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The Bamberg Herald. | ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. MAY IT. 11)00. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. ^|g THE U.S.COURT ' BARS STRIKERS Kansas Federal Judge Issues Absolute Injunction. 5 PROTECTS STREET CAR PEOPLE It Striking Workmen Are Forbidden to Interfere With Running of Cars In Kansas Citj. 'v- The federal authorities found alleged cause for interfering in the strike in. angnrated Saturday morning by the union employes of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company in Kansas City. Judge "William C. Hook, of Leavenworth, Kansas, sitting in Kansas City, issued from the United States district circuit 'court an injunction that is more absolute and sweeping in its terms than any injunction ever before > secured in the district in a contention between jabor and capital. The injunction is made absolute for a week, the matter being set for a hearing Saturday, the 19th, and if its ' * restrictions shall be observed by the > strikers the Metropolitan company has its tight, wen, for the strikers' hands are tied for seven days, and in* the meantime the Metropolitan company y can go about the organization of its disrupted forces. The iDjuction is predicated upon the fact that several of the persous ^ complained against as tnreatenmg xne ' interests of the company are residents of other states, and the farther fact that the strikers threaten to prevent, thecompaiy from carrying out its conh tract with the United States government to transport the city mail carriers to and from their routes., x Harry Bryan, the national organizer of the Amalgamated Association, described as a resident of Michigan, is one of the parties enjoined, and the others named ~ are twenty-two local leaders of the union, several of whom are mentioned as residents of Ohio , f and Kansas. The injunction restrains the persons . named and all others from in any manner, directly or indirectly, stopping or interfering with the running of cars on the lines of the Metropolitan Company; enjoins them from har rassing, assaulting or in any manner jr. interfering with any person who may be in the employ of the company as he goes to or from his work cr as he ^ * is engaged in the operation of a street car; enjoins union men and all others from picketing or patrolling the car houses, stopping places, stations, tracks, or approaches thereto, or loitering in large numbers in or about any of the places named, or making loud nr hoiaterons noises in the vicinity * thereof for the purpose of intimidating I or interfering with the company's employees. The injunction even goes further than this and enjoins any concerted action to cause any act or annoyance which will assist in stopping the operation of the cars, or interfering in anywise with an employee in moving a car whieh may carry a mail carrier, or a messenger, or upon which a mail carV rier or a messenger may wish to ride. The restrictions not only apply to Organize: Harry Bryan and the twentytwo men named, but to all others who may be acting in concert with them after the entering of this injunction. In addition to the police and the * deputy marshals sworn in, a force of United States marshals will be on hand to interfere in case the injunction is ignored, and there is every probability the strikers will now desist in their efforts to bring out the men who have so far jailed to join them. SUNDAY CABS SUNNING. Every street car line in Kansas City * Mo., and Kansas City, Kan., was in full operation Sunday and no show of violence was offered by the strikers. The injunction of the federal court, enjoining the union men from interfering with the running of the cars, and the added fact that it was Sunday, combined to have a salutary effect on the strikers. Early in the day groups of strikers gathered at the different power houses and quietly urged tbe crews to join the strike. Less than a dozen responded, however, and the ^ " places of these men were promptly filled. Railroad officials had applications from twice as many men as they could use, and to be sure of no delay placed half a dozen extra crews at the terminus of each line, paying them full - * jv t ? i 1. _ wages, to nil tue gap mat migui ut caused by any recruits to the strikers' ' ranks. Bubonic Plague at Sydney. f The number of cases of the bubonic plague officially reported in Sydney, New South Wales, to date is 216. 01 these 73 have proved "fatal. I PIG IKOX SHIPMENTS. The Birmingham, Alabama. Districi Shows a Slight Increase. i\ Following are pig iron and cast iror . / I pipe movements from the Tennessee / and Alabama field in April: Shipment c " of pig iron from Tennessee and Ala hama. 169.9/8 'ons: frnm thp Tlirmino liam district alone, 69,933 tons: foi export 8,651 tons. Cast iron pipe shipments from Alabama and Tennessee. 