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The Bamberg Herald. j| ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 18.1902. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. \ SOUTH CAROLINA ft STATE NEWS ITEMS. S rs3CSJC\>CM NiCMCMrsl3 South Carolina Industries. The Chattanooga Tradesman shows I the following new industries establish- j ed in this state during the past week: I Charleston, $5,000 land company; St. George, saw mill; Columbia, mat- i tress factory; Clio, lumber company; { Anderson, $200,000 cotton mill; Wal- J halla, $10,000 telephone company. ' I 1 Stockholders Well Paid. According to the annual report of the Spartanburg and Asheville railroad recently completed, the concern has netted the stockholders during the fiscal year, the sum of $212,000. * Further items In the said report are: Total business, $527,000. Expenses, including taxes, $315,000. ? * * Had Plenty of Booze. A nartv of revenue officers and state constables raided the premises of John Babb and father. Joe Babb, located a few miles west of Greenville, one day the past week. In a small house located in Joe Babb's yard was found a barrel containing fifty-one gallons of corn liquor, while in John Babb's home was found twenty-five gallons in kegs. Warrants were at once sworn out for the parties. ? * o Savings Bank for Mill People. A $10,000 savings bank for cotton mill people will be established by W. A. Law, a prominent local banker; A. H. Twitchett, president of the D. E. Converse Company, operating several large cotton mills, together with several other mill men. The bank will be located at Converse, and will be conveniently locr/ed for the operatives of the Clifton cotton mills. The promoters of the mill desire the mill people to look upon the savings bank as their own institution. The new concern will be known as the Converse savings bank. An organization will be perfectly shortly. * * Farr is Made Receiver. An ordfer signed by Judge Goff, of Yirginia, was filed in the United States circuit court at Charleston last Monday appointing Freeman S. Farr 4 receiver of the Georgetown and Western railway. The Meyer Rubber Company, of New Jersey, is named as complainant. The road runs from Georgetown to Lanes, in this state, and with spurs and sidings it has 72 miles of track. It is practically owned by the Atlantic Coast Lumber Company, and is subject to a mortgage for $500,000. given for bonds. The Meyer Rubber Company alleges that the defendant is indebted to it for $31,250. V I * t * A Case of Foul Murder. Some days ago young Sam Lightsey disappeared from his home at Fairfax. All efforts to gain information as to his whereabouts failed. Last Saturt day, however, a party of hunters, while passing through some thick woodland near the young man's home, stumbled over his dead body. He had been foully murdered and his body hidden away in the woods. A relative of the young man later wired the governor that a negro had been arrested at Sycamore during the day who knew something of the case, and that after being locked up he confessed that his brother had committed the crime. Bloodhounds were sent to the scene of the murder in charge of Guard Duncan, of the state penitentiary. * ? a Armitage Claim Settled. The quartermaster general of the army nas approved me payment ui the claim of H. H. Bacon, of Savannah, administrator of the estate of William Armitage, deceased, contractor for the work on Fort Fremont in South Carolina. The amount of the claim is $14,750. There has been a hitch in the settlement of this claim for some time, owing to complications growing out of the death of Contractor Armitage. Mr. Bacon, who resides in Savannah, was the principal bondsman of the contractor. As administrator of the estate, he has been seeking an adjustment of the claims by the war department. Some days ago the subject was reopened at the instance of some of Mr. Bacon's friends and a satisfactory result was reached. I * * * Will Appoint Crum. According to present indications, says a Washington dispatch. President Roosevelt will appoint Dr. Crum collector of the port at Charleston. This developed a few days ago after a conference which Capt. Capers and Major Micah Jenkins, of South Carolina, had at the white house. The president said he could not refuse to appoint Crum merely on account of | his color and so long as the negro ap- j plicant seems to have been able to I meet the charges of political treachery made against him. he did not see how he could help giving him the Charleston place, no maiter how ' fttmne'K* the> white citizens of Charles- j ton might protest against it. It is in- j timated that the president is not at i all pleased with some of the criti- j cisms which have come upon him j from Charleston and that the white j citizens who have been protesting j against the appointment have injured : their case by the character ol their ! fight. It is a fact, however, that j Crum's principal strength lies in his j having been taken up by the negro re- i publicans from the northern states, j who have rallied to his support. It is understood that the vacant i South Carolina marshalship is to go I to