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THE BLACKSHEAR TIMES
E. Z. BYRD, Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XX. NO. 40.
Pierce County Directory.
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Cierk Ordinary—J. I. Snmmerall.
Sheriff—J. Superior Cout t—John Thomas.
R. Carter.
Tax Receiver—J. O. Waters.
Tax Collector—J. A. Jacobs.
County Treasurer—B. D. Brantley,
Co^i'y Corouer—Dr. Surveyor—W. H. Bowen.
J. M. Brown.
Superior court first Monday in May
and third Monday in November.
COUNTY COURT.
Bobt. G. Mitchell, Jr., Judge.
W. A. Miltou, Solicitor.
Monthly ec3sion, second Friday in
each month; quarterly sessions, third
Monday and in March, June, September
December.
TOWN DIRECTORY.
Robert G. Mitchell, Jr., Mayor.
H. D. Brantley, W. G. McMillan,
John A. Strickland, Jos. A. Harper,
Councilman.
M. C. McAlpin, Clerk and Treas
urer. . *
W, L. McMillan, Marshal.
Police court every Monday morning.
SECRET ORDERS.
Blackshear Lodge No. 270, F. & A.
M., meets first and third Friday nights
in each month.
A. B. Estes, W. M v
J. I. Summer all, Sec,
Alabaha Lodge No. 16, IC. of P.,
meets every Monday night.
B. D. Brantley, C. C.
E. Z. Btrd. K. of R. & S.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
A EMMET COCHRAN,
Practices LAWYER,
in United States courts,
district, circuit and supreme courts,
and in nil countissr iu Brunswick cir
cuit.—Redding Block, Waycross, Ga.
1> G. MITCHELL, Jr.,
County • Attorney-at-Law and Judge
Court, Blackshear, Ga.
A. B. RSTE'l. E. L. WALKER.
TASTES & WALKER,
Attorneys at Law,
Blackshear, Georgia.
W M. TOOMER,
»T . Attorney-at-Law,
Office Waycross, Ga.
in First National Bank Building.
WALTER A. MILTON,
County Attoruey-at-Law and Solicitor
Court. Office iu the court
house. Blackshear, Ga.
pkR. ” A. Physician L. R. AVANT, Sdroeon,
and
Patterson, Georgia.
Calls promptly answered day or
night from my office or residence.
VVT N. BROWN, Dentist,
” Office
’ * Near the Courthouse.
Offers his professional services to
the citizens of Pierce and adjoining
counties. Guarantees satisfaction.
Crown and bridge work a specialty.
Blackshear, Ga.
A LLEN BRO' r N, D. D. S.
Office' upstairs in McCulley &
Walker’s new building. Tenders his
professional services to the public.
Crown and bridge work a specialty.
Waycross, Ga.
BRUNSWICK CIRCUIT.
COURT CALENDAR.
Appling Superior Court—First and
second Mondays in March; third and
fourth Mondays iu September.
Camden Superior Court—Tuesday
after the third Monday in March;
Tuesday after the first Monday in
October.
Coffee Superior Court—Fourth Mon
day in March; second Monday in Oc
tober.
Charlton Superior Court—Tuesday
after the first Monday in April; Tues
day after the fourth Monday iu Go
to tier.
Clinch Superior Court—Second Mon
day in April; third Monday in Octo
ber.
Ware Superior Court—Third and
fourth Mondays in April; first and
second Mondays in November.
Pierce Superior Court—First Mon
day in May; third Monday in Novem
ber.
Wayne Superior Court—Second
Monday in May; fourth Monday in
November.
Glynn Superior Court—Third Mon
day in May uni first Monday in De
cember; to continue for such time as
the business may rtqu’re.
1 S’* ry* * EPEct>LT<£!“l£a
J. C. BREWER,
DENTIST,
BLACKSHEAR, GA.
Gold Crowns and Bridge Work a
specialty. 5-5. ’9i)
BARBER • * SHOP.
