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X o The Bamberg Herald. h ? ESTABLISHED 1S91. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY, JUNE 7.1900. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. ||g| 1 1 I . ??ni*?iii? * ?* attt Tim I CFMTAn MCMAfCn EMPRESS ABETS THE "BOXERS" China's Ruler Winks at Murder of Foreigners. SITUATION IS ALARMING Minister Cooler Advises Washington Officials?Sabject of Defense Will Be a Delicate One. A cable dispatch from Pekin, China, S8js: The most alarming reports are constantly arriving from the country, 11 p Ti. _ m T*_ fTl especially irom jrao xing xa. xu? telegraph wires from Pekin to Pao Ting Fa are cut and all news comes is Tien Tsin. A serious crisis exists at the palace. The ultra-conservative party advocates not taking repressive measures, urging the dowager empress to allow the "boxers" to finish the work of driving the foreigners out of the country, the moderate party, led by Prince Ching, representing the serious danger of provoking a conflict with the powers. ItjfeAftpossible to confirm or deny thpMMpt, but significant indications of the filing of the government toward foreigners are contained in the attempt to arrest Lin, Chinese manager of the Pekin syndicate; Kia, chief of the Shan Si commercial bureau, and Fan, a leading banker of Shan Si, on the ground that they were "dangerous characters," but in reality, because they are concerned with new British enterprises. Fortunately all of them, were absent and they have not yet been arrested. The British minister, Sir Claud MacBonald, has addressed a note to the tsung li yamen, demanding why the arrests were ordered. A Shanghai dispatch says: A number of desperadoes, disguised as passengers, have pirated the British Tang Tse steamer Kutwo. They committed wholesale robberies, terroriz log too passengers, wuo were qaue unable to offer resistance. EIGHT AMERICANS MISSING. Further advices from Tieu Tsin state that two more of the party of foreigners who fled from Fao Ting Fn have arrived there. One of them was badly injured. The relief expedition has returned. The mounted Cossacks, !*. who started in pursuit of the refugees, returned Sunday evening. They reported that they had a fight with the "boxers" at Tuli, killing sixteen and wounding many. Lieutenant Bleusky, Dr. Hamilton; a trooper and a civilian were wounded. It is reported from Pao TiDg Fau that eight Americans and three members of the China inland mission are missing. The missionaries are in > great danger. It was reported that Pao Ting Fn was attacked Sunday night. Mr. Robinson, of the north China mission? not Mr. Stevenson, of the Church of England mission, as cabled previously,is Bussing and five native Christians have been murdered at Zang Ching. Mr. Norman, of the same mission, has been captured at Wu Chia Ting, two miles from Tang Ching, and is in great danger. The British cruiser Endymoin and the torpedo boat Hart have arrived at i?n. CONGER SENDS ADVICES, The following cablegram has been reoeived at the state department from United States Minister Conger at Pekin: 'Tedn, June 4.?Outside of Pekin the mnrders and persecu' tions by the 'boxers' seem to he on the increase. The Pao Ting Fu railway, is temporarily abanboned. Work on the Pekin and ' Hang Kow line is stopped. All foreigners have fled. The Chinese government seems either unwilling or unable to suppress the trouble. The troops show no energy in attacking the 'boxers.' "CONGEB." Grave as these advices are, they have not induced the state department to vary the line of action it has laid down. The naval force of the United States near Pekiu, now represented by one vessel, the Newark, has not been strengthened, but if occasion should arise Admiral Kempf might be reenforoed to almost any extent likely to bo needed in three or four days, from the numerous American fleet still at Manila and vicinity. Owing to the peculiar character of the Chinese coast naval vessels of - formidable type are unable to approach the populous provinces in China, and especially are these boxerafflicted communities inaccessible to naval vessels. The state department does not contemplate the use of the United States troops and it would be difficult to spare any from the force now opperating in the Philippines, even it were found expedient to employ the military arm. CHAR0E5 EXTRAVAGANCE. Georgia Senator Blames the Republi cans i-or waste ut 11uncj. In the senate Saturday afternoon Senator Clay, of Georgia, delivered a speech arraigning the Republicans for extravagance. H e touched upon Senator Hannah defense of the armor v trust and declared that there would be extravagance in government operation y?; in an armor plant by referring to the class of meu who would be in charge under republican administration, referring " particularly to Neely, Rathbone and others. riunifJcent Dowry. It is stated in New York that the dowry of Senator William A. Clark's daughter, Miss Katherine Stanffer Clark, who married Dr. Lewis RutherMnrris ft f?w riftVA afiTO. i8 314. 