the present acting marshal, Dr. j ClaFteiti Amoa* the other canaita*** j t I [ prominently mentioned are former District Attorney Lathrop, E. M. Brayton, J. D. Adams, Preston Ryon and Major J. F. Jones. Captain Capers will indorse Dr. Clayton. * * * Bull Fight Nipped in Bud. An attempt to have an exhibition of fighting bulls, dogs and chickens, near Rock Hill, in York county, the past week, almost resulted disastrously. Governor McSweeney had instructed the sheriff to prohibit the fighting. The owners of the show claimed that nothing but an injunction from the court would stop the animal fights. The sheriff thereupon called upon the Catawba Rifles, of the local militia, lor aid and the bull, dog and chicken fights were stopped. After a conference with the assistant attorney general on the subject, the governor sent the following telegram to the sheriff of York county: "Information has been received at this department that cock fights, bull tights, etc., are to take place near Rock Hill Friday noon. Under chaper xxx, page 451, criminal code of South Carolina, you are directed and nutnonzeci to go at once 10 iccck rim i and prevent such proposed violation of the law, and if necessary call out the military company at Reck Kill or command such posse as may be nec essary to prevent said fights. Do your duty in the premises as provided in the criminal code." Later Mr. Thomasson, on whose farm the proposed fights were to take place, endeavored to talk to the governor over the long distance telephone, but was told to telegraph anything he had to say in regard to the matter. A sensation was caused about seven years ago when it was announced that a bull fight would take place on the Hayne Boll place, near Renno. in Laurens county. The governor ordered the sheriff to stop the fight, but he was delayed in reaching the scene. Excursions had carried hundreds of people to the place. Whe.v the hour of the fight arrived the two bulls strolled into the arena, looked at each other, made friends and ended the sport in a very amusing-manner. BOOM IN SOUTHERN MILLS. Manufacturer's Record Shews Great Diversity cf Development. Indicative of the diversity of industrial developments in the south are the announcements in the past week's issue of The Manufacturer's Record. For the enlargement of the Union Cot- I ton mills, of Lafayette, Ga., recently authorized by the stockholders of the company, mill architects are now preparing plans, which include the erection of 75 cottages for operatives. The company now operates 7.GS0 ring spindles and 212 looms in the manufacture of sheeting, toweling and drills. This equipment will be increased by 10,000 spindles and 288 looms, aocut $200,000 being expended on the new buildings and machinery. The Lockhart mills, of J.ockhart, S. C., will build an additional mill at a cost of $250,000, and an increase of the capital stock from ?650.0j0 to $1,000,000 has bden authorized to supply the funds. There are 25,000 spindles and 800 looms in the preseiir. plant. It is reported that the purchase of 300 acres of land and a valuable water power near Covington, Gi., is preliminary to the erection of a $200,000 cotton factory at that place. Men already interested in several mills at Spray, N. C., have incorporated a $100,000 company to manufacture woolen cloths. The Capital City Mills, of Columbia, S. C., is changing its equiiment so as produce a finer grade of goods. It now has 6,200 ring spindles and 200 looms, and has heretofore used 400 bales of cotton a month. With the change the consumption will be reduced to 100 bales. Work is progressing on the improvements of the Hope mills, ac Hope Mills, N. C., and will soon be completed. The additional structure is 15Ox 300 feet, and will be equipped with 200 looms and a finishing plant, the total cost being about $100,000. The present plant has 12,5S2 spindles and 751 looms. Extensions are made in other lines. ENGLAND'S SIDE TOLD. Parliamentary Paper of Explanation Issued in London. A parliamentary paper giving the ' correspondence relating to Venezuelan affairs was issued at London Monday afternoon. It began with a memorandum which, after recounting the existing causes of complaint against Venezuela, says: "Besides these specific outrages and grounds for complaint there are causes in which British subjects and companies have long claims against Venezuela. The Venezuelan government declined to accept the explanations and assurances of his majesty's government in regard to the Ban Righ as in any way modifying the situation. As a result the position of his majesty's legation at Caracas is rendered quite impracticable for diplomatic purposes, as all representations, protests and remonstrances now remain disregarded and unacknowledged." THOMPSON REPUDIATES PARTYNew Collector in Alabama Discountenances Meeting of Colored Men. The result of the negro republican convention at Selma. Alabama, in formally launching a republican party which is thought to have the indorsement of the administration, is repudiated by Mr. Thompson, who was recently appointed collector of revenue by the president. An anti- contract labor law just adopted by Nicaragua