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CLINCH COUNTY NEWS
VOL. 111.
CHARITY BILL
IS NOW A LAW
House Passes Porto Rican Appro=
priation Measure.
PRESIDENT SIQNS THE PAPER
People of the Islands Will Have
Benefit of Customs Re¬
ceipts Collected.
Porto Rican affairs engaged lhe at¬
tention of the house Saturday, the
conference report on the relief bill lie-
ing taken up with an agreement for a
final vote at 1 o’clock.
After s brief and spirited debate
the last congressional step) was taken
in completing the relief bill by agree¬
ing to the conference report by a vote
of 135 to 87.
The bill turns over to the president,
for the use of Porto Rico, about
$2,o00,000 of customs receipts col¬
lected on Torto Rican goods up to
January 1st last, and such amounts as
may hereafter accrue until otherwise
provided by law. The debate lasted
but au hour, but in this time the
whole range of Porto Rico ligislation
was discussed.
Mr. McRae of Arkansas, a member
of the conference committee severely
criticised the general course of recent
legislation toward Porto Rico, aud
Messrs. Pierce, of Tennessee; Wilson,
of South Carolina; Cochran, of Mis¬
souri; Cox, of Tennessee; Williams, of
Illinois; Ridgely, of Kansas; Levy, of
New York, and Finley, of South Caro¬
lina, also opposed the report.
Several of the speakers made refer¬
ences to a published report that the
Porto Rico tariff hill was designed to
secure a campaign fund.
At 1 o’clock a yea and nay vote was
taken on the report, and it was agreed
to-. yeas 135; nays 87; present aud
not voting, 20.
This completed the measure and it
was immediately scut to the president.
The vote was on party lines except
that a number of Democrats aud Inde¬
pendents voted with the Republicans
for the report, viz; Bell, of Colorado;
Chanter, New York; Cochran, of Mis¬
souri; Cummings, of New York; Da¬
venport (Stauley) of Devries, Pennsylvania; of Cali¬
Davey, of Louisiana;
fornia; Meekison, of Ohio; Xewlauds,
of Nevada; Scudder, of New York;
Shafroth. of Colorado; Thayer, of
Massachusetts; Wilson, of Idaho, and
Wilson, of .South Carolina.
The bill was sigued by the president
at 4:30 Saturday afternoon.
BOTH WERE LYNCHED.
White Mob Take Charge of Negro
While Colored Continent At¬
tend to White Prisoner.
A special from Richmond, Va., says:
Cotton, the negro, and O’Grady, the
white man, who# murdered Saunders
and Walton in Greensville county
Thursday, were both lynched at Em¬
poria, a small town in that county,
Raturday about noon.
The negro was lynched by a mob of
white citizens.
Thu white man xvas lynched by a
mob of negroes.
The bodies of both men were strung
np to trees and then shot to pieces by
the rnobs. There was great glee over
the avenging of the whife dastardly crimes
of tho negro and man.
Cotton confessed to killing several
men since his escape from the Ports¬
mouth jail several weeks ago, in which
he was confined awaiting execution of
a death sentence for murder.
The citizens of Emporia held an in¬
dignation mteting Saturday morning
and demanded the withdrawal of the
troops, which were sent by order of
Governor Tyler to protect the negro
and white man from summary psnish-
isbment. The result was the with¬
drawal of the troops just before noon,
and in a few minutes after their de¬
parture the mobs were organized and
Cotton and O’Grady were taken from
the jail and quickly lynched.
DAT AC RE’S DEFEAT DENIED.
British Troops Are Not Near Scene of
Ileported Fight.
A report from Kroonstadt, Orange
Free State,via Pretoria, that the Boers
under the command of General Oliver,
had defeated the British troops under
General Gataere, in the vicinity of
Bethnlie, is not believed in London.
A dispatch to the Daily News from
Springfontein, dated Tuesday, March
20th, says General Gataere was “all
well" and adds that he and General
Brabant had not lost a dozen men in a
fortnight, The last advices also
placed General Gataere about thirty
miles north of Bethulie, where the
Boer reports say the defeat was in¬
flicted.
TUe Official Organ of Oltnob. County
C0L0NIST
Season Vigorously Opened By-
Railroads and Activity Is
At High-Water Tlark.