000,000. ' J8&ark Hanna Denies Report. * SefiBfr Hanna denies the report that henas determined not to be the chairman of the new national Republican committee. A statement to this effect was sent out from Washington. VETERANS ADJOURN. Next Reunion of Battle-Scarred Confederate Heroes Will Be Held In Memphis. Tlie Confederate reunion was brought to a close at Louisville Friday night. The next gathering of the old veterans will be at Memphis, Tenn, The struggle for the reunion by the Tennessee city was not a very hard one because it had been conceded that the reunion would go there next year if New Orleans did not ask for it. The candidates were Memphis, Jacksonville and Buffalo. Friday was to have been the biggest day of the reunion, but an almost continual downpour of rain precluded the possibility of the grand parade, which caused a feeling of distinct disappoint; rnorif in TinninviltA Briscoe Hindman, of Louisville, was elected commander-in-chief of the United Sons of Veterans by acclamation Friday morning after Walter Colquitt, of Atlanta, the retiring commander, had refnsed to accept a reelection. An interesting incident occurred when the report of the committee on resolutions was read. Among the recommendations was one that "the Confederate veterans recognize with appriciation the language of General Daniel Sickles at the recent reunion of the army of the Potomac at Fredericksburg, and reciprocated the feeling shown; that the reunion of Union soldiers or Confederate soldiers attended by the president of the United States and his cabinet showed that that there is no sectionalism in recognition of valor of the American soldier; that a copy of these resolution be forwarded to the Society of the Army of tne Potomac." ? When the vote was called on this there were cries of "No." General Gordon declared the resolutions adopted, but hearing the "noes," resubmitted the question. W. H. Burgynn, of North Carolina, who presented the resolutions, made a strong speech urging the adoption of the resolutions. J. H. Shepherd, of Virginia, secured the floor and announced that he was opposed to the resolution and asked that it be voted down. He said: "I want no coqnetting with those Yankees who defeated us. For God's sake don't accept anything from Union soldiers. Vote it down, my comrades, vote it down." The hall was instantly in an uproar, men calling "vote," "question," "no," "jes" and yelling indiscriminately. There were loud calls of "Gordon!" "Gordon!" The commander came to the front and was greeted by frantic cheers, that for several minutes prevented his voice from being heard. When silence was partially restored he said: "I trust the day will never come while I stand on southern soil among the chivalrous men of the south when I will refuse to send a message of cordial greeting to an enemy. (Cheers.) I know the sender of this message. On the heights of Gettysburg he stood gallantly in my front and it was my bullets that sent him to the rear with a leg off, and, for me, I am going to reciprocate the kindly message of the northern soldiers." Wild cheers greeted this speeoh, and on a vote the resolution went through with a rush. CARPENTERS QUIT WORK. Atlanta Contractors and Employes Have a Strike on Hand. The carpenters and joiners in Atlanta, Ga., went on a strike Friday. Six hundred men walked away from their jobs to return no more, they say, until their organization is recognized by employers and their demands complied with. These demands are for a day of eight hours work; a uniform price of 25 cents per hour for their work, as a minimum wage, or $2 per day, with half price of minimum wage for overtime and double time for legal holidays and Sundays; recognition of their organization by the employment of " t i. A. none but anion men 07 couirauture, builders and planing mill managers. Decrease of Public Debt. The monthly statement of the public debt shows that at the close of business, May 30, 1900, the debt less cash in the treasury amounted to $1,122,608,811, a decrease for the month of $2,193,774, which is accounted for by the redemption of bonds. KEMPF LANDS TROOPS. Admiral Notifies Department of His Move At Peking, China. The situation in China was almost the sole topic of discussion among the officials of the state department Thursday. The following cablegram has been received at the navy department from the senior squadron commander. Admiral Kempf: "Tong Ku (Taku), May 30.?Secretary of Navy, Washington: One hundred men landed and sent to Tien Tsin yesterday. Fifty of these go to Pekin today. Other nations landed men. "Kempf." PAPERS OF INDICTMENT In the Neely Affair Sent From Washington to New York. Papers were sent from Washington to New York which charge Neeley, the alleged defaulting postal employee, with the embezzlement of a sum approximating 3400,000 through conversion into cash of the $400,000 worth of "surcharged" Cuban postage stamps which were ordered destroyed and so certified by Neeley. Car Sheds Are Guarded. Every power house and car shed of the St. Louis Transit Company is being guarded by Sheriff Pohlman's posse comitatus. In all, about 900 men are on duty. A force of from fifty to sixty men has been stationed at each power house to remain on guard duty. Richmond Plumbers Dissatisfied. The Journeymen Plumbers of Richmond, Ya., are on strike pending negotiations with the employing or master plumbers. They demand $3 per day and a nine-hour day. V > " -* v ' i: > \ BRITISH ENTER JOHANNESBURG The Boer City Capitulated Without Resistance. ROBERTS WAS WELCOMED Bnrgher Officials Were Requested To Retain