has taken the peculiar form of making any laborer who Is out of employment liable to twenty years' imprisonment. The law defines "laborer" as meaning any peraon over 10 years pid, mate Qt without * t&fU&l 9t fiSft FIRST BLOOD DRAWN v Britons and Germans Bombard Venzneian Fort. s CASTRO NOW SHOUTS DEFIANCE ! C 1 Flatly Refuses to Accept Ultimatums. News of Bombardment Excites a Washington Officials?Means j Flagrarrt War. i a A special of Saturday from Caracas r says: President Castro and the Vene- r zuelan government have flatly refused j to accept the ultimatums of Germany, j. and Great Britain. His defiance ^ means war. l f A special from Puerto Cabello, ~ Venezuela, under date of December i 13th. stated the British cruiser Chary- c bdis and the German cruiser Vineta ? bombarded the fortress there at a o'clock Saturday afternoon and quick- ( ly silenced it. The borbardment lasted forty-five minutes. The fortress is c composed of Fort Solano and the Cas- 1 tie Libertador. After the firing ceas- c cd, the Charybdis sent marines to oc- * cupy the castle. The fortress was al- * most demolished. Three persons kill- * ed by the shelling. At 7 o'clock Saturday morning the Charybdis and Vineta arrived there, j searching for Venezuelan gunboats, f The two cruisers sent their boats into t the inner port, but finding no gun- c boats the boats were returned. The t captain of the British merchant steam- < er Topaze, which was seized by the t mob last Wednesday, then visit- t ed the British commodore, on board t the Charybdis, and lodged a protest c against the violation of his ship. The C British captain returned an hour later with a detachment of fifty marines, i who took charge of the Topaze. The \ populace was greatly excited at this i incident and raised the cry, "To i arms!" but there was no disorder. t The British commodore then sent a c message to the authorities at Puerto t Cabello, demanding immediate satis- j faction for the action cf the mob in having hauled down the British flag i from the Topaze, saying that if this s satisfaction was not forthcoming in t two hours, at 5 o'clock, the fortress c and the custom .house would be bom- i barded. 5 At a quarter before 5 a reply was i received from President Castro, who 1 authorized the chief official to C give the British commodore ample cnt-rQf.nptinTi Before this answer could i be communicated to the American ! consul the hour stipulated for its receipt had arrived; the cruisers immediately opened fire on the fortress. The fire was returned from Fort Solano and Castle Libertador, but the Venezuelan guns were soon silenced. While the firing continued there was intense excitement. Every house in town was closed. The News in Washington. Minister Bowen, in a dispatch received by the state department Sunday afternoon, cabled that he had been informed by President Castro that British and German warships were bombarding Puerto Cabello. In an earlier dispatch, received by the state department at 3:22 o'clock Sunday morning, Minister Bowen said that the situation at the VenezueQ lan capital, Caracas, was much quieter. The great excitement noted at the outset of the affair, he said, was caused by the precipitate flight of the British and German ministers, the ar- s rest of all the subjects of those two nations and the seizure of the Vene zuelan gunboat withou. first declaring e a blockade, thus causing the people to 1 fear a bombardment would follow at J once. The act of bombardment means ? flagrant war, even if the forts at Puer- 1 to Cabello had not returned the fire. a Great Britain and Germany have thus c given plain- notice to the United ^ States that there is war, and probably fired on the fortifications at Puerto j" Cabello to provoke it. It is not conceivable how Germany can now justify her original intimation that it was . proposed to establish a peaceful blockade. 11 CUBAN TREATY SIGNED. Document is at Last Ready to be * Made Effective. A definite treaty or commercial reciprocity between Cuba and the Uni- ^ ted States has been signed by Gener- r al Bliss and Secretaries Zaldo and * Montes. It only lacks the signatures c of Secretary Hay and Senor Quesada * and the annrova! of the United States a and Cuban Senates to make it oper- 1 ative. * t GERMANY GIVES EXCUSE. ? Says Castro's Boats Were Sunk Be- ? cause of Their Unfitness. ^ In official* quarters at Berlin it is said that the Venezuelan vessels sunk off La Guayra were old and worthless revenue cutters and unfit to go z to sea and the other ships captured ( have been sent to a certain West In- t dian port, to be refitted for use dur- \ ing the blockade. The destruction of the Venezuelan craft, it is added, was necessary in order to prevent them from falling into the hands of the j Venezuelans, as the German vessels < had to leave L8 Guayra. $ I GOVERNOR'S VETO OVERRIDDEN. Georgia Senate Makes Summer Sessions of Legislature a Sure Thing. * Governor Terrell's veto of the summer session bill was over-ridden by the Georgia senate Thursday by a 5 vote of 8 to 3, more than two-thirds of ( the senate, and if the house by a two- 1 thirds vote should take the same ac- ( tion, the general