The Chicago Times-Herald says:
The colonization season has beeu
vigorously opened by the railroads
which extend into southern territory,
and the work of building up the south
commercially is to be carried on this
year on a scale hitherto unkuown. In¬
dustrial agents declare that the year
promises to be a record breaker for
immigration to southern states aud
for the location of factories and in¬
dustries.
Activity in the phosphate mines, re¬
newed interest in the cotton industry,
the discovery of the value of cassava
as a money-making plant, the knowl¬
edge that the railroads have countless
sections of unoccupied and fertile
farming lands, together with the re-
newel prosperity of the entire couu-
try, lias made new possibilities for the
south that were little dreamed of sev¬
eral years ago. The work of the Illi¬
nois Central road is a fair example for
the boom that is now on. Up to the
present time the road has exceeded last
year’s record of new factories located
along the lias by 80 per cent. This
remarkable showing has been made
despite the fact that the months of
April, May and June have always
proved to be the best months for pros¬
ecuting this work.
In Kentucky, Louisiana, Missis¬
sippi and Tennessee there have been
established a larger number of new
cotton, paper and saw mills ami oream-
eries. Some of the roads whose agents
declare that the rise of business is ex¬
ceeding all expectation, are the Plant
System, the Louisville and Nashville,
the Mobile and Ohio,and the Southern
railway. The Louisville and Nashville
is doing an unusual amount of work
in developing phosphate lands in Ten-
nessee ami in colonizing farming lands
and disposing of timber lands in Ala¬
bama and F lorida.
Cassava plantations are becomiug
numerous in Florida and especial at
teutiou is being paid to inducing peo¬
ple to engage in this new industry.
The fact that from this plant can be
made qtareli and glucose of fine qual¬
ity ami that as a fattening agent for
stock if has no equal, is engaging the
attention of northern farmers.
In Virginia, North Carolina, Ala¬
bama and.Georgia the Southern rail¬
way is locating large colonies and
thousands are taking advantage of the
homestead seekers’ excursions which
are run every first aud third Tuesday
in the month. Over 300 families have
been located this spring between Dan¬
ville arid Richmond. At High, Point,
N. C.. theie havo beeu established
twenty furniture factories; nt. Rome,
Ga. ; a new basket factory, and at
Knoxville large hat and woolen facto¬
ries. At Huntsville, Ala., another
large colony has been located and
many are visiting the peach belt with
a view of engaging in that industry.
The Plaut system is developing its
phosphate fields and locating factories
und colonies all along its route. At
the present time it has all of this class
of business it can attend to aud it is
expected that the rush will continue
throughout the summer. Several of
the roads are watching with eager eyes
developments in the Cuban and Porto
Ricau situations, with a view to being
a field for colonization purposes. One
or two roads have already made plans
for large business in Cuba and when
matters become settled there they ex¬
pect to get all the business they can
handle.
ENGLISH OFFICERS SURPRISED.
1 liey Itode Too Far ami Ai'C Shot Down
By Hoar Police.
At a late hour Saturday the war
office in London posted the following
dispatch from Generul Roberts:
“BnOEMFOSTEiH, March 24.—Yes¬
terday Lieutenant Colonel Crabbe,
Captain Trotter and Lieutenant The
Hon. E. Lygon, of the Grenadier
Guards and Lieutenant Colonel Cod-
rington, of the Cold Stream Guards,
rode eight or nine miles beyond their
camp on the Modder river without es¬
cort except one trooper.
They were fired upon by a party of
Johannesburg police aud Lieutenant
Lygon was killed and Crabbe, Cod-
rington and Trotter were seriously
wounded. The trooper also was
wounded. The Boers went to their
assistance and did all they possibly
could, attending to their wounds.
PRESIDENT IS ENLIGHTENED
Regarding Situation In Kentucky By
Delegation of Taylor'* Friend*.
Colonel Andrew Cowan, a merchant
of Louisville, Kv .; Samuel J. Roberts,
editor of the Lexington Leader, and
John Marshall, Republican lieutenant
governor of the state, all prominent
Republicans and friends of Governor
Taylor, had an interview with Presi¬
dent McKinley Friday on the situation
in Kentucky. They said their sole
mission was to explain the exact situa¬
tion in the state. They that said they as¬
sured the president they did not
want any federal interference. They
allege the Goebel partisans are not
abiding by agreement of last month.
