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ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG. S. G. THURSDAY". FEBRUARY 20.1902. ONE DOLL Alt PElt YEAR.
5 UNCERTAIN IS TAFT
Civil Governor of Philippines
Short on Suggestions.
IS PUZZLED OVER SITUATION
Tells Senate Committee That He Real^
ly Don't Know What Is Best
Government Policy For
- > the Islands.
L. A Washington special says: The
hearing of Governor Taft on the Philippine
question by the senate committee
Saturday on the Philippines
began with a series of questions by
Senator Petterson in regard to the fitr\f
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Patterson asked whether the native
population on which the voting franchise
is bestowed could not be trust'
ed to do jury duty. The governor replied
in the negative, saying they are
at so used to corruption in the admlnis
tration of justice that they could not
be trusted.
. Referring to the petition of the federal
party, Governor Taft said all the
^ cases of imprisonment referred to
there were for military and civil of%
fenses. Practically there are no civil
prosecutions for political offenses at
this time. Governor Taft said that
the original draft of the federal party
platform had been submitted to the
commission, and that the declaration
for statehood was then more explicit
than was ultimately adopted.
"My recollection," he said, "is that
we said to the representatives of the
party that this must be far in the future,
and that we could make no promise
one way or another."
"Is not the commission responsible
for the formation of the federal party?"
asked Senator Dubois.
"No, it was not," Governor Taft responded.
Senators Patterson, Carrnarck and
Culberson asked numerous Questions.
based upon tbe merorial of the federal
party calculated to bring out Governor
Taft's idea as to what, if any, promise
should be made to the Filipinos in the
way of government for the future.
Replying to an inquiry from Mr. Patterson
as to the denunciation in the
menforial of a colonial form of government,
Governor Taft said the memorialists
mean just what they say, that
they favor ultimate statehood.
Replying to Mr. Carmack as to the
wisdom of making the Philippines an
integral part of the United States, the
witness said the condition in the Philippines
today is such that the restructon
of the constitution of the United
States cannot be safely extended to
those islands.
Governor Taft advocated the ?stablishment
of a stable government for
the present, with the understanding
; that at some time in the future the
Americans and the Filipinos could
reach an agreement as to what should
-be done in the way of government, er
. in maintaining relations; "but," he
said, "whether the islands should havo
their independence, whether they
should be given a quasi independence
or whether they should be made
a state of the union is so far in the fu;U.
ture that I have reached no conclusion.
"The ereAt evil of the nresent tlma
with references to the Philippines la
the current discussion of their future
so long before that can be fixed."
Replying to a question by Senator
Carmack, he said he -would not favor a
promise even of a form of government
such as is given to the territories of
the United States. He also said he was
opposed to extending the constitution
to those islands.
In reply to a number of questions
by Senator McComas, based upon th?
democratic substitute for the Philippine
tariff bill, Governor Taft said that
to turn the government of the archipelago
over to the Filipinos as therein
proposed would, in his opinion, result
in anarchy.
He had no doubt, however, that the
Filipinos could form a government ag
they had done under Aguinaldo.
ABDUCTORS ARE ATTACKED.
Brigands Fight Brigands For Possession
of Miss Stone and Ransom.
Referring to the reported engagements
between brigands for the possession
of Miss Stone, the Constantinople
correspondent of the Echo de ParIs
says:
"The captors of Miss Stone and Madame
Tsilka have been attacked by another
band of brigands, seeking to se
cur^the prisoners in order to get the
ren^m.
"Twenty men on both sides were
killed during the fight, but the original
captors of the missionary were victorious."
STAR CHAMBER METHODS.
Is Accusation Hurled at Mr. Lodge By
Mr. Patterson.
A sharp clash occurred in the senate
Wednesday between Mr. Lodge
and Mr. Patterson over the admission
of representatives of the press to the
Investigation which the Philippines
committee is conducting. The Coloredo
senator desired that all newspaper
men be admitted to the hearings,
declaring that as now conducted they
were of a star chamber character.
TOLSTOI REPORTED DYING.
World-Famous Reformer and Novelist
Suffers Serious Relapse.
A St. Petersburg cablegram states
that Leo Tolstoi has suffered a relapse
and is dying,
t According to a dispatch to the Associated
Press from London February 10
Couht Toilstoi is suffering from heart
failure and inflammation of the lung*,
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' POWERS ARE SLILL GROWLING
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i In Regard to Their Attitude Toward
Your Uncle Sam Before the
Hispano-American War.
A Washington special says: In
view of the statements and contradictions,
more or less of an official nature,
: coming from the principal European
capitals respecting the attitude of the
powers Individually toward the United
I States just preceding the SpanishAmerican
war, officials at the capital
feel a natural reluctance to being
drawn into the controversy, and it is
with difficulty that official statements
may be had on this subject.
