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CLINCH COUNTY NEWS VOL. Ill THE SITUATION DESPERATE Both Taylor and Beckham Have Armed Forces and Complications Reach Critical Stage. POWERS AND DAVIS ESCAPE They Are Intercepted, However, At Lexington By Sheriff and Police and Jailed. Almost wiihont waruiug the storm center of excitement in tho Kentucky gubernatorial struggle shifted to Lex- ington Saturday night. Secretary of State Caleb Powers and Captain Davis, for whom warrants were issued charging complicity in the murder of Governor Goebel, after spending the day in the statehonse at Frankfort, to which the civil officers beariug the warrants were refused ad- mittauce by the soldiers on duty, left town in disguise. Powers and Davis were slipped aboard a Chesapeak and Ohio train at 8 o’clock Saturday night and speeded toward Lexington. A squad .of soldiers, coming from the governor’s mansion at double quick, caught the train just before it pulled out. The plan of escape was so neatly laid and executed that it took the police and big force of th^ deputy sheriffs appointed to guard entrance to the capitol grounds and prevent their escape, off their feet when they ized what had occurred. It was sev- eral minutes before the truth of the escape of tho men was definitely known. Chief of Police Williams imtnedi- ately sent telegrams to Midway and all stations along the road, notifying officers of the escape and ordering them to bo on the look- out. On the arrival of the train in Lex- idgton at 8:40 Secretary of State ers and Capitol Policoman Davis and Lieutenant Peak were arrested by the Lexington police and the sheriff and deputies. There was a large force of ofiicers awaiting tliefugitives. Towers and Davis still wore the uniforms of soldiers and Davis had on false whisk- ers. There was a wild scene when the officers broke into the car and revol- vers were drawn by all, but the small squad of soldiers were greatly out- numbered by the police force of Lex- mg ton and the large force of deputies with the sheriff, and the arrest was cf- fected w ithout difficulty. A local attorney recognized Powers and also pointed out Davis. They •were seized aud hurried to the jmi. As the procession swept toward the jail some people started the report that there was to be a lynching, and soon the streets were packed with people, crowd . gathering an enormous the jail. Davis, Powers and Peake were hurried to the upper cells, but Peake was later released on bond on a common variant charge of resisting arrest Davis had SI 25 in money on his person aud a revolver I here was found ou Powers $1,300. In the inside pocket of each man was found a pardon from Governor W. S. fayior, duly signed and sealed. Pow- ers made the statement to an Asso- ciated Press representative that he was uot fleeing from arrest. He was sim- ply getting away from Frankfort avoid lying in jail as Whitaker had been forced to Jo; that he had nothing to fear from arrest, as he was not guilty of the charge. Sheriff Bosworth applied at once to the armory for a special detail of sol- diers under Captain Longmire and they responded, arriving at the jail a few moments later, prepared to resist the rumored prospective attack. The sheriff then designated a posHe to sup- plemeut a squad of soldiers provided trouble might come and declared that any attempt to take either of the prisoners from the jail Would be re- aisted to a finish. The Sabbath day brought a hopeful and encouraging calm to the storm, Judge George Denny, a prominent publican attorney, called on the pris- oners during the day and was closeted with them several hours. He will rep- resent them in whatever legal steps are taken, SNUFF TRUST UNDER WAY. All of the Big Companies Are Organising In the East. The New York Journal of Commerce says: The recent negotiations of the Amer¬ ican and Continental Tobacco compa¬ nies to arrange for a consolidation of the leading snnff interests of the coun- try are said to have been practically completed and a new $25,000,000 com¬ pany will, it is stated, be organized to take over all the snuff business of both the Continental Tobacco and American Tobacco companies as well as the At¬ lantic Snuff company and Heime Snuff company. Tlio Official Organ of Olinoli County