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p, ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. MAY 23.1901. ?*E DOLLAR PER YEAR. ||
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I MARTIAL LAW ENDS
Affairs of Jacksonrille Tamed
Over to City intimities.
SOLDIERS KEPT BEST OF ORDER
While Everythingls Quiet Troops Will
Be Retained to Perform Police
Duties and Withdrawal
Will Be Gradual.
The ending of the martial law res
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gime at Jacksonville, Fla., Thursday
was not accompanied by any disorder
and the city remains quiet
v While the civil authorities have resumed
their usual functions, troops
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will be kept in the city for the present
to perform police duties and the
withdrawal, when it begins, will be
gradual.
The number of people being fed by
the commissary aggregate 3,294.
A ship building concern that was
burned, which employs 100 men, has
already resumed operations, its machinery
having been in part saved. An
Iron works company employing thirty-five
men has also resumed.
The site of the burned Commercial
bank building, at Laura and Bay
streets, seventy-five feet front on Bay,
together with a small lot with fiftytwo
feet front on Laura street, were
sold Thursday for $80,000, and it is
announced that a handsome building
probably with marble front, will be
erected immediately by the purchas*
"ers. Numbers of architects are on
hand, and many people are preparing
to rebuild.
A prominent insurance adjuster
states that the total insurance loss
will perhaps reach $6,000,000, one million
more than the estimates which
: ~ have been heretofore published. Residence
losses and many mercantile
losses are being paid and the adjustments
in nearly all cases are quick
and satisfactory.
Through the New York chamber of
commerce and Merchants' Association
one car of water closets and fittings,
one car with wheelbarrows and thirty-seven
dozen hose, one car of c'ots
and mattresses and one car of miscellaneous
supplies were recelvd Thursday.
One car load of supplies were
also received from Chicago through
Hearst's Chicago American.
The secretary of war has granted
permission to damp brick and mortar
debris into the St Johns river for
bulkhead in g purposes.
At the morning meeting of the relief
association it was deemed necessary,
owing to the conflicting reports
sent through the country by individuals,
which tend to confuse the public
mind, to create an authoritative
channel through which must be sent
all information relating to the situation.
A press representative was appointed
in the person of Edwin G.
Weed, bishop of the diocese of Florida,
and the Associated Press was chosen
as the channel of transmission of appeals
and statements of the needs of
the people. So the public is informed
that all statements as to needs, all
requests and all proclamations, unless
signed by Bishop Weed or sent by his
direct authority, are not to be given
credence by the people and in no way
voice the organization that is charged
with the relief work of Jacksonville.
SEABOARD IS ENJOINED.
Soubound Railroad Cannot Be Legally
Acquired, Says Judge Gage.
At Chester, S. C.t Thursday Judge
Gage issued an order restraining the
Seaboard Air Line from acquiring the
South Bound railroad, and ordering
the authorities of the latter road to
show cause why a receiver should not i
be appointed.
.The South Bound was built about
flight vAars aeo between Columbia and
Jacksonville. It was immediately
leased by the Florida, Central and Peninsular.
Later the Seaboard acquired
the property by lease. The F., C. and 1
P. was never incorporated in the state, 1
nor has the Seabcrd Air Line a domes- '
tic charter. Consequently damage J
suits must be made cut against the 1
Scuth Bound. i
CORN KING PHILLIPS.
Still Holds His Corner and Bids Cereal
Up to Sixty Cents.
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George H. Phillips, of Chicago, who
has the supply of corn deliverable on
contracts this month cornered, bid the
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price up to CO cents from the opening
Wednesday, which was at 54 cents.
This is the highest price since May 31,
1S92, when the Coster-Martin deal
reached its climax and corn sold at (
$1. The total amount bought by Phillips
during tne forenoon did not run ,
over 120,000 bushels, which was sold,
mostly in small, lots by people who
claimed to have the corn to deliver.
Negro is Given Poison.
Jabez Johnson, a well known negro
living near Danielsville, Ga.f is dead
from the effects of poison and two
young white men, John Bragg and
Dbck Moon, both well known, are
charged with the negro's death.
Worth County Relegates Whiskey.
Worth county, Georgia, held prohibition
election Thursday under the
local option law. The result was 800
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against me saie ami uv iui wc
CARNEGIE'S NEW SCHEME.
Endows Four Universities For His
Fellow Countrymen Only.
Andrew Carnegie has given 2,000,000
pounds ($10,000,000) to establish
free education in four Scotch universities?Edinburgh,
Glasgow, Aberdeen
and St. Andrews. He stipulates that
the beneficiaries be his "Scotish fellow
countrymen" only, no English,
Irish, colonial or foreigners. The
fund will apply to medical as well as
to commercial education and will be
'placed la the bands ot trustees,
BLIND TIGERS DO FLOURISH.
A Merry War Is Expected In Charles*
ton When State Constables
Appear on the Scene.
