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- ~ , "V" * ^TY -> -? -- -' ?- - - p~ i LiHMyi'njflrwi "iiv^ ' . ?-'"*. >*.. /": . \7? *r\^r''*y' - v?i^ fcfcA? -' The Bamberg Herald. /_ ^ ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG. S. G. THURSDAY". FEBRUARY 20.1902. ONE DOLL Alt PElt YEAR. 5 UNCERTAIN IS TAFT Civil Governor of Philippines Short on Suggestions. IS PUZZLED OVER SITUATION Tells Senate Committee That He Real^ ly Don't Know What Is Best Government Policy For - > the Islands. L. A Washington special says: The hearing of Governor Taft on the Philippine question by the senate committee Saturday on the Philippines began with a series of questions by Senator Petterson in regard to the fitr\f fnv* ^nrv rlnfv M T* UVOO U1 X iOi JUi J UUCJ . Patterson asked whether the native population on which the voting franchise is bestowed could not be trust' ed to do jury duty. The governor replied in the negative, saying they are at so used to corruption in the admlnis tration of justice that they could not be trusted. . Referring to the petition of the federal party, Governor Taft said all the ^ cases of imprisonment referred to there were for military and civil of% fenses. Practically there are no civil prosecutions for political offenses at this time. Governor Taft said that the original draft of the federal party platform had been submitted to the commission, and that the declaration for statehood was then more explicit than was ultimately adopted. "My recollection," he said, "is that we said to the representatives of the party that this must be far in the future, and that we could make no promise one way or another." "Is not the commission responsible for the formation of the federal party?" asked Senator Dubois. "No, it was not," Governor Taft responded. Senators Patterson, Carrnarck and Culberson asked numerous Questions. based upon tbe merorial of the federal party calculated to bring out Governor Taft's idea as to what, if any, promise should be made to the Filipinos in the way of government for the future. Replying to an inquiry from Mr. Patterson as to the denunciation in the menforial of a colonial form of government, Governor Taft said the memorialists mean just what they say, that they favor ultimate statehood. Replying to Mr. Carmack as to the wisdom of making the Philippines an integral part of the United States, the witness said the condition in the Philippines today is such that the restructon of the constitution of the United States cannot be safely extended to those islands. Governor Taft advocated the ?stablishment of a stable government for the present, with the understanding ; that at some time in the future the Americans and the Filipinos could reach an agreement as to what should -be done in the way of government, er . in maintaining relations; "but," he said, "whether the islands should havo their independence, whether they should be given a quasi independence or whether they should be made a state of the union is so far in the fu;U. ture that I have reached no conclusion. "The ereAt evil of the nresent tlma with references to the Philippines la the current discussion of their future so long before that can be fixed." Replying to a question by Senator Carmack, he said he -would not favor a promise even of a form of government such as is given to the territories of the United States. He also said he was opposed to extending the constitution to those islands. In reply to a number of questions by Senator McComas, based upon th? democratic substitute for the Philippine tariff bill, Governor Taft said that to turn the government of the archipelago over to the Filipinos as therein proposed would, in his opinion, result in anarchy. He had no doubt, however, that the Filipinos could form a government ag they had done under Aguinaldo. ABDUCTORS ARE ATTACKED. Brigands Fight Brigands For Possession of Miss Stone and Ransom. Referring to the reported engagements between brigands for the possession of Miss Stone, the Constantinople correspondent of the Echo de ParIs says: "The captors of Miss Stone and Madame Tsilka have been attacked by another band of brigands, seeking to se cur^the prisoners in order to get the ren^m. "Twenty men on both sides were killed during the fight, but the original captors of the missionary were victorious." STAR CHAMBER METHODS. Is Accusation Hurled at Mr. Lodge By Mr. Patterson. A sharp clash occurred in the senate Wednesday between Mr. Lodge and Mr. Patterson over the admission of representatives of the press to the Investigation which the Philippines committee is conducting. The Coloredo senator desired that all newspaper men be admitted to the hearings, declaring that as now conducted they were of a star chamber character. TOLSTOI REPORTED DYING. World-Famous Reformer and Novelist Suffers Serious Relapse. A St. Petersburg cablegram states that Leo Tolstoi has suffered a relapse and is dying, t According to a dispatch to the Associated Press from London February 10 Couht