BOTH SIDES ARE FIRM. Report Is Given Out That Taylor ■ Would Attempt to Arrest Beckham. Sunday morning tho Democrats Imd tho Republicans in Kentucky were for the first time since the present politi¬ cal complications assumed acute form, divided into two armed and organized ) factious, j Surrounding the capitol aud tho state executive building and camped in the grounds around Governor Tay- j ior’s home were nearly 200 state mili- tia, well provided with ammunition, while iu the corridors of the hotel in which the Democratic state executive | officers adjacent are located, that quilding aud iu the streets sixty to were special officers and the men and hoys ‘ of militia that a company was organ- ized in Frankfort during the day, as the nucleus of Governor Beckham's ! ] state guard, besides scores or more of heavily armed citizens, partisans of j j the Democratic element, ) Within an hour after the democratic leaders heard a rumor that afi attempt I 1 was to be made by the state militia to ! take Gov. Beckam into custody a pe- I tition had been circulated and signed : by the requisite number of men neces- I j sary The to form guarded a militia the company. Capitol hotel j men all night against any possible attempt I to arrest Governor Beckham. The Democratic partisans say that should the militia attempt to interfere with the session of the legislature, per- i sistent rumors of which had been in circulation all day, it would be next to . I impossible to avert bloodshed. The republican officials, however, j deny that such action has been ever v ontempiaied, molested and tb»*t the legislature would not be in any way. Frankfort The formation to support of tho Governor state guard Beck- in j ham was undertaken by City Clerk Ben Marshall, who circulated a paper | and enlisted the requisite number of j ' who to the men are compose new com- j pany. The guns for this company have been provided by citizens, most of them being either needle guns or winchesters. Sunday afternoon a report gained currency that Governor Taylor had i given his soldiers orders to arrest ; Governor Beckham and other officers of the Democratic state government. ! On account of this report tho men enlisted by Captain Marshall were assembled at the city hall, armed , and , sworn iu as special police for the pur- pose of protecting the Dewocrrtic ofll- cers who are still quartered at the j Capitol hotel. A large number of cit- izeus also volunteered and were as- signed to various posts in the vicinity of the hotel to offer a resistance in ease the talked-of arrests were at- tempted. | Governor Beckham Sunday after- noon appointed Colonel David R. Mur- ry, of Clover Point, assistant adjutant general, with the rank of colonel, and he was sworn in. I The official announcement was made that this appointment is only tempor- ary. This was regarded as significant, 1 it being understood that Colonel Mnr- ray accepted the appointment on ac- count of the gravity of the present situation, and with the understanding that he could resign when the condi- tions in the state become more quiet, According to a statement made by Governor Taylor to n representative of the Louisville Commercial, he 'las granted a pardon to each cf the per- [ sons for whom warrants have been is- ; sued charging them with being acces- sories to the assassination of Governor Goebel, including Secretary of State Caleb Powers and ex-Secretcry of State Charles Finley. In his statement Gov- Taylor recites the conditions ' ernor under which he claims to have been elected, and charges the Democratic contestants for state offices with con- : spiracy to secure oontrol of the gov- ernment. BRITISH CASUALTIES TO DATE. Up to Monday Morning Total Uo*»e« In War Footed Up 15,677. The war office in London posts a bulletin announcing the casualties of the South African war up to Monday morning as follows: Killed, 2,418; wounded, 8,747; died of disease, 1,029; missing, 3,483; total, 15,677. Fatal Fire In Boston. Fire early Sunday morning in the building of the Massachusetts Macorini Company, on North street, Boston, caused a loss estimated from $75,000 to $150,000. One man was kil led and four seriously injured. •HOMERYLLLE. GA.. FRIDAY. MARCH 16. 