HOMERYILLE. FRIDAY. MARCH 90. 1900.
DEFAULTER SUICIDED
Discovery of Kelly Brinsfield’s
Dead Body Clears a Mystery,
MISSING SINCE LAST DECEMBER
M»n Pr«ftti-retl l>«nth to Pat-lug
Ills Aceuieri- -Dtdcoverjr Crratoi] ill-cat
Statatinn In Atlanta, (An.
An Atlanta dispatch says: The
thick fog of mystery whioh has en¬
veloped the whereabouts of Kelly
Brinsfield since December 29th last,
w hen ho suddenly disappeared, several
thousand dollars short in his accounts,
and which lias troubled the minds of
the police of the entire community
since that time, was dissipated Thurs¬
day morning by the finding of his life¬
less body lying nuder the front veranda
of the house at 4f> West Cain Btroet,
where he resided with his wife previ¬
ous to his disappearance, and from
every indication it was judged that
the body had beeu there since the day
he left his office for the last time.
It is presumed that Brinsfield,
knowing full well th exposures which
thie.xteued him, went to his home,
drank a narcotic poison in his room
and then let himself down through
a trap door in a closet under the stair¬
way in the hall. Once through the
trap, he crawled under the beams sup¬
porting the floor of the house until
he reached the briok wall near the
street. Then, overcome^with drowi-
ness brought on by the deadly drug,
he lay down for sleep. In his pooket
he carried a pistol, presumably for
use should the drug fail in its work.
The body was discovered by a little
negro boy who was hired by the cook
in the house to go under the floor in
search of the source of odorB whioh
had been annoying the residents of
tue household for some time. He went
down through the trap door and on the
supposition that ho would find a rat
or dog, he began a oareful search of
the spneo under tkc houBe and soon
came upon the , bodj. , ,
At the tune of the disappearance of
Keily Brinsfield, his father, r highly
respected Methodist minister of Toc-
eoa, G«., said that his son had been
driven crazy by smoking cigarettes.
Strangely coincident with this declar¬
ation is a circumstance connected with
ihe discovory of the body. By the
side of the body lay • box of matches;
clutched in his Augers was a half
smoked cigarette, and in his pocket
there w as a box containing fifteen of
the tiny roll of tobacco, each with a
bright tip if. of gold paper on the end.
Kelly Brinsfield was tho kook-
keeper for the Manhattan Life Insur¬
ance Company before in Atlanta for more than
n year his disappearance. On
Friday morning, the 29th of last De¬
cember, Brinsfield left the company’s
office in tho Prudential building, and
mysteriously disappeared.
It was not known that he was short
in his accounts, but the mysterious
manner of las disappearance excited
th 0 suspicion of Mr. Prince, the south¬
ern manager of the company. It was
also found that before leaving the of¬
fice Brinsfield had changed the com¬
bination of the safe, and it was neces¬
sary to bore a hole through the lock
before tho door could be opened.
The amount of Brinsfield’s shortage
was not kuow until only a month or bq
ago. Mr. Prince had an expert to
work on the hooks for several weeks,
and as a result of the work it was an¬
nounced that Brinsfield’s total short¬
age whould foot up to about $7,000.
liritisfield was bonded in the Fidelity
and Deposit company for $5,000.
Brinsfield was counted as a young
man of exemplary habits, his only
fault being his great fondness for
cigarettes. He had only been married
a short time, the ceremony which
made one of the city’s most lovable
young women his bride having keen
performed by the groom’s father at
Payne’s Memorial church in Atlanta
ob September 6, last year.
The couple had many friends in tha
city, and they had started out in life
under the most promising auspices.
C'ollodinm Exploded.
One person was killed and four seri¬
ously injured by a teriible explosion
of collodium in the photograph supply
establishment of Thomafi M. McOollin
& Co., on South Eleventh streets,
Piladehlphia Thursday.
REPUBLICS MAY AMALGAMATE.
Report of Proposed Union of Transvaal
and Free State Comes From Pretoria.
It is reported from Pretoria that a
scheme has beeu arranged for the
amalgamation of the Transvaal and
the Free State. Kruger will become
president of the federated states and
Rteyn commandant general of the Boer
army. The flag will be the same as that
of the Traansvaal, with an additional
orange color.