Toilstoi is suffering from heart failure and inflammation of the lung*, f ' POWERS ARE SLILL GROWLING I i In Regard to Their Attitude Toward Your Uncle Sam Before the Hispano-American War. A Washington special says: In view of the statements and contradictions, more or less of an official nature, : coming from the principal European capitals respecting the attitude of the powers Individually toward the United I States just preceding the SpanishAmerican war, officials at the capital feel a natural reluctance to being drawn into the controversy, and it is with difficulty that official statements may be had on this subject. One fact remains, namely, that the European ambassadors and ministers in Washington called upon President McKinley April 7, 1S93, in the effort I to prevent war. The matter now in controversy is what happened after that call and the question at issue is as presented in the latest phase of the European dispatches, did Lord Pauncefcle under- j take to secure the support of the other j European powers in an attempt to forcible restraint, upon the United States? Lie Given to Germany. A London dispatch says: The under secretary for the foreign office, Lord Cranborne, replying in the house cf commons Tuesday to a question of Henry Norman, liberal, who asked whether the government's attention had been called to the statement in the German press, and alleged to have received official confirmation at Berlin, to the effect that Great Britain, April 14, 1S9S, through her ambassador at Washington, Lord Pauncefote, proposed a fresh note, in which the powers should declare that Europe did net regard tho armed intervention of the United States in Cuba as justifiable, and that in consequence of Germany's refusal to accept this proposal, the step was abandoned, said: ."No. sir. Her late majesty's government never proposed through her majesty's ambassador or otherwise any declaration adverse to the action of the United States in Cuba. On the contrary, her late majesty's government declined to assent to any such proposal." Lord Cranborne's answer to Mr. Norman was received with rounds of applause. M- Norman later said to a reprisen tative cf the Associated Press: "I am perfectly satisfied, and of course implicitly believe that statement of the British ministers." John Redmond, Irish leader, commented on Lord Cranborne's statement as follows: . "That the feeling which existed in [ America that England did so much for [ the United States at the time of tfie J war is all humbug. To my personal knowledge the majority of fTTe members cf the house of commons were strongly anti-American in those days. I have no doubt Germany has evidence to prove her assertions." SAFES WERE FIREPROOF. Vast Sums Are Recovered From Ruins In Paterson, N. J. Money and securities said to amount to $3,000,000 w^re recovered from the two huge vaults under the ruins of the : Frist National bank at Paterson, J. J., Monday afternoon. Books, papers, bullion and paper money were found uninjured. Guarded by files of soldiers with fixed bayonets, the treasure was conveyed to the Paterson savings institution In . a two-horse j a ray. Buried beneath the ruins of the city hall were found the safes which belonged to the comptroller's office and in these also the papers, legal docu ments and public records were found j unharmed. The safes of the Passaic i Water Company, under the ruins of the building, which stood at Nos. 107 and 109 Washington street, were destroyed by the fire and the only part of their contents recovered was $500 in silver. Conservative opinion is now inclined to cut $2,000,000 from the aggregate ! loss of $10,000,000 given out immediately after the conflagration, and $8,i 000,000 probably will be accepted finally as the actual cost of the fire. It was stated Tuesday that the insurance amounted to between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000. GEORGIA ROAD ACCEPTS. Assents Without Conditions to State Depot Proposition. Upon his return to Atlanta from Charleston Wednesday Governor Candler found awaiting him a letter from General Manager T. K. Scott, of the Georgia railroad, accepting the state's proposal with reference to the building of a new depot on the state's property in Atlanta. The Georgia railroad accepts the state's proposal practically uncondi tionally. The only provisions are the formal ones relating to the acceptance by the other roads. WIFE DID THE SHOOTING. Supposed Dying Policeman Explodes "Theory" of Atlanta Detectives. Policeman James M. Duncan, in the Grady Hospital at Atlanta, has made a full statement about his wife shooting him between the eyes Saturday night. He became conscious Monday morning and was able to talk. He said his wife did the shooting and not his son, and he also says the shot was fired by Mrs. Duncan after she had threatened to kill him. Negro Deserters Pay Penalty. The Philippine mail which arrived it the war department in Washington Thursday brought the records cf the curtmartial trial and hanging of two