1000. “BEGLEG” AGAIN ARRESTED. Alleged I,tiboi* Agent Is Having Vlcnty of Trouble On Hand. An Atlanta dispatch says: R. A. Williams, better known as “Peleg” Williams, the mau who has been in so much trouble about sending negro emigrants westward, has again been arrested on the same old charge of hiring negro labor for emigration with¬ out n state license. There is also a warrant for Williams from South Carolina, and still another warrant which is in the hands of the sheriff of Fnlton county. Chief Manly, of Atlanta, received a warrant for Williams several days ago from South Carolina, but Williams MMts not in the city and the warrant was temporarily pigeon-holed, Saturday a warrant came to the po¬ lice authorities from Athens, Ga. Sun¬ day morning Officer Hill found Wil¬ liams just as he Stepped from a train at the depot, and tho alleged labor agent was arrestod and locked up at the piolice barracks. Later in the day the prisoner was turned over to the county officials, tho sheriff having a warrant for him. In the meantime the South Carolina warrant was brought to light, and Williams now has three new charges for labor hiring to answer to. Williams was arrested on a warrant in South Carolina last summer, and he got out of that scrape in some way and caine to Georgia. He was arrested on the charge of hiring negroes in Morgan county. The case went against him, and he gave bond and took an appeal. He was again arrested iu Greene county and gave bond, the case being postponed to await a decision by the supreme court in the Moigan county ca3 f.‘ . . , . h 10 P 1 isoner is c arget wi em- . planta- f. °^‘ 8 ° m Rtoch or £?“" Missrss.ppi . . and Arkansas, 111 18 a 8tate ,aw / u Georgia, he ? ! l es " u t ' m a , tes 1 01 8 ' , . $•> for a ’? ^ eu °. iay o a icense |j a ‘.‘ f 0UU ^ U1 " K ’ 1 ® u P era!es - I J 1 ! hl8 1 ’ <,I1S J“ 1 u considers -iouu , e prohibitory as appea and ed . ‘ UW IH IO 4,0113 1 11 1 llft au< in 01111 "j 0, ° " axxi , iau ttu J ,ai roai 1 ”.... Wlllla “ 8 d ° ea uot ......... aJm / lW 18 "irking for the owners of a the western ?!* u , s ' " 1410 1,1 uegro a ior f jb "u^ ? the on a salary to induce em,f * rant8 to travo1 over certa, “ rolltoH ' GROWTH OF THE SOUTH. The Various New Industries Kutuhlf nhcul " tho rust week. XUe mo j mportant of new entor . pr jse8 reported during the past week in( q ude 1)rick workH j n Tennessee ami Texas; a bridge construction company in West Virginia; coal mines iu Texas; tw0 cotton mi ij H iu Georgia one iu North Carolina, three iu South Caro- ]j no two j n T eune88eo nn( ] one j u Texas; one cotton seed oil mill each in Alabama and Texas, and two each in Georgia and Mississippi; a cracker factory iu Alabama; a $300,000 electric light and power plant in Virginia’ an cugino all(1 lail( .i.ino works in West Virginia; flouring mills iu Georgia and Tennessee; two furniture factories iu j} ort jj Carolina and one in South ufjky"hardwarreompnnies 1 inLcmis- aIin an d Tennessee; ice and cold stor- n ge companies in Kentucky and North Carolina; iron ore mines in Alabama an d Georgia; an irrisation company in east Texa(j . j, lmber m ills iu Alabama, Flori( ] a and Tennessee; planing mills ; n Alabama and North Carolina’ a plaster company in West Virginia; Han dstone quarries Virginia’ in Texas; a stave f aetory ; n \v est telephone compauieg in Alabama and the Curo- [ lna9; a tobacco factory in North Car- 0 |j na ; a *ioo,000 water power company j n Georgia; zinc mines in Arkansas. — Tradesman (Chattanooga Tenn ) Fit DM CHAPEL TO (IK A VE. »j,„ i>«-r» nosy i» consigned to Kurth in Frankfort Cemetery. Monday evening the remains of Governor William Goebel were taken f r0 m the chapel at Frankfort, where they have been under guard since February 8th, and buried iu the plot of ground west of the chapel on the hill overlooking the Kentucky river. The services were brief, consisting simply of prayer and singing. Mem- },erH of the legislature attended in a body. Memorial services were held in both houses of the legislature dur¬ ing the day. COMMISSION COMING SOUTH. Industrial Conditions In This Section WUI Be Thoroughly Looked Into. A Washington dispatch says: The industrial commission will begin hear¬ ings in Atlanta, Ga., Monday, March 19th, and will continue in session in that city for four days or longer. The hearings