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ILL ARP'S LETTER. Rumiaations Gf the Popular Sage of Bartow TlIE'P bSOi!ER 15 REMINISCENT tie Discasses Events of the Past in lis Usual happy Manner - Things lie Does Not Know. Wanted-In iSS1 General Henry R. Jackson, of Savannah, delivered in Atlanta the most notable, instructive and eloquent address that has been heard in Georgia since the civil war. 'The subject was "The Wanderer," a slave ship that landed on the Georgia coast in 1858. But the whole address was an historical recital of many poli tical events that led to the civil war and of which the generation that has grown up since were profoundly ig .norant and still are. It was delivered Preuest of the Young Men's Li 'ry Association, when Henry Grady was its chairman, and I supposed- was published in pamphlet form and could be had on application. But - I have sought in vain to find a copy. I have a newspaper copy, but it has been worn to the quick and is almost illegible. I wrote to Judge Pope Barrow, who Is General Jackson's executor, and he can find none among the general's papers. Can any.veteran furnish me a copy? I would also be pleased to ob tan a copy of Daniel Webster's speech at Capon Springs, which was suppressed by his publishers and to which General Jackson makes allus - Ion. General Jackson was a great man. He won his military laurels in the war with Mexico. He was assistant at torney general under Buchanan when Jeremiah Black was the chief. He was the vigilant, determined, conscien tious prosecutor of those who owned and equipped and officered the only slave ship that ever landed on the Georgia coast. He was a man of splen it culture and a poet of ability and reputation. Strange it Is that this magnificent address has not "een compiled in the appendix of soMe Southern history as a land mark for the present generation. It is sad and mortifying that our -young and middle aged men and our graduates from Southern colleges know so little of our an'te-bellum history. The Northern peqple are equally ignorant of the n of slavery and the real causes precipitated the civil war. Most of them have a vague idea that slav ery was born and just grew up in the South-came up out of the ground like the 17-year-old locusts-and was sur sin and our curse. Not one in ten thousand will believe that the South never imported a slave from Africa, but got all we had by purchase from our ,Northern brethren. I would wager a thousand ds fiars against ten that not a me under fifty nor a school boy fi'ves North of the line knows or livsthat. General Grant, their great military hero and idol, was a slave owner and lived off of their hire and their service while he was fight ing up about ours. Lincoln's procla mation of freedom came in 1863, but General Grant paid no attention to it. He continued to use them as slaves antil January, 1865. (See his bography by General James Grant Wilson in Appleton's Encyclopedia.) General Grant owned these slaves in St. Louis, Mo.. where he lived. He was a bad manager and just before the war be gan he moved to Galena and went to work for his brother in the tanyard. While there he caught the war fever and got a good position under Lincoln, but had he .remained in St. Louis would have greatly preferred one on *ur side. So said Mrs. Grant a few years ago to a newspaper editor in St. Augustine. How many of this generation North or South know or will believe that as late as Novermber, 1861, Nathaniel' Gordon, master of a New England slave ship called the Erie, was con victed in New York. city of carrying 'on the slave trade. (See Appleton.) Just think of it a ad wonder. In 1861 our Northern bretiiren made war upon us because we enslaved the negroes we had bought from them, but at the same time they kept on bringing more from Africa . and begging us to buy them. How many know that England, our mother country, never emanci Dated her slaves until 1843. when twelye millions were set free In the East Indies and one hundred millions of dollars paid to their owners by act of parliament? It is only within the last half century that the importation of slaves from Africa has generally ceased. Up to that time every civilized country bought them and enslaved them. English statesmen and clergy men said it was better to bring them away than to have them continue in their barbarism and canibalism. And it was better. I believe it was God's providence that they should be brought away and placed in slavery, but the way it was done was inhuman and brutal. The horrors of the mid dle passage, as the ocean voyage was called, is the most awful narrative I ever read and reminds me of Dante's "Inferno." About