ncn of troop F, Ninth cavalry (col orcd). Relief For Tennessee College. A lull appropriating $6,000 for the relief of Carson and Newman college at Jefferson City, Tenn., was passed ( by the senate Thursdays | POSSE AND BANDITS i i I j !n Desperate Tray Resisting h I Six Dead and Six Wounded. ! BURNED OUT OF BARRICADE Desperate Gang of Mountaineers Defy Arrest and Battle to a Finish Near Middlesboro, Kentucky. Six men are dead and as many more are dying as the result of a battle between officers from Middlesboro and mountaineers, says a special to the ^Tnnn \ Tnnrml Cinrl TVi AWliC \ A CiiU.y UV^UA MMU ?... bunc from its Middlesboro, Ky., corresrcndcnt. The battle, which was one of the most desperate affairs of its kind in the history of mountain warfare, occurred between 4 and 6 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at Lee Turner's "Quarter House" saloon, 3 1-2 miles I from Middlesboro. Last month Turner had some mules and other goods levied on in payment j for a debt, and a few nights ago, it is alleged, he, with others, went to Virginia, where the property had been taken, secured what was formerly his, and returned to the "Quarter House." Wednesday Deputy Sheriff William Thompson summoned a posse of ten or fifteen men for the purpose of arresting Turner at his "Quarter House" saloon. The Louisville and Nashville refused to convey the officers to the so loon, and they walked through the mountains. Turner had heard that an attempt would be made to arrest him, and he and his men, fifteen in number, gave the officers a warm reception. The saloon is well suited for an attack like this. It is built of huge logs and is surrounded by a 30-foot fence, la which loop holc-s are cut, so that the inmates can shoot outsiders. Turner's surrender was demanded. His reply was a round of shot. Char ley C. Cecil, cf Middlesboro, was riding in plain view of the Turner gang. Seme one raised a window of the log dive and shot Cecil, who fell dead. Instantly the man at the window fell back, pierced by a half dozen bullets. Then the firing began in earnest, the officers scattering and hiding behind trees and rocks, and pouring a galling fire into the mountain fortress. In the fight John Doyle, a former railroad man, was badly wounded, perhaps fatally, and Simon Bean, another ex-"flllrcader, was shot in tfcd hand. The town men gathered closer around Turner's place, undaunted at the shots which whizzed around them. As soon as Cecil was killed his companions determined to burn Turner's rendezvous, and in the midst of the battle a fellow applied a torch to an exposed side cf the building. A few minutes later the building was in flames. Seceral of the mountaineers came to the window and were immediately shot down. The posse surrounded the barricade, determined to let none escape. Lee Turner and several of his friends, however, in some manner escaped, and is now at Mingo mines, eight miles from Middlesboro. several or nis men perished in the flames. CHARLESTON REASSURED. President Wires Hopes of Visiting Exposition at Some Future Date. President Wagener, of the Charlesten Exposition Company, received the following dispatch from President Roosevelt Wednesday: "Groton, Mass., February 12.?President F. W. Wagener, Charleston.? Please accept from Mrs. Roosevelt and myself and in behalf of those who would have accompanied us to the exposition, hearty congratulations and good wishes. We look forward to the pleasure of visiting Charleston and the exposition at some future date.. (Signed.) "THEODORE ROOSEVELT." PRESIDENT IS JOYOUS. Returns to the White House From Anxious Visit to Groton. President Roosevelt returned to the whito house Friday afternoon in a very happy frame of mind, after five j anxious days at the bedside of his boy. In his home-coming the president had a chance to make three short rear car speeches to the crowd at Worcester, ! Woonsockct and Providence. In each he assured the waiting hundreds that "Ted" was all right and j OIH UI me >v wus, anu in tuvu kuuv wi>? j crowd seemed as joyous as the presij dent and cheered vociferously. Marquis of Dufferln Dead. The marquis of Dufferin, former governor general of Canada and exvicerov of India, is dead. He passed away Tuesday at Clandeboye Castle, Ireland. His son, who succeeds him, married Miss Davis, of New York. J Dr. Rixey Takes Charge of Office, I At Washington Tuesday, Dr. P. M. j Rixey, the new surgeon general of the navy, entered upon the duties of I that office. HENNERY TO DEWEY. * t Alleged Letter of Apology for GermanErrors at Manlld. It is said in Washington that a lengthy letter has been forwarded to Admiral Dewey by Prince Henry, of Prussia through a warm personal friend. It expresses the kindest personal regard and is in a way an apology from Germany to the admiral. Prince Henry admits that the Germans made errors at Manila, and that j Admiral Dewey waa right ond acted beet it> all t.higgg. iiifi BOWLDER SMASHES TRAIN.' I Ceven Men Met Instant Death In Pe- ! culiar Wreck?A Score More Are More or Less Injured. Seven men were killed and a,t least fourteen .were seriously injured by a huge bowlder, weighing fifteen tons, crashing into the caboose o? a work train on the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf railroad twenty miles west of Little Itock, Ark., at 10 o'clock Friday morning. The work .