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ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25.1902. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.
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County Has Thirty-One Cotton Mills.
The developments of the cotton milling
industry in Spartanburg county
during the past few years has placed
the county at the head of the milling
interests in South Carolina, with an aggregate
of $7,000,000 invested in cotton
mills.
In the years 1S81, 1S88 and 1889 every
new mill which began operation,
and there were nine, was located in
Spartanburg county.
The growth of this industry during
1888, 1889 and 1902 in this county has
been remarkable. During the three
years above mentioned eight new mills
began operations and four new ones
have been inaugurated, while the in
crease in capital stock of five mills in
Spartanburg county during the present
year reaches the sum of $1,131,000.
During the present year Spartanburg
county has witnessed the organization
of four new mills, as follows: Tvger
mills, $96,500; Arcadia mills, $200,000;
Drayton mills, $250,000 Apalache
mills, $850,000.
The total invested in new mms ann
additions in the county during 1902
has been $2,047,500. Spartanburg j
county has a total of thirty-one mills. J
whose capital stock is over $3,800,000,
while the entire capital stock of every |
mill in the state is only about $34,000,000,
giving Spartanburg county over
25 per cent of the capital invested in ,
this great industry.
When it is remembered that the annual
product of a mill is riughly estimated
as being equal to its capital, it
will be seen that the yearly output of
Spartanburg county's muls is nearly
$9,000,000.
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. _ k Crum and Clayton Safe.
Charleston business men are preparing
to submit to the inevitable, inasmuch
as -doubt no longer exists as
to the appointment of Dr. W. D. Crum,
colored, as collector of port.
Strong petitions were sent to Washington
urging President Roosevelt not
to give the office to Crum. and these
requests were based on Crum's color.
They have had no effect, however, and
friends of the negro are highly elated.
It is said in Charleston that a prominent
white citizen, who went to
Washington in Crum's behalf, will be
made chief deputy.
-The office is of little financial value.
The records show that it paid about
"$900 last year, and about the same
fees will be forthcoming for Crum.
Efforts have been made to have the
office put -on the salary list.
District Attorney Capers, who went
to Washington to confer with the
president, has returned and confirms
the published reports that Crum will
be appointed collector and that Dr. V.
P. Clayton will be made United States
marshal.
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Problem for New Governor.
From what can be learned in
Charleston the county board will have
" important recommendations for Governor
Heyward, who will be inaugurated
in January. When he spoke in the
city during the campaign, Mr. Heyward
declared that, if elected, he
would enforce the dispensary law in
Charleston to the best of his ability.
The law has been flagrantly violated.
Men who are opposed to the state's
control of the liquor traffic say that
the law is unpopular, and that the
best means of bringing about its death
is by rigid enforcement.
An illustration of the way the law
is regarded was given the other day I
when the proprietor of a music hall
admitted that iie was running a tiger.
He did this under oath and for the purpose
of defending a young woman
charged with theft. The manager said
that a visitor who alleged that he was
robbed by an actress, was not robbed,
but had squandered $110 for wine.
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Prohibition for Isle of Palms.
Acting, it is claimed, under instructions
fro mthe state board of liquor
control, .the Charleston county board
has revoked the beer privilege at the
Isle of Palms, which did not expire
until April 1 next.
It is charged that the privilege was
abused that it was transferred to
other persons than those elected by
the board, and that a well-regulated
saloon was operated under the guise
of state concessions. Members of the
board say that they were criticised for
allowing the conditions to continue,
and on this account the license was
withdrawn after a consultation with
the higher board in Columbia.
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Bank at Mullins Robbed.
News comes from Mullins, Marion"
county, that the bank at that place
was burglarized and $5,000 stolen. All
external evidences go to prove that
the work was done by professional
cracksmen.- After blowing open the
vault door it was necessary to demolish
a safe on the inside, which was
successfully done.
Bloodhounds were secured and taken
to the blacksmith shops from
whence some of the tools were secured,
but the trail was evidently too cold
for the dogs to follow. Mullins is the
leading tobacco market in the state,
and the bank usually carries a large
amount of funds. All efforts to trace
the burglars has so far proven unavailing.
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Captain Montgomery's Will.
The will of the late Captain J. H.
Montgomery was made public at Spartanburg
the past week for the first
time. Captain Montgomery leaves all
of his property, which is said to be
valued at about $350,000, to his wife
and his three sons.
The will was made by the deceased
in February, 1899. It is said that Captain
Montgomery carried life insurance
policies aggregating $61,000.
OFFICIAL NOTICE OF BLOCKADE.
Published to the World by England,
Germany and Italy?Text of
Documents.
The official proclamation of the
blockade of Venezuelan ports was gazetted
at London Saturday morning
and became effective during the day.
The text of the proclamation is as
follows:
"Foreign Office, December 20, 1902.