half the cargo sur vived and the dead and dying were tumbled into the sea. The owners said we can afford to lose half and still have a thousand per cent profit. Rev. John Newton, one of the sweetest poets who ever wrote a hymn, the au thor of "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound. that saved a wretch like me?" "Savior, Visit Thy Plantation.'' "Safely Through Another Week," and many others. was for many years a 'deck harni on a slave ship and saw all its horrors. He became converted. bat soon after became captain of a slaver and for four years pursuea it mi11 gently and maitigatedl its cruelty. Then he quit an:1 went to p:-eac1irng and says~ in his antatier~aphy that it never occu. to hm et ther was anythiing w'a;: cr i-"moral in the slave trade.v. m.. ws huan.e-r conduct:4 Th(a;o c-al. 0O fenses mute ee 'rut woo unto them by -rci tI 'com. article o-n 'i--;... it i.:"i he days of Noah and Abraham. The latter had a very great household and many servants whom he had bought with his money. The word slave appears but twice in the Bible. It is synonymous with servant and bondsman. There has been on time since the Christian era that the dominant nations have not owned slaves-ometimes the bondage was hard. tut as a general rule the mastar found it to his interest to be kind to his sl2ves. As Bolt Toombs said in his Bostcn speech: "it is not to our interest to stare our slavcs any more than it is to star, our horses ard horned cattle." Shortly wler the little cargo that the Wander er brought were secretly scattered around I saw some of them at work in a large garden in Columbus, Ga., and was told that they were docile and quickly learned to dig and to hoe, but that it was hard to teach them to eat cooked meat. They wanted it raw and bloody. They were miserable little runts, "Guinea negroes," with thick lips and flat noses, but they grew up into better shape and made good ser vants and I know were far better off than in their native jungles, the prey of stronger tribes, and made food for canibals. No, there was no sin in slavery as instituted In the South by our fath ers and forefathers, and that it why I write this letter-perhaps the last I shall ever write on this subject I wish to impress it upon our Doys ana girls so that they may be ready and willing to defend their Southern an cestors from the baseless charge of suffering now for the sins of their fathers. A Northern friend writes: "Do please let up on the negro. We up here are tired of him. Give us more of your pleasant pictures of domestic life, etc., but let the negro go dead." He does not know that the negro and what -is to become of him is a question of tremendous moment with us and It must be written about. But I will refrain as long as it is prudent. Just now I would like to hire a man to cuss the black rascal who came in to my bask yard the other night and stole my grind stone. Fbr five years I have let every darkey grind his axI who wanted to, and now I can't grind my own. The fact is I have no ax to grind, for they stole that first.--Bill 'Arp, in Atlanta Constitution. I New Mill at Huntsville. Boston, Special-The Merrimac Man u'facturing Company was authorized by vote of the stockholders at the annual meeting held here to issue preferred stock to the amount of $1,600,000. which increases the capitalization o1 the company to $4,400,000. The addi tional stock authorized Is needed foi the construction of a new mi!l in Huntsville. Ala., where the Merrimat Company already operates a substan tial plant. It is the intention to build a mill that will give employment tc 1,500 or 2,000 operatives. Bloody Work of Crazy Man. Hopkinsville, Ky., Special.-Lloyd Nelson Young, a white planter, crazed by drink, went to Pembroke and got on a rampage Sunday night. After being put off a train that he had flag ged, he secured an axe and brained Rebecca MacRay, an aged negress, whom he met in the road. Leaving the axe with the body, he sprang on Joseph Landy, colored, aged 70, and cut hie throat, fatally wounding him. After terrorizing the citizens for two hours. he was overpowered by a mob of sev eral hundred negroes that had been formed to lynch him. Demand Federal Interference. New York, Special.-David Wilcox, vice president and counsel for the Del aware & Hudson Railroad, has sent tc President Roosevelt a letter demand ing that the Federal government pro ceed against the miners' organization in the courts, on the ground that it is a conspiracy to prevent inter-State commerce. Mr. Wilcox, it is said on tuthrity, represents all the coal op erators in this action,,.and was select edas their spokcsman. ThIrty Boales In Cold Storage. Louis; ille, Special.