assembly will here- 1 after meet in Atlanta on the fourth f Wednesday in Juno instead of October. ' Those votlJtg u> sustain the gover- 1 m- Ledforrt a?d |>gru. ] T0~ ARMS! CASTRO CALLS. Venezuelans, Wrought to Fighting Pitchf are Shouldering Their Mausers to Repel Invaders. President Castro, of Venezuela, eems determined to resist the invaion of his domain by force of arms, md war may be said to be already in, judging from dispatches received Thursday from La Guayra. The government has sent 2,000 men md eighteen guns from Caracas to renforce the garrison at La Guayra. These troops went into camp at Cuaricuti, distant one hour from La Guaya. All of Thursday and Thursday light ammunition was being carried to ?ort La Vigia, which crowns the harior, and preparations are being made o resist the foreign forces. Voluneers to the number of 926 men, all rom La Guayra, have been armed, tnd more are requesting arms. It is isserted that the government has sufficient men to resist the foreign forces, is the movement is peculiar. Everyvhere one meets one of all classes and conditions carrying mauser rifles. The highly sensational news of the rapture at .rori 01 spam ui mc vcuc*.lelan gunboat Bolivar by the British rruiser Charybdis was communicated .0 President Castro by a representa;ive of the Associated Press. The >vent created intense excitement. Cause of the Row. Venezuela has been seekmg to avoid payment of British and German claims or a long time, and only recently did he British and German governments Iecide to enforce tho collection of hese claims. No schedule of these claims against Venezuela has ever )een published, but it is known that he total is nearly $20,200,000. Of the wo nations, Germany is the larger rreditor, about $15,000,000 of the $20,100,000 being due German subjects. The claims consist first of unpaid nterest on the $10,000,000 loan of 1896, vhich was taken up by the Germans n greater part, and the rest by Brltsh and French capitalists. This is said o amount to about $2,500,000. Then :ome claims for merchandise delivered )y German traders to the Venezuelan ,rovernment and never paid for. Lastly, ajid these, though indefinite n character and undoutedly greatly welled, comprising the majority of the otal, are the claims for the property )f German subjects destroyed in the rarious revolutions in the past ten rears or more, and the concessions Tost n the same manner, or of which tne lolders were deprived arbitrarily by Castro altogether. Some $50,000,000 of German capital s invested in Venezuela and the pres>nt movement is intended for the fuure security of this as much as for he squaring up of old accounts. The rlaims of Great Britain are similar in :haracter. By his insolence toward he United States as well as toward he two other countries now at issue vith him, Castro has entirely alienated ?ur state department. Solemn assurmces have been given several times >ver, by both Great Britain and Gernany that they were not seeking to icquire any territory in their forceful :ollection of debts. Hence, this counry will maintain a position of friendly leutrality. Our present administraitn is distinctly .warlike in its characer, however, and it will doubtless call [own quickly and forcibly any one of he involved nations which overstep he limits imposed under the Monroe loctrine fGROVER AND BOOKER >peak from Same Platform in Interest of a Negro School In Philadelphia. Former President Cleveland presid;d Thursday night at a public meetng in Philadelphia in aid of the Beean Manual Training school, an instiution whicii aims to give members if the negro race the benefits of an ndustrial education. The meeting was ittended by prominent jurists, eduators and business men. Mr. Cleveland, who is personally in erested in the school, was the princiial speaker, and Booker T. Washingon, president of Tuskegee institute, lso made an address. The institution was established less han two years ago and has an enrollment of 200 students. NEGROES LAUNCH PARTY. Colored Republicans in Alabama Meet in Selma and Organize Negroes in Alabama met at Selma Thursday and launched a republican jarty. The majority of those assem)led are not registered voters, but :laim they are properly qualified to ake a hand in political affairs. They lIso claim that the lily whites have no nortgage on appointments in -Alaiama, as they have been assured of he good will of the president. This republican party will send delegates to the national convention to lelect a nominee for president of the Jnited States. Roosevelt Going to San Francisco. President Roosevelt has formally iccepted the invitation of the citizens' lommittee of San Francisco to attend he dedication of the navy monument ;o commemorate the battle of Manila. House to Hold Sunday Session. A "Washington ;_dispatch says: A esoiution was aaopieu, wmtii ?d for a session on Sunday, February I, for paying tribute to the memory of :he late Senator Sewall, OUT OF PRESIDENT'S HANDS. Congress Takes Job of Fixing Pay of Strike Commission. A Washington special says: The senate late Thursday afternoon passed, with several amendments, the bill ixing the compensation of the anthracite coal strike commission, and it low goes to conference. After considerable debate $4,000 was settled ipon as the proper amount, thus takng the matter out of tho hands of the prenideatj rq the Mil origin?.!