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The Bamberg Herald. | _ -? ,? ?=? ?_ w - ' " ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 5.3903. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. - | ' ?*?- ? isj?sjrvjtvKsH\jrj?Mii f \ SOUTH CAROLINA \ I STATE NEWS ITEMS. CNJTSlCSJCMrNJCMrslCSlJ Dukes is Recovering. A. F. H. Dukes, one of the three members of the state dispensary board of control who has been seriously ill at his home in Branchville, is reported Improving and his recovery is looked for. I Key ward's First Pardon. Governor Hey ward granted his firstpardon last Monday to Robert Boyd, serving an eighteen months' sentence for grand larceny in Clarendon county, Boyd is said to be in a dying condition. . ] .** 1 Fire at Greenville. % i. _ J? i.1 TT7X me piani 01 iue mgiuiuu uuu works, located at Piedmont, was totally destroyed by fire one night the past ; week. The loss is estimated at $4,000; J insurance $1,000. The origin of th< fire is unknown. ( * i * * Requires Compulsory Education. 1 The state senate after some discussion has passed a bill requiring children over 12 years of age to attend school for at least eight weeks each year, and fixing the penalty for non compliance at a fine from $5 to $20. The proposal to make the offense punishable by imprisonment was voted* down. It is impossible to say whether the house will pass the bill but it has 1 many friends in that body. 1 s % 1 Seaboard to Use Old Station. * The decision of the Seaboard Air ? Line not to build its projected passen- A ger station on recently acquired prop- * erty in Columbia was announced a day or two ago. * This followed upon city councils re- 1 jection of the offer of tne railway com- i pany of $15,000 in lieu of certain work I required by council. The result will * thn Totnntinn >?* thn rna.fl nf its old passenger station for the time. * c .% t New South Carolina Industries. The Chattanooga Tradesman reports * the following new industries for Soutli I Carolina for the past week: Rock Hill, cotton mill; Greenville, 1 $25,000 development company; a Charleston, $100,000 timber company; s Ice factory; Columbia, $30,000 develop- 1 ment company; Clinton, $20,000 spin- E die cotton mill; Walterboro, $10,000 iron works and supply company; Fori c Motte, $15,000 oil mill; Camden, $5,00C t supply works. c v .% t Cannot Issue Frice List. South Carolina cotton commission a men are showing a disposition to take ^ a "back seat" just at present, since the v meeting of the cotton spinners in Charlotte, when prices were advanced all * along the line on yarns. As one com- ^ mission man expresses the situation, "We cannot issue a price list, as the a Cotton Spinners' Association has gone J and done it." It is claimed that the middle man will be unable to secure the prices ? which the spinners adopted at their Charlotte meeting. The market is re- ? ported as showing a disposition to become easier. p * v * Woman Killed by Hand Car. While walking across a trestle on the Southern railway at Piedmont, Mrs. W. M. Davenport and little boy were ' struck by a hand car loaded with c cross ties and hurled to the ground, a ? distance of 35 feet. Mrs. Davenport's death resulted an hour afterward. It is believed by attending physicians that the boy will recover from the injuries sustained by the fall. " It is said that no blame is attached to the railroad authorities for the accident. s Mrs. Davenport was a highly re- ^ spected woman and was well known in the community. c li ii Father Killed by Deputy. While attempting to capture an es- 0 0 caped prisoner late Saturday afternoon, Special Deputy L. C. Knox shot and killed T. P. Vernon in the Olympia mill district. Vernon was 53 years ola and worked in the Olympia mill. g Knox had arrested John Vernon, d son of the aeau man. who. in some way, escaped from the officer. Dep- a uty Knox went to the Vernon home Jo g search for the^ young man. Though armed with a search warrant, Knox met with violent opposition by. the parents of Vernon. An altercation ensued and Vernon struck the officer over the head with a stick, while Mrs. Vernon made at him with an open knife. Vernon secured his revolver, but before he could use it the constable shot him twice, killing him almost instantly, S Morgan Iron Works Sold. The chief interest at Spartanburg last Monday centered in the sale of the ^ Morgan iron works. There were only B a few bidders for this property, among them being H. E. Ravenel, W. S. Mont- ^ gomery and a gentleman fron outside the city. f' The prperty was bid in W. S. Mont gomery and others for $10,400. This v? property was put up on December sales day, but did not bring the upset price, $28,000, and the sale was postponed. A decree was then granted by ? the equity court by which the property should be sold to the highest bidder, on sale day in February. Mr. Mont- ( gomery is a prominent mill man of t South Carolina. ? I * Cotton Goods Used as Money. r John B. Cleveland, of Spartanburg, y one of the vice presidents of the Amor- t lean Asiatic