JOHN ALDRIDGE, Proprietor.
BLACKSHEAR. GEORGIA.
Hair Cutting, Shaving,Dyeing,Sham
pooing, etc., done at the following
prices:
Cutting hair, 15 centa.
Sharing, 10 cents.
Shampoo, 20 centa.
Blacking, 25 cents. Dec »-’:*7.
I SOUTHERN RAILWAY. 1
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Schedule In effect July 1st, 1000.
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Nos. 13 and 14.—Pullman Sleeping Cars be
tween Brunswick and Atlanta, between Jack
sonville, Nos. Fla., and Cincinnati.
15 and 10.—Pullman Bleeping Cars be
tween Tampa and Cincinnati, via Chatta
nooga; also between Chattanooga and Mem
phis.
Nos. 7 and 8—Pullman Sleeping Cnrs be
tween Atlanta and Chattanooga, and Pullman
Drawing-room Macon Asheville. Buffet Sleeping cars between
and
Louis and Kansas City, via Jesup and Atlanta.
Noa. 9 and 10—Pullman Library Observation
Cars between Macon and New York.
Connection at Union Depot, Atlanta, for all
points north, east and west. Also ut Jesup for
Jacksonville, lumbia, Washington Tampa, etc., and Savannah, Co
and the east.
TELLER SCORES EAGtX.
In Speaking on Army Bill Colorado Sena
tor Bring, Up Beef Scandal.
In the senate Monday Mr. Teller, of
Colorado, speaking of an amendment
he had offered to the army reorganiza
tion bill, delivered a sensational de
nunciation of General Eagan, former
commissary general of the United
States army. His statement included
also the administration for its action
in retiring General Eagan.
The pending question at the open
ing of the session was an amendment
offered by Mr. Bacon, of Georgia,
striking out that provision of the bill
authorizing the president to increase
the number of non-commissioned offi
cers and privates in any troop of cav
alry.
ADOPT “OLD GLORY.”
Sitka Indians Make American Flag Their
Tribal Kmbleui.
Alaska advices state that the Sitka
Indians, including the Eagle, Crow
aud Frog Ians, who have been quar
relling over the nse of totems and
other emblems of their respective
clans, have decided, after a long con
ference, to put aside their differences
and make the American flag their tri
bal emblem.
AXENT DANISH ISLANDS.
Negotiations For Their Sale to United
Slate* are Still Under Way.
Advices from Copenhagen state that
the negotiations for the sale of the
Danish West Indies to the United
States are seemingly approaching a
settlement. The matter has been
placed in the hands of tho finance com
mittee of the rigsdag, with the view of
arranging the difference iu the price
offered.
EX-POSTMASTER SUICIDES.
Arrested For D,falgatlon lie Take, a Dote
of Frueelc Acid.
At Longview, Texas, Thursday,
Samuel Flanagan, formerly postmas
ter of the town, committed Hnicide by
drinking prussic acid, while in chargo
of a Deputy United States Marshal.
Flanagan, who was a well known Re
'pnblican politician, was charged with
misappropriating postoffice funds.
Bloody Deed nt Wleked Nwcde.
At Jamaica Plain, Mass., Thursday
Sevante Anderson, a Swede, shot and
killed his wife and probably fatally
wounded his mother and five-year-old
boy. He then killed himself.
CHANDLER AN “ALSO RAN.”
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iJg’2^ c %xt£-«-EZ
aissrg Republican membore of the legis a
ture, defeating WIDMm i^nanuier
and four other candidates.
( handler received 47 votes, Burn
9 ‘ “ °i
Ihe n Democrats nominated • , s rn, ChMle* u
I. btone as tneir oandiaave lor uniiea
btates ecnator.
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF PIERCE COUNTY.
BLACKSHEAR. GA., THURSDAY. JANUARY 17. 1901.
