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PESft-./ The Bamberg Herald. 1 *. -*" ^ ~ ?- ~ : ' ; ESTABLISHED 1S91. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. APRIL 25.3901. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. J TEACHERS TO WAIT Georgia State Treasnrer Refases to Bonor Scbool Warrants. MATTER GOES TO THE COURTS Friendly Test Case to Be Made By State Officials of a LongStanding Contention. Georgia's state treasnrer, Mr. Park, refuses to use the public property fund for the purpose of paying the school teachers of the state and tidiDg over the deficiency in the deficiency in the treasury, and Governor Candler asserts that the teachers shall be paid, and that he will endeavor to make the state treasurer pay them as soon as it is possible to do so. Treasurer Park made the announcement Friday afternoon that he would refuse to honor the school warrants by borrowing from the public property fund, and immediately preparations were made looking to bringing mandamus proceedings against him, and suit will be filed before Judge Lumpkin . in the superior court of Fulton county. The matter will, 01 course, go to me supreme court which ever way it is decided. In any event it will be six or seven weeks before the public school teachers of Georgia get their money. The supreme court cannot assign the case for hearing before May 20tb, and it will be at least a week or ten days before a decision can be secured from that body. This means that the merchants and the boarding house keepers and others to whom the nearly 9,000 teachers in Georgia are indebted, will have to wait that much longer for their money. Treasurer Park says he did not finally decide what he would do until 4 o'clock Friday afternoon. In the meantime the warrants for the school teachers, amounting to 8247,000, were waiting in the office of the comptroller general. Comptroller General Wright had declined to countersign them, as he is required by law to do, until he had been advised of what the treasurer would do. ww - j* i xi. . x: knowing mac cue suuuciuu whs waiting on his decision, Treasurer Park took steps to determine what he would do. At the dinner hour Friday he went to meet "Washington Dessau, of Macon, who had already given an opinion contrary to that of the attor' uey general, and with him he had a final consultation. ' Upon his return to the capittl Treasurer Park called on the comptroller and asked him what he intended to do about the warrants. "If you are going to refuse to pay them," said the comptroller general, "it will only be necessary for me to countersign one. That is enough for a test case." "But I would not refuse to pay one of them," the treasurer replied. "I have about $77,000 in the treasury which I can U3e for that purpose, and I would not refuse to pay them until that is paid out." The comptroller general said he could not decide that point. He did not know whether the governor would care to pay a few of them and leave others unpaid. Treasurer Park said he would see the governor, and he did. "I have determined to pay them all or none," was the decision the treasurer got from the governor. HTUyvrj T nkull rvoTf r?/\nn f Am '' JL UCU X OU111 UVUO VI iUQUi) wa9 the conclusion the treasurer reached. Governor Candler stated that he did not intend to select any of them for payment at this time; when one was paid all must be paid. This decision was reported to the comptroller general and he declined to countersign a portion of the warrants. Thus the matter will go directly into the courts. Heavy Snow at Knoxville. The heaviest snow of the year began falling in the vicinity of Knoxville, Tenn., Friday night about 6 o'clock. It is the first time in years that snow has fallen this late in April. The change in the weather from a spring to a winter day was very sudden. GASPED IX COFFIN. Supposed Corpse Showed Signs of Life Daring Funeral Services. Mrs. Frank Marlow's funeral service was being conducted at her late home at Merrimack, Ala., Thursday afternoon, when to the great astonishment of all persons present, the supposed corpse gave a gasp and showed every sign of returning life. Kelatives sent for a doctor, who examined Mrs. Marlow, found her body warm and discovered & feeble pulse. For an hour and a half the physician worked with her in an attempt to bring the woman back to consciousness, but she eventually died. COLONEL ABAD SURRENDERS. Insurgent Leader Gives Up Struggle and Takes Oath of Allegiance. The war department has received the following cablegram from General MacArthur at Manila: "Colonel Abad, insurgent leader, Marinduque, nine officers, 70 soldiers, 248 small arms, surrendered (Major) Frederick A. Smite 15th, oathed with impressive ceremony and released. This ends insurrection there. "MacAbthttb. " Regulates Sale of Cocaine. The indiscriminate sale of cocaine in Atlanta ha* been stopped by the city council. The ordiunnce regulating the sa'e of the drug in the city was adopted by council at Wednesday'! meeting and will soon become a law. Florida fiice Fob'ed. The postoffice at Tarpon Springs, F'a., was entered and robbed Thursday night of more than a thonsaun dollars in cash and a large an iibtr ot stamps. There is no clue to the perpetrators. BANK OFFICIALS SUICIDE. Defaulting President and Cashiei End Their Hiserable Existence Together. Charles Brown and