Association for the pro- r < 1 motion of Asiatic trade a few days age made an interesting statement regarding the cotton goods supplied to the Chinese and foreign trade, coming largely from this section. "These goods," said Mr. Cleveland, "are used as a medium of exchange in some of the foreign countries, notably in Abyisinia on the northwest coast of the dark continent. "The goods so used are principally the brown sheetings and drills, and they are valued at the rate of 20 yards to the dollar. These goods are received as barter not only in the seacoast towns, but throughout Abysinia. A considerable part of these goods ire manufactured at Pelzer an'Jl Piedmont and at Whitney and. other mills of this section. "The Asiatic trade is now very good," Mr. Cleveland says, "and a wholesome iemand is existing. One mill of this section has sold several thousand sales during the last few months for :he Asiatic trade, the goods being shipped direct in consignments 01 1,000 bales each. "The mills, however, would like to secure bettor prices, the demand beng better than the prices received, rhe check to Chincst trade which was inn to the hover nnrisine has entirely ranished and the mills are enjoying a rery satisfactory Oriental trade at this :ime." CANAL TREATY IN PERIL. President and Secretary Hay Alarmed Over Attitude of Senator Morgaf? in Opposition to Ratification. A Washington special says: An important conference was held at the tVhite house Saturday, the participants being the president, Secretary 3ay and Senatdr Cullom, chairman of :he foreign relations committee of the senate. The subject under discussion vas the status of the Panama camil. ;reaty. The situation, with regard to the reaty as it has developed in the senite is giving the administration and ts supporters grave concern. The >resident is exceedingly anxious that he treaty should be ratified at the earliest possible moment. The conerence held Thursday was with a view >f ascertaining, if possible, what could >e done to hasten consideration of the reaty by the senate. It is quite cerain that the advices received by the resident are not reassuring. An effort ^s to be made to get the reaty out of committee with a favorible report. That the effort will be uccessful is reasonably certain, but ts troubles in the present view of the uatter will only have begun. Senator Morgan, chairman of the ommittee on inter oceanic canals, akes the ground that me negotiations on-ducted by the state department rlth Mr. Horran. representing ColomilS^are not valid, as he holds that Mr. lerran did not possess the necessary .uthority to make a treaty binding on ds country, and it is understood he fill use his utmost efforts to defeat he treaty in its present iorm. Indeed, he intimation has reached the presient that when the treaty is called up or final consideration in the senate, mendments will be offered to almost very section of it. It is stated definLely that another amendment to the reaty would imperil the entire canal roject, as the government of Colomia might hesitate to accept amendlents made to it, particularly if they lvolved essential details or princiles. During the conference the situation ras considered carefully, but what ecision, if any, was reached, could ot be ascertained. It is known only that an earnest efDrt is to be made in the senate to soure ratification of the treaty at the resent session. FRIGHTFUL HOLOCAUST. Vomeri and Children Lose Life in Rurninn of Aoartment House. A special from Vancouver, B. C., ays: In a fire which broke out on lalcolm island, some distance up the oast from Vancouver, in a common ving house where twenty-four famies lived .eleven women and children rere burned to death and seventeen iher people were injured Thursday vening last. ENGINE STRIKES TROLLEY. , [leven Passengers Injured on Street Car in Springfield, Ohio. A Big Four passenger train, struck ' street car at a street crossing i?j 1 Springfield. Ohio, Friday early in the vening. The car was well filled with eople, and it was hit squarely in the enter, driving it 50 feet beyond the rossing. Eleven persons were injured, two * f whom are seriously hurt. THREE DEAD; DOZEN HURT. , tock Trains Crash Together on Chicago ajnd Northwestern Railway. Three persons were killed, four se- | [ously injured and eight slightly in.ired in a rear-end collision between tock trains on the Chicago and North- J -estern railway near La Fox, Ills., 1 Wednesday. The trains came together in a dense ] )g ,the engine of the rear train crash- 1 l% into the caboose ahead without aiming to the fated passengers. 