Machinists Decide to Strike.
The machinists of Cleveland, O.,
decided to go on a strike Thursday
morning. Between 1,500 aud 2,000
men are affected.
. NEGRO MURDERS FAMILY.
“Preacher” Jones Kills His Wife
and Five Children and Then
Applies Torch To House.
Early Thursday moruiug, at Gar¬
ners, five miles east of Raleigh, N. C.,
Tom Jones, a negro commonly known
in the county as "Preacher” Jones,
murdered Ella Jones aud her oldest
daughter, Ida Jones, and then set lire
to the bed in which the bodies of the
murdered victims and four others, all
Children ranging in years from a baby
one month old to the largest boy, who
4'as not more than five years of age.
The work was done with an ax.
The murderer, according to the
stoiy of seven-year-old Laura Jones,
who escaped with her younger sister,
four years old, deliberately and cooly
-struck the mother four times and then
made two heavy strokes into the body
the oldest child.
The bouso was completely destroyed
by fire and the bones of the four
youngest children were so frail that
they wore loft distributed among the
ashes, which alone romain to tell the
story of the conflagration. The body
of Ella Jones and that of Ida, the
th'rteen-year old child, were burned
beyond recognizance.
When the people heard the story of
the murder they went to Jones’ house
ta arrest him and found that his
clothes bore the stains of fresh blood
and his bands were covered with blood,
’['hough there was talk among the ne¬
groes of lynching, no attempt was
mado to do so and Jones was carried
to Raleigh aud placed in jail to await
trie’ for his crime.
The two children who escaped, hav¬
ing no relatives, were taken to the
county homo to-be cured for.'
LIMB TRUST UNDER WAY.
lte|iresei)tatlv»> of Tlilrty-Klvo Concerns
Meet In 'Birmingham.
Thirty-five lime manufacturing con¬
cerns were -represented at a meeting
hold in Birmingham, NSla., Saturday
for the purposo of forming the Con¬
solidated Lime Company, which will
come near controlling the lime inter-
osts in the southern states, with the
exception of Texas.
The companv will have, when cotn-
ploted, a capital of $3,000,000, which
will bo divided into common aud pre¬
ferred stock. It is intended to con¬
trol almost exclusively the production
of the lime kilns throughout the south,
and intimation is given that the prices
that now prevail are not sufficient with
the amount invested in tho plants con¬
sidered.
HUNTINGTON AFTER MORGAN.
it Is Alleged That Kulli-ond Magnate Is
Fighting Alabamian,
The most interesting political story
in Washington just now is the alleged
entry of C. P. Huntington, the great
railroad magnate, president of the
Southern Pacific Railway, into the
senatorial fight in Alabama. It is
stated that Huntington is at tho head
of a secret campaign against the re-
election of Senator Morgan.
Senator Morgan himself vouches for
the correctness of the rumor.
“It is true,” said the Alabamian,
“that Huntington is trying to defeat
me. Further than this I cannot speak
at this time.”
DAILEY STARTS CAMPAIGN.
Him Oontoafc for Unliod Slaton Senator
from Texan Formally Begins,
In a set speech, at Cameron, Texas,
Saturday, Congressman J. W. Hailey
opened his campaign for the United
States senate in opposition to Senator
Horace Chilton. A large number of
prominent public men of Texas were
present to hear him. The senatorship
will be decided in tho primaries for
members of the legislature, a direct
vote being taken.
DEFENCE IIAS INNING.
(ioverrior of Idaho Test!Hen In tlio Ward-
iier Inve*!igatloo.
A Washington special says: Unusual
interest attached to the Cour d’Alene
investigation Thursday, as the prose¬
cution, after presenting testimony al¬
most uninterruptedly for five weeks,
gave way to the defense. Governor
Steunenberg, of Idaho, was the first
witness called to rebut the charges
which have been made.
fright caused death.
Little Girl Driven Insane By a Iteinark
Made By Family Cook.
Little May Corbin’s death at Brancb-
ville, Ind., is attributed to a remark
of her mother’s servant and a subse¬
quent dream. The servant two weeks
ago ing. was preparing a turkey for roast¬
“This is the way they stuffbabies to
bake them in Now York,” she said to
May, who was seven years old. That
night the little gifl awoke with a
scream.