^ pro TO TAX FRANCHISES I Both Houses of the Georgia As* sembly Pass Important Bill. PROVISIONS ARE FAR REACHING Embodies Views of Comptroller Gen. eral of State?Covers "Invisible" Property?Main Section of the Measure. > By the unusually large vote of 35 to 2 the upper house of the Georgia assembly, Thursday, passed the franchise tax bill. The bill as passed is similar to the measure introduced by Mr. Candler, of DeKalb, as a substitute for the Reid bill, having the full intent and effect of the Candler bill, though a number of amendments were adopted before the measure went through. The franchise tax bill, in brief, de fines franchises as taxable property and provides they shall be returned to the comptroller general, who shall collect taxes on them, ad valorem, the same as is now the case with railroad, telegraph and telephone companies. All day long the senate was at work on the measure and it was late in the afternoon before it was put in shape for passage. The amendment of greatest interest, perhaps, is that inserted in section 10, which provides that where street railroads or other corporations now pay cities or counties an occupation tax, or a percentage of their gross receipts, such payment shall be deducted from the amount levied and collected as a franchise tax for the city or county to which such payment is made. The first section, which covers the purpose and interest of the bill, is as follows: A bill to be entitled an act to provide for and require the payment of taxes on franchises, and to describe the method for the return and payment of said taxes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the state of Georgia in general assembly met, the term "special franchise" as used in this act shall include every right and privilege exercised within this state granted to any person, partnership or corporation by the state or its authority or by any county or county officer or officers, or any municipal corporation or officer thereof for the exercise of the power of eminent domain or for the use of any public highway or street or the land above I or below any highway or street within j the limits of said state, and every spe-1 cial right exercised within this state granted by charter, resolution, by-law, statute or otherwise, whether under the laws of this or any other state, for the exercise of any public service, such as the construction and operation of railroads equipped for steam, electricity, horse power, compressed air or otherwise, for the common carrying of passengers or freight, the construction or operation of any plant or plants for the distribution and sale of gas, water, electric lights or power, steam heat, refrigerated air or other substances by means of wires, pipes or conduits made under or above any street, alley or highway, or the construction and operation of any telephone or telegraph plant, all rights to conduct wharfage, dockage or cranage business, the conduct of any express business or the operation 01 sleeping, palace, dining or chair cars, all rights and privileges to construct, maintain or operate canals, toll-bridges, the right to carry on the business of maintaining equipment companies, navigation companies, freight or passenger depots, and every other like special fnn^Hnn ^ATipndpTit nnon the erant of public powers or privileges, not allowed by law to natural persons or involving the performance of any pub- . lie service, not including the mere right to be a corporation by trading or manufacturing or other corporations exercising no special franchise above , enumerated. Other sections designate how taxes are to le levied and collected in the various counties. "DEFEATED BY LOBBYISTS" Such is Declaration Made by Official Anent Georgia Convict Bill. "There has been a lobby of convict lessees around the capitol with a view to preventing action on the question of leasing the labor of the state convicts, and the failure of the legislature to decide this question will probably cost the state thousands of dollars in the end." This statement was made Thursday by a prominent and well-known Georgia official, who stated that he had evidence of the fact that certain lessees had been lobbying to prevent action on the bill at the present session. Two More Ships Taken by Britisn. The Venezuelan troop ship Seamore and the Venezuelan coast guard vessel Veinte Tres de Mayo were captured in the Gulf of Paria and taken to Port of Spain, Trinidad, Thursday morning by the British sloop of war Alert. Named by Roosevelt. The president Thursday sent to the senate the nomination of Fred M. Taylor as postmaster at Titusville, Fla. MRS. U. S. GRANT DEAD. Passed Away Sunday Night at Her Home in Washington. Mrs. U. S. Grant, wife of President Grant, died at her residence in Washington at 11:17 o'clock Sunday night. Death was due to heart failure. Her age preventea her rallying from the attacks. Her daughter, Nellie Grant Sartoris, ! was the only one of her