1 i POWERS REPLY TO CASTRO, itick to Reservations Contained in Their Original Proposal. The joint reply of the powers to lastro's qualified acceptance of nrbi-1. ration was handed to the United States ambassadors at Berlin and .ondon Tuesday. The note aims to urther smooth the way for a settle- 1 uent, which possibly may be reached rithout arbitration. The powers, towever, do not abandon any of the eservations contained in their original proposal. FOURTEEN MILLIONS Is Claim of the Allies That Little Veneznela Must Pay. BOWEN'S PLAN MEETS FAVOR British, German and Italian Ambassa* dors Urge Their Governments to Accept and Lift the Blockade at Once. A Washington special says: The British and German ambassadors and Count Quadt, the German charge d'affaires, Wednesday night called on Mr. Bowen, Venezuela's representative in the negotiations, looking to a raiding of the blockade and settlement of the claims against Venezuela, The conference was by appointment, ami at th<a rpnnpst nf the renresenta tives of tho allies. It is believed that the purpose was to present the claims of the allies to preferential treatment in payments over those nations which have not exerted physical pressure on Venezuela, but it was impossible to get any direct information on this point. The conference broke up at 12:30 o'clock, and the representatives of the allies proceeded at once to their homes. It was made known that no agreement had yet been reached for the raising of the blockade, and that further word must be awaited from Europe before this state of the negotiations is Rassed. Mr. Bowen made tho following statement: "We have been discussing tonight certain points which needed to be clearly understood. They have been referred to us for consideration and our views are now to be communicated at once to Rome, London and Berlin." The further statement was made after the conference that there was absolutely no foundation for charges that Germany was delaying the signing of the preliminary protocol. The representations considered emanated from the London foreign office. Fourteen Millions Asked. The Italian and British ambassadors and the German charge d'affaires at a joint conference Wednesday agreed 'to cable their governments urging a prompt acceptance of Mr. Bowen's last proposition, to enable the lifting of the Venezuelan blockade at once. In this cablegram, which was sen at noon, t was suggested that consideration of the details of the proposition bo postponed until alter the signing of the preliminary protocol. Signor Mayor des Planches, the Italian ambassador, as the ranking representative of the allies, called on Mr. Bowen during the afternoon and informed him of the dispatch of the joint cablegram to the powers and expressed th ehope that it would expedite the arrival of the final answer. Partial confirmation has been obtained of cable dispatches that Belgium is to take a prominent part in the administration of the customs receipts. Mr. Bowen declines to discuss the details of his plan, however, until the blockade has been raised. Late in the day he gave out a brief statement of the diplomatic debt of Venezuela and the methods for its future adjustment. in round numbers this debt amounted on December 31, 1901, to something over $14.000,-.00. and consisted of claims which had been previously adjusted. Mr. uowen's plan provides that 13 per cent of the customs receipts of all the Venezuelan ports shall go toward the payment of this debt. Senatorial Deadlock in Washington. The eleventh ballot for United States senator, taken at Olympia, Wash., Wednesday was as follows: Ankeney, 5G : Preston, 44; Turner, 22; A llr.n ft vvnauu u, .iJiv.ii, w. Spoonsr Given Full Vote. The election of John C. Spooner as United States senator to succeed himself was reaffirmed Wednesday in joint session of the Wisconsin legislature. He received th full party vote. RIOTS QUICKLY QUELLED. Governor of Connecticut Promptly Orders Troops to Waterbury. Eight companies of the First regiment, Connecticut national guard, and five companies of the Second regiment, with two gat ling guns, were called to Waterbury Sunday night at the command of Governor Chamberlain, because of "the imperative need" occasioned by the trolley strike sit nation. The riot about tiie streets Saturday night, coupled with threats of further disturbances, led to the call for troops. UNJUST AND UNREASONABLE. In Strong Terms Caracas Newspapers .Score Attitude cf Allies. All the newspapers of Caracas have published articles to the effect that the act of the allies in imposing upon Venezuela special preferential treatment in the settlement of their own claims is on a par with all their precious acts since the beginning of the present difficulty, namely, unjust and unreasonable. HELD EULOGISTIC SERVICES. House of Representatives Convene in Special Session. A Washington di.