5,838 tons; from the Birmingham district alone, 1,818 tons; for export, 1,577 tons. 3 THIS C0KP0K1T10X EXEMPT. Virginia Judge Says It Cannot Be Forcei Into Bankruptcy. Judge Edmund Waddell, Jr., of th< United States district court at Rich mond, Ya., has decided, in the case ol the Commercial Building and Loat ? Association, that the association isnol a corporation such as could be forcec into bankruptcy under the act oj 1898. The proceedings will be dismissed. The case is the first of its kind and establishes a precedent. - v , . , * ' v v.'i- .. RESORT TO BULLETS. j Street Car Strike Situation at St. j Louis, Ho., Reaches a Critical Stage. Affairs in the street railway strike at St. Louis Friday showed a complete reversal of the conditions prevailing on I Thursday. The day opened quietly, l>ut later reports began to circulate of renewed rioting in yarious parts of the city. In one iustance the police fired into a crowd, and in others used their clubs on those who attempted to interfere with the running of cars. While rumors of casualties were rampant during the day, up to a late hour of the night none of a serious nature had been corroborated. The suburban system ran all its cars under an escort of police. So j close .was watch maintained by the force that practically no disturbances occurred on its lines. The Transit Company started cars on a number of its branches, and notwithstanding the ample police protection afforded, trouble cropped out in various directions, t Two cars were taken out of the station at Geyer and Jefferson avenues at 2 o'clock and the 300 strikers around the carshed3 were forced back by the police. President David Kreyling, of the Central Trades and Labor Unions, says the sitnation is far more critical than at any time since the strike beguo. 4 He says it is a fight of unionism for its very existence and must be won if it takes every union man in St. Lonis to do it, who, be says, only awaits the word of their officers to go on a sympathetic strike. This would mean 100,000 men and women would lay aside their work. C0RBETT 60ES DOWN James Jeffries Reaffirms His Right to the World's Pugilistic Championship Belt. In the arena of the Seaside Sporting club at Coney Island, Friday night, James J. Jeffries reaffirmed his right to the world's pugilistic championship < by knocking out James J* Corbett in the fastest, prettiest and closest heavyweight ring battle ever fought in New York. The contest lasted twenty-three rounds of the twenty-five limit. Corbett emerged from a year's retirement from the ring rejuvenated and fresh. He was as fast and clever as back in the days when people marveled at his skill. His foot work was wonderful and his defense perfect. He outboxed his man at both long and short range, and if he had had the strength necessary, he would have gained an early victory. A hundred times he ducked the punch that knocked him out. At times he made the massive Jim look like a beginner in the art of defense with his hands, and when Jeffries stood over his quivering form, his face showed marks of the punishment that Corbett had inflicted. Corbett went down to defeat that was regretted by a vast majority of the men who filled the hall. The money was against him, bnt he had a wealth of sympathy. It was probably his natural heritage as the short ender, but before the battle had ended he won more support by his display of speed and skill. Jeffries wou with his strength, both that strength that lies in the power of - massive muscle and that strength which is the essence of vitality. Jeffries had many points of advantage over Corbett. To begin with, he is nine years younger than the exchampion and is an inch taller. He went into the ring weighing 210 pounds and Corbett's weight was 183. The normal girth of Jeffries'chest is 44 inches and of Corbett's 42 inches; expanded, Jeffries' chest measures 49 inches and Corbett's 444 inches. With arms extended Jeffries reaches 76} inches and Corbett 74} inches. Jeffries' biceps measure is 16 and Corbett's 14 inches. There was never a more orderly affair under the Horton law. There was order in the assembling and handling of the great crowd and order in the contest The small army of police jyresent was taskless and the contestants themselves neither wrangled nor quarreled throughout i the evening. CHOLERA IX FAMINE CAMP. i Four Hundred Deaths From Scourge Oc curred in Three Days. The Bombay correspondent of The 1 London Times says: "The cholera continues to rage in the famine camps. There have been 400 deaths in three days at Mandivee, | and so numerous are the cases at Godra ? that it is impossible to collect the bodies. These lie for days in the sun. The people have fled and cannot be induced to return. A similar state of s things prevails at Broxeh." \ Big Blaze at Camden, X. J. Fire Sunday, which broke out in the farmers' Afarket House in Camden, N. J., completely destroyed that building, ten stores and fifty small dwellings, causing a loss estimated at $200,000 and rendering homeless about 230 people. | Lord Huberts Litters liroonstad. The war office has received the following dispatch from General Roberts: "Kroonstad, May 12th, 2 p. m.?I entered Kroonstad at 1:30 without opposition, wheu the uuion jack was hoisted amidst cheers from the few British residents." ASH A MIS MAY KEB E L. Native* of African Gold Coast Are Tired ol the British Yoke. i Advices from Accra, Gold Coast, state that serious reports are current 3 that the Ashautis are determined to . throw off the British yoke, that they f have secured the co-operation of eight t other tribes and that they are now able t to raise 50,000 warriors. | Ao Kevision of Creed. The Presbytery of Philadelphia at j Friday's session declared overwhelming against creed revision. WHEELER'S REASONS! i ! For Not Being a Candidate