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* f 1 The Bamberg Herald. ^ ^ MOf i i . ???? ???mmmm???^' | ESTABLISHED 1S91. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. JANUARY 3.1901. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. ' ? -? ? A ?n?lf\fW(r 1 LAW IS DEFECTIVE Whites and Negroes Can Marry in Georgia With Impunity. NO PROVISION FOR PUNISHMENT Statute Aims Only at Ministers or Justices Who Perform Such Ceremony. f An Atlanta dispatch says: The astonishing fact was developed Friday that-there is no law on the statnte . books of the state of Georgia by which the contracting parties in an intermarriage of the races can be punished. This discovery was made by Recorder Broyles while he had under consideration the case of Charles Johnson and Eleanor Moody, the white man and nearo woman who were married Thursday. The man and woman were arrested shortly after their marriaore, and the trial of the ease was held Friday morning in the police court. , There was no evidence introduced, with the exception of tb? statements of the two defendants,' and after hearing these, the recorder honnd both over to the superior court in the sum of $500 each on the charge of miscegenation, which translated means the intermarrying of the races. Recorder Broyles, however, was not exactly satisfied as to the law applicable to such cases, and he accordingly referred to the criminal code of Georgia. It was then that he ascertained that, according to the law, Johnson and the Moody woman had committed no otr nse, and therefore could not be pros, a ted. The law places all of the responsibility for the marriage on the officer or minister of the gospel performing such a marriage and holds ^ eemn TTn/^AV* I lie ill reBpUllSlUiO iUl tug oauica vu->?t ' these circumstances there was nothing for the recorder to do bat to reconsider his action and dismiss the cases,which he did at the afternoon session of the oourt. The action of the recorder in releasing the two defendants is based on section 628 of the criminal code, whioh reads as follows: Intermarriage of whites and colcored people?If any officer shall knowingly issne a marriage license to parties, either of whom is of African descent, and the otb- a white person, or if any offic or minister of the gospel ^ sh .oarry such persons together, he 1: ':all be guilty of a misdemer nr. Th? it will be seen that whites and c ne^re s may marry in Georgia and therel y commit no offense in the eyes of the law, but the person officiating at the weddings places himself in a very unenviable position. From the description given by the man and woman and from the evidence obtainable, the authorities are led to the conclusion that Justice of the Peace D. A. Cook, , who has an office on Marietta street, performed the ceremony. * In speaking of the matter Recorder Brovles said: "I was certainly greatly surprised when I learned that there is no law for the punishment of the contracting parties in an intermarriage of the races. The h.w is very plain in placing the responsibility on the person who per-' forms the ceremony, bm this is not sufficient. The contracting parties shonld be pnnished. The practice of intermarriage is prohibited, but if such a marriage occurs no offense has been committed by the persons marrying, according to the present law. "I don't believe that it was the intention of the lawmakers to create such a situation. I think it was merely { an oversight, and if the matter is brought to the attention of the legis ialatnre, and I believe it will be, my opinion is that they will at once unanimously amend the existing law so that the contracting parties can be punished. There shonld certainly be a provision to this effect." The punishment for the conviction of a p nrson marrying a white and negro can be made severe. Section 1039 of the criminal code prescribes the punishments for misdemeanors as six months in jail, twelve months on the county chaingang or a fine of $1,000, either or all, in the discretion of the court. YALCABLK MAIL POUCH STOLEN. Among Its Contents Wm 9100,000 Worth , of Negotiable Paper. . A mail pouch containing $100,000 in negotiable paper and an nnknown amount of money was stolen from the Miohigan Central railroad passenger station at Wyandotte, Mich., some time Thursday night. The last mail for Wyandotte arrived I at 10:28 o'clock and owing to the lateI seas of the hour it is left in the staI tion until morning. Night Operator K -Richert threw the poaches under a I seat in the corner of the waiting room I and then went to his home in Detroit, j Friday morning Mail Carrier McCleary missed the sack. SITUATION IN VENEZUELA. State Department Likely to Demand Protection of American Interests. k If the view of Minister Loomis is I adopted by the state department, Sec retary Hay will probably bring pressure to bear on the Venezuelan government to respect the rights of the New York and Bermudese Asphalt company. A dispatch has been received from the minister, but its contents will not be divulged by the department. RULES WERE SUSPENDED. House Takes Advantage Thereof and Pastes Many Bills. Under suspension of the rules the house Monday passed bills to divide Kentucky and West Virginia into two ju<?:cial districts, to create another district judge in _e northern district of Ohio; to r' .o the secretary of l the interior /t -wStigation the claim t of the state c' iexas for moneys expended on public improvements in Greer county before the dc* on of the supreme court placed it xi* > the jurisdiction OBJECTIONS RAISED. | Chinese Officials Kick on Reduction of Forts and Maintaining of Legation Guards. 