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DEN ( VOLUME XIV. CAMDEN, S. C., FRIDAY, MARCH <5, 1?03; NO. H.v STOPS A STRIKE Injunction Issued that Covered the While Gronnd. A JUDGE BLOCKS All. PROCEEDINGS * Nolle* From the United Stales Dis trict Court Served ou All the Off cials ol ill Orders Involved. St. Louis, Special.? An Injunction granted by Judgo'Adams, of the United i States District Court, prevented the'] culmination of the threatened strike - of the 1,100 firemen and trainmen of the WabASh Railroad for hlger wages. Aa the result of the poll during the past treok among the employes over the question of striking ln\ case Presi dent Ramsay ultimately should rofuso to grant the demanded wage coneessv Ions on the Wabash cast of the Mis sissippi river, the engineers an;l con ductors refused to participate in a strike, but the firemen and trainmen favored it emphatically. Their com mittees Wednesday notified President Ramsay that h { would be given until noon Wednesday to grant their de ' mands. If by that time he still re fused, a strike would be Immediately President Ramsay requested more time and the two committees granted hftn until 5 o'clock to make , final reply. Before the allotted time had expired, President Ramsay had secured & restraining order from the court and ~lt had beeirseived on all officials of all the orders and members of the griev ance committees. The injunction was a most sweeping instrument and effectu -?By blocked any strike proceedings. In part It reads: "Wo therefore, do strictly command ypu, sunUl further order of the court, , ^badlutely to desist and refrain from In aify way or manner ordering, co ercing, persuading, inducing otf other wise causing, directly or Indirectly, the employes of the said Wabash Rall "TOBfl Company to strike or quit the ser vice oj^sald company." TUfiJujunction is temporary and the writs are not made returnable. The persons against whom the injunction is issued may appear in court at aay time <>!>d pretest a plea tn have the in junction dissolved, or if no one. asks that It be dissolved, it may be made permanent. Meanwhile the gievance committees had prepared and submit ted to President Ramsay a letter set ting forth the Increase concessions they desired. It was soon after delivery of this letter to President Ramsay that ithe injunction was served. Shortly ?f "ter 5 o'clock, two- hours after the lu "Junction proceedings. President Ram -aay. aetitJtfl the grievance committees Ids reply to thTflTO-. Pinctlcally re? I jetting all tHeid demands. Before leav ing his office to go home he said he did not believe a Btrlke would occur. WtUi committee of firemen and traln 7 men met and talked overyhe situation this evening and then disposed for the nigbt. Kitted by Stepsoir. Columbia, S. C., epeclal.? Mr. N. C. Heape was shot and Instantly Killed at Branch vlt I e . Tuesday morning by hia atep son- W. Palrly. It seems that Heap? has been on a spree for sev - ? eraidaya and had become. delirious, lie hid threatened several times to shoot , hfa wife, young Fairley's mother, and Md-jr?n the Whole family off the place. Mr. He ape and young Fairly had al Wkya -been spatially "good friends end fee. Started to go and try to quiet Mr. -Heaps, nho had already been shooting ~ ""11' Hr?. Heape; and at any one that . passed tlfe place. As soon as Mr. Palrly ? ? - entered the yard, Mr. Heape drew his * gun and Fairly had to shoot to save his ,hwn life. The verdict of the coroner's JnntWwas that "Heape came to his T fteawby gun shot wounds in the hands F. W. Fairly, Jr., and we believe ^the s&me to be justifiable homicide." This Is one of the most deplorable af fairs' that.hUs ever occurred in this section. Mr. Heape was one of the Oldest and most trusted engineers of =~^rtfcia- branch of the Southern Railway. ..Mr^Fairly will apply for -bail at ? ? Took a Town. Manila, Special.? Ladrones captured | the town of Ous, In the province of Albay, Wednesday. They at first dis avowed -the municipal police and .then' ' surprised the constabulary garrison. A ftw of Ibp constabulary obtained rifles .and resisted stoutly but they were finally overcome. Two of the conatab ulary were killed and 15 were cap tured. Option Extended. ~~ ? Waslilnmmt, _figgglaL V Attorney General Knox, op leavinglhe~cablffet meeting announced that he had re ceived from the Panama Canal Com pany an acceptance of the proposal ^Wtl he . recently made to It with re spect to *he extension of the ^option on i the eanal cAnpany's property held by tlis jtovernfiW^He aald that the com --?M?katJon fromtfrfci^jnal company Wn^Of^nch a natnre thJf^kn^pption WtfMd |>e kept alive until the raOAca^ Uoat <rf the pending treaty? It mattered witther the treaty was ratified be aiui the conCuston of the prea -;il ? aalmof Oongr^. Ike Standard Oil Com started Tie S10RM AT GASIONIA. ? t> * ? Two UlrU Seriously Murt-A Cotton . Mill W reeked. Oastonla, N. C., Special.? As the re sult of a storm which sw#pt over this place Saturday morning a large section of the wall of (lie Avon Cptton Mill was blown down and foul1 or five of the Operatives Injured. Two of these, girls twelve and fifteen years of age, were dangerously hurt and may not recover. The mill was damaged to the extent of ahou; $5,000. Other less serious damage also resulted. The storm, In its greatest force, struck the Avon Cotton 51111, In the eastern, part of the town. .The oper atives, whose ears were filled by the din of spindles and thunder of dooms, were unaware of the storm that' raged without until It crushod tl>e southern wall of the eastern half of the mill and lifted one side of the rcof and folded it over on the other half. The destruction como in a moment. One hundred and fifty feet of the wall en- ' closing the second <;tory collapsed without warning and fell inward upon the operatives and machinery, asuthe roof with Its enormous* rafters and beams, shafts, countershafts, belts und pulleys went flying off like so much paper. Tho water connections with the tank in the tower were torn and twist ed like green withes aud ljyfrentb of water pouring in from above were ad ded to the confusion ^of * tho awful wreck, the darkness mi the roaring storm. Only four or five operatives were hurt. Of these two little girls are dan* gerously Injured and may not recover. One is Sadie, -the twelve-year-old daughter of Jeff Deatty, and the other is Bessie, the flfteen-year-old daughter of John Lay. The little Deatty girl worked on th? day shift and had Jus4|, come In to clean up her spinning fiames. 8he was found crushed against tho frame, by the falling wall. Her hair f was twisted on the spools and blood was Rowing in Jets from her nose, .mouth and gashes on her head. Miss Lay's jaw and one hand were broken and the back of her head was crushed. A little girl named Smith and other operatives were hurt, but none so se riously as the two named, whose chan ces for' life arc painfully slender. The reason mdtp were not caught In that fatal wall &lley is that the mill war short of night hands. The damage to the mill by wreek, wind and water is about $5,000 and ft will likely bfe* six weeks before It Is running to its full capacity. A. Qreat Flood at Pittsburg. ? Pittsburg, Special. ? With ef#ery trib utary o? the Allegheny and Mononga? hela rivers emptying swirling torreuls into t#e tanks of these two streams and rushing dowyn to the point where tlreyconrerg^-to^Form - the . OhJo^JEUtifiv burg was given a visitation Sunday which forced hundreds of families either toJ abondon their homes, or seek escape from the water in the upper stories, while mud and watqr spread discomfort below. Mills in the low lying levels throughout the county, numbering between r?0 and ? tM>; ~~were* - flooded and 88,315 men are thrown* out of work for four or five days with a loss of wages of more than 1>326, 700. The flood wife general throughout wes tern Pennsylvania. The streams every where overflowed their banks, causing more or less damage to houses and farms that. Jay.. la their course. Down town in Pittsburg, cellars and base ments of business houses which are in the general'flood belt, were inudated, -while in-Allogheny -two-railroads were temporarily paralyzed owing to the water which covered their tracks. Peo ple in- the first and third wards of Al legheny, had to adopt Venice methods of going to and from their fegmcs. .. Ample warning had been recelveiFby most of the residents and business firms threatened, in time for them to make preparations to minimize losses. The highest stage reachcd by the swollen rivers at Pittsburg was 29.4 feel at the government dam at Herr's Island. This was at 6 o'clock . in the evening. It became stationary at that mark and gradually began to subside.' The cold weather which set in last night served to check the flood and prevented more serious . proportion?