* train was headed west, the engine; pushing six cars and a caboose. As u was passing along the track under the high bluffs bordering the river two miles west of little Maumclle, the crew saw a heavy rock rolling witn awiui velocity uuwu the steep declivity, having been detached from the hillside by the rains. The train was going slowly, but was almost upon the rock when it struck the track. Engineer Nazor reversed his engine at once, but it was so close upon the obstacle that the train struck it with almost full force. The caboose was at the head of the train, and was shivered into splinters. Most of the men who were killed and injured were in the caboose. There was a crew of fiftyrfour men, white and \olored, and they were going to a point further up the road to clear a slight wreck. There were just back of the caboose three Cars of sand, and many of the men were buried underneath the heap of sand which was thrown forward by the terrific impact. Six men are known to have been killed outright. Three were left on the scene and three were removed to Little Rock on the train that was dispatched to the scene as soon as the news could be sent to the city. Fifteen injured were carried to Little Rock and are now at St. Vincent infirmary. One of the most desperately injured died on the way to the hospital from the depot. It is believed there are others killed or burled under the sand at the scene of the wreck, as there are several missing, and as yet are unaccounted for. A crew of workmen arc clearing the wreck and looking for the bodies. FREIGHTS IN COLLISION. Three Men Killed, Others Injured and Cars Demolished. A special from Altoona, Pa., says: Three men killed, four probably fatally and two seriously injured, one freight train a complete wreck and another nearly so, are the results of an accident Friday morning on the Pennsylvania railroad on the steep grade a few miles above the Horseshoe curve. Control of the second section of its eastbound train was lost soon after the other entered the tunnel and two miles west of Allegrippus it crushed into the rear of the first section. Ten cars, the caboose and two engines were completely wrecked. DUMONT'S BALLOON COLLAPSED. Flying Machine "Lands" Aeronaut In the Sea, But Rescue Was Effected. A dispatch from Monaco, France says: Santos Dumont's dirigible bal loon collapsed at sea Friday afternoon. Dumont was rescued unhurt. The aeronaut started at 2:30 p. m., and was proceeding in the direction of Cape Martin. Yvhen opposite the Cahino at Monte Carlo a rent occurred in the balloon and in less than ten minutes all the gas had escaped and the balloon fell into the sea. Several boats, including the Prince of Monaco's launch, were following the balloon and Santos Dumont was rescued. The balloon sank. PHILANTHROPIST KILLS HIMSELF One-Time Wealthy Chicagoan Sukides to Hide Poverty. At Chicago Friday Peter Buschwah, a pioneer real estate dealer, was found dead in his office. The body sat upright in a chair writh the feet resting on a desk near by. When the door was opened eight gas jets were found to be open and the police therefore claim that Mr. Buschwah committed suicide. The deceased at one time was possessed of a fortune, but of late years is said to have given it away in charities he could illafford. VENABLES WIN SUIT. Government Must Pay Atlanta Firm $6,014.60 on a. Contract. The Venable Construction Company, in its suit against the national government for $9,9S1.07 for fortification work on Tybee island, done during the latter nineties, was awarded $0,014.60 by Judge Newman in the federal court at Atlanta Tuesday. In November, 1896, when Captain Oberlin Carter was the engineer in charge, the Venable Construction Com... xt . pany entered Into a contract wun uie government to build certain fortification works known as gun emplacement, for which they were never paid. INJURIOUS TO THE YOUNG. Frank James Secures Restraining Order Against Theatrical Company. Frank James, who at one time was a member cf the famous James boys gang, secured a temporary injunction in the circuit court at Kansas City restraining a theatrical company now playing at a local theatre from presenting the play, "The James Beys In Missouri." Mr. James says his main objection to the play is that it is inju rious to the youth cf the country. BOGUS BUTTER BILL. House Passes Measure to Regulate Manufacture of Oleomargarine. The house Wednesday passed the oleomargarine bill. There was no division on the final passage, the real test of strength having been made on a motion to recommit, which was defeated by a majority of 34. Tilb provision to require the inspectlfi?8 and branding of renovated 45"b'frh