For j Congress At This Time, I WRITES LETTER TO HIS CONSTITUENTS! : Accepted Army Commission With the | Understanding That He Was To Be Relieved In Time. j A Washington special says: General Wheeler Monday prepared a letter to his Alabama constituents announcing that he would oot be a candidate for the congressional nomination this fall. Although he had heretofore made it plain that he would not be a candidate for the short term, many of the people of his district urged him to become a candidate for the long term, giving him every assurance of nomination; but the general has decided that he will not. He gives his reasons in the following letter: Washington-, May 14.?To The Constitution: I have hesitated to address you because I cofld not find words to lully express my heartfelt gratitude for the kind and generous support von have given me. When the insurrection broke out in Luzon, February 4, 1899, I was holding a commission in the volunteer army, and feeling that I ought to perform military duty until the meeting of congress, I promptly applied fpr active duty in the Philippines with the understanding that I was to be back by the time congress convened. In October it became evident that to leave in time to reach Washington by December 4th would necessitate my leaving my command during opera-'* tions, while 1.8aw clearly that a delay of two or three weeks would enable me to remain with my command while it was performing its part in capturing or dispersing the insurgent government; thus aiding in the practical termination of the war. I could then have entered congress before the appointment of the committees and before the commencement of legislation. In November I resigned my commission, as it was a generally expressed opinion that such action on my part would prevent the possibility of my seat in congress being jeopardized. A series of unlooked for events delayed my reaching Washington, and ybu have already been informed of the cir- t cumstances which surrounded me and made it seem that justice to my constituents, to whom I was indebted beyond possibility of requital, made it necessary for me to resign my seat that they could immediately elect a successor. I am doing everything in my power to attend to the wants of my constituents before the committees and the departments, and with the aid of our senators and representatives have done and will continue to do all I can regarding legislation in which the eighth district is interested, but I realize the people of the district are entitled to an active representative upon the floor of the house. The many letters I have received * urging me to reconsider my action and become a candidate for re-election have touched me very deeply. Nothing could give me more pleasure than to continue the pleasant relation as representative which has so long existed with people among whom all my mature years have been spent and with whom during the remainder of my days I hope it will be my good fortune to be associated, but I feel I can render some service to them, even though not in congress, and it will always give me pleasure to devote myself to their best interests. Regretting more than I can express the circumstances which now prevent my becoming a candidate to represent you, and again expressing to the people of northern Alabama my appreciation and assuring them that their interest and welfare will always be of the deepest concern to me, I am, gratefully, Joseph Wheeler. Bill Easily Passed. The house Monday passed the general deficiency appropriation bill, and the military academy bill, the last of the supply bills, will follow. The deficiency bill carried $3,839,021 and was passed substantially without amendment. INDIA'S HORRORS CONFIRMED. Stories of Starvation Confirmed By Lord George Hamilton. In the house of commons at London j Friday afternoon the secretary of state j for India, Lord George JIamilton, re-! plying to a question on the subject of | fnnti'nA ir? T n/I i o nnnflrmod tVl a rATIOF t,K i heretofore received of the excessive famine and the mortality therefrom in the native states. They Want Protection. Southern growers of casava and manufacturers of starch have appealed to the ways and means committee of the house to take action restricting the importation of their produot. DREYFUS "VISITS PARIS. His Advent Iu French Metropolis Somewhat Startles the Government. Captain Alfred Dreyfus left Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday evening and arrived with his wife in Paris Monday morning, says a Paris dispatch to The ; New York Herald. The government is much worried by this journey, which was quite unlocked for, and will take measures to have him leave as soon as possible owing to its fear of demonstrations. Maniac Murders >'ine People. A peasant in a village near Arezzo, Italy, during a sudden attack of madness, murdered nine members of his family and wounded several others. Before he could be overcome he had also burned to the ground a stable filled with cattle. A Dinner to Roosevelt. President and Mrs. McKinley gave a dinner at the white house Friday night in honor of Governor and Mrs. Roosevelt. 1 1 ' :] *3A"! :V*Z-iV-"JSr.