* ?* j* Body KecoVercd. New Orleans, Special. ? Missing for six days, the body of Stephen Fitzger ald, agent 'of the American Cotton Company, In this city, was taken from the old basin canal. Mr. Fitzger ald was last seen on Saturday n|ght, when he boarded a car to go home. Hl?r family suspected > foul play and his brother,, john Fitzgerald, came from St. Louis to assist In the search. Th?r< were no marks of violence on the body and no money had been taken from lilsr [ pockets, It IS probable that he fell in to'The iWBJri by and wj9 uu ablA to get out Mr, Fits&waid was" from Memphis, where his aged mother iHnbtW )Wtl* -ryC-'. ' ' ' Ota Gordon to Quit Lecturing Jackson, Miss., Special.? General Johc B. Gordon, commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans, whot auffered aeef ere attack of ajrute ^jpdigeeUon, -while en route to tbla ctiy Thursday slgfctr left for Torn#. ~ tf reported that after General Gordon tn* Ailed this reason's lecture engagements ?he #lp retire from the platform. . ? ^ ' Df.TkMMi Dsad. Thomasrille, Ga? Special.? Dr. T. Gaillard Thomas, of New York, a spe cials of Bote Ia women Vdltisya. W fttdfcy ?r ? ? WOES OF FILIPINOS. Misfortunes of ? the People of the Island Enumerated, SUBJECT OF A MESSAGE TO SENATE Congresa Urged to (JivJ Immediate Attention to the Matter and Qran't the Relief Prayed For. Washington, Special.?' The President late has sent the following "Ynessage to the Senate: "1 have Just received if cable from Governor Taft which runs as follows: Necessity for passage of tho House tariff bill is most urgent. The condi tions of productive industry and busi ness are considerably worse than in November, the date of last report, ana are growing worse each month. There Is some revival in sugar and tobacco prices due to expectation of tariff law. The interests of Filipinos lu sugar and tobacco la extensive and the failure of the bill will be a blow in- face of those Interests. A number of tobacco fac tories will have to close, mid ihany sugar haciendas will be put up for sale at a sacrifice if the bill does not pass. Customs receipts have fallen off this month one-third, showing a de crease of purchasing power of the isl ands. C>( neral business Is stagnant. All political parties Including labor un ions are most strenuouB in petition for the tariff bill. The effect of its failure would be very discouraging." The President endorsed all that Gov ernor Taft has said, and hopes for a euj?rtautial reduction in the tariff levi ed against Philippines goods coming lAto the United States. "I rery earnestly ask that this mat ter receive the immediate attention of Congress and that the relief prayed for be granted," he says. "As Congress knows, a*serics of calamities have be fallen the Philippine people. Just as they were emerging from years of a devastating war, with the accompany ing destruction of property and'break lng up of the bonds of social order and the habits of peaceful industry, there7 occurred an epidemic of rinderpest whtysh destroyed 90 per cent, of the Carpcus, the Filipino cattle, leaving the freople without draft animals to till the land#, or to aid in the ordinary work on the farm. At the same time a peculiar Oriental horse. disease became epidemic further crippling transporta tion. The rice crop, already reduced by various causes to but a fourth of Its ordinary size, has-been damaged by lo custs, so that the price of rice has nearly doubled. "Under these circumstances, there I* imminent danger of famine In the isl ands. Congress is in course of gener ously appropriating $3,0(10,000 to meet the -immediate needs; but tho indu&? penaable and pre-eminent need is the resurrection of productive industry from the prostration Into which it has been thrown by the pauses above en umerated. t ask action In the tariff matter, not merely front the standpoint of wise