wjifc adopted In committee WILL SEE ROOSEVELT Boer Representative Is Sent Over From The Hague. BEARS LETTER FROM KRUGER In Person, Dr. Mueller Will Hard This Document to the President. Boers to Begin Campaign Here Amor.g Us. A cable dispatch from Brussels, Belgium, says: The plan of campaign drawn up by Dr. Mueller, the former consul of the Orange Free State in Holland, who is now on his way to New York with dispatches from the Boer delegates in Europe to President Roosevelt, includes the formation of two standing committees, one more or less political, to include the proBoer senators and representatives and other prominent men who, It is claimed, have already promised their co-operation. The other and larger body will be chiefly concerned in th8 collection and forwarding of money ifor the Boer cause. The Boers in Brussels allege that there has beer, considerable difficulty heretofore in accounting for all the ifioney subscribed, and that not all of it has reached its destination. Br. Mueller will be president of the finance committee and will remain in the United States so long as necessary. He is entrusted with a letter from Mr. Kruger to President Roosevelt, the joint production of Dr. Leyds and the other Boer delegates, but which Mr. Kruger approved and nigned. Dr. Mueller is charged to personally hand this letter to President Roosevelt, whose permission to publish it will be asked. After a discussion, in which the opinion of the Boer delegates was considerably divided, Mr. Kruger and Dr. Leyds convinced the others that it was not wise, in view of the reply of the British minister, Lord Lansdowne, to the note of the Netherlands on the subject of peace in South Afm o Vfi nrortnrps tn HrPflt BriN 1 IV_Cl, IU UiUlkV V v? VW w ain to open telegraphic communication with the Boer leaders in the field. WHITE AND YELLOWALLIANCE. John Bull and Japanese Government Forrr. Friendly Compact That Causes Great Surprise. An important parliamentary paper was issued at London Tuesday night giving the terms of a practicaal alliance between Great Britain and Japan for the preservation of China and Korea. The paper covers a dispatch sent by Lord Lansdowne, the secretary of state for foreign affairs, January 30, to the British minister at Tokio, Sir Claude M. MacDonald, and comprises a signed copy of the agreement. In explanation the papers say the agreement may be regarded as an outcome of the events of the past two years. Throughout the boxer troubles Great Britain and Japan had been in close and uninterrupted communica tion and actuated by similar views. "We each desire," says Lord Lansdowne, "that the Integrity and independence of the Chinese empire should be preserved and that there should be no disturbance of the territorial status quo, either in China or the adjoining regions." The agreement is signed by Lord Lansdcwne and Baron Hayashi, the Japanese minister to Great Britain. These ministers so well kept the secret that the paper issued after parliament had adjourned for the night, announcing the first important alliance between a western and a yellow race, comes as a startling surprise to the public, and although the idea of an alliance with Japan is likely to meet with general approval, the outcome of this sensational departure will be anticipated with no little anxiety. It is regarded as a direct move against Russia IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. Statement Showing Their Value for the Month of January. The monthly statement of the imports .and exports of the United States for January, 1902, shows as follows: Merchandise imports, $79,426,146; increase as compared with January, 191, $10,000,000; exports, $126,023,- ! 217; decrease, $7,300,000. Gold imports, $1,404,787; decrease, $2,800,000; exports. $1,973,675; decrease, $6,300,000. Silver imports, $2,127,681; decrease, $1,000,000; exports, $4,509,213; decrease. $280,000. STONE RANSOM PAID. # Question of Old Lady's Liberation Still a Matter of Conjecture. The state department has received cable advices confirming the report that the ransom money for Miss Stone has been paid to the brigand captors. Ic is not known when her r Tease will occur, but It is understood that the brigands have made a condition that they shall have a period of a week or ten days in which to make sure of their safe retreat before the prisoner is delivered up. TUSCALOOSA'S LIQUOR SALES. January Report of Dispensary Business Made Public. The dispensary at Tuscaloosa, Alahas made its first monthly report before the mayor and aldermen. The total cash sales for the month of January were $6,789.05. The largest day's sales were $547.45, on January 25, the smallest day's sales being Jan uary 1, $91.10, or an average daily csiee for th? month of $251.47; I NINE MEN KNOWN TO BE DEAD. Clash Between Posse and Mountaineers More Fatal Than First Reports Indicated. Later advices from Middlesboro, Ky. .regarding the bloody battle between a sheriff's posse and a gang of mountaineers, states that although the