TRAMPLED TO DEATH
Men, Women and Children Lose
Their Lives In Theatre Panic.
CAUSED BY FALSE FIRE ALARM
List of Known Dead Is Seven,
While Many Others Are Miss
ing-Scene Was Appalling.
A Chicago special says: Seven
people were crushed to death and as
many more seriously injured in a
panic which followed a man’s cry of
“fire” late Saturday afternoon in West
Twelfth street, Turner hall. About
eight hundred people were in the
place to witness the performance.
The play was “Yidish,” and the au
dience, comprised for the most part of
women and children, was all Hebrews.
The hall stands in a district densely
populated by Jews. The play was
nearly over when tho cry, which
Caused the panic, was raised, and
within five seconds after it rang
through the hall the entire audience
was converted into a frantio mob,
every member of which was fighting
for the safety which lay beyond the
doors of the building.
The hall is frequently used for
dances, and when a theatrical perform
ance is given chairs arc set for the
spectators. As soon as the wild rush
toward the doors began, chairs were
knocked down iu every direction, the
aisles disappeared and the excited peo
ple ran, climed and stumbled over the
chairs in their way toward the doors.
Aronud the upper part of the hall
extends a balcony, which is open only
at one end. Here were seated 150
women and children, and the women
at the further end of tho balcony, away
from the stairway, seeing that the rush*
toward the exit was blocked to them
and their children, began at once to
throw the little ones over the railing
to the floor ten feet below.
The children fell into the midst of
the maddened throng and were at once
trampled under their feet. It is known
that three of the dead were children
who were thrown from the balcony
and were trampled by the crowd, with
not a chance for their lives. Follow
ing the children, many of the women
sprang from the balcony upon the
crowd, aud others, swinging over,
hung by their hands before they drop
ped. The railing of the balcony was
broken through iu half a dozen places
by the pressure brought against by the
maddened crowd.
On the main floor the crush was
much worse than in the balcony. The
main exits from the hall, and only
ones known to a majority of those
who frequent the place, are two doors
iu the sjuth end of the main audito
rium that open upon winding stairs,
which, eight steps down, unite into
one broader flight leading to tho rain
door at the Twelfth street frout.
Arouud these two doors a frantic
mass of screaming men, women and
children were packed, ail struggling
fiercely to force their way clown the
stairs. At the lauding where the two
flights of stairs winding down from
the main hall unite a woman stumbled
and fell. In an instant a scoro of
people were down, and before the
rush was over four lives had been
crushed out in a space four feet by sn
feet long.
Afl pood as tho news of the panic _
bad spread throughout the district,
which seemed but a very few minutes,
all the Hebrews from that part of the
city rushed to tho place, bent upon
learning the names of the dead and
wounded. Men aud women fought
desperately with the officers in their
efforts to enter the building aud learn
if any of their loved ones were among
tho dead.
The alarm of fire was false, there
having been no blaze at any time.
The furnace in the building is some
what defective and at times al ows
pparks to puss through the registers.
It was the sight of these sparks rising
into the room that frightened the man
who raised the cry of fire.
The hall has several times been tho
scene of panics, and it is only a few
months since a number of children
were hurt in a rush for the doors,
which occurred during a juvenile party
that was given in the place.
M’BEE SUCCEEDS ST. JOHN.
General Superintendent I* Selected For
Vice Preeldent and General Manager,
Captain V. E. McBee, better known
ft9 “Bunch” McBee, general superin
tendent of the Seaboard Air Line rail
way, has been appointed vice presi
j dent aud general manager of the
system to succeed Everitt Bt. John,
recently resigned.
It is reported, however, that the ap
pointment is believed to he temporary,
President John Skelton Williams when
asked about the matter, declined to
say whether Mr. McBee’s appointment
was permanent or not.
Captain McBee has been with the
Seaboard for many years.
CASES POSTPONED.
Riidey, Berry Howard and John L.