-Thirty dead bodies were found in a cold storage plant in the rear- of an ice cream fac tory on Eighth street. The same pipes which were used ia congealing the cream for table use were connected with a small plant in a shed in the rear where they kept the bodies cool. The heads of the several colleges interest ed in the establishment asserted to night that the bodies were obtdined le gitimately from the penitentiaries, in sane asylums and other institutions of the State of Kentucky. In a wreck which occiirred on' thie Cotton Belt at Sulphur Springs, Texas Tuesday, an unidentified man was caught under the wreckage and in stantly killed. The dead man is said to be one of the train crew. The dam age to the railroad property is heavy. Sir Thomas Lipton's third challenge for a series of races for the America's cup was signed Tuesday afternoon at Belfast. Ireland. by the ofmirals of the Royal Ulster Yacht Cab Many lette~rs containing small con tributions are being received by the National McKinley Memorial Associa tion. __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ A 40,000-Acre Farm. The agriculturist who caretully cul tivated 40 or 60 or 80 acres and calls it a farm is likely to look upon a "quarter section"-the regulation 'homestead of 160 acres-as a large es tate; an entire section (a mile square) he would doubtless regard it as a tre mendous area, and a half dozen sec tions would seem like a whole prov ince. What would such a man think of a faa on -ni::h 100 to 150 me-n arc employed; a farm whose farthest cor ner is 17 miles from the farm house; a farm that requires three bookkeep ers and stenographers to make a rec ord of its activity. That is the scale on which M. M. Sherman conducts his farm in central Kansas. -He 'has more than 40,000 acres. Every year he sells more than 2,500 fat beeves. If a man were to start to ride around his farm on horse back, following the fence line and riding 50 miles a day, he would not mke the circuit in two days. SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL Silk Culture and Manufacture The Sericulture Manufacturing Co., ias applied for incorporation at At anta, Ga., placing its capital stock at 2,500.000, with Messrs. Lewis B. Ma .id of New York and W. R. Sweet of ktlanta as incorporators. The company will be organized to carry out the ex enslve plans that Mr. Magid has in ?rogress for silk culture and manufac uring in the South. Mr. Magid has >een mentioned several times in con tection with extensive plans of this :haracter, and several months ago pur hased 2,500 acres of land at Taallulah ralls, Ga., and he has planted about ,500 mulberry trees for feeding silk vorms. At the falls the company will levelop two water-powers to furnish ower for transmission by electricity. rhis power will operate the machinery or unwinding the silk cocoons. Mr. iagid's plans include the establish- 1 nent of colonies of Italian and French armers who are thoroughly versed in ,he silk industry. Another Mill at Anderson. It is announced that another large otton factory will be built at Ander on, S. C. The company that will build i nd operate it will be organized with apital stock of $600,000, but it is prob ble the stockholders will not meet ntil January to elect officers and de ermine details. An equipment of 25, )00 spindles and complement of looms about 760 will be installed, and a igh grade of cotton goods will be nanufacturer. R. S. Hill, president of armers and Merchants' B Is the promoter of the new en 4, and ias announced positively t .plant will be established. Textile Notes. anufacturers' Record. Brenbam (Texas) Cotton Mills, which contracted for its buildings and :extle machinery (5000) spindles and 160 looms) last month, will open bids )ctober 16 for furnishing and irstall ng the required steam-power plant. Bds are to be submitted at prices free n board at Brenham. This steam ,lant is to include a cross-compound orliss engine of 250 horse-power, with ywheel to admit of increasing 200 orse-power later; also two 250-horse ower water-tube boilcrs to burn oiI is fuel and arranged to be changed to oal when desired, and feedwater heat r, with two Worthington boiler-feed umps. Work progresses steadily on the Washington Mills at Fries, Va., and .he company expects to have its 40,000 pindles and 1100 looms in operatioa arly in 1903. This extensive enter prise was announced about a year ago, ind the power development and erec ion of buildings have since been in ~rogress. The company's dam on ew river is expected to develop about i500 horse-power, but only about half f this energy will be used at first. The i building Is four stories high, 130k 19 