scene of the fight between the sheriff's posse and Lee Turner's men j is less than four miles from MiddlesI boro, it is still impossible to ascertain j the exact casualties on the Turner I side. It is known that nine men, all toid, are dead, but it is not known definitely how many men were in the log cabin, designated in first reports as a saloon, when the officers made the attack and burned it, and it may ! be that several were killed or wound- ! ed and wero consumed in the flames. I Those who escaped into the Cumber land mountains are still defiant. The j dead are: Deputy Sheriff Charles Cecil Posseman John Doyle, and the following mountaineers: Charles Dye, a ne- 1 gro; Marsh Wilson, Perry Watson, ' Frank Johnson, bartender; Mike Welch, Jim Prado, Joe Hopper. There are reports of wounded Turner men being taken care of in the mountains. Fight Caused By Mules. A month ago some mules owned by 1 Turner were levied upon because ot a debt due Giles Colson. A week ago ; Turner, with a bodyguard, went to ! Virginia, where the mules had been taken, and regained them. While escaping, Moore McCreary, one of Turner's hands, was mortally wounded. Wednesday afternoon Deputy Sheriff j Thompson, of Bell county, swore in a j posse of fifty citizens of Middlesboro j to arrest Turner and the men impli- | cated in the Virginia raid. Turner heard of this and gathered the mountaineers into his fortress for his defense. When the pos6e arrived a demand for surrender was refused and firing began at once. Deputy Sheriff Cecil was killed In front of Turner's gato. John Doyle, a member of the posse, endeavored to secure Cecil's body and was shot dead. Enraged by this the posse set fire to the wooden iortress. The flames spread rapidly and a steady stream of bullets was poured into the barricade, resulting In the known deaths of seven other men. Finally a number of Turner's men fled to the mountains. Trouble Is expected, however, before any arrests are made on the charge of murdering Cecil and Doyle. At last accounts Lee Turner, with his brother, "The General," and a large force, were patrolling the district around the ruins of the quarter house and will allow no one from Middlesboro to pass to the Mingo mines or elsewhere. Meantime the officers are reticent as to their next move. "TED OUT OF THE WOODS." I Such Is Joyful Remark of President Regarding His Boy. President Roosevelt left Groton. Mass., for Washington Thursday afternoon on a special train. As the thaln started, the people at the station cheered lustily and the president bowed his thanks from the platform. Just before his depature President Roosevelt, accompanied by Dr. Lambert, went over to the Powell cottage, the newspaper headquarters, to personally meet the reporters and correspondents who had been in Groton since Sunday. He was in extremely good spirits as he shook each man by the hand and said a hearty word to each. He said: "I want to thank you, boys, for the consideration which you have shown myself and family and for all the courtesies which have been extended to me by the press. There has been such a sudden change in Ted that he has come up all of a sudden, and he is now out of the woods." Continuing, the president said: "Alice will come over from Washington tomorrow to take my place, to a certain extent, while Mrs. Roosevelt will remain here perhaps ten days more. Then, when Ted is in condition she will take him to the white house for awhile, but he will return here and continue his studies." RABID RACE PREJUDICE. Whitecaps In Indiana Notify Farmers Not to Hire Negroes. At Wheatland, Ind., there is a negro settlement. The negroes work for white farmers. All are quiet and inoffensive, but there is a prejudice against them. The folowlng notices, signed "Fire Bugs," were found posted and have produced a sensation: "Notice is hereby given that any man who employs negro labor after the 1st of March, or harbors, leases or rents lands to any negro, their houses will be burned after the 1st day of April." TALKS ON GOODj ROADS. ? ? -a 1?A? VA/^II A convention at unancsiuri ttcii /-iit.tilled ?y Exposition Patrons. The National Good Roads Convention began its sessions in Charleston Thursday. The exposition patrons listened to addresses on highway building and relative subjects by Martin Dodge, of the department of agriculture at Washington; M. A. Hayes, of the Southern railway; E. L. Tessier, of the Charleston exposition, and W. W. Croshv. nf Baltimore. REDUCES CAPITAL STOCK. Cotton Duck Corporation Will Scale Down Many Millions. At a meeting of the stockholders of the United States Cotton Duck Corpoporation held Friday In Jersey City ;:he recommendation of the directors ;o reduce the capitalization of the corporation from $50,000,090 to $30,000,oqq adopted ? % *~?Tv. -"'.I . .. . ROAST FOR FLUNKEYS representative Wheeler Creates Sensation in the Honse. ANGLO=MANIACS ARE FLAYED Embassy to Coronation and Reoeption Planned For Visit of Prince Henry Savagely Attacked By Kentuckian. The monotony cf