E. L. Cauby, president and cashier respectively ol the First National bank of Vancouver, Washington, which was closed Saturday by the comptroller of the currency, committed suicide Saturday night two miles from the city, by shooting themselves with a revolver. Their bodies were found Sunday morning lying together in a small clump of bushes about one-half mile north of the Columbia school, which is situated on the outskirts of the town. Thej both used the same weapon, and Canby evidently died first, as the revolver was in Brown's baud. It is evident that Canby put the muzzle of the revolver in his mouth and blew the top of his head off. Browu then took it and shot himself in exactly the same way, falling over Canby's body. The fact that Brown's bicycle and an umbrella belonging to Canby were found a short distance out of town led to the belief that the two bank officials had taken their lives. Early Sunday morning a searching part}* started out and after several hours' hunt the bodies were found. Friday evening, Canby, upou being told by Bank Examiner Maxwell that the bank would not be permitted to open Saturday, went out in the yard behind the bank and attempted to shoot himself. His revolver failed to explode, although all five chambers were loaded. After failing to shoot himself Canby went back into the bank and he and President Browu left together, the latter taking his revolver. When Examiner Maxwell confronted the bank officials with the shortage of $81,000, which he had discovered, i--xt. ~.xxi. ;ix tx uuiu meu aauimcu men ^unu jli i admitted that Brown and Canby hue been specnlatiDg in stocks. Beside Brown's body there was fonnd a package containing ?25 and a note saying that the money belonged to his daugh ter. tjpon Oenby's body the following brief note was found: "My Dear Wife?I feel what I am about to do is for the best. Forgive me if you can and try to live for our dear children. God bless you all. Good-bye. Ned." While Bank Examiner Maxwell, wh* is now in charge as receiver, has made no official statement, it is known that the bank has loaned a large sum of money on insufficient security. Ac cording to his report to the comptroll er of the currency there is a shortage of ?81,000 in the bank's accounts and it is understood that a considerable portion of this was loaned to Brown and Canby on their personal notes. About a year ago the bank reduced its capital stock from ?100,000 to ?50,000. At that time about one-half of the so-called bad assets was "charged off." RICHARDS MAKES REPLY. Declares inai carter ano ivaae many False Statements In Plea. A Washington special savs: Solicitor General Richards filed in the United States supreme court Saturday a reply to the motion made by the counsel of Captain Carter, to strike from the^files of the court as "irrelevant and scandalous" the solicitor general's brief in opposition to Carter's motion to be admitted to bail pending the decision of his appeal in his habeas corpus proceedings. Mr. Richards denies that he went outside the record in the case, and asserts that he always tries to observe strictly the rules of the court requiring counsel to confine himself to the facts of record in the discussion of a case. He sets forth that Carter's application for bail is supported by affidavits of physicians to the eftVct that the prisoner's health is impaired, and this, Mr. Richards says, is not only entirely outside the record, but is false. Mr. Richards also says that Carter's counsel went outside the recoid in tbe appeal case in averring that Carter is an innocent man and wants to be released in order to be tried in tbe criminal case in Georgia. He adds that to demonstrate the falsity of this last statement it was necessary for the solicitor general to state what the government has done in prosecuting tbe indictment against Carter and others in the federal courts of Georgia. TT V TXT I k UTtTl-k! TI7WI TVini U >*XI ?ii' OXAii-o u i/Oi jli iui't Decision in Itussimi Sujar C?8e Announced I'y Classification Hoard. Tfce board of cl issificalion of the United States general appraisers at New York announced a decision in the Russian sugar case Friday. The board, by a majority vote, holds that the United Sta'es government was justified in imposing a countervailing duty on Russian sugar. Poors Ambush Pritishers. Lord Kitchener, in a dispatch from Pretoria under date of Thursday, sajs: "I regret to report that a party of the Ninth Lancers have been ambushed aud Lieutenant A. McDonald and three men killed and live wounded." PEKI.V PALACE BUKNEP. Von Waldereee Headquarters In Chinese Capital Destroyed by Fire. Field Marshal von Waldersee reports that the best part of the winter palace at Pekin was destroyed by fire Wednesday evening. Gen. Schwartzkopf met bis death in the fire, the cause of which is not explained. He adds that the French and Japanese troops gave the most prompt assistance. The field marshal and the other officers lost nearly everything. 1)111 VKN Oi l BY SNOW. Herdi-rs Oa Stinky Mountains In Tenncs?* *?? I"!ce For Their Lives, A party of hearders reached Knoxville, Tenu , from the Smoky mountains, having been driven out by the luavy snow. 