-;pai< h rays: The house met at noon Hand:;;.' for the purpose of pronouncing eulogies in memory of the late Senator McMillan, of .Michigan. The speakers were Messrs. Corliss. N. A. Smith. Hamil ton. S. W. Smith. (lardn-r and Henry C. Smith, of Michigan; Rabcock. ol Wisconsin ,aml Burton. < i Ohio. At 1:35 o'clock as a further uarlc of respect th? house adiourneg* ! EDUCATION BOARD ORGANIZED. ! For Education in the South Rockefeller Gives Hundred Thousand Dollars a Year, for Ten Years. The general education board recently chartered by congress for tne promotion of educational work in the Uni- j ; ted States, organized in Washington j | Thursday. The board consists of W. : y. Baldwin, Jr., Wallace Buttrlck, j J. L. M. Curry, Frederick T. Gates, I ; Daniel C. Gilman, Morris K Jesup, ; Robert C. Ogden. Walter H. Page, i George Foster Pcabody, John D. Rock* I efeller, Jr., and Albert Shaw. Mr. 1 j Baldwin was elected chairman, Mr. j 1 Peabddy treasurer, and Mr. Buttrick , j secretary and executive officer. The business offices of the board ' will be at 116 Nassau street, New I York city. One of its main objects is ! the promotion of rural free schools in j the southern states, although the charj ter contemplates educational work in j all parts of the United States. Pend* J ing the granting of the charter, the I board has been at work for a year unj der articles of association. i At the beginning 01 us wom a , : "generous friend," as stated by the : board, subscribed $100,000 a year for a ! period of ten years, which sum, the board says, has enabled the demon; stration of the possibility of effective work and the practicability of philanthropic co-operation with tho public authorities. It -developed later that j this donor was John D. Rockefeller. ; Other sums of money, smaller in amount, also have been received. The board issued the following an nouncement: "In developing Its constructive pro gram to aid rural authorities, state superintendents of public instruction in Virginia. North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana have held conferences of all their county superintendents, at which the executive officer of the general educational board : has been a most welcome guest. He has accepted an invitation to meet the county superintendents of Florida at Gainesville fti that state next week. The knowledge thus acquired and the relations established have convinced the board tnat the opportunities are now at hand lor ">ise and prudent investment of large sums of money to promote the education of all the people throughout the southern states. The fact is demonstrated that no wiser or more patriotic opportunity for philanthropy is before the people "The board is now organized to re ceive funds designated for the further prosecution of the work begun, to act as trustee for the holding and investment of funds designated for the bene fit of institutions of learning, and tc pay over the annual income of such funds under the terms of the trust, to see that funds given conditionally to institutions through the board are distributed in strict accordance with the conditions. Funds held by the gener! al education board are free of taxa tion." LEE OVERMAN WINS TOGA Named for Senator in North Carolina Democratic Legislative Caucus. Le? S. Overman was nominated I United States senator in the North j Carolina democratic senatorial caucus at Raleigh Thursday night on the sixty-first ballot. The final vote was: Overman 73, Watson 58, Craig 11. The nomination is equivalent to an election. Le? S. Overman is 49 years old. He is a lawyer of ability, a native Oi Salisbury, and in 1874 graduated from Trinity college. He was private secretary to Governor Vance ,and has been a member of.the house of representatives five different times, having been | speaker once. % In 1895 ho was democratic candidate for senator to succeed Vance. In 1900 he was the state democratic presidential elector. KANSAS MAY BAR BLACKS. i I Disfranchising Bill of Sweeping Nature Introduced in Legislature. A resolution was introduced in the j Kansas legislature Thursday to amend : the election laws so as to exclude all r ?~ or,/} . n rpnillrp all i negroes irum wims ? | foreign born people to become natur! alized before voting. There is much i sentiment in favor of the resolution, ! and it will cause a hard contest. MEXICAN BANK SWINDLED. | Slick Cuban Gets Bogus Check for Sixteen Thousand Cashed. A swindle by which a Cuban named j Juan Prieto is alleged to have suci ceeded in getting a check cashed for 1 $16,000 at the Bank of London and ' Mexico, in Mexico City, has just come to light. j Prieto arrived in Mexico from Ha! vana with Treveno's circus last year. Recently he is alleged to have preI sented to the Bank of London and . Mexico a check on the Colonial bank ! of Havana, representing himself to be the Cuban agent of the Bank of London and Mexico. BANK CASE DECIDED. High Court Says National Institutions Are Above State Banks. The case of Easton vs. the State of ! Iowa was decided by the United States supreme court Monday in favor of Easton, thus reversing the supreme ccurt of Iowa. The case involves the applicability of state laws regulating state banks to national banks. The ! court's decision puts national banks ! above state banks. ! TOO MUCH CORONER. Two Juries Interfere With InvestigaI tigation of Wreck in Arazina. Conflict of authority between the two justices of the peace of Tucson, Arizona, is retarding the investigation j into the responsibility for the train wreck at Vails. Under the laws of Arizona justices of the peace act as | coroners. Tucson has two justices, ! and therefore two coroners, both of j whom