1 Advices from Pekin state that Li Hung Chang and Prince Ching, the Chinese peace commissioners, have heard from Emperor KwangSu. Prince Ching called on the former for con- J snltation, remaining over an hoar. The court objects strenuously to re- | ducing the forts, and also to allowing permanent legation guards, which it seems to think could be made sufficiently large, at auy time, it was desired to menace the court itself. After the conference it was decided to hold further communication with the court before seeing the ministers. 1 The Chinese newspapers in Shang- j hai object to the proposed peace ? treaty. The Universal Gazette conaiders that the princes and officials who are to be pnnished should be 1 named. It is questionable whether General Tung Fu Bsiaug is included among those punishable, and so far as Prince Tuan is concerned, it is well known that the Chinese peace commissioners have been iustiucted not to consent to any punishmeut of any person of royal blood exceeding imprisonment. The officials of the state department at Washington are unwilling to venture a guess as to the length of time that will be cousumed by the Chinese i government in consideration of the note. The last article of the note notified the Chinese government that the occupation of Chi Li and Ptkin may continue until the Chinese government has complied with the terms of the note. It may be stated, however, that the United States is not bound or affected by this condition. Our occupancy from a military point of view has terminated, and there is no disposition to renew it. As for the other powers, it is expected that the main obstacle tbey will encounter in withdrawing nnHnr +V>ic nnndififtn will ho fftnnd in the difficulty iu obtaining satisfactory ] guarantees upon the Chinese promise to pay indemnities. j Some of the native journals hold < That the presence of permanent legat:v?u guards will render the emper.r's j return impossible, because these would be a menace to the court. j "China," says one of them, "would i be powerless to suppress risings, be- ] cause she is prohibited from increasing < her military strength, and the powers, i therefore, would tenew hostilities j again and "Mie people would be mowed ] dolike hemp." ] SHORT ON MILLS. ' ( Textile Factory Construction De- ; creased Considerably During the Past Year. ] The American Wool and Cotton Reporter (Boston), in its issue of ' Thursday reviews textile mill construe- ' tion in the present year, saying that 1 returns for the last six months do not ( show up as l&:-ge as in the last six < months of the year. The depression j that was felt in the manufacturing business during the summer and fall months acted as a damper to the rush 1 to build mills, particularly cotton 1 millB that was noticed the first half of the year, when all records in mill building were broken. During the first half of the year the number of new mills entered upon was 307, and during the last six months the number was 224, a loss of over 25 per cent, over :he first half year. If the 224 projected 144 are devoted to the manufacture of cotiun, 14 to wool, 51 to knit goods, 16 miscellaneous purposes, such as silk and linen manufacturing, and for bleaching and dyeing. During the year 531 mills have passed under the review of The Reporter, an increase of 232 over the 299 reported for the year 1899, and an increase of 269 over the 262 recorded for the year 1898. This shows the. ' fact that the United States is becoming the largest producer of textile fabrics in the world. Yery noticeable is the great increase in the number of mills making fine goods, especially in the cotton manufacturing business, partially caused by the situation in : China, cutting out the demand from ; that country. ; The number of knitting mills con- 1 structed during the past six months is ; the largest on record. Nearly all of these mills are devoted to cotton hosiery and underwear. Compilation of returns on new enterprises shows Georgia leads, with 43 mills. North Carolina comes second with 41, although the latter has always been in the lead in the construction of new mills, it being the largest cotton manufacturing state in the south. South Carolina reports 33; Alabama 16; Virginia 12; Pennsylva- 1 niall; Tennessee 10; Mississippi and Texas 9 each; Massachusetts 7; New i York 6; New Jersey 4; Louisiana 3; California, Maine, New Hampshire 2 each, and Arkansas, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, Ohio and Oregon one each. NO MODIFICATION POSSIBLE. fhe Terms of Collective Note to China Will Not Be Changed. The foreign communities in Pekin are greatly satisfied at the decided tone of the collective note and the assertion that the powers are determined to entertain no proposals for the modification of their demands. It is understood Li flung Chang sent a memorial to the throne, couched in very strong terms, urging complete compliance. DISPENSARY ROBBED OF CASH. Headqnarters For John Barleycorn at Klngatree, S. C.f Suffers Loss. The Williamsburg county liquor dispensary, at Kingstree, S. C., is reported to have been robbed of 81,800 in ca3h Wednesday night. F. M. Player, the dispenser, is alleged to have discovered the loss Thursday morning. This is the largest loss by robbery incurred by a county dispensary since the inauguration of the dispensary. 