■ p ow<;rs cbar ged with being
accesso
rje „ before the fact to the murder of
William Goebel, were called in the cir
cait court at Frankfort, Ky., Monday
afternoon and continued until the
spring term, none of them being in
j cng todj.
mnms slib|, «‘sed.
Routed Pell flell From Stronghold
They Long Boasted as Being
Impregnable.
A recent issue of a Manila paper
gives a graphic and iutorosting ac
count of the capture and utter defeat
of th0 ,oroes of the famous insurgent
leader, Goronimo, near Montablan, by
Colonel J. Milton Thompson and a
thousand picked men of the Twenty
second and Forty-second volunteer in
fantry regiments in November last.
Geronimo, from all accounts, lived
up to his namesake iu this country in
that he hurled defianoe from his
mountain fortress in much the same
way as Geronimo, tho celebratod
Apache chieftain, harassed and defied
our troops iu the west. The insurgent
chief was strongly fortified at Finau
rau, in DeMorte cauyon, near Monta
blan, bis trenches boiug strung along
both sides for a distance of six or
seven miles.
After the re-occupation of tho presi
dential chair, says the artiole, it was
decided by the military authorities to
dislodge Geronimo at any cost. Tho
latter had boasted frequently of the
time when the insurgents killed five
hundred Spaniards who made an un
successful attempt to tako 1’inauran.
The time for Colonel Thompson’s
attack was set for noon on November
2‘2d. The expedition was divided into
four detachments. The main one, un
der command of Captain llrandie, was
iu the lead, and while advancing
through the bed of tho canon was tho
first to draw the fire of tho insurgents.
The entrenched Filipiuos, believing
tho detachment to be the entire at
tacking party, allowed tho column to
advance well up the cauou in order to
more completely “bottle” it. When it
had reached the desired spot the Fili
pinos, yelling like Apache Indians,
opened up a vigorous fire, but simul
taneously with their volleys came the
attack of the Americans from four dis
tinct directions.
Then Colonel Thompson, leading
tho main body, performed tho feat of
tho engagement iu climbing a steep
wall through dirt and underbrush uud
entered the boasted “imprognable”
fortress of the insurgents. The sol
diers climbed up tho mountain side
and when they reached tho top there
■was not a live rebel in sight. The in
surgents killed, it is estimated, was
fifty and their wounded about a dozen.
RIVER AND IIARMOR IlILI,
UroiiRht lip In tli-, Homn atnl It. Conald
oration Kntoioil Upon,
A Washington dispatch says: The
house Wednesday entered upon the
consideration of the river and harbor
hill. Before it was called up some
routine business was transacted.
Mr. Burton, member of tho river
and harbors committee, suggested that
general debate on the bill be limited
to three hours, but thero was an im
mediate outcry against the proposition
from Mr. Cushman, of Washington,
and Mr. Boreiug, of Keutnoky. All
attempts to secure an agreement failed.
Mr. Hopkins, of Illinois, was called
to the chair to preside on tho commit
tee of the whole during tho considera
tion of the bill.
PHIL ARMOUR FUNERAL.
Lait III ton Over Body of I>end Millionaire
Wore Kxtremely Simple,
Private funoral services over the
body of the late Philip D. Armour
were be ij Wednesday at the Armour
residence in Chicago. Following the
services at tho house tho body was
taken to the Armour mission whore
tlie body lay in state and was viewed
by thousands. The service at the
bonge wa , o{ the simplest character,
carrying out the expressed wish of Mr.
Armour and was attended only by the
f am i| y all ,i dose friends,
At the conclusion of tho services
the co ffi n wa , taken by a B , )eciu i fu .
noral train to Gracelund cemetery,
where the body was interred in the
Armour family Jot
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(,’OUXCILMEN GIVEN ALTERNATIVE
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Tii**y Mutt Kithor Toil the Truth or Go
.he
A special from Scranton, I’a., says:
I ho thirteen ex-conncilmen who re
signed to escapo prosecution for bri
bery are to he placed ou the stand in
the pending bribery cases and asked
to disclose what they know of the al
leged crookedness in the city hall. If
they refuse they are to be prosecuted,
ALIVE AND KICKIXU.