Their Places?British Flag Hoisted With Great Ceremony. A cablegram was received in London ? i # t ? i r? .1. oatnrciny irom juora aouen? unuru Johannesburg May 3lst, but which was not dispatched from there until 8:30 a. m. of June 1st, which says: "The occupation of Johannesburg passed off quite satisfactorily, thanks to the excellent arrangements made by Dr. Kraus, the Transvaal commandant here, and order prevailed throughout the town. "Dr. Kraus met me on my entrance to Johannesburg and rode by my side to the government offices, where he introduced me to the heads of several departments, all of whom acceded to my request that they would continue to carry on their respective duties until they could be relieved of them. "Johannesburg is very empty, but a good crowd of people assembled in the main square by the time th^ British flag was being hoisted. A royal salute was fired and three cheers for the queen were given. "At the end of the ceremonies the Seventh and Eleventh divisions marched past with the naval brigade, the heavy artillery and two brigade divisions of the royal field artillery. "General Ian Hamilton's column and the cavalry division and mounted infantry were too far away to take part in the ceremony. The troops looked very workmanlike and evidently took keen interest in the proceedings." According to delayed dispatches reaching Pretoria, Johannesburg was fnrmallv handed over to the British at 11 o'clock on the morning of May 3lst, in an orderly manner. Lord Roberts was accompanied by a small force. The banks are being guarded. There was a slight engagement outside Johannesburg, and some Australian scouts were shot in street fighting. After this a message was sent to the nearest British general notifying him that the town would not bo defended. Lord Lansdowne, secretary of state for war, has received the following from Lord Roberts, dated Orange Grove, June 2d: "Johannesburg is quiet. The people are surrendering arms and ponies. Only three Boer guns were left in the fort. The Queenslanders shipped May 30th, a Cruesot, with eleven wagons of stores and ammunition. Commandant Botha, of Zoutpanberg, his held cornet and one hundred prisoners were taken in the fighting around Johannesburg, some belonging to the foreign contingents and the Irish brigade. The Thirteenth Yoemanry were- attacked May 29th between Kroonstad and Lindley. There were some casualties." FRENCH NEAR PRETORIA. A London special of June 4 says: There is no direct news from Pretoria of later date than Thursday evening. General French's cavalry were then at Irene, eight miles south of Pretoria, and firing was heard there. ' Lord Roberts' messages about secondary operations elsewhere and the situation at Johannesburg, dated at Orange Grove, a farm four miles northeast of Johannesburg, show that on Saturday, at 5:10 p. m., he was twenty-five miles from Pretoria. Fifty-Two Thousand Enumerators. The exact number of census enumerators at work, according to a Washington dispatch, is 52|fi31. Florida has 292, Georgia 1,258, South Carolina 748, North Carolina 1,226, Virginia 1,095. Neely Papers Signed. Governor Roosevelt of New York has signed the Neely extradition papers and they were forwarded to Washington Sunday nigbt. UPON TERMS OF FAIRNESS. Senator Mason Anxious That Boers Should Be Well Treated. A Washington dispatch says: Senator Mason introduced the following resolution Monday: "The United States hereby expresses the hope that the war in South Africa may cease at an early day upon terms of fairness to both England and the Transvaal." Envoys at Cleveland, Ohio. The Boer envoys and their party received a number of callers at Cleveland, O., Monday morning. At 1:30 p. m. they gave a reception, several hundred people attending. FOUR ARE DEAD And Seven Injured By Terrific Explosion of Nitro-GIycerin. At Whipple, just east of Marietta, 0., Thursday, in shooting a well on the Kelly farm there was a premature explosion of fifty quarts of nitroglycerin. Four were killed, four arc dying and three others are crippled for life. EVai-T-lmrl v r?n thp crrmind war either killed or injured; and it -was next to impossible to get a reliable description of the terrible explosion. Qeneral Hastings Passes Away. I Silas Wright Hastings, late colonel of the One Hundred and Forty-second volunteer infantry and brigadier gen{ eral of the United States volunteers by brevet, died Sunday night in Washington city. ! Wife of Ex-Governor Taylor Dead, j The wife of ex-Governor Robert L. i i Taylor, the lectnrer, died at her home j in Knoxville, Tenn., Monday after a I brief illness. Five children survive her. J AIMS AT PECK. Our Commissioner At Paris Is Charged With Dereliction As To His Duties. The issuance of a bench warrant at Frankfort, Ky., Friday, by Judge Cantrill was the first official notice that an indictment had been returned naming Former Governor Taylor as an accessory to the murder of William Goebel. It had been rumored for weeks that the indictment had been returned, but that the officials refused to either confirm or deny it. The indictment was filed and entered on record April 19th. It reads as follows: The grand jury of the county of Franklin in the name and by authority of the commonwealth of Kentucky accuses William S. Taylor, of this commonwealth, of being accessory before