11. P. Crum, liquor commissioner dispatched an inspector to Kisgstree, CUDAHY IS ADVISED Billionaire Packer Receives Second Letter From Abductors. ASKED TO WITHDRAW REWARD Dire Threats are Made But Demand Will Not Be Heeded and Reward Will Stand. A special from Omaba, Neb., says: fcl. A. uudany, tne millionaire pncaer, has-received a second communication from the men who kidnaped his sou. This time, as formerly, the letter contains a threat, and says iu substance that unless he withdraws his offerof $25,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of each of the three bandits they will kidnap another of his chil clren. The letter refers to the failure of the police to get anything like a taugible clew as to the identity of the | kidnapers, scoffs at the idea of Pat Crowe being one of them, mentions the ease with which the "first job was pulled off," and concludes by saying that if Mr. Cudahy is as wise as he showed himself in the first instance he will comply with the request and withIraw the reward at once. This letter is written in pen and ink Dn the same kind of yellow paper as the first and evidently by the same person. It was found by a servant of fhe Cudahy household early on the morning of Thursday, December 27th. Some one called up the house by telephone and asked if Mr. Cudahy was in. The servant answered that he was not. "Well," camo the voice over the 'phone, "you go out in the front yard and you will find a letter there near the gate. It is addressed to Mr. Cudahy. See that it is delivered to hira personally and to no one else." The servant went out at once and found a letter. It was in a plain white envelope and was addressed: "Mr. E. A. Cudahy, Sr., personal and private." Mr. Cudaby, who was then at his packing house in South Omaha, was summoned home at once. No one was permitted to see the letter at first exeept Mr. and Mrs. Cudahy. Mr. Cudahy's intention at the time was to keep its contents to himself, as the bandits ho/1 .onnocrod Knt lafor ho thrmorht uou . ? better of it, as be believed that, in the bands of the police, it would prove a valuable clew. Mr. Cudahy says he has not withdrawn the reward, nor will he do so. [t stands as originally offered. The address, as well as the letter, is printed in lead pencil. The letter is written on common note paper, mled with bine ink, wb?h is scarcely traceable. The postmark shows that the letter was mailed at the postoffice at 8 a. m., Saturday, December 22d, showing clearly that one of the gang of abductors was in the postoffico on that date, if the letter had the same origin as the letter demanding the ransom. That the origin was the same is attested by General John C. Cowin, who saw both missives. The letter reads: "Cudahy; If you value the boy's life at the price of a bullet, you will withdraw the reward at once, And let well anough alone. If you don't do this we will finish the job with a bulet. If any man, whether gilty or innocept is ever arrested, a bulet will close the boy's mouth. You will think of this earning when it is too late?" The only marked difference between this letter and the letter demanding a ransom is in the greater number of misspelled words. This, however, may be affectation, for it will be observed that the most difficult words are spelled correctly, whereas some of the simple words are misspelled. "Withdraw" and "reward" are correctly spelled, while the comparatively easy word "guilty" is spelled "giltly." BOEKS INFKST KIMBERLY. Mails Have Been Cat Off and Provisions Are at Famine Prices. Advices from Cape Colony state that Kimberly is almost isolated by Boer raiders. No mails had reached there from December 19th to December 25th. Provisions are at famin e prices. The military took charge of all the food stuffs December 22d. SHOALS ARE IN THE WAY. Richardson Says When They are Removed Navigation Will Be Unobstructed. The Hnntsville, Ala., Evening Post prints an interview with Congressman William Richardson in which he says that no satisfactory results will be received from appropriations on the Tennessee river until the Colbert Bhoals, upon which the sum of 86,000 has been expended, are removed. When this is done, he srid, we will have unobstructed navigation from above Florence and Sheffield to the mouth of the river, a distance of more than two hundred miles. TRAGEDY AT A DANCE. Kentuckians Engage In Brawl and Gnns Are Used Promiscuously. Frank Davis, "Buck" Chadwell, Estepp Morgan and Richard Davis quarrelled at a danoe at Walnut Hills, fifteen miles from Middlesburg, Ky., and a pitched battle ensued. Fifty shots were fired. Frank Davis was killed. Morgan and Dick Davis were wounden mortally and Chadwell war wounded slightly. PASTOR'S SALARY TOO SMALL, Successor to Rev. Monk at Chattanooga Kicks at Dearth of Stipend. Rev. James A. Duncan, pastor of Centenary Methodist Episcopal church, the largest congregation in Chattanooga, Tenn., numbering 1,200, has asked to be released on account osalary being only 82,500, whereas Dr Monk, former pastor, received $3,751' The last Holston conference e.