-'- - \ SOUTH CAROLINA I I STATE NEWS ITEMS. ( f CS>CMfMfN>rslC\JCNJtsJ f Livingston Helping Charleston. A Washington special sajs: Colonel Livingston made himself solid with a Charleston delegation when he came out in the committee on*appropriations as the champion of their proposed South Carolina Interstate Bud West Iudian exposition, as against Chairman Cannon, who had served notice upon the Carolinians that he would oppose the proposition for a government building and exhibit. Afto* onmmtHiiA had made its gation from Charleston, Baltimore and other points. Florence Times Company. A commission for a charter has been issued to the Times Company, of Florence. The corporators of tb?? company are: Hartwell M. Ayer and H. A. Branson. The capital stock of the company is to be $5,000 and the purpose of the company is to conduct a newspaper and job printing office. ?*? Oountry Clnb Increases Capital. The Camden Country Club has notified the secretary of state that it has increased its capital stock from $5,000 to $10,000. % Telephone Connections Muddle. Columbia is agitated just now about its telephone franchises. Some time ago.the South Carolina Telephone Co. obtained a franchise to construct a line in the city. This franchise was granted on condition that no overhead wires be placed on Main street and that the work be completed within a certain distance, and that a certain number of phones be in use in a certain time. The provisions for the time limit has not been complied with and the work has been stopped. The South Carolina Telephone Company say that the congestion on the railroads delayed the arrival of their material and that other things prevented their completing the work as required, but that it is now the purpose of the company to go ahead and finish the work. They have asked to be allowed to go ahead and for an extention of their franchise. * ? Mr. Browning, of Greenville, wants a franchise so that he can operate a system in Columbia and connect it, as a home system, with the other home in 4<1.a tfnfo T'Via nnmmitfoo S^OtOLUS 111 liilO Oiav^t uluo WiMuiivvvw on streets is considering the various propositions and will report at the next meeting of conncil. Meanwhile the Bell company goes merrily along in Columbia, The people there are anxious to have such a general long distance connection as is promised by the company which Mr. Browning is organizing. The present long distance line, with which Columbia is connected, connects the city with a number of important places, but it gives no Piedmont connection yet, and this is one thing in particular that*is desired there. ?* Schedule* Effective. Schedules of trains between Columbia and Petersburg, Va., which will constitute the short link between Tampa and New York over the Seaboard Air Line, became effective a day or two ago. Columbia and Hamlet, N. C., which form the connecting link between the Florida Central and Peninsular and the main line of the Seaboard are 105 miles apart. The distance between Ridgeway Junction and Petersburg is 76 miles, which is the new line between the main and Petersburg. It is 22 miles between Petersburg and Richmond. Palmetto Political Pot. A Columbia special says: Candidates for the state offices are slowly coming to the front. State Treasurer W. H. Timmerman has announced that he will stand for re-election. He has had no opposition for two terms, and there, is no indication that his right to the office will be contested this year. N. W. Brooker, for some time connected with the public land department, states his intention of being in the race for comptroller general, while Mr. Derham, the incumbent, win stand for re-election. 1 Indications are that there will be several candidates for lieutenant governor. a place that was not contested for in the last race, Mr. McSweeuey, the present governor, being the only candidate. Colonel John T. Sloan, of Columbia, will be an-aspirant for this position, and it will be the first time for many years that Columbia has been represented among the candidates. C. L. Winkler, of Camden, member of the legislature, is another > . . ' ? V " ' V IV;.' c1>ATrincr r^Vioirmnn f!flTin?n asked a o> ~ number of question which showec clearly ihat he was not at all in sympathy with the purposes of the project. "There have been a lot of these expositions," said the Illinois chairman of the committee, "and now every state fair wants to make the government a party to its show. I have the proud consciousness of knowing that these appropriations have been made without my vote." "And I," spoke Colonel Livingston, very promptly, "have the proud consciousness of knowing that I have supported every one of them as I am going to support this, and further that all of them have been successes from the standpoint of the government. I believe in expositions and I believe in the one proposed for Charleston." The other members of the committee seemed to hold to the same views as those of Colonel Livingston, and there is every reason to believe the appropriation will be made. The bill asks for an appropriation of $250,000, of which $75,000 is to be for a government building. The exposition company agrees to raise another $250,000 and reports that work well in hand. She^ showing made by the visiting delegation was an excellent one. The West Indies end of their enterprise seems to appeal to the members of congress particularly. The bill is modeled? after the Atlanta exposition bill. The project of the exposition was presented before the house