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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.
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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. '
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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"
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STORMS DEVASTATE ENGLAND
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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
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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*