governmental Policy, but aa a measure of humanity in response to an appeal to which p5is great people should not close iUr ears. We h^e as sumed responsibility towards thiTFhH ippine Islands Witch we are in honor bound to fulfill. ^We have, the spec Ufc duty of taking every measure in/our power to see to theirPrOapQidtE*' ? ? ? The calamities which have befallen them as above enumerated could have been averted by no human wisdom. They cannot be completely repaired; but the suffering can be greatly alevi ated. land-a .permanent, basis, of future prosperity assured If the economic re-'" latlons of the islands With the United States are put upon a satisfactory basis. (Signed) '?* "THEODORA ROOSEVELT. "White House, Feb. 27, 1903." ; _ Officers Southern Ice Exchange. Atlanta, Special. ? The Southern Ice Exchange, in convention here Friday, elected the following officers for the ensuing term: President W. H. Howe, of Nashville, Tenn.; vice president, C. D. Mayfleld, of Richmond, Va.; secre ary and treasurer, W. B. Worth, of" ""llmington, N. C. SuU Against Vanderbllt. Ashe'vllle, N. C., Special.? Complaint In the ease of M. C. Grahagt against O. W. Vanderbllt was filed In the clerk's office of tho Superior Court Mrs. Gr^hain is suing the owner of Biltmore Honse for f 20,000 .because ol the death of .her husband in October 1900, while in the employ of Vander bllt. . Graham was crossing the French Broad liver in a boat. 'which, It te claimed! was defective. The. boat wa? attached by. a sort of trolley to ar? overhead cable and owing to the swal n? the $lvet,4he boat be came unman ageSMS ~ fitted -wttfc^ vater and Graham was drowned. . . ? . t Movement to Stop Emigration* Vienna, By Cable.-*With the object of steaming the wholesale immigration Of young girls to America, which Is occasioning the Hungarian government considerable concern. Premier DeSaeU lias aent a circular fetter to the local lUinwilles of-rtsagarp, Vslllngtheic attchlton to what he deeeHbes aa "thk melancholy fact." He directs that tk? authorities onlypermtt rttoned I gTfrdisne,>md they .travel In charg* of adaltg^ only permit ml^ra to eml g ralfr whon sanctioned to do so b 1 their parents or gnerdlatoe, and wJmo ?: rszzz sura: pollceday Uat the wife at Knapp wan,*feN*ted aadw . name wan *rna Map flsnfch, la 1 Knappr? f earth wlfa. and that others have disappeared la OUT ON BAIL The School Tracher Who Killed I / |Pupll dives bond. Spartanburg, Special,-? The romalns ot Kdwarti L, tester were quietly laid to eternal rent In the churchyard of Mt. Zlon chuicn Saturday morning. The attendance on tho^ funeral was large. The service^ were conducted by Rev. J. L. Ousts. The deceased made two aute-worteui statements. The fol lowing 18 the copy of the second statu* mcnt made before h? died, and was delivered to 13. II. Bishop, magistrate at (amah, on the morning of Feb. 27, about eight hour* prior to, Foster's death: State of South Carolina? County of Spartanburg. ]l 1, Ed. L. Foster, believing that I am going to die from myrpieseut wounds, j and that there Is no nope for my* re covery. do nmke this my dying decla ration: t One evening in the. spelling class 1 missed one word, am| Mr. Pitts gave me out another worn and 1 misunder stood it, and the neft evening he asked me why I had hot stayed in as he had instructed me to (he having told me to atay in that evening) and that evening (Tuesday) he told me to alav in. J'0 ?i?o. l<fmt iiv jtVod Hal (enge?, "It ay mbficf " WoTTe'ft i!M J'rtisTi Hel-" linger, and ho (Mr. Pitta) sent them to the other room. He then called me up In front of the rostrum and told me he would have to whip me. He brought two hickorys from the rostrum with him and laid one of them down and told nift that he\ would have to whip me. H^ gave me two or tnree licks and I grabbed hold of the hickory. Ho (Pitts) then run hand Into nls hip pocket and pulled a pistol and poked it towards my face.' I then grabbed -.the pistol with one hand and his (Pitta) hair wltlv, my other hand'. I knocked the pistol down toward my feet and It fi red. I got w?ak and then fell back on the rostrum. He (Pitts) jumped up and down two or > three times and said he hated It awfully and he (Pitts) said, ' Just as I expected, you were all on