feet, constructed of brick. Capital ;tock is $2,225,000. The efforts recently mentioned to es Labish a cotton mill at Ringgold, Ga. tave proven successful, and charter bas been applied for. Company will be tnown as Rlnggold Mills, capitalized it $100,000, half of which will be fur- 1 iahed by local investors. Water-pow r will be used to operate the machin ry. W. H. Odell will be president; W. . McClain, vice-president, and J. E. ~atterield, secretary. Walter N. Brown of Monticello, Ark., will be ar ~hitect, builder and superintendent. A $200,000 company will be charter d and organized at Laurens, S. C., for :he purpose of building a mill for the ,roduction of fine cotton goods. Lau 'ens Investors have subscribed $75,000, tnd the remaining $123,000 will be argely taken by New York capitalista. V. E. Lucas, president of the Laurens otton Mills, is at the head of this new ~nterprise. All further details will be innounced later. Victor Cottceu Mills of Charlotte, N. ., will resume operations October 9, ifter an idleness of several months. In naking this decision the stockholders lso announce that the question, of hanging from a spinning to a weaving ill will remain open until the annual rneetng in January. The company' was recently noted as c mnsidering nch a change. Messrs. J. H. Parham, J. B. Milligin, R. B. Fothergill, 3. A. Carter and 0. K. Wilson hav'e incorporated Chattanooga otton Felt Co., with capital stock of p10,000. Weatherford (Texas) Cotton Mills ta decided to Install a knitting plant, nd thus be enabled to utilize Its pro uction of yarns. The company has tad its cotton mill under constructio-i or some months, and the 3500 spindles ire now being installed. Oxford Knitting Mills of Barnesv111Ei, 1a., is preparing to increase the pres nt output of its plant for manufac uring high-grade ribbed vests, etc. Ai ~0-horse-power boiler, a 60-horse-POW r engine, additional knitting ma hines and finishing equipment will be stalled, and the company is in the narket for the equipment. James M. Catlett of Philadelphia, Pa., does contemplate establishing a :nitting mill at Wilmnington, N. C., as -as stated last week. He can be ad irsscd at 60G Arch street, Philad.a A movement is on foot for organiza io of cotton-mill company at Central, S. C. and l is said that D. K. Norriss, jsdent of Norriss Cotton Mills Co. > Caehee. 5. C.. will be president. Atlantic & Gulf Mills of Quitman, 11a., has declared an annual dividend > 6 per cent. This company operates 5000 spindles on the production of cot ton hosiery yarns, and is capitalized itt $100,000. Columbia Metallic Roll Co. of Ce' uubia, S. C., has been incorporated, wth capital ,tock of $100,000, by Louis . Gon. J. W. Babcock, L. J. Wriag c. W. B-. Smith Whaley and August Kn. Company's purpose is to con? :ol a valuable patent on cotton-millI mm.hnr recntly issued to Mr. WOMEN'S TEMPERANCE UNION L Good Meting of Temperance Peo pie Last Week. Ieesville, Special.-The convention f the South Carolina Woman's Chris an Temperance Union met in its an ual scssion here last week. The even ag was devoted to welcoming the con ention and reception. A very large 5 udience gathered in Leesville college J hapel and was presided over by the tate president, Mrs. L. B. Haynes. A E arge choir sang White Ribbon songs; emperanee mottoes and banners were verywhere and everything was propi- s ous. Dr. A. C.- Wilkins of the Bap- t ist church welcomed the convention in ehalf of the clergy of the town, Dr. g . J. Etheredge in behalf of the town, V rof. W..Aug. Shearly in behalf of the M ollege, Dr. D. M. Crosson in behalf of he physicians and Miss Bertha Able D n behalf o fthe local union. Mrs. a fohn Robb of Brookland responded in n ehalf of the convention. All of these d peeches were happy, pleasant and a rofitable, but the chief feature of the t] vening was the annual address of the b resident. Mrs. Haynes surpassed her- S elf. It is no extravagance to say that 0 t was one of the happiest efforts of s ts kind ever heard here. Absolutely t, oid of sentimentality, full of good I ense and reason, delivered with per- s ect care and grace, the charm was ir- r -esistible. * The evening ended with a pleasant 'eception heartily enjoyed by every ody present Saturday morning at 10 o'clock the r onvention met in its first business ses- S ion. Much routine business was C ransacted. Mrs. M. E. Cartland. presi- r lent of the North Carolina W. C. T. U., vill deliver an address before the con ention. a The convention will be very busy for everal days. Dead in Cotton Seed Pile. Kingstree, Special-There has reach- C d here somewhat of a sensation creat- t fi d at Greeleyville, a small town 10 or a 2 miles