'I hey report they left 100 to 500 cattle behind, all of which they >ay have f<< z n t ? death by this time The snow was from four to six feet d^ep when tiny started boulevard Thursday Th y hid to fiee for tiieir liv. s. Their noises were too numb to em ry a human load aud had to be led out of the mountains. f *rNjrvjcNjr^jrorocNJtN>?' I SOUTH CAROLINA I i STATE NEWS ITEMS. \ bCMfsjtsjrvjrsirsirsirsii , Fun For Politician*. I A Washington dispatch says: South Carolina politics is just now* occupyI iug the center of the national stage by ; reason of the bitter personal contenj tion between the two United States senators from the Palmetto State. Senator McLaurin's recent speech at Charlotte, when he practically put j himself outside of the regular demoi cratic party, and the stinging rebuke ! from Senator Tillman, accompanieu by a challenge from the latter to go before the people of South Carolina and fight out the issue on the stump, 1 is being widely discussed, j Senator McLauric has repeatedly ; declared that he proposed to go before I the people of his state and explaiu why he voted with the liepublican party in the senate last winter on nearly every national question. It was thought that he was courting joint debate with his colleague, Senator Tillman, who publicly and privately denounces the course of hii young colleague. The announcement that Senator McLanrin refuses to meet Tillman in joint discussion is a surprise to politicians in Washington, who are watching the South Carolina struggle with the keenest interest. It seems almost impossible to keep the South Carolina senators apart during the coming campaign in that state, for Tillman is not the man to be balked by an ordinary declination on tbc part of McLanrin to engage iu a joiut I debate. The latter is sensitive to a I high degree aud it is believed that ho will not require much urging from his friends to enter the political ring with his "rough and tumble" colleague. Such a bout would naturally be attended by sensational results and politicians without regard to party anticipate the most exciting aud memorable campaign that has ever taken place in that state. Senator McLauriu declares that bo will not be drawn into a controversy with Tillman for the benefit of some one else. "This is no new role for Senator Tillman," he exclaimed. "Ho began his career slandering and abusing better men. "I have contempt for an intellectual bully and shameless pretender masquerading as a statesman, a moral pigmy posing as a champion of homst/. I ueither count nor desire his friendship or good opinion." JEnf .rcing the EI?h Law. Governor McSweeney has received a letter from Mr. Ltider C. Behing, magistrate at Megget's, relative to violation of the fish law. Governor McSweeney has written to all of the magistrates in the lower part of the state, urging them to enforce the fish laws. This is the first response that the j governor has received. Mr. Behrliug | says that on receipt of the letter he went to the Edisto River, and that | most of the fishermen had gone and J some had a few fish which were caught | in the limits of the law. He said that the law would be enforced. ?* Governor Reduces Fines. Governor McSweenev has commuted the sentence of Thomas Prater and Lon Priter, both of whom were con- I victed in Laurens county of violating the dispensary law. The fines were reduced from $500 for the two to $300 for the two. Judge Watts, who tried the cases, recommended the commutation of the sentence imposed by him, and stroDg petitions were presented in behalf of the two men, who are wellto-do white men. *** Wholesale Grocery Chartered. A charter has been issued to the Xorris-Cooner-King Company, of Columbia. The firm is to do a wholesale grocery business with headquarters in Columbia. The officers of the company are: J. B. Xorris, president and treasurer; Alex E. King, vice president; B. R. Cooner, general manager; C. W. Sawyer, secretary; J. B. Xorris, A. E. King, B. R. Cooner, M. C. Heath and W. K. Duffie, directors. A Plea For Cureton'* Life. Mr. J. W. Givens, of Fouutain Inn, has written to Governor McSweeney urgiDg him to commute the sentence of Miles Cureton, convicted of murder in Greenville county, to life imprisonment. He says that tl^ere is no doubt but that Cureton killed the notorious negro, but had all the provocation in the world. Three white men testified that Cureton's victim had killed three men, and had warned Cureton that he must leave the state or the world. Mr. Givens asks that in the name of humanity the ignoraut negro should bo pardoned. *** S'ate Reunion of U. C. V. The reunion of the South Carolina division U. C. V., so far promises to be one of the most successful ever had in the state. The several committees of ladies and citizens have rendered loyal service and are trying to make everything pass off pleasantly, so far as entertainment is concerned. It is to be regetted that so many who have been invited to attend hud it impossible to do so, as the Memphis reunion follows so quickly the one held in Columbia May 8, 9 and 10. Gen. J. B. Gordou sends regrets. Gen. Evaus, pressing engagements demand his time; aud Mrs. Stonewall Jackson sends a kindly worded note expressing a desire "to meet with both your veterans and your citizens, but I think it will be impossible." - -11 t viT?i. _;n ljGD6rai At Ot ??oat win tumo, xc^resenting one of the brigades of Georgia's veteran organization; and General Thomas L. Rosser, "le beau sabreur," who rendered such distinguished service at Trevilliau Statiou, June 11, 12, 1864, whose