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LIEUTENANT!
Succumbed to Typhoid
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DEATH CAME PEACEFULLY
Demise of His Beloved Companion
Was a Great Shock to
Admiral Dewey.
A Washington special says: Lieutenant
Tom Rrumby died Sunday evening
at 5:45. The end came peacefully,
the sick man dropping off as if to sleep.
All day he had grown gradually and
perceptibly weaker. Early Sunday
morning the doctors announced that
they had been compelled to give up all
hope for recovery.
Lieutenant Brumby's sister, Mrs.
Hay ward, who had been the faithful
Catcher by his bedside during all the
long days of his desperate illness,
was with him at the time of his-death.
He had been unconscious for many
hours until Sunday morning, when he
was able to talk with his sister for a
few minutes, making brief replies to
her questions.
THE CAUSE OF I>EATH.
The immediate cause of the death
was blood poisoning that came from
the glandular swelling which was one
of the complications with the typhoid.
The swelling was in the left side of
the face and neck. The operation performed
several nights ago seemed to
give relief, but the tissue of the parotid
gland was destroyed and there were
internal troubles. Dr. Osier, the Bal
timore specialist, stated to Admiral
Dewey, who bad been a daily caller at
the hospital, that in all his experince
he had never seen similar complications.
The physicians refused to give np
all hope until the patient was seen to
be growing veaker. The fever symptoms
did not indicate a change for the
worse, but the general condition was
less favorable. During Sunday the
fever ran high at times, and as the
patient conld retain nothing in the
way of nourishment, the doctors pronounced
the end only a question of
a few hours at most. There was no
surprise, therefore, when Lieutenant
Brumby dropped off iuto the long
sleep that knows no waking.
Admiral Dewey has been a daily
caller at the hospital during Brumby's
illness and expressed the deepest personal
interest in his case. Mrs. Dewey
has also call several times. The resident
officer of navy and bfficials of the
navy department have been constant
in their attentions.
The leutenant's present illness dated
from the 27th of November, the first
eymptom being nothing more than q
cold, which, however, failed to yield
to treatment and soon afterwards he
went to tho Garfield hospital, where
he died.
GREAT SHOCK TO DKWBT.
The death of Lientenant Brumby,
while not unexpected, was a great
shock*to Admiral Dewey. The relations
of the two men for several years
past have been very intimate, and a
strong friendship had grown up be
tween them.
Lientenant Brumby went out to the
> Asiatic station with the admiral, and
had been with him until they both returned
to the United States several
months ago. In his capacity as flag
lieutenant to the admiral, Lieutenant
Brumby was thrown with his chief
practically all the time, and acted as
his personal representative in many
matters of detail delegated to him by
the commanding officer. He was regarded
by Admiral Dewey as a bright,
energetic and capable assistant, while,
the devotion of the latter to the ad-,
miral was something marvelous. The!
burden of his thought during the latter
days of his illness, when his mind
was wrecked with delirium, seemed to
' be regarding his work for the admiral.
Admiral Dewey was unremiting in
his attendance to him until his condition
became precarious, and visitors
were not allowed to see him. Mrs.
^ W. L. Hay ward, of Marietta, Ga.,
his sister, was summoned, and later
she was joined by her husband, both
remaining with the lieutenant until he
QEBXA3 ATTACHE WITHDRAWN.
Xmperor William Dbfutad With Insinuations
of Paris Newspapers.
A special from Berlin says: Emperor
. William's intention to withdraw
Major Baron von Suesskend, German
military attache in Paris, as cabled to
the Associated Press some time ago,
has jast been carried out. The event
is considered of prime importance.
His majesty had become thoroughly
disgusted with the attacks and insinuations
of the Paris press regarding the
activity of the German military attaches
and with the numerous. private
and official reports which had reached
him on the subjeot, bearing out partly,
at least, the newspaper charges.
THE PARIS RECHRISTENED.
Steamer Which Ban Upon the Manacles
To Hare New Name.
A London dispatch says: The difficulties
connected with the insurance
of the American line steamer Paris,
which ran on the rocks off the Manacles
May 21st last, and was re-floated
Jnly 11th, have been settled. The
vessel will be handed over to Harland
& Wolff, at Belfast, for a thorough
overhauling. When she resumes her
place in the trans-Atlantic service a
year hence she will be rechristened
after an American city.
IS ALLEN ELIGIBLE!
Nebraska Senator May Not Be Allowed to
Take His Scat.
- The question has been raised as to
whether William V. Allen, appointed
senator from Nebraska, can be seated.
The contention is that Hayward never
having taken his seat the whole matter
is in the some position as in states
where the legislature failed to elect at
the expiration of the term of his predecessor.
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JRUMBY DEAD
Fever in Garfield Hosngton
City.
died, the lieutenant's aged mother remaining
at her home in Marietta, Ga.
The father, who is dead, was a colonel
of the Fourteenth Georgia regiment in
the confederate army.