committee on appropriations by Representatives Latimer and Elliott and ex-Representative Hemphill and a large dele candidate already announced. Mr. Scarborough, the present lieutenant governor, seems undecided whether to hold to that which he has or pit himself against Congressman Norton. Politicians and statesmen of heavy caliber are keeping very quiet. While quite a batch of strong men have been named in connection with the governorship, -Hone has been announced as a candidate. Governor McSweeney is, of course, going to be in the field, while J. D. Pattisou of Barnwell may be put dowu as another certainty. The "name of ex-Governor John C. Sheppard, of Edgefield, has been repeatedly mentioned in this connection, but so far Colonel Slieppard has said and done nothing to indicate that he wonld do more than again be a candidate for state senator. Solicitor Shumpert, of Greenville, another strong man, has also been mentioned for the governorship, but has not himself spoken. The entry of the Prohibitionists into politics causes considerable speculation. They have already determined to put two candidates for state offices in the field?governor and lieutenant governor." Charleston Will Be Crowded. Extensive preparations are being made at Charleston for the entertainment of the National Educational Association, which will hold its next annual convention in that city the week beginning July 9th. Fnlly ten thousand delegates will attend. Of this number there will be many ladies, and the entire country will be represented at the gathering. President McKinley and General John B. Gordon are among the invited guests, who in all likelihood will be present, and the list of delegates will include prominent educators from all parts of the United States. How to handle all these visitors is a question which has given much consideration to the business people of Charleston. The work, however, has been on for some months, and everything now is practically in shape for rhe reception of the convention. As it cannot possibly be expected that hotel accommodations can be provided for so many visitors, the private homes in the city will be thrown open and fliA pdnrnf-or* will he warmlv and hos pitably received. There wiil be am- I pie and convenient accommodation for ; every person who visits the city. The Thomson auditorium, which vya9 built last year for the entertainment of the United Confederate Veterans, will be used for the meetings, and other large halls in the city will be pressed into use for the meetings of the various committees of the association. Since the erection of the auditorium many conventions have been captured for Charleston, and many invitations are still outstanding. +*+ Union Trouble* Ended. The result of Dr. Evans'trip to Union, where he was detailed to straighten out the vaccination contention, has been made known by the filing of his formal report upon the trip, which reads as follows: To His Excellency, Governor M. B. MeSweeney, Columbia, S. C.?Dear Sir: In my investigation of the smallpox situation at this place I have found three families infected with the disease in Mill Town, which has a population of about three thousand, and is the locality in which the operatives of the Union Cotton Mills reside. Vaccination is imperative to prevent the further spread of the disease. Two thousand of the population of the town have been recently, and in the j last two or three years, vaccinated. I | have arranged tor the prompt vaccination of the remainder who are not protected. I have the assnrance in the prosecution of the work of the co-operation and assistance of the city authorities, the local board of health and President Duncan of the Union Cotton Mills. James Evans, M. D., Secretary State Board of Health. ?% Either Charleston or Port Royal. A Washington dispatch says: Senator Tillman was seen at his residence and. asked as to the status of the Port Koyal naval station, said: "The delegation of gentlemen from Port Royal have been here two days, and I have talked with them frankly, explaining the situation. "I have found nothing but antagonism at the navy department and in the senate committee since I have been in Washington toward Port Royal, and when the secretary of the navy addressed a letter to Senator Hale calling attention to the desirability of suspending all farther expenditure of money at Port Royal and considering the advisability of transferring the station to Charleston, I determined to take a neutral attitude as between the two ports and direct my efforts to protecting the interests of the state, so that if Port Royal lost the station /"IlkAwl WfAtllJ /> A*l4 A i r\ 1 W SVAtrk if vuaiicsiuu nuuiu uci taiuij ^uiu *?, and also to obtaining an absolutely impartial investigation of merits of the two places. I did not draw the amendment and did not vote for it in committee, but it passed unanimously. Killed In Kunaway. Hampton Timmons, white, fifteen years old, was killed in a runaway nesr Florence courthouse a tew days ago. He was driving his wagon into town when his horse ran away. When going at great speed the wagon was overturned and the young man's head struck a stump. The akull was crushed at the temple and he died within, ten minutes. Big; Bridge Completed. The handsome bridge of the Seaboard Air Line across the Congaree river at Columbia has been