brilliant charge probably saved the day, will lend his presence. But it is hoped that all camps will be well represented at this reuuion. Columbia will certainly pay ail the honor to the men who wore the gray. The contributions for the reunion continue to come in, and there has not in recent years been such a generous respouse to any call. From weelf to week the names of the contributors to the fund have been published. Doctor Assaulted Dy Harkceper. Fearing smallpox, the Charleston board of health recently ordered compulsory vaccination, and extra physicians were employed for the work. While vacciuatiug a negro Dr. W. G. Wilbur, appointed to act by the board, was nttacked by J. A. Bertocci, a bartender in whose place the negro was being treated. Wilbur, acting under instructions fiom the board, swore out a warrant charging Bertoc. i with assault and battery. The bartender was promptly arrested. ' . ? A T\ f Tlie attacs 01 isercocci was unexplained, as the negro had requested Dr. Wilbur to vaccinate him. Wilbur says be was smashed over the head with a bottle, and ho is confined to his room. The trial will test the city's right to order compulsory vaccination. RE0COATES VIOLATE RULES. Boers Charge Britons With Con* duct of Savages and Hany Acts of Barbarism. Captain Otto von Lossberg, captain of the second battery, Transvaal state artillery, who left the Boer army in J"auuary, being incapacitated with wounds, arrived at New York Wednesday morning from Europe with Montagu White. He left Wednesday night for New Orleans, his old home. In an interviow Captaiu von Lossberg said: "I talked with General Louis Botha before I came away. 'You may go,' he told me. 'You have fought well. I give you your discharge. When you come back we shall be free or fighting. I shall fill a patriot's grave. Go, my boy. God be kind to you.' " "That is the kind of men who fight for the Boer cause," continued Captain von Lossberg. "The English have violated every law of civilized warfare. They have armed 5,000 Kaffirs, who are in Steinacher's horse, which is the scum of South Africa. They fight like the Hessians fought you?for hire. They get twelve shillings a day. They plunder and pillage everybody, young and old alike. "When I was vrounded I was put in a Red Cross ambulance and started for Lourenzo Marques. We were held up by 50 Kaffirs who wore nothing but breech clouts and carried British rifles. They took everything we had and turned me back to Pretoria. "I complained of the violation of the Red Cross flag and robbery to the British officers. They investigated and admitted that I had been shamefully treated. They promised restitution 'after the war.' lrou Americans have little conception of the resources of the Boers. Delarey alone nas 3,000,000 rounds of ammunition. We have twenty guns and a Long Tom. The latter is hidden for future need. We need nothing but ambulances and surgical supplies. 'The Holland societies sent us three ambulances and nurses several months ago via Lourenzo Maiquez. The British there had them held up and they are there yet, while our men are dying for the need of them. "Our forces are distributed like this: Delarey has 6,000 men, Botha 4,000, Dewet 5,000 and the rest are in flying corps. They constantly harass the British. Most of our men are fighting south of Pretoria. "The Americans with our army, and particularly the Irish-Americans, are doing magnificent fighting. "The British recently desecrated the Lutheran church at Busterly mission. The Tommies took the church organ, and while one of them played the others danced to the music with the Kaffir girls. At Lynchteuberg the British desecrated a cemetery by making it a cattle pen. "Our winter season begins in May and ends in September. The Boers will take to the hills until it is over. They have little baggage to impede their movements,while the British are weighted down. We will play havoo with them when the winter sets in." The captain denied that General Dewet is insane. "He is the most dangerous 'insane man' that England ever coped with," he said. "General Dewet is a military genius. He has made his raw troops iuto one of the best disciplined J .? ^Anfro./ino fr*rr?Pfl in the HLill lilUdl (lUXI^CA vuw J.W. world. They love liim like a father and would follow him into the very jaws of death." HALF"MILLION IN GOLD. United State* Treasury la ''Running Over*' With Yellow Metal. Wednesday's summary of the United States treasury report shows that the government's aggregate gold holdings, for the first time in history, have passed the half-billion doilar mark The exact total was $500,278,506, of which $252,078,859 was held against certificates in the hands of the outside public, and $150,000,000 as a reserve against outstanding United States notes, the balance being free assets. (ieorgia Labor Federation Meets. The Georgia State Federation of Labor met in annual convention at Columbus Wednesday. During a recess given for the benefit of the credentials committee Hon. John D. Little addressed the meeting in an informal talk in which he paid a great tribute to the working man. WHOLE FAMILY SLAIN. Fath er and Fire Children IJorribly Butchered By Two Tramps. A cable dispatch from Chartres, France says: This community has shocked by the brutal murder of five children and their father, a farmer named Briere, residing in the neighborhood of