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The Georgia Record.
VOL I.
THE TRANSVAAL TROUBLES
Can Only Be Settled at Present Stage By a
Resort to Arms.
UNCLE KRUGER’S REPLY IS NOT AN ACCEPTANCE
Britons Who Are Posted on Affairs See No Way to
Avoid War With the Transvaal Government.
A London cable dispatch says: The
colonial office in confirming the dis
patch from Cape Town, saying the
Transvaal government had handed its
reply to the British agent at Pretoria,
says that Mr. Alfred Milner has tele
graphed a message to that effect. All
that the officials of the colonial office
would say in regard to the matter
was:
“The reply is not a complete accept
ance of the proposal of Mr. Chamber
lain.”
There is no longer any doubt that
President Kruger has refused to sub
mit to the demand of Mr. Chamber
fain for the appointment of a court of
inquiry. He may have done so diplo
matically or hedgingly, but that his
answer is regarded by the British gov
ernment as tantamount to positive re
fusal is now an established fact. The
colonial office is normally non-com
mittal, but there are other evidences
jamp]y_ justify the statement.
* The report that President Kruger has
proposed new terms is somewhat veri
fied by the guarded comment of the
co’onial officials and the irritability
displayed there.
There is not the slightest doubt that
they now believe that war is the only
way to settle the controversy.
The colonial officials would far rather
have a curt, defiant answer than the
temporizing answer which the Boer
president has sent. With the former
Great Britain would have plain
grounds for a quick commencement of'
hostilities.
Under the circumstances which it is j
believed now exists, aggressive action
needs considerable explanation to jus-;
tify it in the eyes of the world and the !
English majority who still declare thati
the war would be an outrage; however, ■
if Mr. Chamberlain has his way, it is
ELBERTON’S CARNIVAL OPENED.
Festivities Began With a Speech From
Senator Ben Tillman.
The Elberton, Ga., carnival was
opened Monday morning with a con
cert by Bearden’s band, of Augusta.
At noon the welcome address was
made by Mayor Adams. Hon. J. P.
Shannon then introduced Senator B.
R. Tillman, who made the opening
address. His theme was the elimina
tion of the negro from politics.
After referring to his boyhood days
spent in Elbert county, he launched
into his discussion with his old-time
vigor. The race question was a seri
ous problem and politics should be
freed from it. The disintegration of
the republic was apparent when people
had to buy votes and it cost $5,000 to
go to the legislature. It was time to
call a halt.
He explained the South Carolina
workings and held up a constitutional
convention as the one thing which
would save the state, white primaries
would do for awhile, but would soon
be worse than now.
FOUR WERE BOUND OVER.
Whitecappers In South Carolina Will Be
Arraigned In Court.
The four men charged with whip
ping negroes in Greenwood, S. C.,
were arraigned before Magistrate Aus
tin for a preliminary hearing Monday
afternoon. They waived a prelimi
nary trial and gave bond in the
sum of SI,OOO each for appearance at
the circuit court. There have been no
further arrestsand no more whippings.
Wage Agreement Signed.
The Western Anthracite Coal com
pany, of Spadra, Ark., has signed the
district wage agreement with the
United Mine Workers’ and their old
men have resumed work. Other small
operators have ilso signified their in
tention to sign.
ATLANTA. GA.. SATURDAY, AUGUST 26. 1899.
' believed that President Kruger’s coun
ter proposals will meet with scant at
tention and unless the Boers complete
ly back down, which is not likely, the
crisis will quickly develop into" war.
It has developed that the war office
has been aware of the nature of the
Transvaal government’s move for sev
eral days, and that it was communi
-1 catedto the war office, hence it is
probable that Great Britain will delay
the d 'nomnent as little as possible.
A high colonial official expressed to
a representative of the Associated
Press his disgust at what he termed
“Kruger’s cupidity and hypocrisy.”
He said:
“The kind of game which Kruger is
playing must be clear to Americans.
The protestations of the Boers that
’.they wish to live quiet, agricultural
. lives may be the tune of some on the
( veldt, but the gang m Pretoria is
simply after money. Though Presi
dent Kruger says many harsh things
of the Uitlanders, he never hesitated
to make money out of them, either by
fair or foul means.
“This Transvaal question cannot be
j'~ r’jed bx-r«cftnt
muat go back fifty years. It has been
hanging fire all that time, and the
sooner it is settled now, the better.”