Lieutenant Brumby was forty-four
years old and unmarried. He was appointed
a naval cadet from Georgia,
entering the service on the 29th of
September, 1873, and his present
commission dates from the 24th of
August, 1892. Practically all the
time during tne last two years ne nas
been with Admiral Dewey.
In his report of the battle of Manila,
Admiral Dewey spoke in very complimentary
terms of the services and
gallantry of his flag lieutenant, and
recommended that he be advanced
some numbers on the list of lieutenants.
ALLEN FULLER CONVICTED.
Murderer of Hrs. Pottle Sentenced
to Hang at Macon, Ga.,
January 5th.
The trial of Allen Fuller, the negro
charged with the murder of Mrs. Eugenia
Pottle, ended at Macon, Ga.f
Saturday, when the jury returned a
verdict of guilty.
The case attracted more attention
than any since the trial of Tom Woolfolk
many years ago, and when the
verdict was read there was a ripple of
applause, which was promptly quieted
by the officers in change of the room.
The case was given to the juiy at
1:05 o'clock Saturday afternoon and
promptly at 1:20 o'clock a verdict of
guilty was returned. There was a
larcrA r?rr?wd assembled in the court
room all during the morning and a
still larger one when the jury came
back after finding the verdict.
After the verdict was read the attorneys
for the defense polled the jury
and the verdict seemed unanimous.
Judge Felton then discharged the
jury. Before passing the sentence he
asked Fuller if he had anything to say.
The prisoner replied that he did, aad
rising, again stated that he was innocent
of the crime; that Redd killed
Mrs. Pottle. He said that if he had
not walked down the road with Redd
that night he would not have been on
trial.
He said that he had not had a fair
trial; that the witnesses who testified
against him were his enemies. He
reiterated that he did not kill Mrs.
Pottle and his plea for a new trial wa?
pitiful, and he for the first time showed
emotion.
When he resumed his seat Judge
Felton sentenced him to be hanged in
private January 5th.
Alfred Redd, the negro whom Fuller
said killed Mrs. Pottle, was not implicated
by any of the testimony introduced,
except that of the prisoner
who made a statement to the effect
that Redd did the killing. It is believed
by some that Redd had some
connection with the crime, but there
was no other evidence against him
other than Fuller's statement.
FIGHT GROWS INTERESTING.
Thomas Ryan Protests Against Consolidation
of Seabord Systems.
An Atlanta dispatch says: The
fight Thomas F. Ryan is making
against the syndicate headed by John
Skelton Williams, which is endeavoring
to consolidate the component parts
of the Seabord Air-Line systems grow
warmer.
Mr. Ryan is evidently not letting
any grass grow under his feet, and is
determined to push the fight he is
waging to a conclusion as soon as possible.
That the Williams syndicate will
just as bitterly contest his every move
is a foregone conclusion.
Failure Made No Change.
The New York correspondents of the
Broadway National Bank of Boston,
which closed its doors are the Chase
National bank, the Western National
bank and the Bank of North America.
The effect of the failure of the bank
on New York financial institutions was
imperceptible.
HUNTER UNDER ARREST.
Secretary Hay Makes Request of Moorish
Government For His Extradition.
A Washington dispatch says: Secretary
Hay has directed Consul Gum;
mere, at Tangiers, to officially request
the Moorish government to surrender
Thomas J. Hunter, the alleged defaulting
auditor of the Atlanta and
West Point railroad, of Georgia. Because
of the fact that this government
has no extradition treaty with Morocco,
it has been compelled to ask the
extradition of Hunter, not as a matter
of right, but as a matter of favor, with
the explicit understanding that it will
be unable to act favorably upon a similar
request made by Moorish sultan.
FOR MAIL ROBBERY.
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D. A. Rnssell Is Arrested and Jailed In
Atlanta, Ga.
Duane A. Russell, a railway mail
clerk, was arrested and lodged m tne
Tower at Atlanta Friday afternoon on
the charge of robbing the United States
mails.
The arrest was made shortly after
Russell had reached the city from a
run to Atlanta from Birmingham. The
officers taking him in custody were
Postoffice Inspectors Ed Barry, of Atlanta,
and Rosson, of Chattanooga.
MORE MEN FOR MANILA.
A Thousand Americans Are Needed To
Fill Regiments.
The war department has arranged to
send about a thousand recruits to Manila
to fill the regiments which are
running short on account of death,
disease and discharge. The steamer
Sumner is being transformed into a
troopship at Norfolk, and will be used
for the transportation of these recruits,
who are now being congregated
at Fort Slocum, New York.
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Mrs. Hughes A~aln.
A Greenville dispatch says: Mrs.
Mattie A. Hughes is to be tried again
next month for the murder of her husband,
provided the supreme court does
not sustain her former jeopardy plea
and quash the indictment against her.