me." About the time the ptptol flred I 'heard the boys push open the door between the two sch>ol rooms. Pitts then said he was. going on to give up. Don't know/ what he i lid with the pis tol, He did Lot point the pistol toward me any more. Hfe bumped up and down. Th?fro was no plot to whip Mr. Pitts. The qay he kept Fred Ballenger in, wh?n Fred told that Mr. PJtts was going to whip me, I told him Lo would not. Edd L. Foster. Signed before me Feb. 27, 193, be tween 2 and 3 a. m. ~ B. B. Bishop, Magistrate. Before Judge James Aldrich in the court house Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock, the attorneyb of .Mr. Reuben Pitts, charged with the murder of Ed ward" Foster, applied for baTTT Messrs. Wm. Jones and Stanyarne Wilson spoke ln~ behalf of bail for the young defendant ^ while Solicitor Pease and ex-Gov. John O. Evans for the State, opposed the granting of ball. Judge Aldrich gave a decision in favor of -Young' PUt?r naming ..ball in the sum of $6,000. Tha following gentlemen signed thq^ottdv-gnaranteeing the ap pearand of the pmotf&fL for trial: ReVj/J. D. Pitta, W. E. Lutorac and C. R. Bobo, of Laurens, and Mf. J. I. Hahnls, of Spartanburg. A large crowd was present to learn the proceedings and get a glimpse of the living prin cipal Ih a jf&gedy thar traifVBtiocked the\State-^Pitta appeared. hy\?e aide, of hr^father, both of whom re>?^?4f on their -faeeth-the- suffering and^aa gulsh they have undergone since last Tuesday. Reuben Pitts appeared in a dazed condition, Scarcely did he raise his eyes from the floor during- the pro ceedings of an hour arid a half. His father, Rev. Mr Pitts, several times bowed his head in suppressed emo tipn. On Sunday Mr. Reuben Pitta was visited at the county jail by numbers of friends, among whom wer? four of his former professors at Furman Uni versity, Profeasors Goer, Earle, Haynesworth and Martin. Attesting the high esteem and confidence in which he was held at college, the fol lowing telegram Is expressive: "Greenville, 8. C., March 2. "Mr, R. B.' Pitts, Spartanburg, 8. O. "Accept our sympathy When you were our president, w^ followed you, never doubjting your wisdom and dis cretion as a leader. Now In your hour .4f grief we esteem you none the less. "The Adelphlan Literary Society of Furman University." Hanged at (lrein villa. Greenville, ? Speclal.?Th^ * hanging of Joe JCeenan for th6 killing of Samuel Willlmon took place at noon Friday in the Jail yard; .with only a limited number of spectators to wit ness the awful trAfcedy, where the law ['takes human life for {he crime of mur der. In this Instance there was no doubt whatever as to the guilt of the negro, who had imbrued his hahds in the blood of a. white man without the slightest provocation. Keen an was an Entire stranger in this community, and did not know Mr. Wlllin\pn, whose house he had entered for the purpose of theft only a fewhoura b* fore. His Immediate escaffe and the swift purautt made by the officials are matters of local history that -will be told t? Tatare years, and hie capture In Onion county wa..e meequeradiug In female attire 1s one pf the notable ' features of the case. j Killed By Bey. Greenville. 8. C.. Special.? Thomas Wilson, aged I*, was shot a nd killed iatarday night by Oiilom Willbanks. a II year old hey. The ehoollA* took rMV&t *t ffc* heme ef the Wltlhanks. The buy swiisln ad after the tragedy ?s* *? aow i* )aU He says tn*m LIVE ITEMS OF NEWS. \ M?ny olOenerA1 Interest In Short Paragraphs. The Suony South. The Charlotte, N. C., postofflco fight, i Is still unsettled. At the h?arltiK in the case of the I United States against ex-Captalu O. J M. Carter, at Savannah, tcaJltnony was introduced to Ihow that Career had conducted the work in Feiruandiua harbor With great extravagance. James H. Bacou, a civil engineer, testified that the FernandlnU Jetties built tu 1896 lost 90 per cent, of their, volumo by 1900. The attorney for Car&r mado frequent objection to the introduction of testimony. ' At I lie National Cap.tat. No-vote has yet been readied on the antl-trm=t bill ljt Congress. The? Senate passed the Nitval and Military Academy Appropriation bills. The House of Representati ves passed i (he bill to establish a union .station In ' Washington. t 1 ! President Roosevdlt Kent, a special ; ?nTFSsflyo io Congrcsfc ashing for the i passago of the Phlllpplno Tariff bill. ? Another atormy hckhIoii of the House j occurred us a result of 1 be Democrats' I determined to use obstructive tactics. / In the Senate Mr. Quay (Rep.I'a.) ! creates rwf?m<l sense t Ion by saying ho owned Block in corporations that - "might be classed as trusts." ' The Congress of Daughters of tin? . American Revolution discu.st:cd pro posed changes in the constitution of the order. The Agricultural and Poatofllee Ap- j propriatlon bills ww passfi by the ] Senate, the Statehood riders to tlie&o bills being withdrawn. Republican leaders in the Senate are malting strong efforts to secure the,, ratification of the Cuban reciprocity' treaty and the treaty with Colombia In. order to avoid an extra .session. In a report to the State Department Mr. R. F. McWade. United States Con sul at Canton, China, says marvelous results have been accomplished by an American phystclan in the treatment of Chinese lepers. The confirmations by the Senate Friday were: Thomas F. McOourlri, marshal northern district of Florida; Marcus C. McLemore, United States at-, torney. southern district of Te>aB; John M. Holzendorf, collector of cus toms, district of Saint Mary's, da. From Across The Sea. Port tie Palx, Haiti, was destroyed by fire, ? A gale of alpiost "unprecedented vi olence haB beeii raging In England; Czar Nlchola? has poruc.nally Jntei^ i vened to aid the famlno sufferers ft Finland. 1 Chinese rebels killed 500 Imperial soldiers In ambuuh at Yang-Ulng pass. An accidental explosion in the Ira- ' pertal palace at, Vienna injured several workman. j It Is reported that King Leopold will I send exhibits from Belgium and the ' Coqgo State to the St. Louis World's P^r. ,| Mr. John Redmond cpoke In the : Ltiouse of Commons on the Irish Land $g The amendment In the House of Commons to. admit Canadian cattle to Oreat Britain was defeated. It Is reported that ihe powers have arranged to compel the enforcement of Macedonian reforms In case tho Sul tan procrastinates. Russia haa Issued a warning to the Balkan States that It will not aid them in any effort to change existing con ditions in the. peninsula. King Edward promised President D. R. Francis, of the 9t. Louis World's Fair to send the collection of Queen Vlctorla'es Jubilee gifts to be exhibited at the fair and to aid all be could in securing a great exhibit from Great Britain. , 7* Miscellaneous Matters. Regular Republican members of the Delaware Legislature quide- a proposi tion to the MemoerntS, Including the election of a Regular to one of the United States Benatorsfclifs. leaving the other ?scant. Is^ac Hagaman, In an affidavit In Hew York, makes farther charges of fraud In connection with bis brother's estate. Albert Knapp, the confessed multi murderer under arrest at Hamilton. Ohio, gave further details of his crimes B. L. Burdick, a wealthy resident of Buffalo^ N. Y., was found mysteriously jnurdered. BubiCTlptJtraa at -fSWiW -for- en American Academy of Dramatic Art were offered at a dinner in Philadel phia.' ~~ : Mr. W,y>Latlmer Small, a prominent resident of York, Pa., is dead. A report Is current In York. Pa., that Italian laborers dug up a chest con taining 93.500 while they were moving the.rulns of an old bouse. A New York, newspaper states that a convention of nnarebisi* la soon to be held in Paris. ^ The body of Broker Theodore Has*, man at Ponghkeepefe, H. Y., will prob ably he -exhumed. Bather than be assorted Ludwlg Mollonar, a nwfiHBK MM" ' - dde at XUia laland. . ? KnoxvlUe (Tenn.) authorities M pm i.M# graves t? aasertain tbe teat at tWpanper bub) tresis. A SUNDAY SESSION. I !Vonffr?SK too Uusy to *?Remen?bjl till! ^AltbAlli Day." Tbo Houso hold a four-hour uohsIoii Bunday unci put tho District of Colum bia bill through it* last pftiiiamoutary btage, In the faoe of tho Democratic filibuster. The previous question on the conference report 'on t lie Alaskan houaosumd bill \v/M? oYdoret} and tho ivolr on Its adoi)tiov4 will bo tukon jwhon tba* XpUKt* reconvenes nt 11 v elook' torooiVmv r.nornlng. Tiiat wan itke net re#u t Of Uie Sunday sesHlon. {Although it was Sunday by the cnl tndur, it was ?t' 11- Thursday, Febru a ry 2<H b, according to parliamentary fiction, Th<-. Democrats pvu a block In the leglBla?lvo wheel at every oppor tunity and it required six voil-calls to ftcoom pllrth AvJiat wns C'one. I,argo crowds watohed tbo provoedinKa from tho galleries. When S peukor Henderson dropped tho gavel i ,t noon. Mr. Klchardson, tho n>inorlty '.cadcr, Wft8 on bin feet. He announce d th'.u there wh*i evidently no quoru m p resent aial that the Uouru. could d'j iu4* business on Sunday with out a 4iu>r\un. Thoreupon, on motion of Mv. ?