One fact remains, namely, that the
European ambassadors and ministers
in Washington called upon President
McKinley April 7, 1S93, in the effort
I to prevent war.
The matter now in controversy is
what happened after that call and the
question at issue is as presented in
the latest phase of the European dispatches,
did Lord Pauncefcle under- j
take to secure the support of the other j
European powers in an attempt to forcible
restraint, upon the United
States?
Lie Given to Germany.
A London dispatch says: The under
secretary for the foreign office,
Lord Cranborne, replying in the house
cf commons Tuesday to a question of
Henry Norman, liberal, who asked
whether the government's attention
had been called to the statement in
the German press, and alleged to have
received official confirmation at Berlin,
to the effect that Great Britain,
April 14, 1S9S, through her ambassador
at Washington, Lord Pauncefote,
proposed a fresh note, in which the
powers should declare that Europe did
net regard tho armed intervention of
the United States in Cuba as justifiable,
and that in consequence of Germany's
refusal to accept this proposal,
the step was abandoned, said:
."No. sir. Her late majesty's government
never proposed through her majesty's
ambassador or otherwise any
declaration adverse to the action of
the United States in Cuba. On the
contrary, her late majesty's government
declined to assent to any such
proposal."
Lord Cranborne's answer to Mr. Norman
was received with rounds of applause.
M- Norman later said to a reprisen
tative cf the Associated Press:
"I am perfectly satisfied, and of
course implicitly believe that statement
of the British ministers."
John Redmond, Irish leader, commented
on Lord Cranborne's statement
as follows: .
"That the feeling which existed in
[ America that England did so much for
[ the United States at the time of tfie
J war is all humbug. To my personal
knowledge the majority of fTTe members
cf the house of commons were
strongly anti-American in those days.
I have no doubt Germany has evidence
to prove her assertions."
SAFES WERE FIREPROOF.
Vast Sums Are Recovered From Ruins
In Paterson, N. J.
Money and securities said to amount
to $3,000,000 w^re recovered from the
two huge vaults under the ruins of the
: Frist National bank at Paterson, J. J.,
Monday afternoon. Books, papers,
bullion and paper money were found
uninjured. Guarded by files of soldiers
with fixed bayonets, the treasure
was conveyed to the Paterson
savings institution In . a two-horse j
a ray.
Buried beneath the ruins of the city
hall were found the safes which belonged
to the comptroller's office and
in these also the papers, legal docu
ments and public records were found
j unharmed. The safes of the Passaic
i Water Company, under the ruins of
the building, which stood at Nos. 107
and 109 Washington street, were destroyed
by the fire and the only part
of their contents recovered was $500
in silver.
Conservative opinion is now inclined
to cut $2,000,000 from the aggregate
! loss of $10,000,000 given out immediately
after the conflagration, and $8,i
000,000 probably will be accepted finally
as the actual cost of the fire. It
was stated Tuesday that the insurance
amounted to between $4,000,000
and $5,000,000.
GEORGIA ROAD ACCEPTS.
Assents Without Conditions to State
Depot Proposition.
Upon his return to Atlanta from
Charleston Wednesday Governor Candler
found awaiting him a letter from
General Manager T. K. Scott, of the
Georgia railroad, accepting the state's
proposal with reference to the building
of a new depot on the state's property
in Atlanta.
The Georgia railroad accepts the
state's proposal practically uncondi
tionally. The only provisions are the
formal ones relating to the acceptance
by the other roads.
WIFE DID THE SHOOTING.
Supposed Dying Policeman Explodes
"Theory" of Atlanta Detectives.
Policeman James M. Duncan, in the
Grady Hospital at Atlanta, has made
a full statement about his wife shooting
him between the eyes Saturday
night. He became conscious Monday
morning and was able to talk. He
said his wife did the shooting and not
his son, and he also says the shot
was fired by Mrs. Duncan after she
had threatened to kill him.
Negro Deserters Pay Penalty.
The Philippine mail which arrived
it the war department in Washington
Thursday brought the records cf the
curtmartial trial and hanging of two
ncn of troop F, Ninth cavalry (col
orcd).
Relief For Tennessee College.
A lull appropriating $6,000 for the
relief of Carson and Newman college
at Jefferson City, Tenn., was passed (
by the senate Thursdays
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I Six Dead and Six Wounded.
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BURNED OUT OF BARRICADE
Desperate Gang of Mountaineers Defy
Arrest and Battle to a Finish
Near Middlesboro,
Kentucky.
Six men are dead and as many more
are dying as the result of a battle between
officers from Middlesboro and
mountaineers, says a special to the
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bunc from its Middlesboro, Ky., corresrcndcnt.