Admiral Cmrwarm Vigorously Re
port of 111 * I Units*.
Admiral Cervera, commanding tho
Spanish fleet which was sunk off Kan
tiag0 by Admiral Schley, cables to
Spanish Vice Consul Arthur C Hum
phries at Norfolk, Va., whose guest he
wa „ wb j| e B prisoner of war on parole,
f ba t be is well.
The admiral asserts in his message
sent from Cadiz that he is by no menus
a dying man, and that the reports of
b i a m health and dangerous proximity
to death which have been widely cir
cnlated in the press reports are ahso
lutely unfounded.
CREW ACTE D DISO RACEFUI.LT.
vior of part of the crew of the steamer
Ruesie, wrecked off Fare!Ion, whose
crew and passengers, numbering 102
sonls, were rescued by boats from tho
shore. The Matin publishes an inter
view with a passenger, who said the
conduct of some of the sailors was
beneath contempt.
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NEW NAVAL STATION
Goes to Charleston, According to
Board's Recommendation.
REPORT* AGAINST PORT ROYAL
Many Reasons Uiven For Selection
of New Location™Secretary
Long Announces Decision.
Seoretary Dong made public Friday
the report of tho naval board of officers
submitted Thursday concerning tho
establishment of a naval station on
tho South Atlautio coast, and more
particularly with reference to the rela
tive merits of Fort Royal or Charles
ton, S. 0., ns the site for this station.
The board reoonimeuds in favor of
Charleston, roinforoing its views with
an elaborate statement of the advan
tages of that place over I’ort Royal. A
dissenting view is presented by Rear
Admiral Sumner, who favors a reten
tion of the naval station at Port Royal.
The board discusses the general
requisites of a naval station site on the
South Atlantic coast, including acces
sibility from the st'fl, immunity from
attack, railroad and steamship facili
ties, labor supply and many other spe
cial requirements of tho navy. After
an exhaustive review of the advanta
ges offered by both localities, tho
board recommends that it is expedi
tious to transfer tho uaval station now
nt Port Royal, S. 0., to a point near
the city of Charleston, S. 0., and findB
the only available site to bo that on
tho west hank of the Cooper river,
about six miles above the Charleston
custom house, comprising a part of
Ohicora park, and also, if deonioil ad
visahlo, a part of tho Marsh laud be
longing to tho state of South Caro
lina which lies south of Lawton
island.
The only other sito examined by tho
board in the vicinity of Charleston
which afforded tho necessary water
front, was on the south hank of tho
Wnndo river, hut ns this site has
neither railroad connection nor water
fucilitieB, it was not deemed advisable
for the purposes intended.
The hoard states:
“We aro fully aware of tho fact that
in selecting Charleston ns a site for a
naval station in preference to Port
Royal we are departing from tho opin-’
ion of tho boards of naval offioers who
have previously considered tho ques
tion of the establishment of a naval
station ou tho soutli Atlantic coast,
one of which was presided over by
Admiral Porter.
“Tho sorvico has been brought to
tho attention of the board by the Port
Royal and Beaufort citizens’ oommit
teo as an argument for the retention
of tho station nt Port Royul. Tlioro
is, however, no consistency iu this
connection. When tho previous
hoards selected Port Royal as the host
site for a naval station on the coast
the groat sohemoH for the improvement
of southern harbors had not boon car
ried forward to any oxtout, and Port
on
the coast which large, ships could en
ter under any circumstances.
“Moreover, the ships of that date
wore smaller and lighter and carried
much less fixed weight-in tho shape of
armor, turrets, etc.”
in conclusion the hoard states that
its recommendation of tho Charleston
site is based simply upon its opinion
that it is the bettor site of the two.