Though the official did not actually
say so, it was clear that he believed
war was the only mode of settlement.
It is learned that the government is
somewhat annoyed at the public's
slight interest in the Transvaal.
The official above quoted said to the
Associated Press representative:
“Dreyfus seems the only thing that
our people think about, though Eng
' land is in the most serious crisis. This
; indifference is perhaps typical.”
A special dispatch from Capo Town
i says there is great danger of an out
| break of violence on the frontier, and
: that the scum of South Africa are en
listing throughout the colony and are
I being sent to Pitzani and Jameson, on
j the border.
COLORADO TOWN DESTROYED.
i Being Built of Pine Timber, Buildings
Burned Eike Paper.
5 Fire has utterly destroyed the busi-
• ness portion of the city of Victor, Colo
. rado, causing a loss estimated at $2,-
3 000,000.
Beginning shortly after noon Mon-
• day, the fire raged until evening, con
; suming everything in its way. It had
- its origin, it is thought, in the Mer
chants’ case, adjoining the Bank of
3 Victor, on the corner of Third street
1 and Victor avenue.
s A strong wind from the south fanned
■ the flames and in a few minutes all the
) surrounding houses were afire. Help
’ was summoned from Cripple Creek,
) but the town had been built in the
> early days of the camp and was of pine
> timber for the most part and burned
like paper.
i Efforts were made to stop the pr.'zg-
I ress of the flames by blowing up
buildings in their path by mer.as of
i dynamite and all the afternc«>n the
i hills roared with explosions, but the
effort was in vain.
“INTIMIDATION” CHARGED.
I
Federation of Rallaray Employes Holds
Interesting Meeting at Atlanta, Ga.
The Atlanta Federation of Railway
Employes held an interesting and en
thusiastic meeting in Atlanta, Ga.,
Monday afternoon at which the new
president of the federation, Mr.
Charles Daniel, arraigned the federal
courts for “their notorious unfair
ness” to labor unions, and he de
clared many of them are dominated by
corporate influences.
He also declared that some of the
i road officials in Georgia are discrimi-
> nating against members of the railroad
orders aud are trying to intimidate
■ and prevent their employes from be-
■ longing to the organization represent
[ ing their class.
FLORIDA EDITOR WHIPPED.
Postmaster Crum Hired Colored
Assistant and Incited Ire
of Peckites.
Editor W. C. Crum, of The Florida
Republican, was brutally beaten by
whitecaps at Peck, Fla., Monday
night. He is postmaster at that place,
but resides in Tampa, ami has been
going out there attending to the mail
at night and returning to Tampa in
the morning. Some weeks ago he ap
pointed Dan Morrison, a colored man, ’
his assistant, so that the office could
have a man in charge all the time.
Morrison was made to give up the
office by a committee of citizens, who
are unknown, and Mr. Crum had to go
out and attend to the office himself.
Monday night after he had completed
his work he started to a house he owns
a short distance away, where he sleeps
when there.
He was held up on the road by a
mob of masked men with guns, who
made him dismount. He was then
tied with a rope, hand and foot, and
given a brutal beating. He also sus
tained severe bruises about the head
: and shoulders from the kicks admin
istered by the mob.
After they finished beating him they
cut oft' the whiskers from one side of
his face and applied carbolic acid to
the deep gashes upon his naked flesh
made by the whipping. Mr. Crum
does not know who attacked him. The
mob threatened to kill him if he ap
pointed another negro assistant at
Peck. He has closed tlje office and
will deliver no mail to ’'he Peckites
and his resignation has bden accepted
at Washington. !
ECHOES OF THE
Recent Hurricane Left Tri*il of Disaster
Along Atlantic Coast.
A special from Norfolk, Va., says:
Another chapter in the history of the
horrors of the sea was added by the
recent hurricane which dealt death
and destruction in Porto Rico and ap
parently lost none of its fury by rea
son of its visit to the Atlantic coast.
No such damaging result has at
tended a storm in the past quarter of
a century, aud the stretch of beach
from Kinnakoot to Hatteras, N. C., a
distance of twenty-eight miles, bears
evidence of the fury of the gale in the |
shape of spars, masts and general
wreckage of five schooners, while now
and again a body washes ashore to
lend solemnity to the scene.
