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; 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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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' 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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.