\ changed Kuoxville and Chattanooga pulpits, occupied respectively by Duncan and Monk. BIG SMASH IN LONDON. Financial Corporation Suspends and Many Prominent Firms Are Seriously Involved. Advices of Saturday from London stated that the London and Globe finance corporation, limited, had suspended payment. On Friday, when the brokers delivered stock purchased on the London and Globe and asked for payment, they received checks, which were dishonored. This was followed Saturday by the failure on the stock exchange of twelve firms, as follows: Haggard, Hale & Pixley, Garle & Driver, Douglas, Jr., & Co., Cornfoot Bros., F. A. Cohen, Blockey & Buckingham, Gunn & Aubrey, Richards <& Sloper. Baker & Smith, F. C. Watts & Co., Flower & Co. and F. Bonlly &Co. The first named is a big firm with important connections. It is feared a number of smaller jobbers will be affected. While the difficulties of the firms closely connected with the London and Globe division were largely discounted, the repeated fall of the ham mer Saturday morning cansed a great sensation. It is feared the full list of failures is not yet known. The failures involvo twenty-eight members of the stock exchange and are equally divided among jobbers and brokers. It is generally regarded in the mining market as being thr blackest day since the Baring smash, which was disastrous to all departments. This crisis, however, did not extend to other markets, though most of them closed depressed. The chairman of the London and Globe finance corporation, limited, is the marquis of Dufferin and Ava, the former governor general of Canada and British ambassador to Paris. The failure of the concern of which he is the head adds one more sorrow to the closing chapter of his life, for he is at present preparing to start for Sonth Africa, in company with Lady Dufferin, in consequence of the serious condition of his son, Lord Frederick Temple, the lieutenant in the Ninth Lancers who was wounded a few days ago at Glenfontein. It is scarcely a year ago since Lord Dufferin lost his eldest son, the earl of Ava,who died at Ladysmith. He is now encompassed by family grief and his honored name is dragged in the financial mire. FAMILY'!* SAD PLIGHT. Cancht In Prairie Fire and Almost Wiped Out of Existence. Some days ago Gottlieb Stacker and family, consisting of a wife and half grown daughter, a married daughter and her husband and babe, left Stillwater, Oklahoma, in wagons to settle on a claim near the Texas line. They arrived at their destination Christmas dav and at once put up tents for tem porarj residence. When all were asleep a prarie fire enveloped them before they knew it, and in a few moments everything they had was destroyed, and all of them nearly perished. The little babe died and the mother is blinded and may die.. The father and son were both badly bnrned, while the seventeenyear-old daughter will lose both feet and will likely die. GLENN ELECTED PRESIDENT. Southern Educational Association Finishes Its Work and Adjourns. The meeting of the Southern Educational association at Richmond was brought to a close Friday night. The question of the next place of meeting was referred to the executive committee for final action. It lies between Columbia, S. C.; Charleston, S. C.; Asheville, N. C., and Knoxville, Tenn. The following officers were elected: President, Hon. G. R. Glenn, Atlanta, Ga.; vice president, Chancellor R. B. Fulton, of Mississippi; secretary, Hon. P. H. Claxton, of Greensboro, N. C.; Treasurer, Hon. F. L. Stuart, of Knoxville. CLEVELAND ON DUCK HUNT. Party Will Be the Guest of Murphy Island Gun Glub. Grover Cleveland, Fighting Bob Evans and other sportsmen, arrived at Georgetown, S. C., in a special sleeper at midnight Saturday night. They slept in their car and Snnday morning went by launch to Murphy's Island, where they will for ten days be the guests of the Murphey's Island Gun Club. EDUCATORS ASSEMBLE. Delegates of boutnern Association Gather In Force At Richmond. The delegates to the Sonthern Educational Association, which held its opening session in Richmond, Va., Thursday, were slow to assemble. When tbe association was called to order there were about 500 delegates present, representing every part of the south. After prayer by Rev. Cary Morgan addresses of welcome were delivered by Governor Taylor, Mayor Taylor, State. Superintendent of Instruction Southall aud City Superintendent Fox, and several responses were made. huxtixgtox will probated, Value of Keal Estate In San Francisco Is Placed at 850,000. The will of Collis P. Huntington was admitted to probate at San Francisco Thursday. The only property beloncrincr to the estate of the deceased ~ O o in that city consisted of a mortgage interest in real property to the value of $50,000. Aside from this there was no personal property of any description, the mansion on California street standing in the name of the widow. AMBUSHED BY FILIPINOS. Detachment of Third Infantry Surprised and Two Members Killed. A Manila special of Tuesday says: A detachment ef the Third