in Georgia will not be con¬ fined alone to an investigation of the general conditions of agriculture in the south, as haH been stated, but will embrace investigations of manufact¬ urers, transportation and trusts, only one day, Monday, being given to hear¬ ings before the sub-committee on ag¬ riculture. INITIAL STEPS TO END WAR Our Good Offices are Being Secretly Sought by Kruger. PROPOSITION A DELICATE ONE Negotiations are Being Carried On Through Our Representative at Pretoria. A Washington special says: There is reason to believe that the United States government is using its good offices to restore pence between Great Britain aud the South African Re¬ publics, Presidents Kruger aud Steyn have appealed to this government, asking that it act as intermediary to the end that peace in South Africa may be se¬ cured. That appeal was sent to tho president through the American rep¬ resentative at Pretoria, Adelbert Hay, aud the understanding hero is that Ambassador Choate has already laid the appeal before tho British foreign office. So far as is known, no reply has yet reached Washington. Great Britain’s answer to such sug¬ gestions on our part will in all likeli¬ hood be of the same nature as Presi¬ dent McKinley’s diplomatic reply to tho suggestions of the ambassadors, headed by Lord Pauncefoto, upon the occasion of that historic visit to tins white house during the progress of tho war with Spain, when the president reminded tho ambassadors that this oountry was uot forgetting its duty to humanity. Tho president’s reply, it will he recalled, was exceedingly di- aplomutic, but it meant that the matter we then had in hand would he dis¬ posed of in our own way and without tho assistance or the interference of an ybody all else. In probability such will bo the sW5fy m ‘effect—of the British for¬ eign office to this suggestion of tho American ambassador. There will ho nothing offensive in the reply, nor is there anything offensive iu the action of this government iu acting as the agent through which the request of the South African government is con- veyed to England. This is not at all the same thing as the voluntary offer of mediation coming from this govern¬ ment. Such an offer would mean in¬ truding upon a neighbor’s affairs where we had no business to intrude, and would be considered by England as offensive and McKinley unfriendly. President has all the time taken the position that no such step would be taken—that there would ho no offer of mediation unless the re- quest came from both governments. This action in carrying the request of the weaker party to the death struggle in Africa to the stronger is on an en- tirely different plane, however, and will give no offense. It can be stated on authority, in this connection, that so far ns this government is concerned there will bo no concert of powers in any represen- tations made to Great Britain. If other powers are discussing among themselves whether they should join and tell England to quit, they must count tho United States out. This government will taka no part in any such step any more than it would vol¬ untarily step in and independently in¬ form England that she must quit. A cable dispatch from the Hague Hays: It is learned from a reliable source that President Kruger, through the consuls at Pretoria, has appealed for the intervention of the groat pow¬ ers in the Transvaal war and has also appealed to the governments of Bel¬ gium, Holland and Switzerland. IS BUBONIC PLAGUE. Cuho In Chinatown In Sun Francisco Shows That Seourgro lias Koachtnl Us. A Washington special says: The murine hospital service dispatches Monday night confirm tho diagnosis of the recent case in Chinatown in San Francisco as bubonic plague. Inoculation in rats and a monkey demonstrate that it is a genuine pjague case. CIGAR MAKERS STRIKE. Over Two Thousand Em ploy uh of tho Krebs U ’rthoim & HchifTor Co. Quit. About 2,300 cigar makers, of which number nearly 800 are girls, employed by the firm of Krebs, Bertheim & Schiller at New York are on a strike. Although the strike was declared to be the cause of an alleged shortage of stock, the strikers have asked for an increase of wages running from 15 to 20 per cent and that the store go un¬ der the control of the union. Crusier to San