The story was long in reaching Nor
folk, but lost none of its dramatic in
terest by reason of the delay. Waves
mountain high,seas which by r-ason of
their power carried everything before
them, winds which blew unceasingly
day and night at a seventy-mile veloc
ity, were the causes of the disasters,
aud that not more lives were lost is
considered by many survivors nothing
less than a miracle.
ATKINSON WAS ON TOP,
Atlanta City Councilman Knocked Down
On the Street.
In the Atlanta, Ga., city coun
oil, Monday, Col. W. S. Thomson, a
member, severely denounced H. M.
Atkinson, president of the Georgia
Electric Light company, as the alleged
author of a published card reflecting
upon some of the council members.
The card, however, was written by
another party, and after the council
meeting an effort was made by Atkin
son to avenge the insult offered by
Thompson. Friends of the two men i
interfered and prevented a fight in the
chamber.
On Tuesday Thomson and Atkin
son met face to face on the street and ■
hostilities quickly commenced. With
out a word Atkinson let fly his fist
and caught Colonel Thompson under
the eye, sending him to earth. When
the police rushed up they found At
kinson astride his opponent.
While seated upon Colonel Thom
son, Mr. Atkinson said to him:
“You , I ought to mash
your face into a jelly!”
WELLMAN GOES SOUTH.
The .J'nvnaH.t-Kxplorir wnd Ills Party
Uarw Tromso.-, Norway.
Ad vie. ■« received from Tromsoe,
Island of Tromsoe, Norway, state that
Wu’ter Wellman, leader of the Well
man polar expedition. which arrived
there August 17 on the steamer Cap
elin, having successfully completed
explorations in Franz Joseflaud, left
Tromsoe Monday for the south.
LONGING NOMINATED
By Mississippi Democrats For
Governor of the State.
NOMINATION WAS BY ACCLAMATION.
Platform Endorsea Hon. W. J. Bryan and
Stands By the Chicago Platform of
1896—Full Ticket Named.
A special from Jackson, Miss., says:
Judge Longino was nominated for
governor by the Mississippi democrats
at their state convention Wednesday
afternoon.
Judge Wynn, of Greenville, deliv
ered the address placing Judge Lon
gino in nomination aud the convention
declared him their choice by acclama
tion, amid wild enthusiasm, while a
heavy thunder storm played havoc
outside.
The four candidates who had with
drawn followed Judge Longino’s ad-
I dress of acceptance with timely
i speeches, pledging their support to
the nominee and gracefully bowing to
I the will of the majority.
Judge Longino is a comparatively
young man, and .prior to entering the
gubernatorial contest was the chancel
lor of the seventh chancery district.
He is a native Mississippian and his
J career in politics has been a remarka
i bly successful one. He is essentially
| a self-made man and has brought him-
I self out of obscurity by the force of his
' own exertions.
The platform presented was as fol
i lows:
j convention assembled, acknowledging
I the beneficience of democratic rule in
i the state and nation, enunciate the fol
! lowing principles and earnestly in
dorse and reaffirm the declaration of
! principles promulgated by the party
I in convention assembled at Chicago in
1896, and recognize in the Hon. W. J. j
Bryan, of Nebraska, the ablest expo- ■
nent of these principles, the statesman !
and patriot, the great tribune of the ■
people.
“We enter our solemn protest I
against the encroachment upon gov- J
ernment affairs by exaggerated capital 1
in the form of trusts and combines as
being inimicable to the best interests
of the masses of the people and the
cause of free and untrammeled gov
ernment, and express ourselves as un
alterably determined to aid by all pos
sible and proper means the control or
destruction, if necessary, of these
euemies of good government.
“Reviewing the last democratic '
history of Mississippi, we endorse with |
pride the administration of her public
affairs, and especially would express
our unconditional approval of the
clean administration of our present
governor and affirm our unshaken faith
in the democratic principles he has so
worthily illustrated in his public life.
“We hereby express our confidence
in the virtue and unimpeachable in
tegrity of the people in the selection
of all public servants and to that end
indorse the system of primary elec
tioas, under proper restrictions, for
all democratic nominations, that every
man may have a voice in the govern
ment under which he lives.
“We tender our genuine and hearty
thanks to the citizens of Jackson, aud
especially to the Business league, for
courtesies extended the convention.”