The orders from the state board of
dispensary control to close all beer
and liquor dispensaries in Charleston,
S. C., has not so far interfered with
the traffic of the tigers. When the
quiet tip was passed down the liquor
line Friday morning that places would
have to close, the 500 blind tigers
made a merry rush to buy, and while
they did not force the price up by the
movement, they got enough liquor to
pull through a period. According to
careful estimates there are 500 tigers
in Charleston.
Temperance and prohibition people
are glorifying over the conditions existing
in the city now. They believe
that the dispensaries will be kept
closed until the legislature next year
can amend the law as to the organization
of the board of county commissioners,
and should this prove the
case the temperance and prohibition
element will make capital by using all
efforts to have the law strictly enforced.
There is so much money involved,
however, that the state can
hardly afford to lose the revenues
from Charleston, and already efforts
are making toward a satisfactory adjustment
of the troubles. The tangle
is so deep that the supreme court will
have to pass final judgment, but all
difficulty would have been avoided had
not the Charleston county delegation
been negligent of its duty. This delegation
failed to note the passage of
the new county commisioners' act,
and while the purpose was to except
Charleston from its operations this
delegation did not see the mess until
it came out in the newspapers a week
or two ago.
When the state constables are sent
to Charleston to help enforce the law,
as is confidently expected, outsiders
look for a hot fight between these officers
and the hundreds of blind tigers.
FIGHT AGAINST WOMAN.
Warm Discussion In Presbyterian Assembly
Over Female Delegate.
Saturday morning's session of the
Cumberland Presbyterian general asnnmMir
at IAI OC't Dnlnt MIcO TV O Q whnK
O^UIUIJ at f? tot A VAWVf " vm/ ?-%rly
devoted to a discussion of a motion
made by Dr. I. D. Steele, of Birmingham,
Ala., proposing that the young
woman who was enrolled as a ruling
elder commissioner from Litchfield,
Ky., Presbytery be unseated on the
ground that both the constitution and
the action of previous assemblies forbade
a woman to 6erve as a ruling
elder.
The presbytery from which Miss
Woosley hails several years ago ordained
as a preacher this same young
woman. This was declared unconstitutional
and her name erased from
the roll. Members kept up the agitation
ever since and the presence of
Miss Woosley is plainly aimed by the
Presbytery to test another phase of
the question. The debate Saturday
was an able one without bitterness,
and the vote do? not settle the question.
A constitutional amendment covering
the case will be sent down to the
Presbyteries and the knowing ones
believe that in the end the church will
declare against the ordination of women
to both the ministry and eldership.
TREATY DRAFT IN LONDON.
Secretary Hay's New Proposals In
Hands of English Cabinet.
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of Secretary Hay's proposals for a
new Nicaragua treaty was received
from Lord Pauncefote by the last
mail. It is a voluminous document,
and is being printed previous to examination
and discussion.
In authoritative quarters it is stated
that the papers consist mainly of a
memorandum in which Mr. Hay indicates
on what lines a treaty should
be drawn In order to meet the views of
the United States senators with whom
he has conferred.
Servian Queen Attempts Suicide.
A story is curent m Vienna that
Queen Draga, of Servia, took poison
when the king discovered the situation
caused by the conflicting statements
regarding her health, and the queen
Is very ill from the effects of the poison.
DAYTON PLANTS CLOSED.
Machinists' Demands Not Complied
With and Strike Follows.
Not one concern in Dayton, Ohio,
has acceded to the machinists' demands.
Several plants agreed to the
hours and wage scale, but rqpervod
the right to employ and discharge.
When this was declined by employees
the plants closed.
There are -now idle the National
Cash Register, W. P. Callahan, Buckeye
Brass Works, Stillwen-Bierce
Company and many smaller plants.
Thirty-five hundred men are out of
work. The carpenters' strike is practically
complete.
OIL COMPANY IN KENTUCKY.
New Corporation Is Organized With
Capital Stock of $200,000.
The Kentucky Union Oil Company
has been organized with a capital stock
?oaa Ann has rmrehased 3.000
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acres of oil lands at Sunnybrook,
Wayne county, Ky. Capitalists of
New Britain, Conn., own the larger
part of the stock. Machinery is being
shipped from Knoxville for the
company to begin operation at once.
Mexico Is After Oil.
The Mexican government has granted
a concession for boring for petroleum
in various parts of the republic,
exempting the new industry from taxation
for ten years. Free importation
of drills and machinery is granted.
Korea Leases Land to Japan.
According to advices from Seoul,
the Corean government has leased to
Japan 450 acres of land to form a settlement
at Ma Sail Pho. The land in
question wm formerly sought by Busgia>
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Editors in Controversy.
There has recently been a controversy
between Mr. N. G. Gonzales,
editor of The State, and Mr. A. B.
Williams, editor of The Richmond
News. Mr. Gonzales, in commenting
upon the offer of the office of postmaster
to General Wade Hampton,
characterized it as an attempt to buy
General Hampton.