Chartres. Two tramps entered the farm house Sunday night and killed four girls, aged respectively 14, 11, 5 and 4, and a boy 7 years old, with kuives and cudgels, while they were in bed and apparently asleep. Briere returned while the murderers were robbing the house. T.hey heard him enter the court yard, attacked him and after a desperate struggle left him dead with four wounds in the head. The murderers then escaped with l.COQ francs and a number of objects of value. COLD PLAYS HAVOC 1 Wind, Snow, Sleet and Floods Do Untold Damage. MANY STATES IN ICY GRASP j In The Sunny Southland Frigid Wave Badly Hurts Cropsand Fruit in Many Sections. Roaring storms, continued high winds and heavy precipitations of rain and snow have been conditions in many of the states of the south at the close of the past week. Little damage was done by the winds, though it is feared that in some localities young crops have been stunted or killed by the frost or cold. At many points, particularly in eastern Kentucky, eastern Tennessee and Virginia, the temperature was lower than known in a decade at this time of year. In Kentucky Saturday reports were received by the weather bureau from fifteen cities or towns and in most of them the minimum temperature of Friday ranged between 30 and 31 degrees. The maximum for the entire state was 38 degrees at Earliugtou, in Kentucky. The coldest section was the blue grass, in and around Lexingington. This is the best fruit growing part of the state, and here, it is feared, there was damage by frost, not only to fruit, but to vegetable aucl tobacco crops. In the mountains of Kentucky the snowfall was unbroken and fourteen inches were reported at London and Middlesboro. All the streams there were bankfull and general preparations were being made to vacate the homes in the valleys before the thaws and the expected floods should swoop down upon them. There has been much suffering among the poor mountaineers. Around Louisville there has been no damage of consequence. GEORGIA COTTON KILLED. It is probable that much of the cotton crop in the southern part of Georgia, particularly about Americus, will have to be replanted on account of the i damage done by the severe weather of the past few days. leather Forecaster J. B. Marbury at Atlanta received reports from that section Saturday indicating that the cotton crop had fared badly at the hands of both rain and wind. The rain, it seems, first put the fields in such condition that when the high winds of the past day or so came the tender plants were blighted. Prof. Marbury is of the opinion that the fruit crop is still safe, but fears that the young vegetation in many sections of the state may have suffered considerably. "This i8 one of the most continuous wind storms that I have ever known," said Mr. Marbury. "For more than thirty-six hours the wind blew at a rate varying little from forty and forty e -1 i T*. - live nines uu iiuur, xi> even xcav/ucu a velocity of fifty miles an hour, but this did not last for any length of time." According to the weather bureau the temperature for the past few days has rather encouraged frost, but the high winds prevented it. Had there been no wind it is more than probable that the entire state would have been visited by a killing frost, which would have laid waste vast sections. SNOW STORM IN OHIO. Saturday North Ohio was swept by a furious storm of wind and snow that prostrated telegraph and telephone wires in all directions. The wind j came from the north and during the | early hours of the day reached a velocity of 55 miles and hour. All telegraph communication was ' severed between Cleveland and points j east and south. A few wires were j patched np to the west, but even these were reported to be working badly. In some respect the storm was the worst experienced during the entire winter. The heavy wet snow came ; down in blinding sheets and the streets j in the city were covered with slush. j HEAVY LOSSES IN PITTSBURG. Conservative estimates of the total ! damage in the Pittsburg, Pa., district from high water in the Monongahela river is between 82,000,000 and 83,000,000. Fifty thousand workers are suffering from enforced idleness. While there have been greater floods at this point, there was never one that caused so much financial loss and discomfort. This was due to the denser population, caused by the recent rapid growth of the two cities, and to the fact that all | the manufacturing plants on the river banks were in active operation, most of them working night and day, until the rising water put out the fires aud drove the workers to higher ground. The loss to the railroads entering Pittsburg from flood, landslides wrecked bridges, heavy suow and the inter, ference with traffic is roughly estimated at $1,000,000. NURSE 1)IES FOR BABY. : Heroic Girl Gives Her Life To Preser-re That of Her Little Charge. At Memphis, Tenn., Tuesday afternoon, while attempting to board a street car, Kate Macklin, a fourteenyear-old nurse girl, carrying the three ? /-if A ITarrrnrr wftR Rtrnek VCttl'UiU I/Uiiu V/4 ^4. j aud sustained fatal injuries. The girl ' liad but a moment's warning. With 1 rare presence of mind, she threw the ; child into the middle of the street in time to escape f-erious injury. Van Wyck Yctoes Reused Charter. Mayor Van Wick, of New York ' city, sent back to Albany by special messenger