claim the right to hear testimony on the wr^chj I Cream of News. | Brief Summary of Most Important Events of Each "Day. ?J. H. Land and family, of Ea^t Alabama, were drowned in a freight cor that plunged into the Mississippi at Vicksburg. ?A bill is to be introduced in the Alabama legislature seeking to relieve Birmingham of the criminal element. ?The house met in Washingtoa Sunday and eulogies were pronounced in memory of the late Senator McMillan, of Michigan. ?Senator Quay has changed his tactics and will not Insist on night sessions for the statehood bill. ?The Pullman Car Company announces increase of pay of employees. They will get ten hours' pay for nine hours' work. ?Governor of Connecticut sends troops to Waterbury because of strike riot there. ?The Jefferson Memorial Association rdpads for funds to erect a monu ment for the aathor of the Declaration of Independence. ?General Miles dined with King Edward at Windsor Castle, Sunday night. ?The crown princess of Saxony and M. Giros will come to the United States shortly. ?Sultan of Morocco attacked the pretender's forces at daybreak Thursday near Fez and completely crushed them. ?Health authorities at Mazat'an. Mexico, attribute the bubonic plague due ta an American vessel, from San Francisco stopping there. ?Young couple engaged to be married, killed by the cars nerr Savannah. ?Misses Benning, daughters of the late general, at Columbus, Ga., ar? protesting against the destruction ok a sycamore tree their father planted. ?Senator Pettus, of Alabama, reelected by the Alabama legislature. ?Six men killed by the explosion of boilers at Anniston, Ala. ?In the habeas corpus case at Kosciusko, Mies., the court denied the writ and-the eleven white men charged with killing two negroes were sent baclL to ? ?Before the-strike commission Attorney Darrow charged that the operators are responsible for the coal shortage. ?Twenty persons were killed in the railway horror at Plainfleld, N. J. ?Miss Dickenson, who is to be a witness in the Young murder trial, has been threatened with death if she repeals secrets of the Mormon church. ?It is reported a>. Washington that Judge Emory Speer will be promoted to the circuit court Oi. appeals, and that District Attorney Marion Erwin will succeed Judge Speer. ?There was a snarp colloquy in the senate Wednesday between Senator? Carmack and Bevcridge over cruelties in the Philippines. Senator Car mack practically canon senator ueveridgo a liar. ?The special court to try the suit of the crown prince of Saxony tor divorce has convened at Dresden. ?The British, German and Italian ambassadors have urged their governments to accept Minister Bowen's last proposition and raise the blockade. ?A negro labor agent was killed Monday in a lumber camp in Harrison county, Mississippi. He had refused to leave when ordered. ?Eli Rogers, a crazed man of Union count, North Carolina, Monday afternoon killed Miss May Pressley and a negro boy. ?The democrats of the Alabama legislature in Joint caucus Monday nominated Senator Pettus to succeed himself. ?Senator Morgan, of Alabama, is making a fight on the Panama canal treaty. ?The house has adopted a resolution caking for information in regard to the Indianola affair. ?Ihe Afro-American council has isrued an address condemning 'ho south for ?'s treatment of the negro ?Philip Doblin, who swore that Lemuel Quigg offered Congressman Lessler $5,000 for his vote, confesses that he perjured himself. ?Judge William R. Day, of Ohio, has been offered and accepted "he pos'tion of associate justice of tha United States supreme court. ?Lieutenant Armstrong, of Alabama, is dead of the smallpox at Manila. ?At Wartburg, Tetn., Morris Jett, a youth, was killed by an exploding gun. His aged grandmother died after hearing of his death. ?At Durban, South Africa, the bubonic plague is committing such ravages that the people arc fleeing. ?Throe alleged widows are suing for damage for the death of a negro fireman at Spartanburg, S. C. ?Steamer Dawson City, eighty-six ' * V/\iv?A days (JUL il UUI lMfluv;, i vai^nuo mil Townsend, Wash., with 110 losses. ?Senator Teller says if he is refused a certificate of election by the governor of Colorado, he win carry his case to tho United States senate. ?John D. Rockefeller is bothered by letters telling him now to better his weak stomach, the result of some joker who reported that Rockefeller would give $1,000,000 for a cure. ?An unknown white woman walked on a bridge on the Central below Macon, knowing that a train was just behind her. She was decapitated. ?It is announced that the blockade of Venezuela will be raised at once under satisfactory terms. ?In the elections in France Saturday Count Boni de Castellano was returned to the chamber of ueputlos. j FRANCE TO ACT ALONE i No Rift Yet Appears in the Low* ering Yeneznelan War Chad. ?? j ALLIES REJECT LAST PROPOSAL j | Representatives of Powers at Washington Entertain Gloomy View, But are Stiii Using Every Effort for Pacification. It developed at Washington Saturday that the answers