?It is hereby notified that as the United
States of Venezuela have failed to
comply with the demands of his majesty's
government, a blockade by his majesty's
naval forces, Guanta, Cumano
and Carupano and the mouths of the
Orinoco is declared, and such blockade
will be effectively maintained from and
after December 20th, subject to
the allowance of the following
days of grace: *
"For vessels sailing before the date
of this notification, from West Indian
ports and ports on the east coast of
the continent of America?ten days
for steamers and twenty days for sailin
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"From all other ports?twenty days
for steamers and forty days for sailing
vessels.
"For vessels now lying in the ports
now* declared to be blockaded?fifteen
days.
"Vessels which attempt to violate
the blockade will render themselves
liable to all measures authorized by
the law of nations and by the respective
treaties between his majesty and
the different neutral powers."
The foreign office says the blockade
of the Venezuelan coast will not be relaxed
until the powers enforcing their
claims agree on a method for the arbitration
of their respective cases and
Venezuela show*s a disposition to act
sincerely. Stress is laid on the difficulty,
in view of the diversity of the
claims in deciding on a method of presentation,
and on the prolixity of the
negotiations which will be involved
before a settlement is in sight. It is
not definitely decided whether separate
cases can be embodied in one documnt
should the projected arbitraton take
definite shape.
The German Decree.
The German government also published
at Berlin a decree embodying
the conditions of the blockade of Germany's
portion of the Venezuelan
coast. It was as follows:
"The government of Venezuela hav- |
! ing rejected the demand which the ira- ;
periai government communicated to it,
the ports of Cabello and Maracaioo are
hereby declared under blockade, beginning
December 20. Ships under
other than the Venezuelan flag which
sailed from West Indian or other east
Americans ports before the publication j
of this decree will receive a period of
twenty days for sailing vessels and j
ten days for steamers to reach their j
destination.
"Sailing vessels from all other ports
are allowed forty days and steamers
twenty days.
"Ships under ether flags than Venezuelan
flags lying in blockaded ports
upon the publication of this decree are
allowed fifteen days to sail.
"Ships which attempt to break the
blockade will be subject to the provisions
which apply to neutrals under international
law in accordance with
treaties. VON BUELOW."
The official announcement of Italy's
participation in the blockade of the
Venezuelan coast was published at
Rome Sunday. It was in line with
those of England and Germany.
INDICTED FOR TREASON.
Colonel Lynch Must Stand Trial for
Aiding the Boers.
A London dispatch says: The grand
jury summoned to consider ihe indictment
of Colonel Arthur Lynch, member
of parliament for Galway, who was
arrested June 11th on the charge of
high treason in connection with the
part he took in the South African
war, where he was alleged to have
commanded the Irish brigade, returned
a true bill Friday against the defendant.
Lord Chief Justice Baron Alverstone,
in charging the jury, remarked
that it was sixty-two years since a
grand jury had to deal with such a
charge, which was the highest crime
known in law.
BEGGAR OWNED FORTUNE.
Lived and Died Miserably While Possessed
of Hundred Thousand.
Eli Hyman, a Jew, who begged for
admission to tne general hospital at
Toronto a few days ago, is dead. An
examination of his clothing resulted in
finding scrip worth $31,000. Otner papers
t howed Hyman to be worth probably
$100,000.
For twenty years he had slept in
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sneas <?I1U SLclUiea. nc ya.yt.io aau.
begged money and food. His heirs are
his wife and a daughter, living, it is
thought, in San Francisco.
PHILIPPINES CURRENCY.
Senate Committee Will Report a Gold
Standard Measure.
The senate committee on the Philippines
has agreed on a bill for the
currency of the Philippines, which is
t/.e joint production of Senators Lodge I
and Allison. The bill makes the gold
peso of 12 3-10 grains the unit of value ;
in the islands and manes the gold
coins of the United States legal tender i
for all debts.
JUDGE SPEER THE ORATOR.
Brilliant Jurist Entertains Notable
Audience at Buffalo, N. Y.
Hon. Emory Speer, judge of the
United States district court for the
southern district of Georgia, made a
notable address at Buffalo. N. Y.. Friday
night before the Independent Club, i
The gathering was a nota^ie one. and j
Judge Speer's eloquent periods were j
frequently applauded. Judge Speer's j
i address was "A Plea for the Revival <
of Americanism."
A
j LOOK TO ROOSEVELTj
Powers Now Invite President to
Act as Arbitrator.
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VENEZUELA APPROVES MOVE '
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Roosevelt Suggested Submission of
Trouble to Hague, But Powers
Demurred and Made the 1
Counter Preposition.