The case is to be heard before the
supreme court, but it is thought likely
that that tribunal -will refuse to pass
upon the question until a final disposition
of the case in the lower court.
Tho probability ol another miBtnai
appears as great now as ever.
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Now Enterprises Chartered.
A perpetual charter has been issued
to the Orangeburg Presbyterian
Church Society. The corporators
named are Messrs. M. Glover, J. A.
Salley and John A. Hamilton. The
society was first organized in 1849.
A commission for a charter has also
been issued to the Holman Brothers'
company, of Crescent, Orangeburg
county. The corporators named are
James M. Holman, K. R. Holman and
J08. K. Fairey. The capital stock of
the company is to be $2,000.
War Cotton Claims.
Governor McSweeney is receiving a
great many letters relative to the cotton
claims he has written about to the
various southern governors. Governor
McSweeney has taken up the
matter with Senator Tillman and
others and thinks the matter, which is
a very large one, is getting along very
well.
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Fighting Smallpox.
A Columbia dispatch says: Governor
McSweeney has arranged to borrow
$3,000 with which to have the state
board of health tight the smallpox
trouble. The arrangements have been
made and as needed the money will be
paid out. Governor McSweeney took
the position that the public health demanded
heroic remedies and if money
was needed it must be had.
A day or two ago Governor MoSweeney
received the following letter:
To His Excellency, Governor M. B.
McSweeney, Governor of South Carolina?Dear
Sir: Agreeable to your
request and wishes the state board of
health convened at Columbia December
13th, and held a most interesting
and important meeting. The condition
of the smallpox epidemic now
threatened at the several points in the
state was fully discussed and measures
adopted to prevent further spread of
the disease, most likely to run with
the advent of cold weather. Vaccination,
isolation and purification of infected
houses and things are the only
means that can ftr^est the disease.
There are many difficulties that may
prevent success; most of them with the
tact and discretion on the part of the
sanitary inspectors can and no doubt
will be overcome. As you know, the
emergency fund is exhausted; to meet
the urgent needs of the board $3,000
is needed. We would most respectfully
request your aid to secure this amount
until the general assembly can devise
means to secure the desired amounts
Yours respectfully,
. T. Grange Simons.
Chairman State Board Health.
Governor McSweeney has left the
handling of the disease entirely to the
state boaid of health.
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Decrease of Crime.
M. F. Ansel, solicitor of the eighth
circuit, embracing Greenville, Abbeville,
Anderson, Oconee and Pickens
counties, has forwarded his annual report
to the attorney general. The report
shows that there were less than
half as many murder cases in the circuit
this year as last. Of the twenty
cases this year two were disposed of in
Abbeville, eight in Anderson, two in
Oconee, three in Pickens and five in
Greenville.
Fourteen of the cases resulted in
verdicts of "not guilty," four "guilty,"
and in two cases "no bills" were returned."
There were 42 cases of murder
disposed of in the circuit last year.
There were 282 cases, all told, disposed
of in the circuit this year as
against 334 last year. The 282 resulted
109 "no bills," 49 "not guilty,"
and 124 "guilty." The 334 resulted
99 "no bills," 57 "not guilty," and
178 "guilty."
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Money It Unclaimed.
As curious as is the fight to recover
the money spent in equipping the First
South Carolina regiment for the war
in Cuba, just as noteworthy is the
fact that after it has been gotten there
remains $252.20 of the original
$8,952.25 unclaimed. The money is
in bank waiting for the proper voucher.
The largest portions of the money
not drawn belong to the Plant system,
$38; J. O. Eelyea, $95.02; Wade F.
Webb, $9.84; Jackson Edwards, $15;
N. Smite, $2;E. D. Darby, $71.24.
The money will be paid out upon
the proper receipt being presented.
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Money For Soldier Boys.
The state military board met a day
or two ago in Governor McSweeney's
office. There were present: Governor
McSweeney, Gen. Floyd, Col. Willie
Jones, Major Henry Schachte and
Major Blythe. The military situation
was fully discussed and the general
needs of the service were canvassed.
One of the chief purposes of the
meeting was to dispose of the annual
appropriation and on this subject the
following resolutions were adopted:
It is hereby ordered by the military
board, in meeting this day assembled,
that the following distribution of the
! onnnol fund aooronriated bv the eren
er?l assembly tins current year for"the
purpose of enhancing the efficiency of
the state militia, and also any amount
collected from disbanded companies
and now in hands of adjutant general
: and appropriated for similar purpose,
! be at once distributed, and the adjuj
tant general, J. W. Floyd, is hereby
; ordered to execute disbursement of
j same as follows: Total amount ap!
propriated for year 1899, ?8,000; total
I collected from disbanded companies,
; $483.09; total to be distributed, $8,|
483.09; to expenses of First United
j States Artillery Band (25 pieces) to
j accompany the state troops to. Dewey
I celebration and return, ?466.00; expenses,
$7 Qt
The balance of said fund, amount*
, ing to 87,947.09 bo equally pro rated
between the active service companies
of the state militia as completed in the
reorganization of the state militia this
year, 1899.