of the allied powers to Minister Bowen's latest propo sition arrived Friday, but were not immediately presented to the minister. The answers were to the effect that the allies could not consent that the United States and the other claimant nations receive the same treatment as the blockading powers, and that .ney therefore rejected in toto Mr. Bowen's final proposition. Knowing tne consequences -uiai were to follow the presentation of this answer, the representatives of the allies took upon themselves th responsibility of withholding the notes of their governments, and of again cabling, urging a retraction of their preferential demand. Exchanges are still in progress between the Italian, British and German embassies, uut there is no evidence that the allies intend yielding. If they hold out, their representatives must present the joint refusal, and the Washington negotia tions will come to a standstill. Baron Sternberg, Germany's new envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the United States, conferred Saturday with Count Quadt, who, as charge d'affaires, nas thus far conducted the Venezuelan negotiations for Germany. Afterwards the minister called by appointment at the state department and presented his letters of credence to Secretary Hay, and afterwards to the president. From the white house Baron von Sternberg went to the British emoassy. Baron von Sternberg in L*s calls at the state department and the British embassy found the outlook for a relief of the present deadlock exceedingly gloomy, and he has cabled as much tc his government. France- tojGo Alone. The French legation Iras notified the Venezuelan government thaT-ip virtue of the convention of 1S67 Fnine!"' was allowed to collect directly a part of tie revenues of several customs houses in Venezuela as a guarantee for her diplomatic claims arising out of the previous revolutions. France', it is said, renounced forever, by the convention of 1865, the exercise of this right on condition that the interest on this debt always should be regularly paid. As this payment has not oeen maae, rrauce, wiiaout asKing me auttorization of Germany, England and Italy, intends to revive her right of direct collection. The French charge d'affaires, Quievreaux, has paid visits to the foreign minister and has also called on President Castro during the past forty-eight hours. This activity on the part of France is evidently in connection with her intention to revive her rights, and is considered as an answer to the attitude assumed by the allied powers. A special from Caracas says: In reply to Minister Bowen's inquiry as to what Venezuela intends to do regarding the demand for preferential treatment made by the allies, President Castro has telegraphed: "The Venezuelan government desires equal treatment for all the creditor nations of Europe and America, keeping in mind, in addition, its diplomatic conventions and anterior stipulations." MILES DINES WITH ED. England's Ruler Hob-Nobs With Ranking American General. A London dispatch says: General Nelson A. Miles was the guest of the king and nueen at dinner at Windsor ctCiinrlotf -nlcrlit TV?o^ vuoviv ?JUUUI*J uigut. A UV/ pi 1UVC auu princess of Wales and others were among the party. King Edward is enjoying the best of health. SHIP TRUST LAUNCHED. Great International Mercantile Marine Company Elects Officers. At New York Friday the complete organization of the International Mercantile Marine Company was announced. The officers of the incorporation are: President, Clement A. GriScom; vice president in Great Britain, Sir Clinton E. Dawkins; vice president in America, Philip A. S. Franklin; treasurer, James S. Cwartz sec ' ' 9 retary, Emerson E. Parvin; comptroller, Monroe G. Tilley; general counsel, Francis Lynde Stetson. BIG LAND SALE IN FLORIDA, Savannah and Jacksonville Men Purchase Half Million Acre6. The lands granted to the Jacksonville Tamna and Kev West railroad. 507,984 acres, were sold at Green Cove Springs, Fla., Monday for 32 1-2 cents per acre. Lawrence McNeil, of Savannah, and W. F. Coachman, first vice president of the Consolidated Naval Stores Company, of Jacksonville, were the joint purchasers. PLEDGER WAS CHAIRMAN. Colored Assistant Register of Treasury Corrects Erroneous Statement. Cyrus Field Adams, assistant register of the treasury, has written a letter to The Atlanta Constitution in which he shows that W. A. Pledger, of Georgia, and not Adams, presided at the meeting of the Afro-American council in Washington the other even ing, when James Hayes, the Virginia negro lawyer, delivered himself of a red-hot speech, which has been greatly aflticlMd* - ... . PEA30DY TRUSTEES MEET. Directors of Big Educational Fund : Gather at Washington. The board of trustees of the Pea>- j body education fund held a special j meeting in Washington Thursday for ; the purpose of formulating a plan by I which the work of the board and that i of the general education board, which ; is working along the same lines, shall not be duplicated. The following members