Diego. The United States Crusier Philadel¬ phia has sailed from San Francisco for San Diego. FOURTEEN LOSE Fearful Holocaust In a Newark, N. J , Tenement House. WAS THE WORK OF AN INCENDIARY Nearly All of the Victim* Were Helpless Children House Was a Ver¬ itable Heath Trap. Fourteen persons lost their lives, two persons were seriously injured aud many others slightly burned iu a fire iu Newark, N. J., at 5 o’clock Monday morning. The firemen, after tho (lames had been subdued, took thirteen bodies from tho ruins aud -while they were thus engaged another victim of the fire died iu the city hos¬ pital. Quo family was wiped out com¬ pletely and of another only the father lives aud he is in the city hospital, where it is believed he will die. The building in which the fire broke out was a veritable tire trap. It was of frame construction aud extended two stories above the ground floor. Until three or four years ugo the structure had been used as a church, but it was converted into a tenement. The lower iloor, fronting on 50, 52 and 54 Four¬ teenth avenue, was occupied by three stores and the upper portion of tho building was divided into twenty living rooms. As nearly as can ho learned, the structure was occupied by ten families, all Italians. Two of the occupants, Vito Oredanza and one other family j kept population hoarders, of tiro and though the total ; bo definitely rookery could not : ascertained during the excitement attending the flrothere were I said to ho forty or fifty persons of | both sexes and nil ages in the building when the fire started. Tho police are confident that the lire was of incendiary origin and they have arrested Vito Oredanza on sus¬ picion. There was a disorderly card game in one of the rooms that lasted well into tho morning. Oredanza was a participant and is said to have made violent tharats against his. fellow play- ! ors. A few minutes before 5 o’clock ! every one in the building was awaken- <'<1 by the flames, They found them burning at the foot of tho stairs lending from the first to tho second stories. The hallway aud the tftairs were burning fiercely, cutting off the only egress from the upper floor on which six families lived, ! H also cut off tho esoape by tho door for those who lived in tho rear part of the first floor. ' Those who could made for the windows. From these they leaped or dropped, The whole neighborhood was awake in ai: instant and from the burning ■ building came agonizing screams and ; calls for help. From the basement | building and ground poured floor naked, the inmates almost of the ; or so. From the upper story men and wo- men leaped to the sidewalk. By the ; time the firemen reached the Beene j and the those building who was had wrapped not escaped iu flames were dead or doomed. They must have died within a few minutes for the fire rushed through every room iu the building within ten minutes, There was fearful excitement about the burning building. Men, women and children who escaped rushed about almost naked, looking for their relatives. For a time it was thought there were many more lost than the events later prove d, because several naked were picked up by neighbors aud carried indoors. Thus fathers and mothers missed their children and rushed screaming about. The fire lasted only a few minutes. The search for the dead began within twenty minutes after tl,o alarm was sounded, so quickly was tho fire con¬ quered. VAGI’.ANT ACT READ. X>oul(l-li« Negro “KinlKrunt." Forced to Disperse at Athena. A special from Athens, Ga., says: The 300 negroes who have been en- cam ped at the, Seaboard Air Line de¬ pot since last Saturday waiting fo r a train to carry them to Mississippi, were dispersed Monday morning und quiet has been restored again. The vagrant act was read to the “emigrants” Monday morning, aud at noon there was not a negro to be seen at the depot. TYSON CONSPIRACY CASE Taken Up For Trial By United States Court In Savannah. The case of D. A. Tyson aud others, charged with conspiracy in using the mails in pursuance of a scheme to de¬ fraud, was taken up in the United States court in Savannah, Ga., Mon¬ day morning. Almost as soon as it was called attorneys filed a demurrer to the indictment, claiming that it was not sufficient in law and that no