STOCKS TAKE TUMBLE
Money Rate Goes Up As High As
186 Per Cent On New
York Exchange.
Panic conditions developed on the
New York stock exchange Monday afternoon
with the imperative need of
money developed by the violent contraction
in values. Stocks were being
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gard to prices they would bring and at
distressing sacrifice of values.
No end to the helplessness of the
situation seemed in sight when, in the
last half hour of the market some $10,000,000
was offered on the stock exchange
by the concerted action of the
clearing house banks to force the rate
arbitrarily down to 6 per cent without
regard to the bidding at higher
rates which was being done by other
brokers for distressed operators.
The collapse in the money rate
checked the decline and drove the
bears to cover. The recoveries produced
by their urgent bidding were
almost as violent as the declines had
been, but the losses were by no means
entirely retrieved. Large offerings of
stocks continued at the rally and at
some points of the list, prices broke
anew before the close, making the
closing exceedingly irregular and unsettled.
The excitement continued to
the end, with sentiment looking forward
anxiously for tho developments
of another day.
Tho seriousness of the crisis has
called forth the best efforts of powerful
and conservative financial interests
who are busy concerting measures to
tide over the money difficulties, which
beset the stock market, and which by
reason of their extent and the importance
of the interests involved,threaten
to affect the country's business interftAloa
ore
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It has been obvious for many
months past that a great deal of money
had been locked up by capitalists in
these new industrial combinations
which were becoming burdensome to
carry, by reason of the h ^avy demands
for money in the regulai channels,the
large absorption of funds by reason of
the government surplus revenues and
the urgent needs of the London money
market growing out of the Transvaal
war.
Before the concerted relief by the
clearing house banks the money rate
leaped to 50, 75,100 and, according to
the official record, 125 per cent.
Credible reports assert that 186 per
cent was paid for money during the
day. The official record of such a
.transaction was lost in the excitement.
An idea of the severity of losses
may be gained from a few specifications.
Thus American tobacco fell an
extreme 21$; Metropolitan 20$; People's
Gas 14; Tennessee Coal 17; Manhattan
9 and Leather preferred 9$ all
in the list of industrials. In the railroad
list such strokes as Northwest.
New York Central, Great Northern
preferred, Rock Island, Southern Pacific,
the Union Pacific, the Northern
Pacific, Atchison prefefered and in
fact the most prominent and active
railroad stocks in the whole list showed
losses all the way from 4 to 9
points.
The rallies with the final forcing
down of the money rate to 6 per cent
ran from 5 to 10 points. The day's
transactions ran up to a total of nearly
1,650,000 shares, which is the record
for a day's business.
After the close of tL exchange there
was a meeting of the clearing house
committee to concert further measures
for safety and relief.
BLOW WAS HEAYY.
England Feels Fearful Effect of General
Buller's De'eat.
A dispatch to the New York World
from London says:
There is no alleviation of the gloom
and panic caused by General Buller's
reverse.
The British forces in India cannot
be further depleted by drafts for South
Africa, while the threatened trouble
from Menelik the Negus of Abyssinnia
and the possibility of complications
along the Mediterranean renders
the reduction of the garrison in Egypt
too risky, although General Kitchener,
who is at Omdurman, is going
as Lord Roberts' chief of staff.
Fear is expressed that the GermaD
navy may be used in conjunction with
those of Russia and France to exert
pressure to prevent reinforcements
reaching South Africa.
CHARTER EXTENDED.
Secretary of State Grants Renewal for Lite
Between Atlanta and Alabama.
An Atlanta dispatch says: On the
application of W. A Handley, of Ala
barna, president, and li. E. U'Jieele,
secretary, of the Atlanta and Alabama
Railroad company, Secretary of State
Cook has granted a renewal of charter
for fifty years.
The original charter was granted by
the legislature in 1886. It allows the
line to be built in Georgia from Randolph
county, Alabama, to Atlanta.
Fifteen miles of the road have been
built in the state of Alabama, and the
renewal will place the company in
position to complete the road.
BANK DOORS CLOSED.
Old Institution of Boston Places Affairs
In Hands of Comptroller.
As a result of the failure of the John
P. Squiro Company (incorporated), of
Cambridge, Mass.,for $3,000,000, which
was announced a few days ago, the
Broadway National bank at Boston, in
which the Squires were largely interested,
did not open its doors Saturday,
and a notice at the entrance stated
that the affairs of the bank were in the
bands of the comptroller of the currency.
Battleship Placed Into Reserve.
The battleship Massachusetts has
been ordered into reserve at League
Island. Her meu nre wanted to supply
the crew for the battleship Kentucky,
about to be turned over to the
government. h
BULLER BEAT
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BE LOSES ELEVEN GENS.
Boers Put Up a Desperate Fight
and all Previous Victories Are
Totally Eclipsed.