tte fact to the willful murder of William Goebel, committed as follows, viz: The said William S. Taylor in the said county of Franklin, on the 30th day of January, A. D., 1900, and before the finding of this indictment, unlawfully, willfully and feloniously of his malice aforethought' and with intent to bring about the death and procure the murder of William Goebel, did conspire with Caleb Powers, F. W. Golden, John L. Powers, John Davis, Henry Youtsey, Charles Finley, W. H. Culton, John Howard, Berry Howard, Harlan Whitaker, Richard Combs and others to this grand jury unknown, and did counsel, advise, encourage, aid and procure Henry Youtsey, James Howard, Berry Howard, Harlan Whitaker, Richard Combs and other persons to this grand jury unknown, unlawfully, willfully, feloniously and of their malice aforethonght, to kill and murder William Goebel, which one of the last five named persons or another person acting with them, but who is to this grand jury unknown, as Aforesaid then and there, thereunto by the said W. S. Taylor before the fact committed, advised, encouraged, aided and procured, did by shooting and wounding the said Goebel with a gun or pistol, loaded with powder or other ex? Iah/IAW find ofool Vial 1 of* piusivo uuu. ICDUC11 auu d?v?> ? ?other hard substances, and from which, said shooting and wounding the said Goebel died on the 3d day of February, 1900, but which of said last above mentioned persons as aforesaid, actually tired the shot that killed the said Goebel is to this grand jury unknown, against the peace and dignity of the commonwealth of Kentucky." The bench warrant commands the sheriff or other arresting officer to arrest William S. Taylor and deliver him to the jailer of Franklin county. On the back of the indictment about fifty persons are named as witnesses for the commonwealth. The bench warrant was placed in the hands of Deputy Sheriff John Suter, who is acting in the absence of the sheriff, who is at Hot Springs. When asked what he would do with the warrant he said: "What can I do with it? I would serve it if I could, and I could do it if Governor Mount of Indiana would help me, but from all reports I, guess he will not do it." Governor Beckham Friday afternoon issued an order mustering out ten companies of the state guard. All except two of them are located in mountain towns and were among those mustered into service daring the political excitement jnst before and immediately following the state election last fall. ' SUNDRY CIVIL BILL, With Important Amendments, Passed In the Senate. At the conclusion of a session lasting eight hours, the senate Friday evening passed the sundry civil appropriation bill. The amendment providing for an appropriation of $5,000,000 for the Louisiana purchase exposition, to be held in St. Louis in 1903, was continued in the bill after an unsuccessful effort to reduce the appropriation. An amendment was incorporated providing for the beginning of the work on the memorial bridge between Washington and Arlington cemeteries, to be erected in^memory of the doad of both the Union and Confederate armies. While the bill carries only $200,000 for the project, it is expeoted ultimately to cost about $5,000,000. An amendment also was added to the measure providing for an adjustment of certain claims of the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Delaware, Oregon, California and South Carolina. TO CONVENE IN RALEIGH. Date Fixed For Gathering of Commissioners of Agriculture. The next meeting of the Cotton States association of the commissioners of agriculture will be held in Raleigh, N. C., on August 26th. There will be a three days' session. All of the commissioners of agriculture, state chemists, directors of the state experimental stations, state veterinarians and presidents of agricultural colleges are members of the Cotton States association. James Wilson, United States com missioner of agriculture, has in response to an invitation, consented to deliver an address at the meeting. A FLORIDA TRAGEDY. Hon. Taylor Bradford Killed By John Graham at St. narks. About 7 o'clock last Sunday night, at St. Marks, Fla., Hon. Taylor Bradford, aged forty-one years, chairman of the finance committee of Tallahassee city council, was shot and killed almost instantly by John A. Graham, a land speculator and a man of large affairs whose home is in Savannah, Ga. Graham owns a large sawmill and shingle factory at St. Marks. GENERAL OTIS QUARANTINED. Reaches San Francisco With Smallpox Aboard His Transport. The transport Meade, with Major General E. S. Otis, arrived at San Francisco, Wednesday, twenty-five 1 Jays from Manila. The Meade had three cases of smallpox aboard. She .vas placed in quarantine where she vill remain an indefinite time. Gene[ ral Otis stated to the quarantine ofli' ;ials that he was in excellent health fsirarvjcs>r>jrsi?NJ?Mj j I SOUTH CAROLINA i ) i STATE NEWS ITEMS, i ; f\HMC\H\KMrslCSirslJ j Charleston Cet? Convention. As heretore announced in the Asso- ' ciated Press dispatches, the next an- y nual convention of the railroad com missioners will be held in Charleston dnring the exposition. Chairman ? Evans says that the Sonth Carolina 1 commissioners worked with might and ? main to get the convention to go to Charleston. But they had to fight against San Fraucisco, Chicago and New York and other large cities, and they won out all right in favor of 1 Charleston. Mr. Evans says that the northwestern commissioners were especially in favor of Charleston, and that they are all delighted with an opportunity to visit that historic south- t em city. < Important Decree Filed. j Jndge Beset has just filed an im- t portant decree in the case of Bryan t vs. Reams, Saluda county, concerning ] the application of the act of 1897, in { relation to costs in certain partition * and foreclosure cases, to the commis- j sions of the master on moneys arising \ from sale of land, holding that the < master is entitled to fall commission { in all cases. ( Two Negro Children Killed. 