A "Washington special says: Presi- (
dent Roosevelt has proposed to the al- i
lied powers that the Venezuelan dis- '
pute be submitted to the arbitration of |
The Hague tribunal. The powers have
J replied with a counter proposal that (
j President Roosevelt himself arbitrate
the issues. ;
These were the developments of Sat- ;
urday night in the Venezuelan matter I 1
j and they seem to justify the prediction j i
made in prevous dispatches that the
critical point had been passed. j
The presided was reluctant to ac- j
cept the proposition, but judging from \
private American advices which have (
been received in London, President ]
Roosevelt as arbitrator would be fa- j
vorably disposed toward the temporary ;
adoption cf some such method as was r
arranged with the Venezuelan secret t
mission and communicated to the j
state department by Isaac Ligman. t
With President Roosevelt actiDg as ar- i
bitrator, the serious objections in the t
matter of guarantees, which frequent- j
ly have been mentioned at the foreign
office and in press dispatches, would
disappear. * c
Castro is Willing. !
A special from Caracas says: In the ;
name of Venezuela President Castro j
has signified acceptance of the ap- ,
pointment of President Roosevelt to (
arbitrate the Venezuelan difficulty. .
Secrscy is Maintained. 1
A London dispatch under Sunday's t
date says: It is believed that Presi- t
dent Roosevelt's answer to the proposal
made by the allied powers that <
he arbitrate the Venezuelan issues has i
been received in London. The strict- i
est secrecy with regard to every phase <
of the negotiations is preserved, how- t
ver, and it is impossible to make a I
definite statement, but such indica- ^
tions as are obtainable point to rresi- i
dent Roosevelt's acceptance of the of f
fice or arbitrator. c
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DISCREPANCY'IN DATES. f
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Washington Notified that Blockade is I
Effective for Christmas Day.
The state department has received
notice from Ambassador White at Lcn[
don that the blockade of the Venezue- s
lan ports was to begin December 25. i
Shortly after the receipt of the no- I
tice a message was received from Con- c
sul Smith, at Pert Spain, Trinidad, as I
follows: "Venezuela blockaded." t
This was understood to mean that ?
the blockade already had begun and
completely mystified the state department
as it showed a conflict in date
with the blockade notice received from I
London, namely, December 25. However,
the department has resolved to
regard the date given in the London r
dispatch as official until further advised.
NOTORIOUS HUMBERTS NABBED. ]
Perpetrators of Gigantic Frauds in ?,
Paris are Captured in Madrid.
Madame Humbert and cue other
members of her family who became no- ,
torious in connection with the great ?
safe frauds in Paris, have been arrested
in Madrid, Spain. They had been ,
in Madrid since May 9. The police *
made a clean haul of the whole family
?Madame Humbert, her husband, Eva ^
Humbert and the three D'Aurignacs. ,
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The prefect of police subsequently .
had an audience with King Alfonso
and-reported the capture. The king
congratulated the prefect, saying:
"I rejoice that our police have been
able to render service to France." ^
The Humberts maintain they are in- J
nocent, saying they are being victim- *
ized and desire to go to France and ae- .
fend themselves against the charges.
BECKHAM ASKS RE-ELECTION.
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Governor Issues an Address to Democrats
of Kentucky.
Governor J. C. W. Beckham in an j
address "to the democrats of Ken- ]
tucky," annnounces himself a candi- i
date for re-election for the full term (
to the office of chief executive. His *
present term, that of filling out the ^
unexpired term of the late William r
Goebel, will expire on December 12. j
1903. The election is to be held in ^
November next year, and the demo- T
<?'atic party is to nominate by the pri- '(
mary election method on May 9, 1903.
COSTLY BLAZE IN KNOXVILLE.
Tennessee City Suffers Loss of Million ^
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Dollsrs in Conflagration.
Fire, whicn broKe our Monday muniing
at 1:30 o'clock in the four-story
factory of the Knoxville knitting mills
on Commerce avenue, Knoxville.
Tenn., quickly spread to surroundng
structures and destroyed property that (
will bring the total loss up in. excess of
i a million dollars.
TIME LIMIT FOR TREATY.
I Reciprocity Arrangement With Cuba ^
Must be Ratified Quickly.
The friends of the reciprocity treaty
recently negotiated between the Uni-1 ted
States and Cuba have been assured j 1
by members of the senate committee j
on foreign relations that the treaty! ^
will be taken up by that committee as fc
soon as practicable after the Christ- 1
mas holidays. ^
The terms of tiie treaty require that j 1
it shall be ratified before the 31st day J *
of January. r
MINISTER BO WEN ARBITRATOR.
Castro Puts h'is Many Troubles Unreservedly
Into the Hands of Our
Representative at Caracas.
A Washington special says: President
Castro has clothed Minister Bowen
with full powers to effect a settlement
with Great Britain, Germany and
Italy.
Mr Bowen simply awaits the consent
of the state department to assume
this task, assuming that the nations
named are willing that he shall
undertake this work. It is believed
that the critical phase of the Venezuelan
situation.has passed.