; The war office at London has received
a dispatch announcing that General
Buller has met with a serious reverse,
losing ten guns. General Buller was
attempting to cross the Tugela river.
Finding it impossible to effect his
object, he ordered a retirement in ordor
to avoid greater lasses. He left
elev&n guns behind.
The following is the text of General
Buller's dispatch announcing his re-'
verse:
"Buller to Lansdowne. Chievely
Camp, December 15, 6:20 p. m.?I regret
to report a serious reverse. I
moved in full strength from our camp
near Chievely at 4 o'clock this morniDg.
There aie two fordable places in
the Tugela river and it was my intention
to force a passage through one of
them. They are about two miles
apart.
"My intention was to force one or
the other with one brigade, supported
by a central brigade. General Hart
was to attack the left drift, General
Hildyard the right.road and General
Lvttleton was to take the center and
to support either. .
"Early in the day I saw that General
Hart would not be able to force a
passage and I directed liim to withdraw.
He had, however, attacked
with great gallantry, and his leading
battalion, the Connaught Rangers,
I fear, suffered a great deal. Colonel
I. G. Brooke was seriously wounded.
"I then ordered General Hilyard to
advance, which he did, and his leading
regiment, the East Surrey, occupied
Colenso station and the houses
near the bridge. At that moment I
heard that the whole naval artillery I
had sent to support the attack?the
Fourteenth and Sixty-sixth field batterries
and eix naval twelve-pounder
quick fires, under Colonel Long, had
advanced close to the river, in Long's
desire to be within effective range.
"It proved to be full of the enemy,
who suddenly opened a galling fire at
close range, killing all their horses
and the gunners were compelled to
stand to their guns.
"Some of the wagon teams got shelter
for troops in a donga and desperate
efforts were made to bring out the
field guns.
"The fire, however, was too severe,
and only two were saved by Captain
Schofield and some drivers, whoso
names I will furnish.
"Another most gallant attempt with
three teams was made by an officer
whose name I will obtain. Of the
eighteen horses, thirteen were killed,
and as several drivers were wounded,
I would not auow anotner attempt.
Unsupported by artillery, I directed
the troops to withdraw, which they
did in good order.
"The fourteenth and sixteenth field
batteries suffered severe losses, too.
"Throughout the day a considerable
force of the enemy was pressing
on my right flank, but was kept back
by mounted men under Lord Dundonald
and part of General Barton's
brigade. The day was intensely hot
and most trying on the troops, whose
conduct was excellent. "We have abandoned
ten guns and lost by shell fire
one. The losses in General Hunt's
brigade are, I fear, heavy, although
the proportion of severely wounded, I
hope, is not large. The Fourteenth
and Sixty-ninth field batteries also
suffered severe losses. We have retired
to our camp at.Chievely." .
ENGLAND IS DUMFOUNDED.
A later dispatch frohi London states
that the news of General.Buller's reraria
waa T?/?Aivpd an l&t.A that, mnrn
ing newspaper comment was confined
to perfunctory expressions of extreme
regret and disappointment and of the
necessity of calmness and redoubled
efforts to retrieve the position. This
latest check is regarded as the most'
GERMANS ARE JUBILANT.
Thej Congratulate One Another Over
England'* Bad Reveries.
The German press and people are
jubilant over the news from South
Africa and everywhere in the streets
people stop each other and offer congratulations.
Among the press comments
is that of The Kreuz Zeitung,
which says:
"Thus the fighting power of the
third column , is destroyed and the
campaign against the Boers is disastrously
ended. What, however, means
more is that England's decadence,
long ago apparent to far-sighted statesmen,
has thus become visible before
the whole world."
JOHNSTON WINS THREE.
Alabama Govornor Secures Five Senatorial
Totes In Saturday's Primaries.
The returns from the primaries held
in Jackson, Morgan and Macon coun
ties, Ala., on Saturday indicate that
Governor Johnson won in all of them,
thereby securing five more votes for
United States senator in the next general
assembly. Marshall county recently
instructed for him and his
friends claim ten or eleven of the sixteen
holdover senators. The other
holdovers are mostly for Morgan.
TO TRANSPORT SPANIARDS.
Oti? Instructed To Make Contract For
Sendine Them Home.
Instructions have been cabled to
General Otis to contract with the Caballos
Transportation company for returning
to Spain the 4,000 additional j
Spanish prisoners recently released by j
the Filipino insurgents. This is in I
accordance with the terms of the peace !
treaty with Spain, agreeing to send
home all Spanish soldiers he'll captive
by the insurgents.