At this Mr. Williams took exception,
for, as he stated subsequently, he had
suggested the proffer. Mr. Williams
assailed the policy of The State in relation.
to Governor Ellerbe and the
state printing. Mr. Gonzales, in reply,
showed that the state printing
contract was awarded in an open and
legitimate manner and that it was
not accepted from Governor Ellerbe.
The charge of Mr. Williams were
characterized as malicious and false.
This was about the last the general
miHlt/? cow r\f fho mnttpr hilt that
was regarded as pretty plain talk,
even for editors.
The State again takes up the story
where it left off. It appears that
there has passed between the two gentlemen
private correspondence which
indicates that Mr. Williams intimated
that he would send a challenge. The
State makes no comment, but publishes
the correspondence in toto.
On May 13th Mr. Williams wrote:
"I have the honor to request of you
an immediate retraction of the words
'malicious slanders' and 'contemptible'
as applied to statements printed over
my name and written by me, and an
apology for using such words in connection
with statements from me,"
etc.
To this Mr. Gonzales replied that he
was rot accustomed to making statements
of whose truth he was not convinced.
He rejected Mr. Williams's i
demand to apologize, etc. He repeats
that certain of Mr. Williams's statements
were untrue. As to the intimation
of a challenge following his refusal
to comply with Mr. Williams's
demands, Mr. Gonzales stated that he
must uphold the laws of the state, and
those laws forbid the conventional
settlement of half a century ago. However.
he would allow Mr. Williams to
fire at him without his returning the
fire of Mr. Williams. This he knew
to be quixotic, apparently, yet it evidenced
his willigness to assume re- (
sponsibility for his editorial utterances.
,
The correspondence continued,
there having been another letter from ;
Mr. Williams and another reply from
Mr. Gonzales. No settlement seems ,
to have been reached yet. Mr. Gon- ]
zales publishes the correspondence
through no violation of etiquette, but j
because of a statement by Mr. Wil- ,
liams that he would place the matter
before the public.
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Lively Row in Greenville.*
A dispatch from Greenville says:
William Allison, Bayliss Hart, Wil
liam Chestine and Fred Griffin, white
men, filled up with dispensary whisky ]
and proceeded to paint the town red <
Sunday afternoon. Out on Ruthford
street, near the corporate limits, they
took possession of a house of ill fame, j
and made things lively for a time. ,
Leaving the house they saw a young
man, Will Sloan, going down the <
street, and at once made an attack on
him with rocks. As they advanced,
Sloan drew his pistol and warned
them to stop. They drew pistols and
knives and made a dash at Sloan, who i
opened fire, his bullet hitting Hart in
the leg. The assailants commenced
firing on Sloan, but being too drunk,
they missed him, and got into a fight
among themselves, in which Hart
was cut across the face. Sloan took
the opportunity to 'escape, and ran
into town and notified the police, who
arrested the four men, and they are
now in jail charged with assault and
battery with intent to kill.
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inspecting New Route.
There is a prospect now of a railroad
being built from Blackburg, S.
C., via Newberry and Saluda to Johnston,
in Edgefield county. Several
engineers have been over the route
in the last two or three months, and
last week W. H. Wells, chief engineer
of the Southern, went over the
line for the purpose of making a report
of the route, and he will recommend
the building. If it is built, it is
claimed it will shorten the distance
between the north and Florida by
about sixty miles.
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Pack of Wolves Cause Terror.
News comes from Marlboro county
telling of wild excitement in Smithville
township over the discovery of a
pack of wolves. A strange animal
which attracted dogs owned by Dudley
Stanton.a few nights ago was identified
as a bear, and an armed posse
followed the tracks to the deep woods.
Going far in the undergrowth the
posse ran upon a wolf bed which was
guarded viciously by a she woir. She
was driven off fighting. The crowd
captured the young wolves, nine in
number, and they are held as hos
tages. utner nunters are sun searcning
for the rest of the pack. There is
so much fear in the township that
schools have temporarily closed and
at nights the doors and windows of
every home are nailed and locked.
The finding of both wolves and signs
of bears has led the community to believe
that other wild inhabitants inhabit
the swamp lands nearby, and
in some quarters the excitement is intense.
This is increased through fear
that the maddened she wolf will go
trailing for her young.
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Negro Raises Check.
Carter Crane, an educated negro,
got in a piece of work at Greenville a
few days ago. Crane is a painter. He
is well educated, and has borne a ;
rood character. At the time men- i i
rioned he received a check from the '
ru&tees of the graded school for $7.
3elag an expert penman, ho found no
difficult/ is Ffticing the check from |7
:o $75. He found no difficulty in drawing
the money. The raising was discovered
later, and Carter was arrested
and is now in jail.
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Charleston Closed Tight.