Whether the consent of these governments
can be obtained, will, it is
believed here, depend entirely upon
sufficiency of any guarantee tL'at can
be given for the faithful discharge by
President Castro of any obligations he
may assume as the result of Mr. Bowmi's
efforts.
The allies feel that they must be
assured against the consequences of
another revolution and the repudiation
lay the president v.*ho may follow CasLro,
in his undertakings.
Lopez Barait, minister of foreign affairs
at Caracas, transmitted to Minster
Bowen Thursday morning a docunent
signed by President Castro as
constitutional president of the repubic,
and countersigned by himself as
ninister of foreign affairs, ill which
.VIr. Bowen is recognized as the only
epresentative of Venezuela in we mat.
:er of effecting a settlement of the
present difficulty. According to the
.erms of this document, Mr. Bowen
nay act without restriction and he is
:o use all means possible ^o protect the |
nterests of Venezuela.
United States Won't Gurantee.
The effort to induce the United
States government to act as guarantor,
t is safe to say, will not succeed, and
t is beginning to appear that there is
ikely to be a mixed commission appointed
to receive all Venezuelan
customs and setting apart a certain
lortion for the maintenance of the
Venezuelan government, and disburse
he remainder among the powers until
heir obligations, are met.
The government of France has now
entered the field as an active party
n the trouble. The French govcrnnent
has, through its ambassadors
md charges and ministers, served noice
upon the governments of Great
Britain, Germany and Italy, and by
vay of information, has also torn sec- i
etary Hay, that any provision made
or the settlement of claims must rec)gnize
tho pre-eminence of the French
laims. France recived assurances
rom the other governments named
hat any arrangements made would
irovide for the security of the French
nterests in the Venezuelan customs.
Notice of SIcckadc.
It has been learned from an official
;ource at Caracas that the allies will
lotify the Venezuelan authorities at
Guayra of the blockade to become
;ffective Saturday, Decern uer 20, at 3
>. m., of the ports of La Guayra, Puero
Cabello, Cora, Maracaibo, Carupano
ind Barcelona
INSURED FOR A F RTUNE.
.ouisville Business Man, Found Dead,
Had $340,000 on His Life.
It developed in Louisville, Ky.,
Thursday that R. C. Whayne, a busiless
man,who was found dead Tuesday
light in the vicinity of Jacob park,
vith a gunshot wound in the breast,
:arried insurance on his life for $340,100,
and had applications pending for
>50,000 more. The policies a.ready se;ured
were distributed as follows:
Equitable Lite assurance ui
s'ew Yorii, $200,000; Provident Savngs
Life Assurance Society of New
fork, $120,000; Union Central Life,
>10,000; New York Life, $5,000; Northvestern
Mutual Life, $5,000.
It was upon the fact that Mr.
Yhayne carried such a large life insurmce
and was said to be suffering from
heumatism that a theory oi suicide
s based.
Cousin of Kng Alfonso Arrested.
General Bourbon y Castellvi, a cou;in
of King Alfonso, was arrested
Thursday evening in a gambling club
it Madrid. He was arraigned before
he captain general and subsequently
mprlsoned.
FIVE YEARS FOR BOODLERS.
Quintet of St. Louis Ex-Deiegates Con.
victed by Jury.
The joint trial of five former memDcrs
of the house of delegates, which
began at St. Louis Tuesday, ended
Friday night in a verdict of five years
n the penitentiary for each man. The
lef end ants, John A. Sheridan, Charles
F. Denny, Charles Gutke, Edmund
3ersch and T. E. Albright, were convicted
on charges of bribery in conlection
with the passage of the Suburban
street car bill, to accomplish
nroo niiorp-firt $7." ODD had been
> 11 Hlto Y . W , ^ ^ w
>laced on deposit to be used as reluired.
To Open New Lands.
Representative Stephens, of Texas,
las introduced a bill to open for settlement
505,000 acres of land in the
Kiowa. Comanche and Apache Indian
reservations n Oklahoma.
Ncrthrup Confirmed by Senate.
The senate at Saturday's session
confirmed the nomination of William
I. Ncrthrup. marshal for the northern
district of Florida.
SKIPPED WITH THE FUNDS.
Colored Treasurer cf Miners' Union in
Alabama is Missing.
President Ed Flynn, of the United
dine Workers cf America, has asked
he Birmingham, Ala., police to Keep
l lookout for a negro named Burrc..
Sraham, who, it is said, has in his pes
ession about $S00 of the money be'
onging to the union. The money w?is
leposited with him as treasurer cf the
ocal union at Belle Sampler. A regard
of $50 has been offered for his ar i
est. !
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Brief Summary of Most j
important Events
of Each Bay.
?Governor Terrell, of Georgia, ve- j
toes bills creating new city courts for j
Waynesboro and Jefferson on constitutional
grounds.