were present: Samuel E. Green, Massachusetts James D. Porter, Tennessee; J. Pierpont Morgan, New York; Chief Justice Fuller, ol the supreme court Wilr ! liam A. Courtenay, South Carolina; H, M. Solerville, Alabama; Charles j S. Fenner, Louisiana; ex-President D. j C. Gilman, of Johns Hopkins univer- j sity George Peabody Wetmore, Rhodo Island; Senator Hoar, Massachusetts; ex-Attorney General Richard Olney; ex-Secretary of the Interior Hoke Smith, Georgia; Rt. Rev. W. C. Doane, New York. The general subject of education in the south was discussed. a -L i.1 Tne most important acuuu was the adoption of the following resolution: "That in the opinion of the board of trustoes, the fund in its hands, or a portion of the income thereof, should be applied so far as legal and practicable to the establishment and maintenance of a teachers' college, to be called the 'Peabody College for Teachers,' at such point in the southern states as may be found advisable That a committee of five, to be appointed by the chair, is hereby directed to confer with any other boards or persona interested in the subject matter, and to report a plan for carrying into effect the purposes and Objects above stated, and that the committee be authorized to call to their aid such specialists as may by them be deemed necessary." The following persons were appointed as the committee: Dr. Gilman, ex-Secretary of State Olney, Senator Hoar, J. Pierpont Morgan and ex-Secretary of the Interior Hoke Smith. The board also adopted a resolution discontinuing the payments for scholarships that have been given for some years to a certain number of students at the Peabody Normal school at Nashville. The continuance of the piy; ment was declared "inexpedient." The discontinuance will not take effect until October, 1904, so as not to interfere with existing scholarships. The Peabody fund capital is now 32,100,0fl&^- day's proceedings >slt6w~that a final dfstri&Ution of the Peabody fund is now in contempla-^tion, although such final winding up of affairs will require some years for consummation. No definite plan of action was formulated, and it will be in the neighborhood of a year before a final flnfi sarisfactorv basis can be agreed upon. The committee appointed under the resolution regarding cooperation late in the afternoon conferred with a committee from the general education board, consisting of Robert C. Ogden, of New York; George Foster Peabody, of New York, and William H. Baldwin, Jr., of New York. At this conference the subject of education in the south was generally discussed'and methods for avoidance of duplication of work of the two bodies were talked over, but no definite line of .action was formulated. The next meetiDg of the board will be the annual session to be held in New "iork in October. Chief Justice Fuller presided at the session, and Dr. Samuel A. Green, of Boston, was secretary. APPEAL OF SILVER NATIONS. Mexico and China Ask Co-Operation ?f United States?Message to Congress. President Roosevelt Thursday sent the following message to congress: "I transmit herewith a report from the secretary of state with accompanying notes from the Mexican amoassador and Chinese charge d'affaires au interim which seek the co-operation of the United States in sucn measures as will tend to restore and maintain a fixed relationship between the moneys of the gold standard countries and the silver-using countries. I recommend that the executive be given sufficient power to lend the support of the United States in such manner and to ' such degree as he may deem expedient to the purposes of the two governments. HALL CLOSED TO BOOKER. Negro Educator Not Wanted at Meeting to Be Held in Gainesville, Fla. Recently W. N. Sheats, Florida's state superintendent of public instruction, invited Booker Washington to deliver an address before the joint convention of county supfrintendents of education board to meet in Gainesville on February 4th. Mr. Sheats is severely censured in Gainesville, which he claims as his home town, and County Superintendent Holloway telegraphed The Gainesville Sun that Booker Washington will not be permitted to speak in the auditorium on the occasion. MAJOR*GLENN EXONERATED. Declared Not Guilty of Unlawful Executions in the Philippines. A special from Manila says: Major Edwin G. Glenn, of the Futh Infantry, who was tried by courtmartial on the charge of unlawfully killing pris- 1 oners of war, has been acquitted. i Major Glenn has been ordered to ( return to duty. The verdict was a popular one. SOLDIERS WERE BRIBED. < Morocco Sultan's Victory Gained by , Gold as Well as Guns. i A dispatch from Tangier says: The 1 features of the sultan's victory over the forces of the pretender, Bu Hamara, show that the battle was stubbcfc-nly contested and the former's success was largely due to the co-opera- 1 tion at a critical moment of the Beni 3 Ourein tribe, whoso defection from the ) rebel# the sultan had previously pur- ( with gold, J / SUNDRY CIVIL BILL , r . Reported in Boose of Representatives by Cbairman