Following the orders issued from
Columbia every dispensary in Charleston
was closed. In the same blocks
the blind tigers started in for a rush
business, but before a great while
the constables swarmed down and
nearly all of the big stock purchased
by the tigers was seized. The raiding
was incessant, and drinks are handed
out cautiously. In many establishments
there is no beer to be had, and
in other places the price has taken a
tremendous jump upward.
There is no intimation as to when
the tangle will be cleared and in the
meantime the state is losing big revenues.
It was learned that the orders
to close were issued without the
knowledge of the state chairman,
who was not informed of the affair
until later on. Many of the tigers are
trying to get in shipments of beer
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point in Georgia if the constables can
be eluded.
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New Short Line for Charleston.
The South Carolina people who are
promoting the construction of a ninety
mile line of railway between Wadesboro
and Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
are enthusiastic. It will give
Charleston a short line to the northwest
and to the coal fields.
MRS. HTKiNLEY IS IMPROVING.
Wife of President Able to Sit Up and
Crisis of Her Illness
Is Passed.
A San Francisco dispatch says:
At 8 o'clock Saturday night Mrs. McKinley's
physicians held a consultation,
after which the following bulletin was
given out:
"Mrs. McKinley s physicians report
that she has had a comfortable day.
But there is a slight rise in temperature
tonight."
Secretary Cortelyou said no further
bulletins would be given out unless
unfavorable svmDtoms should develop.
In the event that Mrs. McKinley continues
to improve the president and
his party will prepare to return to
Washington.
Sunday morning Mrs. McKinley's
condition was so far improved that she
was able to sit up a short time. General
Shatter had called on President
McKinley, and while they were talking,
word came down stairs that Mrs.
McKinley was sitting up. The president
at once asked to be excused, and
hurried to the sickroom.
There were many callers at the
Scott residence during the day Sunday.
There was a general feeling that
the crisis had been passed, and that
Mrs. McKinley would continue to gain
strength. No definite date has yet
been decided upon when the president
will start for the national capital, but
it is hoped that Mrs. McKinley will be
able to travel within a few days.
Secretary Long left Sunday morning
for Colorado Springs to visit his
daughter, who is ill.
Sympathy of Royalty.
President McKinley is in receipt of
a cablegram from the king and queen
of England, President Loubet, of
France, and many other potentates inquiring
as to Mrs. McKinley's condition.
Among the callers on President McKinley
was Calvin S. Titus, the first
American soldier to mount the walls
of Pekin, who returned Friday on the
transport Sheridan.
BOTH SIDES SATISFIED.
Employers and Street Car Men at Alhanv
r.iaim to Have Won Fiqht.
As is usual, both sides to the controversy
claim the credit in the settlement
of the big street railroad fight
in Albany, N. Y. From the face of the
agreement it is evident that the striking
men won these concessions:
Increasing night men and extra
men's wages to 20 cents per hour.
Granting men the right of appeal
from a decision of an inspector or the
superintendent to the Traction company's
executive board.
The road to pay any employee for
lost time when suspended and found
not guilty.
Employees permitted to ride on
their own divisions free by showing
their badges.
No discrimination against strikers
who have not committed violence.
The Traction people obtained these
concessions:
That men who were on strike and
committed violence shall not be reinstated
unless proven guiltless.
That the road may hire or discharge
any man without reference to his affiliation
or otherwise with the union.
That no proposition to strike shall
be acted upon until forty-eight hours
has elapsed from the time of notification
and that if a strike is ordered it
shall not take effect until six days.
General Oliver waited for some time
to have Sheriff McCreery notify him
that the strike was ended, but finally
ordered the return of the troops to
their home.
The strike lasted twelve days, and
required the presence of three thousand
members of the national guard
in the city, costing and entailing an
expense to the county of Albany of
over S39.000.
RUMORS BRANDED AS FALSE.
Queen Oraga Not To Be Banished.
King Will Not Resign.
A cable dispatch from Belgrade, Servia,
states that all rumors regarding .
the abdication of King Alexander, the '
resignation of the cabinet and the banishment
of Queen Draga. growing out
of the recent sensational experiences
of the Servian royal family, are declared
to be without foundation.
The tonnage of the mercantile navy
>f Great Britain is almost equal to the
:onnage of the combined navies of all
he six other largest powers.
When the tadpole Is turning into a
frog instead of being happy he feds
that he has & kick coming)
TRIP IS ABANDONED
Serious Illness of Mrs. McKinley
Stops President's Tonr.
GREAT APPREHENSION IS FELT
Grave Condition of Mistress of the
White House Is Made Known
By Her Attending Physician.
A San Francisco special says: Owing
to the very serious character of
Mrs. McKinley's illness, the president
Wednesday definitely decided to abandon
his contemplated northwestern |
tour and to return to Washington direct,
as soon as Mrs. McKinley is able
to stand the Journey.