The battle, which was one of the
most desperate affairs of its kind in
the history of mountain warfare, occurred
between 4 and 6 o'clock Wednesday
afternoon at Lee Turner's
"Quarter House" saloon, 3 1-2 miles
I from Middlesboro.
Last month Turner had some mules
and other goods levied on in payment
j for a debt, and a few nights ago, it is
alleged, he, with others, went to Virginia,
where the property had been taken,
secured what was formerly his,
and returned to the "Quarter House."
Wednesday Deputy Sheriff William
Thompson summoned a posse of ten
or fifteen men for the purpose of arresting
Turner at his "Quarter House"
saloon. The Louisville and Nashville
refused to convey the officers to the
so loon, and they walked through the
mountains.
Turner had heard that an attempt
would be made to arrest him, and he
and his men, fifteen in number, gave
the officers a warm reception.
The saloon is well suited for an attack
like this. It is built of huge logs
and is surrounded by a 30-foot fence,
la which loop holc-s are cut, so that
the inmates can shoot outsiders. Turner's
surrender was demanded.
His reply was a round of shot. Char
ley C. Cecil, cf Middlesboro, was riding
in plain view of the Turner gang.
Seme one raised a window of the
log dive and shot Cecil, who fell dead.
Instantly the man at the window
fell back, pierced by a half dozen
bullets.
Then the firing began in earnest,
the officers scattering and hiding behind
trees and rocks, and pouring a
galling fire into the mountain fortress.
In the fight John Doyle, a former
railroad man, was badly wounded, perhaps
fatally, and Simon Bean, another
ex-"flllrcader, was shot in tfcd hand.
The town men gathered closer
around Turner's place, undaunted at
the shots which whizzed around them.
As soon as Cecil was killed his companions
determined to burn Turner's
rendezvous, and in the midst of the
battle a fellow applied a torch to an
exposed side cf the building.
A few minutes later the building was
in flames. Seceral of the mountaineers
came to the window and were
immediately shot down.
The posse surrounded the barricade,
determined to let none escape. Lee
Turner and several of his friends, however,
in some manner escaped, and is
now at Mingo mines, eight miles from
Middlesboro. several or nis men perished
in the flames.
CHARLESTON REASSURED.
President Wires Hopes of Visiting
Exposition at Some Future Date.
President Wagener, of the Charlesten
Exposition Company, received the
following dispatch from President
Roosevelt Wednesday:
"Groton, Mass., February 12.?President
F. W. Wagener, Charleston.?
Please accept from Mrs. Roosevelt and
myself and in behalf of those who
would have accompanied us to the exposition,
hearty congratulations and
good wishes. We look forward to the
pleasure of visiting Charleston and the
exposition at some future date..
(Signed.)
"THEODORE ROOSEVELT."
PRESIDENT IS JOYOUS.
Returns to the White House From
Anxious Visit to Groton.
President Roosevelt returned to the
whito house Friday afternoon in a
very happy frame of mind, after five
j anxious days at the bedside of his boy.
In his home-coming the president had
a chance to make three short rear car
speeches to the crowd at Worcester,
! Woonsockct and Providence.
In each he assured the waiting hundreds
that "Ted" was all right and
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j crowd seemed as joyous as the presij
dent and cheered vociferously.
Marquis of Dufferln Dead.
The marquis of Dufferin, former
governor general of Canada and exvicerov
of India, is dead. He passed
away Tuesday at Clandeboye Castle,
Ireland. His son, who succeeds him,
married Miss Davis, of New York.
J Dr. Rixey Takes Charge of Office,
I At Washington Tuesday, Dr. P. M.
j Rixey, the new surgeon general of
the navy, entered upon the duties of
I that office.
HENNERY TO DEWEY.
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Alleged Letter of Apology for GermanErrors
at Manlld.
It is said in Washington that a
lengthy letter has been forwarded to
Admiral Dewey by Prince Henry, of
Prussia through a warm personal
friend. It expresses the kindest personal
regard and is in a way an apology
from Germany to the admiral.
Prince Henry admits that the Germans
made errors at Manila, and that j
Admiral Dewey waa right ond acted
beet it> all t.higgg.
iiifi BOWLDER SMASHES TRAIN.'
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Ceven Men Met Instant Death In Pe- !
culiar Wreck?A Score More Are
More or Less Injured.