the revised charter as passed by the legislature. With the charter was tho mayor's voto aud memorandum giving reasons why the city of New York refused to accept it. Heavy Frost In Arkansas. A heavy frost fell in the vicinity of j Van Buren, Ark , Wednesday night, accompanied by a light freeze. Fruit growers are divided as to the amount j of damage done. MANIFESTO IS ISSUED Agnioaldo Advises His Countrymen to Lay Down Arms. LONGER RESISTANCE USELESS The Americans Are Generous and Filipinos Will Obtain Liberty By Giving Heed. The following is Aguinaldo's address to the Filipino people, made public at Manila Friday evening: "I believe I am not in error in presuming that the unhappy fate in which my adverse fortuue has led me, is not a surprise to those who have been familiar with the progress of the war. The lessons taught wi:h a full meaning and which have recently come to my knowledge, suggest with irresistible force that a complete termination of hostilities aud lasting peace are not only desirable, but absolutely essential to the welfare of the Philippine islands. "The Filipinos have never been dismayed at their weakness nor have they faltered in following the path pointed out by their fortitude aud courage. The time has come, however, in which they and their advaucc along this path to be impeded by an irresistible force which, while it re strains tliem, yet enlighteus tinir minds and opens to them another course, presenting them the cause of peace. This cause has been joyfully embraced by the majority of my follow countrymen, who have already united around the glorious sovereigu banuer of the United States. In this banuer they repose their trust and belief that under its protection the Filipino people will attain all thoso promised liberties which they are beginning to eDjoy. "The couutry has declared unmis takably in favor of peace. So be it. There has been enough blood, enough tears and enough dtsolatiou. This wish cannot be ignored by the men still in arms if they are animated by a desire to serve our noble people,which has thus clearly manifested its will. So do I respect this will now that it is known to me. "After mature deliberation I resolutely proclaim to the world that I can not refuse to heed the voice of a people longing for peace, nor the lamentations of thousands of families yearning to see their dear ones enjoying the liberty and the promised generosity of the great American nation. "By acknowledging and accepting the sovereignty of the United States throughout the Philippine archipelago, as I now do, and without any reservation whatsoever, I believe that I am serving thee, my beloved country. May happiness be thine." To signalize this important step in the pacification of the country, Gener* al MacArthur orders the release, on swearing allegiance to the United States, of 1,000 insurgent prisoners. EFFECT WILL BE GOOD. It is believed by the administration that the manifesto of Agninaldo will have a decidedly good effect both in the Philippines and in this country. It will take some time for its dissemination among the Filipinos, but it is expected to be of considerable service, and to make more rapid the improvement in the situation which set in eome time ago and has become quite marked of late. Especial gratification is felt at the unreserved tone of the document, and the full acceptance it indicates of American rule. This, it is felt, will bring to the support of the government many Filipinos, who, while wishing for peace, have hesitated to assist the Taft commission. In this country it is expected to reduce the criticism of the administration, and to cause less discussion of the war in the islands, and more con 1 1.' / iT 1 4. ,, t Biuerauuu ui me impuimui> ujuum ui the best administration to be evolved for their government. It is to this work that the Taft commission is now bending all its energies. Aguinaldo, now that he has accepted American sovereignty, probably will be given considerably more liberty than he has enjoyed heretofore. His services will be nsed as far as possible in the pacification of the islands. appeals of no use. President's Itinerary to Pacific Coast Cannot Be Changed. A Washington dispatch says: The itinerary of the president's tour to the Pacific coast is now complete and no further appeals for changes in route or stops will be consideied. The party will spend Sunday, June 2d, at Salt Lake City, as originally planned. Failed For Half Million. W. H. Thomas & Son, wholesale liquor dealers at Louisville, filed a petition in bankruptcy in tho United States court Thursday. They owe $500,532.11, aud no assets are listed. ( barged With Embezzlement. A. J. Schrotz, a boookkeeper in the First National Bank of Birmingham, was arrested in Pittsburg, Pa., Thursday night by United States Marshal Leonard, charged with the embezzlement of $35,000 of the bank's funds. Big laniiing Plant Burned. The tanning plant of the A. Platz Leather company at Raciue, Wis., was destroyed by tire Friday. Loss, $100,000. Iusurance, $75,000. DEALT IX GREEN GOODS. Two Men an<l a Woman Under Arrest at Buffalo Charged With Swindling. Two men and a woman who are said to have done such an extensive business iu green goods that their monthyl expenditure for postage stamps represented $500, were arrested at Buffalo, N. Y., Saturday evening. ThtyareW. A. Clark and his wife