The gravity of Mrs. McKlnley's condition
has been known to the members
of the president's immediate party for
several days, but had been concealed
in the belief that she would rally, as
she has done so frequently in the past,
and that with a few days of quiet and
rest she would be restored to her normal
condition. But her present illness
has been attended with entirely new
complications, which have not yielded
to treatment, and the president finally
concluded that it was time the public
should be apprised of the true situation.
He is also anxious that the citizens
of the cities and towns along the
planned route of his return trip, who
have made such extensive preparations
for his visit, should receive
prompt notification of the circumstances
which compelled his decision.
A bulletin which Secretary Cortelyou
gave out Wednesday, announcing
the abandonment of the trip, coupled
with another announcement that Mrs.
McKinlcy's condition Tuesday night
was better in some respects, but worse
in others, prepared the way for a bulletin
issued two hours later, that Dr.
Henry Gibbons, of San Francisco, had
been called in consultation with Dr.
Hirschfelder and Dr. Rixey. Ever
since Mrs. McKlnley's arrived at the
Scott residence she has been desperatoiv
ill pxt.reme weakness has
been the most alarming feature of her
condition. Her vitality has been at
low ebb, and stie has seldom spoken
to those about her.
The strain which the president himself
has undergone during the past few
days has been very great. It has been
a personal sacrifice for mm to carryout
his engagements in San Francisco
In order not to disappoint the people,
but he has made it unselfishly.
Mrs. McKinley has taken nothing
but liquid nourishment for several
days, and her extreme weakness excites
much apprehension.
The members of the cabinet called
at the Scott residence Wednesday
night They reported Mrs. McKInley's
condition as unchanged.
When she is conscious she recognizes
the president and asks for him.
She is not regarded as in immediate
danger of dissolution. There is no
abandonment of hope that she will
rally, but m her weakened condition
there could not fail to be apprehension
lest the spark of life might go out
SIX KILLED OUTRIGHT
Careless Miner Causes Disastrous Catastrophe
in West Virginia Pit.
Six miners lost heir lives, five were
fotniiv ininred and three seriously
burned in an explosion at the shaft of
the George Creek Coal and Iron Company,
at Farmington, seven miles west
of Fairmount, W. Va., on the main li?3
of the Baltimore and Ohio Wednesday
morning.
The mine was only recently put into
operation, and about 125 men were employed,
only forty of this number under
ground.
One of the men in the rooms, it is
alleged, smuggled a torch into the
mines as it gives so much better light
than the safety lamps prescribed by
the company, and t? this fact the accident
was due.
Extension from Jessup to Folkston.
The extension of the Plant system
from Jessup to Folkston, Ga., making
twenty-two miles nearer Jacksonville,
will be under way in a few weeks.
TO ENTOMB NAVAL HERO.
The Body of Captain Davis Will Be
Interred in National Cemetery.
The body of Captain Austin Davis,
of the United States Marine corps,
who was killed in battle at Tien Tain
on July 13th, last yeart, left quarantine
in San Francisco Tnursday for Washington,
where the interment will be
in the National cemetery.
Captain Davis was from Atlanta,
Ga., and his rise in the marine corps
was exceedingly rapid. He was regarded
as one of the brightest officers
in the service, and was remarkable
for his bravery. His daring resulted
a his death
JACOB HAAS VICE PRESIDENT.
Jewish Publications Society of America
Elects Its Officers.
The annual meeting of the Jewish
Publications Society, of America, in
session at Philadelphia re-elected the
old officers, including Morris Newber
ger, of Philadelphia, president; Jacob
Haas, of Atlanta, Ga., and Rev. Dr.
Max Heller, of New Orleans, La., honorary
vice presidents.
PENSIONERS ARE DISAPPOINTED.
South Carolina Veterans Will Not Get
that Extra Stipend.
The South Carolina pensioners will
not the present year get the extra $50,000
which the legislature intended to
give them. The comptroller canot pay
out more than the $100,000. Friday
the supreme court filed its decision in
the case brought to test the matter.
The court was unanimous in the judgment.
The opinion setting forth the
rewoni will ho filed later,
BUFFALO SHOW IS DEDICATE!)
Formal Opening of Gates Marked By
Military Parade, Fireworks,
Music and Oratory.
In the presence of a vast concourse
of people, with ceremonial, both conventional
and novel, the Pan-American
exposition at Buffalo, N. Y., was
dedicated formally Monday. The day
began with a parade in which there
were men from nearly every country
in the world, and ended in an
atrial frnm flvlne' hfimhs
and brilliant electrical illumination.
Between the two were the formal exercises
of the dedication, with oratory
that took its theme from the lesson
of the time, prayer for right, music,
song and poetry.
Two thousand troops led the way
and after them were a hundred carriages
with the officials and guests.