1 At Winona, Florence county, a 1 frieght train ran over two small Negro < boys, sons of Henry Urant. xney were 1 asleep on the track between the rails i and must have raised up their heads as i the engine passed over them. One ! was killed ontright and the skull of ( the other was horribly crushed. They ] were not mangled and would have es- < caped had they remained flat on the i ground. - 1 Cattle Shipments Heavy. 1 The shipping of cattle from this 4 state to cities in other states has as- j sumed large proportions. Besides the ' many carloads shipped from the up- ** country to Charleston and Columbia many other carloads go from the same section to Richmond,Nashville,Atlanta and other points. ( On this account shippers in this state have been notified by the Tennessee authorities that quarantine has ( been established in the state against , tuberculous cattle and that none will , be admitted that have not been duly j tested and certified to be sound. I ?* Ucen?e la Lacking. Comptroller General Derham, in reply to a complaint of a policy-holder in 1 the Old Wayne Mutual Life Associa- j tion, of Indianapolis, Ind., says that ^ the Old Wayne Mutual Life Associa- ] tion has no license to do business in . this state. *** \ A Bleachery In Sight. A charter was granted a few days ' ago to the Clear Water Bleachery and Manufacturing company of Aiken, The ' capital stock is to be $200,000, and the president and treasurer is Thomas Barrett, Jr., of Augusta, who is connected with cotton mills in Augusta, Graniteville and other factories across thejtavannah in South' Carolina. wmie tne soutn is rapiaiy manniacturing cotton to an extent that it is generftlly believed will, within a few years, enable her to handle all the cotton raised in the cotton belt, yet there has never been a bleachery established in this section. The "rough" product has been manufactured in southem mills, and returns here finely finished through New England bleacheries. It is said that only the purest and clearest sort of water can be used in a bleachery. It must be water free from certain minerals, and such water haB not been found in South Carolina heretofore. The Clear Water company in Aiken has been in process of organization for several years, and the establishment of the bleachery means a great thing for the cotton mill industry of the south. The directors of the company are Charles Estes, Norman Shultz, M. B. Vaugh, F. B. Pope, W. J. Craig, J. F. McGibbon, Thomas Barrett, Jr. *% Murder Trials at Greenville. Greenville has the somewhat remarkable record of having tried seven murder cases the past week in every one of which the defendant was acquitted. Seven lives were taken by the accused, but on one account or another, chiefly self defense, they were ; acquitted, , ? Battlefield Points Located. A Chattanooga dispatch says: Governor Mc8'weeney and the South Carolina monument commission, after RnAnriincr the dav at Chickamaucra ~r O y - ? park, in company with General H. V. Boynton, returned home Monday night, haying located eight important points on the battlefield held by Sonth Carolina troops daring the famous fight, where markers are to be placed, and also selected the site for the handsome monument to be erected by the state on the reservation. The site of the monnment is half way up the slope of Snodgrass hill and marks the limit reached by Kershaw's South Carolina brigade in their famous assault on Thomas' position at the olose of the memorable battle. The monument will, therefore, stand at the open, in plain view of the railroad station at Lytle. The various sites selected for monuments and markers were staked off and work on the *- e 41-, fnnn>1atinne will hfl preparation ox mc luuuuativuw ** ?? ww gin at once. * * * A Gretna-Green Affair. The Rev. Dr. Vase married Mr. Joseph Hughes, of Columbia, and Miss Mamie Taggart, of Abbeville, one day the past week at Belton. It was a runaway match and the mother of the bride was in close and vigorous pnrsuit. Miss Taggert has been attending the Greenville Female college, taking a special course in art and music, while Hughes has been in Columbia, where he holds a position with the Southern railway. The young people were deeply in love, of course, but the mother of the young woman strenuously objected to their marriage. Failing to overcome j ?arr,ntal objection, the couple decided o elope and have the marital knot tied without mother's consent. So, Miss L'aggert left Greenville and was joined it Belton by her ardent and deter* nined lover. The delight of be* ng together was so great that they ;honghtle8sly whiled away several