United States infantry was ambushed Saturday near Malolos^ The Ladrones fired a volley at | the Americans, killing two privates of 1 company F and wounding three. The insurgents escaped into a swamp. Numerous insurgent bands have been dispersed and considerable quantities of stores destroyed in the province of Bulacan by General Grant'f mounted scouts. ALGER ROASTS MILES Ex-Sercetary of War Has Breezy Article la North American. REHASH OF "EMBALMED "BEEF Charges Made By General of the Army are Brought Forth and Dissected" Thoroughly. The North American, in its next issue, will contain an article oil "The Food of the Army During the Spanish War," by former Secretary of War Russell A. Alger. The article cites the creation of the war investigation commission, and says: WHITE WEDS BLACK Mulatto Girl and White Man Are Arrested on Serious Charge. COUPLE ADMITS BEING MARRIED Ceremony Is Alleged to Have Been Performed By a Justice In Atlanta, Ga. Charles Johnson, a white man, and Eleanor Moody, a mulatto girl, were arrested in Atlanta, Ga., Thursday muruiug uu tuo kuui go ui uanug violated the state law by getting married. Johnson admits the charge, and makes a statement which would indicate that the man i> either a degenerate or a lunatic. The woman sajs she married the white man because he worried her so, and that was the only way to get rid of him. Johnson and the woman arrived in Atlanta from Rome. They went at once to the court house, where the man secured a marriage license. In a cab they drove to the residences of two ministers, both of whom refused to perform any such unlawful ceremony. The couple finally went to the office of Justice Cook, so they stated, and were married. Johnson shows a marriage certificate issued with Justice Cook's signature to it, and the name of J. M. McAfee as a witness. It is presumed that Justice Cook, if he performed the ceremony, supposed Johnson to be a man with negro blood in his veins. After the marriage the oouple rode to the depot in a cab and it was there that the officers got wind of the affair and arrested them. Johnson's home is in Rome, Ga., and he is said to belong to one of the beat families in that city. He haa traveled a great deal, and is a stock trader by trade. His last bnsiness venture in Borne was a skating rink. Johnson is about thirty years of age aod the woman about twenty. To a reporter of Tbe Constitution the man stated that he married the mulatto girl because he loved her, and it was nobody's business. He said he intended to take her to Cuba, where such marriages are not socially barred. He claims not to have know n that he had violated the law of Georgia. The woman says she told Johnson that he was getting into trouble, but he vowed that no trouble would come. Johnson sent for a reporter and handed him a manuscript which he said was a sketch of his life which he wanted published. It was a lot of allusions to his love for the negro race, which were unfit for publication. WOMAN WKECKS SALOON. Ardent Member of W. C. T. U. Destroys Coatly Property of Grog Shop. Miss Carrie Nation, president of the Barber county W. C. T. U., entered a hotel barroom at Wichita, Kan., Thursday and with a stone destroyed a $300 painting of Cleopatra at the bath and a mirror valued at $100. She was placed under arrest and afterward appealed to the governor, who was in the oity, bat he refused to act iu any way. She broke mirrors at Kiowa, Kan., in two saloons some months ago. She declares thera is do law under which she can be prosecuted. Mrs, Nation Thursday night issued a manifesto "to the friends of temperanoe everywhere," in which she acknowledges there was "method iu the apparent madness." "I came to the governor's .home ! town," she continues,, "to destroy the finest saloon in it, hoping thus to atI tract public attention to the flagrant violation of a Kansas law under the very eye of the chief executive of the state." The damage to the saloon is hard to I estimate. It was finished with stucco secured from the world's fair buildings, and many blocks of it are shattered. The painting of "Cleopatra" costjMr. Noble, its author,nine months' time painting it, and was still his property, being rented by the saloon. It has been seen at nearly all the street fairs from Canada to the gulf. ._ LONG BUYS ISLAND. Gnamltes Sell Site For Coaling Station, Receiving S900 Therefor. Secretary Long has purchased for the United States government another Pacific island, avers the Washington correspondent of the New York Herald. This island is under the American flag and lies in the harbor of San Luis d'Apra, Guam. It is proposed to use | it as the site for a coaling station. The price paid for the island was $900 in American gold. It is 130 acres iu extent, and it is believed will make au admirable site for the projected station. CHILDREN WERE NOT DROWNED. Sensational Btory Proves to Be a Fake of Lsrite Proportions. A special from Des Moines, la., says: Investigation has disclosed the entire falsity, of a report circulated Thursday to the effect that forty-nine school children had been drowned in a skating pond, either at What Cheer or Foster, la. The story was started, it is stated by railroad trainmen as a joke. ANARCHISTS SHOOT OFFICER. Chief of Police of Vermont Town