Behind them came the concessionaries
from the midway. Western Indians
mingled with the children of
the tropics, the orient and the Mediterranean
and gave the procession its
truest touch of color. They were in
native costume, had a score of artistic
floats and fifteen bands furnished
them music. The entry of the proc^sion
to the exposition grounds at noon
was a magnificent spectacle. The
crowd in the grounds at the time numbered
fully 40,000 and the greater part
of it was massed in the esplanade.
The formal dedicatory services in
the presence of a crowd, limited only
by the size of the hall, were impressive.
. There were strong words for
closer union among the American republics
and the remarks of Vice President
Roosevelt on that point and the
congratulatory telegrams from the
presidents of the American republics
excited the greatest enthusiasm.
All .of the American republics
were represented at the dedication,
and their military attaches and commissioners
were given conspicuous
places in the group of special guests.
Friendly expressions came by cable
from national neighbors, and the local
directors rejoiced in the kindly feelinrr
onH Inforoof chntTTl 1
FOUGHT FOR HER HONOR.
Mrs. Bonine, at Washington, Confesses
to Killing of Clark Ayres.
The mystery attending the killing
of James Seymour Ayres, acensus office
clerk, in the Kenmore hotel in
Washington some days ago, and which
because of the peculiar circumstances
surrounding it, has aroused Washington
more than any tragedy in several
years, was solved Monday by a voluntary
confession from Mrs. Lulu I.
Bonine, a married woman and a guest
at the house, that the three shots
which ended Ayres life had been fired
in a struggle between herself and
Ayres.
Mrs. Bonine, whose husband is a
drummer for the wholesale drug
house of DeWitt & Co., of Chicago,
explained her presence in Ayres room
at 2 o'clock in the morning by saying
that he had come to her room complaining
of a chill and asking for medicine
and had induced her to follow
him to his room to talk over some
matters of difference there had been
between them. She said that she
dressed herself In a wrapper and went
to his room. He had preceded her,
and when she opened the door and
walked in he quickly closed it and informed
her he had enticed her to the
room for his own purpose, and said if
she did not submit to his wishes he
would kill her. Ayres, she said, was
undressed and had a revolver in his
hand and in a struggle for its possession
which ensued immediately after
she entered, it was discharged three
different times, the shots striking
Ayres at each discharge, the last one
proving fatal.
ALIMONY NOT EXCEPTED. ..
Indianapolis Judge Decrees That Husband
Cannot Be Relieved.
Judge Baker, of the United States
circuit court, at Indianapolis, in an
exhaustive opinion handed down Monday,
says that a debt for alimony is
not provable against a bankrupt and
that he cannot be discharged from
paying it In the opinion Judge Baker
says:
"It was incredible that it was the
intention of congress to relieve the
husband from hia duty to serve his
wife and children."
ATLANTA MACHINISTS OUT.
Three Big Plants Cease Operations
as Result of Strike.
Three Atlanta, Ga., machine shops
were affected by the demand of the
machinists for a nine-hour work day,
and as aresult about 100 men are out
on a strike.
The concerns involved are the Van
Winkle Gin and Machine Works, the
DeLoach Milling Company and the Atlanta
Machine Works. The two former
are shut down completely, while
the machine department of the latter
is closed. All of the strikers, with a
few exceptions, are union men.
REBELS STILL IN EVIDENCE.
Detachment of Americans Have Lively
Scrap With Body of Filipinos.
It is unofficially reported from Manila
that a body of rebels, under Angeles,
attacked a detachment of American
troops, supposed to be of the
Twenty-sevemn regimnt, near uasacu, i
in South Camerines province, killing j
two soldiers and one native scout and
taking one soldier prisoner.
PREACHER GOES WRONG.
Sent to Penitentiary for Fraudulent j
Use of the Mails.
At Washington Friday Rev. Liston
D. Bass, recently convicted of using
the mails for purpose to defraud, was
sentenced to t-hree years in the
Moundsville, W. Va., penitentiary, and
to pay fines aggregating $1,000. The
case was appealed. ;
Judge Barnard, in pronouncing sentence,
scathingly denounced the prisoner.
Mr. Bass is the paetor ot two
fhurebefl iQ Virgin!*
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Many Firms Fefase te Accede to
Demands of the Machinists.
NINE-HOUR DAY IS CONTENTION
President of International Union Estimates
That Fifty Thousand
of the Craft Walked Out
on First Day.
Approximately 50,000 machinists
throughout the country struck Monday.
for a nine-hour day, a scale of
wages equal to the present ten-hour
per day scale and other demands.
This is the rough estimate of President
O'Connell, of the International
Association of Machinists, based on
the telegraphic advices that reached
him daring the day from the machinists'
headquarters in the various
cities.
The strike thus far has not extended
to the allied trades, save in one or
two instances, as at Scranton, Pa.,
where men in a part of the allied
trades are out. No machinists engaged
in government work are affected.
This is due to the fact that on
such work an eight-hour day scale already
prevails.