lours before the ceremony was perormed, and in the meantime mamma ras hurrying in on the afternoon train o put a quietus on the work of Cnpid. Cupid, however, objected, and the jouple fled from the presence of the rate Mrs. Taggert to that of Dr. Vass ind were quickly "tied up." ^ A BRITISH COLONY. nrd Roberts Proclaims Annexa tion To England of the Orange Free State. A Bioemfontein special says: Amid salutes and cheers and the singing of 'God Save the Queen," the military jovernor, Major General Prettyman, at loon Monday formally proclaimed the innexation of the Orange Free State inder the designation, of the Orange River Colony. The ceremony wai tomewhat imposing and the scene in he market square inspiring. An immense concourse had gathered and the town was gay with bnoting. The bal;onies and windows surrounding the quare were crowded with ladies. The troops were drawn up under command of General Knox and entertained the spectators. Accompanied by General Kelly-Kenny and staff and sscorted by the Welsh yeomanry, they were greeted with cheers, and in a clear voice, heard in every square. General Prettyman read Lord Robert's proclamation annexing the Orange Free State, as conquered by lier mrjesty's forces, to the queen's dominions, and proclaiming that the state shall henceforth be known as the Orange Biver colony. Lusty cheers greeted the concluding words of the proclamation, and these were renewed with ever increasing volume as Lord Acheson unfurled the royal standard and the bands struck no "Ged Save the Queen. christians Massacred. Chinese "Boxers" Cause Reign of Terror In Vicinity of Peking. Cable advices from Peking. China, date that from all parts of the surrounding country news is constantly irriving of fresh atrocities committed by the "boxers." Three Christian families were massacred at Shaa Li Ting, sixty miles from Peking. Friday, May 25. Only two escaped. A representative of the Associated Press visited Fang Tni Wednesday morning and found the place occupied by a battalion of troops. The wholo railroad station, workshops and locomotive sheds were gutted and much rolling stock was destroyed, including the imperial palace car. Large godowns (Chinese warehouses), full of valuable merchandise, were burned after having been looted by the rioters. The damage is estimated at half a million taels. The neighboring villagers seem to have joined in the attack, showing that the movement is not confined to the boxers. A "KICK COMINO." Some O. A. R. ilea Are Opposed To Erection of Joint Monuments. During the ceremonies incident to 5 iL. tne aecoraiiau ui m? ^iotco u> Union and Confederate dead in the National cemetery ground at Philadelphia, it developed that in certain Grand Army circles, opposition has appeared to the erection of a monument to the Confederate dead in that cemetery by the Daughters of the Confederacy. Colonel Thomas G. Sample, a post commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, in his oration said. "We have buried all of our sectional feeling. We forgot all sectionalism at the close of the war. While I have no objection to our brothers in the south raising monuments to their generals as they have a right to do, yet I raise my voice in protest against their erecting any monument to any one who fought against the flag in any national cemetery." - WORK OF SCHEMERS'/ Lawlessness In China flay Be Result of a Dark Plot. Minister Conger at Pekin reports to the state department that the arrival of 359 guards from the legations of Russia, France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan and the United States has had the effect of improving the situation. It is hinted in diplomatic circles here that the sadden increase of activity on the part of the "boxers" is nothing more than part of a wellconceived plan by one of the great European powers to secure a permanent lodgement in Peking and to seize a position giving it full control of the great Peicho river, the approach to the Chinese capital. . TO PLEAD HIS CASE. ? I Ulnna pTfltM Fftt convict uitco wh>i|mv ? Taking Leg Ball." Julius Bone, the young convict who escaped from the Bade county, Ga., convict camp, May 29tb, is in jail in Atlanta. The apprehension of young Bone ie not due to the skill of the detectives nor the vigilance of the police. He if a voluntary prisoner. He visited Atlanta Friday morning for the purpose, as he says, of personally going before the state pardon boor J to tell the prison commission that he is the victim of a judicial error. This, he asserts, was the only motive of his escape from the stockade. WILL IGNORE PROTEST. Daughters of Confederacy Determined to Build Monuments. The Daughters of the Confederacy of Richmond, Va., are very mucL wrought up over the action of Genera Wagner and other Grand Army of lh< Republic men of Pennsylvania in op posing the erection of a monument t< the ?00 or more Confederates buriec in Germantown cemetery near Phila delphia. Tbey will appeal to the sec retary of war. % ; ANTImAH shah IS DEDICATED I ???? /looument To Both Blue and Gray Presented To Government. i IS A FRATERNAL BOND President and Other Notables Participate In Exercises. A special from Hagerstown, Did., says: Another link in the chain which hinds together the once warring factions of the north and sooth was forged Wednesday by the