Seven men were killed and a,t least
fourteen .were seriously injured by a
huge bowlder, weighing fifteen tons,
crashing into the caboose o? a work
train on the Choctaw, Oklahoma and
Gulf railroad twenty miles west of
Little Itock, Ark., at 10 o'clock Friday
morning. The work .* train was
headed west, the engine; pushing six
cars and a caboose. As u was passing
along the track under the high bluffs
bordering the river two miles west of
little Maumclle, the crew saw a heavy
rock rolling witn awiui velocity uuwu
the steep declivity, having been detached
from the hillside by the rains.
The train was going slowly, but was
almost upon the rock when it struck
the track. Engineer Nazor reversed
his engine at once, but it was so close
upon the obstacle that the train struck
it with almost full force. The caboose
was at the head of the train, and was
shivered into splinters. Most of the
men who were killed and injured were
in the caboose.
There was a crew of fiftyrfour men,
white and \olored, and they were going
to a point further up the road to
clear a slight wreck. There were just
back of the caboose three Cars of
sand, and many of the men were buried
underneath the heap of sand
which was thrown forward by the terrific
impact. Six men are known to
have been killed outright. Three were
left on the scene and three were
removed to Little Rock on the train
that was dispatched to the scene as
soon as the news could be sent to the
city. Fifteen injured were carried to
Little Rock and are now at St. Vincent
infirmary. One of the most desperately
injured died on the way to
the hospital from the depot.
It is believed there are others killed
or burled under the sand at the scene
of the wreck, as there are several
missing, and as yet are unaccounted
for. A crew of workmen arc clearing
the wreck and looking for the bodies.
FREIGHTS IN COLLISION.
Three Men Killed, Others Injured and
Cars Demolished.
A special from Altoona, Pa., says:
Three men killed, four probably fatally
and two seriously injured, one
freight train a complete wreck and another
nearly so, are the results of an
accident Friday morning on the Pennsylvania
railroad on the steep grade
a few miles above the Horseshoe
curve.
Control of the second section of its
eastbound train was lost soon after
the other entered the tunnel and two
miles west of Allegrippus it crushed
into the rear of the first section. Ten
cars, the caboose and two engines
were completely wrecked.
DUMONT'S BALLOON COLLAPSED.
Flying Machine "Lands" Aeronaut In
the Sea, But Rescue Was Effected.
A dispatch from Monaco, France
says: Santos Dumont's dirigible bal
loon collapsed at sea Friday afternoon.
Dumont was rescued unhurt.
The aeronaut started at 2:30 p. m.,
and was proceeding in the direction of
Cape Martin. Yvhen opposite the Cahino
at Monte Carlo a rent occurred
in the balloon and in less than ten
minutes all the gas had escaped and
the balloon fell into the sea.
Several boats, including the Prince
of Monaco's launch, were following
the balloon and Santos Dumont was
rescued. The balloon sank.
PHILANTHROPIST KILLS HIMSELF
One-Time Wealthy Chicagoan Sukides
to Hide Poverty.
At Chicago Friday Peter Buschwah,
a pioneer real estate dealer, was found
dead in his office. The body sat upright
in a chair writh the feet resting
on a desk near by.
When the door was opened eight
gas jets were found to be open and the
police therefore claim that Mr. Buschwah
committed suicide. The deceased
at one time was possessed of a fortune,
but of late years is said to have
given it away in charities he could illafford.
VENABLES WIN SUIT.
Government Must Pay Atlanta Firm
$6,014.60 on a. Contract.
The Venable Construction Company,
in its suit against the national government
for $9,9S1.07 for fortification
work on Tybee island, done during the
latter nineties, was awarded $0,014.60
by Judge Newman in the federal court
at Atlanta Tuesday.
In November, 1896, when Captain
Oberlin Carter was the engineer in
charge, the Venable Construction Com...
xt .
pany entered Into a contract wun uie
government to build certain fortification
works known as gun emplacement,
for which they were never paid.
INJURIOUS TO THE YOUNG.
Frank James Secures Restraining Order
Against Theatrical Company.
Frank James, who at one time was
a member cf the famous James boys
gang, secured a temporary injunction
in the circuit court at Kansas City restraining
a theatrical company now
playing at a local theatre from presenting
the play, "The James Beys In
Missouri." Mr. James says his main
objection to the play is that it is inju
rious to the youth cf the country.
BOGUS BUTTER BILL.
House Passes Measure to Regulate
Manufacture of Oleomargarine.
The house Wednesday passed the
oleomargarine bill. There was no division
on the final passage, the real
test of strength having been made on
a motion to recommit, which was defeated
by a majority of 34.
Tilb provision to require the inspectlfi?8
and branding of renovated
45"b'frh wjifc adopted In committee
WILL SEE ROOSEVELT
Boer Representative Is Sent Over
From The Hague.
BEARS LETTER FROM KRUGER
In Person, Dr. Mueller Will Hard
This Document to the President.