from here, by the discovery of b dead negro buried In cotton seed in he house on the farm of the Mallard F umber-Company. The dead negro, tl uther McKnight, an employe of the ibove company, was last seen Sunday n .fternoon. An examination of the body F isclosed the fact that the skull had u )een battered in, the eyes mutilated, 1 he neck broken, and the face badly l isfigured by the heat of the cotton eed. The body was discovered by a I. vagon driver who had gone to th(' r, >ilding to unload seed, and the facts a vere thus disclosed. Acting Coroner b Windham empaneled a jury and held in inquest. A post mortem examina ion held by Dr. A. D. Epps showed hat death resulted from the wounds lescribed above. The jury rendered tl verdict in keeping with the testi- t. nony, the perpetrator of the crime be- b ing unknown to the jury. The negro ~dcKnight, was a quiet, peaceful work nan, and the affair appears to be en irely shrouded In mystery, no cause leing n for the murder. A Bad Mix. At the last session of the general as 5embly a new pension act was passed, s was an act providing for county ~ 3ension commissioners. An examina- a ion of these acts In the comptroller's ~ ,ff ice preparatory to getting out circu ars of Information developed the fact :hat a general mixture has occurred P rhich It will probably take amenda- ' :ory acts to cure before the pension nachinery can get in shape for work I :his year. The pension act requires all r: ~ounty pension boards to meet on the C :hird Monday in January of each year. Fhe pension commissioner act requires E Lhat the county pension board at its S irst meeting in January shall elect one t) )f its members to be county pension ~ommssioner and that he shall be at :he audi!:or's office to make out and e properly arrange the applications every saturday during the month of Janu Iry. Three other meetings of the pen ;ion boards are provided for. It can be easily seen wherein is the tangle. K~nother feature is if all the meetings ire held and the commissioners in ach county are to be paid as required tuite a snug amount will be taken 'rom the pension fund. It is probable hat an act curing the defects in the t ~xistng acts will be introduced on the rst day of the coming session and c rushed through.S Florence's Federal Building. Florence, Special.-Chairman Clay Lon of the citizens' association received e he following telegram Saturday: "Washington, D. C.-City of Flor- E ee, care W. F. Clayton, ~hairman; y )epartment letter addresse cTyou 9th .nst. accepting Edwards site for fed ral building hereby amended to ac ept 150 feet on Irby by 158 on Evans treet. Letter follows. 0. L. SPAULDING, a Big Order of Rolling Stock. Baltimore, Special.-John Skeltonr IVilliams, president of the Seaboard ir Line Railroad, was in Baltimore n conference with Vice President c d4iddendorf. Subsequently he left for Richmond. He announced that the ~eaboard had just ordered the con truction of S00 freight cars to ac ~ommodate increasing business and 1 [.000 tons of steel rails, making a c otal of 30,000 tous ordered since July. n reernce to the Izuisville & Nash- c ille deal Mr. Williams said there wasb othing to add to his previous state nent. which was that the Seaboard T xpeted fair treatment and would a 'espond, If discriminated against. S Bled Profusely. Mayesvile, Special.-There was ne- I ro cutting scrape last week on Mr. R. L Chandlers' farm near Mayesville. It eems that a colored boy named Julius Johnson had possession of a banjo and Robert Moore wanted it. and one word C led to another until knives were drawn i and Moore cut Johnson's arm, severing a a large vein. He was immediately brought to a doctor, but he lost several quarts of blood which came very nearc : osting him his life. Next time he will proabl give the hbn a wIde berth.1 VE ITEMS OF NEWS. lany Matters of General Interest In Short Paragraphs. The Sunny South. Tae moeger of six Southera naval 'ores conipanies was effected at acksonville, Fla. The National Council ei the Boys rigade decided to hold its next meet ig at Baltimore. A Mount Pleasant, Tex., dispatch iys: "The engine attached to a otton Belt passenger train jumped ie track nine miles west of this lace, turning over, and killing En Ineer Ciceio King and Fireman L. r. Ashecroft. None of the passengers 'ere hurt." Roanoke, Va., Special.