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serious event in Great Britain's mili- j,
tary history since the Indian mutiny. |
The Standard says:
"General Buller's dispatch is
deplorable reading. It is now the
familiar story of concealed Boers
and of British troops marching up i
blindly almost to the very muzzles j
of the enemy's rifles. It cannot
tin rlaniai-l tln?k tVia mnnil aflfaft will
be to aggravate our difficulties over i
the whole field of operation. The i
country has discovered with annoyance
aud surprise that subduing
Boer farmers is about the
hardest work we have entered upon
since the Indian mutiny. Their
commandants have shown themselves
able to give our generals
useful, but expensive, lessons in
'modeip tactics."
It has hardly been realized until
now, even after the experience of the
week, that General Buller could fail.
Virtually nothing had been allowed to
leak through regarding his prepara- j
tions, but the public waited patiently
in the confident belief that 'he was
taking such time and such precautions
as would insure success. No independent
reports of the engagement
have yet been allowed to come through
but General Buller's own dispatch
tells the sad tale in sufficient outline
to show that the British have been
entrapped again by the astute Boers.
It was not anticipated that General
Buller would make a frontal attack.
No criticisms of his movements are ;
made, however, since apparently he
suffered a repulse rather than a defeat,
and did not push the attack
home, but broke it off in the middle
so as to save a useless sacrifice of life.
It is expected that he will renew the
attack shortly. Immediately on receivincr
the news the war office decided
to mobilize still another division, and
to replace the losses of artillery. The
necessary reinforcements will be harried
off as fast as possible.
Fifteen transports are due to arrive
at Cape Town between December 17th
and January 8th, with about 15,000
troops of all arms, but unless General
Buller is able to renew the attack,
which is exceedingly doubtful, the
British generals will be compelled for
another fortnight or more to remain
practically on the defensive.
WIFE MURDER IANGED.
Glaser Showed Remarkable Nerve
and Laughed When He
riounted the Gallows.
The third hanging that has ever occarred
in Dougherty county, Ga., was
the execution of W. J. Glaser, wife
murderer, at Albany.
Glaser is the only white man who
has ever been executed in Albany,
and his case has been one of the most
interesting in the history of the section.
Daring the last days of his life
he was resigned to his fate. He was
not despondent over the nearness of
his death, but was cheerful, he said,
even of the prospect of so early a transition
from this to a better estate.
His calmness was remarkable and
he seemed the least excited of any of
the small group gathered around the ,
scaffold.
In his last remarks, to those around
Glaser protested his innocence of the
crime and requested that the search
for the guilty party be continued. He
asked the crowd not to sorrow, because
it was the happiest moment of
his life.
When the rope had been adjusted
Glaser bade all good bye and as the
black cap was placed over his head
his face was radiant with a smile.
"Am I standing right?" said Glaser
to Sheriff Edwards just before the trap
fell. These were his last words.
At 12:15 o'clock the trigger was
pulled and the body shot down
through frhe trap door. It was screened
from view after it fell by the black
curtain around the lower part of the
scaffold.
Im8 minutes his pulse had ceased
to beat, and in 15 minutes he was pronounced
dead. Glaser's neck was
broken by the fall and he died without
a struggle.
GENERAL BULLEK'S LOSSES.
Report Shows Total of 1.097 Killed,
Wounded and Mlsging at Tngela River.
General Buller reported to the war
office Saturday that his losses in the
Tugela river engagement were: Killed,
82; wounded, 667; missing, 348?a
total of 1,097.
"Black week," as last week is now
universally called, has evidently aroused
the government and the war office
to a full sense of their responsibility
and of the magnitude of the task before
them.
Tha Rritiflh losses. in killed.wound
ed, prisoners and missing throughout
the campaign, now reach the enormous
total of 7,630.
CAPTlft BARNES EXPIRES.
Assistant Doorkeeper of tho Senate Found
Dead In His Bed.
A Washington dispatch says: Captain
Arthur Barnes, of North Carolina,
was found dead in his bed at 8:30
o'clock Saturday morning. He had
been an assistant doorkeeper of the
senate for the past eighteen years. He
was a Democrat, and had attended
every Democratic convention since
1880. He was a captain in the Confederate
service during the civil war,
and was about sixty-five years of age.
NEW GENERAL MANAGER,
T. W. Leary Succeeds O'Brien of Southern
Express Company.
The annoucement has been made by
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Jfresiaent al. j. u.&neu, ui we uuuwern
Express company, that Mr. T. W.
Leary has been appointed general
manager for the company. Mr. Leary
is well known throughout the south
and his appointment will no doubt give
general satisfaction, since he is well
qualified. His headquarters will be
in Chattanooga.
miflukiinmuuww
NTo Amendments Were Allowed To
the Financial Bill.
:losing debate was sensational
Representative* Lentz and Clark oV Ohio
Make Scathing Speeches and
Cause Excitement.
The six days' debate upon the currency
bill in congress closed Saturday
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ill a Btjusutiuiiai uutuuer. xuo
lican leaders had evidently set a trap
for the minority to show^that discord
existed on the money question,' and it
was timed so as to make the scene-as
dramatic as possible. Just at the
close of the debate three of the heavyweights,
General Grosvenor, of Ohio;
Mr. Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, and Mr.