Cannon. PROVISIONS OF TBE MEASURE 3 Aggregate Appropriations Carried $|| Amount to Over Seventy-Eight Millions?Some Important Sfe&J Items Set Forth. . i&jSj A Washington special says: The sundry civil appropriation bill reportr ^ ed to the house Monday by Representative Cannon carries an aggregate appropriation of $78,007,929, which is $8,886,432 less than the estimates and $17,355,870 more than the current appropriation. Three million dollars is recommended to relieve distress in the Philippines. The bill carries $10,429,412 for construction work on -^"3| federal buildings authorized by Following are some or tne appropnar tions made under this head: Baltimore, $400,000; Beaumont, Tex^ $75,000; Dallas, Tex., $125,000; Ellis ,im Island, N. Y., improvements, $380,000; S\ Fort Smith, Ark., $75,000; Memphis, Tenn., $175,000; Nashville, Tenn., |75,000; Newport News, Va., $100,000; New York custom house, $300,000; ai| Waco, Tex., $75,000; Washington, D. t % C. (laboratory bureau national standards),. $150,000. The sum of $20,233,150 is approprf- | ated for river and harbor contract work authorized by congress, being? $14,466,393 in excess of the current ^ appropriation. Among the items are the following: Charleston harbor, $30,000; Kentucky river, Kentucky, $200,000; Am- ; | broso channel (New York harbor), $733,000 j Ohio river, dams 13 and 18, jS below Pittsburg, $450,000; San Francisco harbor (removal of Blossom rock), $50,000; Boston harbor, $150,000; Baltimore harbor (Spring Garden), $222,000 Curtis bay channel, Baltimore harl>or, $146,000; HamptonRoads, $215,000; Norfolk, Va., harbor, $83,957; Savannah, Ga., harbor, $720,-/ 000; Galveston harbor, $300,000; im- 7 provement channel at Galveston, $200,* 000; Appomattox, Va., river, $175,000; .-Pm Southwest Pass, Miss., river, $1,000,* 000; Galveston ship canal and Buffalo bayou, Texas, $500,000; Trinity riv^ap^sg JCeiaa^lESO.OOO; Ouachita?>rtv r, Ax- :77f kansas aml-LQiiisi^Sa;^^$650,000; Mte--7 sissippl river from mouth of Ohio riv- ||| er to the mouth of the Missouri, $650,- <^|||| 000, and from the mouth of the MIav:4, souri river to St Paul, $400,000; Tennessee river (at Colbert and Bee Tree7>| shoals), $350,000; improving Ohio riv-; 7 er below Pittsburg, continuing construction of dams 2 to 5, inclusive-, .vJot $300,000; dam No. 8, $200,000; dock at dam 11, $200,000; dam 37, $400,060; *J|S Monongahela river, $455,960 ; Big Sandy river, West Virginia and Ken-' tucky, $50,000. Under Mississippi commission^ ; From head of passes to the mouth of - ::.7a the Ohio river, $2,000,000. The excess of the proposed aptffo^J^jgsS priation over the current year is plained by the committee's report to be due to the increase of $14,464,393 for river and harbor work and the $3,uuu,uuu anowed lor the reiier ol r i distress in the Philippines. Among M the principal items dn the hill are the following: ?...>? Engraving and printing, $2,7S$,08&; " geological survey, $1,026,570; home for |9 disabled volunteer soldiers, ?4J69,808, an increase of over $1,000,000 over the current appropriation; life saving service, $1,837,110; light house establish- '{im ment, $3,824,000; enlargement of mill- ;|B tary posts, $2,765,500; revenue cutter service, $1,450,000; expenses United States courts, $5,933,280. An increase of $300,000 is made in the item for the ; r| enforcement of the Chinese exclusion act. The sum of $100,000 is approprl- ^3 ated for the demarcation of the United States and Canada boundary line. . The bill appropriates $80,500 for ex- -.V| penses of the executive mansion, aa jSH against $40,500 appropriated for the rijjg cunciii jear, ttuu lOr llgDUIlg -.'ft* the grounds and mansion, the current 31 appropriation being $7,500. TO HONOR JEFFERSON. First Subscription to Memorial Received by Admiral Dewey. A Washington dispatch says: In response to the appeal made for subscriptions to the proposed memorial to Thomas Jefferson as the author of qg the Declaration of Independence, Admiral Dewey, Monday, received the ^ first subscription to the project It oame from the Colorado Daughters of the Revolution. Roberts Director of Mint The senate Monday confirmed the nomination of George E. Roberts, of Iowa, to be director of the mint COLOMBIANS ARE HAPPY.' vj Are Jubilating Over Signing of Panama Canaf Treaty. At Colon, Colombia, Friday, the news received that the canal treaty between 4 rho TTnitert States and Colombia had been signed caused much Jubilation 3 throughout the isthmus, and hopes are expressed that the United States will djsj 3oon begin work on the canal. Latimer Giver? McLaurin's Toga. ..'"Is Congressman A. C. Latimer recev- JS ed the unanimous vote of both branch- . es of the South Carolina general as- '% sembly Tuesday for United States * ;enator to succeed the Hon. John L.* .J McLaurin. To Mark Graves of Confederates. The house committee on military* affairs Tuesday offered a favorable eport upon the Foraker bill to appropriate $200,000 to mark the graves >f confederate -soldiers and sailora rfee died in northern prUons. *