Railroad machinists, as a rule, are
not involved in the strike, though the
men on several roads are out. The
Central Vermont shop machinists at
St. Albans, numbering probably 200,
have struck. The Lehigh Valley railroad
machinists at Buffalo, Sayre,
Wilkesbarre and Elmira are out, aggregating
about 500 all told. The
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
men at Buffalo, Scranton Wilkesbarre
and intermediate points are out The
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe men
also are out The strike order, however,
does not apply to the railroads
generally.
The situation Monday afternoon
was summarized by President O'Connell
in the following statement:
"We are demanding a nine-hour day
universally throughout the trade, with
an increase of wages sufficient to overcome
the loss of the hour in time;
regulation of the apprenticeship system
and the number that shall be employed
in accordance with the number
of journeyman machinists employed;
agreements as to arbitration of all
disputes that may arise in the future;
the right of the machinists to be represented
by a committee, and agreements
that there shall be absolutely
no discrimination against machinists
because of their membership in the
union.
"From the present indications and
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U1C Otat^Ui^UW ?UWV4V^ m
ters at the various- points the orders
| are being generally obeyed and in
! larger numbers than was anticipated.
In certain cases where only a few
hundred were expected to be involved
the indications are that the number
will be increased 50 per cent The
number of firms signing indicate that
in localities where the agreements are
being made the strike will not last
over a few days. In other localities,
where a larger number of men are being
involved, I look forward to an adjustment
being reached within the
present week."
Following is a statement of the
number of men out at ? important
points:
Hartford, Conn., 1,000; Ansola and
Derby, Conn., 500; Hamilton, O., 1,000;
Buffalo, 1,200; Scranton, 2,500;
Cincinnati, completely tied up and 3,000
men out; Connorsville, Ind., 200;
Palestine, Tex., 200; York, Pa., 300;
East Orange, N. J., 300; Oswego, N.
Y., 300; 'Norfolk, Va., all shops out,*
500 men.
Telegraphic reports to Mr. O'Connell
show the following as the number
of firms which signed the agreement
Monday:
Kenosha, Wis., all; Milwaukee, five;
Wilmington, Del., 2; Toledo, 1; Auburn,
N. Y., all; Anaconda, all;^Ddnver,
all; St Louis, all; New Orte^s^
all; Danbury, Conn., all; Pittsburg,
Pa., 90 per cent; Franklin, Pa., all;
Youngstown, O., all; Cleveland, 15;
Rochester, N. Y., 90 per cent; Buffalo,
50 per cent; Niagara Falls, all; Tonawanda,
all; Trenton, N. J., 75 per
cent; Baltimore, 11; Philadelphia, 25;
New Haven, 8.
PROPOSE A BIG BONO ISSUE.
Report That Union Pacific Will Offer
$60,000,000 New Securities.
It was rumored in Wall street, New
York. Monday, that the Union Pacific
company proposed to issue an additional
$60,000,000 of convertible 4 per
cent bonds to finance recent purchase
of stocks of other companies.
New York Contributes $53,370.
A grand total of $53,370 has been
subscribed through the offices of the
joint committee of the New York
chamber of commerce and merchants'
asociation for the relief of sufferers
from fire in Jacksonville, Fla.
FEVER FUND DONATED.
Jacksonville To Have Use of Long
Idle Surplus Contributions.
At acksonville, Fla., Monday, Circuit
Judge Call granted an order
turning over to the relief association
the sum of $19,880.03, which
has been in the hands of the Jacksonville
Auxiliary Sanitary Association.
This sum is a surplus of contributions
to jellow fever sufferers during the
epidemic of 1888.
NEW YORKERS ARE LIBERAL.
Relief Fund for Jacksonville Reaches
Close to Fifty Thousand Dollars.
The total subscription to the New
York Merchant's Association and Chamber
of Commerce Jacksonville
relief fund up to Thursday afternoon
was $49,552.25.
An appeal has been made by the local
relief committees to pastors of all
churches of Greater New York asking
them to co-operate in raising funds
for paying laborers for removing the I
debris. The theatrical managers alto 1
bar* Mi
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Great Demonstration Marks tie
Christening of Battleship. 1
PRESIDENT MAKES AN ADDRESS_|j
Imposing Naval Pageant Was Feature
of Ceremonies?Miss Barber $3
Rendered Part Assigned to v
Mrs. McKinley.
A San Francisco special sayat?
Fortunately Mrs. McKinley condition |||
Saturday permitted President McKinley
to attend the launching of the bat-' .j/Jj
tleship Ohio from the yards of the
Union Iron Works. To witness the
launching of the ship named in honor of
his native state, was the real object
of the president's long trip across '
the continent, and was the event
which has attraoted to the Pacific
coast the governors of three states, ss<2
the Ohio congressional delegation, sev- 3
eral United States senators and maay^jajl
other notable and distinguished peo- JjPi
pie. Dramatic and picturesque IB
was the sight of 14,000 tons of steel ^
sliding into the full tide of San Fran- .
cisco bay, it was not so splendid and :
magnificent as the great naval pa-' ^^Mr
geant which accompanied, nor as ;
foundly impressive as the greeting
tended to the president by the 4,060 p ^
employees of the ship yards. .