Dolliver, of Iowa, were put forward to
call the attention of the country to the
fact that in the long debate very little
had been heard about free coinage of
silver at 16 to 1 from the minority side
of the house and that no one had offered
an amendment containing such a
proposition.
Mr. Grosvenor said it was one of the
signs of the coming regeneration of
the Democratic party. Mr.' liichardson,
the minority leader, indignantly
denied any intention of abandoning
silver and called attention to the fact
that under the special order nnder
which the house was operating neither
a substitute nor a motion to recommit
was in order. Then Mr. Dalzell challenged
a member of the opposition to
offer a free coinage amendment.
In response half of the democratic
membership rose and demanded the
privilege, but hero and there was an
eastern democrat shouting his disapproval.
There were cries of "bluff"
from the democratic side, but the republicans,
after the parliamentary obstacles
had been removed, through
Mr. Overstreet, who was in charge of
the bill, asked unanimous consent for
an amendment to the rule to permit
the amendment to be offered. Then
Mr. Driggs and Mr. Levy, two New
York democrats, blocked the game
with objections. No amendments were
offered to the bill during the day, and
only one section of the bill was read.
The whole time was occupied in fiveminute
speeches.
The incidents of the day were a sen
sational speech by Mr. Lentz, Democrat,
of Ohio, denouncing the prosecution
of the war in the Philippines
and charging an alliance between
Great Britain and the United States
to subvert liberty, one in South Africa
and one in the orient, and an attack
upon the memory of ex-President
Hayes by Mr. Clark, Democrat, of Missouri.
Mr. Brown, of Ohio, Republican,
warmly defended the memory of
Mr. Hayes.
In reply Mr. Clark declared that
Mr. Hayes was "a counterfeit president,"
for whom he had a supreme
contempt, even though he was dead.
"He stole the presidency," said he
savagely, "the greatest crime in the
tide of times. I wish that he could
haved lived forever and borne the
scorn of decent men to the end. His
sepulcher should bear the words:
'This man was guilty of the monumental
crime against human liberty.'
"Now," concluded Mr. Clark, as he
retired to his seat, "if they can make
anything out of that let them make
it."
Mr. Clark's words were received in
silence on both sides of the house.
Mr. Lentz, of Ohio, charged that
the pending bill had been prepared by
the 3,000 national banks, a secret combination
that wielded more influence
than the Masonic fraternity, the Odd
Fellows and the Red Men combined.
The bill was intended to increase the
power of the national banks. All the
rest that was in it was already in the
law. As he proceeded Mr. Lentz'e
r?mftrV.s became more and more sen
saticnal.
"We are in favor of renominating
William Jennings Bryan," said he,
"and we will put in a plank against
trusts; we will put in a plank againsi
imperialism, and we will put in a
plank against the British alliance, an
alliance that is now open and apparent.
(Applause on the Democratic
side.) They are shooting down liberty
in South Africa while you are
shooting it down in the Philippine islands.
(Applause on the Democratic
side.) That is evidence sufficient that
both governments are operating upon
parrallel lines.
"If things are not* inside out, how
can the Republican party stand impotent
and silent while England is
shooting to death a republic in south
Africa, and while under the military
and imperialistic powers that patronage
has delivered to the president here
the crime of crimes is being^committed
under the stars and stripes of the
union. The president at Madison,
Wis., said: 'One small fraction of one
small tribe resists our authority in the
orient.' Aye, my friends, with an
army there and on the way of 75,000
men to subdue one small fraction of
one small tribe, an' army larger than
Sherman needed to march to the sea;
an army larger than Grant needed to
take Yicksburg, ia now called into
requisition and kept there for nearly a
year to subdue one small fraction of
one small tribe! Is that the source of
your prosperity?
"Is your Egan pension of 875,000
for being reduced,degraded and dishon.
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ored; is your Deei irusi inai muruereu
4,800 men while the Spaniards only
killed 350?is that the source of your
prosperity? (Applause on the Democratic
side.) Is your humiliation and
subordination of the man who won
the most magnificent naval victory
that the world has ever seen, Winfield
Scott Schley (applause on the Democratic
side)?is that the source of your
prosperity? Is your subordination of
Brooke and Miles and Merritt, the
men who had been trained, together
with their associates, at an expense of
millions of dollars to this country and
the putting of politicians in the army
saddle?is that the cause of your
prosperity? (Applause on the Democratic
side.) You will live to be
ashamed of your record*"
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UJKKCHU DILL |
PASSES HOUSE
The Gold Standard Measure Goes Jj
Through By Vote of 199 to 151.
REPUBLICANS ENTHUSIASTIC ||
Eleven Democrats Cast Their Bal. ' M
lots For the Bill?One Southern
"Deserter."