The majority report is signed by Rear
Admiral Frederick Rodgers, president
of tho board; Captain Gcorgo A. Con
verse, Civil Engineer C. E. Asserson,
Naval Constructor J. II, Linnard,
Commander E. 11. Leutze and Lieu
tenant Commander B. A. Stanton.
ALL WERE SAVED.
anrt crew of a.r.nd.a .........
Ji.»o.i«<l Hr
A cable djgpdoh f rom Faroman,
Bouches Du Itboue J^raiice Hays’
-‘After a night of terrible suspense all
the passengers and crew of the French
ship Rusaie, from Oran, Algeria, which
stranded near here during a violent
storm Monday, have been safely landed
through the heroic efforts of flsher
meu . Tho lifeboats made repeated
journeys until all were saved and sliel
tered in the lighthouse.”
DISCCSSINU ARM! DILL.
Baeen of Gnorgla Hunger In On* of
II, I'rorlalona.
In the senate Friday a vigorous at
♦ aok was made upon that portion of
the army reorganization bill which
confers upon the president discretion
ary power to increase the strength of
the army to the maximum limit fixed
by the bill.
Mr. Bacon, of Georgia, began th>
attack and Mr. Platt, of Connecticut,
replying, maintained that discretion
"fy power ought to ho conferred upon
tho president and expressed astonish
ment that anybody should entertain a
^ elir that tho power ever would he
ahuned.
ANDKKK’H WILL OPENED.
Aeronaut. Sneined to Have Divined tlm
Vmtn Thnt Wn* In Htnr* for Him.
jsrsart
end of 1900 in case bo bad not return
ed from his balloon expedition to the
north pole, has boon opened end read
at Vienna, Austria. Itwasaccompa
uied by a series of letters from prowl
nent scientists encouraging him in the
dangerous enterprise and uD6 from M.
DeFvuvieJle, warning him against it.
Subscription, One Dollar a Year.
ESTABLISHED 1880
JOINT NOTE SIGNED.
China la Now Placed at the
“Pleasure” of the Allied
Powers.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Pekin says: The joint note of the
powers hns been finally signed by the
Chinese peaco commissioners. Prince
Ohing signed Saturday, and Li Hung
Chang, who is better, signed it Sun
day.
It is understood that the malady
from which Li Hung Chang is suffer
ing is Bright’s disease. He wnB feel
ing worse Saturday aud therefore post
poned tho affixing of his signature, but
Prince Ohiug was hopeful that he
would ho ablo to sign Sunday, which
proved to ho the case.
Prince Clung has protested to tho
court against the appointment, nnid to
bo contemplated, of Viceroy Chang
Chin Tung as a plenipotentiary in the
place of Li Hung Chang, lie thinks
the latter’s advice absolutely essential,
although he believes it might ho ad
visable to appoint a third plenipoten
tiary for China and reiterates his de
nire for the appointment of Bkong,
who would ho acceptable to the for
eigners.
Ho far as Chang Chili Tung is con
corned the envoys who know him per
sonally say that, while lie is strongly
nnti-foreigu and has never made any
secret of his likes and dislikes, they
believe he would be a satisfactory rep
resentative of the Chinese, and thero
would not ho any objection to him on
the score of his recent utterances. In
deed, some of tho ministers think it
would ho wise for China to make
Chang Chili Tung a plenipotentiary.
Most of the euvoys hovo received
word from their governments thnt the
negotiations must ho conducted in Pe
kin, on tho ground thnt for various
reasons other places suggested would
he objectionable.
The Russians Hny they will formally
turn over the railroad to tho Germans
immediately.
M. Do fliers, tho Russian ministor,
objects to the British attitude in re
fusing to permit tho Russians to dis
flislributo rice and wheat to destitute
Obinoso in the British section.