“Mary is cooking baby brother,”
she cried. She became hysterical,
then insane and died Suturday, every
effort to banish tho baUuciui>fiou hav¬
ing failed.
CONSPIRATORS SENTENCED.
Tyson, the Principal. Goes to the
Pen For Five Years and Is
to Pay Heavy Fine.
The confessed conspirators who
pleaded guilty the past week in the
United States court at. Savannah, were
sentenced by Judge Speer Friday. The
sentences were as follows:
Daniel A. Tyson, five years in the
state prison at Nashville, Tenn., and
to pay a fine of $1,000 and costs of
prosecution.
W. E. Hutchinson, Morris W. Hut¬
chinson and J. H. Hutchinson,eighteen
mouths each in the state prison at
Nashville and a fine of $100 each.
J. S. Wheeler, Jr., twelve months
in Chatham county jail and $100 fine.
H. B. Watts aud C: J. Phillips and
J. T. Hammond, six months in jail
and $100 fine each.
J. M. Harrell and T. L. Ricks, four
months in jail and $100 fine each.
The courtroom was crowded when
court opened. The prisoners were
carried into the room fully half an
hour before Judge Speer arrived.
Many of them wore joined by their
wivos aud families. Wheeler’s wife
was on hand, and so was Harrell’s.
Tyson had his wife aud child with him
lynl all of them shed oopious tears.
The wive and children had the deep¬
est sympathy of the audience. They
were suffering for the deeds of their
fathers and husbands. Judge Speer,
however, determined not to have a
soene in the oourtliouse during the
time the sentence was being passed.
A few minutes after 10 o’clock a depu¬
ty United States marshal came into
the room and invited all the women
and children to accompany him to one
of the small rooms at the end of th®
corridor, some distance removed from
the courtroom. The ludies filed out
rod-eyed and weeping. Tyson seemed
more deeply affected, than any one of
the other prisoners at parting with the
members of his family.
The attorneys made short speeches
clients. appealing for mercy in behalf of their
Then several of the defend¬
ants addressed the court,
Tyson was the last speaker aud ho
addressed the court at some length.
Ho said he did not intend any wrong,
and asked the judge to be as light as
possible with him and he would prom¬
ise not to do wrong any more. If he
had not been prosecuted Tyson assur¬
ed the court he would have paid up all
his debts by the operation of a new
telephone line to Savannah he was
building. He closed by saying that
he had a wife and child, two sisters
and a brother dependent upon him
and he asked, in the name of the
Lord, that the judge bo merciful.
Judge Speer, after a few remarks
expressing regret at the duty he had
to perform, passed sentence as stated.
VV1LL FORCE HOUSE RILL.
Tariff Feat uro of I*orto Kican !Vf<?a»uro to
11c Wade Seperatc J»»ue«
The Republican caucus committee
of tho senate at a meeting Friday au¬
thorized Senator Foraker, in definite
terms, to propose the separation of the
tariff feature from the Porto Rican
governmental bill and to attempt to
pass tho house tariff bill without
amendment. The program is to vote
down all amendments if possible to do
bo, and pass tho bill as it is camo from
the house without any changes what¬
ever.
The committee went over the situa¬
tion in detail concerning all the points
at issue. There were suggestions as
to the necessity of amending the hill
so as to suit the demands of the Re¬
publican free trade element, but these
were considered as more than offset by
the sitnntion in the house und neces¬
sity of maintaining the party tariff
principle.
There was, however, a disposition
manifested to placate the free traders
by making various amendments to the
governmental bill. The tariff advo¬
cates have gone so far as to dtaft
amendments to that measure which
are intended both to correct adminis¬
trative defects in the house bill and
also to meet many of the objections to
the houso tariff' measure.
One of these amendments looks to
the enlargement of the free trade list
so as to include most of the articles of
export in which the constituents of the
free trade senators are interested.
There is also one looking to the re¬
moval United of States the duty going on to articles Porto Rico. from the
TEXAS HAS COTTON MILL DOOM.
Chartev* Have Betm Granted For a Num¬
ber of New Factorial*.