a private pension day in the house was enlivened Friday by a very sensational speech from Mr. Wheeler, cf Kentucky, in denunciation of what he denominated "fiunkeyisiu" to foreign countries. He took the recent statements emanating ' Ut'n nfr- r/11 n CT LI'UUl CUauueJUlcli cauiucto i^aiuwa the attitude of Great Britain during the Spanish war as a text for a wholesale attack upon the trend of our recent diplomacy. In the course of his remarks he severely scored Secretary Hay, and declared that if Lord Pauncefote had sought, as was alleged, to circumvent us during the war of 1S9S, the sooner he was shipped across the seas the better. He also took occasion to criticise the president for his reported intention to send his daughter to the coronation of King Edward, and to protest against the official reception of Prince Henry. His speech aroused the house to a high pitch of excitement, and elicited from Mr. Boutelle, of Illinois, a spirited defense of Secretary Hay, whom ho eulogized in highest terms. Several' other other members of the republican side took a hand, and latier in the afternoon Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio, in a twenty-minute speech took Mr. j Wheeler to task for his "inopportune protest," and rehearsed the history of the visit of the prince of Wales to this country in 1860 and his reception by President Buchanan. Until 1896, he said, all Americans had glorified in the splendid isolation of the republic and its determination to hold aloof from foreign entangling alliances. Less than five years ago, he declared, a president "egged on by the pitiable flunky in the state department" had stretched his arms across the seas in adulation to the people of Great Britain and today the government was hugging to its bosom a nation that since the battle of Yorktown 1? "* on/1 nflrcictontlv nau b> S> Itriliauuau^ auu i>v>uui?v_.v plotted our downfall. He sneered at the "shoulder-strapped gold lace flunkeys" who were to be dispatched across the Atlantic to bend the knee to and kiss the hand of the English king, whose government, he declared, had attempted to form a coalition of European governments to thwart us while we were seeking to strike the shackles from Cuba. Turning to England's war in South Africa, he denounced her tyranny and the part we had in it in allowing war material to be shipped from our shores. If half that was said of "this man Pauncefote" was true, he declared, he ought to be shipped across the < water, and "the soooner the better." Referring to the report that a member of the president's family was to attend the coronation, Mr. Wheeler said | it was perhaps unbecoming to allude I to it. Nevertheless, he said, he considered it "most unfortunate and unprecedented and to be lamented by every liberty-loving American." It was but one more link in the chain. Mr. Wheeler then turned to the prospective visit of Prince Henry. With a gesture of contempt he declared that "European maniacs were falling over each other" to see the "little Dutchman." There were thousands of Americans following the plow, h^said, who are as honest and as noble as he. Why, he asked, should the American people give heed to this flunkeyism of the present administration. We should treat our visitors politely, but why "fall down and worship them." The whole house was' aroused by Mr. Wheeler's pninppic. oeverai times the democratic side burst into applause. As he was concluding Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio, asked if Mr. Wheeler had been living at the time of the visit of Lafayette, as the representative of the king of France, whether he would have opposed the reception accorded the Frenchman by Washington. "I should have been proud to receive the Marquis de Lafayette," replied Mr. Wheeler. "He helped to fight for our liberties." Thousand Barrels Daily. A dispatch from Barbourville, Ky., says: The Atlantic and Pacific Oil Company, of New York city, has just turned its Richland gusher in tanks and its flow exceeds 1,000 barrels daily, making it the best refining oil well drilled the past year. Solons Kill Fertilizer Scheme. In the South Carolina senate Thursday night, after a hot debate, it was decided that the state do not go into the fertilizer business. It was proposed to setablish a plant costing 1300,000 and operate it with convicts. To Dredge Per.sacola Harbor. The United States dredge, General C. B. Comstoek, sailed from Galveston for Pensacola Thursday to comply with her contract for dredging the harbor there. AIMED AT CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS Ohio Legislature Passes Law Inimical to the New Cult. The Ohio house of representatives has passed a bill aimed at Christian 'Scientists. It provides that any parent or guardian who shall wilfully deprive any sick child under the age of 16 years of the service of a physician shall be fined from $10 to $200 or be Imprisoned for six months, or both. - :;" - 4-iv: KAISER'S YACHT HAS ARRIVED. New Yorkers Are GIvon a Surprise In