Boers to Begin Campaign
Here Amor.g Us.
A cable dispatch from Brussels,
Belgium, says: The plan of campaign
drawn up by Dr. Mueller, the former
consul of the Orange Free State in
Holland, who is now on his way to
New York with dispatches from the
Boer delegates in Europe to President
Roosevelt, includes the formation of
two standing committees, one more
or less political, to include the proBoer
senators and representatives
and other prominent men who, It is
claimed, have already promised their
co-operation. The other and larger
body will be chiefly concerned in th8
collection and forwarding of money
ifor the Boer cause.
The Boers in Brussels allege that
there has beer, considerable difficulty
heretofore in accounting for all the
ifioney subscribed, and that not all of
it has reached its destination.
Br. Mueller will be president of the
finance committee and will remain in
the United States so long as necessary.
He is entrusted with a letter
from Mr. Kruger to President Roosevelt,
the joint production of Dr.
Leyds and the other Boer delegates,
but which Mr. Kruger approved and
nigned.
Dr. Mueller is charged to personally
hand this letter to President Roosevelt,
whose permission to publish it
will be asked.
After a discussion, in which the
opinion of the Boer delegates was
considerably divided, Mr. Kruger and
Dr. Leyds convinced the others that
it was not wise, in view of the reply
of the British minister, Lord Lansdowne,
to the note of the Netherlands
on the subject of peace in South Afm
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ain to open telegraphic communication
with the Boer leaders in the field.
WHITE AND YELLOWALLIANCE.
John Bull and Japanese Government
Forrr. Friendly Compact That
Causes Great Surprise.
An important parliamentary paper
was issued at London Tuesday night
giving the terms of a practicaal alliance
between Great Britain and Japan
for the preservation of China and Korea.
The paper covers a dispatch
sent by Lord Lansdowne, the secretary
of state for foreign affairs, January
30, to the British minister at Tokio,
Sir Claude M. MacDonald, and
comprises a signed copy of the agreement.
In explanation the papers say the
agreement may be regarded as an outcome
of the events of the past two
years. Throughout the boxer troubles
Great Britain and Japan had been in
close and uninterrupted communica
tion and actuated by similar views.
"We each desire," says Lord Lansdowne,
"that the Integrity and independence
of the Chinese empire
should be preserved and that there
should be no disturbance of the territorial
status quo, either in China or
the adjoining regions."
The agreement is signed by Lord
Lansdcwne and Baron Hayashi, the
Japanese minister to Great Britain.
These ministers so well kept the
secret that the paper issued after parliament
had adjourned for the night,
announcing the first important alliance
between a western and a yellow
race, comes as a startling surprise to
the public, and although the idea of
an alliance with Japan is likely to
meet with general approval, the outcome
of this sensational departure
will be anticipated with no little anxiety.
It is regarded as a direct move
against Russia
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.
Statement Showing Their Value for
the Month of January.
The monthly statement of the imports
.and exports of the United
States for January, 1902, shows as
follows:
Merchandise imports, $79,426,146;
increase as compared with January,
191, $10,000,000; exports, $126,023,- !
217; decrease, $7,300,000.
Gold imports, $1,404,787; decrease,
$2,800,000; exports. $1,973,675; decrease,
$6,300,000.
Silver imports, $2,127,681; decrease,
$1,000,000; exports, $4,509,213; decrease.
$280,000.
STONE RANSOM PAID.
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Question of Old Lady's Liberation Still
a Matter of Conjecture.
The state department has received
cable advices confirming the report
that the ransom money for Miss Stone
has been paid to the brigand captors.
Ic is not known when her r Tease will
occur, but It is understood that the
brigands have made a condition that
they shall have a period of a week or
ten days in which to make sure of
their safe retreat before the prisoner
is delivered up.
TUSCALOOSA'S LIQUOR SALES.
January Report of Dispensary Business
Made Public.
The dispensary at Tuscaloosa, Alahas
made its first monthly report before
the mayor and aldermen.
The total cash sales for the month of
January were $6,789.05. The largest
day's sales were $547.45, on January
25, the smallest day's sales being Jan
uary 1, $91.10, or an average daily
csiee for th? month of $251.47;
I NINE MEN KNOWN TO BE DEAD.
Clash Between Posse and Mountaineers
More Fatal Than First
Reports Indicated.