-Monday igh tburglars broke into the postoffice t Tazewell Court House, about mid ight, and blew open the safe with ynamite. They secured $800 In stamps rid' $200 in cash. Beside& these losses, le office books of the postmaster were lown over the office and almost de 'royed. Before breaking into the post ffice, the party broke into a black mith shop and secured the necessary >ols for doing the work on the safe. loodhounds have been sent to the 2ene. So far there is no clue to the 2bbers. At The National Capital. The President has appointed to the mnk of brigadier-general Cols. Amra . Kimball, Chambers McKibbin and harles C. Hood, all of whom will be ?tired. Veterans are already beginning to rrive to attend the Grand Army En impment in Washington, which pens Monday. Washington, Special.-Alfred W. ew, said to be a well-to-do resident I Philadelphia, dropped dead in the hesapeake & Ohio Railroad ticket of ce here Monday. Mrs. Bew was cross the street and saw her hus. and fall, but he had expired before ie could reach him. He was 71 years Id. They reached the city from lorida, where they had been visiting leir daughter. It is said that President Roosevelt kay suggest to the striking miners in ennsylvania that they return to work nder assurances that Congress will sake an investigation and enact legis tion for their relief in the future. Secretary of the Treasury Shaw has isued a circular to national banks In ?gard to the maintenance of reserve gainst Government deposits secured y United States bonds. At The North. Former Delegate Uthoff testified in ie case of Robert Snyder at St. Louis iat he was offered $100,000 to pass a 'action bill. Alderman William Dickinson, of rooklyn, is charged with bribery in ffering to vote for a bill in return for >r a favor to a constituent. Senator 3. P. Dolliver, of Iowa, dis ussed tariff revision and trusts at the anvention of the League of Republi mn Clubs in Chicago. Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews has de ined a profferede advance In his sal ry as chancellor of the University of 'ebraska. T welve men were killed by an ex losion of firedamp In the Lawson ine, Washington State. A son was born to the Duchess of [anchester, who was before her mar age Miss Helena Zimmerman, ofi incinnati. Governor Bliss has tendered to Gen. .ussell A. Alger the appointment ofi enator from Michigan, to successed ie late Senator McMillan. Bishop H. C. Potter and Mrs. Alfred orning Clark were married at Coop rtown, New York. Mrs. Cordelia Botkin, at San Fran isco, charged with the murder of Mrs. lunning and Mrs. Deane, hopes for ac uittal, because of the death of J. B. 'ennington, father of the victims. From Across The Sea. King Alfonso of Spain wants to visit tre United States. Dr. John Byrne, a well-known Amern mn gynecologist, died at Montreaux, witzerland. Splot against Dowager Empress [arie Dagmar of Russia was discover d at Copenhagen. Premier Balfour announced that the ritish government education bill rould not be withdrawn. The new Russian ordinances foi 'nland were promulgated at Helsing. >rs. President Castro has retreated to strong position near Carcas and waits attack by the revolutionists. The Bank of England raised the ite of discount to 4 per cent. A 25,000,000 Japanese loan is to be oated in London. Pietro Mascagni, the noted Italian nmposer, arrived in New York to be in a tour of the country. Subscriptions for a monument to mnile Zola were begun in Paris. The official Gazette of Caracas pub shes a protest against the British oc upation of the Island of Patos. King Edward ordered that specias ourtesies be shown to Generals Cor in, Young and Wood in London. Woman's Christian Temperance nion women have begun a crusade gainst alleged harmful advertise ients on billboards and in maga mnes. Sulan Abdul Hamid is paying high orors to Grand Duke Nicholas o1 tussia, in Constantinople. Mis.-e2:-neous Mateers. Thomas F. Ryan states that Ameri ans will control two-thirds of thi aternational tobacco conbine and iso get a share in the Bitish trade Thomas J. Sharkey, wh'o was arrest d on the charge of causing the death f Nicholas Fish, the bank er, in a bar corn brawl in New York o01 September 5, has been indicted for n' anslaughter n the fircst degree. I0IOMHD[ER OFG.A. D. General T. J. Stewart, of Pennsyl vania, Elected Commander-in-Chiet. RECEPTION FOR VETERANS' WIVES Mrs. Roosevet Held Court in -Corcorau Art Gallery-Woman's relief Corps Expendod $42,000 During the Yeaz -Medical Division of the Pension Bu reau Scored by Special Committee. Washington, D. C.-The new Com mander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of theRepublic is General T. J. Stew art, of Norristown, Pa., who was a learling candidate for the honor a year ago. His competitors at the election of officers were General John C. Black, of Illinois, former Commissioner of Pensions, and Colonel John McElroy. of this city. The name of General Daniel Sickles, of New York City, was presented to the convention, but he withdrew from the race. The first ballot resulted in the elec tion of General Stewdrt who was nom inated by Thomas Sample of Pennsyl vania. the vote being as follows: Stew art. 467; Black, 272; McElroy. 