The Italian consul at Hhaughai, in
explaining the prosonce of Italian war
ships at Him Mun bay, says they went
there for target practice.
A French force is reported to have
defeated a body of boxers west of Pao
Ting Fu, killing n thousand.
Ml OUT IN HIS ACCOUNTS.
Circuit Court Clerk of Nashville, Tenn.,
FfnctHf Under Arrest.
Walter H. Rainey, circuit court clerk
of Davidson county, Tennessee, was
arrested nt Nashville Hunday morning
on a charge of embezzling in offico.
Tho warrant was issued upon applica
tion of a Baltimore company, which is
on Rainey's bond for $10,000, respect
ively iu the first and second circuit
courts.
Homo dnys ago Judges Bonner and
OliildresK, of tho two courts, on infor
mation of alleged irregularities in
office, suspended Clerk Rainey and
ordered an investigation of his hooks.
Thu committee appointed made a for
mal report Buturduy. The substance
of this report was that a shortage to
the amount of 025,315 hail boon found.
WOULD HANDICAP ROADS.
Kallwiiy iHtlior Di-tgitii I gallon* In Tmimm
W (t n t, Sew I .a w l'a«*c<I
A measure likely to create consterna
tion in railroad circles was read in t
Texas legislature ut. Austin Haturi
It is tho handiwork of tho railroad la
bor organization and provides that no
railroad engineer is eligible to operate
a freight engine until lie has served
two years as u fireman, while he can
not tie operate a passenger engine until
lias served two years as a fireman
and two on a freight engine.
It is construed that tho object of the
passage of such a law as this is with a
view of handicapping railroads to Hiich
an extent that they cannot possibly
pro'/ect themselves iri case of strikes.
SENATORS EULOGIZE DAVIS.
8ahir<l»»y'* H«*n*lon Titkon I/|» In Honor
ing Moinory of DfMtj Collimfcno,
No legislative business of import
ance was transacted by the senate Hat
urday. Tho session was devoted to
services held in memory of the late
Senator Cushman K. Davis, of Min
nesota,
EXTERMINATED Ills FAMILY.
I-Blntm U.Kil I'arl. Green, llanehi.il Hat
ami a Razor in Horrible Work.
At Albany. N. Y., Baturday morn
ihg Louis Currier, forty years of age,
cut his wife’s throat, broke his sou,
Archies , . , headwithahnsehallbat , , ... , , n , . took , ,
a dose of pans green and thou cut his
own throat from ear to ear with a ra
/or. All turc;o aro dead.
Carrier left a letter addressed to the
police which shows that the murder
was premeditated and stating that his
wife bought the paris greeu herself
I for the purpose of poisoning him hat
he watched her too closely and gave
her a hard death.
MISCEGENATION CASK.
White Woman at, tho National C apital to
Wed an Aluhnma Segrtt.
A Washington dispatch says: Mor
ri.sy H. Koonce, lan Alabama negro,
who is messenger to Secretary of the
Navy Long, who w as given a jiosition
in the navy department Ly Former
Secretary Herbert, of Alubuina, will
marry A. Anderson, a white woman of
Washington, in a few days. Iho
woman is said to ho u Virginian and
beautiful.
BOERS KILL ENVOYS
British P ace Commissioners Are
Flogged and Shot.
ACT INFLAMES ALL ENGLAND
DeWet Grossly Violates Rules of
Warfare—Extreme Pleasures
Demanded For Revenge.
The wnr office at London has re
ceived the following dispatch from
Lord Kitchener:
’’Pretoria, Sunday, January 13.—
About 1,000 Boors crossed the lint*,
attacking both Zunrfontoin and Knal
fontein stations, but were driven off.
They aro being pursued by a cavalry
brigade.”
Lord Kitchoner reports soveral skir
mishes at different points, with triiliiig
British losses, and adds:
“Three agents of the peaco committee
were taken os prisoners to DeWct’s
laager, near Lindle, January 10th.