Later advices from Middlesboro,
Ky. .regarding the bloody battle between
a sheriff's posse and a gang
of mountaineers, states that although
the scene of the fight between the
sheriff's posse and Lee Turner's men
j is less than four miles from MiddlesI
boro, it is still impossible to ascertain
j the exact casualties on the Turner
I side. It is known that nine men, all
toid, are dead, but it is not known
definitely how many men were in the
log cabin, designated in first reports
as a saloon, when the officers made
the attack and burned it, and it may !
be that several were killed or wound- !
ed and wero consumed in the flames. I
Those who escaped into the Cumber
land mountains are still defiant. The j
dead are:
Deputy Sheriff Charles Cecil Posseman
John Doyle, and the following
mountaineers: Charles Dye, a ne- 1
gro; Marsh Wilson, Perry Watson, '
Frank Johnson, bartender; Mike
Welch, Jim Prado, Joe Hopper.
There are reports of wounded Turner
men being taken care of in the
mountains.
Fight Caused By Mules.
A month ago some mules owned by 1
Turner were levied upon because ot
a debt due Giles Colson. A week ago ;
Turner, with a bodyguard, went to !
Virginia, where the mules had been
taken, and regained them. While escaping,
Moore McCreary, one of Turner's
hands, was mortally wounded.
Wednesday afternoon Deputy Sheriff j
Thompson, of Bell county, swore in a j
posse of fifty citizens of Middlesboro j
to arrest Turner and the men impli- |
cated in the Virginia raid.
Turner heard of this and gathered
the mountaineers into his fortress for
his defense.
When the pos6e arrived a demand
for surrender was refused and firing
began at once. Deputy Sheriff Cecil
was killed In front of Turner's gato.
John Doyle, a member of the posse,
endeavored to secure Cecil's body and
was shot dead.
Enraged by this the posse set fire
to the wooden iortress. The flames
spread rapidly and a steady stream of
bullets was poured into the barricade,
resulting In the known deaths of seven
other men. Finally a number of
Turner's men fled to the mountains.
Trouble Is expected, however, before
any arrests are made on the charge
of murdering Cecil and Doyle. At
last accounts Lee Turner, with his
brother, "The General," and a large
force, were patrolling the district
around the ruins of the quarter house
and will allow no one from Middlesboro
to pass to the Mingo mines or
elsewhere. Meantime the officers are
reticent as to their next move.
"TED OUT OF THE WOODS."
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Such Is Joyful Remark of President
Regarding His Boy.
President Roosevelt left Groton.
Mass., for Washington Thursday afternoon
on a special train. As the
thaln started, the people at the station
cheered lustily and the president
bowed his thanks from the platform.
Just before his depature President
Roosevelt, accompanied by Dr. Lambert,
went over to the Powell cottage,
the newspaper headquarters, to personally
meet the reporters and correspondents
who had been in Groton
since Sunday. He was in extremely
good spirits as he shook each man by
the hand and said a hearty word to
each. He said:
"I want to thank you, boys, for the
consideration which you have shown
myself and family and for all the
courtesies which have been extended
to me by the press. There has been
such a sudden change in Ted that he
has come up all of a sudden, and he
is now out of the woods."
Continuing, the president said:
"Alice will come over from Washington
tomorrow to take my place, to a
certain extent, while Mrs. Roosevelt
will remain here perhaps ten days
more. Then, when Ted is in condition
she will take him to the white
house for awhile, but he will return
here and continue his studies."
RABID RACE PREJUDICE.
Whitecaps In Indiana Notify Farmers
Not to Hire Negroes.
At Wheatland, Ind., there is a negro
settlement. The negroes work for
white farmers. All are quiet and inoffensive,
but there is a prejudice
against them. The folowlng notices,
signed "Fire Bugs," were found posted
and have produced a sensation:
"Notice is hereby given that any
man who employs negro labor after
the 1st of March, or harbors, leases or
rents lands to any negro, their houses
will be burned after the 1st day of
April."
TALKS ON GOODj ROADS.
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convention at unancsiuri ttcii /-iit.tilled
?y Exposition Patrons.
The National Good Roads Convention
began its sessions in Charleston
Thursday.
The exposition patrons listened to
addresses on highway building and
relative subjects by Martin Dodge, of
the department of agriculture at
Washington; M. A. Hayes, of the
Southern railway; E. L. Tessier, of the
Charleston exposition, and W. W.
Croshv. nf Baltimore.
REDUCES CAPITAL STOCK.
Cotton Duck Corporation Will Scale
Down Many Millions.
At a meeting of the stockholders of
the United States Cotton Duck Corpoporation
held Friday In Jersey City
;:he recommendation of the directors
;o reduce the capitalization of the corporation
from $50,000,090 to $30,000,oqq
adopted ?
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ROAST FOR FLUNKEYS
representative Wheeler Creates
Sensation in the Honse.
ANGLO=MANIACS ARE FLAYED
Embassy to Coronation and Reoeption
Planned For Visit of Prince
Henry Savagely Attacked
By Kentuckian.