completed and is now in shape for the running of the trains over it. It is one of the handsomest structures of the kind in the state. Iron Woikerg Walk Out. The iron furnace at Buena Vista, Va., is banked, 100 employees having! walked out. They demand 10 per cent increase in wages and the privilege of drawing script on any merchant in Buena Vista. Ktcp abreast of these stirring times by subscribing for your home, paper. The price is little, and you connoi afford to be without iL CUBAN FRAUDS SHOWING UP Other Losses Besides Those lo Postal Department. SNAPS WERE WELL WORKED Several Trusted Officers In Havana Are Arrested and Others Are Now Suspected. Advices from Havana state that the extent of the postal frauds is far greater than what was originally expected. Besides taking in the postal department, the frauds seem to include the local officers at Havana and various other officers throughout the island, and also to have extended to outside points which have been used for the sale of some of the old issue of the stamps that were ordered destroyed. The result of the investigation at the local postoffice is the suspension of Postmaster Thompson, who was iuftalled in April of last year. He will remain at his own house for the present. Moya and Mascare, stamp sellers in the main office, have also been arrested, and further arrests are expected. As many as six others have been placed under the closest surveilance, and they will be arrested as soon as their services can be spared. Owing to this fact, if they are suddenly relieved from duty it will be impossible to carry*on the postal department of Havana. Messrs. Reeves and Reynolds, the auditors of the postal department, are under arrest at their own rooms, in charge of detectives. Special quarters *ill, however, be prepared in some fortress, where all the prisoners connected with the frauds will be taken as soon as arrested. The arrest and the suspension of Mr. Thompson did not take place until after dark Monday, and consequently these new features of the case were not generally known throughout the city at the time but there was a perceptible excitement at the postoffice, where no one knows who may be the next to be singled out. E# G* Bathbone desires the Associated Press to say that there is no trnth in the report circnlated in the United States that there is friction between the military authorities here and the postal department On the contrary, the most complete harmony prevails between General Wood and himself, consultations taking place between them daily. He also says he does not consider it proper, in the present circumstances, to give out interviews for publication and has so answered all applications for personal statements that have been cabled him from the United States. Sheridan will temporarily fill Mr. Thompson's place. It appears that the frauds were ramified in almost every possible direction, even the rented boxes having been made a source of illegitimate gain. Every additional revelation increases the amazement of the Americans here. The Cubans seem to be immensely pleased. They declare that the Americans can no longer boast in Cttba of their superior honesty when in government employ.. General Wood devotes several hours daily to postal affairs, hearing the reports of special agents and conferring with Mr. Bathbone and others having any knowledge of the matter. As yet, it is impossible to say how maDy persons will be implicated. REVISED CUBAN TARIFF Blade Public Simultaneously In Washington and Havana. The war department has made pub' ' T TT7- L ? ,1 11C Simmt&neoasiy xn rr auu in Havana the schedules of the revised Cuban tariff, which goes into effect June 15th. The revised tariff, it is calculated, will slightly increase the revenues of the island, which were last year approximately $16,000,000. The primary purpose of the revision of the Porter tariff is not to provide against a deficiency of revenue, but to stimulate importations from the United States. CAHE OF THE 1101)1 ES Of Confederate Dead the Object of An Amendment to Sundry Civil Bill. An amendment to the sundry civil bill was introduced in the senate Thursday to enable the secretary of war to have the bodies 264 Confederate soldiers buried in the Arlington national cemetery. A number of these bodies are now buried in Arlington and others at the soldiers' home. The amendment seeks to bury them in one spot and properly mark the names. Headed lij Governor Shaw. Iowa Republicans elected McKinley delegates to attend the Philadelphia convention headed by Governor Shaw. HOWARD COMES DOWX. Populist Candidate Will Not Run Against Senator Morgan. A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch says: Former Congressman M.W. Howard, of the Seventh Alabama district,who was late temporary chairman of the Middleof-the-Roaders' national convention at Cincinnati, has officially announced that be is out of the race for the United States senate to succeed John T. Morgan. Mr. Howard was the choice of Alabama Populists. Wants An Accounting. 1 Cm 4la a Senator .Bacon iuuuuu^cu m mo senate Friday a lengthy resolution calling for all possible facts concerning the expenditure of moneys by the representative's of this government in Cuba and he expects to strongly urge its adoption. Telegraph Company Files Claims. The Cuba Submarine Telegraph company has filed claims against the government for damages to its property during the Spanish-American war. a 4 . - . ; - . .