One, who was a British subject, waa
flogged and ttion shot. Tho other two,
burghers, were flogged by DeWet’s or
ders."
The brief report of tho fate of tho
three members of tho pence committee,
who were scut to see General DoWet,
cxcitos tlio deepest indignation on
ull sides. One or two papers express
a hope that Lord Kitchener hns been
misled by falso Kaffir reports, but it is
generally felt that he would not have
reported the matter to (lie war office
without undoubted evidonoe.
Tho Daily Mail heads the report
with tho word “Murder,” and dis
claims against any further attempt to
ooax into submission.
“DeWet has placed himself outside
tho pale of humanity," says tho Daily
Mail, ‘and not proclamations, hut
iurgo reinforcements, must ho our
watchword.”
The Morning Post says: “This
marks tho point whore the guerilla
phasu ends and the bandit phase be-
All the papers nppoal strongly to
the government to hurry forward re
inforcements, since it is evident that
the Boer loaders have now become
dosperato and conciliation iH quite
useless.
REBELS DOOMED TO DIE.
Prisons at Manila arc Crowded to
the Utmost With Captive
Filipinos.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Manila says: Binco tho expiration of
the period within which amnesty was
grunted to captured insurgents, tho in -
surroctos have boon sent to Manila in
hatches of dozens, scores and hun
dreds. It is hut u month since tho
military government began retention
of prisoners of wnr and already tho
quarters fitted up to hold them aro
filled.
Liberty gained formerly simply by
sweuring Htates allegiance looked to by the tho United insur
was upon
gents as so easy of attainment that the
yankees were set down as being sim
ple indeed for being so lenient. With
in the pnst few weeks, however, the
insurgents have been learning that
sterner war measures are in force, and
at present 1,500 insurgents are in con
finement in Manila, exclusive of sev
eral hundred nutives, so-called, po
litical prisoners, most of whom may
also lie olaMsod as insurgents.
Tho question in to what is to he
done witli these prisoners of war ap
pears to be wholly undetermined.
On the other baud copies of general
orders received from the Philippines
at Washington show that liavejieen a largo num
ber of nativo Filipinos con
victed for murder and other crimes
anil sentenced to lie hanged or long
terms of imprisonment.
Lived In Three Centuries.
James B. Ireland, centenarian, died
at his homo at, Hkillman, Hancock
county, Ky., Biinduy. lie was born
June 4, 171)7, and had lived iu three
centuries. Had he lived until the 4tli
of next Juno he wouid have been 104
years old.
SITUATION GROWS WORSE.
4gj?r«**lv«n«*** of tbo Boor* NfiofiMitatfl*
Fortlfloatlon of tap., Town.
London dispatches of Thursday
stated that the situation in Houtb
Africa grows worse rather than bet
ter - L ,or( l Kitchener s dispatches are
I ! more laconic than those of Lord Rob
mtl , o1n „ o! im porta»ce ie
„ d t oome t | iroll( , b . Tbo 8tato
QaR 1 ticR „ nece8sitatell
the ., ^tificat.on , . ... .. of .. Ca^o ,,, Town,
L. ami N. Dividend Declared.
The directors of the Lonisvillo and
Nashville railroad hfcve declared a
semi-annual dividend of 2j per cent
on the company’s shares.
BRITONS BECOMING DESPERATE.
R«infore«m*nt» On Largo Scale Will Go
to Teach Boer* a Moral Losson.
A New York Tribune dispatch from
Lon< ] on 8syi:
p gr j j{ ober t 8 has been closely occn
: gd ftt tbe war 0 ffl ce , anil it is believ
that reinforcements will be ordered
on a i arge scale for the moral effect in
C0nv i DC j n g Krnger and the Boers in
the fleld tbat re8 i 8 t 0 nce is futile and
that Lo rd Kitchener’s overtures should
beacce pted.