Unexpuected Arrival of the Hohenzollern. The Imperial German yacht, Hohenzollern, sent to New York for the use of Prince Henry of Prussia in his forthcoming visit, arrived Wednesday from Kiel. She was not expected, for she came by the southern circle, and it was calculated that the run would take at least one more day than it did. It had also been thought that she would touch at Bermuda and that place had reported her two days overdue. The weather encountered was unfavorable for a call at Bermuda, and at sea Admiral Count Von Baudissin abandoned the partly formed plan and shaped his course for New York. She hove in sight off Sandy Hook a few minutes before the noon hour, and an hour later was in quarantine. She ?1 -1? nf tlia nAft fmm fpH. gUL LUC L'uui tea; ui luv y\ji ? ... eral officials and proceeded on through the Narrows and up into North river ., without delay. Passing craft gave her a noisy welcome with their whistles, and the man at her jack staff was kept busy dipping her big naval flag and Its field of white, black Prussian eagle and black cross. She was painted white all over, save for a large black eagle at her figurehead, some touches of gold astern and a long st'eak of red that showed below her + water line. She had a ram bow and in general type resembles a modern man of war. She shows no gun in " sight, but carries eight rapid-fire Krupp guns. The Hohenzollern docked at the piers of the North German Lloyd Steamship Company at Hoboken and 4 will be thoroughly overhauled and put h in order. Admiral Von Baudissin was formal- - ^ lv welcomed to New York by a civic committee, a representative of Mayor . Low and an officer of the United ji j States navy. The officers of the Hohenzollern said it would be impossible for them to accept formal entertainments until the .%< ai rival of the prince, of whose suite * tbey are members. VETS WELCOME MRS. DAVI8. General Reception Given In Her Honcr at Birmingham, Ala. * There was a general recepltqn at ^ tiie Morris hotel in Birmingham, Ala., ^ Wednesday morning in honor of Mrs. Jefferson Davis, who arrived Tuesday . evening, sne was on ner way uj joc&* ^ ? son, Miss., where she will appear before the legislature to urge the pur- , . J chase by the Mate erf Mississippi of : Beauvoii> the old Davis mansion. Hundreds of persons attended the reception of the morning and had the privilege of being greeted by Mrs. Da- . ' J She was presented with badges tyr the local camps of Confederate veter- 'M ans and was the recipient of many -.3 beautiful flowers from the Daughters of the Confederacy. It Is learned that Mrs. Davis had *.f? been offered in the north $90,000 for . - t Beau voir, but refused to selL She j offers the place to Mississippi for $10,- ^ 000, provided the state will establish and maintain there a home for Confederate soldiers. " 4 ' . * jgg COURT CONDUCTING BANK. Receiver Selected For Wrecked Instl- ' jip. i tution at Detroit, Michigan. tWs At Detroit, Mich., Judge Donovan ^ appointed the Union Trust Company, of that city, receiver for the wrecked * City Savings bank. The bond was . ^ fixed at $600,000. Prosecuting Attorney Hunt has filed . 3 suit against the diractors of the bank on behalf of Wain county for $250,000. The county is one of the heaviest de-^ positors In the wrecked institution. ^cLtiLI 1^1* ilCUI y AUUlCITOy nuu TT ? WM ed the institution, is reported as weaker. His mind wanders and he has symptoms of a recurrence of his heart trouble. To Change Inauguration Date. The senate Tuesday passed a joint , resolution submitting a constitutional J&ji amendment changing the time of presidential inaugurations and commencements of congresses from the 4th of March to the last Thursday of April. * [M SCAFFOLD BUILDERS ARRESTED. Responsibility for Death of Three vj Painters Charged to Workmen. Three arrests were made in Atlanta, %| Qa., Tuesday in connection with the accident in the Elseman building . . ^ which caused the death of three painters. Those arrested were Willldm Flindt, the foreman, and J. W. Ball and W. R. Elmore, two of the carpenters who ' built the scaffold which caused the , pprfdent. * > > Flindt and Ball were later released on bail. They made a statement denying any responsibility for the scaffold breaking. v >3 ______ THIRTY BOLO MEN CAPTURED. -'" $8 ' , ;-y Captain Swaine Makes a Bold Dash on Camp of Rebels. Captain W. M. Swaine, of the First infantry, In engagement with insurgents at Paranas, island of S&mar, re- ."> cently captured thirty bolomen and four riflemen. There were no American casualties. The enemy's loss it not known. It has been learned that two hours -J before the fight General Lukban, the 3 insurgent leader, was with the natives engaged with Captain Swaine's command. .? GAGE 18 OFFERED JOB. United States Trust Company Wants Him For Its Head. It was reported with authority in 1L nancial circles at New York that the presidency of the United States Trust - yCompany, of that city, had been offered to Lyman J. Gage; and that lw would assspt.