evi¬ dence had been produced to show that the mails had been used for fraudulent purposes. After listening to argu¬ ment, Judge Emory Speer overruled the demurrer aud ordered tho case to trial. NO. 20 ROBBINS LOSES; ALDRICH WINS Alabama Republican Gets Demo¬ crat’s Seat In House. VOTE WAS ON PARTY LINES. Bartlett Made Strong Fight F6r His Minority Report, But Without Avail. A Washington special says: By the narrow margin of seven votes the house Thursday afternoon unseated Hon. Gaston Robbins, of the fourth Alabama district, and seated Hon. William F. Aldrich, the Republican contestant. This was done on strictly partisan lines and after a bitter fight made by tho Democrats, nuder the leadership'of Judge Bartlett, of Geor¬ gia, in behalf of Robbins. The result was not altogether unex¬ pected, though it was hoped by Mr. Robbins’ friends that enough Repub- lie.ius would refuse to follow the dic¬ tates of tho Republican leaders to prevent Aldrich being being seated. Robbins was nlso handicapped by the fact that his case was the first of the contested cases to be acted upon by the House. The feature of the debate was the spoeoh of Judge Bartlett, in support of his minority report, lie made a com¬ plete and searching analysis of the majority report demonstrating that any fair and legal consideration of the facts would show that Robbins is en¬ titled to the scat. “Taking it from him,” said Judgo Bartlett, in summing up tho case after¬ ward, “is just like holdiug a mau up at tho point of a shotgun aud robbing him of his money.” There is one feature of the vote oil this case that has eausod a lot of com¬ ment among Democrats. That was the absence of General WBeeler and of Congressman. Stallings. The ab¬ sence of General Wheeler gave Rob¬ bins just ono less vote than he had. Had h been present nuder clear title to his own seat ho might have helped materially. Mr. Stallings was paired with a New Jersey member, and, therefore, his own vote was arranged for; but it.is an open secret that there is a good deal of bitterness among the Alabama delegation over his failure to ho on hand. They say that as ono of the older members of the delegation he might have been able to in¬ fluence some Republican votes, but oven if lie were not, he should have been present in justice to his col¬ league, and especially to election methods, which were so bitterly as¬ sailed in this contest. At 2:30 o’cloek the vote was taken— first upon tho minority resolutions de¬ claring Mr. Robbins entitled to retain his seat. The sub-resolutions wero de¬ feated—131 to 138—by a strict party vote. The majority resolutions declaring Mr. Aldrich, the contestant, entitled to his seat wero then adopted—M2 to 135. There was no demonstration when the result was announced. Mr. Al¬ drich then came forward to the bar of the bouse, escorted by Mr. Maun, and took tho prescribed oath. Mr. Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, from the committee ou rules, then present¬ ed the special rule regarding pension sessions. Mr. Overstreet, of Indi¬ ana, iu charge of tho conference report of the financial hill, gave notice that ho would call up tho report next Tuesday. By unanimous consent it was agreed that the vote on the report should bo taken at 4:30 o’clock Tuesday afternoon. FORTUNE FOR A HORSE. Flying Fox, n Swift Racer, Sold For 9100,- OOO In Fnglninl* A London dispatch says: At the sale of the late duke of Westminster’s string of race horses, which took place Thursday at Kingsclere, Flying Fox, winner in 18‘JJ of the derby, tho 2,000 guineas, tho Eclipse stakes and the Doncaster Btreet Leger, was put chased by Edmond Blauc for 37,500 guineas, about $196,500. LOANS IN GOOD DEMAND. English War Loan Is Largely Oversub¬ scribed By the Feople. The of applicants for the war loan co meed at the Bank of Eng- land and tho various other hauks where prospectuses wore obtainable, immediately after they were opened Saturday and a steady stream of peo¬ ple continued throughout the day. All sorts and conditions of persons were present, silk hatted financiers, flue ladies, farmers, clerks, gover¬ nesses and thrifty representatives of all classes. They appeared anxious to stuff their money into Brittania’s pockots, aud it is estimated that the loan was oversubscribed.