When the president left the siefc
room of his wife every arrangement
had been made to notify him on
instant of any change for the worse^jg >%
in her condition. The physician SSr-|?
sured him that there was no indtafe*^ ^
tion of a setback, but at his request ^
telegraphic communications wero^l jjf
made made at the wharf and at the ||
snip yaru, suu bare iruiu uie umg up fgsgj *>*3.
was on the water, he was not a mlnute
away from direct communication
with the Scott residence. He wttl ^
driven to the wharf in a closed
riage, escorted by a squad of mounted # 3
police. The cabinet and other diitiafvM--i|?
guished guests were already aboard | ^
the transport tug Slocum, which waa^
to convey the party te the Union
Works, two "miles up the bay, when he|| m
The president's flag, an eagle and|fl
shield on a blue' field, was flying fToa^ ^g^
the main mast, and the union jack }
j was at the bow as he stepped smiling ^
upon the gangway to the accompanist -'Xjjfi
j ment of the cheers of the thousands ^ la
who blackened the neighboring pier^lg ^
heads. Then began the sail over the~/|.
shining waters of the bay. It proved , Jg
to be a triumphal journey, the like of J '%
which has not been witnessed in this ' ->;%j
country since Admiral Dewey, upon ^
his return from the Philippines; sailsraj M
up the Hudsbn on the Olympia. s|
Every craft in the harbor was deck-i,|j , M
?d out in gayest attire, and the city in * ^
the background was a perfect mound 0 ^
of waving flags. Every wharf on the^M^
sea 8wanned with people. Up near ^ M
the ship yards the grim warships of9
the Pacific squadron were swinging^l^l
at anchor with streams of signal, flags^ v |i
extending fore and aft of the peateja ;^
from prow to taff-raiL ||
The president and his party
to a stand, where the representative^ ^
of the 4,500 employees of the Unions.
Iron Works, in a neat speech, in whicl^ ;
he asked a heartfelt blessing uponth? ^
head of the president and expressed^;5|||
tender sympathy for his suffering^
wife, presented the president, as a tO" :4.
ken of the esteem of the workmen^
with a gold plate, engraved with a^| ' ^
suitable inscription.
The president's response aroused -Ja " >
?V on*Iiii?loDm Ua tnlft Ilia ATI (11
lUUWt cuuiumagin. aav wo t .
cnce of his friendship for the working- ,;v? ' '
men during his entire public career, J&a ,j,
and touched the hearts of the surging^
crowd before him as he spoke elo-.?*
quently of the patriotic response ||
which California had made during the j
Spanish war. %
The ceremonies were simple but/^ ^
significant There was the formal^
exchange of acceptances on the part :
of the government and then the tide ^
having reaclft^ts flood, the word was
given, and Miss Barber pressed the gi
button. Miss
tie of California champagne, and ?P;
12:26 p. m. the big battleship took her ^ v
first dip into the sea.
Description of the Ohio. .
The Ohio is a sister ship of tlfe ; j V
Maine, now building at the works of ||
the William Cramp & Sons Ship and I
Engine Building Company, and of the'l
Missouri, building at the yard of the , :j C
Newport News Ship Building and Dry :||
Dock Company. ;
The hull, which is divided like thoser^jg
of the most recent battleships, is built . /
of steel and is unsheathed. It is 389 feet
long on the load water line, T2k
feet 2 1-2 inches extreme breadth, and~*1?j|
at a mean draft of 23 feet 6 inches, dl?^-:^?j
places' 12,230 tons.
The main battery of the ship coa-_-c|
slsts of four twelgs-inch breech-loading
rifles, placed in two balanced tur- |
rets, and sixteen five-inch rapid firing ^
Chaffee to "Evacuate" Pekln.
General Chaffee, at midnight Sgtur- ^
day, issued his farewell order, ending %
the American relief expedition in Chi- p||:
na. The American troops will within
a few days.leave for Manila.
Townley to be Courtmartialed. & ^
Lieutenant Richard H. Townlefr, a
retired officer of the navy, will be * ^ 5
courtmartialed for alleged participar ; :
tion in the commissary frauds at Mfe'
nila.
COM PAN
Atlanta Manager
Company Appeals ;|
Monday morning J. T. . *
Atlanta, rormer manager
ern department of the Imperiarcns^^^||M
%nce Company, of London, had twa,;?||
garnishments served on the Atlanta
National bank, one for $15,000 and an-v^jfl A
other for $20,000. The garnishments'Sj fl
were served on account of two at- ' <%&wk
tachment against the Imperial Insur- H
ance Company sworn out by Mr. Dargan,
who claims that the company If , ?
Indebted to tola. 1
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