The monotony cf a private pension
day in the house was enlivened Friday
by a very sensational speech
from Mr. Wheeler, cf Kentucky, in denunciation
of what he denominated
"fiunkeyisiu" to foreign countries. He
took the recent statements emanating
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the attitude of Great Britain during
the Spanish war as a text for a wholesale
attack upon the trend of our recent
diplomacy. In the course of his
remarks he severely scored Secretary
Hay, and declared that if Lord Pauncefote
had sought, as was alleged, to
circumvent us during the war of
1S9S, the sooner he was shipped across
the seas the better. He also took occasion
to criticise the president for
his reported intention to send his
daughter to the coronation of King Edward,
and to protest against the official
reception of Prince Henry.
His speech aroused the house to a
high pitch of excitement, and elicited
from Mr. Boutelle, of Illinois, a spirited
defense of Secretary Hay, whom ho
eulogized in highest terms. Several'
other other members of the republican
side took a hand, and latier in the
afternoon Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio, in
a twenty-minute speech took Mr.
j Wheeler to task for his "inopportune
protest," and rehearsed the history of
the visit of the prince of Wales to
this country in 1860 and his reception
by President Buchanan.
Until 1896, he said, all Americans
had glorified in the splendid isolation
of the republic and its determination
to hold aloof from foreign entangling
alliances. Less than five years ago,
he declared, a president "egged on by
the pitiable flunky in the state department"
had stretched his arms across
the seas in adulation to the people of
Great Britain and today the government
was hugging to its bosom a nation
that since the battle of Yorktown
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plotted our downfall.
He sneered at the "shoulder-strapped
gold lace flunkeys" who were to
be dispatched across the Atlantic to
bend the knee to and kiss the hand of
the English king, whose government,
he declared, had attempted to form a
coalition of European governments to
thwart us while we were seeking to
strike the shackles from Cuba.
Turning to England's war in South
Africa, he denounced her tyranny and
the part we had in it in allowing war
material to be shipped from our
shores. If half that was said of "this
man Pauncefote" was true, he declared,
he ought to be shipped across the <
water, and "the soooner the better."
Referring to the report that a member
of the president's family was to attend
the coronation, Mr. Wheeler said
| it was perhaps unbecoming to allude
I to it. Nevertheless, he said, he considered
it "most unfortunate and unprecedented
and to be lamented by every
liberty-loving American."
It was but one more link in the
chain. Mr. Wheeler then turned to the
prospective visit of Prince Henry.
With a gesture of contempt he declared
that "European maniacs were falling
over each other" to see the "little
Dutchman." There were thousands of
Americans following the plow, h^said,
who are as honest and as noble as he.
Why, he asked, should the American
people give heed to this flunkeyism of
the present administration. We should
treat our visitors politely, but why
"fall down and worship them."
The whole house was' aroused by
Mr. Wheeler's pninppic. oeverai
times the democratic side burst into
applause.
As he was concluding Mr. Grosvenor,
of Ohio, asked if Mr. Wheeler had
been living at the time of the visit of
Lafayette, as the representative of the
king of France, whether he would
have opposed the reception accorded
the Frenchman by Washington.
"I should have been proud to receive
the Marquis de Lafayette," replied Mr.
Wheeler. "He helped to fight for our
liberties."
Thousand Barrels Daily.
A dispatch from Barbourville, Ky.,
says: The Atlantic and Pacific Oil
Company, of New York city, has just
turned its Richland gusher in tanks
and its flow exceeds 1,000 barrels
daily, making it the best refining oil
well drilled the past year.
Solons Kill Fertilizer Scheme.
In the South Carolina senate Thursday
night, after a hot debate, it was
decided that the state do not go into
the fertilizer business. It was proposed
to setablish a plant costing
1300,000 and operate it with convicts.
To Dredge Per.sacola Harbor.
The United States dredge, General
C. B. Comstoek, sailed from Galveston
for Pensacola Thursday to comply
with her contract for dredging the
harbor there.
AIMED AT CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS
Ohio Legislature Passes Law Inimical
to the New Cult.
The Ohio house of representatives
has passed a bill aimed at Christian
'Scientists. It provides that any parent
or guardian who shall wilfully
deprive any sick child under the age
of 16 years of the service of a physician
shall be fined from $10 to $200 or
be Imprisoned for six months, or both.
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KAISER'S YACHT HAS ARRIVED.
New Yorkers Are GIvon a Surprise In
Unexpuected Arrival of the
Hohenzollern.
The Imperial German yacht, Hohenzollern,
sent to New York for the use
of Prince Henry of Prussia in his
forthcoming visit, arrived Wednesday
from Kiel. She was not expected, for
she came by the southern circle, and
it was calculated that the run would
take at least one more day than it did.