dedication of a monnment erected to the memory of the men who wore the gray as well as those who wore the blue, and who died in mortal combat on the bloody field of Antietam. This event, which is possibly without a parallel in the history of the world, was graced by the presence of the president of the United States, accompanied by many members of his cabinet; a score or more of United States senators, as many members of the honse, the governor of Maryland and prominent men of the states.. There were present hundreds of veterans who fought for the "lost cause" and thoneands who fought for the side that proved victorious. Side by side they stood with uncovered * heads throughout the ceremony. Colonel Benjamin. F. Taylor, as president of the Antietam Battlefield Commission of Maryland, then presented the monument to the national government and Elihu Boot, secretary of war, in a brief address accepted it on behalf of the United States. Then followed short addresses, mainly of a reminiscent character, by Generals J Dhn B. Brooke, James Longstreet, Orlando B. Wilcox, J. E. Duryea, Senators Foraker, Burrows, and Daniel and others who were prominent on the opposing sides in the great struggle. These were followed in turn by Representative George B. McClellan, of New York, and other members of both houses of congress. The band played "Hail to the Chief' and General Douglas introduced President McKinley, who delivered the address of the day. The president said in part: "Mr. Chairman and My Fellow Citizens?I appear only for a moment that I may make acknowledgment for your oourteous greeting and express in a single word my sincere approval of this occasion for which we have asonmkimA t/uliv STOMA ?vv.?4^ i "In this presence and on this memorable field I am glad to meet the followers of Lee, Jackson, Longstreet and Johnston with the followers of Grant and McClelland and Sherman and Sheridan, greeting each other not with arms in their hands or malioe in their sonls, bnt with affection and respect for each other in their hearts. (Applause.) "Standing here today one reflection only has crowned my mind?the difference between the seotions and that of thirty-eight years ago. Then the men who wore the bine and the men who wore the gray 'greeted each other with shot and shell and visited death npon their respective ranks. We meet after all these intervening years with bnt one sentiment?that of loyalty to the government of v the United States, love for onr flag and free institutions, and determined men of the north and men of the south to make any sacrifice for the honor and perpetuity of the American nation. (Great Applause.) "My fellow-citizens, I am glad, also, of the famous meeting between Grant and Lee at Appomattox. I am glad we were together, aren't yon?" (cries of 'yes, yes*)?"glad that the union was saved by the honorable terms made between Grant and Lee, under the famous apple tree, and there is one glorious fact that must be always gratifying to ns?the American soldiers never surrendered but to Americans. (Applause.) "the followers of the Confederate generals, with the followers of the federal generals, fonght side by side in Cuba, in Porto Bico and in the Philippines, aud in those far-off islands are standing. together today fighting and dying for the flag they love, the flag that represents more than any other banner in the world, the best hopes and aspirations of mankind." (Great and long continued applause.) STRIKERS USE DYNAMITE. Tracks of St. - Loafs Rapid Transit Company Blown yp. A terrific explosion, supposed to have been caused by dynamite, plaoed on the tracks of the Union line at Fifth and Chambers streets in St, Louis, shook the buildings and broke the glass in all the windows in the neighborhood at midnight Wednesday night. Many persons'were thrown from their beds by the violent shook and all were awakened and more or less terrified. So far as known no one was injured. The police have been unable to find out who was responsible for the explosion. i CUBA NOT A TERRITORY. i ?# rwH< Caa FM> OUIC VUUIUiiiaavuvi v> . .... i Be Appointed By Governors. 1 Governor Candler, of Georgia, re1 ceived a letter from Jose JEngenio Marx, of Havana, applying for the ap' pointment of commissioner of deeds for Georgia in the city of Havana. Governor Candler referred the letter 1 to Secretary of State Phil Cook, who has the appointment of all commis> sioners of deeds. Secretary Cook decided that Cuba is neither a territory or state. I Requisition Delayed. Acting Sheriff Suter at Frankfort np to Saturday night had not applied r for a requisition on Governor Mount 1 for the extradition of W. S. Taylor, ' but states that he will do so. i Lynched By Negro Mob. j A report from Tutwiler, Miss., states that a negro known as Dago Pete was lynched there by a mob composed entirely of negroes. The negro had criniinally assaulted a colored woman. LiL/i i vsiv niunnvi4i/i Paragraph In Colored Newspaper Arouses Ire of White Citizens of Augusta, Qa. Augusta, Ga., narrowly escaped more violence last Saturday night, growing out of a publication concerning the recent killing of Alez . Whitney and the lynching of hit murderer, Wiljiam Wilson. Saturday " afternoon more than 200 white mea || marched from an indignation meeting y on the river bank a mile across town to The Georgia Baptist office on Gampbell street, near Gwinnett, to demand a retraction from the editor, and at |? night another party was organised to force Editor White to leave town and f to wreck his printing office.