Ambushed and Filled With Lead. A dispatch from Barre, Vt., says: Chief of Police Patrick Brown is in a critical condition with small hope of recovery, the -resnlt of three bullet wounds inflicted by Ituliau anarchists. The chief had been called to a hall and w as shot from ambush on his way back to the station. Otto Bernaccio and Luigi Sassihave been arrrested and identified by the chief as being connected with the at* tempted assassination. "On the lilst day of December, 1898, the major general commanding the army of the United States appeared before the commission, then sitting in Washington, and made his statements with respect to the canned, fresh and refrigerated beef furnished to the army during the war. The article says: "General Miles refused to be sworn or affirmed, as every other of the 495 witnesses had been, declaring in substance that he would 'make his statement without being sworn, and was responsible for what he said,* "Although the commission had been sitting three months, the charges with respect to canned and refrigerated beef were now made for the first time; and, stranger and more inexcusable, and more unsoldierly still, during all tnose months, with this pretended knowledge of facts which, if they existed, should have been made known to the secretary of war for the protection of the army, General Miles never mentioned the subject. Nor did I ever hear a rumor of chemically treated beef being purchased for the army until the general's testimony was given before the commission." In answer to inquiries as to how canned beef became a part of the army ration, reciting General Miles' cnarges, tne ex-secreiary Buya; "If General Miles did not know 'that canned fresh beef was a part of the army ration, then he displayed an ignorance in an important matter of his profession that is, to say the least, most remarkable. If he did not know that canned fresh beef was a recognized part of the ration, then his allegation to the contrary is mnch more reprehensible. "The allegations of General Miles that canned fresh meat was not a part of the army ration, and that it was is sued as the 'pretense of an experiment," were not only contrary to fact, but were made absolutely without a partiole of evidence or excuse. "If General Miles really believed his serious charges, his conduct is all the more blameworthy, in that be apparently made no effort to assure himself of their truthfulness, nor to report them to the secretary of war before publicly uttering them. "If we are to believe written evidence to the contrary, it does not appear that General Miles was even honest in making his dilatory charges that the tinned beef was issued as the pretense of au experiment. "The charges of General Miles, twice proven false in spirit and substance, are the more heinous in their effect because of the false impression they produced about the food furnished the army. "Yet the present congress promoted General Miles to lieutenant general, and has thns far failed to give to General Shaffter the rank of major general to retire upon his old age, and this after his magnificent campaign at Santiago, as well as his former distinguished services." "General Miles said in the charges which will be recalled: " 'You had better ask the secretary of war or the commissary general as to the beef. I think they can tell yon, I know it was sent to the army as food, and the preteuse is that it was sent as an experiment. ? There was * ^ ? TV now i f 1 L sent to I'orto ruco 001 tons 01 wuat is known as, or called, refrigerator beef, which you might call embalmed beef." The article closes with a severe roast of General Miles for pnblicly uttering the above "grave" and "scandalous" charges. BEI) OF DIAMONDS FOUND. Volcanic Hill In New Mexico Produces "Gems of the Parent Kay Serene." A recent discovery of diamonds in the volcauic hills near Capitan, Otero county, New Mexico, has created intense excitement among mining men. The discovery was made by J. J. Blow, general manager of the Linderman Coal Company, who picked up four gems in an ant heap where they had been brought to the surface and deposited by the large red insects. He took then to a jeweler who pronounced them gunuine diamonds of the first ^ water. Blow then dug into the ant hill and at a depth of twelve feet uncovered a bed of the precious stones. KRUGEIt WANTS PEACE. Old Man Requests Queen Willielmina to Write to Various Kulers. Mr. Kruger is again importuning Queen Wilhelmina, says the correspondent of the Loudon Daily Mail at The Hague, to write personal letters to Emperor Nicholas, President Loubet and Emperor William with a view of stopping the war. It is reported Knf Mm nnppr is not unwilling, but tiiQl iU V ? vw ? ^ that the Netherlands ministry is divided. 