?R. C. Whayne, of Louisville, dies
carrying $340,000 life insurance. It is j
believed that he committed suicide.
?Hearing a test case the Eirming- |
ham city court decides that the mayor i
must report all fines to the board of j
Aldermen
?At Mullins, S. C., robb3rs dynamite
a bank safe and get away with
$6,000.
?The first formal state dinner since
the remodeling of the white house was
given Thursday night.
?Cornelius Vanderbilt's condition is
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'd. very sei juus uuc. rcmuuiuo
veloped.
?Nine thousand Boers are preparing
to settle in Colorado, New Mexico and
Texas.
?At the trial of Laura Biggar, at
Freehold, N. J., who is trying to get
the fortune of Henry M. Bennett,
claiming to be his widow, there were
many witnesses who swore she was legally
married to Bennett.
?J. K. Murrell, in the .rial of boodlers
at St. Louis, tells how the bribes
were distributed.
?The report that there was yellow
fever at Willemstadt, Curacoa, is denied.
?The losses by the volcano in Gautemala
are said to be enormous. The :
voncano is still in activity and a new j
eruption is feared.
?The Southern Express Company at I
Baltimore refuses to haul Atlanta's
elephant on the terms agreed to by the
Adams Express Company.
?Governor Terrell puts his signa- j
j ture to the franchise tax bill and its
| operation is no longer hindered,
j ?Manipulators of famous cherry
tree swindle were sentenced at CharI
lotte, N. C., Wednesday.
?Dr. Charles M. Beckwith was consecrated
as bishop of Alabama at Montgomery
Wednesday.
?Hundreds of cattle are killed in j
Florida by government spraying St. j
Johns river to destroy water hyacinths.
?Customs officials have seized diamonds
valued at $24,000 at El Paso,
Texas.
?Convention at Dallas, Texas, discusses
methods to rid the south of the
bell weevil which is destroying so
much cotton.
?General Peanuts, the midget, who j
for several years was one of the attrac- j
tions in circuses, was found dead in j
his bed at New York.
?The coal barons present their :
[ case to the strike commission. Miners' i
I counsel challenge certain wage state- i
j ments of the operators.
j ?Arbitration has been decided on j
| to settle trouble in Venezuela. Minister
Bowen will be one of the arbitrators.
?Premier Balfour made a state- j
ment in the house of commons that a
state of war exists in Venezuela.
?M. Tkiesse, former minister of
France to Venezuela, says Castro can
place an army of 400,000 men in the j
field.
?Former Governor A. D. Candler ; :
is to be chosen by Governor Terrell
to compile colonial, revolutionary and ;
confederate records of Georgia.
?Suit filed in United States court 1
at Macon, Ga., denying the right of
officers to use force in entering ques- !
tionable places.
?W. J. Potter and Pope Potter, !
father and son, were placed on trial j
at Savannah, Ga., Monday, charged j 1
with the murder of Gugie Bourquin
and a negro servant.
?The time allotted by court in
which the Amos cherry tree fraud j ]
men were to return money to victims '
has nearly expired, and the managers [
will probably land in Charlotte, N. C., '
jail.
?Logan, convicted of forgery, has j
been sentenced at Knoxville, Tenn., ^
on various counts. The total of sen- j ]
tence3 amounts to 130 years.
?South Alabama conference of ;
Methodists adjourned at Montgomery j
after the reading of the appointments. J
Meets next year at Pensacola, Fla. j *
?Five hundred men in New York j
volunteer to fight for Venezuela.
?Money kings make pool of fifty i
millions to prevent panic in Wall . !
street. ]
?Fourteen roads are arraigned in j
Chicago for alleged rate cutting. j (
?Secretary Hay receives calls from | '
a number of South American minis- j '
ters concerning Venezuelan situation, j 1
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?Four convicts escape from a | ]
stockade in Alabama by sawing | ]
through wall j j
?The situation as to Venezuela has :
not improved. President Castro has j
asked for arbitration while denounc- j
ing the conduct of Great Britain and f
Germany.
?General assembly of Georgia ad- '
journed last Saturday morning at 2:55 | t
o'clock after a pitched battle between (
the two houses on disposition of the ! i
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After serving thirty years in Mis- i t
sissippi penitentiary for manslaughter ;
Jake Cooper is pardoned by governor. ) 1
?General Fitzhugh Lee, in speaking ! 1
at a banquet in New York Friday I
night, says that he reported the conditions
in Cuba to President Cleveland, j
during his administration and no attention
was paid to him
?Before the coal strike commission !
at Scran ton Wednesday a witness tes- :
titled that the barons tried to break ,
the strike by bribery. | ]
?President Mitchell, of the United j ]
Mine Workers, was a witness before ' ]
the strike commission at Scranton, : ;
Pa., Friday, and showed that soft coal ;
workers got better pay than the an- i
thracite men.