# ,'m The indignation in the community arose over a paragraph published in Tha | r Georgia Baptist, a denominational ha Kiv pttpoi, puuiuuvu iuj. |pan7i>n^i!^8HL, Rev. W. J. White. It purported to 4 77| have been copied from another paper, ?$ "The Bee," said to be pubHattM fi Washington city. It was at follows: | ' "The lynching of William Wil- ,J| son, a popular young mechanic in 4|| .-' 4 Augusta, Ga., a few days ago, is ' another one of those damnable sins for which the south must be ; held responsible. Mr .Wilson die# -:''l upholding the virtue of one df?| (Georgia's most refined and highly Jj respected young ladles. The white. ' j 7fff| wretch who offered the insult fell at the hands of this young martyr M 7?%; and the unpleasant thought that J; such a brilliant career tad to be ^1 sacrificed for one portraying S worst type of criminality is only unfortunate, but sad to theji '-:Wm The entire statement was so bly false that it filled the friemfardfi^ young Whitney with indignation. 3 4^1 An indignation meeting was and the publication denounoed aim was proposed to run Editor Whitewash .7$? of town, to wreck his newspaper oAta?|| while some even wanted te tar'-jj|M? ;4fj|| feather him, or do him other riofaofcir^ The meeting decided upon the appaflwrea 7|?J|? ment of a committee to wait vpoftjj White and demand that he ai|p|i jflBr ' > apology and a repudiation of theism! -ISal In the meantime White had The Herald and iChroniele office afl&i| stated that he did not know the para- % \ 'Wm graph was in his paper; that it wj published without his lmowlcdgi^|f ..'|||| consent; that it was absolutely iRMp .-Wm and he was anxious to put a card i*VJ ' tdM both papers repudiating it and app^S 'WSk gizing for its publication in his ptpBT^ The following is the card which the|| committee dictated for Editor WhiteVr -|S|j signature: . .;^gS| "The infamous article that appear* ;* -'WM ed in The Georgia Baptist on 31st as a clipping from The Beet inserted without the knowledge ori^JN proval of the editor of this paper, '< *3$ who hereby emphatically dlsdafiBW^j' W$m connection with its publication. * . Cjmm "I cannot sufficiently deplore the 5 fact that this disgraceful article peared in our paper, apparently as ta?|| '2||| expression of the opinion and senti- :Wm ment of the editor of this paper. And farther I deprecate, repudiate and de- -'j||||| nonnce the article and all the sesU|"&a '^Hj ments it contains, and further gftarae^ , '^a tee to the white people of Augusta th^ga it is not the intention of The. Baptist to offend by upholding any.*? such dastardly acta as that rt&w 1 in the article in question. guarantee to the white citizens that no.<| such offense will again occur columns of this paper. I respeetiit!ljgl| ask the morning papers to publish this^j denial and promise to print it in lilgtii ^j|? type in The Georgia Baptist --.SmB * "Publisher of The Georgia Bapti#^ Wm .KICK ON RATES*-???? ; Democratic Delegates Make Charges |||| As thetime for the convention flajapSS near Senator Jones, chairman of the Democratic national committer is' fi|| receipt of * number of Tigorou plaints from the members of S tional committee throughont the coving |f||| try over the action of the hotel* j||9 Kansas City in the matter of ratea.^; Many of the oomaittee have. I liijgrn *rW$ Senator Jones on this subject* ?!^ iS questing that a meeting be called wftftLv-: "3 a view to reconsidering its action Hg^ deciding to hold the convention ial'i. that city. Senator Jones has the matter under serious consider*' tion. . COSTLY FIRE IN TAMPA* :'| Florida City Suffers Loss Agfci'igMjSj % x Two Hundred Thousand*- -.V3 A disastrons fire that intelTat?|||| y.J loss of at least two hundred thousand^ dollars broke ont in Tampa, Fla., at r.: 11 o'clock Saturday night building on Franklin street oncupfot^ by the dry goods boose of <k*ie^ Friedmann & Co., and at 1 o'do^ _ Sunday morning the bloek and t)&p J Jackson block adjoining were in raisd^ y The latter block was occupied "p-0 Yatterlan A Co., shoes, and Mason lr? ^ Co., dry goods, whose stocks arspfae^iy %|| Cohen, Friedman k Co. '8 stook, ued at $25,000, insurance 50 per ! -M RAIN AT LOUISVILLE || Interferes Somewhat With Program || of Confederate Veterans. >, V/^jjg Thursday rain seriously interfered J f| with many excellent attractionf af* %...H ranged by the entertainment commit- - ; m tee for the delegates and visitors to . - ? the big Confederate reunion in honit* || ville. But the dripping <dond?;|t in no wise decreased the fun and mar- S riment among the large crowds of va^ is 3|J| eftuis stationed at the various head- l*; S quarters throughout the cifyv . Three Thousand Men Idle. . The steel plant at Middleboret Kj., . was closed down Monday morning orders irom the WJUWJUJUllil U wm* Virginia Coal and Coke Company at BristoL Three thousand men are oat of employment* No reason is Mexico Doing Big Bwiaeia ! The City of Mexico customs bona* - 0 collections for May vere large, being 3 M $2,528,983, or at the rate of more then ' 30,000,000 annually. The stamj 7 ? taxes are in exoess of estimate*,. : :