31 ANY FILIPINOS CORRALED. j The Fourth Cavalry an<l Fourth Infantry Does (*ood Work. ; A Manila special says: General Frederick D. Grant wires that General J Alejandriuo's men are trying to escape from Mount Arayat. Two of them were killed Sunday. There is no water on the mountain and food scarce An official report says the Fourth iufautry and the Fourth cavalry in Cavite province have captured 109 armed insnrgeuts and taken possession of their camps at Anabo and Mai* agran. OMAHA OFFERS REWARD. City Council, to Relieve Cudahy, Will Pay $25,000 For Kidnapers. At a specially called meeting of the Omaha city council Monday that body adopted concurrent resolutions offering a reward of $25,000 for the apprehension and conviction of the desperadoes who abducted Edward Cudahy, Jr., on the night of December 18th. For the arrest and conviction of one, ihe resolutions provide a reward of $8,000; for two, $15,000 will be paid, and the whole amount is offered for the three principals. The vote by which the resolutions were passed was unanimous. The council also asked Mr. Cudahy to withdraw his offer of a reward of an 1 ?L /a*. AUA e'^uai ULLtUUUk lor tUO vaptuio ut kuo criminals. The object of the city's offer is largely to relieve Mr. Cudady and his family of the fear of reprisals from the bandits and to remove from the police and detectives the restraint they have felt in trailing the bandits owing to the very trying position in which *Ir. Oadahy has been placed. The action of the council is generally commended by the citizens of the city. Mayor Moores, speaking of the matter, made the following statement: 'This < a -te has come to a pass where it is the public's duty to step in aDd relieve tbe terrible strain under which the Cudahy family is living. That last letter from the kidnapers puts such a serious coloring on the case that it is not right to expect Mr. Cudahy to continue his offer of $25,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of the men who stole his boy. "Ihave wired the governor urging him to offer a reward. A special meeting of the council has been called to consider the advisability of appropriating 810,000 for any person who may bring about the conviction of the kidnapers. The county will also be asked tr? criv? nnme monev and I have no donbt but we will swell the sum to $25,0Q0." SOUTHERN PROGRESS. Lift of New Industries Reported Durine the Psit Week. Among the more important of the new industries reported for the past week is a bobbin factory at Greenville, S. C.; brick works at Ashland, Ala., and Hattiesburg, Miss.; a building material factory at Pine Bluff, Ark.; a $75,000 canal company at Beaumont, Tex.; canning factories at Orlando, Fla., and Washington, N. C.; a $500,000 coal company at Charleston, W. Ya.; another with a capital of $200,000 at El Paso, Tex.; a $50,000 coal and coke company at Richmond, Ya., and coal mining companies at Birmingham, Ala., Knoxville, Tenn., and Clarksburg and Charleston, W. Ya.; a cotton gin at Suffolk, Ya.; a $150,000 cotton mill at Jackson, Miss., and cotton mills at Tallapoosa, Ga., and Conetoe, N. C.; development companies at New Orleans, La., and McGregor. Tex.; electric power plant at Galveston, Tex., to be furnished with new equipment at cost of $200,000; a $250,000 fertilizer factory at Jackson, Miss.; a fiber factory at Arcadia, Fla.; flouring mills at Advance, N. C., and Orangeburg, South Carolina; a furniture factory at Statesville, N. C.; a glass factory at Parkersburg, W. Ya.; a grist mill at Rosa, Ala.; a $50, 000 hardware company at Paris, Tex., and others at Lanrel, Miss , and Wilson, N. C.; ice factories at Wadesboro, N. C., Anderson, S. C., and Honston, Tex.; an iron mining company at Gaffney, S. C.; iron works at Louisville, Ky.; a land company at Portsmouth, Va.; a laundry at Clinton, N. C.; a$50,000 lumber company at McHenry, Miss., and others at Tnscumbia, Ala., Columbia, S. C., and Gr anbury, Hico, Midlothian and San Antonio, Tex.; a mattress factory at Anderson, S. C.; a medicine factory at Kingston, Tenn.; quarries at Martinsburg, W. Ya.; a $500,000 oil and pipe line company at Beaumont, Tex.; a $100,000 packing company at McKinney, Tex.; paint factory at Birmingham, Ala.; piano factory at Knoxville, Tenn.; planing mills at Bosa, Ala., and Anderson, S. C.; sawmills at Princeton, Ky., and Chatterton, Va.; shoe factories at Greensboro, N. C., and Lynchburg, Ya.; spoke and handle factory at Centreville, Tenn.; telephone systems at Melrose, Fla., and Temple, Tex., and wagon factories at Yan Buren, Ark., Winona, Miss., and Danville, Ya.?Tradesman (Chattauooga, Tenn.) HAWAIIAXS WANT DAMAGES. Will Auk P*y For Property Destroyed \ Daring Plngae Outbreak. It is expected that Governor Dole of Hawaii will make a recommendation to the Hawaiian legislature, which meets in February, for the settlement of claims of Chinese and Japanese, growing out of the destruction of their property at Honolulu at the time of the bubonic plague outbreak. Now Boers Celebrated Christinas. According to advices the Boers celebrated Christmas in the distriot between Standerton and Ingogo by more or less determined attacks upon every British garrison along the lines of communication. Turks Assault British Diplomat Some Turkish soldiers have grossly aaeauneu auu uaiuoavou charge d'affaires. Mr. DeBunsen, and other members of the embassy, in the vicinity of the powder magazine at Makrikin. Martial Law Proclaimed. Advices from Capetown, South Africa, state that martial law has been proclaimed in the districts of Beanfort, west and Carnarvon. Pingree Ignores Court. Governor Pingree, who was summoned to appear before the Ingham county circuit court in Detroit Saturday to answer the charge of contempt, as the result of au interview in which he attacked