children with j hor at the time of her deatn, hT three son?, who had been gumiaongd, be' IB* IHI.8J iStiiiTj _.,x OFFICIAL TERMS NOW CHANGED. Georgia Summer Legislative Sessions Bill Expected to Result in Various Complications and Tangles. Georgia legislators will hereafter meet in Atlanta on the fourth Wednesday in June, instead of the fourth Wednesday in October, as has been the case heretofore. The house Friday morning by a vote of 128 to 35 declined to sustain the veto of Governor Terrell, and the senate having done so on Thursday by a vote of 33 to 3,the bill by Senator Skelton was declared passed by Speaker Morris, and the next session of the general assembly will meet in Atlanta on Wednesday, June 24, 1903, or within seven months from the adjournment v,h:ch was held Friday night. The passage of the bill means that j the term of Governor Terrell, who i was elected for two years, and the i terms of Comptroller General Wright, State Treasurer Park, Attorney General Hart, Prison Commissioners Joseph Turner, Clement A. Fvans, Thomas Eason, Commissioner of Agri- i culture 0. B. Stevens, Secretary of Ftate Phil Cook, Supreme Court Justices T. J. Simmons, A. J. Cobb, Samuel Lumpkin, W. H. Fish, A. J. Little and John S. Candler will be extended fc a period of eight months, and that the present legislature will hold two more sessions of fifty days each, one in June, 1903, and another in June, 1904. The next general election will not be held until October, 1904, and un- i der the constitution of the state the ; returns cannot be canvassed until the j session of the legislature in June, j 1905. For that reason the governor | and the other statehouse officers afad j presumably the judges cf the superior ! couns and solicitors of those courts j in the state must hold until they are j declared elected again, or until their i successors are elected and qualified, j The bill will also change the fiscal I year of the state from September 1st j to June 1st. Everything will be chang- j ed about considerably under the new j law, but the legislature by a big ma- I jority thought it was best for the j state, and so decided despite the veto ; of the chief executive. Governor Terrell, when seen shortly ! after the passage of the bill over his [ veto, said that he would have to begin ; scaling the appropriations which had ! been made by the legislature, as the j appropriation bill did not take into i consideration that the legislature was | to meet again in June. The expenses of the general assembly generally amount to about $70,000 per ses- j sicn and a deficit will no doubt be : creaiea in me treasury, ?? wo expenses of the session will have to be paid from tne money which is now being paid into the treasury from this year's taxation. When the bill was passed in the house there was great rejoicing among ; the members. CASTRO BEGS ARBITRATION. Appeals to United'States to Help Venezuela Out of Trouble . A cablegram received at the state department Friday from Minister Bowen, at Caracas, states that the Vene zuelan government has requested him to propose to Great Britain and Ger- ! many that the difficulties arising out i of the claims for alleged damages and injuries to British and German subjects during the civil war be submitted to arbitration. In conformity with the understanding already reached with the representatives of the British and German wivflmmontc Pnctrn'sf armpal will hft ? VI UU1VUV0 v w ..... . . j l^-id before those governments, the state department acting merely as a. channel of communication. Not much hope is entertained of the favorable reception of the proposition, as it it felt that the difficulty has progressed too far for a settlement by the peaceful methods of arbitration. It is certain that the state department is willing to go any reasonable length to settle the difficulty in Venezuela in any manner that shall be honorable and satisfactory to all parties. Therefore Secretary Hay replied to Mr. Bowen's cablegram, authorizing him, in his discretion, to use his good offices to secure arbitration. SOUTH AMERICANS AROUSED. Action cf the Powers Maddens Venezuela's Sister Republics. A patriotic demonstration took place at Guayaquil, Ecuador, Sunday night. A large number of people who had attended a meeting went to the Venezuelan and to the other South American consulates, shouting: "Long live Castro!" "Long 'live Venezuela!" and "Long live the South American countries!" The participants in the demonstration, before dispersing, adopted a j T-Oeoiiition askine President Plaz to j protest against the action of the allied powers. BOODLERS FEAR HOME JURIES. Ex-Delegates Under. Charges at St Louis Want a Change of Venue. Former members of the St. Louis house of delegates, Denny, Sheridan, Hartman, Gutke, Beersch and Lehniann, whose cases on joint charges oi bribery and perjury in connection with the suburban franchise legislation do? were docketed for immediate trial, have given notice that they will apply for a change of venue. ARGENTINE SEEKS INFORMATION Wants to Know Why Uncle Sam is Remaning Inactive. It is learned on reliable authority that the government of Argentina, in a dispatch from Buenos Ayres, has instructed its consular representatives to report to Buenos Ayres as early as possible what appears to be the attitude of tho United States, and what view that nation takes, in Vi?w of the Moerpe doctrine of te* ' ..