>ayne, the majority leader, a call of the House was ordered. The i\f an"H were vlonod and the Brtrgcantat was Jnatructed to bring In abscn , luva. At tlie conclusion of the call -11 !' ii/v*inbern ban appeared; more than a Quorum, and Mr. McCleary, of Mln- _ ncHOtn, called np tho couforenec~ru port on tho District of Columbia ap propriation bill, Mr. Underwood, of Alabama, undertook to Interpose tbo point of order that tbo bill bud not been completed, but the upcaker ruled that a quorum having appeared, busi ness would proceed. Tho doors which meantime; had been opened, however, i were a^aln closed by the *ty-eotlon of j tbq speaker o? Mr. tJndembod's point j of order that further profjftedlngs un der tho call bad not been dispensed with by tlu> action of the Houso* After a brief explanation of tho report, up.alnst the protects of varloiiu Pomo \ crots who desired to be heard," It was : adopted, 144 to 59. Thero was another ; roll-call on ordering the previous ! question on tho Alaf.kan homestead bill, which was presented to Mr. Lacoy, Republican, of Iowa. A half dczcn points of order raised by tho Democrats wore ruled out and tho chair declined to cr.iortnin nil ap peals on the ground that thoy were dilatory. At 3:55 'p. m., the House re cessed until 11 O'clock tomorrow, with the motion to adopt tho conference re port on Alaskan bill. The T.<buse committee on banklnjj and C'jrrcuey by a strict purty vote* auth'jr|ze(\ a favorable report on the cur scticy j)Hl Introduced by Represen tative Fowler, chairman of the com mittee. In -reporting the bill tho com Bilttee s^ys: "In addition to provld ing for tbfc Issue and circulation of na 1 tional bank noteB the object of this measure la to immediately put back intp circulation any money the govern ment maymollect through It3 customs receipts njrwell as through itq collec tion from internal revenue. The avail- ] able ca?h balance now lu tho Treau ury I iH $022,667,882. To this amount I there is now in national bank jle i positarles $47,755,300, leavfhg a net i balance in the Treasury of $71,094, , 454. If WO deduct $50,000,000 as a I necossary working balance for th?w | Treasury, we shall have only $21, I 094,454 to pie?t the demand on the Treasury, growing out of the Panama^ I transaction, which will call for $50, I 000,000. It is evident that the govern i ment ,wiM;v>not haye any additional money t# deposit with natloiratimWfflr for the next six or eight months. The | effect of this will be" to release ^ho total amount of bonds now deposited t-> securo government dopoalts, viz: $125^000,000 of govorntoent bonds -and $22,000,000 of State and other bonds, now Iveld by the Treasury In addition thereto, as security for such deposits. , Tho bonds so released may Hiett bd used by tlio banks tor further increas ing their bond-secufed circulation, Which will undoubtedly be much noeded during tho coming fall | months." The Sonate spont three hours Suiy day in eulogies of four deceased "mem bers of the House. Messrs. Martin, of j Virginia ;.-A0allingor_. of New'Himp- | t?frire; Perkins of. California; Clay, or i Cedrgla, and Daniel, of Virginia, spoke of the late Peter J. Otey; of Vir* , fiinia. Messrs. Pritchard, of North Carolina, and Mallory, of Florida, spoko of the late James Moody, Of North Carolina, others spoke of the lato JameB Tongue, of Oregon. At the conclusion of the addresses the several resolutions of rcgret ~"W8FS' adO^l^'d, and as a further mark of respect, tba Senate at 3 o'clock adjourned until to morrow at 11 o'clock. Shut In By Siow. l(,ort Worth, Tex., Special.? The country nroun d Am'nrlllo 1b wrapped lp nearly two feot of snow and the town hag been practically shut out from tho