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EIGHTEEN LOSE LIFE
Fn Frightful Rear=End Collision
of Trains in California.
VICTIMS CRUSHED IN DEBRIS
Twenty-Seven Injured Taken to Hospital
in San Francisco?Cause
of Wreck an Unexplained
Mystery.
A special from Byron, Cal., says:
Eighteen persons were killed and twenty-seven
injured in a collision Saturday
night between the southbound Los
Angeles "Owl" train and the Stockton
flyer about 70 miles out from San Francisco.
It was a rear-end collision, the
engine of the local plowing its way
into the last coaches of the Owl, which
was filled with Fresno people. The passengers
who escaped death were hurled
to the fore part of the coach, I
crushed in between the mass of debris,
their sufferings and danger intensified
a hundred fold by the clouds of
scalding steam that poured out upon
the mfrom the shattered boiled of the
Stockton engine.
After the Owl left the Oakland mole
it was noted that there was a leak in
the fiue of the engine. This increased
to such an extent that it was deemed
advisable to stop at Byron to take up
a freight engine for relief. The train
officials knew that the Stockton local
train was following a half hour behind
and a flagman was sent back to give
warning of the presence of the Owl.
It is said that the Stockton train, in
charge of Engineer McGuire and Fireman
Joyce, got the warning signal in
time, and gave the usual response with
whistle blasts. Why the incoming
train was not checked, however, has
not thus far been explained, the men
who could give the facts being numbered
among the badly injured. On
came the train, with apparently no
diminution of speed, and the Fresno
coach was completely telescoped.
It seems miraculous that the horror
of fire was not added to the direful
disaster, but the penned up victims j
were, with seemingly Providential intervention,
spared from flame, for the
oil burners were extingushed when the
crash came.
Later advices state that there are
fears that the total will reach twenty.
Most of the wounded passengers, who
were too severely injured to be taken
in their homes, were taken to the
Southern Pacific hospital at San Francisco
Sunday, and on the way to that
place five victims died.
WIZARD MARCONI TRIUMPHANT.
Inventor of Wireless Telegraphy Announces
His Success to the World.
The following dispatch from Marconi,
dated Glace Bay, N. S., December
21, has been received by the Associated
Press in New York:
"I beg to inform you for circulation
that I have established wireless telegraph
communication between Cape
Breton, Canada and Cornwall, England,
with complete success. Inauguratory
messages, including one from
the governor general of Canada, to
King Edward VII, have already b*?n
transmitted and forwarded to the
kings of England and Italy. A message
to The London Times has also
been transmitted in the presence of
its special correspondent, D. Parkin,
v> a MARCONI."
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CONGRESS TAKES RECESS.
Members Stop Work Until Close of
the Holiday Session.
Congress Saturday adjourned for the
Christmas holidays and will resume its
labors on January 5th.
The only Christmas presents the national
assembly presents to the nation
after three weeks' work is to be enjoyed
solely by the coal strike commission,
the bill for paying each member
?5,000 having been finally passed by
the house and senate.
The chaplains invoked with unusual
:ervor divine guidance during the short
period of separation, while the members
are at home for Christmas.
ADJOURNED FOR HOLIDAYS.
Strike Commission Takes Recess.
Meets in Philadelphia Jan. 6.
The anthracite coal commission held
ts last session of the year at Scranton
Saturday and adjourned to meet in
Philadelphia January 6.
In order to permit the commissioners
and others connected with the proceedings
to catch trains Saturday's
session began at 9 o'clock. The attorneys
for the non-union men continued
1'' ?:i?fnr- tVio mirnnsp nf I
mailing Wiiiiuoaco i\ji mv/ t proving
that violence, intimidation and
boycotts were resorted to in order to
prevent the men from continuing work.
. GIRLS MAKING CIGARS.
^ewpFactory at Savannah Opens Doors
\ and Work Begins.
Twenty-eight girls went to work in
;he new factory of the American Cigar
Company at Savannah, Ga.. Uhursday
norning. They are under the tutelage
)f three experts brought down from
.he north.
The cigars they make at first will
lot be put on the market as they are
nore or less faulty.
NEGROES DRILLING REBELS.
Uncle Sam's Black Soldiers Proving
Traitors in Philippines.
Advices liav? reached Washington
from Manila to the effect that bands
of Laarones which are harassing the
rural population of the islands are in
many instances led by negroes who
have been discharged from the army
and arc employing their military
knowledge in drillng the Ladrones and
organizng them in a crude military
way.
j A NEW CABINET PLACE. J
| House Committee, by Decisive Vote,
Favors Creating Department
of Commerce.
