE ALSO EMPLOYS COUNSEL
Department Will Make Public
List of Witnesses Before
Inquiry Court.
A Washington dispatch eays: It is
understood that Admiral Sampson is
to be represented before the Schley
court of Inquiry by counsel. The navy
department officials say they have no
official knowledge on the subject and
point to the fact that the court of in¬
quiry is the only body authorized to
admit or debar counsel in such cases.
It may, in its pleasure, deny the per¬
son under investigation the privilege
of having counsel present before the
court of inquiry, or, on the other hand, .
it may go to the length of permitting
persons in secondary interest the priv¬
ilege of employing counsel before the
court. So the officials say they have
no knowledge officially of the reten¬
tion of counsel by Admiral Sampson,
but privately it is admitted that he
expects to be so represented. It was
learned Tuesday that W. H. Stayton,
of the law firm of Stayton & Cham¬
bers, of New York, is expected at the
navy department, and it is supposed
that his purpose is to consult the rec¬
ords of the navy department in the
interest of Admiral Sampson.
SampBOn To Accuse Schley.
Tuesday the navy department,
through Captain Lemly, the judge ad¬
vocate of the court of inquiry, supplied
counsel for Admiral Schley with a ten¬
tative list of witnesses to be called
before the court by the government.
It is understood that it contains, and
in fact is headed by the name of Rear
Admiral Sampson. It is stated that
the list is by no means complete. Some
of the witnesses named may not be
called, while on the other han-d not
only may the government add to the
list, but Admiral Schley’s counsel are
at liberty to suggest additional names.
The list of witnesses prepared by
Judge Advocate Lemley and trans¬
mitted to Admiral Schley will be
made public. Some time ago Admiral
Schley, in sending his list of wit¬
nesses to the navy department, includ¬
ed a request for all the officers of the
Brooklyn. The department replied
that a number of officers of the Brook¬
lyn would be on the list prepared by
the navy department and asked him
to name specifically the Brooklyn’s of¬
ficers he wished.
The admiral responded through Cap¬
tain Parker, of his counsel. He gave
the names of the principal officers of
the Brooklyn and also of several pet¬
ty officers, including the quartermas¬
ters who were at the wheel during
the action off Santiago.
Philadelphia Lawyer Employed.
According to a dispatch from Phil¬
adelphia Robert H. O’Brien, a promi¬
nent attorney of that city, has been
called in as associate counsel for
Rear Admiral Schley in the coming
investigation at Washington. Last
Thursday Mr. O’Brien was in Washing¬
ton in consultation with Schley’s coun¬
sel, and materially assisted them in
the preparation of 'the brief for the
court of inquiry.
During the late sixties he enjoyed
the poet of judge advocate of the West
India fleet, and in 1869 was stationed
at Annapolis, where Schley was lieu¬
tenant commander. A warm friend¬
ship developed there between the two
men. Mr. O’Brien resigned from the
navy in 18^5 and took up the practice
of law in Philadelphia.
To Keep Out Strike Breakers.
Governor Yates, of Illinois, is to be
asked by the union machinists of Chi¬
cago to intervene with a view to put¬
ting a stop to the Importation of strike
breakers who are being brought to the
city daily from the east and placed at
work in striking machinists’ positions.
PEACEMAKERS DISCREDITED.
Shaffer Says Would-He mediators Are
Acting Without Authority.
A Pittsburg dispatch says: Report¬
ed peace negotiations for the settle¬
ment of the strike through the media¬
tion of disinterested parties—officials
and members of the National Civic
Federation—received a jolt when Pres¬
ident Theo J. Shaffer, of the Amalga¬
mated Association of Iron, Steel and
Tinn Workers, declared Monday night
absolutely that he had no official
knowledge of such proceedings and
that if such a move had been started
it did not have the official sanction of
the organization.