world for the past six day*. Railroad traffic la completely auspended, Not a train has wovod In a week. Two liun Ing tho break of the auow bicubic, which Jb the worst' ever known In section of the State. & B# wen's Proposition, Washington, Special.? Bo wen, the Venezuelan plenlpotentUrTr^b*? proposed to the allied powere /that 'the Cxar of Ruula be eeked to name three, arbitrators who, ee "The H*gue" trl bundl. ehell decide the wjath^o# preterenOel treatment. The eviMMi. bee been approved by the'Biete De* pertment. Mr, Bowen submitted to the elNee -the Mpi wwetaflT*^ THE PAPERS FILED The ladianola Case Jtevlcwed By Government. WHAT IS KNOWN ABOUT IT, | Postmaster Oenerai Pay lie Sends the Letter# Ufoi lng on Hie Case,to tho --V Si nute. Washington, Sppclal. ? Postmaster General Payne forwarded to th'e^u uvu IV *??*? ato ail the paper* in tfif ease of jhe lutllanola, Mlas., postoffice, which ifest* oillce was discontinued by the adtnln laUallou bceamre of the forced ptar (lunnuut of tho oilleo by Its negro post- \r mtaticss, Minnie V. Cox. The corre spondence ahows that Ar B; Weeks, ^ ? ~i broilxer-in-lBw of Mayor Davis, of In- > Ulan >}a, begun his candidacy for the posduinoe ?s against the negro Incum bent as far back as April 1. 1002, when he began sending a long series of let* -?-<! tera and telegram a to tho Department;,' The papers include an extract from a ? - letter or a poatolTUic official- dated "February 23, 1903. navrating a conver sation which, it slates, took place/ 'at Hlloxi, Mis. in this lefier tfpyor-Pavls _ of ladianola, la quoted an saying that If Minnie Oox should again take charge of thv lndianola postofll<>G "she would 4^ got hor neck broken Inside of two' & hours." On January 3, Jiast?, Jobtt 0. - Daugberly, United t Sates/ special attor ney at New Oi lcans, telegraphed to As- v ? uUtant Attorney ; -P^adt, at"--? Washington. 'that theio are numerous . ? negro county ?nd municipal officers serving under Democratic admiulatrft-. ',_i .io-anuugh tli Southern ..(hr Fourth Assistant Postmaster General on January 3 laat, requesting copies tit all letters written the Department re gardlng the postoffice and stated that the postmaster was requested by all of t he citizens t o ... continue in officer ^ Fourth ^sXlMtAut- VontmvAtur Briatcw-/ decllnod toVm-nlsh the coplep of the ^ lettriH. The correspondence abows that A. n. Weeks wroto the Detmrtmrat^- ? < I several letters during last April, ill CM-'Mz of which lie requested that be be ?p- ;? : y' pointed at nne.e, and In a letter dated May 30, 1002*. ?' ~a" xious lo get -jnonlintr ililfi. Ul'ging hiS 0 .. jmmnn .m ing reasons why It- should be ?m I On Feptomber 10, he wrote tbe Foul | Assistant Postmaster General'. Al.vfC was a detemlttife^effoit; flpeoplo to make the postmaster imin or give up the office In someway, bc-~ rauHe she la colored, and request!? that his application be remxsnbere1 On October 0, Weel^s wrote the T" dent that he had tbe awroran'ee of < nio Cox, the pofltm*?t?r^'tbi^ sbe Tfiiwft rd her resignation lnthev few days," and presenting bis plication, on the ground tftM tho only white Republic#? nola. Oft December 4f,, h?. ? President that to. fome to WaibiBgtc.. ? be seen how competent ?. later he wrote that be good friend tbe ftdalJfc suriong the wbll* ?nd later* he for aolored ottlteoi vicinity in,.behaw-^? On January 1, be ?? that the postmMtervi&w the office; . pressed appointment and t>e- glad to^haye-tl. , ... to qualify. I^terhS/i lenl twice asWntfthM established, stating thu.. wwra~TH)t i.uke cbar|n ? ?g"ln and urging his own . The pnperi# also sbblh/ other candidates, notal ' py Montgomery, MTir . z . " ? ? ? ? ***** Miss Mark Hloke Ho Han Green, applied October on the - tmder Mlnhle Cox bad ten<~ to tjfider^ her rest , Fitzgerald, onl-lfe" a detailed report enmstances vhlcb, cause , fndianoU to order-WUWi way postal clerk, and f* itnwrte-leave that p ?>n account of their i AnJBxW Washington, has signed a procUfiM* extra session of tk? Fifty-eighth Congress. ptiu The ?rocl*??ttnft "By the Prudent States "Whereas, Psttto. ?? that the Senate sMld traordlhtr? MMtoa; (lore Roosevelt, ed States o t claim w4 A .: nary occasion: the catntortn llmJBlBft -f t ik **2. * ?*&?<??- . SB?? ' wr.