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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.) NO. 9