* * j ''vV.v: TENNESSEE DEMOCRATS j Name W, J. Bryan as Leader, Adopt Platform and Select Delegates to Kansas City. The Tennessee State Democratic convention held two sessions in Nashville Thursday, and when it took a recess until 8:30 p. m. had disposed of the larger part of the business before it. While the attendance and the interest was unusually large there was a practical lack of contests and the proceedings were harmonious to the point r\4 tamanaoi < w* kUUAV M VSfW* The recommendation of the state committee that Congressman Bice Pierce be temporary chairman was satisfactory to the Carmack men and no contest was made. The snggestion by the committee on permanent organization of Congressman J. W. Gaines for permanent chairman was unanimously adopted. Every speech made in the convention was anti-imperialistic, favoring a reaffirmation of the Chicago platform and the renomination of 'W. J. Bryan and denunciatory of the Porto RiCo tariff and trusts. Congressional districts announced candidates for electors as follows: First, Bnrton Taylor, of Washington; second, John W. Staples, of Boane; third, J. J. Lynch, of Franklin; fourth, Walter Faulkner, of Wilson; fifth, A. B. Neil, of Marshall; sixth, M. H. Meeks, of Davidson; seventh, R. B. Wlliams, of Lawrence; eighth, Thos. C. Rye, of Benton; ninth, W. W. Craig, of Crockett; tenth, W. H. Carroll, of Shelby. The ballot for electors for state at large resulted: J. B. Frazier, of Hamilton, 964; E. E. Eslick, of Giles, 901; J. W. Lewis, of Henry 744; H. H. Hannah, of Roane, 416. Frazier and Eslick were declared the- nominees. There being only four candidates for delegates from the state at large to Kansas City?Albert T. McNeil, of Dyer; James D. Rfchardson, of Rutherford; John A. Moon, of Hamilton, and C. T. Cates, of Knox?they were elected by acclamation. At the night session S. F. Wilson, of Summer; H. H. Hannah, of Roane; J. W. Lewis, of Henry, end E. E. Richardson, of Davidson, were elected alternates. During the morning session of the convention Admiral Dewey, who was on a visit to Nashville, made a formal call on Governor McMillin, but declined to go into the convention hall becanse, he said, his visit sonth was purely social and he desired to avoid anything that would give it a political look. BETTING ON ROBERTS. Britons Predict That Pretoria Will Be Taken In Two Months. A London dispatch says: Members of the house of commons have been freely betting in the lobbies that Lord Roberts would be in Pretoria in two months. The ministerialists are build* ing confident hopes upon the comprehensive plans he had communicated to the war office. Predictions are definitely made that he will be in Kroonstad next Monday, and it is believed that his advance is already reconnoitering in the vicinity of Venters, where the hilly country begins again. From 15,000 to 20,000 is the highest estimate of the Boers under the post commando of General Botha, who is said to have forty-six guns. General Botha and General Dewet are reported to have quarreled. Lord Roberts is pressing hard after this force with 35,000 men .and 140 guns and 20,000 more men are easily available. BUZZARDS WERE FEASTING. Body of a Missing Hospital Surgeon Found at Savannah. A Savannah, Ga., dispatch says: Beneath one of the gigantic moss-covered oaks, just outside of Bonaventure cemetery, and obscured by a thicket from the view from the road, there was found Thursday by a negro woodcutter, the mutilated body of Dr. Shearon R. Tabb, marine hospital surgeon, who has been missing since Anril 30th. When Coroner Goette answered the report and took charge of the aemains he had to beat back a flock of blackwinged vnltures, which had already been preying upon the corpse. Japanese Town Burned Oat. Mail advices from Yokohama say the big fire at Fnkin, Japan, on April 18th, bnrned 1,600 houses, including thirty temples and all the principal buildings. Sixteen persons perished and a hundred were injured. The loss is 5,000,000 yen, or about $2,500,000. Eight Years For Embezzler. In the United States court in Boston, Mass., Monday Chas. H. Cole, former- j ly president of the now defunct Globe National Bank, who recently pleaded guilty, to misappropriation of the funds of the institution, was sentenced to serve eight years in the Greenfield jail. POPULIST COMMITTEE Meets Iu Sioux Falls, Organises and Elects National Officers. The Popnlist national committee met in Sioux Falls, S. D., Friday, and organized by the election of the following officers: Chairman?Senator Marion Butler, North Carolina. Vice Chairman?J. H. Edmonston, V.l neuras&a. Treasurer?W. D. Washburn, Massachusetts. Secretary--J. A.Edgerton, Colorado. AMERICANS HELP SUFFERERS. About 8145.000 Is Distributed In Famine Districts of India. Louis Klopscb, of New York, publisher of The Christian Herald, arrived iu Bombay. India, Monday aud started on u tour of Hie faminestricken districts. He has handed to the international missionary * committee three lacs of rupees, about $145,000, for distribution among the famine sufferers. -/ ; . ' *; " ' * i "WHITE MAN RULES" M ' - si I Says Bourke Cockran In Speech I - - ^ Bsfore Southern Society. "FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT IS DEAD." | Mew