the court and prosecuting attorney, has refused to answer the summons. States Price For Danish Islands. The United States minister at Copenhagen, L. S. Swenson, has informed the Danish government that the United States offers twelve million kroner for the Danish Antilles and will net give mere. - S0UTIT5 FKUbFtKllI Acts as "Loadstone" to Northern Financiers and Capitalists. THEIR CONFIDENCE UNBOUNDED President of Old Colony Trust Company of Boston Talks of . Encouraging Outlook. T. Jefferson Coolidge, president of the Colony TruBt company, of Boston, is now in Thomas ville, Ga., where he will spend a week on an inspection trip of the Tifton, Thomas ville and Gnlf railroad. * Mr. Coolidge, as the head of the Old Colony Trnst company, one of the strongest financial institutions in the country, is interested in large investments throughout the south, and particularly in Atlanta, where he has considerable capital invested in the Em * - -? l:.I. pire DUUding, a say-scraper wuiuu jo now being built at the corner of Marietta and Broad streets. On being asked as to the business situation, Mr. Cooledge said: "The feeling in the north is that the gantry is entering or has already entered upon a period of great prosperity. Special industries may, of course, have temporary setbacks, but there is a strong belief that all industries will share in the prosperity of the next few years, "The greatest confidence is felt in the industrial development of the south. 'What with the satisfactory prices obtained for cotton, iron, coal J and its other staple products the south M is realizing many millions a month more than the most sanguine persons /fj expected two years ago. Manufactories are springing up in all parts as the ;v |j natural result of the increased wealth of the community. 'While I think cotton manufactories >.* have been erected in some places Without due regard to the many difficulties of manufacture, and there may be some losses for this reason in that difficult branch of business, yet most .of the great cumber of the manufactur- , v ing companies which have been started, up in all parts of the south should have the advantage of active business for the next two or three years. And, when dull times come again, fhe sooth will have reached a position of wealth and strength which will fit her to meet . all competition. , "It is safe to say that the south has slipped into the front rank as a manufacturing community and she will . never have to take a backward step. The result o{, increasing wealth throughout the south will be shown bv increased values of all property, both in the country and in the cities, and Atlanta will as the leading city naturally show the most rapid improvement" 'r*A STORMS DEVASTATE ENGLAND ??? Fearful Oales and Big Floods Sweep the Country, Causing Enormous Damage. A London special says: Severe snow storms, deluging rains and furious gales have created havoc in the United Kingdom. In many parts of the oountry there have been disas- . ' ) trous floods, landslides and washouts. On all sides much stock has been drowned. The railroads and highways are blocked, buildings and 1 bridges have been carried off and the * overflowing streams have inundated miles of country, while they have submerged the streets in some of the ' towns from three to four feet deep. At Coventry the devastation is greater than at any time in the last 30 years. Many factories have been flooded and hundreds of inhabitants are imprisoned in their homes. Immense tracts of land in several counties have been transformed into inland seas, the inhabitants seeking refuge in the upper rooms of their dwellings. Many villages are isolated completely and some towns of considerable size are without gas owing to the works being flooded. ENGLAND READY FOR "BOBS." Reception to I<ord Robert* Will Be Most Elaborate and Grand Affair. A London special says: At the end of the year, as at the beginning, a :* single fignre catches the English eye and fills the stage. Lord Roberts was then going out to Sonth Africa, carry-. ing with him the hopes and prayers for deliverance of the empire from the gravest danger since Yorktown, and he is now returning to agratefnl country, which can never do enough for him. The arrangements for the reception of the commander-in-chilf have been completed by the court and the war office, and it will be a stately affair. SAYANNAH BANKS PROSPEROUS. Clearings For the Past Ypar Show aa Increase of *107,000,000. Savannah's bank clearings for the year 1900 are $246,313,844.04. This eclipses previous records and is an increase over the previous year of $107,000,000. The sum named represents the actual business handled by the Savannah banks for 1900 and is not obtained by adding debits and credits or including fictitious items. FEUDISTS IN FULL SWING. Six Hen Killed and Twelve Wounded In Kentucky Within Two Weeks. Four men have been killed and ten wounded in Clay county, Ky., fights within the past two weeks, while two * ~ Otiier Uiay county uieii were Jkiiieu auu two were wounded in a fight just oyer the Clay county line during the same period, making a total of six killed and twelve wounded within two weeks. The factions are again becoming hostile and drastic measures may be necessary to quell the feudists*