and brother, Lee L. Clark. The inspectors say the gang has been opeiating in the viciriiy for several mouths, some of their victims coming all the ray from Texas. STORM STRIKES ALABAMA. Considerable Damage Is Done In Selma, Huntsville and Other Points By Winds. One of the most disastrous wind storms in that section of the state swept over Selma, Ala., Thursday morning between 2 and 3 o'clock. The wind came with fearful force from the south and did a great deal of damage to the wholesale grocery houses on I Water street. The wind tore off the roofs of the majority of these stores and they were flooded with the rain which followed, ruiuing mauy thousand dollars' worth of groceries. A /inncaiTiitira ootimnta LVlA *1 VVUOV-1 'UUHJ VWVtiUWkV |/?MVVW .?.? loss in the city in the neighborhood of ?30,000. Freight train No. 73, on the Southern, betweeu Selma and Mobile, ran into a pile of sand live feet deep, which had been washed across the track by the rains following the passing cyclone. The engine was tnrned over and Engineer H. G. Eilwood was almost instantly killed, a negro fireman named Killian was seriously if not fatally injured. A special to The Birmingham AgeHerald from Gadsden and Guntersville stated that a severe windstorm swept those two places Thursday morning from 1 to 2 o'clock, doing considerable damage. Three churches were almost totally destroyed, as well as about twelve cottages. The storm played havoc with shade trees and telephone wires at Huntsville. The Huntsville cotton mill was unroofed by the windaDd operation of the plant was delayed for a time. Small frame buildings in various parts of the city were more or less damaged. At Carrollton, Ala., the wind unroofed the jail, courthouse, several residences and a church. The drug store of N. B. Upchurch and a large mill were demolished. ENORMOUS COST OF WAR. Britons Will Have to Go Down Deep Into Their Pockets to Even Up. A London special says: The exceptional interest taken in this year's budget statement was evinced by the crowded condition of the house of commons when it reassembled Thursday. The attendance of members was unusually large, while the appearance of the galleries testified to the deep interest of the public in the fresh taxation proposals required to meet the expenditure for 1901-1902, which, according to a parliamentary paper, totals ?187,142,000 (6835,710,000), inclusive of war charges, this being an increase of ?32,901,000 ($164,505,000) over last year. The national balance sheet for 19013902, as shown by the same paper, stands as follows: Bevenue, ?130,385,000; expenditures, ?185,592,000; net deficit, ?53,207,000. The budget adds 2 pence to the income tax, making it 1 shilling 2pence. It does not provide an increase in the duties on beer, wine or tea, spirits or tr>v>af?n<v A dntv of 4s2d r>er cwt will bo imposed on refined sngar. A duty of 2s per hundred weight is imposed on molasses. West Indian sugar is nDt excepted. A duty of 1 shilling and 8 pence per hundred weight is imposed on glucose. A shilling per ton duty is imposed on exported coal. Raw sugar polarizing below 98 is to pay a duty gradually diminishing, according to each degree of polarization to a* minimum of two shillings at a polarization of 76. The total expected yield of the new taxation is ?11,000,000, of which ?2,100,000 will be from coal. * The chancellor of exchequer asked for permission to extend the present borrowing on consols. ALLEGED ASSASSINS ARRESTED. Murder of Dr. Scruggs Leading to Sensational Developments. A Memphis special says: Sensational developments have been made in the Dr. Scruggs assassination case and strong evidence is being accumulated which may uncover a plot with a number of persons implicated as the result of a political feud in the community in which the physician lived. J. W. Skinner, a wealthy dairyman, and John Phillip?, a carpenter, are behind the bar9 charged with the deed, and other equally sensational arrests may follow. AGUINALDO IN XKW QUARTERS. Captive Filipino Leader is Traneferrcd to a Private Residence. A Manila dispatch says : Aguinaldo has been removed from the Malacanang Palace to a private residence, No. 56 Solano street. The guard placed over him has been modified. General MacArthur informed the representative of the Associated Press that the effect of Aguinaldo's address to the Filipinos would undoubtedly be beueficial. Aguinaldo composed his address without assistance. The original was in Tagalog. It was afterwards translated into Spanish. BOERS CAPTURE SUPPLIES. L'hey Swoop Down Upon a Train Load of Cattle and Coal. Advices from Cape Colony state that a train loaded with cattle and coal was captured by the Boers near Molteno Friday eveniug. The locomotive escaped and ran to Stormburg and returned with troops, who found the j train on fire. A couple of natives were killed. The train hands had been stripped and then released. COLORED METHODISTS MEET. They Consider tlie Financial Condition of Their Chnrch at Hoard Meeting. Representative colored men from every section of the country met in Washington Wednesday in attendance upon the annna! session of the financial board of the African Methodist Episcopal church. Bishop B. W. Aruett, ot Wilberforce, presided. Since the organiz ttion of the fiDauc'al department and ihe collection <>f "dollar money" from the church members, $1,606,000 had