Yorker Receive* a Great Ovation at . ~:~ The Convention Held In Moat* comerj, Ala. Bourke Cockran received an ovation when he \ras introduced to make an address on the negro problem before the southern society convention in ' Montgomery, Ala., the applanse last* ing for five minutes. He boldly advocated the repeal of the fifteenth 'j>m, amendment to the Federal oonstittt-* tien. He argued that it xras a bad limb on the tree; that it had bean nullified by the states; that it had been lynched, so to speak, by the people of the south. He declared that there- ^ conciliation of the theoretical states of ' the negro, under the constitution, should be reconciliation with his actual status in the public opinion of the He maintained that this repeal was ' best for the negro as well as for the white man, since both races had to ; live together, to prosper together or go down together. Every source' of irritation between the two should be removed and the fifteenth amendment was the greatest. He asserted that the path of the negro to political as& social rights lay through their deportHe asserted that the path of the lie-1 gro to political and social rights lay ^ through the development of tile nnlt* . the individual, and that the onljv^' means was by industrial education. He lauded the generosity of the south (or spending thirty-five years after its devastation, and out of its poverty* over one hundred millions of doUaft|? for negro.education, and pointed out that it was the duty of the federal gov- r eminent to assist in preptriac it? wards for the duties of citisenship. He said that it would be far saore^^ defensible for tbe country to ten or twenty millions s year in iug uplift the black men of the south |j instead of one hundred millions in pi patting down the brown man of the east He believed that the establishment of a Tuskegee school in every county in the sonth and the-mnltijm* j cation of Booker Washington* was the |g duty of national government; that the ^ white and black man are here and -ll must live here and work out their tfwn salvation; that the intelligence of the , $ white man will always triumph and the black man most be content to take second place; that the interests of || both rases are identical and when : one prospers both prosper; that it is possible for the two races to live together and prosper and that the negro V: furnishes the best labor for the sonth; ^ that the question of saflrage should be ^ left solely to the states, but they should see thst the negro should have. 7 absolute protection to life and propegf'^ | ty. Rape cannot be stopped by lynch- g ing and the records show that where t, " J the lynchings are resorted to the erimn || of rape becomes more frequent. We A ~M must help the black man to become a i Mr. Cockran closed the meeting tad - the audience rose to their feet and for I ten minutes applause continued. Jio ' such ovation was given a speaker af||j the conference. John Temple Graves of Georgia, inf;; a ten minutes' speech, captured the |? crowd by saying after all that had been said, one fact was patent, "that when rape was committed there would NICARAGUA ROUTE FATORED. Intcroceante Canal CommSalra Apyutt U.fnHl tfl? Friday the entire membership the interoceanic canal commissi dh appeared before the senate committee w^jl charge of the Hepbnrn bill. All of the members of the commir?)^ sion were given an opportunity to express their views and were qnestion#!^ at considerable length by the senators. As to the Nicaragua route alt rait* . ; ' erated what the- Walker commission has reported?that the waterway is entirely practicable from an engineer- ; ing standpoint at abont the same range of estimates heretofore made, ^ from $118,000,000 to $140,000,00* BRYAN UNCONCERNED. He Dcollr-^i to l>ls??u the Urn Falls Popal'ot h'omlaetloa. I The least concerned man in Lin- ~Wjl coin, Neb., in the outcome of the Sioux Falls convention apparently was the nominee of that convention, W. J. Mr. Bryan spent the day and even- % ing with his family at his dty home, and the first notification of hit selection by acclamation waa the Associated Press bnlletiu. He asked to be excused from commenting on tike action at Sioux Falls or Cincinnati, nor tronld he express himself on the reapactive platforms or the apparent diviajon ai Sioux Falls on the question of nomik nating a candidate for ripe president EMPLOYEES LOCKED OUT. ' % Grreniboro, N. C., Mill Otyoctod to Work, men Joining: Union. . The Proximity cotton milt at Greenaboro, N. C., finding that ita employees were about to strike, a labor nnion having been organized among them, . shut down and locked them out The employees thus discharged hsv* employed counsel, and decided to take a novel step by suing the company for one year's wages, aggregating abort $JU,UUU. T 7 . Demand* for Belief Increasing. The rieeoroy of India, Lord Corson, , M wires London that the reoeat rain : storms have not improved the sitae* tion, that the demand* of relief are in* v creasing, now reaching 5,189,000 per* sons, but that the arrangements for -Xg relief are equal to the increasing strain. Daughters of the Kevajfitiea. The general Society of the Daughters of the Berolutien in session at New York elected llin Adeline 8ter- ' ling of $ew Jersey president genergL Delegates were in attendance from all over the country. -