The house committee on interstate j
| commerce Friday ordered a favorable
report on the department of commerce j
j bill. The vote on reporting it stood j
5 to 3. The provision for including
the bureau of labor in the new depart- [
ment was retained on a tie vote.
The bill as it will come from the '
j house committee will embrace within j
: the proposed department of commerce I
I the light house board, the light house j
service, national bureau of standards, j
coast and geodetic survey, bureau of i
immigration, fish commission, bureau j
of statistics of the treasury depart- !
ment, bureau of foreign commerce of j
the state department, for seal and sal- j
mon fisheries, bureau of labor and cen- j
sus and three new bureaus?insurance, j
manufactures and corporations.
Tho nrnvir)/>P nrtrl rilitv of the Dro- i
posed bureau of corporations is, under
the direction of the secretary of commerce,
to gather, compile "publish and
supply useful information concerning
corporations engaged in interstate or
foreign commerce.
A section added to the senate bill
gives the president authority to transfer
at any time statistical or scientific
branch of the government to the department
of commerce.
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PURE FOOD BILL PASSED.
Measure Adopted in House by Vote of
72 to 21.
The .house at Friday 's session passed
the pure food bill by a vote of 72 to
21. There was not a quorum present,
but the point was not raised by the
opponents of the measure.
The speakers were*Messrs. Richardson
of Alabama; Hepburn, of Iowa;
Gaines, of Tennessee, and Schirm, of
Maryland, for the measure, and Mr.
Candler, of Mississippi, against it.
The bill inhibits the introduction
into any state or territory or the District
of Colombuia from any other
state, territory or foreign country or
to the shipment to any foreign country,
of any article or food or drug
which is adulterated or misbranded.
The above inhibition is made to apply
to any one shipping, delivering or receiving
within the regions named any
such goods so adulterated. Adulterations
in the bill are defined in part as
follows:
In the case of drugs, if sold under a k
name recognized in the United States
pharmacopoeia at the time of investigation,
so that its strength or purity
falls below the professional standard
under which it is sold; if it be an imitation
of, or offered for saie under the
name of another article, and in the
case of a confectionery, if it contains
terra alba, barytes, talc, chrome yellow
or other mineral substances, or poisnrmns
colors or flavors. In the case of L
foods, when any substance is mixed
with it so as to lower or injuriously
affect its quality or strength so that
such product when offered for sale
shall tend to deceive the purchaser.
If any substance or substances has
been substituted so that the product
when sold shall tend to deceive the
purchaser, if any valuable constituent
of an article has been wholly or in
part abstracted If it be an imitation
offered for sale under the distinctive
name of another article.
If it be mixed, colored, powdered or
stained in a manner whereby damage
or inferiority is concealed. If it contain
any added or poisonous ingredient
which may render such article injurious
to health.
If it is falsely labeled as a foreign
product or imitation of another substance
of a previously established
name, which has been trade marked or
patented. If it consists in whole or in
part of a filthy, decomposed or putrid
animal or vegetable substance or any
portion of animal unfit for iood, or if
it is the product of a diseased animal
or one that has died otherwise than by
slaughter.
The last section of the bill provides
that any article of food or drug that is
adulterated or misbranded shall be liable
to confiscation.
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Italian Claims Against Castro.
A semi-official announcement now
places the Italian claims against Venezuela
at $2,000,000.
"CHERRY TREE" MEN SENTENCED
Short Terms and Small Fines Imposed
_ in Charlotte Court.
Failing to raise the necessary money
to compromise their cases, some 12
or 15 defendants in the famous Amos
Owen cherry tree cases were given
short terms of imprisonment by
Judge Boyd in the federal court at
Charlotte, N. C., Wednesday. Rev. T.
Bright was sentenced to four months'
imprisonment and fined $1,000 ; C. D.
Wilkie three months, and W. H. Padgett
one month. Wilkie will be released
providing he raises $1,500, he
having already paid $500 of that
amount.
TOBACCO GROWERS MEET.
Over One Thousand Attend Session at
Rocky Mount, N. C.
At the meeting of the North Caro(
lina Tobacco Growers' Association at ,
Rocky Mount Friday over 1,000 grow- (
ers were present. John S. Cunning- .
ham is president. Arrangements were j
completed to organize dstrict associa- :
tions throughout the tobacco growing
area of the state. ,
COSTLY JEWELS ARE SEIZED.
Special Agent at Ei Paso Makes
Charge of Alleged Smuggling.
Special Agent J. F. Evans, stationed
at El Paso, Texas, has reported to the
secretary of the treasury the seizure at
El Paso of diamonds said to be worth
$24,000, and which, it is asserted, were
smuggled from England via New York.
The jewels have been placed in the
custody of the collector of customs at
El Paso pending a hearing of the
case.
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GUARANTEES ASKED
Powers Are Willing to Trust
Matters to United States.