Hon. Leroy Percy, of Greenville,
one of the bitterest personal enemies’
of Governor McLaurin, secured the
floor and offered a lengthy amendment
to the plank indorsing the state ad- i
ministration. The amendment, among
other things, called attention to the
charges of drunkenness that have
been brought against the governor in
the past, denounced his veto of the
bill for a new house and the industrial
institute aud college appropriation
bill; designated the governor as a
coward for deserting the state capitol
during the yellow fever epidemic, and
many other things. The amendment
was tabled.
Nominations for the minor state offi
cers on which there were no contests
was the next order and resulted as fol
lows:
Secretary of state, J. L. Powers, of
Hinds; superintendent of education,
H. L. Whitfield, of Rankin; railroad
commissioner, southern district, A. Q.
May, of Simpson; filerk of the supreme
court, E. W. Brown, of Copiah.
LABOR! ATTENDS COURT.
Wounded Barrister Rapidly Re
covering—Judge of Courtmar
tial Reveals Partiality.
The third week of the Dreyfus trial
at Rennes, France, began without in
cident at 6:30 Monday morning.
M. Labori was present. He drove
to the court in a carriage and entered
I the hall at 6:30. The audience greeted
him by standing up and by a general
clapping of hands.
Maitre Labori walked quite briskly,
but holding his left arm close to his
side in order not to disturb the wound.
He met General Mercier and General
Billot in the middle of the courtroom,
stopped, chatted and smiled. Labori
looked very well. He was given a
cushioned arm chair. Madame La
bori, looking well, was also in court.
Labori was warmly congratulated by
his friends. Captain Dreyfus, on en
tering, smilingly shook hands with
Labori.
It is said the court will get through
with the ninety odd witnesses by the
beginning of September, and it is
probable that the verdict will be de
livered about September 7th.
All of the witnesses examined dur
ing the day were hostile to Dreyfus,
but as none of the evidence was fresh
I but mostly a reiteration of the old
‘ statements, the audience followed the
depositions with comparatively little
interest.
The session wound up with a scene,
on account of extraordinary conduct
of Colonel Jouaust, president of the
court, who permitted himself to make
an unwarrantable display of partiality.
M. Bertullus had been confronted
with the last witness, Captain Jnnck,
! and Gene tl Gonz had defended the
to be allov ed to refute some of Junck’s
, remarks. Colonel Jouaust made a
: gesture of impatience and shouted:
| “What, again?”
An outburst of loud hissing came
from the audience at such a display of
unfairness from the president. Judges
and gendarmes quickly suppressed the
' noise, but Colonel Jouaust understood
the well-merited rebuke administered
him, turned red and adjourned the
court ten minutes later.
KAISER’S CABINET TO RESIGN.
Members Hold a Meeting: and Reach That
Decision—Emperor William Absent.
A special cablegram from Berlin,
Germany, states that Monday after
noon a cabinet meeting was held at
the residence of Prince Hohenlohe,
the imperial chancellor, and the whole
cabinet agreed to resign.
The acceptance of the minister’s res
ignation is uncertain.
Emperor William will return to Ber
lin on Wednesday, when, it is reported,
he will preside at the cabinet council
and decide what steps are to be taken.
All kinds of rumors are afloat. One
paper asserts that the kaiser has ac
cepted the resignation of the whole
cabinet. Others are of the opinion
that the fall of Dr. Von Miquel will
ential the fall of Prince Von Hohen
lohe also, but nothing will be defi
nitely known until the emperor ar
rives.
The newspapers are still actively
commenting upon the difficulties of
the situation.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
Lint of New Industries Established the
Past Week.
The more important of the new in
dustries reported during the past week
include brick works in Texas; coal
mines in Kentucky; cooperage works
In Arkansas; three cotton mills in
Georgia, one in Mississippi, two in
South Carolina and Tennessee; cottou
seed oil mills in Mississippi and Texas;
two electric light plants in Tennessee;
flouring mills in North Carolina and
Virginia; a foundry and machine shop
in Alabama; a furniture factory in
North Carolina; a grain elevator in
ilrkausns; iron ore mines in Alabama;
a knitting mill in South Carolina;
limestone quarries in Alabama; lumber
mills in Louisiana, North Carolina,
South Carolina aud Tennessee; a pa
per mill in South Carolina; a tele
phone supply factory in North Car
olina; a telephone company in West
Virginia; tobacco companies in the
Carolinas; a water and power company
in Florida; a woodworking plant in
North Carolina.—Tradesman (Chatta
nooga, Tenn.)
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