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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.”