REFUSE TO DEAL WITH CASTRO
Replies to Hay's Notes are Received
from Britain and Germany?Kai'
^
ser Reluctant and Demands
Safeguards.
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Friday Secretary Hay received partial
responses from the governments
of Great Britain, Germany and Italy
-r? respecting
the proposal to arbitrate
the Venezuelan difficulties.
Great Britain is favorable to arbitration
with proper safeguards.
Germany accepts arbitration in
principle, but finds a multitude of- -M
small adjustments to be madt before 'M
entering into the agreement
Italy, as the junior partner of the
allies, declares that she is favorable
to arbtration, but will be bound by the
action of the senior partner o.
Look Only to Uncle S?m.
The note to Reuters Telegraph '
company, announcing that Great Britain
had sent a reply to the United ' . M
States, is as follows:
"The statements issuing from Ca- -M
racas to the effect that President Cas- tro
has empowered Minister Bowen to
act as the representative of Venezuela g
are regarded in London as open to - ^
question. Any such action on the part . ^
of President Castro would be consid- - ^
ered wholly beside the mark. The "4M
powers concerned will deal-solely with ' > |
the United States in the matter of arbitration.
The government of Venezuela
will not be consulted in any f|jg
form, not even, as to the terms on
which arbitration might be acceptable / ' %
to the powers." .'
To secure these American ambassadors
at London, Berlin and Rome Js
have been working energetically to
carry out the instructions of Secretary M
Hay to ascertain how the proposal
would be received.
As far as England is concerned the ffiaB
safeguards referred to are believed to
relate to the questions of guarantee,
which is full of difficulties. In this
connection, as indicated in previous
dispatches some consideration is again.
given to the feasibility Of assumption. '
of responsibility of any award assessed
against Venezuela by fesponsible
private agencies, but the United
States government is determined -J
not to allow itself to be drawn into the
position of a guarantor in this case, .
for the precedent, once established, ^
might require the United States to be* \
come financial backer of all South and
Central America. However, if private ~ f
concerns can be induced to enter the - *
+ <? TTni'fo,; Ctofoo mill drt rnhftt ' 1
1IC1U, LUC UUXCCU wtuvw TT *** V.W ,? "" vuQna
it can to reduce their risks. Secre- :
tary Hay, Sir Michael Herbert, the
British ambassador, and Senator Dopew
were in conference Friday, and it
is suspected that tnis phase of the ;
case was touched upon, although no ^
confirmation can be had at this time. '^1
Knotty German Problem. ? . $$
The German position presents the
greatest difficulties, for not only ^
does it involve a demand few apoligies,
which are extremely repugnant iV 5
to Venezuela, but also presents so M
many points requiring adjustment that ^
it is evident that many days, or f
perhaps weeks, must elapse before the
adjustment can be effected and the
case prepared for arbitration. And
the danger of delay in the face of a
blockade, which seriously cripples J
neutral commerce, and invites hostile JJ*
collisions with the Venezuelans, can%
not be overestimated. V>J?B
The efforts of the United States,
therefore, must be directed toward
hastening Germany's action on the ar- / %
bitration proposal. ^ ; ^
The Italian position'is, of course, of '-J.
less concern than that of the other allies.
The Italian ambassador at Washinerton
in his intercourse with the state V
department, has been extremely moderate
and considerate, giving Seer*tary
Hay the impression that he is ; v>
well disposed to second any effort Of : ~ ,
the United States to terminate the V|||
present dangerous situation.
First Prize Under Blockade.
A special from Caracas says: The ^
British cruiser Indefatigable has made . - pj
the first prize under the blockade, capturing
the Venezuelan schooner Julia, V
which was goihg to Higuerote, a sea- ^
port in the province of Miranda. Tha.
Julia's cargo, by the irony of fate, be- ? vfsf
longs to the German firm of Blohm,
which has lodged a protest with the " *:M
United States consul.
Peruvians Offer Their Service*
A number of officers at Lima, Peru, ?| >
propose cabling their names to the
president gf Venezuela offering their :
services in the case of the situation be- coming
more complicated.
CUBAN TREATY IN SENATE.
Document Brought by Bliss from Havana
is Referred to Committee. - i. -jj
The president sent to the senate
Wednesday the reciprocity treaty recently
negotiated between the'United *
States and Cuba. The treaty was received
by the senate in executive session
and was referred tot the committee
on foreign relations .without b^Tng
read. It is stated that the treaty does
not concern the disposition of the Isle
of Pines. -
SHARKEY FOUND GUILTY.
Jury Declares that Banker Fish Diet
from Detective's Assault
At New York Friday the jury in the
case of Thomas J. Sharkey, accused of
the murder of Nicholas Fish, the bank- '
" ^ fV#
er, returned a verdict of manslaughter
in the second degree, and recommended
that the m^rcy of the court be ex- .
ercised.
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