83. William M. Olin, of Massachusetts, was elected vice commander-in-chief, and James M. Averill, of Georgia, jun for vice commander-in-chief. Aside from the election of these offi cers, the most interesting feature of the encampment was the report of the Pension Committee of the G. A. R. This committee severely scored the medical division of the Pension Bu reau, declaring that it was a dead line, where were executed the claims of veterans seeking pensions. It accused the personnel of this division of ap proaching representatives of examin ing surgeons throughout the country with suspicion and distrust, and as made in bad faith. It denounced the reports that extensive frauds were practiced in pension claims as abso lutely baseless. A resolution was adopted expressing the grief of the convention over the death of President McKinley and its regret over President Roosevelt's in disposition. A collection of photographs of most of the past national officers of the or der was presented to the convention by Delegate Bpath, of Pennsylvania, with the condition that they are to be preserved in the Congressional Li brary. The twentieth annual conventlon of the Women's Relief Corps, which was held at the Church of Our Father, was one of the largest In the history of the organization. Mrs. Calista N. Jones, of Vermont. the national president, presided, and was the recipient of sev eral historic gavels. The order was shown to be in a flourishing condition. Over $42,000 was expended during the year. leaving a fund of over $11,000 on hand. Mrs. Clara Barton, of the National Red Cross, the only surviving honor -ory member of the organization, was escorted to the platform. Her feeble health would not permit her to more than murmur her thanks. Amid classic setting, surrounded by the masterpieces of Michael Angelo and Donatelli, standing between fluted. marble columns with ornate Corin thian capitals, Mrs. Roosevelt and the ladles of the Cabinet received the la dies of the Grand Army of the Repub lic at the Corcoran Art Gallery. The reception lasted for two hours, from 4 to 6 o'clock, and was attended by 1000 of the G. A. R. ladies. The Ma rine Band played at the reception to day, and as the afternoon advanced the place was brilliantly illuminated with electricity. Prominent among th3e callers were Mrs. John A. Logan, Miss Clara Bar ton and Mrs. John C. Black. DRIVEN INSANE BY OVERWORK,; Four Naval Officers Nave Killed Them selves Under Great Strain. Washington, D.- C.--Overwork has been reported to the Navy Department as responsible for the death, probably the suicide, of Lieutenant Frederic B. Holman, United States Navy, who was lost overboard on August 13, 1902. "On the morning of August 14." re ported the Board that made the in vestigation, "careful inquiries and a close search of every part of the ship was made and there Is no possible rea son to doubt that he is dead; and cir cumstances lead us to believe that he took his own life during a temporary fit of insanity brought on by weakened condition of the nervous system and worry because of his p~hysical inability to perform his duty." Lieutenant Holman is the fourth of ficer reported to the Navy Department in the last two months as having comn nitted suicide. SUSE CF X-RAYS BRINGS DEATH. Surgeone Thought They Discovered Mis sing False Teeth in :s Man's Throat. Cleveland, Ohlo.-Frank Buettner, a well known contractor of this city, died as the result of an ope ration performed to remove a set of false teeth which it was supposed he had swallowed while asleep. An X-ray machine was used on Buettner, which, the surgeons de clared, showed the teeth to be in the oesophagus. Just as the latter had been opened its entir~e length a rela tire of Buettner's rushed into the op erating room with the missing set of teeth, which had beeni found in Buett ner's bed. It was learned that Buett ner was suffering from a severe case of acute laryngitis. The pain in his throat led him to believe he had swal lowed the teeth. Germania Guaranty :Deficit, 6385,000. Receiver Giorge Keefer has filed In the Kenton Circuit Court at Coving ton, Ky., his report on the condition of the Germania Guaranty Company, Ishowing the face valuec of the assets to be $205,374.63 and the liabilities $590O,980.63, leaving .i defieit of $385, 5S6. ___________ Carnegie's Gifts Accepted. Andrew Carnegie's; gift of $75.000 to Belfast and $36;,00) to Limerick. Ire land, for the establishment of libraries have been alccepted.