During the past few days charters
have been issued for $100,000 cotton
mills at Corsicana • and Henderson,
Texas. Contracts for machinery have
been let for a $50,000 cotton mill at
.Wharton and a $50,000 oil mill at Cor¬
sicana. Seventy thousand dollars of
the capital stock for a $100,000 cotton
mill at Pittsburg has beeu subscribed;
$48,000 toward a factory at Rice, and
SGO, 000 toward a factory at Cuero. A
Texas flour mill has closed a contract
for 700,000 pounds monthly to be ex¬
ported to Loudon.
NO. HI
NO RELIEF YET
FOR MAFEKING
Plummer Retires and Boers Seem
To Be Masters of Situation.
ROBERTS IS AT BLOEMFONTEIN
French Is Kept Busy Fighting
While General Buller Rests
Iff Natal.
According to advices -received in
Loudon, Colonel Plummer apparently
has retired to Crocodile Pools and
Mafekiug seems further off than ever
from relief. The news was contained
in a dispatch from Buoloyao, dated
Monday, March 19, and pulished in
the second edition of the Times.
These advices add that the base hos-
pital has been brought back to Gabe-
rones. The correspondent further-
says it is the object of the Boers'
demonstration of March 15-16 to
cover the movement of siege guns
from Mafoking.
Lord Roberts’ main army continues
waiting at Bloemfontein. The senti¬
mental interest in the fate of Mafeking
has beeu greatly intensify^
Lord Methuen is ski hing with
the Boers at Warrenton, 167 tniles
a way. Although seemingly much in force
sufficient to do pretty as he
likes, he has uot advauoed. ^
General French’s cavafey an# mount¬
ed infantry, according to a rumor, aro
lighting somewhere east of Bloemfon¬
tein.
Genernl Buller has not yet moved in .
Natal.
The Eighth division will go direct'
to Bloemfontein. Load Roberts's ef¬
fective disposable at the front ten days
hence will be, it is estimated, 70,000
meu, with the easy possibility of mov*
iug, eastward, forcing the Boers to
evacuate the Biggarsborg range and
joining hands with General Buller be¬
fore continuing the promenade to
Pretoria.
A dispatch from Bloemfontein dated
Thursday, March 22, says Presideut
Kruger is reported to havo issued a
proclamation declaring that Great
Britain is in dire straits and that the
Russians have occupied London.
A Springfontein telegram published
m the second edition of the Times
says,:
“The apparent submissive attitude
of the Free Staters should be accepted
with caution. The large proportion
of obsolete inferior weapons being
turned in by them to the British is
giving the impression that the largest
stores of modern Mausers are being
concealed.”
The Outlook’s special correspondent
nt Cope Town says:
“Feeling is running strong against
the leniency with which rebels of Cape
Colony aud Natal are being treated by
the British authorities.”
The enteric fever has broken out in
two brigades of the force which raised
the siege of Ladysmith. There were
2,300 cases of fever in the garrison
during the siege.
BANKRUPTCY LAW AMENDMENT.
Representative Kay Otters Bill To Change
the Measure.
Representative Ray, of New York,
chairman of the house judiciary com¬
mittee, litis introduced a bill to amend
the bankruptcy law and makes a state¬
ment as to it in which he says.
» . The most important changes are
six additional objections to a dis¬
charge, viz.:
“1. Obtaining property on credit
upon a materially false statement in
writing, and,
"2. Making a preference, though
the bill makes it necessary that the
creditor relying upon this objection
shall prove that the preference was
fraudulent.
“3.'The making of a fraudulent
transfer of property.
“4. That the bankruptcy was ma¬
terially contributed to or brought on
by gambling.
"5. That a discharge shall be re¬
fused to any one who has previously
been discharged within six years; and,
“0. That a discharge shall be de¬
nied to any one who refuses in the
course of the proceedings to answer
any questions approved by the court.
“The bill also provides that mer¬
cantile corporations may be adjudged
voluntary bankrupts after reoeiving
the consent thereto of a major¬
ity of their stockholders; also that
a voluntary receivership of an in¬
solvent corporation under the state
laws shall be an act of bankruptcy. It
shortens the time from twenty-five
days to ten days when default is made
and provides for a short service by
publication where the debtor has ab¬
sconded. The bill makes the wife a
competent witness, irrespective of the
laws of the state.”