A Washington special says: The
currency bill, which was debated all >JBB|
last week, was passed Monday by the
house by a vote of 190 to 150. It had
the united support of every Republican
in the house and of eleven Democrats j||
?Messrs. Clayton, Driggs, Fitzgerald,
Levy, Ruppert, Scudder, Underbill
and Wilson, of New York; MoAleer, of M
Pennsylvania; Denny, of Maryland,
and Thayer, of Massachusetts.
All the other Democrats voted against
the measure or were paired against it
except John Walter Smith, governor*
elect from Maryland; Mr. Stallings, of
Alabama, and General Joseph Wheeler, ''
of Alabama. Mr. Stallings, of Alabama,
has not been present in thn ;
house this session, owing to illness, m
and one of his colleagues annonnoed
that if present he would have voted
in the negative. General Wheeler is
serving in the Philipines.
Mr. Smith is, therefore, the only
member of the house who did not go
on record upon the bill. When the '
speaker announced the result of the ||
vote the Republicans cheered lustily.
That was the only demonstration in
connection with the vote.
s ' Neither a motion to recommit nor an | '
offer of a substitute was in order by
the terms of the special rule under ,' ||
which the house was operating. Mi
Mr. Gaines, of Tennessee, asked if %
it was in order to recommit with in- 'i '
structions to report back a free ooin- : :
"It is not," replied the speaker.
The bill was then read the third ; 1 |?
time and placed upon its final passage.
"I demand the ayes and naya*"^
said Me. Overstreet, of Indiana, in
charge of the bilL
Members rose on both sides en 1
masse to second the demand.
"Evidently a sufficient number," .
said the speaker." "The derk will V;1
call the rolL"
The roll call was followed with great SB
interest There were no demonstrations
when the Democrats who broke sway
from the majority of their party; ?
voted in the affirmative. The clerk ^
called the names of the Democrats 'UjS ;
who declined to respond twice on eachq *
roll call. Every Republican voted for 9
Messrs. Catohings of Mississippi,
Campbell of Montana, Bronssard of.
, Louisiana, Robertson of Louisiana, ^
ua. vey 01 -uuiubuuib, wwdjauqu
1 After the vote the speaker unex- jm
1 pectedly announced the committee ^^ijj
lections and the reading of the list was ||
' followed with intense eagerness- by -.3 1
the members whose opportunities for
distinction depend so largely upon .^aBM
their committee assignments. The "4
only incident in connection with the %
reading of the lists was M*. Bailey's |1
1 interrogatory of the speaker as to
1 whether General Wheeler's name had
been placed upon the committee on
1 ways and means.
Speaker Henderson responded in'- ^
the negative. A vacancy has been
left on this committee for General
Wheeler. The announcement of the
1 death of the late Bepreseniative Bland,
of Missouri, which occurred last summer,
was made by Mr. DeArmond, of
1 Missouri, and the house, out of re1
spect to his memory, adjourned until
1 Tuesday at 1:05 p. m.
6AYLE DEFEATS 0WE5S.
Scvenfh Kentmcky District Electa a Democrstic
Conareaamma. .
. At the special election in-the seventh
Kentucky congressional district Monday
to elect a successor to Congressman
Evan E. Settle, June W. Gay!<r? Democrat,
of Owen county, was elected
over ex-Congressman W. 0. Owens,
who ran as the fusion candidate of the
anti-Goebel Democrats.
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I iflLimu lictUAiis wauiv, - '-mm
Otis Will Forward To Wuhlagtos Soma
Significant Doc omenta.
A dispatch to The New York Herald
from Manila says:
Among the numerous valuable reo- T," J
ords of the insurgent government
which have been captured by the
Americans, it is said there are numerous
letters from the junta.
Other letters fonnd among the rebel .V'JjS
archives indicate that Aguinaldo has ?3B|
had the active moral support of promineut
anti-expansionists in the United ' ^;
States.
General Otis will forward these im- *..
portant papers to the war department
in Washington.
GORDON ON PHILIPPINES, : ^
Says He It With the Men who Foafht Va>
der the Start and Strlpet. I
A Al'orvofrnm MinnAAnolit.MiniL- ^ 'oB
?ays: General John B. Gordon, of -sgBi
Georgia, now and for the last ten ;j|
years commander-in-chief of the Confederate
Veterans of America,, made a-."3!'
a declaration on the Philippine que*
tion Wednesday, He said:
"My sympathies go out to the men $3
who are fighting under the stars and
stripes wherever they are, and^ I am
not in favor of pulling the flag down. 1
that shows where I stand."
THANKS RESOLUTION
For Benefit of Schley Is Introdmeed in she >|
Senator Pettigrew, of South Dakota,
introduced in the senate Monday a
joint resolution tendering to Bear Ad- r|||
miral Winfield Scott Schley and the
officers and men under his command ^
the thanks of congress 'Tor highly distinguished
conduct in conflict with the
enemy, as displayed by him in the
destruction of the Spanish fleet offthe
harbor of Santiago, July 8*189fc"
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