It had also been thought that she
would touch at Bermuda and that
place had reported her two days overdue.
The weather encountered was
unfavorable for a call at Bermuda, and
at sea Admiral Count Von Baudissin
abandoned the partly formed plan and
shaped his course for New York.
She hove in sight off Sandy Hook a
few minutes before the noon hour, and
an hour later was in quarantine. She
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eral officials and proceeded on through
the Narrows and up into North river .,
without delay. Passing craft gave
her a noisy welcome with their whistles,
and the man at her jack staff was
kept busy dipping her big naval flag
and Its field of white, black Prussian
eagle and black cross. She was painted
white all over, save for a large
black eagle at her figurehead, some
touches of gold astern and a long
st'eak of red that showed below her + water
line. She had a ram bow and
in general type resembles a modern
man of war. She shows no gun in "
sight, but carries eight rapid-fire
Krupp guns.
The Hohenzollern docked at the
piers of the North German Lloyd
Steamship Company at Hoboken and 4
will be thoroughly overhauled and put h
in order.
Admiral Von Baudissin was formal- - ^
lv welcomed to New York by a civic
committee, a representative of Mayor .
Low and an officer of the United ji
j States navy.
The officers of the Hohenzollern said
it would be impossible for them to
accept formal entertainments until the .%<
ai rival of the prince, of whose suite *
tbey are members.
VETS WELCOME MRS. DAVI8.
General Reception Given In Her Honcr
at Birmingham, Ala. *
There was a general recepltqn at ^
tiie Morris hotel in Birmingham, Ala., ^
Wednesday morning in honor of Mrs.
Jefferson Davis, who arrived Tuesday .
evening, sne was on ner way uj joc&* ^ ?
son, Miss., where she will appear before
the legislature to urge the pur- , . J
chase by the Mate erf Mississippi of :
Beauvoii> the old Davis mansion.
Hundreds of persons attended the
reception of the morning and had the
privilege of being greeted by Mrs. Da- . ' J
She was presented with badges tyr
the local camps of Confederate veter- 'M
ans and was the recipient of many -.3
beautiful flowers from the Daughters
of the Confederacy.
It Is learned that Mrs. Davis had *.f?
been offered in the north $90,000 for . - t
Beau voir, but refused to selL She
j offers the place to Mississippi for $10,- ^
000, provided the state will establish
and maintain there a home for Confederate
soldiers.
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COURT CONDUCTING BANK.
Receiver Selected For Wrecked Instl- ' jip.
i tution at Detroit, Michigan. tWs
At Detroit, Mich., Judge Donovan ^
appointed the Union Trust Company,
of that city, receiver for the wrecked *
City Savings bank. The bond was . ^
fixed at $600,000.
Prosecuting Attorney Hunt has filed . 3
suit against the diractors of the bank
on behalf of Wain county for $250,000.
The county is one of the heaviest de-^
positors In the wrecked institution.
^cLtiLI 1^1* ilCUI y AUUlCITOy nuu TT ? WM
ed the institution, is reported as
weaker. His mind wanders and he has
symptoms of a recurrence of his
heart trouble.
To Change Inauguration Date.
The senate Tuesday passed a joint ,
resolution submitting a constitutional J&ji
amendment changing the time of presidential
inaugurations and commencements
of congresses from the 4th of
March to the last Thursday of April.
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SCAFFOLD BUILDERS ARRESTED.
Responsibility for Death of Three vj
Painters Charged to Workmen.
Three arrests were made in Atlanta, %|
Qa., Tuesday in connection with the
accident in the Elseman building . . ^
which caused the death of three painters.
Those arrested were Willldm Flindt,
the foreman, and J. W. Ball and W.
R. Elmore, two of the carpenters who '
built the scaffold which caused the ,
pprfdent. * > >
Flindt and Ball were later released
on bail. They made a statement denying
any responsibility for the scaffold
breaking.
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THIRTY BOLO MEN CAPTURED. -'" $8
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Captain Swaine Makes a Bold Dash
on Camp of Rebels.
Captain W. M. Swaine, of the First
infantry, In engagement with insurgents
at Paranas, island of S&mar, re- .">
cently captured thirty bolomen and
four riflemen. There were no American
casualties. The enemy's loss it
not known.
It has been learned that two hours -J
before the fight General Lukban, the 3
insurgent leader, was with the natives
engaged with Captain Swaine's command.
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GAGE 18 OFFERED JOB.
United States Trust Company Wants
Him For Its Head.
It was reported with authority in 1L nancial
circles at New York that the
presidency of the United States Trust - yCompany,
of that city, had been offered
to Lyman J. Gage; and that lw
would assspt.