-i \. HONOLULU CABLE LANDED. Consummation of Great Commercial Event Celebrated on Sunday at San Francisco. "In memory of John W. Mackay, I chri&ten the Pacific cable. May it always carry messages of happiness." With these words, in San Francisco, Sunday, Lucille Gage, 11-year-old daughter of H. L. Gage, governor of_ California, christened the trans-Pacific cable, and breaking a bottle of champagne over the shore end, inaugurated a new era in the commercial development of the Pacific coast. The landing and splicing of the shore end, which Is to connect the mainland with Honolulu, was accomplished without hitch and- was witnessed by nearly 40,000 persons. Beautiful weather prevailed, there being scarcely any surf. The steamer Newsboy, carrying six miles of cable, steamed close in shore in the early morning, and by a life saving boat's crew sent a rope to which the cable was attached ashore. Word was sent to President Clarence H. Mackay and the Cable and Postal Telegraph officials that all was in readiness. The work of hauling in the cable was done so expeditiously that the officials arrived on the beach only two minutes before the cable had touched the beach and was christened at 9:55 a. m. While the cable was being spliced to the land end, Mayor Schmitz delivered a short speech, congratulating Mr. Mackay on the successful beginning | of the work. He also spoke on the benefit to the world at large that would result in its completion. Clarence Mackay, president of the Pacific Cable Company, thanked the mayor and those present. Governor Gage, on behalf\of the people of the state, paid.a tribute to the late John W. Mackay. The final exercises closed with cheers for the cable, and all those taking part in its landing. Mr. Mackay also sent the following telegram to President Roosevelt: "I have the honor to inform you that the end of the Honolulu cable was successfully brought to shore this morning." TO SUCCEED MINISTER BUCK. President Names Loyd Griscom, Pres ent Minister to Persia. The president late Saturday afternoon selected Loyd Griscom, now minister to Persia, to be minister to Japan, succeeding Mr. Buck, deceased. He also selected Richmond Pearson, of North Carolina, at present consul general at Teheran, Persia, to succeed Mr. Griscom as Minister to Persia. Mr. Pearson is the uncle of Hobson, the hero of the M'erriraac. John Barrett declined the appointment, and there is a fine diplomatic story in connection with his refusal of the place. Mr. Kogoro Takahira, the Japanese minister at Washington, objected to the appointment of Barrett when he learned that it was pending, but it is only now that his reasons for the objection are published. An attache of one of the oriental legations tells The Washington Post that Barrett, in a Boston speech, and elsewhere, had said the mongrel Filipinos were the equals of the Japanese and the statement had offended the dignity of Japan. For this reason Japan did not want him. NEGROES SCORED BY PRELATE. Bishop Turner Calls Down Boisterous Brethren in Conference. "I am persuaded that the white man is correct when he says the negro is an inferior and ungovernable person," said Bishop Turner in a speech at the conference of the African Methodist Episcopal church in Eastman, no During the session Friday the conference became boisterous and noisy, and it was on this account that Bishop Turner uttered the foregoing. Robbers Hold Up Bank. A report reached Santa Fe, N. M., Saturday afternoon that the private bank of Hillsboro, Sierra county, was held up by robbers, who escaped with considerable booty. A short time before' cattle men had deposited some $30,000. FIVE KILLED IN WRECK. Freight Train Plunges Through Bridge Near Bucklin, Miss. A special from Bucklin, Mo., says the locomotive of a local freight train on the Hannibal and St. Joseph railroad was wrecked Saturday night near that place when the locomotive went through the bridge over East Yellow creek. The killed are: J. Murphy, roadmaster; Arthur Hight, Thomas Ainsworth, A. Green, fireman; J. E. Votau, trainmaster. .?ull fight at Rock Hill, S. C., is stopped by the sheriff, who calls out local militia. % * Millions Pledged to Wall Street. A number of the banks of New York and J. P. Morgan & Co. have formed a pool of $50,000,000 to lend in the money market in the event of actual emergency. Supreme Court to Take Recess. Chief Justice Fuller announced Monday that the supreme court would take a recess on the 22d instant for two weeks. five held for crime. Murder of Man in Mississippi Results in Wholesale Arrests. The case of Dr. J. J. Harper, Walter Harper, B. T. McCormack, H. L. Johnston, white and Albert McGhee, col ored, charged with the murder of William Lawrence at the Eastman-Gardiner Company's logging camp at Laurel, Miss., were given a preliminary hearing Friday. The defendants waived examination and were committed to jail without bail, together with ibevt thirty ?wt? witness < " v SENSATIONAL CLOSB I Marked Finale of the Georgia 1 General Assembly. BLOWS STRUCK IN THE BOUSE M Doorkeeper Robson and Represent* ' tive Knight Clinch on the Floor, -j '-jM Apologies Follow and Alt j Ends Serene. ! ill :3 ' '-rr Scenes sensational in the extreme - marked the closing hours of the Geor* mj^M gia house of representatives at AtfaaV ta Saturday morning at 2:25 o'clock. Just as the house was about, to take the final vote, in which it receded' &|jjjfl from its position on the public prop-.