beeu contributed. CROP NOT AFFECTED M Cotton Killed By Cold Wave Will Soon Be Replanted. TEXAS ONLY STATE TO ESCAPE v. f^d Some Localities Report a Scarcity of Seed For Replanting?Outlook Not Discouraging. The Atlanta Constitution in its is ? sue of Tuesday morniDg says: It may * safely bo said that the recent cold snap, though of unusual severity for this season of the year, will not mate- .4% rially affect the cotton crop one way or the other so far as results are concerned. Severe cold, even after a good portion of the crop is above ground; may mean more work for the farmers, but it does 'not mean a reduction of the size of the cotton crop. This is a lea- "ja* son that history teaches. In May, 1898, nearly a month later in the year than the cold spell just passed, the temperature went just as low as on this occasion, but the cold spell was of shorter duration. However, the cotton had advanced considerably farther than is the case in April, and far more damage was done. Notwithstanding this, the cotton v"'| crop of 1893 was the largest in the history of the south?11,200,000 bales. So far as the ultimate results are concerned, therefore, it may be said Jg that this year's late cold snap, though it may have damaged and destroyed considerable sprontting cotton, will not materially affect the result. The chances are that as much, if not more, cotton than was destroyed will immediatoly be replanted. The only difficulty that can possibly intervene this year might be the scarcity ot cottoa seeu, uui 11 its uw* believed there will be any material trouble on that score, though in some seotions the farmers are quite approReports received Monday night from all of the cotton growing states, and . ig the indications from these are that the '.;2 young cotton has in many instanoes been killed by the cold. In some see- .>J| tions, however, the damage was slight and replanting will not be necessary. The reports from Georgia show that considerable young cotton has been >/:| damaged or killed in the-southern part .JM of the state where that planted early was above the ground. The majority of the crop, however, is not yet above . -S the ground, so it will be seen the damage will be comparatively small. Cotton planting has been generally late ; this spring, and the damage is far less than it would have been had more of the seed been put in the ground. Some damage has been reported |? from Alabama, bat as a who'e it is slight, because, as in Georgia, so little of the crop is yet above ground. In Alabama it is said about one-third of the crop has been planted, and only . about one-third of that is above ground. Thus in that state only a part of one-ninth of the yonng crop will need to be replanted. Advices from Tennessee state that '3? the cold snap will affect early planting and instances will necessitate -i reF4K'it R is stated that it is too earJ^o/say that the crop has been - materially damaged. Mississippi reports somewhat more serioas damage to the young crop than the other states. Mnch of the young cotton there has been killed out, while the ground has been so cold ^ -'JjS as to prevent proper germination. Consequently mnch of the seed pat into the groun 1 is not yet up. . Texas, the greatest of all the cotton planting states, reports no damage to the crop. Heavy rains early in the season prevented early planting; consequently there was little or no cotton up when the cold snap came along. Reports from that state indicate that | very little if any replanting will be necessary. The fame practically holds true of> - J:|| Arkansas as of Texas. The planting in that state was late and the cold did little or no damage. ' ^ FBUIT LITTLE DAMAGED. Reports from all of the fruit grow- <|s| iug sections of Georgia, indicate that the recent cold snap has not materially damaged the fruit crop. The greatest interest is felt in Georgia peaches, a crop that is worth something like a million dollars or more annually, but up to the present time ?8 the almost universal verdict is that they are practically unhurt. Some scattering reports indicate that there has been damage to the fruit in a few sections but they may grow out of the fears that the unasual cold weather naturally created. State Entomologist W. M. Scott ia of the opinion that it will be several j days yet before it can be told what the exact effect on the fruit crop will be. It will take the warm sunshine of a day or two, he says, to develop just what damage the cold did to the growing fruit. SIX DIE IN FLAMES. Holocaust In Hotel Fire at St. Mary'a* West Virginia. By the burning of the Commeroial hotel at St. Mary's, W. Va., Sunday night, six persons lost their lives. The dead are: Samuel Cunningham, driller, Roxford, Pa.; John George, oil man, Bitler, Pa.; Harry Robinson, tool dresser, Corning, 0.; Bert SmiIpy, shooter, Smiley's Mate, name unknown, and John Slater, son of Mrs. Slater, proprietress of the hotel. Suit Against Treasurer. "-3? * i T M ALOLlUay Atiuiucjr uouuai v. mm Terrell, of Georgia, filed suit in the superior court at Atlanta asking in the name of the governor that mandamns issue against State Treasurer R. E. Park to compel him to pay the schoel teachers of Georgia. >'o Freedom For Carter. A Washington special says: The United States supreme court Monday denied the application of former Captain Oberlin M. Carter to be admitted to bail.