^*^^ erty fund and agreed, by a vote of 70 to 60, that it should be used to interest on the bonded debt, there ^ ? occurred on the floor a difficulty bo tween Mr. Knignt, or eerneu, jumrag Clayton Robson, one of the horj3Q : doorkeepers, which put the house In an uproar and delayed final adjourn- ;M I ment. The house had been in disorder % some time, and Speaker Morris de- ; j termined to preserve order for the J final vote, called on all members ot'~ | the house to be seated. He then de-;^ 3 signated Mr. Robson from among the'.;* | doorkeepers to see that members toolL% ^ their seats when ordered to do so by0 :| At the beginning of the roll call ,:'M the final motion to recede from --'djjSjl -S position of the house, Mr. Knight, of ? Berrien, rose to a point 01! order. j stated his point, and at its amclnsks^^^H Speaker Morris said: "The point is overruled. The gte$?|||^H tleman from Berrien will be"seated/* I Mr. Robson was standing behind I Mr. Knight at the time. Mr* Knight^ was somewhat slow in taking his sein^ and when the speaker made his s&?jg|i| ment, Mr. Robson took hold of Mr.fi - 2 Knight and endeavored to malm hli^ take his seat. Mr. Knight resisted^! and there was a struggle betwee?'tlp|| | two for about a minute. /J The situation soon dawned on members, and several of them n&r Sfjr/1 rushed to Mr. Knight's assistance '1(?|? Deal, of Eulloch, among others, go#1./- -'-f. up on top of the desks, cane in | and hat on, in his efforts to reach tho M scene of the struggle. Mrf Robson m was pulled away from Mr. Knight and M the scuffle was stopped. J1 Speaker Morris stated from the : || chair that Mr. Robson had acted nnt antr infltmctjonR from him in. thirst instance, and that he would suspend..-^HR him for the rest of the session. Hajflj _ said it was not the duty of the door- > jl keeper or sergeant at arms to take such action except when specifically ordered to do so by the chair. pj A committee was appointed to fat"'^investigate the matter and its report M contained a demand on Clayton Robson to appear immediately before the bar of the house and apologize to the, house and Mr. Knight, of Berrien, fot" ^ his action in attempting tt^ seat the M gentleman from Berrien. Eobson appeared at once in front of the speaker's desk, and in a manly : J? way proceeded to obey the instruct : ^ tion of the house. He stated briefly I that he had only followed what he th'ought to have been the direct com- r|| mand of the presiding officer, sayingN^M further that he had acted under ?ay -'m apprehension. His apology was unanimously accepted, on motion of Mr. Felder, of Representative Knight, of Berrien, then addressed the chair, and is frJ|| pleasant manner stated that- the expressions from the doorkeeper wert ^ entirely satisfactory. 1 On a ioint resolution introduced by Representative Felder, of Bibb, house and senate adjourned at o'clock a. m. .fj The house had been In continuous session during the evening. It spent ~ the time, however, between the ap* || pointment of conference committees and hearing reports of disagreement, in passing local bills, in hearing read .. and defeated or tabling general sen* J ate bills, and in talking about the pub* ^ lie property fund. AQAINSt EIGHT-HOUR LAW " % !s Decision Rendered by Supreme Court of the State of Ohio. The Ohio supreme court Tuesday handed down a decision in the case of ^ the city of Cleveland vs. Clement tfS Bros., in which it declared the contest g ed eight-hour law unconstitutional, The case was carried up to the so- I preme court by the city. It had let h^? sewer contracts to Clement Bros., and I stipulated that the eight-hour law |S should be respected under penalty of . rM $10 for each violation. The city t tempted to hold out $300 in fines on settling with the contractors and the latter sued. AMERICAN SAILOR SHOT. Row Between Jack Tars and San Juan Police Ends Fatally. The sailor, Costello, of the United States war ship Wasp, whom the po- 3 lice of San Juan, Porto Rico, shot Monday night in a row between a nam- i; ber of sailors and the police, died . i Thursday. The navy men are incensed at' th^k . > action of the police and say the shoot>^^^^S ing of Costello was unwarranted^ , ^ AN EXECUTION POSTPONED. : ; * J1 ' Supreme Court of Georgia to Past Upon thd Case of Henry Bryant. John Henry Bryant, the negro gen" tenced to hing in Mouitrie, Ga., did not pay the penalty on the gallowa Friday. His case was carried to the supreme court by his attorneys-in Moultrie, and will be given a hearing sometime ' within the next thirty days. For thia reason the execution will sot take place until passed spoa fr tfct i&